Peer Raben Movies

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

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

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates....

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

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be...

An attempt at a psychological profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who answers the author's questions about his artistic and personal development in...

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.

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.

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...