1945'te Bavyera'da doğan, 1982'de otuz yedi yaşında Münih'te ölen Fassbinder, yaklaşık on beş yılda kırktan fazla film yaptı. Aşkta ve toplumda iktidar ve sömürü üzerine melodramları Yeni Alman Sineması'nın merkezindeydi.
Filmografi
- Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
- Katzelmacher (1969)
- The American Soldier (1970)
- Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
- Gods of the Plague (1970)
- The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)
- Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
- Whity (1971)
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
- Effi Briest (1974)
- Martha (1974)
- Fox and His Friends (1975)
- Fear of Fear (1975)
- Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975)
- Chinese Roulette (1976)
- Satan's Brew (1976)
- I Only Want You to Love Me (1976)
- Despair (1978)
- In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
- Germany in Autumn (1978)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
- The Third Generation (1979)
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
- Lili Marleen (1981)
- Lola (1981) (1981)
- Veronika Voss (1982)
- Querelle (1982)