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, AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, 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, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Filmzie, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
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
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, Hoopla, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
New from Austria
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
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
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
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 Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Vorstadtweiber
Wealthy Austrian housewives enjoy lives of luxury in the suburbs but their picture-perfect lives begin to crumble around them.
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- Austria • 2015
- Creator Uli Brée
- Cast Maria Köstlinger, Nina Proll, Bernhard Schir
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on The Roku Channel
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
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
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
Lovely Rita
Misunderstood by her classmates and parents, Rita, a teenager living in suburban Austria, starts seducing her school bus driver.
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- Austria, Germany • 2001
- Director Jessica Hausner
- Cast Barbara Osika, Wolfgang Kostal, Karina Brandlmayer, Peter Fiala
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Hoopla
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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, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Western
A thriller on the frontier of Eastern Europe.
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- Germany, Bulgaria, Austria • 2017
- Director Valeska Grisebach
- Cast Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifo, Veneta Frangipova, Viara Borisova
- Genre Drama
- Available on Metrograph, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube
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, 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 Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free
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
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
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
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
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
Documentaries from Austria
Master of the Universe
A tense documentary about the psychology of the most powerful people in the banking world.
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- Austria, Germany • 2013
- Director Marc Bauder
- Cast Rainer Voss, Angela Merkel
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Kanopy, Hoopla
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
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, DocAlliance Films, Apple TV, Kanopy
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
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary
(Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin)
The first ever recorded interview with Traudl Junge, Hitler’s personal secretary from 1942 until the collapse of the Nazi regime.
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- Austria • 2002
- Director Othmar Schmiderer
- Cast Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Albert Speer, Hans Hermann Junge, Joseph Goebbels
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
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, Kanopy
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
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, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Hoopla
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 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
Homme Less
A documentary on Mark Reay, a homeless photographer and actor in Manhattan.
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- Austria • 2015
- Director Thomas Wirthensohn
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Video, Kanopy
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 Wild Blue Yonder
Human astronauts attempt to find an alternate planet for humanity while an alien narrates the story of his dying planet.
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- Germany, France, Austria • 2005
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Shannon Lucid, Michael McCulley
- Genre Documentary, 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, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Freevee, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
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
Abendland
A documentary of Europe at night.
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- Austria • 2011
- Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, DocAlliance Films