Films Written or Co-Written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1966
THIS NIGHT
THE CITY TRAMP

1967
THE LITTLE CHAOS

1969
LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH
KATZELMACHER (after his play)
FERNES JAMAICA
Direction: Peter Moland. Script: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Katrin Schaake, Ulli Lommel, Hannes Gromball, Ingrid Caven, William Powell. Production: antiteater. Short film (14 min.).
GODS OF THE PLAGUE
WHY DOES HERR R. RUN AMOK?
(draft for improvisation, Co-Written with Michael Fengler)

1970
RIO DAS MORTES (after an idea of Volker Schlöndorff)
THE COFFEEHOUSE (after Carlo Goldoni)
WHITY
THE NIKLASHAUSEN JOURNEY (Co-Writtten with Michael Fengler)
THE AMERICAN SOLDIER
BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE
PIONEERS IN INGOLSTADT (after Marieluise Fleißer)

1971
THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS

1972
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (after his play)
JAIL BAIT (after Franz Xaver Kroetz)
EIGHT HOURS DON’T MAKE A DAY
BREMEN FREEDOM (after his play)

1973
WORLD ON A WIRE (after Daniel F. Galouye with Fritz Müller-Scherz)
NORA HELMER (after Henrik Ibsen)
ALI: FEAR EATS SOUL
MARTHA (after Woolrich)

1974
EFFI BRIEST (afterTheodor Fontane)
FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Collaborator: Christian Hohoff)
LIKE A BIRD ON A WIRE (Co-Written with Christian Hohoff)

1975
MOTHER KÜSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN (Collaborator: Kurt Raab)
FEAR OF FEAR (based on an idea of Asta Scheib)
SHADOW OF ANGELS
Direction: Daniel Schmid. Script: Daniel Schmid, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (after Fassbinder’s play Garbage, the City and Death). Cast: Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Klaus Löwitsch, Annemarie Düringer, Adrian Hoven, Boy Gobert, Ulli Lommel, Irm Hermann, Peter Chatel, Raoul Gimenez, Alexander Allerson, Harry Baer. Production: Albatros.
I ONLY WANT YOU TO LOVE ME (after an episode from the bookLebenslänglich by Klaus Antes and Christiane Ehrhardt)

1976
SATAN’S BREW
CHINESE ROULETTE
THE STATIONMASTER’S WIFE (after Oskar Maria Graf)

1977
WOMEN IN YEW YORK (after Clare Booth Luce)
DESPAIR (after Vladimir Nabokov)
GERMANY IN AUTUMN (Episode)

1978
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Idea and Exposé)
IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS

1979
THE THIRD GENERATION

1980
BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (After Alfred Döblin)
LILI MARLEEN (Collaborator, after Lale Andersen)

1981
LOLA (Dialogues with Peter Märthesheimer, Pea Fröhlich)
THEATER IN TRANCE
VERONIKA VOSS (Idea and Exposé)

1982
QUERELLE (after Jean Genet)

1999
GOUTTES D’EAU SUR PIERRES BRULANTES
Direction: François Ozon. Script: François Ozon, after Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s play Drips of Hot Stones. Cast: Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier, Anna Thomson. Production: Alain Sarde, Paris.