Movie | Documentary, Biography | Austria, USA | English
Director
Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer
Cast
John Branch, Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson
Plot
In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan.
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.
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.
Movie | Drama, History | Austria | German, Hungarian
Director
Ernst Marischka
Writer
Ernst Marischka
Cast
Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Baahm, Magda Schneider
Plot
The second in a trilogy of movies about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria, the film chronicles the married life of the young empress as she tries to adjust to formal and strict life in the palace and an overbearing mother-in-law.
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.
Movie | Drama | Austria, Germany | German, English
Director
Sebastian Meise
Writer
Thomas Reider, Sebastian Meise
Cast
Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke
Plot
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmat...
A cop is recently divorced, and to fill the void, he adopts a police dog who has also lost his companion. Together, they solve crimes occurring in and around the city of Vienna.
Movie | Documentary | Austria, Belgium | English, Russian
Director
Hubert Sauper
Writer
Hubert Sauper
Cast
Elizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga Nsese, Raphael Tukiko Wagara, Dimond Remtulia
Plot
A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do wit...
Movie | Comedy, Romance | Austria, Germany | German
Director
Willi Forst
Writer
Willi Forst, Walter Reisch
Cast
Paula Wessely, Anton Walbrook, Olga Tschechowa
Plot
Vienna 1905: A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady a...
A rich man wins a vacation at a hotel but takes it in the disguise of a poor man under the supervision of his butler. The hotel manager gets tipped off about the plot, but misidentifies a money-less doctor as the eccentric.
In the Republic of Utopia, because of the bad economic crisis ailing the nation, the Jews are made the scapegoats for the economic and social ills affecting the population; therefore, the government decides to expel them.
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 couldn't stand each other initially; a frien...
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.
Movie | Action, Drama | Austria, Germany | German, English
Director
Andreas Prochaska
Writer
Martin Ambrosch, Andreas Prochaska, Thomas Willmann
Cast
Sam Riley, Tobias Moretti, Paula Beer
Plot
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.
Maria Hofsta¤tter, Christine Jirku, Viktor Hennemann
Plot
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.
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.
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.
Movie | Drama, History | Austria, Germany | German, Latin
Director
Heinz Schirk
Writer
Paul Mommertz
Cast
Dietrich Mattausch, Gerd Baackmann, Friedrich G. Beckhaus
Plot
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Movie | Drama | Austria, Germany | German, English
Director
Ulrich Seidl
Writer
Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
Cast
Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux
Plot
Teresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Austria, France | Kurdish, Persian
Director
Bahman Ghobadi
Writer
Behnam Behzadi, Bahman Ghobadi
Cast
Ismail Ghaffari, Allah Morad Rashtiani, Farzin Sabooni
Plot
Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome jo...
A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth Of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public ...
England, the 19th century. Young Victoria is crowned to be the queen of England. She aims to do her best in order to help her country prosper. However, the family and her trustful advisor, Lord Melbourne, plan marriage for her. Sh...
In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
Moritz Bleibtreu, Elsa Sophie Gambard, Milan Peschel
Plot
Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.
"Kottan ermittelt" ("Kottan investigates") is one of the defining moments of Austrian television. Masquerading as a police/crime series, it is actually a fierce anarchic satire on the Austrian police and Austrian society in genera...
