影片展示了日常生活中人们彼此施加的暴虐、残忍、凌辱，他们忍受着，甚至埋在内心里。该片的人物都是一幅幅罕见的夸张到病态程度的漫画。一个变态的浪漫主义诗人以及古怪家庭的一出超现实的暴力和尖锐之作。（kavkalu）

本片是根据法斯宾德同名话剧改编。“卡策马赫尔”是德国当地人对外籍劳工的蔑称，暗示外籍工人的性行为就象一只发情的雄猫一样，有人甚至因此而将该片译为“阳具艺术家”。“局外人不仅只是必需忍受孤寂的侵蚀，同时也不得不去对抗来自群体的偏见和敌意，这是法斯宾德早期作品中的重要主题。”同时，影片移植于“反戏剧剧团”的带有先锋色彩的形式感也趋于成熟。世界著名电影刊物《画面与音响》的记者评论到：“看过《卡策马赫尔》之后可以断言，法斯宾德是一个真正的天才，他在戈达尔与施特劳布所做出的开创性业绩的基础上，正开拓着新的天地。”

一个曾参加越战的美国大兵来到德国充当雇佣杀手。其实他本来就是德国人，回德国就是回家。在慕尼黑的黑道上，有着形形色色的怪人，如客厅里摆放巨大游戏机的母亲，命数已到的中年男妓，贩卖毒品和色情刊物的女子，等等。

屈丝特婆婆已经步入老年，孤寂而沮丧的心很渴望关怀与温情，但从自己软弱的儿子及媳妇那里，什么也得不到，女儿也忙于应付自己的事业和爱情，丝毫不顾及老人的内心需要。
偶然的机会，屈丝特婆婆得到了两个富有的中年人的友谊。在一家报社做发行主管的提曼先生和提曼夫人号称自己是共产主义者，并对屈丝特婆婆保证说会运用他们的报纸为她的丈夫恢复名誉。
出于感激，屈丝特婆婆毫不犹豫地加入了这个政治派系，积极配合他们的宣传活动。但不久，屈丝特婆婆发现，自己其实是被利用的宣传工具而已。愤怒之下，屈丝特婆婆又毅然和一个无政府主义者结成同盟，因为似乎这个人更有行动的可能。
当屈丝特婆婆在这个无政府主义者的陪同下来到报社的时候，这个家伙竟然拿出武器，要挟当局释放西德所有政治犯。
所有的闹剧都过去之后，屈丝特婆婆终于在一个守夜人那里得到了关怀和幸福甜美的爱情。

马格兰有着令人羡慕的生活，在她第二次怀孕，快当母亲的时间里，一切都在悄悄发生着变化。生完孩子后，马格兰的情绪日益失去控制，甚至出现了自杀倾向，大夫告诉马格兰的丈夫，她可能患了精神分裂症。为了减轻痛苦，马格兰开始转向镇定药和酒精……

影片讲一个自称恐怖分子的团伙，是由社会中上层人士组成的，他们的反社会行为替政府的镇压提供了依据。在这部影片中，暴力不仅作为一种反抗社会的武器是无效力的，而且它实质上已为社会所同化。正像影片中一位警官所说:“我最近做了个梦……梦见资本家捏造出恐怖主义是为了迫使政府更好地保护他们。”影片的内容十分荒诞、角色的性格带有神经质而且颓废。

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street......

Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery.

一段恋情因为男方曾经好友的介入出现了裂痕：他们努力拉赞助要前往秘鲁，瞻仰他们的死亡之河。最后在基友与女友之间，长发杀马特男主到底会选择谁呢？

When is a Western not really a Western? When it’s directed by Fassbinder! WHITY is only my sixth film from the so-called German wunderkind: I admire Fassbinder for his prolific and versatile output, though I’ve yet to be won over completely by a film of his; frankly I was hoping this would prove to be the one – but, as it turned out, I couldn’t have been more wrong! For the record, I’ve got four more titles from him to watch: still, considering my dismal experience with WHITY (especially since I had fully expected it to be the most accessible of the lot!), I don’t know when I’ll muster the courage to get to them now…even if DESPAIR (1978) is a reasonably enticing title, given the participation of Dirk Bogarde and the Vladimir Nabokov source.
To be fair, the Western ambiance is delivered in spades throughout. The film was stunningly shot in Widescreen – by Michael Ballhaus (later a valued collaborator of Martin Scorsese) – in Almeria, location site of many a Spaghetti Western. It generally has the right feel for time and place with regards to settings and wardrobe, while the all-important score is highlighted by a decidedly infectious riff. Even so, the repertoire of English-language ballads (the bulk of the film, of course, is in German) allotted to chanteuse/prostitute Hanna Schygulla – not to mention her own affected delivery – is inappropriately modern and comes across as unintentionally laughable! Schygulla was a fixture in Fassbinder’s work; the film also features Ron Randell (best-known, if at all, for playing Christ’s attorney[!] in Nicholas Ray’s KING OF KINGS [1961]) and Ulli Lommel (who later graduated to directing himself, notably TENDERNESS OF THE WOLVES [1973] and THE BOOGEYMAN [1980]).
The overriding pretentiousness at work here is palpable above all in the film’s lethargic, indeed deadly, pace (never have I seen a movie in which the characters moved more s-l-o-w-l-y!). Besides, it isn’t helped by unsympathetic (even annoying) characters – mostly members of a dysfunctional family (and particularly the pasty-faced, frizzy-haired sons of landowner Randell) – indulging in all manners of transgressions (from such commonly-depicted capital sins as greed, lust and murder down to nymphomania, masochism, interracial relationships and incest!). In the midst of all this is an unsavory gay subtext which, inevitably, seems to be on the agenda of virtually all directors so inclined in real-life (but becoming obviously more pronounced in the liberalized modern cinema)!
The plot, for what it’s worth, is reminiscent of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s THEOREM (1968) – coincidentally another gay parable – as the life of everyone involved is influenced in some way by the household’s black manservant (the character bears the ironic titular nickname but is also curiously underwritten and inexpressive), who’s actually the fruit of Randell’s illicit affair with his frumpy colored maid! The fact that each, in turn, pleads with him to slay the other could have turned this into a pointed black comedy – but the film is simply too labored and deliberately self-conscious for the subtlety intrinsic to such refined treatment...
In the end, one should note that 1971 saw a boom of arty Westerns with other such offerings as Alexandro Jodorowsky’s EL TOPO, Peter Fonda’s THE HIRED HAND and Robert Altman’s McCABE AND MRS MILLER. As for WHITY (whose shooting, by the way, inspired Fassbinder’s own BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE [1971]), I had owned the Fantoma DVD – which includes an Audio Commentary from Ballhaus and Lommel – for quite a while before actually sitting down to view it. I’d purchased the disc through the company’s own website during a sale but, as I said, could only manage to find a slot for it in my hectic/eclectic schedule after having enjoyed a couple of equally stylized (but far more satisfying) Spaghetti Westerns – DEATH SENTENCE (1968) and YANKEE (1966) – earlier this week.

The subject of this film is a true case that happened in the city of Bremen: The story of citizen Geesche Gottfried (Margit Carstensen), widowed Miltenberger, who killed 15 people, among them her mother, her father, her children, two husbands and other persons from her immediate environs, while her fellow-citizens had considered her a respectable, god-fearing woman. In the end, she was unmasked and beheaded in 1831 – the last public execution in Bremen. Bremen Freedom is not a thriller. It is not the intention of the piece to gradually unmask the culprit. Like in a ballad, the killings are arranged in a kaleidoscope. The murderer’s motive is of interest in this play, but not how she is convicted. Geesche Gottfried murders because she wants to be free and because she does not want to be one of the men’s “pets”. “This was not a life, Michael, what mother lived there. In that case, death is a blessing for someone,” says Geesche Gottfried after murdering her own mother.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder visits for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater. Framed by Fassbinders reading of one of the famoust essays on theater: Antonin Artauds "The Theater and its double".

玛塔（玛吉特•卡斯滕森 Margit Carstensen 饰）和个性冷漠粗暴的父亲过着相依为命的生活，两人前往罗马度家，途中，父亲突发心脏病不幸身亡。玛塔并没有感到有多难过，相反，她第一次感受到了什么是自由。之后，玛塔邂逅了名为赫尔穆特（卡尔亨兹•伯恩 Karlhei nz Böhm 饰）的工程师，两人坠入了情网。
然而，赫尔穆特的个性和玛塔的父亲如出一辙，他不断的侮辱和虐待着玛塔，奇怪的是，玛塔似乎很享受这种虐待。玛塔和赫尔穆特携手步入了婚姻的殿堂，婚后，赫尔穆特对玛塔的虐待相比以前有过之而不及。最终，玛塔决定和自己的同事私奔，哪知道一场车祸不仅夺走了情郎的性命，还令玛塔失去了双腿。

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 girl who, after persuading a local boy to become her lover, induces the lad to kill her father, whose incestuous sexual attentions to her have grown unbearable. The site they choose for this deed, which gives its name to the film, is a wild-game crossing.

　　某控制论与未来科技研究所的跨时代项目斯莫莱克戎1号，是一种应用高端技术架设微缩世界的电子怪物。它可以针对社会，经济以及政治事件做出精确的预测。由于这个研究项目的创办人兼总监沃尔摩尔教授神秘死亡，所长任命斯蒂勒博士作为这个项目的继任负责人。不久斯蒂勒的同事们发现新总监也开始状若疯狂。然而，随着老友--研究所安全主管劳兹神秘消失事件的不断深入，斯蒂勒渐渐分不清究竟是自己病了，还是身边的世界病了....

　　《世界旦夕之间》是1973年法斯宾德为电视台制作的两部式科幻电影，改编自伽洛耶出版于1964年的长篇小说《三重模拟》（Simulacron-3），本片后来被好莱坞翻拍成《异次元骇客》（The Thirteenth Floor），并深刻启发了后来的同题材系列电影《黑客帝国》。

深情呆滞而步履沉重的保尔维泽很不幸地娶了镇上有名的妖妇；他的老婆几乎和任何男人都上床，这样使得老实的保尔维泽陷入严重的困境……

　　该电视剧改编自德国作家阿尔弗雷德•德布林的同名小说，故事发生在1920年代末的德国柏林。 　　因杀死与自己同居的妓女艾达，强壮、暴力、酗酒的弗朗兹•毕伯科夫（Günter Lamprecht ）被判入狱四年，刑满释放后，他立誓要做一个正直的好人，可是因为不知从何做起，他终日在亚历山大广场附近游荡。不久，他拥有了出狱后的第一个女人，并为了她开始尝试各种体力活，但很快便被生活愚弄，这令性格里有一面相当单纯的他非常受打击，离开了原来的生活圈子。 　　和形形色色的人打过交道后，弗朗兹重回原来的生活环境，并在常去的小酒馆结识伦霍尔德（Peter Kollek）。伦霍尔德虽然说话结结巴巴，弗朗兹仍觉得他魅力非凡，开始对他盲目信任和依赖，甚至与他制定秘密的游戏协议，答应接手他玩腻的女人。游戏进行当中，弗朗兹展现出多情的一面，为了一个女人单方将协议撕毁，令伦霍尔德对他记恨在心，不久，伦霍尔德利用他对自己的信任，将他拉入小偷集团，害他失去一条胳膊。但截肢后，弗朗兹并没有报复的欲望。 　　弗朗兹的保护人兼旧女友爱娃（Hanna Schygulla）介绍单纯、美丽的女孩米兹（Karin Baal）与他认识，弗朗兹与之相爱并走出绝望，不过因为失去劳动能力，他只能靠米兹卖身养活。伦霍尔德无法忍受弗朗兹的幸福生活，生出无动机的邪念，再次利用弗朗兹对他“无动机的纯粹的爱（法斯宾德语）”，将弗朗兹又一次拉入小偷集团，并开始想方设法勾引米兹，试图将弗朗兹的生活彻底推上绝路。

　　德国新电影的心脏、备受争议电影大师法斯宾达(Rainer Werner Fassbinder)，时隔46年终返大银幕的《八小时不是一日》(数位修复版)(Eight Hours Don't Make a Day)，这部长达八小时的家庭伦理史诗巨制，透过西德工人阶级的大家庭族谱，一家三代在时代氛围下价值观冲突与融合，幽默却暗讽地将工会罢工、劳资谈判等国家经济问题，轻松寓意于下班后的日常生活。

　　今年三月于纽约电影论坛首映后，被评为是难得一见秉持「乐观精神」与「最富同情心」的法斯宾达作品。《八小时不是一日》是由德国电视台委制，仅于1972年-1973在电视上播映的电视电影，历经逐格数位修复，今年终于罕见于大银幕上映，是「法」迷心中的梦幻逸品。《八小时不是一日》在高雄电影节台湾首映，电影分为三部曲放映。

　　担任剧中主角的德国「亚当崔佛」戈特弗里德约翰，是工厂技术员，他和奶奶同住，也和未来老婆一见钟情，但现实总是众多磨难，他们首要克服则是公司变相不合理的要求….。与此同时他的奶奶更和政府抗争，希望将图书馆转为日托中心，并大谈暮年之爱，古怪却通俗的家庭形象揭示西德70年代政经情势！

　　坚持「不拍艺术片，只拍通俗题材」法斯宾达在本片彻底落实这个信念，他曾表示「在他的电影里，他把人们赶入酒吧、房间、公司，用一个个封闭的室内空间，象征都市的牢笼，每当他们试着逃跑，就会受到金钱、种族或婚姻的束缚。这何尝不是让观众正视生活处境的方式。」《八小时不是一日》尽诉衷情，不慌不忙将现代生活放入电影，优雅地审视了家庭生活和劳动关系。

A beautiful young housewife, Nora, is trying to convince her tight-laced, bourgeois husband, Torvald, to give her some extra money for the holidays, even if he has to borrow it. Fassbinder's interpretation of "A dolls house".