Best Austrian TV shows
This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Austrian TV shows" contains films with the following parameters. Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, serious and realistic. Plot: investigation, female nudity, police investigation, murder, crime solving, police detective, female full frontal nudity, murder investigation, crime investigation and male nudity. Genre: Drama, Crime and Thriller. Country: Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Best Austrian TV shows
TOP TV Shows: Vienna Blood (2019), Inspector Rex (1994), Pagan Peak (2018), Four Women and a Funeral (2005), Fast Forward (2009), Anatomy of Evil (2010), Murder in the Mountains (2001), Mountain Medic (2008), The Manns (2001), Vienna Crime Squad (2005), Old Money (2015), Freud (2020), In Face of the Crime (2010), Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986), Woman of the Dead (2022), Suburbia - Women on the Edge (2015), M - A City Hunts a Murderer (2019), Braunschlag (2012), Pregau (2016), Ultimate Rush (2011).
List of Best TV Shows
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: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Kommissar Rex is a police procedural drama originally made in Austria and aired from 1994 to 2004. In 2008 the series was revived under Austrian-Italian production, and has since 2009 been made fully in Italy, with occasional episodes set in ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, retro ...
Plot:
dog, police, german shepherd, police dog, human animal relationship, murder investigation, police procedural, police detective, chases and races, workplace, investigation, murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
vienna, austria, europe, germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
When a gruesomely staged body is found, propped up on a mountain pass in the Alps close to the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate. For German detective Ellie, this is the first real challenge of her career; her Austrian ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, detective, tense, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, danger, violence, police investigation, death, society, abduction, folk horror, murderer, brutality, life philosophy, blood ...
Place:
germany, alps, austria, central europe, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall is an Austrian crime television series, first aired on the Austrian television channel "ORF eins" in 2005. The show also aired in Switzerland on "SF1", in Germany on RTL Crime and on the ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, entertaining, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, investigation, satire, private investigation, female detective, suspicion of murder, funeral, uncover truth, teamwork, sleuth, women ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
austria
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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: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria
TV show
Story:
The criminal psychologist Richard Brock teaches at the University of Vienna. He used to work as a psychologist until his wife took her own life and he lost his license on suspicion of incorrect treatment. In the meantime he has developed a ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense
Plot:
homicide detective, criminal psychologist, unsolved crime, forensics, police psychologist, partner, workplace situations, teamwork, murder investigation, crime solving, partners against crime, police ...
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the renowned Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The production company "beo-Film" has ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense
Plot:
female detective, fighting crime, partners against crime, investigation, criminal, secret revealed, unsolved crime, uncover truth, partner, sleuth, police station, homicide detective ...
Place:
switzerland, alps
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A medic lives with his small and strange family between the mountains and every episode he comes across a situation with not only his patients but also his family and friends.
Style:
enigmatic, tense, disturbing, bleak, suspense
Plot:
doctor, small town, mountain, hospital, family relations, danger, twists and turns, rescue, husband wife relationship, heroes, disorder, society ...
Place:
alps
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Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story:
Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family.
Style:
family saga, captivating, realistic, serious, saga ...
Plot:
world war two, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, state affairs, political unrest, parents and children, artists and showbiz, writer's life, family relations, family life, siblings relations, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 90s, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
germany, switzerland
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Genre: Crime
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
law enforcement, investigation, fighting crime, partner, police station, murder, riddles and clues, workplace situations, police investigation, police detective, workplace, police procedural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vienna, austria
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663
Genre: Comedy
Country: Austria
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A family, blessed with richness and power, is desperately seeking for a liver for their father, who wants to hand down his wealth to the one who gets the organ.
Style:
tense, suspense
Plot:
brother sister sex, sex with sister, brother sister incest, sex with brother, blackmail, transplant, billionaire, organ transplant, father son relationship, illness, race against time, husband wife relationship ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.
Style:
gothic, psychological, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychology, murder mystery, psychiatrist, male nudity, psychologist, murder investigation, treatment, doctors and patients, serial killer, historical figure, threat, introspection ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
austria, central europe, vienna
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 479 min.
TV show
Story:
Im Angesicht des Verbrechens is a German television series about the Russian mafia in Berlin. It received high critical acclaim, but the viewer figures were disappointing. It was broadcast by ARTE and Das Erste.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, captivating, detective ...
Plot:
police, law enforcement, dishonesty, society, organized crime, prostitution, money, police investigation, danger, love, murder, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Austria, Italy
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story:
Story of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only surviving daughter of the Czar and Czarina of Russia.
Style:
retro, atmospheric, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
imperial russia, royal family, european history, world war one, biopic, political intrigue, amnesia, royalty, russian revolution (1917), revolution, missing person, cons and scams ...
Time:
victorian era, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
russia, germany, new york, usa, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
In a vengeful quest to find out who killed her husband, a woman ends up exposing her small community's deepest and ugliest secrets.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, dark
Plot:
female protagonist, secret, death of husband, revenge, murder, murder investigation, murder mystery, funeral home, hit and run, human trafficking, rural area, suspicion of murder ...
Place:
austria, switzerland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Vienna suburb. Better society. Appearance and reality. A golden cage. But is everything that glitters really gold? Actually, the five "suburban women" of the title couldn't be doing any better in their supposedly perfect, affluent ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, disturbing, sitcom
Plot:
housewife, women, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, bored housewife, family relations, relationships, strong female presence, problem solving, lifestyle, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, male female relationship ...
Place:
austria
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 292 min.
TV show
Story:
Winter in Vienna. Children disappear. For now without a trace, then their bodies are found. A gift for the tabloid press. For the police a series of defeats. Politically a problem. And at the same time the long-awaited opportunity for the ambitious ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller
Plot:
serial killer, missing child, manhunt, police detective, missing person, police investigation, journalist, clown, winter, gift, deaf girl, filicide ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
central europe, austria, germany, vienna
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The market town Braunschlag, on the outskirts of Austria close to the Czech Republic is bankrupt. The mayor, under pressure form Russian mafia creditors and state government has an idea after a night of too much alcohol in shabby town-disco: Only a ...
Style:
black comedy, semi serious, captivating, cynical, dark comedy ...
Plot:
mayor, small town, provincial life, satire, dark humor, corruption, greed, problem, money problems, deception, town mayor, con trick ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
TV show
Story:
A policeman gets into a spiral of events, in which assault, extortion and murder are proven means.
Style:
captivating, clever, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
older woman teenage boy sex, aunt nephew relationship, life is a bitch, murder investigation, murder, crime solving, murder mystery, evidence, family problems, social problems, police officer, who done it ...
Place:
europe
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: Austria
TV show
Story:
Ultimate Rush is a 2011/2012 documentary television series produced by the Red Bull Media House in association with Matchstick Productions, and marketed as a combination of stupendous action sports endeavour, coupled with a cinematic-approach to ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
extreme sports, base jumping, skiing, kayaking, sporting event, professional athlete, sports man, extreme sport, professional sports, snowboarding, danger, nature ...
Place:
himalaya, alps, british columbia, alaska
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After a number of murders of prostitutes at a motorway stop near Berlin, in a rear courtyard in Antwerp, and in a brothel in Copenhagen, Europol decides to form a taskforce to tackle the case. Harald, a Dane, Jackie, a German, and Alice from Belgium ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, noir, interesting
Plot:
criminal, nordic, fighting crime, investigator, organized crime, crime investigation, partner, crime solving, investigation, police investigation, sleuth, cold case ...
Place:
germany, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
"Sisi" follows the extraordinary life of empress Elisabeth of Austria. Modern, honest, and authentic. Told from the perspective of her closest confidants, the series takes a new look at the empress' life and reveals a multi-layered ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, period piece, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
royalty, historical character, empress, palace intrigue, aristocracy, intrigue, historical figure, woman, lifestyle, estate, emperor, unhappy ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
austria
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145
Genre: Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Detective superintendent Trautmann solves crimes in an unconventional way.
Style:
suspenseful, detective, crime drama, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
crime solving, crime investigation, police, organized crime, politics, murder, criminal underworld, crooked cop, investigation, police procedural, mature, justice ...
Place:
austria, vienna
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Hungary, Austria, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of János Hunyadi is the epic tale of a hero born into modest circumstances, who, in 1456, with relentless determination and against all odds, vanquished the much larger Ottoman army, halting its drive to conquer the Vatican and overrun ...
Style:
historical drama, epic, patriotic, tense
Plot:
heroism, battlefield, biopic, bravery, leadership, sacrifice, nationalism, political intrigue, rise to power, chivalry, archery, male nudity ...
Time:
15th century
Place:
hungary, balkan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Something is different for Tristan: his pregnant girlfriend has disappeared, and a mysterious taxi driver picks him up and explains that he can make wishes come true for him. All the people who meet him behave differently--if he wishes.
Style:
thought provoking, thinking, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
character study, dark secret, female nudity, loneliness, wish fulfillment, identity crisis, alone in the world, troubled past, wish come true, nudity, haunted by the past, pretense ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Denmark, Austria
TV show
Story:
The cum-ex scandal has caused 146 billion euros in losses in several countries. Inspired by true events, two women from Germany and Denmark are trying to put an end to it.
Style:
tense, suspenseful
Plot:
scandal, corruption, conspiracy, whistleblower, money laundering, lawyer, courtroom drama, journalism, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, audit, sleaze ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
germany, denmark, london, copenhagen, frankfurt germany
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677
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: UK, Austria, Hungary
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story:
A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth.
Style:
historical drama, serious, realistic, epic, emotional ...
Plot:
composer, opera, musician, classical music, politics, biopic, singing, singer, orchestra, anarchist, classical composer, anti semitism ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, year 1981, victorian era
Place:
germany, europe, prussia, switzerland, austria ...
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Genre: Crime
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
With Germany, Switzerland and Austria sharing its shores, Lake Constance has stories to tell. German homicide inspector Micha Oberländer and his Austrian partner Hannah Zeiler try to discover its secrets and have a few of their own.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot:
murder investigation, police investigation, crime investigation, fighting crime, police partner, partners against crime, female detective, teamwork, police detective, uncover truth, sleuth, crime solving ...
Place:
germany, austria
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF 2 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland. The first episode was broadcast on ...
Style:
witty, serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, crime investigation, murder, riddles and clues, police protagonist, interrogation, sidekick, suspicion, police inspector, fighting crime, danger, police investigation ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 70s, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place:
west germany, europe, austria, germany, switzerland
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 275 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1477 Charles the Bold dies, his only child is a girl which cannot rule without a husband. Meanwhile in Austria, Emperor Frederick III and his antagonist Louis XI France battle over said marriage prospects, battles ensue, tragedy falls.
Style:
erotic, period piece, serious, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
monarchy, female nudity, forbidden love, wedding planning, love and romance, couple relations, society, state affairs, scandal, royalty, prince, male nudity ...
Time:
15th century, middle ages
Place:
germany, austria, france
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