Austrian Film
These are Austrian movies which I watched during the last few years. Listed in the correct order.
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- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsErwin SteinhauerWolfgang BöckAndreas VitásekThree brothers, a cook, an author and a convict, reunite to look for their father after their mother dies in Germany. Soon they realize that they know less about their mother (and have less in common) than they had thought.10/10
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsWolfgang BöckErwin SteinhauerAndreas VitásekLudwig, Adrian and Ernst Stadler make a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella on a trip of self-discovery.9/10
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsJosef HaderSimon SchwarzBarbara RudnikEx-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.9/10
- DirectorPaul HaratherStarsJosef HaderAlfred DorferMaria HofstätterHeinzi 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 friendship that even overcomes the boundaries of great tragedy.8,5/10
- DirectorFranz AntelStarsKarl MerkatzAlfred BöhmHans HoltA politically naïve Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the unification of Germany and Austria and the Second World War.8,5/10
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsJosef HaderSimon SchwarzJoachim KrólA 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.8,5/10
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsChristian FriedelErnst JacobiLeonie BeneschStrange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?8,5/10
- DirectorGötz SpielmannStarsJohannes KrischIrina PotapenkoAndreas LustEx-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.8/10
- DirectorHelmut GrasserStarsEdith AdamekFranz BergerJörg Gampus8/10
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMaria HofstätterChristine JirkuViktor HennemannIn 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.8/10
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMelanie LenzVerena LehbauerJoseph LorenzThe final installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, 'Paradise: Hope' tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ('Paradise: Love') and her aunt does missionary work ('Paradise: Faith'), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.8/10
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsBirgit DollDieter BernerLeni TanzerA 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.8/10
- DirectorErich NeubergStarsHelmut Qualtinger8/10
- DirectorAngelika SchusterTristan SindelgruberStarsLennart BinderPhillip BischofUte BockThe film takes a critical look at the "Operation Spring" raids conducted in 1999 by the Austrian police against the "Nigerian drug mafia."7,5/10
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsJosef HaderJosef BierbichlerBirgit MinichmayrPrivate 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.7,5/10
- DirectorPeter PatzakStarsBibiane ZellerErnst KonarekFred SchafferThis film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun, and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt".7,5/10
- StarsJosef HaderOliver BaierUrsula StraussAbout a pathologist with a complicated life. His problems with himself, his colleagues and patients who come down to him, dead or alive.7,5/10
- DirectorAntonin SvobodaStarsGeorg FriedrichBirgit MinichmayrGerti DrasslA compulsive gambler is forced to take a chance with his own life.7/10
- DirectorAndrea Maria DuslStarsJosef HaderVictoria MalektorovychDetlev BuckAfter screwing up a money exchange a Viennese small-time crook accompanied by a Russian hostess hits the road to the East.7/10
- DirectorJosef HaderStarsJosef HaderPia HierzeggerGeorg FriedrichWhen Georg loses his job, he conceals the fact from his younger wife Johanna, who wants a child with him. Instead, he embarks upon a campaign of revenge against his former boss and begins to renovate a roller-coaster with an old school friend.7/10
- DirectorFlorian FlickerStarsRoland DüringerJosef HaderJoachim BißmeierLooking around for a suitable place to hold up, Andreas stumbles into a tailor's shop. What was supposed to last only a few minutes ends up being a bizarre afternoon for three men: the tragicomic of the less-than-expert robber, the cranky tailor and a customer - a know-it-all who drives the other two crazy. The mood constantly shifts, and the tables keep turning among the threesome. A black comedy with a twist.7/10
- DirectorFlorian FlickerStarsBirgit DollAugust ZirnerKarl Ferdinand KratzlNana is from Georgia, en route to America. During a stopover in Vienna her forged visa comes to light. Before she can be deported, she decides to go on the run. An odyssey through Austria is set in motion.7/10
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsWolfgang BöckErwin SteinhauerAndreas Vitásek7/10
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsJosef HaderTobias MorettiNora WaldstättenFormer cop Brenner has to return to his home town where he gets involved in a tragic story between his old friends.7/10
- DirectorMaria SchraderStarsBarbara SukowaTómas LemarquisAenne SchwarzBefore Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home.7/10
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsChristoph DostalAndreas LustAndreas SimmaIn a small army base at the Eastern border of Austria a young recruit is trained to be a soldier to protect his country in case of war. He has to stay for 8 months and during this time he escapes in his own fantasy world...7/10
- DirectorGötz SpielmannStarsRudolf WesselyDana VávrováWolfgang BöckAn elderly man, obsessed with his neighbour, begins to follow her.7/10
- DirectorAndreas ProchaskaStarsGerhard LiebmannSimon HatzlInes HonselWhen the daughter of a local dignitary is found dead in a closed mine in the Austrian mountains, a local detective tries to solve the case before the detectives from the big city can do so.7/10
- DirectorHarald SicheritzStarsAlfred DorferJohn Phillip LawThomas KoziolTrauma surgeon Thomas Reiter voluntarily withdraws to a closed institution because he no longer wants to face everyday life. He solves problems in his imagination - a western fantasy. A priest is commissioned by his worried parents to bring their son back to reality. When Thomas asks him to follow him into his western world, the pastor realizes that this escape from reality is not without its fascination... A humorous look at reality and imagination, a film about the dissolution of borders. "So someone has difficulties with their life and flees into a simple world. Of course, as a screenwriter, I could also say in such a case that they flee into video games - but that was all too banal for me, it was too obvious "The Western also stands for something, it stands for simplification. There is good and there is bad, so pretty clear guidelines. For me, that was the clearest leap for someone for whom reality is too complex. In addition, it was of course a huge one Incentive to seriously try to make one, especially in a country where there is no infrastructure for a western. Nevertheless: WANTED is definitely not a western. That's very important. The western is only a small part of the film, a Neighborhood maybe, where a certain wishful thinking is served. Everything else is very real. To me it's a comedy, but I can also laugh at things that other people don't find funny at all. Let's put it this way: If INDIA was a comedy, then n WANTED is also one."6,5/10
- DirectorAndreas ProchaskaStarsElfriede OttMichael OstrowskiAndreas KiendlHorst receives the monthly pension from his grandmother. The only problem is, that she is dead. As a local politician wants to congratulate the grandmother to her birthday Horst "borrows" an old lady from a hospital nearby, not recognizing that he just kidnapped actress Elfriede Ott.6,5/10
- DirectorHelmut KöppingStarsChristoph TheußlAndreas KiendlMichael OstrowskiIn Fohnsdorf, Austria's largest village--which has a high unemployment rate because of the closing of a coal mine--under the Viktor Klima administration in the early 2000s, four friends prepare for a class reunion. They aren't satisfied with what they've achieved in their lives, and they keep on struggling in very individually unconventional ways. With odd scenes that don't seem to make much sense and very cheap special effects, this is a masterpiece that gives funny insights into the everyday lives of Australian twentysomethings in the early 21st century.6,5/10
- DirectorHarald SicheritzStarsAlfred DorferLukas ResetaritsAndrea EckertA 36-year-old high-school music teacher in Vienna yearns to become a rock musician. His life consists of defiant students, cynical colleagues, and a broken marriage. Does he have a chance at his dream?6,5/10
- DirectorMichael GlawoggerStarsRobert MeyerBibiane ZellerNikolaus ParylaIn the middle of Vienna stands an old tenement building, and time has left its mark both on the house and its inhabitants. Here, time passes at a strange pace. Floor by floor, the visitor can discover small self-contained worlds: grousers, collectors, the forgotten, people with obsessions, concealed and exposed passions. Behind securely locked doors, each prepares his own heady brew. Then, however, death makes its entrance for the first time, sweeping through the stairwell. The owner of the house, a resident himself, dies. His nephew, an entrepreneur, inherits the building and acts immediately. He moves out, takes up lodgings, hands out notice to quit, renovates and devastates. One goal hovers before his eyes; to get rid of the tenants and make money out of the property. Gradually, the closed doors begin to open, and with each outrage committed by the new owner, the residents are drawn closer together. What comes to light thereby is an anthill full of life, and once it opens up, a flood of comical individuals streams out of it, all fighting for their own living space. A minor official, plagued by persecution mania, fears a dreadful end to the matter. Though the signs he sees of this are all wrong, nevertheless, in a furious finale, the outside world descends upon the house and his inhabitants.6,5/10
- DirectorPaulus MankerStarsFritz SchediwyHans-Michael RehbergSiggi SchwientekJosef Schmutz is a custodian clerk given the task of guarding an outdated industrial plant.6,5/10
- DirectorKarl MarkovicsStarsThomas SchubertKarin LischkaGeorg FriedrichThrough his work at a morgue, an incarcerated young man trying to build a new life starts to come to terms with the crime he committed.6,5/10
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsEkateryna RakLidiya Oleksandrivna SavkaOksana Ivanivna SklyarenkoA nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in Central Europe, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason.6,5/10
- DirectorWim WendersStarsArthur BraussKai FischerErika PluharGoalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier.6,5/10
- DirectorWolfram PaulusStarsChristoph SchnellDaniel RosenkranzGerald BachlerThe main characters of the story are Pauli, a teacher's son, and Sepp, the son of a sawmill owner. They get to know each other while serving as altar boys, become friends and decide to form their own gang with themselves as leaders.6,5/10
- DirectorAngelika SchusterTristan SindelgruberStarsAlois KaufmannHermine KaufmannAntje KosemundThe victims, their relatives and friends give insight into the atrocities that took place at 'Am Spiegelgrund', a clinic for children in Vienna, Austria. The traumatic events that took place at this National Socialist institution affects them to this day. In this so-called health clinic, barbarous experiments were carried out on children and many hundreds of children lost their lives.6,5/10
- DirectorXaver SchwarzenbergerStarsMarianne MendtGisela SchneebergerErwin SteinhauerSophie's husband suddenly leaves her and she runs out of money. She and her friend Steffi are both gifted cooks, and Steffi has the idea to open an agency for "Dinners for Two" to earn some extra money, and a couple of very odd people react to their advertisement.6,5/10
- DirectorHans WeingartnerTobias AmannStarsDaniel BrühlAnabelle LachattePatrick JoswigKati, Jochen and Lukas take a trip on magic mushrooms. Lukas is not coming back.6,5/10
- DirectorGötz SpielmannStarsGoya ToledoHary PrinzMartin FeifelThe seedy underbelly of Vienna at night. Mercedes is a femme fatale from Mexico, newly arrived at the Vienna airport with her German boyfriend Rainer, where they have smuggled a kilo of cocaine through customs. Unfortunately for them, the city has just had a major drug crackdown, leaving them without buyers and money. Disgusted with Rainer, Mercedes ditches him and hooks up with Harry, a lonely and bored cab driver who agrees to help her find a buyer for the drugs so she can get some cash and go home. She offers Harry a deal he can't refuse. Is he just another pawn for Mercedes or will her promises help him achieve his hope and dreams? The story careens through the night streets of Vienna, following two amateurs navigating their way through the treacherous world of the drug trade. It's a mood piece with the backdrop of a stifling urban loneliness.6,5/10
- DirectorHouchang AllahyariStarsFritz KarlDolores SchmidingerLeon AskinThis is an unusual love story between Mario, a young man from the city who believes he has already failed in life, and a country-woman from a small village in the provinces who is disenchanted with life. To start fresh, Mario flees to the countryside and ends up on a mountain farm that belongs to Ms. Gusenleitner and her father, who gives him work as a farmhand for bed and board. For the first time in his life, Mario experiences love and sexuality without hate and dependency. However, he fears that his idyllic life will be halted when his past catches up with him.6,5/10
- DirectorAxel CortiStarsKurt WeinzierlJulia GschnitzerRose DybalThe story of the last days of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter (1907-1943), who was executed by the Nazi regime because of his refusal to compromise with a perverse system.6/10
- DirectorReinhard SchwabenitzkyStarsElfi EschkeHanno PöschlLouise MartiniKurt Schneider is a superficial and fun-loving character. Instigated by his mother he swindles his way into the legacy of a house and some money.6/10
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsJan Josef LiefersUrsula StraussJoachim FuchsbergerA greater-Vienna seniors' home is run like a prison by the stuck-up female executive and staff. Hippie-type rebel Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak incurs a community service to be spent there as orderly. Sympathizing with seniors who still aspire to some dignity and self-realization, he helps them get around the rules, such as smuggling in contraband, and ends up inspiring them to form a rock band and enter a free podium competition. But it doesn't square with his own last shot as band guitarist.6/10
- DirectorJessica HausnerStarsBarbara OsikaChristoph BauerPeter FialaRita is an outcast teenager in suburban Austria, misunderstood both at school and at home. When Rita sets out to seduce her school bus driver, she sets in motion a series of events that changes everyone's lives irrevocably.6/10
- DirectorNathalie BorgersHow can it be that, despite the corruption scandals he has been associated with, Jörg Haider is portrayed as a hero after his accidental death? Nathalie Borgers goes to investigate in Carinthia. Her discoveries range from the comically bizarre to the strangely vexing.6/10
- DirectorHarald SicheritzStarsRoland DüringerMarie BäumerNora HeschlStraight from his boss' funeral an austrian car salesman goes on a club hollyday with his german wife and his teenage daughter. Stressed out about his future at the job, his stray suitcase and his daughters hollyday flirts also breaks the old feud between austrians and germans wich leads to quite bizarre events.5,5/10
- DirectorGerhard ErtlSabine HieblerStarsChristine OstermayerKarl MerkatzErni MangoldWhen octogenarians Rosa and Bruno meet and fall in love, they decide to give their relationship a chance although Rosa is diagnosed with cancer.5,5/10
- DirectorHans-Jörg HoferStarsManuel RubeyAlissa JungSimon Schwarz5/10
- DirectorNikolaus LeytnerStarsLukas ResetaritsAndreas LustRoswitha Meyer5/10
- DirectorThomas WoschitzStarsValerie PachnerChristian ZanklMarkus SchwärzerBAD LUCK is a lovingly made, tragic-comic film about wrong decisions, chance and the search for happiness.5/10
- DirectorMichael GlawoggerStarsNina ProllKarl FischerEdita MalovcicA real scalp swims in a gravel pond, and a severed leg is found in a weir system. Head of department Franzi and her older colleague Michael are confronted with a puzzle of body parts that come from the same person.5/10
- DirectorNikolaus LeytnerStarsWolfgang BöckFlorian BartholomäiUrsula StraussAlbert Schuh is a corrupt policeman working for the division for burglary and theft in Vienna. His partner was shot four months ago and since that he's on a mission to find his murderer. After assigning a new partner from Germany, being awfully precise and ambitious, both cops are on different ways to solve the case.5/10
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsJohn MalkovichVeronica FerresStephen DillaneA portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.5/10
- DirectorHarald SicheritzStarsVera BorekAlfred DorferMarianne Mendt5/10
- DirectorThomas RothStarsManuel RubeyPatricia AulitzkyChristian TramitzThe life story of 1980s Austrian superstar Falco, the man behind the monster hit "Rock Me, Amadeus." The story of Johann "Falco" Hölzel from his childhood, the road from a band to his solo career, to his tragic death.4,5/10
- DirectorAntonin SvobodaStarsIngrid BurkhardHaymon Maria ButtingerChristian DolezalThree men in midlife crisis become friends at a saxophone class. Her professional and private failure leads her to share a flat that is not without problems.4/10
- DirectorNiki ListHans SelikovskyStarsAndreas VitásekBarbara RudnikChristian SchmidtPrivate detective Max Müller and his assistent Larry try to solve a crime but find themselves in strange bars and women.4/10
- DirectorThomas RothStarsWilli ResetaritsLukas ResetaritsUschi ObermaierAfter the last concert of a long tour, Dr. Kurt Ostbahn retires to his favorite café to relax. He is suddenly dragged into a bizarre criminal case. His vacation then fills with vice, perversion and murder.4/10
- DirectorDavid SchalkoStarsEmily CoxRobert StadloberRobert FinsterThe story of Charlie, a young guy who hasn't learned to live as an adult yet.3/10
- DirectorXaver SchwarzenbergerStarsErwin SteinhauerPippa GalliJulia Stemberger2/10
- DirectorPeter PatzakStarsLukas ResetaritsUdo SamelJohannes KrischMaj. Adolf Kottan III has to return to the police as the situation is worse than ever. He is the only hope.1(0!)/10