Robert Fischer
Directing
Born October 2, 1954 · Greven, Germany
65 films as director · Active 1999–2025
Known for
Directed(65)
2025Good Times: Dominik Graf on Directing the Cat2025Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Christoph Fromm über 'Die Katze'2025Alles auf eine Karte: Georg Feil über 'Die Katze'
2024Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited
2021Jack Arnold Remembers The Incredible Shrinking Man2020Ganz Berlin lacht sich kaputt: Wie die 'Berliner Ballade' entstand2019The Beauty of the Land: Anthony Slide on Andre De Toth and the Indian Fighter2019Core of Reality: Robert Blees on Douglas Sirk’s Magnificent Obsession2018Illusion of Freedom: Richard H. Kline on John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz
2018Painting with Light: Nicholas von Sternberg on Josef von Sternberg
2018Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias★ 5.5
2018Crazy Love: Janet Bergstrom on Josef von Sternberg's 'Morocco'2018Life As It Is: Miloš Forman on Miloš Forman
2017A Search For Truth: Robert C. Jones On Hal Ashby’s 'The Last Detail'
2017Program Notes: An Introduction To The Last Detail By Alexander Payne★ 7.0
2017Sucker Punch Blues: A Look Back on John Huston's 'Fat City'2017G.W. Pabst's 'Kameradschaft': An Introduction by Jan-Christopher Horak2017G.W. Pabst's 'Westfront 1918': An Introduction by Jan-Christopher Horak
2017The Beast Inside: Creating 'Wolf'★ 7.0
2017About a Trip: Alexander Payne on Hal Ashby's 'The Last Detail'
2016Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer’s ‘The New Centurions’
2016Pure Cinema: Joe Napolitano on Brian De Palma's Body Double
2016Traveling Roadshow
2016The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited★ 6.3
2016Outer Movement, Inner Movement
2015Last of the Independents: Don Siegel and the Making of 'Charley Varrick'★ 5.02015The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal2015Love Letters
2015Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany2014Touching Death: Alejandro Amenábar on 'Tesis'
2014Perspectives on Othello: Joseph McBride on Orson Welles2014Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora★ 6.02013Real Killer, Fake Nose: Richard Fleischer's 'The Boston Strangler' Remembered
2013Blood on the Lens: Richard H. Kline on Brian De Palma's 'The Fury'
2013Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited2012Return to Philadelphia: George Litto on 'Blow Out'2012Black and White in Color: Vilmos Zsigmond on 'Blow Out'2012Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out'★ 7.02012A Winter's War: Keith Gordon on 'A Midnight Clear'2011Ted Kotcheff's Gourmet Cinema
2011The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited★ 6.5
2011Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End★ 9.02011Before Taking Off: Milos Forman’s Road to America
2011'Deep End': Remembering the Deleted Scenes2010Of Love and Constraints2010Erinnerungen an 'Väter und Söhne'2010Making an American Movie
2009Beyond Melodrama: Kathryn Bigelow on Douglas Sirk2009A Tribute to Douglas Sirk by Allison Anders2008Acting for Douglas Sirk
2008Circles of Desire: Alan Williams on Max Ophuls' "La Ronde"2007Contract Kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk★ 5.3
2007Requiem for a Killer: The Making of 'Blast of Silence'★ 6.0
2006Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood★ 8.0
2006Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram2006Dalton Trumbo: Rebel in Hollywood
2006A Cinema of Signs: Claude Chabrol on Alfred Hitchcock★ 7.0
2006The Making of Highlander2006Maternal Overdrive
2002Fassbinder in Hollywood★ 6.1
1999Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock★ 6.8—Will He Live or Will He Die: Walter Hill on Southern Comfort—The Fury: A Location Journal—Spinning Tales: Fiona Lewis on Brian De Palma's 'The Fury'
—Expedition Amazonia