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1. Henry Fonda for President (2024)
184 min | Documentary, Drama
A personal essay about the United States, viewed through the life and work of a movie actor. Henry Fonda and the roles he played merge into a dazzling and conflicted figure. A very private ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Horwath
Votes: 23
3. I Am from Nowhere (2002)
80 min | Documentary
"I am from nowhere" is what Andy Warhol used to say when asked about his origin. "Nowhere" is the tiny village Mikov in Slovakia which Warhol's mother left for the United States in 1921. ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Misch | Stars: Josef Keselica, Eva Prextová, Ján Závacký
Votes: 12
4. Wenn es blendet, öffne die Augen (2014)
75 min | Documentary, Romance
Zhanna und Lyosha are survivors. The couple, now in their mid-thirties, became heroin addicts in the turbulent years of upheaval in Russia. They know their days are numbered, and pit their ... See full summary »
Director: Ivette Löcker
Votes: 12
6. Sea Concrete Human (2001)
29 min | Short
An experimental sci-fi documentary focusing on the question of what will remain visible and what will be left to tell if humans vanish from the world, from the image. Landscapes and ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Palm
Votes: 9
8. Are you sleeping, brother Jakob? (2018)
80 min | Documentary
A personal film about grief and farewell, about serenity and arrival as well as reunion and retrieval.
Director: Stefan Bohun | Stars: Lília Mafalda Lopes da Silva Ribeiro, Matthias Bohun, Jakob Bohun, Johannes Bohun
Votes: 30
9. The Trial (2011)
116 min | Documentary
This documentary shows how the Austrian government used false accusations and illegitimately applied anti-terrorist laws against activists for animal rights and also how the animal rights ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger | Stars: Eva Luna, Barbara Novak, Robert Stachel, Michael Petri
Votes: 58
10. Auf allen Meeren (2002)
95 min | Documentary
This film follows retired Russian aircraft carrier, relic of the Cold War, on its last journey.
Director: Johannes Holzhausen
Votes: 29
11. Low Definition Control - Malfunctions #0 (2011)
95 min | Documentary
Low Definition Control is a film about images. Surveillance cameras, ultrasound detectors and MRI images in medicine are fabricating models of conformist behaviour and healthy bodies but as... See full summary »
Director: Michael Palm
Votes: 40
12. Was uns bindet (2017)
102 min | Documentary
Director: "Just as I thought that I could finally put my feelings for my parents and my origins to rest, my father decided to leave me his crumbling farmhouse. This stone inheritance is ... See full summary »
Director: Ivette Löcker
Votes: 16
14. The Devil's Bath (2024)
121 min | Drama, History, Horror
Austria in the 18th century. Forests surround villages. Killing a baby gets a woman sentenced to death. Agnes readies for married life with her beloved. But her mind and heart grow heavy. A gloomy path alone, evil thoughts arising.
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Anja Plaschg, Maria Hofstätter, David Scheid, Tim Valerian Alberti
Votes: 255
15. Night Shifts (2010)
97 min | Documentary
A documentary set in Berlin about people who are active at nighttime, either because they can't sleep, have a job that requires them to work at night, or who are simply more active after ... See full summary »
Director: Ivette Löcker
Votes: 17
16. Cinema Futures (2016)
126 min | Documentary, History
The "digital revolution" reached the cinema late and was chiefly styled as a technological advancement. Today, in an era where analog celluloid strips are disappearing, and given the ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Palm | Stars: Lauren Alberque, Margaret Bodde, David Bordwell, Nicole Brenez
Votes: 109
17. Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2001)
Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
Director: Martina Kudlácek | Stars: Miriam Arsham, Stan Brakhage, Chao Li Chi, Rita Christiani
Votes: 439 | Gross: $0.01M
19. Volver la vista - der umgekehrte Blick (2005)
Documentary
VOLVER LA VISTA moves the viewer into the perspective of a foreigner. Mexicans who live in Austria and Austrians who spend their lives in Mexico: through clichés and yearnings - these ... See full summary »
Director: Fridolin Schönwiese | Stars: Ruth Deutsch de Lechuga, Fritz Koblicek, Aurora Niederl, Bruno Schwebel
Votes: 21
20. Aus dem Nichts (2016)
90 min | Drama
"From Nothing" - Can non-energy be generated from empty space-off? In the 1920s, Carl Schappeller claims to be able to develop a mechanism -a machine-by means of which a hitherto unexplored... See full summary »
Director: Angela Summereder | Stars: Gottfried Breitfuss, Tim Breyvogel, Toby Grotz, Sabina Holzer
Votes: 302
21. Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen (2004)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about the "King of B-Movies", Edgar G. Ulmer. It includes interviews with well-known filmmakers Roger Corman, Peter Bogdanovich, Wim Wenders, Joe Dante, and Ulmers's daughter, Arianne Ulmer.
Director: Michael Palm | Stars: Peter Bogdanovich, Christian Cargnelli, John Carradine, Robert Clarke
Votes: 239
22. Homo Sapiens (2016)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary
Homo Sapiens shows stunning images of forgotten places, buildings we constructed and then left.
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Votes: 1,083
23. Matter Out of Place (2022)
100 min | Documentary
A film about our garbage that is found in the most remote areas and about the people who try to dispose of it.
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Votes: 144
24. Elektro Moskva (2013)
Unrated | 89 min | Documentary
Elektro Moskva is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world's first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, ... See full summary »
Directors: Dominik Spritzendorfer, Elena Tikhonova | Stars: Alexey Borisov, Stanislav Kreichi, Dmitriy Morozov, Richardas Norvila
Votes: 146
25. Lillian (II) (2019)
130 min | Adventure, Drama
An emigrant in New York decides to walk back to her home in Russia.
Director: Andreas Horvath | Star: Patrycja Planik
Votes: 910
26. Die totale Therapie (1997)
125 min | Drama, Thriller
Nine persons sign up for a self-awareness course at an isolated country estate. Dr. Romero, a charismatic therapist, and his assistants confront the patients with their problems.
Director: Christian Frosch | Stars: Blixa Bargeld, Sophie Rois, Eva van Heijningen, Sebastian Suba
Votes: 149
27. Goodnight Mommy (2014)
R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Twin boys move to a new house with their mother after she has face-changing cosmetic surgery, but under the bandages is someone the boys don't recognize.
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Susanne Wuest, Hans Escher
Votes: 59,807 | Gross: $1.17M
28. No Name City (2006)
86 min | Documentary
In a Western theme park near Vienna, a handful of 'residents' (the people who work there) are living on the small line between reality and fiction.
Directors: Florian Flicker, Georg Misch | Stars: Anita Braun, Fritz Csar, Brigitte Danninger, Armin Groß
Votes: 22
30. River Plate (2013)
16 min | Short, Drama
River Plate displays a micro society in a fragmented body-narration. Knees, shoulders, feet and bellies are signifiers of articulated human presence, revealing nothing else against a claustrophobic background of cement, stone and water.
Director: Josef Dabernig | Stars: María Berríos, Josef Dabernig, Wolfgang Dabernig, Isabella Hollauf
Votes: 5
31. Calling Hedy Lamarr (2004)
71 min | Documentary
A Face, a Tag Line, an Invention. Two facets that don't seem to belong to the same woman. A Hollywood star as an ingenious inventor piques our curiosity. The director Georg Misch is ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Misch | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Anthony Loder, Denise Loder-DeLuca, Charles Stansel
Votes: 132
32. The Mozart Minute (2006)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Houchang Allahyari, Ruth Beckermann, Songül Boyraz, Sabine Derflinger, Gustav Deutsch, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Michael Glawogger, Wolfgang Glück, Barbara Gräftner, Jessica Hausner, Edgar Honetschläger, Michael Kreihsl, Paulus Manker, Mara Mattuschka, Bady Minck, Michael Palm, Peter Patzak, Lisl Ponger, Ferry Radax, Goran Rebic, Thomas Renoldner, Anja Salomonowitz, Hanna Schimek, Michaela Schwentner, Ulrich Seidl, Tim Sharp, Peter Tscherkassky, David Wagner
Votes: 9
33. The Lodge (2019)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Richard Armitage
Votes: 57,902
34. Die Kinder der Toten (2019)
90 min | Horror, Mystery
Based on the 1995 novel "The Children of the Dead" by unorthodox author Elfriede Jelinek. About the mental repression of the Holocaust in post-war Austria, with zombie children.
Directors: Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska | Stars: Georg Beyer, Lukas Eigl, Greta Kostka, Andrea Maier
Votes: 389
35. Silent Resident (2007)
96 min | Thriller
An atmospheric psycho thriller told from the perspective of a young woman who is the apparent victim of a conspiracy, and who later becomes herself a perpetrator.
Director: Christian Frosch | Stars: Brigitte Hobmeier, Johanna Wokalek, Martin Wuttke, Xaver Hutter
Votes: 173
36. Pale Blood (1990)
R | 93 min | Horror
A vampire arrives in Los Angeles to investigate a recent series of murders which bear the hallmarks of vampire attacks. Wanting to track down the murderer, he hires a private investigator who herself is obsessed with vampire mythology.
Directors: V.V. Dachin Hsu, Michael W. Leighton | Stars: George Chakiris, Wings Hauser, Pamela Ludwig, Diana Frank
Votes: 758
39. Sisi auf Schloß Gödöllö (1994)
40 min | Short, Comedy, History
In Sisi at Gödöllö Castle, Christian Frosch lustfully takes apart not only the empress and Heimatkino (Homeland Film), but also knows how to surprise one with the artful use of color, music... See full summary »
Director: Christian Frosch | Stars: Ursula Ofner, Haymon Maria Buttinger, Lauren Newton, Hjalmar Este
40. Frauentag (2008)
34 min | Documentary, Short
Immediately at the film's beginning we run up against a boundary stone, a relic of a past age, made of nearly indestructible granite. In the middle of a forest which seems idyllic in the ... See full summary »
Director: Johannes Holzhausen
41. Süßes Holz (1995)
34 min | Short
Once upon a Sunday afternoon, Maria burned the bread ... A fairy tale. A play with archtypical motifs. An excursion into difficult terrain.
Director: Gabriele Mathes | Stars: Marion Wiesler, Michael Reiter, Johanna Tomek, Martin Brambach
42. Cosmodrom (1995)
30 min | Short
Cosmodrome (Launch pad for space rockets) is a film about the connection between cinema and cosmos. A revolving globe; the distribution logo of the Universal film studio shows the viewer an... See full summary »
Director: Fridolin Schönwiese
44. Zero Crossing (2000 Video)
40 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Johannes Holzhausen | Star: Anja Salomonowitz
45. Demontage (2018)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Two polish workers demolish an imposing technical facility that takes up several rooms in the basement of a film and video company in Vienna. A documentary miniature of the demise of analogue film.
Director: Michael Palm
46. Heldenplatz, 12. März 1988 (1991)
3 min | Short, History
Experimental documentary about nationalism, militarism and about coming to terms with the past. Material, exposed exactly 50 years after Hitler's presence on the 'Heldenplatz' - the place ... See full summary »
Director: Johannes Rosenberger | Star: Peter Cerny
49. Nicht fern, nicht nah (1994)
45 min
Albania, 1994. Those who have left assert that those who remain are the ones who are afraid. Those who remain say, what do we have to fear? We have no time for tears.
Director: Monika Stuhl
50. It Works (1999)
21 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Fridolin Schönwiese | Stars: Gerald Alt, Valentin Bräuer, Lilian Dzeneda Nowak, Michael Hagleitner