- A year before his death, listed these as his ten favorite films: The Damned (1969), The Naked and the Dead (1958), Lola Montès (1955), Flamingo Road (1949), Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Dishonored (1931), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Johnny Guitar (1954), Kalina krasnaya (1974).
- He made 41 movies in 13 years
- Made 8 movies in just one year - 1970.
- His death is often considered to mark the end of New German Cinema.
- A school in Munich is named after him. Ironically, he left school without graduation at the age of 16 (18 July 2006).
- Was a huge fan of Douglas Sirk.
- Close friends with Udo Kier.
- He is buried in the graveyard of the Church of St Georg, Bogenhausen, Munich. The interior of the church is used in a key scene in Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975).
- As an actor in his own films, he frequently appeared uncredited. Even if he played one of the main characters.
- Despite Fassbinder's international success and enduring legacy, not a single one of the director's 23 theatrical films was ever nominated for an Academy Award. Additionally, only one Fassbinder film (Lili Marleen (1981)) was ever submitted by Germany to the Academy for a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Ultimately, the film was not nominated.
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) was his most successful movie
- Son of Lilo Pempeit.
- Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival in 1977.
- Whity (1971) was his least successful movie.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 318-330. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
- Ex-brother-in-law of Trudeliese Schmidt.
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