Popular from Austria
Rubikon
When space station scientists can no longer see Earth, they must decide if they should stay put, or risk their lives in an attempt to return home.
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- Austria • 2022
- Director Magdalena Lauritsch
- Cast Julia Franz Richter, Mark Ivanir, George Blagden, Nicholas Monu, Jonas Emilian Gerzabek, Daniela Kong
- Genre Science Fiction, Thriller
- Available on Hulu, Shudder, Shudder Amazon Channel, AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , Shudder Apple TV Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
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, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
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, AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Weapon of Choice
This is the story of the Glock, perhaps the most recognizable pistol in the world.
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- Austria, Iraq, United States • 2018
- Director Eva Hausberger
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Scene of the Crime
(Tatort)
German, Austrian, and Swiss police solve complex crimes in this long-running crime procedural.
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- West Germany, Austria, Switzerland • 1970
- Creator Günter Rohrbach, Gunther Witte
- Cast
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Woman of the Dead
(Totenfrau)
A small-town undertaker sets upon a quest for revenge when her husband is killed in a "car accident."
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- Austria • 2022
- Creator Bernhard Aichner
- Cast Anna Maria Mühe, Romina Küper, Emilia Pieske, Michou Friesz, Gerhard Liebmann, Felix Klare
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Freud
Young psychiatrist Sigmund Freud investigates a murder while navigating Viennese high society, drug addiction, and academic ridicule.
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- Austria, Germany • 2020
- Creator Marvin Kren, Benjamin Hessler, Stefan Brunner
- Cast Manuel Ossenkopf
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
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, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
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 Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Leave No Trace
Presenter Richard Crawford travels around the world showing prospective tourists how to vacation in an environmentally-friendly way.
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- Austria • 2020
- Creator Ben Alcott
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Tubi TV, Amazon Prime Video, Plex, Plex Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Goodnight Mommy
(Ich seh, Ich seh)
A mother should look out for her sons.
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- Austria • 2014
- Director Veronika Franz
- Cast Elias Schwarz, Lukas Schwarz, Susanne Wuest, Hans Escher, Elfriede Schatz, Karl Purker
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Freevee, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
New from Austria
Razzennest
In this bizarre meta satire, a film critic meets with an auteur filmmaker to produce an audio commentary track, which goes horribly wrong.
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- Austria • 2022
- Director Johannes Grenzfurthner
- Cast Sophie Kathleen Kozeluh, Michael Smulik, Anne Weiner, Roland Gratzer, Jim Libby, Bob Rose
- Genre Comedy, Drama, History, Horror
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, VUDU Free, Cineverse, Plex, Plex Channel
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
(Grbavica)
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
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- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria • 2006
- Director Jasmila Žbanić
- Cast Mirjana Karanović, Luna Mijović, Leon Lučev, Kenan Ćatić, Jasna Beri, Dejan Aćimović
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Hoopla
Shardlake
In the 16th century, young lawyer Matthew Shardlake is sent by Thomas Cromwell and the Tudor government to the Scarnsea monastery to investigate a suspicious death.
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- Austria, Hungary, United States • 2024
- Creator Stephen Butchard, C. J. Sansom
- Cast Arthur Hughes, Anthony Boyle, Sean Bean, Babou Ceesay, Paul Kaye, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Hulu
Walking on Sunshine
It's far from sunny in this Austrian news station's weather department.
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- Austria • 2019
- Creator Andreas Kopriva, Chris Raiber, Holger Barthel
- Cast
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Hoopla, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice
Club Zero
When Miss Novak, a nutrition teacher, arrives at an elite school, she introduces her own peculiar ideas about food to the students.
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- Austria, Germany, United Kingdom • 2023
- Director Jessica Hausner
- Cast Mia Wasikowska, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Amir ElMasry, Elsa Zylberstein, Mathieu Demy, Amanda Lawrence
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
The Devil's Bath
(Des Teufels Bad)
Agnes, a woman living in 18th-century Austria, enters an unhappy marriage, and as a result, her dark thoughts grow.
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- Austria, Germany • 2024
- Director Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
- Cast Birgit Minichmayr, Maria Hofstätter, Anja Plaschg
- Genre Horror
- Available on Shudder, Shudder Amazon Channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Shudder Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Leave No Trace
Presenter Richard Crawford travels around the world showing prospective tourists how to vacation in an environmentally-friendly way.
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- Austria • 2020
- Creator Ben Alcott
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Tubi TV, Amazon Prime Video, Plex, Plex Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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
Sisi & I
(Sisi & Ich)
When countess Irma arrives to be Empress Sisi’s new lady in waiting at an isolated commune, the two women grow extremely close.
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- Germany, Switzerland, Austria • 2023
- Director Frauke Finsterwalder
- Cast Susanne Wolff, Sandra Hüller, Tom Rhys Harries, Johanna Wokalek, Angela Winkler, Stefan Kurt
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Telescope Recommends
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, Kanopy
We Come as Friends
Documentarian Hubert Sauper examines the independence struggle of South Sudan.
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- France, Austria • 2014
- Director Hubert Sauper
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Homo Sapiens
The images could be taken from a science fiction film set on planet Earth after it’s become uninhabitable. All these locations carry the traces of erstwhile human existence and bear witness to a civilization that brought forth architecture, art, the entertainment industry, technologies, ideologies, wars and environmental disasters.
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- Switzerland, Germany, Austria • 2016
- Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Kanopy
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, AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
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, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy
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 Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Freevee, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
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, Hoopla
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, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, 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, Hoopla, myfilmfriend
Documentaries from Austria
Wheel of Time
(Rad der Zeit)
A mesmerizing documentary from Werner Herzog that immerses the viewer in Tibetan Buddhist tradition and rituals.
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- Germany, Austria, Italy • 2003
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Tenzin Gyatso, Lama Lhundup Woeser, Takna Jigme Sangpo, Matthieu Ricard, Tenzin Dhargye
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
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 Chai Flicks, True Story, DocAlliance Films, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Hoopla
A Good American
A documentary profiling William Binney, a former NSA official, code-breaker, and whistleblower.
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- Austria • 2015
- Director Friedrich Moser
- Cast William Binney, Thomas Drake, Edward Loomis, Jesselyn Radack, Diane Roark
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, VUDU Free, Freevee, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Jesus, You Know
(Jesus, Du weisst)
Six Catholics share their prayers.
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- Austria • 2003
- Director Ulrich Seidl
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Kanopy
More Than Honey
Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worldwide, are facing extinction.
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- Switzerland, Germany, Austria • 2012
- Director Markus Imhoof
- Cast Fred Jaggi, Randolf Menzel, John Miller, Liane Singer, Heidrun Singer
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Kanopy, Hoopla
Homo Sapiens
The images could be taken from a science fiction film set on planet Earth after it’s become uninhabitable. All these locations carry the traces of erstwhile human existence and bear witness to a civilization that brought forth architecture, art, the entertainment industry, technologies, ideologies, wars and environmental disasters.
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- Switzerland, Germany, Austria • 2016
- Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Kanopy
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
The Family
(Družina)
A man born into a family of people with special needs opts for a radical exit out of the vicious cycle of his community.
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- Slovenia, Austria • 2017
- Director Rok Biček
- Cast Matej Rajk, Nia Kastelec, Barbara Kastelec, Alenka Rajk, Boris Rajk
- Genre Documentary, Drama
- Available on DocAlliance Films, Google Play Movies, YouTube
Abendland
A documentary of Europe at night.
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- Austria • 2011
- Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, DocAlliance Films
We Come as Friends
Documentarian Hubert Sauper examines the independence struggle of South Sudan.
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- France, Austria • 2014
- Director Hubert Sauper
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
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, Hoopla
The Great Museum
(Das große Museum)
This feature documentary follows the work that goes into running one of the most important art museums in the world.
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- Austria • 2014
- Director Johannes Holzhausen
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, myfilmfriend
Workingman's Death
This documentary depicts the working conditions of several groups trying to make a living in areas throughout the world.
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- Austria, Germany • 2005
- Director Michael Glawogger
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on GuideDoc, DocAlliance Films, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, myfilmfriend
Turtle: The Incredible Journey
A loggerhead turtle takes a dangerous journey across the world.
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- United Kingdom, Austria, Germany • 2009
- Director Nick Stringer
- Cast Miranda Richardson
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV
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, Hoopla