List of the best Michael Haneke movies: Amour(2012), The White Ribbon(2009), Funny Games(1997), The Piano Teacher(2001), Benny's Video(1992), 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance(1994), Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys(2000), Happy End(2017), Time of the Wolf(2003), Funny Games(2007), The Castle(1997) ... ...
Drama
Austria|France|Germany
2012
127 Minutes
Director
Jean-Louis Trintignant Emmanuelle Riva Isabelle Huppert Alexandre Tharaud William Shimell Ramón Agirre Rita Blanco Carole Franck Dinara Droukarova Laurent Capelluto Jean-Michel Monroc
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Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
War, Drama
Germany|Austria|France|Italy|Canada
2009
144 Minutes
Director
Christian Friedel Leonie Benesch Ulrich Tukur Ursina Lardi Burghart Klaußner Steffi Kühnert Josef Bierbichler Gabriela-Maria Schmeide Rainer Bock Susanne Lothar Maria-Victoria Dragus
child pastor doctor father teacher baron bleak uneasy disheartening dark village germany church house school mill punishment small-town life religion dominance
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Mystery & Thriller
Austria
1997
108 Minutes
Director
Susanne Lothar Ulrich Mühe Frank Giering Arno Frisch Stefan Clapczynski Doris Kunstmann Christoph Bantzer Wolfgang Glück Susanne Meneghel Monika Zallinger
father mother son prisoner thug accomplice bleak brutal chilling creepy austria lake cabin boat murder home invasion torture survival humiliation hostage situation
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Drama
Austria|France|Germany
2001
118 Minutes
Director
Isabelle Huppert Annie Girardot Benoît Magimel Anna Sigalevitch Susanne Lothar Udo Samel
music teacher professor mother student lover brooding shocking vienna austria apartment music conservatory concert hall mother/daughter relationship teaching piano sadomasochism voyeurism sex pursuit forbidden love
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
Mystery & Thriller
Austria|Switzerland
1992
105 Minutes
Director
Arno Frisch Angela Winkler Ulrich Mühe Ingrid Stassner
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A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up in film fantasy that he can no longer relate to the real world, to such an extent that he commits murder and records an on-camera confession for his parents.
Drama
Austria|Germany
1994
96 Minutes
Director
Gabriel Cosmin Urdes Lukas Miko Otto Grunmandl Anne Bennent Udo Samel
71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
Drama
France|Austria|Romania|Germany
2000
118 Minutes
Director
Juliette Binoche Thierry Neuvic Luminita Gheorghiu Ona Lu Yenke Helene Diarra Sepp Bierbechler Alexandre Hamidi
actress teacher romanian teenager photographer beggar dark disheartening paris street subway restaurant film set racial tension immigration random connections unintended consequences trash discovery transformation
A young man harasses a homeless woman, another man protests, the police arrest both and the woman has to leave the country. What were their various story-lines leading up to this event?
Drama
France|Austria|Germany
2017
107 Minutes
Director
Isabelle Huppert Jean-Louis Trintignant Mathieu Kassovitz Fantine Harduin Franz Rogowski Laura Verlinden Aurélia Petit Toby Jones Hille Perl Hassam Ghancy Nabiha Akkari
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A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.
Drama
France|Austria|Germany
2003
113 Minutes
Director
Isabelle Huppert Maurice Bénichou Lucas Biscombe Patrice Chéreau Béatrice Dalle Anaïs Demoustier Daniel Duval Olivier Gourmet Rona Hartner Florence Loiret-Caille Brigitte Roüan
mother father daughter son stranger boy bleak brooding gripping europe countryside train station death apocalypse violence survival escape fall 21st century
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|France|UK|Austria|Germany|Italy
2007
112 Minutes
Director
Naomi Watts Tim Roth Michael Carmen Pitt Brady Corbet Devon Gearhart Boyd Gaines Siobhan Fallon Hogan Robert LuPone Linda Moran
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Two psychopathic young men take a family hostage in their cabin.
Drama
Canada
1997
123 Minutes
Director
Ulrich Mühe Susanne Lothar Frank Giering Felix Eitner Nikolaus Paryla Andre Eisermann Dörte Lyssewski
The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati is about rock & roll, hero worship, hallucinations, drugs, madness, myth, rebellion and the search for individual integrity in a world on the brink of ... See full summary »