
10 Best Movies Like Fassbinder
If you loved Fassbinder, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fassbinder for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs....

Cameraperson
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fassbinder for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations th...

To Be Takei
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fassbinder for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Over seven decades, actor and activist George Takei journeyed from a World War II internment camp to the helm of the Starship Enterprise, and then to the daily news feeds of five m...

Howard
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fassbinder for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage ...

I Am Heath Ledger
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fassbinder for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera....

Heart of a Dog
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fassbinder for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveilla...