Peer Raben Movies

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

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his...

The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.

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

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in,...

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.

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

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...

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

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann,...

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...

"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive...

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...

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

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets...

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...

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

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

Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is...