Peer Raben Movies

Hong Kong, 1960s. Zhang, a shy tailor's assistant, is riveted by his imperious client Miss Hua. Upon meeting her, she seduces him to make sure he...

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the...

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

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed...

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

Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute,...

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...

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

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

The 30-years old Max is MD and engaged to the attractive Coco, who jealously keep watch over him. After he heard the lovely voice of an unknown...

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

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...

A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young...

A comedy about the everydaylife of the 30-year-old something nurse Henriette and her life. Her boyfriend is boring and she has an affair with a...

Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious...

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

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