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Karl Fischer

Born December 8, 1956 · Ybbs, Austria (age 69)

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A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

Budapest in the 1930s. Restaurant owner Laszlo hires pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody sets off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans falls in love with Ilona as well.

A Fortunate Man · 2018

A Fortunate Man

★ 6.72018

MovieDrama

A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen's elite. As he rises through the ranks of society, the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin.

Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies · 2016

Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies

★ 4.62016

MovieComedyHorror

Steve, a young professional snowboarder, ruins a high-paying photo shoot by playing a silly prank. He, his girlfriend Branka and fellow snowboarder Joschi are left behind on the mountain. They seek shelter in an après-ski tavern that is hosting an all-night party. Things go from bad to worse when a scientific experiment unleashes an epidemic of zombies and mutant wildlife. This is mostly lost on the local drunkards, as they are not always easy to distinguish from zombies themselves. But Steve, Branka and Joschi have to find a way to survive this hellish night.

Vice Lieutenant Eismayer is the most feared trainer and model macho in the Austrian Military and lives as a gay man in secret. When he falls in love with a young, openly gay soldier, his world gets turned upside down.

Dead in 3 Days · 2006

Dead in 3 Days

★ 5.52006

MovieHorrorThriller

When Nina and her high school friends receive eerie text messages declaring that they will all die within three days, they dismiss it as a hokey prank - until one by one, the pals start turning up dead in the alpine countryside. With the cops stymied, Nina and her remaining friends must scour their past for clues to identify the madman before he kills them all.

1960's Siegheilkirchen, a small town in the Austrian hinterland is steeped in reactionary and ultra-Catholic attitudes. The son of a hard-working innkeeper and his wife, called Snotty Boy by all and sundry, is at odds with the narrow-minded confines of his home town. But his unstoppable talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent.

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A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.

August Lederer

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

Colonel Harry Dahl

Herr Svoboda

A Fortunate Man · 2018

A Fortunate Man

★ 6.72018

MovieDrama

A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen's elite. As he rises through the ranks of society, the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin.

Professor Pfefferkorn

Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies · 2016

Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies

Franz

Colonel Kurt Hierzberger

Dead in 3 Days · 2006

Berger

Mayor (voice)

A dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times. From his accession to the throne at the age of 18 to his passionate support of Richard Wagner and his music. From his ingenuous political commitment to his obsessive construction of extravagant palaces and to his gradual withdrawal into a lonely dream world, an epic narrative of breathtaking grandeur.

Staatsminister Eduard von Bomhard

Move On is a road movie like no other, because it is inspired by film fans from all over Europe! This breath-taking movie directed by Asger Leth features Mads Mikkelsen on a secret mission in 8 episodes, each taking place in a different European country.

Contact (Austria /Macedonia)

Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary relationship is thrillingly revealed.

SS-Untersturmführer Maier

Murer: Anatomy of a Trial · 2018

Murer: Anatomy of a Trial

★ 6.02018

MovieDrama

Franz Murer, the Butcher of Vilnius, a former Austrian SS officer, established, organized, and ruled the Vilnius ghetto in Lithuania during the World War II. Different survivors of the Shoah testify when he is judged in 1963, hoping to do justice, but, although the evidence is overwhelming, the desire to close this obscure chapter of history seems to surpass the desire for justice.

Franz Murer

Therapy for a Vampire · 2014

Therapy for a Vampire

★ 5.72014

MovieComedyHorror

Horror comedy film following vampire count Geza von Kösznöm who's visiting groundbreaking neurologist Sigund Freud because he's bored of his life and frustrated of the "eternally long" relationship with his wife Elsa.

Dr. Sigmund Freud

When Fuchs starts his new job as a teacher in a prison school, replacing the old and unconventional teacher Berger against her will, he is forced to confront his biggest fear, triggered by the mysterious, withdrawn inmate Samira.

Rudolf Vanicek

A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.

Killer Max

An old married couple lives on an isolated farm. For his daily work the farmer has an old donkey to help him. When the pragmatic farmer learns that the death of his longtime companion is near,he notices that he loves the animal more than he can admit.

Veterinary

Mahler on the Couch · 2010

Mahler on the Couch

★ 5.22010

MovieDrama

Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.

Carl Moll

Karl meets Nini at a Berlin train station: it is love at first sight. But the few hours they spend together before she travels back to Vienna end in a mishap in which Karl loses her phone number. He decides to move to the Austrian capital to find his dream woman again.

Herr Schwartz

German TV adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale “Iron John“.

Koch

Mermaids Don't Cry · 2023

Mermaids Don't Cry

2023

Movie

Annika dreams of having a synthetic mermaid fin -- expensive fun for the supermarket cashier who longs for distraction from the worries of her everyday life.

Hermann

Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga · 2008

Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga

★ 6.52008

MovieComedyDrama

It's 30 years later and the Sackbauers have estranged themselves from everyone; only mother "Toni" tries to re-establish the old happy family.

Fredy Kloiber

Linda is a headstrong woman. She marries and lives with her husband Paul in the Ruhr area. But 12 years of marriage do not make Linda happy. She dreams of seeing the sea and is constantly in search of fulfillment. Her husband doesn't understand her. Instead, he goes his own way. They have three children together, but Linda continues to live in her own world. A few days before her dream of the sea comes true, Linda dies in an accident at a freight station.

Pavarotti

The Woman with One Shoe · 2014

The Woman with One Shoe

★ 6.82014

MovieCrimeMystery

Blond, half-long hair floats in a seepage pond. A well-to-do lady calls the police, and departmental inspector Franzi fishes out a scalp.

Michael

Hage, the Holy Spirit, is writing a musical, when Jesus returns to earth at Christmas to prepare the apocalypse. To prevent this, Hage tries to convince him that mankind is worth saving with the help of a beautiful striptease dancer.

Hoteldirektor

Scene of the Crime · 1970

Scene of the Crime

★ 6.21970

SeriesDramaCrime

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 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Alois Feining

Murder in the Mountains · 2001

Murder in the Mountains

★ 4.62001

SeriesCrime

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 produced the show since 2001. The German abbreviation SOKO stands for Sonderkommission, "special commission", a task force with specific duties.

Hörtnagl

Vienna Crime Squad · 2005

Vienna Crime Squad

★ 5.12005

SeriesCrime

SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.

Ingo Sima

After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.

Paul Pokorny

Weißblaue Geschichten · 1984

Weißblaue Geschichten

1984

SeriesFamily

Wirt 'Mühlenwirt'

Murder by the Lake · 2014

Murder by the Lake

★ 7.02014

SeriesCrime

Murder by the Lake is a German-Austrian TV crime series that has been produced since 2014 by Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Graf Filmproduktion in cooperation with the German television broadcaster ZDF and the Austrian television broadcaster ORF. The series is filmed and set in the adjacent towns of Bregenz, Austria, and Lindau, Germany, which are both located on the southeastern shore of Lake Constance.

Walter Pfeilschifter

Suburbia - Women on the Edge · 2015

Suburbia - Women on the Edge

★ 7.62015

SeriesComedyDrama

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 world – could they?

Heinz Huber

Schnell ermittelt · 2009

Schnell ermittelt

★ 4.12009

SeriesCrimeDrama

Angelika Schnell is the head of homicide and living proof that chaos is just another form of order. Nevertheless, she is a brilliant investigator - even if her methods are sometimes quite unconventional: In addition to hard facts, she also allows her distinctive inner voice to apply, which often leads to incomprehensible but very important conclusions...

Karl Schuller

Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film versions of the bestselling novels, which features the indelible Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and crime investigations in one of Europe’s most beautiful locations.

Lorenzo Vianello

Julia – Eine ungewöhnliche Frau · 1999

Julia – Eine ungewöhnliche Frau

1999

SeriesDramaFamily

Julia – Eine ungewöhnliche Frau is a German television series.

Maurer

Braunschlag 1986 · 2026

Braunschlag 1986

★ 7.02026

SeriesComedyDrama

14 years after the events that led to a mass exodus of its residents which left the town of Braunschlag deserted, its mayor comes up with a cunning plan - from now on, within the towns borders the year is 1986, a return to times long gone.

Kortner

Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall · 2005

Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall

★ 7.72005

SeriesComedyCrime

Sepp Klaubner

Das Traumhotel · 2004

Das Traumhotel

★ 5.92004

SeriesAction & AdventureFamily

Gregor Pohlmann / Kurt Gramlich

Karl Brenner

The Day of the Triffids · 2009

The Day of the Triffids

★ 5.92009

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

Austrian Reporter

Anatomy of Evil · 2011

Anatomy of Evil

★ 5.92011

SeriesCrimeDrama

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 reputation as a particularly good interrogation specialist and is therefore called in by the police in special cases.

Ludwig Pfeiler

A Fortunate Man · 2018

A Fortunate Man

★ 6.32018

SeriesDrama

Professor Pfefferkorn

A policeman gets into a spiral of events, in which assault, extortion and murder are proven means.

Elias Hartmann

Die Gipfelzipfler · 2010

Karlo Tobler

To save his town Braunschlag from bankruptcy, the mayor decides to fake a Marian apparition. This black-humored farce revolves around greed, corruption, churchianity and alcohol.

Kortner

Die Fälle der Gerti B. · 2024

Die Fälle der Gerti B.

★ 8.52024

SeriesComedyCrime

Police inspector Gerti Bruckner faces challenges with her marriage, upcoming promotion, and a murder case in her neighborhood. Investigating with her younger superior brings old stories back to light and brings her personal environment closer.

Franco

When the snow is gone old secrets see the light of day.

Bruno Hofer

Klinik unter Palmen · 1996

Klinik unter Palmen

★ 7.01996

SeriesDrama

Klinik unter Palmen is a German television series.

Dr. Peter Wagenknecht

Meiberger: Chasing Minds · 2018

Meiberger: Chasing Minds

★ 6.02018

SeriesCrime

Through the eyes of psychologist Thomas Meiberger, we examine the mental, social and psychological factors of how and why criminal acts are committed. Even in cases that seem unsolvable, Meiberger is able to follow a thread back to the suspect by interpreting the sequence of events, the victim's behavior and subtle details that are invisible to others.

Ganslinger