My Top 20 by Country (1) - Austria
Under construction and always in progress. The Best films from Austria I've seen (so far).
Notes:
Notes:
- Feature length films only.
- TV movies (and documentaries) eligible. TV mini-series are NOT.
- International co-productions also eligible provided they're directed by a 'native' director.
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- DirectorMansur MadaviStarsNicola FilippelliKurt KosuticIrene KuglerIt is night, Molly wants to hear a story from Leo. He tells her that he lost his reflection in the mirror while shaving in the morning.Cinema. 10/10.
- DirectorMansur MadaviStarsWalter BannertLore HeuermannErnst EpplerGeorg Hauser is at odds with the world, in which he himself used to work so well. He wants out. He wants to live. In a moment of his very own clarity, he destroys his car, but whoever destroys his property is an enemy of the state.OL. 10/10.
- DirectorGerald KarglStarsErwin LederRobert Hunger-BühlerSilvia RyderA troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house.PC. 9.5/10.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsSusanne LotharUlrich MüheArno FrischTwo violent 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.PC. 9/10.
- DirectorFranz AntelStarsKarl MerkatzAlfred BöhmHans HoltA politically naïve Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the unification of Germany and Austria and the Second World War.Cinema. 9/10.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsJean-Louis TrintignantEmmanuelle RivaIsabelle HuppertGeorges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.TV. 9/10.
- DirectorAxel CortiStarsFriedrich von ThunGabriel BarylliKrystyna JandaIn October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking him to help place an 11-year-old, half Jewish boy in a good Austrian school. Is the child his? Should he help? And above all should he help now, at a time when Nazis are becoming powerful in Austria?TV. 9/10.
- DirectorAxel CortiStarsGabriel BarylliNicolas BriegerClaudia MessnerIn the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy - Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U. S. Army.TV. 9/10.
- DirectorAndreas HorvathStarsPatrycja PlanikAn emigrant in New York decides to walk back to her home in Russia.TV. 8.5/10.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsBirgit DollDieter BernerLeni TanzerA European family who plan on escaping to Australia seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.Cinema. 8/10.
- DirectorGötz SpielmannStarsJohannes KrischIrina PotapenkoAndreas LustEx-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.TV. 8/10.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsArno FrischAngela WinklerUlrich MüheA 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.PC. 8/10.
- DirectorStefan RuzowitzkyStarsKarl MarkovicsAugust DiehlDevid StriesowThe story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during World War II.TV. 8/10.
- DirectorJessica HausnerStarsSylvie TestudLéa SeydouxBruno TodeschiniIn order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.TV. 8/10.
- DirectorAxel CortiStarsValda AviksGabriel BarylliMonica BleibtreuSanta Fe begins where Corti's 1982 film God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore leaves off. In 1940, a ship arrives in New York harbor filled with exhausted Jewish immigrants desperate to begin a new life. Freddy struggles to find work, learn English, and overcome his piercing alienation. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer. A totally absorbing picture, which examines with complete assurance the hopes, doubts, and memories of immigrants who have no place to call home. Corti's trilogy continues with Welcome In Vienna.TV. 8/10.
- 19821h 49m7.6 (154)TV MovieDirectorAxel CortiStarsJohannes SilberschneiderBarbara PetritschArmin Mueller-StahlAfter his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port.TV. 8/10.
- DirectorWolfgang GlückStarsGabriel BarylliWerner KreindlRomuald PeknyKurt Gerber is attending his final class and gets into trouble with the math professor, a frustrated self-assured petty bourgeois sadist. The duel ends in catastrophe.TV. 8/10.
- DirectorMansur MadaviStarsAxel KlingenbergKurt KosuticMaria MartinaStory of an old man who refuses to leave a condemned house even though all the other tenants have left. He barricades himself in and spends his time writing protest letters to the government.Cinema. 8/10.
- DirectorMaximilian SchellStarsBirgit DollHanno PöschlHelmut QualtingerIn Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.Cinema. 8/10.
- DirectorWolfgang GlückStarsTobias EngelSunnyi MellesHeinz TrixnerIn 1938, Austria is about to become a part of the Third Reich. A theater actress and a Jewish journalist fall in love and spend time together, completely ignoring the political turmoil of the time despite friendly warnings.TV. 8/10.
- DirectorMansur MadaviStarsMaria MartinaCinema. 8/10.
- DirectorAndreas ProchaskaStarsKen DukenJulia KoschitzLeon BaumgartnerLittle girl named Katherina lives on a farm near Klagenfurt with her parents. One day childs play went wrong and she drowned in a lake nearby. Next thing you know, the team of doctors are struggling for her life.TV. 8/10.
- DirectorAndreas ProchaskaStarsSam RileyTobias MorettiPaula BeerThrough a hidden path, a lone rider reaches a little town high up in the Alps. Nobody knows where the stranger comes from, nor what he wants there. But everyone knows that they don't want him to stay.TV. 8/10.