Popular from Austria
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, The Roku Channel, Hoopla, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice
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, 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
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, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Hoopla, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Channel
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, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
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, YouTube
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
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 Amazon Prime Video, Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel, 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
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.
New from Austria
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
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 Strand Releasing Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
The School of the Magical Animals
(Die Schule der magischen Tiere)
One day, the teacher at Ida's new school announces that all students will soon have a magical animal. Ida’s magic animal will be the fox, Rabbat.
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- Germany, Austria • 2021
- Director Gregor Schnitzler
- Cast Emilia Maier, Leonard Artur Conrads, Loris Sichrovsky, Nadja Uhl, Justus von Dohnányi, Heiko Pinkowski
- Genre Adventure, Family
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Freevee, Hoopla
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 Disney Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand, National Geographic
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, Spectrum On Demand, Hoopla
Inspector Rex
(Kommissar Rex)
Rex the German Shepherd and the team in the Viennese homicide investigation unit work together to solve murders.
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- Austria, Germany • 1994
- Creator Peter Hajek, Peter Moser
- Cast Alexander Pschill, Elke Winkens
- Genre Action & Adventure, Crime, Mystery
- Available on Amazon Video, Hoopla, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice
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 Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Hoopla
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
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, The Roku Channel, Hoopla, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice
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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, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Freevee, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
The White Ribbon
(Das weisse Band)
In rural Germany just before World War I, strange things are happening to a once-ordinary, authoritarian village society.
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- Germany, Austria, France • 2009
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Ursina Lardi, Ulrich Tukur, Burghart Klaußner, Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Susanne Lothar
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
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
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, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free
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
Taxidermia
Three stories. Three generations. Three men. One bizarre and shocking universe.
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- Hungary, Austria, France • 2006
- Director György Pálfi
- Cast Molnár Piroska, Mária Bodor, Albert Oláh, Sándor Hamar , János Gyuriska , Csaba Czene
- Genre Drama, Horror, Comedy
- Available on Here TV
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
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, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
The Dawn Wall
Legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell takes on his most formidable challenge yet --- El Capitan.
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- Austria • 2018
- Director Peter Mortimer
- Cast Tommy Caldwell, John Branch, Kevin Jorgeson
- Genre Documentary, Adventure
- Available on Outside Watch
Documentaries from Austria
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
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 Disney Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand, National Geographic
The Decent One
(Der Anständige)
A glimpse into the life of Heinrich Himmler, one of the main architects of the Holocaust.
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- Austria, Israel, Germany • 2014
- Director Vanessa Lapa
- Cast Heinrich Himmler, Tobias Moretti, Sophie Rois, Lotte Ledl, Gudrun Himmler, Antonia Moretti
- Genre Documentary, War
- Available on Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
The Ivory Game
The hunt for the hunter begins
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- Austria • 2016
- Director Richard Ladkani
- Cast Ofir Drori
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Six Million and One
Four siblings retrace the journey of their holocaust survivor father.
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- Israel, Austria, Germany • 2012
- Director David Fisher
- Cast Joseph Fischer
- Genre Documentary
- Available on fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Crackle, Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel
Pianomania
Pianomania takes the audience on a humorous journey through the secret world of sound and accompanies Stefan Knüpfer in his extraordinary work with the greatest pianists in the world.
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- Austria, Germany • 2009
- Director Robert Cibis
- Cast Lang Lang, Stefan Knüpfer, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Hyung-Ki Joo, Alfred Brendel, Aleksey Igudesman
- Genre Documentary, Music
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Plastic Planet
An up-close and personal view of the controversial and fascinating material that has found its way into every facet of our daily lives: plastic.
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- Austria, Germany • 2009
- Director Werner Boote
- Cast Werner Boote, John Taylor, Peter Lieberzeit
- Genre Documentary
- Available on 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
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
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
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
Whores' Glory
Several stories of sex work around the world.
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- Germany, Austria • 2011
- Director Michael Glawogger
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on MUBI, Kanopy
The Forgotten Space
An in-depth into the contemporary maritime world in relation to the complex symbolic legacy of the sea.
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- Netherlands, Austria • 2010
- Director Allan Sekula
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on fuboTV, OVID, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Hoopla
What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands interviews the sons of two former Nazis, who hold polar-opposite views on their fathers.
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- United Kingdom, Austria, Poland • 2015
- Director David Evans
- Cast Niklas Frank, Philippe Sands, Horst von Wächter
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Chai Flicks, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
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