Best Austrian Movies

This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Austrian Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: realistic, serious, suspense, sincere, suspenseful and tense. Plot: death, murder, female nudity, family relations, violence, photograph, couples, danger, cigarette smoking and husband wife relationship. Genre: Drama, Thriller and Crime. Country: Austria, USA and Germany.
Best Austrian Movies
Best Austrian Movies
TOP Movies: Antares (2004), The Dark Valley (2014), The Piano Teacher (2001), Spectre (2015), Before Sunrise (1995), Goodnight Mommy (2014), Funny Games (1997), Revanche (2008), Brothers of the Wind (2015), Rubikon (2022), Extraction II (2023), Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013), Amour (2012), Glossary of Broken Dreams (2018), The Counterfeiters (2007), The Dark (2018), Breathing (2011), Michael (2011), Life Eternal (2015), Downfall (2004).

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 6.1
 4K
Antares (2004)
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: erotic, sexy, sensual, psychological, anthology ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, male female relationship, female masturbation, exhibitionism, extramarital affair, nudity, sex, explicit sex, exhibitionist, female pubic hair, adultery, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vienna
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The Dark Valley (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Through a hidden path a lone rider reaches a little town high up in the Alpes. Nobody knows where the stranger comes from, nor what he wants there. But everyone knows that they don't want him to stay.
Style: serious, tense, stylized, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: mysterious character, danger, rivalry, isolation, under the surface, snow, cowboy, vengeance, modern western, modern west, revenge, bullying ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: germany, austria, alps, europe
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The Piano Teacher (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music
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: sexual, disturbing, psychological, controversial, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bdsm, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, teacher, mother daughter relationship, sexual relations, desire, rape, masochism, fetish, sex, perversion ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, france, austria, europe, vienna
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 6.8
 464K
Spectre (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
Style: suspense, entertaining, exciting, sexy, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: james bond, spy, espionage, secret agent, secret service, 007, chase, one man army, british secret service, kidnapping, rogue agent, terrorist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 21st century
Place: london, rome italy, italy, north africa, big ben london ...
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.
Style: breathtaking, suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: spy, mission, espionage, conspiracy, tough guy, female agent, rogue agent, cia agent, tough girl, secret service, terrorist plot, cia ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, austria, vienna, europe, morocco ...
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 8.1
 337K
Before Sunrise (1995)
Genre: 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, emotional, melancholic, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love, chance meeting, destiny, relationships, fall in love, tourist, young lovers, conversation, coincidence, love story, travel, teenage girl ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: austria, europe, france, vienna, los angeles ...
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Goodnight Mommy (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: twins, mental illness, torture, brother brother relationship, divorce, isolation, children, boy, animal mask, supernatural, terror, child ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: austria, germany, central europe
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 7.5
 83K
Funny Games (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two psychotic 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.
Style: disturbing, bleak, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, sadism, bad guy wins, torment, torture, home invasion, kidnapping, murder, family in danger, evil wins, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997, near future
Place: austria, germany, europe
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 7.5
 16K
Revanche (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, psychological, art house, atmospheric ...
Plot: obsession, redemption, culture clash, storytelling, robbery, love and romance, couple relations, prostitution, unfulfillment, criminal heroes, family problems, revenge ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: austria, ukraine, europe
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Brothers of the Wind (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The way of the eagle is to raise two chicks. The stronger is destined always to throw the weaker from the nest. Man also has his ways, often to hurt those closest to him. Lukas suffers at the hands of a father who has withdrawn since the loss of ...
Style: touching, entertaining, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: eagle, human animal relationship, wild animal, animal, father son relationship, bird, child in peril, freedom, free spirited, free spirit, friendship, relationships ...
Time: 60s
Place: alps
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 5.0
 4K
Rubikon (2022)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The company soldier Hannah and the scientists Gavin and Dimitri are researching an algae project on board the Rubikon space station, which is supposed to permanently supply humanity with oxygen and food. But suddenly the earth disappears below them ...
Style: futuristic, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: space station, planet, space, apocalypse, save the world, rescue, struggle for survival, fate of humanity, rescue mission, humanity, human in outer space, moral dilemma ...
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 7.0
 144K
Extraction II (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Austria, Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Tasked with extracting a family who is at the mercy of a Georgian gangster, Tyler Rake infiltrates one of the world's deadliest prisons in order to save them. But when the extraction gets hot, and the gangster dies in the heat of battle, his ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious, tense ...
Plot: rescue, assassin, mercenary, violent, heroes, combat, army, exploration, survival, blood, revenge, violence ...
Time: 2020s
Place: vienna, armenia, austria, georgia
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Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A series of snapshots from the life of a fictional actress named Shirley serves to weave together thirteen paintings by Edward Hopper (e.g. "Office at Night", "Western Motel", "Usherette", "A Woman in the ...
Style: serious, realistic, contemplative, atmospheric, postmodern ...
Plot: relationship vs career, art, idealism, couple relations, ambition, actor's life, society, couples, workplace, hopes, repression, supportive spouse ...
Time: 1930s, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: usa
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 7.9
 105K
Amour (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Style: philosophical, sad, sincere, art house, reflective ...
Plot: elderly, aging, death, old couple, life & death, elderly lovers, husband wife relationship, life philosophy, illness, love, family relations, daughter ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: paris france, germany, nebraska, france
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Glossary of Broken Dreams (2018)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, History, Music
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Puppets! Pixels! Anime! Live action! Stock footage! Lumpennerd Johannes Grenzfurthner gives an ideotaining cinematic revue about important political concepts. Everyone is talking about freedom! Privacy! Identity! Resistance! The Market! The Left! ...
Style: humorous, thought provoking, realistic, tense, psychological ...
Plot: society, rivalry, resistance, capitalism, internet, propaganda, storytelling, culture clash, critique of capitalism, privacy invasion, surrealism, disorder ...
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The Counterfeiters (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Style: tense, bleak, brutal, harsh, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, prison, brutality, counterfeit money, war crime, war, racial slur, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 2008, year 2007 ...
Place: germany, europe, poland, austria, vienna ...
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 5.6
 6K
The Dark (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Austria, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A murderous, flesh-eating undead young girl haunting the remote stretch of woods where she was murdered decades earlier, discovers a kidnapped and abused boy hiding in the trunk of one of her victim’s cars. Her decision to let the boy live throws ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, suspense, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: zombie, blind character, girl, friendship, uncover truth, infected, forest, fear, suicide, loneliness, desperation, small town ...
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 7.0
 3K
Breathing (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A 19-year-old is coming out of prison and trying to build a new life but he can't deal with his guilt.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot: teenage boy, prison life, guilt, youth, going straight, self discovery, starting over, redemption, haunted by the past, human nature, juvenile delinquency, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, europe
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 6.9
 5K
Michael (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Although to the outside world he seems like the a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy, Wolfgang locked in a room in his soundproof basement.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, bleak, sexy ...
Plot: pedophilia, pedophile, child abuse, boy, life is a bitch, child molestation, kidnapping, child rape, isolation, gay, basement, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, austria, europe, central europe
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 7.2
 3K
Life Eternal (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A thriller crime comedy directed by Wolfgang Murnberger.
Style: tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder investigation, group of friends, police, murder, pills, haunted by the past, amnesia, neighbor neighbor relationship, saving a life, father daughter relationship, partner, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria
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 8.2
 373K
Downfall (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
Style: psychological, bleak, dramatic, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hitler, nazism, suicide, nazi, war, holocaust, fascism, third reich, national socialism, nazi germany, dictatorship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 2004, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, prague, europe, frankfurt germany ...
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 7.0
 7K
Dog Days (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on the run for some car vandals, a couple with a serious marriage problem and an old man, whose wife ...
Style: realistic, sexy, disturbing, controversial, depressing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexual perversion, longing, strong sexual content, couples, suburbs, real sex, sexual relations, couple relations, husband wife relationship, sex, erotica, relationships ...
Time: year 2003, year 2001, 21st century
Place: vienna, austria
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 7.4
 5K
The Bone Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Set in a sleepy Austrian mountain village, ex-detective Simon Brenner has grown weary of his job repossessing cars and embarks on an extended getaway to the countryside. But before long he becomes embroiled in the convoluted world of the locals of a ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy ...
Plot: murder, investigation, snow, cannibalism, dark humor, private detective, law enforcement, cons and scams, murder investigation, transgender, european, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, germany, alps, europe
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The Seventh Continent (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Chronicles three years of a middle class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, only troubled by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence however, they are actually planning something sinister.
Style: disturbing, depressing, bleak, serious, controversial ...
Plot: alienation, midlife crisis, nihilism, society, dysfunctional family, macabre, philosophy, suicide, depression, death, mind control, religion ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, year 1988
Place: germany, europe, australia, austria
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Great Freedom (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and ...
Style: touching, talky, unusual plot structure, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: prison, gay, homosexuality, prison life, lgbt, gay cruising, prison sex, male homosexuality, lgbtq, holocaust survivor, gay teacher, masturbation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1969, year 1968, year 1945, year 1957 ...
Place: germany, west germany, australia
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 6.1
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Hanna's War (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and ...
Style: political, grindhouse, independent film, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, cannon, concentration camp, rescue, writers, wartime, spy, wartime life, secret mission, women, world war ...
Place: israel, middle east, hungary
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The Secret of Kells (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, Belgium, France
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Adventure awaits 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells. In order to finish Brother Aiden's book, Brendan must overcome his deepest fears on a secret quest that ...
Style: fairy tale, stylized, anime, lyrical, scenic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night, pre-teens
Plot: good versus evil, magic, legends and myths, medieval, monastery, imaginary, heroic mission, self discovery, fairy, viking, children, art ...
Time: middle ages, year 2009, medieval times, 2000s, 9th century
Place: ireland, europe
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 6.9
 2K
Museum Hours (2012)
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: realistic, contemplative, serious, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: art, friendship, tour guide, security guard, city life, art history, painting, painter, old man, anarchist, artist, inspiration ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: austria, vienna
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The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Lola controls her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to optimize profits in her job as a business consultant. But when a tragic event forces the past back into her life, Lola's grip on reality seems to slips away.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, mental illness, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, relationship vs career, family problems, disturbed individual, sisters, mentally unstable, mentally unstable woman, lgbtq ...
Place: germany
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 7.5
 4K
Silentium (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Silentium is a 2004 Austrian film based on a novel by Wolf Haas.
Style: cynical, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, detective ...
Plot: murder, uncover truth, investigation, clergy, widow, pervert, convent, society, opera, cannabis, trap, soccer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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