Austrian
see all genres ›Closely tied to the German film industry through WWII, Austria produced largely escapist product afterward until the 1970s brought a new generation of experimentally-inclined directors. More recently its reputation for savage social critiques got the country named "world capital of feel-bad cinema" by the New York Times, thanks in large part to such influential, pessimistic auteurs as Michael Haneke and Ulrich Seidl.
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Gone
Kathy Gilleran is a twenty-year veteran police officer from Cortland, New York, just south of Syracuse. Her son, Aeryn Gillern, is a researcher working at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna and a former Mr. Gay Austria. On October 31st, 2007, Kathy receives a call...Watch Movie
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The Rape of Europa
THE RAPE OF EUROPA is an epic journey through seven countries, into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in...Watch Movie
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The Wall
Martina Gedeck, star of the Academy Award®-winning film THE LIVES OF OTHERS, brings a vivid intensity to this mysterious and riveting tale of survival set in a spectacularly beautiful Austrian mountain landscape. In a tour-de-force performance, Gedeck stars as an unnamed character who suddenly...Watch Movie
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Urda / Bone
Against the backdrop of a European cityscape, worlds intersect when a woman and a man on separate travels meet, or rather, collide on the screen. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens: intoxication, stillness, desire and love. Something that is...Watch Movie
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Dilemma
Schoolteacher Harry Barnes returns home from work and is told by a neighbor of a scream coming from his house a few moments earlier. Harry searches the house and realizes that his wife Jean is missing. But when Harry decides to take a shower he discovers a dying man and a pair of bloody scissors...Watch Movie
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Shirley: Visions of Reality
Shirley is a woman in America in the 1930s, '40s, '50s and early '60s. A woman who would like to influence the course of history with her professional and socio-political involvement. A woman who does not accept the reality of the Depression years, WWII, the McCarthy era, race...Watch Movie
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Pianomania
PIANOMANIA takes you into the secret world of sounds, a place where passion and the pursuit of perfection collide with artistic obsession and a little bit of madness. As Steinway & Sons’ chief technician and Master Tuner in Vienna, Stefan Knüpfer is dedicated to the unusual task of pairing...Watch Movie
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7915km
A motor-sports spectacle that kicks up plenty of dust. On the trail of the 2007 Dakar Rallye (the final year of the race), 7915KM undertakes a search, along the way encountering the variety to be found in Africa’s present in Morocco, Sahrawi Republic, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal. 7915KM...Watch Movie
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Vienna's Lost Daughters
A film filled with life and profound optimistic women. As Jewish children they grew up in Vienna and were part of the ‘Children’s Transport’, their parents organised this amazing rescue from the Nazis in 1939. Today these orphaned and transported daughters live in New York,...Watch Movie
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The Troubles We've Seen
One of the most important films of Marcel Ophuls' career has also been the least seen until now. Shot primarily in Sarajevo in 1993, during the siege of the former Yugoslavian city, THE TROUBLES WE'VE SEEN is an exploration of the ethical challenges of war reporting, in which...Watch Movie
