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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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Genres / International / European / Austrian
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Accordion Tribe
Five highly original musicians from different countries form the Accordion Tribe. Together they aim to reinforce the original power of the long disdained instrument. Stefan Schwietert‘s film follows the energetic soundscapes and their performers on a journey through Europe. An extraordinarily intensive documentary on the...Start your free trial to watch
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Antares
Austria's Academy Awards® selection for "Best Foreign Language Film," ANTARES skillfully interweaves the stories of three couples at crossroads over three momentous days. Set in a ubiquitous, concrete high-rise apartment complex on the outskirts of a big city, the couples emerge from this uniform coexistence to search for...Start your free trial to watch
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Benny's Video
Accustomed to a trite routine of school activities, daily visits to a local video store and hours in front of his bedroom television, Benny finds himself enthralled by his tape of a slaughtered swine. Staying alone in his parents' apartment, Benny eventually brings home an unknown girl, immediately exposing her to the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Castle
A land surveyor identified simply as K is summoned to a remote mountain village by the local government, known as (and housed in) "the castle." Unable to convince underlings of the legitimacy of his position, he tries to take his case to castle officials. But the more K struggles to gain entrance, the more obstructive the...Start your free trial to watch
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Four in a Jeep
Intrigue and danger follow the International Police on their rounds in post-WWII Vienna in this suspenseful made-on-location drama. The city is divided between the U.S., England, France and (oh-oh!) Russia. Each Jeep patrol is comprised of one sergeant from each country. The beautiful Franziska (Viveca Lindfors) wants to...Start your free trial to watch
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Free Radicals
Austrian housewife Manu's narrow escape from the catastrophic consequences of "The Butterfly Effect" aboard an airliner only sets her up for an even more shockingly random fate. As the devastating results of a traffic accident transform Manu's family and the young occupants of the other car, the personal and circumstantial...Start your free trial to watch
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Funny Games
A succession of sadistic games between victims and perpetrators (and between auteur and spectator) FUNNY GAMES opens with an aerial shot of an SUV maneuvering through an idyllic landscape. Inside the vehicle, Anna (Susanne Lothar, THE PIANO TEACHER), Georg (Ulrich Mühe, THE LIVES OF OTHERS) and their son Georgie play a...Start your free trial to watch
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Gebürtig
A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a scoop tries to lure him back, Geburtig must decide whether to confront his past.Start your free trial to watch
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Outer Space
"Tscherkassky has made two films cannibalizing Sidney J. Furie's 1982 Barbara Hershey horror film THE ENTITY, the story of a woman who is continually assaulted and raped either by real ghosts or by awfully adept repressed traumas… The screen literally explodes with a tumult of Hershey faces, shattering Steve Burum's original...Start your free trial to watch
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Le piacevoli notti di Justine
Lady Luck has turned her back on Napoleon. The soldiers become more independent scouring the countryside to fill their bellies and their beds. Justine (Terry Torday) and Ferdinand (Harald Leipnitz) escape to the country of Tursa and buy an inn only to find out that all pleasures are taxed. Everything from...Start your free trial to watch
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The Robber
A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes (and away from police cavalcades) as many as three times a day. A lean, visceral study of pathological compulsion from Austrian director Benjamin Heisenberg, featuring a riveting central performance by Andreas Lust (REVANCHE).Start your free trial to watch
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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 demonstrates the extent of this...Start your free trial to watch
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The Seventh Continent
Described by Michael Haneke as a reflection on "the progressive emotional glaciation of Austria" (and the first part of Haneke's "Glaciation Trilogy"), THE SEVENTH CONTINENT focuses on George (Dieter Berner), a middling engineer and his sardonic wife Anna (Birgit Doll). Unable to empathize with their...Start your free trial to watch
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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
In 71 FRAGMENTS, clips of TV news segments on warfare in the former Yugoslavia alternate between stories of urban disconnection. And while continuing to approach filmmaking from an anti-psychological perspective, Michael Haneke assembles a unified work from snippets of narrative, such as Inge (Anne...Start your free trial to watch
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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, USA, creating a new life and...Start your free trial to watch
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We Feed the World
What does world hunger have to do with us? In a word: everything. WE FEED THE WORLD is an award-winning, visually stunning, globe-trotting exposé of our modern agricultural system. From struggling fishermen and long-distance truckers to agronomists and multi-national corporate executives, WE FEED THE WORLD...Start your free trial to watch