Franz Buchrieser

Operation White Christmas (2023)

Enis, in his late 20s and of Turkish background, must pay off a huge debt to save his video store. With help from an Asian amateur hacker, he contacts a mysterious businessman on the darknet. The businessman offers a bizarre deal. If they prevent the Kazak ...

Steirertod (2021)

Two murders of prostitutes in a similar way - no wonder that Commissioner Sandra Mohr suspects a connection. The obvious suspicion that a serial killer could be up to mischief in Styria is initially dismissed by her supervisor Sascha Bergmann. ...

Kaiserschmarrndrama (2021)

A dicey murder investigation. A fuming best friend. A chaotic living situation. Village police officer Franz Eberhofer has a lot on his plate right now. ...

Ein Leben für die Steiermark. Die Czernys und das Werden des Landes (2018)

Murer: Anatomy of a Trial (2018)

Franz Murer, the Butcher of Vilnius, a former Austrian SS officer, established, organized, and ruled the Vilnius ghetto in Lithuania during the World War II. Different survivors of the Shoah testify when he is judged in 1963, hoping to do justice, but, alt ...

Blockbuster – Das Leben ist ein Film (2015)

1987, Vienna's Favoriten district, the new home of 12-year-old Vlado. Having grown up with Czech television, he immersed himself in the world of Western films, devouring one VHS tape after another. After being diagnosed with cancer, Vlado made his first sh ...

Rise Up! And Dance (2014)

Tom and Huck (2012)

The story of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, placed in the years right after the Second World War in Germany. A tale about friendship and courage. ...

Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n (2010)

The Sackbauer family unexpectedly inherits a villa with a large garden in a cottage district in Lower Austria. The villa itself is in acceptable condition, but the garden is less so. Mundl quickly sets about sprucing it up with garden gnomes, lanterns, and ...

Garmischer Bergspitzen (2010)

Chocolatier Karl Sailer unexpectedly loses his job in Hamburg and his wife also becomes unemployed. The offer from his old master from Garmisch comes at just the right time: He needs the former apprentice for his chocolate factory in order to win a tender. ...

If the Seed Doesn't Die (2010)

Two fathers, a Romanian searching for his daughter who was forced into prostitution in Kosovo, and a Serbian seeking the body of his son killed in a car accident in Romania, meet on the river Danube. A boatman recounts the 200 year-old legend of Romanian p ...

Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga (2008)

It's 30 years later and the Sackbauers have estranged themselves from everyone; only mother "Toni" tries to re-establish the old happy family. ...

Der indische Ring (2008)

Andreas has already been in India for a few months and works as a doctor in a hospital for the needy. He invites his mother Anna over to give her a surprise. His mother has no idea that he wants to introduce her to his future wife Savita. But that's not al ...

Der Ruf der Berge - Schatten der Vergangenheit (2007)

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All Is Forgiven (2007)

A father and daughter are reunited some 11 years after the father's drug addiction tore the family apart. ...

Barbara Wood - Sturmjahre (2007)

Kurhotel Alpenglück (2006)

Decades have passed since Richard Steiner left his small hometown on Lake Tegernsee to pursue a career in Berlin. Over the years, he has built up a successful law firm as a commercial lawyer and leads a sophisticated life with a charming wife, a luxurious ...

Lilly Schönauer - Die Stimme des Herzens (2006)

29-year-old Kathy works as an editorial assistant at a publishing house in Frankfurt am Main. She left her parents' winery in Styria after an argument with her father. But she doesn't feel at home in the big city. On the occasion of her father's birthday, ...

Fünf-Sterne-Kerle inklusive (2006)

Der Ruf der Berge (2005)

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Utta Danella - Das Familiengeheimnis (2004)

Journalist Jakob Goltz visits his parents at Bodenee for the first time in many years. The encounter with his hard-hearted mother Jonah tears up old wounds in Jacob, who has only sad memories of his childhood. When his wife Madlon plunges into an affair wi ...

Die Pferdefrau (2001)

The young veterinarian Christine from Vienna stands on the sunny side of life. She is in a relationship with the attractive management consultant Alexander, has just completed her doctorate and is looking forward to a dream job. And she is also unexpectedl ...

Zwölfeläuten (2001)

A village in Styria, Austria, 1945. A troop of the elderly, the lame, and the village idiots roams the woods. When the Nazis invade to collect metal for weapons, the church bell disappears. ...

Sophie - Sissis kleine Schwester (2001)

My Friend the Wolf (1999)

Biologist Karin Aich hopes to reintroduce wolves in Bavaria, making many enemies, including her own neighbors and family, along the way. One of her few supporters is a girl who befriends a feral wolfdog. ...

The Beast in Lake Constance (1999)

A dinosaur clone escapes from a scientific laboratory. It swims across the Rhine River to Germany's largest lake—Lake Constance—and begins killing innocent people. All the usual clichés are used: the main scientists (a divorced couple who find each ot ...

Drei Herren (1998)

Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, three amiable and harmless inmates of a mental asylum are off to spend the summer in an open institution in the country. The trip they have been looking forward to for so long ends abruptly when the driver of their bus suffers a he ...

Heimlichkeiten (1997)

Hannah (1996)

The dynamic PR-agent Hannah is starting up her dream-job in the Hochstedt Company producing toys and soon falls in love with her firm's junior executive director, Wolfgang. But while Hannah is still totally immersed in this passionate love affair, she unkn ...

Schmetterlingsgefühle (1996)

Bauernschach (1995)

Franz Hofnagel has been a prisoner in a psychiatric institution for 22 years, where he was sent by his own lawyer. The fact that he has become fat during his time there and from the medication suits his plans... his lawyer will not recognize him when he us ...

Die Fernsehsaga – Eine steirische Fernsehgeschichte (1995)

Eine Frau will nach oben (1995)

Rosen aus Jericho (1994)

In the worst crisis of his life, widower Franz Schuster finds out he has cancer and definitively gives up. Neither is his daughter able to get through to him. In hospital, he gets to know retired doctor Peter Arndt, who tries to show him the right way. At ...

Leni (1994)

A historical drama about a Jewish child who is adopted by a German couple and is eventually removed from the home. ...

Barmherzige Schwestern (1993)

Besuchszeit (1992)

Three short episodes directed by Gedeon Kovacs. ...

Kill Cruise (1990)

Two British beauties go to Barbados with a yacht captain who does not know what he's in for. ...

Society's Finest (1990)

When Fritz returns from his studies in the United States he wants to walk on pink clouds with Maxie, a TV journalist, but they come upon a gun-running operation in which Fritz's father is involved. Fritz is caught between his loyalty to his family and his ...

Die Nacht des Marders (1988)

One day, a mysterious stranger shows up at a farm. The farmer's wife succumbs to the charms of the seemingly mute stranger. When she can no longer resist him, disaster strikes. ...

The Cop & the Girl (1985)

A tough cop but his life in ruins. His superiors are only looking for a reason to sack him. The girl is 17 years old and lives on the street. As the cop helps her one night, she steals his gun and flees. He should report the loss of his gun to his boss, so ...

The Noah's Ark Principle (1984)

The year is 1997, and World Peace seems to have come, with most classic weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any lo ...

Sheer Madness (1983)

Two women–a literature professor and a painter–start to rely upon their friendship as an alternative to their unhappy relationships with the men in their lives. ...

Second Sight (1982)

A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical compan ...

The Uppercrust (1981)

This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun (masterfully played by Frank Gorschin), and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt". ...

Lili Marleen (1981)

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert's family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as s ...

Kassbach - Ein Portrait (1979)

Viennese vegetable merchant Karl Kassbach becomes a member of a right-wing extremist organization, which plans numerous attacks on democratic institutions and journalists. The film attempts to portray a realistic and detail-oriented study of the mind of t ...

The Fall (1979)

Film adaptation of the last part of Martin Walser's "Kristlein Trilogy": After the perpetually failing intellectual Anselm Kristlein had to make a living as a sales representative and advertising copywriter in "Halbzeit" and became a writer in "Das Einhorn ...

Zeit zum Aufstehen (1978)

Fehlschuss (1977)

The son of a family of immigrants dreams of becoming a great soccer star and does everything in his power to make it big. He joins the provincial team, but soon realizes that true success can only be found in the city. So he leaves his hometown and heads t ...