Kurt Raab

Kurt Raab

July 20, 1941 · 85 years old

Kurt Raab (July 20, 1941 – June 28, 1988) was a West German stage and film actor, as well as a screenwriter and playwright. Raab is best remembered for his work with German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with whom he collaborated on 31 film projects.

Known For

16 titles
1
Escape from Sobibor

Escape from Sobibor

1987 · 2h 23m · Movie

German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.

7.4
2
Fox and His Friends

Fox and His Friends

1975 · 2h 4m · Movie

A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.

7.6
3
Love Is Colder Than Death

Love Is Colder Than Death

1970 · 1h 28m · Movie

A small-time pimp is torn between his lover and Bruno the gangster.

6.4
4
Beware of a Holy Whore

Beware of a Holy Whore

1971 · 1h 43m · Movie

On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director arrives the material is still missing and...

6.6
5
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

1975 · 1h 48m · Movie

Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the p...

7.5
6
Satan's Brew

Satan's Brew

1976 · 1h 52m · Movie

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 dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.

6.7
7
The American Soldier

The American Soldier

1976 · 1h 20m · Movie

Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects his old neighborhood with his childhood a...

6.5
8
Fear of Fear

Fear of Fear

1975 · 1h 31m · Movie

Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle-class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand her situation. Her mother-in-law a...

7.4
9
Abwärts

Abwärts

1984 · 1h 30m · Movie

Two former lovers, an embezzler, and a messenger boy become trapped on a Friday in a stalled office elevator.

6.8
10
Angry Harvest

Angry Harvest

1985 · 1h 45m · Movie

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cell...

7.1
11
Rio das Mortes

Rio das Mortes

1971 · 1h 24m · Movie

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 girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.

6.2
12
Tricheurs

Tricheurs

1984 · 1h 34m · Movie

Exploring themes of addiction, sexual power games, and compulsive behavior, a powerfully impudent look into the world of gambling addicts, Suzie is cast among a stylish milieu of gamblers on a Portuguese island.

6.2
13
Feel the Motion

Feel the Motion

1985 · 1h 37m · Movie

Tina Lehmann is an auto mechanic who dreams of becoming a pop star. One day after work she sneaks onto the set of the TV music program 'Formel Eins' with her demo tape, and lands a job as a go-fer. Her boyfriend Stevie Dromberger,...

4.2
14
The Brutalization of Franz Blum

The Brutalization of Franz Blum

1974 · 1h 44m · Movie

A young bourgeois man takes part in a hold-up, is arrested and sentenced. In prison, he discovers a world where only the strongest survive. He will come out transformed.

6.9
15
Frankfurt: The Face of a City

Frankfurt: The Face of a City

1981 · 1h 27m · Movie

Girl goes to the bright lights of Frankfurt when her boyfriend goes into the army; the seamy side of life is not as attractive as she expected.

6.0
16
Engel aus Eisen

Engel aus Eisen

1981 · 1h 45m · Movie

BERLIN, 1948. During the few days of the blockade, a teenager, a man, and a young woman constitute a gang. They profit from the fear, the disorder, and the black market, and commit many, many thefts.

6.9