442 Films & TV Shows Set In Austria
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Christmas in Vienna
๐ฆ๐น AustriaA young violinist who plays at the war front decides to join his parents in Vienna after his best friend gets killed.
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Before Sunrise
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1990sCan the greatest romance of your life last only one night? โ On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Cรฉline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. departs the next morning and he has no money for lodging, they wander the city together, taking in the experiences of Vienna and each other.
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Brother of Sleep
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 19th CenturySchlafes Bruder tells the story a few exceptionally talented individuals who grew up in a remote mountain town in the Alps. The film, based on an internationally successful novel by Robert Schneider of the same name, depicts the slow withering of their unique skills.
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Immortal Beloved
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 19th CenturyA chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.
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Mesmer
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฆ๐น Austria The 18th CenturyCharlatan, Fraud... or Genius โ A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal magnetism."
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Death Train
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐บ RussiaIt's Die Hard at 90 miles an hour! โ When a renegade Russian general sends a nuclear bomb hurtling toward the Middle East aboard a hijacked train, special agents are dispatched to disarm the deadly device. Ten tons of steel and one ounce of hot plutonium are now riding roughshod through Europe. With time running out, the agents launch a desperate, bullet-packed assault on a deadly moving target piloted by a cold-blooded mercenary.
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Beethoven Lives Upstairs
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1820sWhen his mother rents their vacant room to a peculiar composer, Christoph can't believe his bad luck. But as the abrasive boarder, Ludwig Van Beethoven, begins creating his masterful 9th Symphony, Christoph is won over by the majesty of his music. This lighthearted family drama was awarded the 1993 Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program.
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The Feast of the Chicken
๐ฆ๐น AustriaThe morals and customs of the "native peoples" of Upper Austria are described by a team of anthropologists from Sub-Saharan Africa in the style of European and American anthropologists in the non-western world. While making the film, they discover new cultural phenomena. Wippersberg turns around the research methodology of Western anthropologists of performing ethnologic studies, and then popularising them by means of a documentary film.
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Malina
๐ฆ๐น AustriaA complex and enigmatic plot that evokes the life of Bachmann. The story develops around an unusual triangular relationship, a threesome between a woman of unknown name, a man named Malina and a Hungarian, Ivan, with whom she falls in love. Ivan will be his last great love, but their need for exclusivity in love is so strong that it can not be understood or matched. Malina is a struggle, a confrontation between two worlds strange and hostile.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1910sSherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera house and prevent World War I.
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The Passport
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฌ๐ช Georgia ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1980sA man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
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The bachelor
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1910sA Pre-World War I physician in Austria struggles with his decision about which woman he will marry. Miranda Richardson plays the roles of two different women in his life.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy New York Utah ๐ต๐น Portugal ๐น๐ท Turkey The 1930s The 1910sThe man with the hat is back. And this time, he's bringing his Dad. โ When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana must team up with Marcus Brody, Sallah and Elsa Schneider to follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life.
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
๐ฆ๐น Austria California New Mexico England The 1870s The 1860s The 1800s The 1900s The 1980s The 1st Century BC The 14th Century The 13th Century The FutureHistory is about to be rewritten by two guys who can't spell. โ Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history classโwhich means Ted would be sent to military schoolโbut receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
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Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 20th CenturyBiography,Drama,War,Nazi โ A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee. (Written by Anthony Hughes)
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
๐ฆ๐น Austria Ishikawa PrefectureDuring his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
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A Friendship in Vienna
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1930sInge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympathizer. When they are forbidden to see each other, they meet secretly. After the Germans invade Austria in 1938, Inge and her family escape to America with the help of Lise
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Burning Secret
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1920sTo capture the mother's heart, take the child's hand. โ While recuperating in a sanatorium in the mountains, a young boy becomes very close friends with an older baron. But the baron is only using the boy to get to know his mother, the wife of an older diplomat. When the boy realises the baronโs intentions, he becomes jealous, moody and depressed.
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
England ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1940sAllied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
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Silent Mouse
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1810sOn Christmas Eve, 1818, in Austria the Oberndorf organ broke down. The assistant priest writes a carol to be accompanied by guitar. The carol was "Silent Night". (Taken from the IMDB page)
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The Living Daylights
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐จ๐ฟ Czechia ๐ฌ๐ฎ Gibraltar ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1980sLiving on the Edge โ James Bond helps a Russian General escape into the west. He soon finds out that the KGB wants to kill him for helping the General. A little while later the General is kidnapped from the Secret Service leading 007 to be suspicious.
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The Second Victory
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'38 - Vienna Before the Fall
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1930sThe film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. When we encounter the couple in the lovely springtime weather their future is full of promise. They are determined to stay clear of politics. Yet in the climate of the time, nobody of her prominence or his religion can remain apolitical. Although Martin's journalist friend, Drechsler, calls to inform them that the Nazis plan to take over Austria soon, they concentrate on their work and their private happiness and dismiss the warnings.
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Welcome in Vienna
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1940sIn the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy (following God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore and Santa Fe) 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. Freddy falls in love with the daughter of a Nazi, and Adler attempts to go over to the Communist Zone. But with the advent of the Cold War and continuing anti-semitism, the idealism of both characters is shattered as they find themselves surrounded by cynicism, opportunism, and universal self-deception. This acclaimed, brilliant work is one of the great films of all time.
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