Watermarks (2004), Cold Hell (2017), Amadeus (1984), Mahler (1975), Before Sunrise (1995), The Third Man (1949), Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Vienna movies.
Storyline: Taking its name from the Hebrew word for strength, the Hakoah Vienna sports club produced a host of talented female swimmers, who thrived in opposition to anti-Semitic trends that began to color Austrian society in the early 20th century. The club was a casualty of Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s, but several of the women who were team members went on to live long, colorful lives. Now senior citizens, they're reunited in this documentary about sports, survival and bravery.
Plot Keywords: swimmer, young woman, nazi, elderly woman, teammate, holocaust survivor, profound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A woman witnesses a murder and is stalked by the killer who wants to silence her.
Plot Keywords: taxi driver, young woman, turkish woman, killer, murder victim, investigator, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Antonio Salieri believes that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music is divine and miraculous. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. He began his career as a devout man who believes his success and talent as a composer are God's rewards for his piety. He's also content as the respected, financially well-off, court composer of Austrian Emperor Joseph II. But he's shocked to learn that Mozart is such a vulgar creature, and can't understand why God favored Mozart to be his instrument. Salieri's envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is ready to take revenge against God and Mozart for his own musical mediocrity.
Plot Keywords: composer, rival, musician, engaging, passionate, vienna, royal court ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Composer Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) flashes back on his tortured life during his final train trip to Vienna.
Plot Keywords: composer, wife, schizophrenic, father, student, brooding, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: American tourist Jesse and French student Celine meet by chance on the train from Budapest to Vienna. Sensing that they are developing a connection, Jesse asks Celine to spend the day with him in Vienna, and she agrees. So they pass the time before his scheduled flight the next morning together. How do two perfect strangers connect so intimately over the course of a single day? What is that special thing that bonds two people so strongly? As their bond turns to love, what will happen to them the next morning when Jesse flies away?
Plot Keywords: traveler, student, poet, quirky, charming, moving, vienna ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.
Plot Keywords: writer, friend, actress, love interest, thief, suspenseful, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Vienna in 1900, Stefan Brand must face a duel the following morning. He has no intention of defending his honor however and plans to flee the city when he notices that he has received a letter from someone in his past. A struggling concert pianist at the time he met Lisa Berndle when she was just a teenager living next door. Brand has had many women in his life however and unaware that Lisa is genuinely in love with him, forgets all about her. They meet again but he only vaguely remembers ever having met her. Unknown to him she bears his child and eventually marries a man who knows of her past but loves her very much. When she runs into Brand many years later her love for him resurfaces and she is prepared to abandon her son and husband for him. Tragedy follows.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: pianist, young woman, husband, son, servant, somber, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson) and Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) help Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin) rescue an abducted patient.
Plot Keywords: sherlock holmes, doctor watson, professor moriarty, sigmund freud, amusing, cheeky, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In late nineteenth century Vienna, renowned illusionist Eisenheim is reunited with the Duchess von Teschen when she is volunteered from the audience to participate in an illusion during one of his performances. Despite having not seen each other in fifteen years when they were teenagers, they almost immediately recognize each other as Eduard Abramovich and Sophie von Teschen, they who had a doomed romance at that time due to their class differences. The Duchess is soon to be wed to the Crown Prince Leopold in what would be for him a marriage solely in pursuit of power: overthrowing his father, the Emperor Leopold, as well as overtaking the Hungarian side of the empire. The Crown Prince is known to use violence against women if it suits his needs or purposes. As such, the Duchess, who realizes that she still loves Eisenheim and he her, can never leave the Crown Prince without it jeopardizing her life. After Eisenheim humiliates the Crown Prince at a private show which results in an ...
Plot Keywords: magician, prince, duchess, love interest, childhood sweetheart, inspector, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: narrator, prostitute, soldier, maid, wealthy man, actress, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Erika Kohut is a pianist, teaching music. Schubert and Schumann are her forte, but she's not quite at concert level. She's approaching middle age, living with her mother who is domineering then submissive; Erika is a victim then combative. With her students she is severe. She visits a sex shop to watch DVDs; she walks a drive-in theater to stare at couples having sex. Walter is a self-assured student with some musical talent; he auditions for her class and is forthright in his attraction to her. She responds coldly then demands he let her lead. Next she changes the game with a letter, inviting him into her fantasies. How will he respond; how does sex have power over our other faculties?
Plot Keywords: music teacher, professor, mother, student, lover, brooding, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Besides all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved, and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was--not easy, as Beethoven has had many women in his life.
Plot Keywords: composer, friend, mysterious woman, brother, son, assistant, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Christmas in Vienna is a dull affair for 9-year-old Mary (Elle Fanning), until her beloved Uncle Albert (Nathan Lane) arrives and gives her a special gift: an enchanted nutcracker. On Christmas night the nutcracker -- named NC -- comes to life and takes Mary to its magical land of sugarplum fairies and talking toys. Mary discovers that the wondrous kingdom faces a dire threat from the evil Rat King, and when the nutcracker is kidnapped, she must rally her new friends to save NC.
Plot Keywords: young girl, uncle, nutcracker, rat, king, brother, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Prince Nikki, Lieutenant of the Guard in pre WWI Vienna, is flat broke, but the only advice he gets from his parents is either to shoot himself or to marry money. During the Chorpus Christi parade his horse accidentaly hurts poor Mitzi, the daughter of inn-keepers in a Viennese suburb, who is, according to the wishes of her parents, going to marry the butcher Schani. When Nikki visits her at the hospital, they fall in love, much to the dislike of her parents and Schani. Nikki's parents, meanwhile have arranged a prospective marriage with Cecilia, the limping daughter of a very rich non-aristocratic industrial. Due to the fact, that Nikki's father is a general in the Austrian-Hungarian Army, resitance is useless. When Mitzi, after hearing of it, is still refusing Schani's proposal, he vowes to shoot Nikki when he leaves the church.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: army officer, heiress, butcher, disheartening, brash, emotional, vienna ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a baroness is present during a robbery at a jewellers in Vienna, she finds the gang's debonair leader more attractive than either her husband or her lover.—Ian Harries <ih@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: baron, baroness, thief, detective, husband, lover, amusing ...
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