Peer Raben Movies

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...

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

In 1930s New York, a group of bored wealthy women convene in social situations and converse about their husbands and/or lovers.

A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.

After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. His attentions focus upon two women,...

An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.

An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.

A documentary about the director Fassbinder but edited as if it were a film of the master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

In a small German town, a 14-year-old girl's relationship with an older man draws scrutiny and leads to legal consequences, reflecting the...

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.

Two men lose their jobs and have to start from scratch. They go their separate ways about it, but their paths sometimes cross.

A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...