Great Freedom
Dir. Sebastian Meise
Great Freedom is not an easy watch. Apart from the quiet stretches of time and the claustrophobic confines of its…
The Seventh Continent
Dir. Michael Haneke
Considering Michael Haneke’s preoccupation towards societal estrangement, is it any wonder that his directorial feature is as bleak and depressing?…
Revanche
Dir. Götz Spielmann
Given the name, Revanche seemed to be a revenge thriller, and to a certain degree, that’s correct, but the way…
Amour
Dir. Michael Haneke
Amour is about Anne and Georges, an elderly couple who face challenges in their relationship after Anne suffers a debilitating…
Tehran Taboo
Dir. Ali Soozandeh
The lives of a single mother forced into prostitution and another woman who needs an operation to restore her virginity…
Toni Erdmann
Dir. Maren Ade
Good movies usually aren’t lengthy movies, unless we’re talking about cases like Toni Erdmann. It’s a supremely smart German-Austrian comedy that…
North Face
Dir. Philipp Stölzl
Due to the fictional romantic subplot and the need to explain the historical background, it takes around half its runtime…
Funny Games
Dir. Michael Haneke
See, usually, when American violence in media is critiqued, it’s usually through analytic studies or overly exaggerated lectures stirring moral…
Quo Vadis Aida?
Dir. Jasmila Žbanić
This Oscar-nominated drama tells the story of the events leading up to the Srebrenica massacre, in which 8372 Bosnian Muslims…
The Red Violin
Dir. François Girard
We mostly think of objects as just stuff to buy, to sell, to give, and to throw away, but for…
Born in Evin
Dir. Maryam Zaree
This earnest documentary is about filmmaker and actress Maryam Zaree’s journey to unravel the truth about her birth. Her parents…
The White Ribbon
Dir. Michael Haneke
This 2009 Palme d’Or winner is filmed beautifully in black and white by Michael Haneke. In equal parts mysterious and…
The Counterfeiters
Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky
While imprisoned in a labor camp on account of ethnicity, a group of Jewish inmates were transferred to become The…
Caché
Dir. Michael Haneke
Beginning with a great opening shot of townhouse on a side street in Paris, only ti discovers that the shot is…
Black Book
Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Of course, with wartime spy romances, it’s expected to have conflicted desire, twisty betrayals, and the internal war between personal…
Black Cat, White Cat
Dir. Emir Kusturica
A crazy, high-speed movie about double-dealing crooks and thieves living along the Danube River in Serbia. Such a description probably…
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Dir. Jasmila Žbanić
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army…
Vienna Blood
Dir. Umut Dağ
Max Liebermann, a student of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around…
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Dir. Female director & Jasmila Žbanić
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
More Than Honey
Dir. Markus Imhoof
With dazzling nature photography, Academy Award®–nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) takes a global examination of endangered honeybees…
Inspector Rex
After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve…
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
Dir. Michael Haneke
71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
The Edukators
Dir. Hans Weingartner
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Mostly Martha
Dir. Sandra Nettelbeck
Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has…
Before Sunrise
Dir. Richard Linklater
A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna.…
Extraction 2
Dir. Sam Hargrave
More streamlined and more technically ambitious than its predecessor, yet even less interested in developing an interesting setting or characters,…