Movies and TV shows set in vienna
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in vienna ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out art house, melancholic, psychological, captivating, realistic and period piece films and TV shows about / with betrayal, female nudity, love, obsession, art, nude, dancing, nudity, drinking and death plots mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres shot in Austria, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as vienna: Amadeus (1984), Before Sunrise (1995), Sachertorte (2022), Christmas in Vienna (2020), Vienna Blood (2019), The Best Offer (2013), The Night Porter (1974), Freud (1962), Woman in Gold (2015), The Tobacconist (2018).
Best films
New films
| Frankenstein (2025) | 7.5 | |
| Semmelweis (2023) | 6.8 | |
| Gran Turismo (2023) | 7.1 | |
| Sachertorte (2022) | 6.8 | |
| Nevrland (2019) | 5.4 |
List of movies set in vienna
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
The incredible story of genius musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri – now confined to an insane asylum.
Style:
clever, costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, historical drama ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
classical music, music, composer, genius, mozart, musician, envy, opera, character study, musician's life, mentor, prodigy ...
Time:
18th century, 1790s, 1820s, 1800s, 1780s ...
Place:
vienna, austria, eastern europe, italy, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Céline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. ...
Style:
philosophical, sentimental, sexy, intellectual, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, chance meeting, destiny, lovers, tourist, young lovers, fall in love, relationships, coincidence, love story, teenage girl, stranger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
vienna, austria, europe, france, los angeles ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the 20th Century Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna. His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end. Two women will have a lasting impact on him - his sister and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching, artsy ...
Plot:
painter, art, art history, brother sister relationship, biopic, model, trial, love, art exhibition, terminal illness, death of brother, money problems ...
Time:
1910s, year 1918
Place:
vienna
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Karl meets Nini at a Berlin train station: it is love at first sight. But the few hours they spend together before she travels back to Vienna end in a mishap in which Karl loses her phone number. He decides to move to the Austrian capital to find ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, thrilling, psychological, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
waiting, love interest, love affair, fall in love, looking for love, couple relations, male female relationship, meeting, chance meeting, in love, couples, romantic friendship ...
Place:
vienna, berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jess, a concert violinist whose heart just isn’t in it anymore, goes to Vienna for a performance. While there, she finds the inspiration she has been missing, and a new love.
Style:
light, semi serious, inspirational, sweet, romantic ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, christmas season, christmas spirit, music, musician's life, inspiration, character study, love and romance, lifestyle, hopes, life philosophy ...
Place:
vienna
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Austria
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Max Liebermann, a student of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around the grand cafes and opera houses of 1900s Vienna.
Style:
period piece, gothic, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
murder investigation, police investigation, murder, investigation, twists and turns, doctor, disorder, private detective, buddies, escapades, danger, good versus evil ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 1900s, 90s
Place:
vienna, austria
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, art, painting, art collector, loneliness, forgery, art theft, collector, obsession, age difference, solitude, young woman ...
Time:
year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 18th century, 21st century
Place:
vienna, europe, berlin germany, prague, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, sexual, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, sex, nazi, hotel, eroticism, sexual perversion, guilt, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexuality, public nudity, holocaust ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, post world war two, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
hungary, vienna, germany, frankfurt germany, italy ...
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4K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
This pseudo-biographical movie depicts 5 years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennan psychologist Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients, because they believe they're just simulating to gain ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, spiritual, philosophical, intellectual ...
Plot:
psychoanalysis, therapy, psychiatry, psychotherapy, art, mental disorder, dream, european history, psychiatrist, cognitive science, family drama, knowledge ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
vienna, central europe, austria
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA, Austria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belongs to her family. She did so not just to regain ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, cute, dramatic ...
Plot:
holocaust, art, lawyer, nazi, courtroom drama, justice, art theft, painting, injustice, legal, legal action, stolen painting ...
Time:
year 2015, 1930s, 1900s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
austria, vienna, los angeles, pasadena california, california ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, captivating, atmospheric
Plot:
political repression, naked woman, world war two, male nudity, friendship, historical figure, friends, danger, rivalry, society, wartime life, gestapo ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938, 20th century
Place:
germany, vienna, central europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
At the Kunsthistorisches Art Museum in Vienna, a museum guard and a visiting out-of-towner find refuge in life, art, and each other, in Jem Cohen’s painterly rumination on how art influences and echoes contemporary society.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, contemplative, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
art, friendship, tour guide, security guard, city life, art history, painter, painting, old man, inspiration, artist, anarchist ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
austria, vienna
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Style:
disturbing, sexual, controversial, psychological, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bdsm, older woman younger man relationship, masochism, age difference, perversion, rape, desire, teacher, obsession, sex scene, sex, sexual relations ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
vienna, france, germany, austria, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna, to solve the murder of his father. Step by step, he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in secret service machinations and chemical weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime thriller, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, conspiracy, spy thriller, third reich, danger, betrayal, corruption, war crime, revelation, moral ambiguity, secret service ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
vienna, austria
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
25-year-old Amadeus arrives in Vienna, unemployed after his father’s death. He allies with singer Constanze Weber, who helps bring him into the orbit of court composer Salieri, igniting a rivalry that defines their legacies.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, costume drama
Plot:
classical music, ambition, opera, jealousy, aristocracy, moral ambiguity, palace intrigue, character study, social climbing, tragedy, class conflict, composer
Time:
18th century
Place:
vienna
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Close to paying off her debts, a Nigerian sex worker in Austria coaches a reluctant novice, and assesses the risks of taking a faster path to freedom.
Style:
bleak, crime drama, intercultural, art house
Plot:
sex trafficking, sex worker, human trafficking, abuse, forced prostitution, exploitation, survival, social commentary, female protagonist, trauma, motherhood, desperation ...
Place:
nigeria, vienna, africa, austria
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, anthology, eros ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
marital infidelity, infidelity, exhibitionism, female masturbation, extramarital affair, nudity, cuckolded husband, sexual relations, male female relationship, explicit sex, oral sex, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vienna
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. ...
Style:
historical drama, art house, period piece, tense, melancholic
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, loss of innocence, persecution, propaganda, foreshadowing, urban, identity crisis, escape, betrayal, forbidden love, nazism ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938
Place:
vienna, israel, austria
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Vienna, the 1950s. A childhood captured on 8mm film, documented by thirteen-year-old Johanna.
Style:
art house, melancholic, poetic, experimental, period piece ...
Plot:
memory, childhood, family secret, family drama, nostalgia, coming of age, identity, intimate, introspection, autobiography, middle class, voice over narration ...
Time:
1950s, year 1956, 50s
Place:
vienna, germany, europe, austria
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Kindra, an attractive 21 year old politics student in Vienna, has taken on the spying activities of her parents who have disappeared. Kindra steals UN secrets and sells them anonymously over the internet. Her buyer, Hal, is suspicious that his usual ...
Style:
suspense, tense, political thriller, noir, humorous ...
Plot:
espionage, danger, spy thriller, surveillance, cat and mouse, european, cybercrime, mistrust, paranoia, female protagonist, un, urban ...
Place:
vienna
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752
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Austria, Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Nick and Anna are off to Switzerland for six months. Nick, a chef, wants to collect recipes of local cuisine and Anna hopes to write a new book. The journey can also be good for their relationship, because Anna suspects that Nick had an affair with ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, art house, ambiguous ending, experimental ...
Plot:
infidelity, uncertainty, marriage, identity, intimate, macabre, isolation, slow burn, jealousy, obsession, minimalism, guilt ...
Place:
vienna, germany, swiss alps, switzerland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a surprising breakup at home in Chicago, Amy decides that a change of scenery will do her well and impulsively decides to spend the holidays with her brother in Vienna. After taking ballroom dancing lessons with her dashing European dance ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, funny, romantic, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
christmas, waltz, chance meeting, male female relationship, intrigue, opposites attract, coping, happy ending, manipulation, unlikely couple, betrayal, fall in love ...
Place:
vienna
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Genre: Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Schnell ermittelt is an Austrian television series.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, detective
Plot:
detective inspector, homicide detective, female detective, sleuth, police investigation, murder investigation, murder, investigation, uncover truth, police detective, crime investigation, female police detective ...
Place:
vienna, austria
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Horror comedy film following vampire count Geza von Kösznöm who's visiting groundbreaking neurologist Sigund Freud because he's bored of his life and frustrated of the "eternally long" relationship with his wife Elsa.
Style:
dark, humorous, absurd, suspense, light ...
Plot:
vampire, lovers, psychiatrist patient relationship, happy ending, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, psychotherapy, marriage, love, disintegration, artist, painter, wedding ...
Time:
1900s, 2010s, 1930s, year 1932, 20th century
Place:
vienna
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Jest rok 1776. Radca wiedeńskiej Kancelarii Nadwornej Henryk Klein (Mariusz Bonaszewski) otrzymuje skargę na hrabiego Jakuba Franka (Olgierd Łukaszewicz), który kilkanaście lat wcześniej został skazany za głoszenie herezji i zbiegł do ...
Style:
serious, captivating, historical drama, realistic, enigmatic ...
Plot:
investigation, mysterious man, messiah, warning, religious leader, worship, uncover truth, religious cult, jewish history, political intrigue, conspiracy, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
18th century, 1770s
Place:
vienna, galicia, poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Canada
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, concentration camp, female protagonist, persecution, marxism, communism, biopic, writers, journalism, feminism, political activism, identity ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
prague, vienna, czechoslovakia, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, gothic, period drama, tragic
Plot:
naivete, aristocracy, decadence, nobility, moral corruption, wealth, deception, class conflict, bourgeoisie, coming of age, social climbing, manipulation ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
vienna
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece, art house, sentimental, atmospheric
Plot:
tragedy, downfall, tragic romance, female protagonist, family drama, poverty, character study, abandonment, single mother, betrayal, intimate, urban ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
vienna
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Die Ausgesperrten revolves around an unlikely group of 4 youths in Vienna who band together, each for different reasons, to mug people. Two are fraternal twins, the third a blue-collar worker, the fourth the privileged daughter of wealthy parents ...
Style:
dark, bleak, tense, melancholic, political drama ...
Plot:
social inequality, class conflict, youth, theft, mugging, post war, working class, anti establishment, rebellion, outsider, alienation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
austria, vienna
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 206 min.
Story:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, thrilling, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
mozart, classical music, ambition, genius, rivalry, obsession, jealousy, historical figure, musician's life, historical character, talented, music ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
vienna
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