Margit Carstensen

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife... (imdb)

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer) (imdb)

Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance... (imdb)

Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having had her second child... (imdb)

Agnes and his brothers have little in common, except an eccentric old father, relationship problems that are totally screwing up their lives, and a distinct possibility those two things are connected. (First Run Features)

Displaying a sense of humor that can most kindly be described as perverse, Fassbinder follows the exploits of a group of well-heeled German terrorists. Without truly taking sides, the director demonstrates how the terrorists are essentially shooting themselves in the foot. The more havoc they spread, the tighter the government restrictions against other radicals. (All Movie Guide)

Story of a gay serial killer who murders young boys so he can serve them as dinner to his circle of fellow cannibals. (imdb)

Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon find out, is moot: Mr. Kusters has murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he works before committing suicide. (imdb)

A single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Europe when he has a heart attack and falls down dead. She reacts rather indifferently and returns home to her highly-strung mother and begins to new era of her life taking care of a completely ungrateful and insulting mother... (imdb)

A wealthy couple, with a daughter Angela, a young teen who walks with crutches, tells each other they are off for the weekend on business (he to Oslo, she to Milan). Actually, both are meeting their lovers, and both go to the family's county home, Traunitz castle... (imdb)

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary. (imdb)

An autobiographical, psycho-sexual, fantastical retelling of of Steven C. Stewart's point-of-view of life. (imdb)

Fassbinder's version of Ibsen's A Doll's House for television develops a radical yet scrupulous reading of the play. Stripped of sentimentality and giving Nora (Carstensen) self-assurance from the start, this studio production delivers its critique of bourgeois marriage with a force rarely matched even in the theatre. Almost every scene is shot through latticework, net curtains, cut glass, ornate mirrors, so that the characters are perhaps visually obscured but always intellectually focused. (Time Out)

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends. (imdb)

The movie is about a German director who want to make a remake of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975) (Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom). Needless to say, something doesn't workout the way he planned. Suicide is just one of the minor problems.

In Ridolfo's coffeehouse, citizens meet to talk about money, friendship, love, and honor. This is a modernistic staging for television of a play by Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793), the Venetian playwright whose many works preserve in scripted form the improvisational productions of the Italian commedia dell'arte. (Juliane Lorenz)

Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family... (imdb)

An Episode-movie about a surealistic Germany, where they wear school-uniforms, where the sun always shines and where people live alone in the woods. More or less the episodes come together, but never connect to one big image of this wired, in a way pretty lost country.

An extravaganza on the "roaring 1950s" in West Germany, when the rich were partying through the decade with little else on their minds than hedonistic pleasures, and the poor were struggling to become richer. Documentary clips bring in the realities of the Berlin Wall and the Cold War, and their honesty stands in sharp contrast to the exaggerated lifestyles that permeate the screen. The story focuses on the super-rich Jakob Formann (Kurkura) and his exploits and friends in high and low places. (allmovie.com)

Schlingensief's self-obituary and autobiography in the form of a 'Fluxus' Oratorio, an art-form that emphasizes Dadaistic anti-art attitude, humor, and a fusion of several forms of media. He put this together while he was dying of lung cancer. (The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre)

Four women important to the life and art of Fassbinder. He placed them on the star map. (imdb)

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival, she constantly insults and provokes him. (imdb)

Bettina Böhler creates a memorial to the director Christoph Schlingensief on the 10th anniversary of his death, a portrait of the filmmaker's work and influence. (imdb)

A light, a day, a leader. Five men, four women, dragged out of the darkness by a hand-held spotlight. We see the last hour in the Führer bunker as it really was. (imdb)

A historical thriller about Gesche Gottfried, who poisoned 15 people in Bremen around 1820 and was beheaded in 1831 before the eyes of 35,000 citizens. The film tries to restore these events in a practical and exciting thriller. (imdb)

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.