Best Austrian fantasy movies
A curated collection of popular fantasy movies from Austria.
Lacrimosa (2017)
Lacrimosa (2017)
A young woman finds her lost lover in a world of ever-changing surreal landscapes. But love, she discovers, is more complicated than she imagines.
Die Frau in mir (2013)
Die Frau in mir (2013)
Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren (2009)
Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren (2009)
In order to be able to marry the princess, the miller boy Hans has to find his way to hell. If he fails to steal three golden hairs from the devil, all is lost.
Rainy Season (2019)
Rainy Season (2019)
A couple rents a summer house in a small village. Residents ignore all warnings from local people about upcoming mysterious things and are drawn into a story that repeats itself every seven years, claiming its victims.
Forest of Echoes (2016)
Forest of Echoes (2016)
A teenager, Christina, loses her friends in the forest. Looking for them she finds the bodies of three drowned kids on the shore of a lagoon. On summer holiday, deep in the woods, three kids, cousins, are playing around a lake when they find a drowned young woman drifting in the water. Games, lies and rituals unfolding into a circular time in which death loses its ultimacy. What is real and what is a mirage? Who is dreaming and who is being dreamed?
Deep Above (1994)
Deep Above (1994)
In the 16th century, young men put themselves in great danger to look for mysterious crystals in a tunnel in the Styrian Erzberg. Some of them never returned from searching for this symbol of perfect love. In the 20th century, the student Barbara tries to pursue this legend of her home town.
Trip (1971)
Trip (1971)
Fantasy musical about an Austrian hippie commune.
Faust (1985)
Faust (1985)
In an epic tale of good versus evil, Faust sells his soul to the Devil and tries to save Marguerite from an eternity in Hell.
The Magic of the Mandarin (1909)
The Magic of the Mandarin (1909)
A Saturn film directed by Johann Schwarzer.
Pages (2020)
Pages (2020)
A teenager is drawn into a book's world.
The Legend of Osaya (2002)
The Legend of Osaya (2002)
The viewer is catapulted into the middle of the action. A dwarf warns the fairy kingdom of a huge force that is approaching Osaya, plundering and murdering. This initiates the odyssey of a group of heroes on their mission to save the inhabitants of Osaya. The fairy queen travels to the capital Kundrin Asan, while it turns out that a little beekeeper boy is the only one who can defeat the evil. The fate of all the kingdoms lies now in his hands...
At Swim-Two-Birds (1997)
At Swim-Two-Birds (1997)
A Dublin student writes a novel about a tavern keeper about the parishioners in his tavern (including the student), who in turn write novels featuring the innkeeper and the student, and other novel composers about other novelists.
Jenseits (2006)
Jenseits (2006)
Ariadne auf Naxos (1965)
Ariadne auf Naxos (1965)
Opera by Strauss
Der Bauer als Millionär (1961)
Der Bauer als Millionär (1961)
Das Märchen von der harten Nuß (1972)
Das Märchen von der harten Nuß (1972)
Undine 74 (1974)
Undine 74 (1974)
Der Schatten des Schreibers (1995)
Der Schatten des Schreibers (1995)
Light fiction writer Robert David has completed a novel. He is pleased with his first ambitious work - until one day the main character steps out of the book and disrupts his life.