Peer Raben Movies

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

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...

Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what...

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

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

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

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.

Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.

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....

The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the...

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

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...

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

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

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the...

The western film that was filmed in Bavaria is located in the Montana Mountains. At the end of the 19th century, an Indian Boy called Tschetan meets...

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...

Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation...