Popular from Austria
Corsage
A stunning exploration of beauty, aging, and loneliness through a fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
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- Austria, France, Luxembourg • 2022
- Director Marie Kreutzer
- Cast Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Finnegan Oldfield
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Hulu, AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Wall
(Die Wand)
A woman finds herself inexplicably cut off from all human contact when an invisible wall suddenly surrounds her countryside cabin.
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- Austria, Germany • 2012
- Director Julian Pölsler
- Cast Martina Gedeck, Ulrike Beimpold, Karlheinz Hackl, Wolfgang Maria Bauer, Julia Gschnitzer, Hans-Michael Rehberg
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Kanopy, Plex,
Downfall
(Der Untergang)
April 1945, a nation awaits its... Downfall
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- Germany, Austria, Italy • 2004
- Director Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Cast Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler, Heino Ferch
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Freevee, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV, Plex,
Great Freedom
(Große Freiheit)
A gay Jewish man is sent to prison after World War 2, immediately after being released from a concentration camp.
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- Austria, Germany • 2021
- Director Sebastian Meise
- Cast Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke, Thomas Prenn, Thomas Stecher, Alfred Hartung
- Genre Drama, Romance, War
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Funny Games
A family is held hostage and forced to play a series of sadistic and deadly games
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- Austria • 1997
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video
New from Austria
Earth
(Erde)
Stories of the people and machines that transform the Earth.
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- Austria • 2019
- Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Hoopla, fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Pluto TV, Kanopy
Mutzenbacher
The famous erotic literature about the adventures of Josefine Mutzenbacher is playfully reflected on by wide ranges of men.
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- Austria • 2022
- Director Ruth Beckermann
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DocAlliance Films
Sunshine
The story of a Jewish-Hungarian family across three generations during the tumultuous 20th century.
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- Germany, Austria, Canada • 1999
- Director István Szabó
- Cast Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle, Deborah Kara Unger, William Hurt
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Hoopla, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Rimini
Two brothers return to their childhood home to bury their recently deceased mother.
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- Germany, Austria, France • 2022
- Director Ulrich Seidl
- Cast Michael Thomas, Tessa Göttlicher, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Inge Maux, Claudia Martini, Georg Friedrich
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI
Corsage
A stunning exploration of beauty, aging, and loneliness through a fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
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- Austria, France, Luxembourg • 2022
- Director Marie Kreutzer
- Cast Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Finnegan Oldfield
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Hulu, AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Heimat Is a Space in Time
(Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit)
Descendants of a family torn apart in the early 20th century retrace their heritage.
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- Germany, Austria • 2019
- Director Thomas Heise
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Kanopy
Chess Story
(Schachnovelle)
An Austrian lawyer trapped in a room by nazis becomes immersed in a game of chess.
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- Germany, Austria • 2021
- Director Philipp Stölzl
- Cast Oliver Masucci, Albrecht Schuch, Birgit Minichmayr, Andreas Lust, Samuel Finzi, Lukas Miko
- Genre Drama, History, Thriller, War
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Notes on Marie Menken
A look at the life of avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.
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- Austria, United States • 2006
- Director Martina Kudlácek
- Cast Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Peter Kubelka, Alfred Leslie, Gerard Malanga, Jonas Mekas
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID
Sea of Shadows
To save the world's smallest whale from extinction, activists must face poachers, cartels, and an illegal multimillion-dollar business.
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- Austria, Australia, Germany • 2019
- Director Richard Ladkani
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on fuboTV, Disney Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand, National Geographic
The Ground Beneath My Feet
(Der Boden unter den Füssen)
Business consultant Lola controls her personal life with ruthless efficiency, until a tragic event forces a confrontation with the past.
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- Austria • 2019
- Director Marie Kreutzer
- Cast Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger, Mavie Hörbiger, Michelle Barthel, Marc Benjamin
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
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In Search of Memory
(Auf der Suche nach dem Gedächtnis)
He was one of the most important neural scientists that ever lived.
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- Austria • 2008
- Director Petra Seeger
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Chai Flicks, Amazon Video
The Waldheim Waltz
(Waldheims Walzer)
History is doomed to repeat itself... again and again and again.
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- Austria • 2018
- Director Ruth Beckermann
- Cast Kurt Waldheim
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Chai Flicks, True Story, DocAlliance Films, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy
The Last of the Unjust
(Le Dernier des Injustes)
The story of Benjamin Murmelstein, the only ‘Elder of the Jews’ to survive WWII, and the last president of the Jewish council in the Theresienstadt ghetto.
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- France, Austria • 2013
- Director Claude Lanzmann
- Cast Benjamin Murmelstein, Claude Lanzmann
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Kino Now, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Our Daily Bread
(Unser täglich Brot)
An unsettling look at modern food processing only using sounds and images.
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- Germany, Austria • 2006
- Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Cast Claus Hansen Petz, Arkadiusz Rydellek, Tibor Korom, András Szarvas
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, DocAlliance Films, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy, myfilmfriend
The Ground Beneath My Feet
(Der Boden unter den Füssen)
Business consultant Lola controls her personal life with ruthless efficiency, until a tragic event forces a confrontation with the past.
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- Austria • 2019
- Director Marie Kreutzer
- Cast Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger, Mavie Hörbiger, Michelle Barthel, Marc Benjamin
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Paradise: Hope
(Paradies: Hoffnung)
Beyond darkness... beyond desolation... lies the greatest danger of all.
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- Austria, France, Germany • 2013
- Director Ulrich Seidl
- Cast Melanie Lenz, Joseph Lorenz, Verena Lehbauer, Michael Thomas, Vivian Bartsch, Johanna Schmid
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
(Im Spiegel der Maya Deren)
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
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- Austria, Czech Republic, Switzerland • 2002
- Director Martina Kudlácek
- Cast Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Judith Malina, Alexander Hammid, Chao Li Chi, Miriam Arsham
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Metrograph, Kino Now, Kanopy
Revanche
An ex-con laying low after a robbery nearly blows his cover when he befriends the wife of a policeman.
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- Austria • 2008
- Director Götz Spielmann
- Cast Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Michael-Joachim Heiss, Andreas Lust, Hanno Pöschl, Ursula Strauss
- Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max, Amazon Video
Quo Vadis, Aida?
A UN translator returns to Bosnia to help her family at the height of the 1995 War with Serbia.
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- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Romania • 2021
- Director Jasmila Žbanić
- Cast Jasna Đuričić, Izudin Bajrović, Boris Ler, Dino Bajrović, Johan Heldenbergh, Raymond Thiry
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Great Freedom
(Große Freiheit)
A gay Jewish man is sent to prison after World War 2, immediately after being released from a concentration camp.
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- Austria, Germany • 2021
- Director Sebastian Meise
- Cast Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke, Thomas Prenn, Thomas Stecher, Alfred Hartung
- Genre Drama, Romance, War
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Styx
A successful doctor’s solo sailing voyage is turned upside down when she comes across a group of refugees at sea.
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- Germany, Austria, Netherlands • 2018
- Director Wolfgang Fischer
- Cast Susanne Wolff, Alexander Beyer, Inga Birkenfeld, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Kelvin Mutuku Ndinda
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex,
Caché
All the moments they thought nobody was watching, caught on tape.
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- France, Austria, Germany • 2005
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Daniel Duval, Maurice Bénichou
- Genre Mystery, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Tubi TV
The Piano Teacher
(La Pianiste)
Perversion --- at its absolute best.
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- Austria, France, Germany • 2001
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Toni Erdmann
In this absurdist tale of estrangement, a practical joker visits his workaholic daughter in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
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- Germany, Austria, Monaco • 2016
- Director Maren Ade
- Cast Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl, Trystan Pütter, Ingrid Bisu
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Museum Hours
At the Kunsthistorisches Art Museum in Vienna, a security guard’s friendship with an enigmatic visitor is affected by the historic artwork.
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- Austria, United States • 2012
- Director Jem Cohen
- Cast Mary Margaret O'Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits, Marcus O'Hara, Deborah Gzesh, Marco Calamita
- Genre Drama
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube, Kanopy
Austria at the Oscars
The Counterfeiters
(Die Fälscher)
Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch finds himself entangled in the Nazi's nefarious Operation Bernhard, an effort to destabilize the British economy.
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- Austria, Germany • 2007
- Director Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Cast Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, August Zirner, Veit Stübner
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Tubi TV
Great Freedom
(Große Freiheit)
A gay Jewish man is sent to prison after World War 2, immediately after being released from a concentration camp.
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- Austria, Germany • 2021
- Director Sebastian Meise
- Cast Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke, Thomas Prenn, Thomas Stecher, Alfred Hartung
- Genre Drama, Romance, War
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Revanche
An ex-con laying low after a robbery nearly blows his cover when he befriends the wife of a policeman.
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- Austria • 2008
- Director Götz Spielmann
- Cast Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Michael-Joachim Heiss, Andreas Lust, Hanno Pöschl, Ursula Strauss
- Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max, Amazon Video
Amour
Love never ends.
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- Austria, France, Germany • 2012
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, William Shimell, Ramón Agirre, Rita Blanco
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand