Great Austrian Movies
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1. Auf bösem Boden (2007)
82 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
Romeo and Juliet - a couple that has a very odd perception of their relationship. They decide to buy a loft situated in a run-down factory. Somenone already lives there. The deranged owner ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Koller | Stars: Aleksandar Petrovic, Birgit Stauber, Kari Rakkola, Faris Rahoma
Votes: 331
2. Exit... nur keine Panik (1980)
105 min | Action, Crime
A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop - just to get her coffee-machine.
Director: Franz Novotny | Stars: Hanno Pöschl, Paulus Manker, Isolde Barth, Eddie Constantine
Votes: 116
3. Die Spitzen der Gesellschaft (1990)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Franz Novotny | Stars: Natja Brunckhorst, Fritz Karl, Hilde Berger, Jaromír Borek
Votes: 7
4. The Seventh Continent (1989)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A European family who plan on escaping to Australia seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel
Votes: 16,943
5. Benny's Video (1992)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama
A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe, Ingrid Stassner
Votes: 18,565
6. Funny Games (1997)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering
Votes: 83,914
7. The Piano Teacher (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama, Music
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar
Votes: 71,656 | Gross: $1.90M
8. Time of the Wolf (2003)
R | 114 min | Drama
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Anaïs Demoustier, Béatrice Dalle, Patrice Chéreau
Votes: 11,470 | Gross: $0.06M
9. Caché (2005)
R | 117 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot
Votes: 85,126 | Gross: $3.63M
10. Funny Games (2007)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two psychopathic young men take a family hostage in their cabin.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet
Votes: 103,758 | Gross: $1.29M
11. The White Ribbon (2009)
R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 77,572 | Gross: $2.22M
12. The Prom (1982)
50 min | Documentary
This is a film about the 'students ball' in Horn, the little Austrian town Seidl grew up. The movie portraits the young débutantes as well as the local notables, all of them eagerly involved in maintaining the stiff and stifling ritual.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Star: Hans Rasch
Votes: 178
13. Models (1999)
118 min | Drama
Four models share their life experience.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Viviane Bartsch, Tanja Petrovsky, Lisa Grossmann, Elvyra Geyer
Votes: 1,181
14. Dog Days (2001)
R | 121 min | Drama
In the tomb-like quiet of their ranch-style purgatory, a divorced husband and wife fight a wordless war while mourning an unspeakable mutual loss. A sadistic lover's ritual humiliation spawns both tenderness and revenge.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Maria Hofstätter, Christine Jirku, Viktor Hennemann, Georg Friedrich
Votes: 6,546 | Gross: $0.01M
15. Jesus, Du weisst (2003)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary
Six Catholics share their thoughts and problems with Jesus in different churches. The camera accompanies them.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Elfriede Ahmad, Waltraute Bartel, Hans-Jürgen Eder, Thomas Grandegger
Votes: 568
16. Zur Lage: Österreich in sechs Kapiteln (2002)
85 min | Documentary
Four film-makers embark on a cinematic survey of Austria, documenting the political and social state of the nation and its people. An eye-opening experience. In the wake of the 1999 ... See full summary »
Directors: Barbara Albert, Michael Glawogger, Ulrich Seidl, Michael Sturminger | Stars: Johann Leeb, Friedrich Schmeiser, Getrud Schmeiser
Votes: 60
17. Animal Love (1996)
120 min | Documentary
In conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a highly technological society, in which communication has never played such a significant role, man ... See full summary »
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Ernst Schönmann, Franz Holzschuh, Erich Wögerer, Fritzi Schmied
Votes: 809
18. Ant Street (1995)
87 min | Comedy
In the middle of Vienna stands an old tenement building, and time has left its mark both on the house and its inhabitants. Here, time passes at a strange pace. Floor by floor, the visitor ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Glawogger | Stars: Robert Meyer, Bibiane Zeller, Nikolaus Paryla, Monika Tajmar
Votes: 101
19. Movies in the Mind (1996)
87 min | Documentary
A crime-story-erotic-lyrical-experimental-vampire- fantasy-horror-soap-opera-splatter-trash-road-movie-melodrama posing as a documentary dealing with non-existent films, or films which did not exist before "Movies in the Mind" was made.
Director: Michael Glawogger | Stars: Barbara de Koy, Justine del Corte, Christoph Dostal, Anna Harmer
Votes: 18
20. Slugs (2004)
86 min | Comedy, Drama
Three young pals plan to earn money by shooting an hardcore-porno movie. But is it really so easy to shoot some gang-banging with home-video equipment?
Director: Michael Glawogger | Stars: Raimund Wallisch, Michael Ostrowski, Pia Hierzegger, Iva Lukic
Votes: 1,080
21. Workingman's Death (2005)
Not Rated | 122 min | Documentary
A documentary on the extremes to which workers will go to earn a living.
Director: Michael Glawogger
Votes: 1,810
22. Slumming (2006)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Two yuppies play mean tricks on one another until one joke has fatal consequences.
Director: Michael Glawogger | Stars: Paulus Manker, August Diehl, Michael Ostrowski, Pia Hierzegger
Votes: 870
23. Contact High (2009)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy
An episodic comedy that follows the lives of four men living in Vienna.
Director: Michael Glawogger | Stars: Michael Ostrowski, Raimund Wallisch, Alexis Santiago Hernandez, Victor Varnado
Votes: 1,276
24. Whores' Glory (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary
An examination of the lives, needs, troubles, and hopes of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico.
Director: Michael Glawogger | Stars: Emma, Ning, Toh, Wat
Votes: 5,117 | Gross: $0.03M
25. Ich gelobe (1994)
115 min | Drama
In a small army base at the Eastern border of Austria a young recruit is trained to be a soldier to protect his country in case of war. He has to stay for 8 months and during this time he escapes in his own fantasy world...
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Christoph Dostal, Andreas Lust, Andreas Simma, Marcus J. Carney
Votes: 202
26. Come Sweet Death (2000)
107 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Ex-detective Brenner wants to keep himself out of trouble but several murder cases and his ex-girlfriend Klara finally get him involved. But making decisions is not one his strengths.
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Josef Hader, Simon Schwarz, Barbara Rudnik, Michael Schönborn
Votes: 3,467
27. Hainburg - Je t'aime, gendarme (2001)
94 min | Drama, Romance
Student girl, demonstrating against the destruction of a river-forrest, falls in love with a policeman and, by chance, meets him again 17 years later.
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Barbara Redl, Gunther Gillian, Gerti Drassl, Vitus Wieser
Votes: 25
28. Taxi für eine Leiche (2002)
83 min | Comedy, Crime
Diverse characters, regular customers of the Viennese cafe Sperlhof, suspect each other of being the Necktie Murderer, whose last victim is found in a local movie theater, but the corpse disappears.
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Gertraud Jesserer, Karlheinz Hackl, Brigitte Kren, Karl Fischer
Votes: 91
29. Silentium (2004)
116 min | Crime, Thriller
A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Josef Hader, Simon Schwarz, Joachim Król, Maria Köstlinger
Votes: 3,515
30. Der Knochenmann (2009)
127 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Private Investigator Brenner is handling a case at the grill-station "Löschenkohl". There he finds - besides some chicken - also other meat...that doesn't belong in a good meal.
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Josef Hader, Josef Bierbichler, Birgit Minichmayr, Christoph Luser
Votes: 4,910
31. My Best Enemy (2011)
Unrated | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A dark WWII comedy about two friends, stolen artwork, and an unfortunate case of mistaken identity as a Jewish man switches places with his Nazi best friend in order to survive
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Georg Friedrich, Ursula Strauss, Marthe Keller
Votes: 1,534
32. The Inheritors (1998)
R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery
Austria, a little farming valley. Beginning of the century. When one of the farmers is found murdered one day, his labourers know of nothing, but are relieved, as the tyranny has ended. ... See full summary »
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Simon Schwarz, Sophie Rois, Lars Rudolph, Tilo Prückner
Votes: 1,187 | Gross: $0.20M
33. Anatomy (2000)
R | 103 min | Horror, Thriller
A cute med student starts a summer course at Heidelberg University. David's on her dissection table. She met him the day before on the train. Something's wrong.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Anna Loos, Sebastian Blomberg
Votes: 14,022 | Gross: $0.01M
34. The Counterfeiters (2007)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, History
The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during World War II.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach
Votes: 47,159 | Gross: $5.48M
35. The Way to Live (2011)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of Charlie, a young guy who hasn't learned to live as an adult yet.
Director: David Schalko | Stars: Emily Cox, Robert Stadlober, Robert Finster, Manuel Rubey
Votes: 296
36. Aufschneider (2010– )
90 min | Comedy
About a pathologist with a complicated life. His problems with himself, his colleagues and patients who come down to him, dead or alive.
Stars: Josef Hader, Oliver Baier, Ursula Strauss, Pia Hierzegger
Votes: 1,571
37. Mother's Day (1994)
95 min | Comedy
A satirical take on the life of a family in a public-housing complex in Vienna as they prepare for Mother's Day.
Director: Harald Sicheritz | Stars: Alfred Dorfer, Reinhard Nowak, Andrea Händler, Eva Billisich
Votes: 2,203
38. Freispiel (1995)
94 min | Comedy
A 36-year-old high-school music teacher in Vienna yearns to become a rock musician. His life consists of defiant students, cynical colleagues, and a broken marriage. Does he have a chance at his dream?
Director: Harald Sicheritz | Stars: Alfred Dorfer, Lukas Resetarits, Andrea Eckert, Benjamin Olesko
Votes: 454
39. Hinterholz 8 (1998)
90 min | Comedy
Herbert Krcal lives with his wife and son in a small apartment in Vienna. He dreams of owning his own house but houses are expensive. During a walk in the woods, he finds an old run-down ... See full summary »
Director: Harald Sicheritz | Stars: Roland Düringer, Nina Proll, Rudolf Rohaczek, Wolfgang Böck
Votes: 1,367
40. Wanted (II) (1999)
90 min | Fantasy
Trauma surgeon Thomas Reiter voluntarily withdraws to a closed institution because he no longer wants to face everyday life. He solves problems in his imagination - a western fantasy. A ... See full summary »
Director: Harald Sicheritz | Stars: Alfred Dorfer, John Phillip Law, Thomas Koziol, Gerhard Rühmkorf
Votes: 436
41. India (1993)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Harather | Stars: Josef Hader, Alfred Dorfer, Maria Hofstätter, Roger Murbach
Votes: 3,088
42. Der Überfall (2000)
84 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Looking around for a suitable place to hold up, Andreas stumbles into a tailor's shop. What was supposed to last only a few minutes ends up being a bizarre afternoon for three men: the ... See full summary »
Director: Florian Flicker | Stars: Roland Düringer, Josef Hader, Joachim Bißmeier, Birgit Doll
Votes: 522
43. Suzie Washington (1998)
87 min | Adventure, Drama
Nana is from Georgia, en route to America. During a stopover in Vienna her forged visa comes to light. Before she can be deported, she decides to go on the run. An odyssey through Austria is set in motion.
Director: Florian Flicker | Stars: Birgit Doll, August Zirner, Karl Ferdinand Kratzl, Wolfram Berger
Votes: 147
44. Die Gottesanbeterin (2001)
93 min | Comedy, Thriller
When Trixi's first husband says she can only continue to bet at the racetrack "over his dead body", she takes him literally. Trixi then goes on to find wealth and happiness by poisoning more husbands to inherit from them.
Director: Paul Harather | Stars: Christiane Hörbiger, Udo Kier, Jan Niklas, Peter Faerber
Votes: 157
45. Adam & Eva (2003)
99 min | Comedy, Romance
Adam, a firefighter, rescues Eva out of a burning house. 4 years later: they're married and the everyday life aparts them. Adam begins an erotic affair with his brothers au-pair, and eva ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Harather | Stars: Marie Bäumer, Simon Schwarz, Pierre Besson, Theresa Berlage
Votes: 286
46. Krabat (2008)
120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
A boy learns the black arts from an evil sorcerer.
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner | Stars: David Kross, Christian Redl, Daniel Brühl, Robert Stadlober
Votes: 6,846
47. Arabesken um Frosch (2001)
78 min | Comedy
Director: Paul Harather | Stars: Heio von Stetten, Hakon Hirzenberger, Julia Cencig, Doris Hindinger
Votes: 20
48. Poppitz (2002)
99 min | Comedy
Straight from his boss' funeral an austrian car salesman goes on a club hollyday with his german wife and his teenage daughter. Stressed out about his future at the job, his stray suitcase ... See full summary »
Director: Harald Sicheritz | Stars: Roland Düringer, Marie Bäumer, Nora Heschl, Kai Wiesinger
Votes: 1,227
49. MA 2412 (1998–2022)
20 min | Comedy
MA 2412 is an Austrian sitcom.
Stars: Monica Weinzettl, Roland Düringer, Alfred Dorfer, Karl Ferdinand Kratzl
Votes: 476
50. The Quality of Mercy (1994)
105 min | Drama, War
It is the beginning of 1945 during World War II in former Austria. 500 Soviet prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the ... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Gruber | Stars: Elfriede Irrall, Rainer Egger, Oliver Broumis, Merab Ninidze
Votes: 325
51. The Dark Valley (2014)
Not Rated | 115 min | Action, Drama, Western
Through a hidden path, a lone rider reaches a little town high up in the Alps. Nobody knows where the stranger comes from, nor what he wants there. But everyone knows that they don't want him to stay.
Director: Andreas Prochaska | Stars: Sam Riley, Tobias Moretti, Paula Beer, Thomas Schubert
Votes: 14,295
52. Radical Evil (2013)
96 min | Documentary
How do normal young men turn into mass murderers? With detailed accounts from the diaries of Nazi death squads, Academy Award winning director Stefan Ruzowitzky crafts a chilling study on the nature of evil.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Benjamin Ferencz, Dave Grossman, Robert Jay Lifton, Christopher Browning
Votes: 214
53. Blood Glacier (2013)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Scientists working in the Austrian Alps discover that a glacier is leaking a liquid that appears to be affecting local wildlife.
Director: Marvin Kren | Stars: Gerhard Liebmann, Edita Malovcic, Santos, Hille Beseler
Votes: 4,114
54. Goodnight Mommy (2014)
R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Twin boys move to a new house with their mother after she has face-changing cosmetic surgery, but under the bandages is someone the boys don't recognize.
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Susanne Wuest, Hans Escher
Votes: 59,702 | Gross: $1.17M
55. Hotel Rock'n'Roll (2016)
100 min | Comedy
An heiress of her uncle's Hotel building tries to reopen the Hotel with the help of two friends with whom she performs in a rock&roll band. Neither does she know that a man working as a ... See full summary »
Directors: Helmut Köpping, Michael Ostrowski | Stars: Michael Ostrowski, Pia Hierzegger, Gerald Votava, Georg Friedrich
Votes: 258
56. Amour (2012)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud
Votes: 105,603 | Gross: $6.74M
57. Cracks in Concrete (2014)
104 min | Drama
A drama centered on two men at different states in life: Ertan, an ex-con who is trying to make amends for his past actions and Mikail, a teen-aged drug runner an aspiring musician.
Director: Umut Dag | Stars: Murathan Muslu, Stephanie Nur, Alechan Tagaev, Erdem Türkoglu
Votes: 229
58. Die toten Fische (1989)
83 min | Drama
Director: Michael Synek | Stars: Joe Berger, Erwin Leder, Lisa Luginbuhl, Martin Schellnast
Votes: 21
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