Films set in Austria

2000 film by Ridley Scott

2011 film directed by Joe Johnston

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman. It is based on the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay and Crouse, itself based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. The film stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. Set in Salzburg, Austria, it is a fictional retelling of Maria von Trapp's experiences as governess to seven children, her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp, and their escape during the Anschluss in 1938.

2015 film by Sam Mendes

2008 film by Marc Forster

2019 film directed by Jon Watts

1989 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1977 film by Lewis Gilbert

2018 film directed by David Yates

1997 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud

2013 film directed by Ron Howard

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a 2025 American action spy film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. It is the direct sequel to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and the eighth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. The ensemble cast includes Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett. In the film, Hunt and his IMF team continue their mission to prevent the Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence, from destroying all of humanity.

2022 film directed by David Yates

2014 film by George Clooney

1973 film by Fred Zinnemann

2006 film directed by Sofia Coppola

Ballerina is a 2025 American action thriller film directed by Len Wiseman and written by Shay Hatten. It is a spin-off installment within the John Wick film series, taking place between the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) and Chapter 4 (2023). It stars Ana de Armas as ballerina and assassin Eve MaCarro, who takes on an army of killers as she avenges the death of her father. The supporting cast includes Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Norman Reedus, Ian McShane, and Keanu Reeves.

2004 film by Beeban Kidron

2007 film by Stefan Ruzowitzky

Brüno is a 2009 mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles and starring Sacha Baron Cohen, who produced, co-wrote, and played the gay Austrian fashion journalist Brüno Gehard. The film also stars Gustaf Hammarsten. A co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom, it is the third film based on one of Cohen's characters from Da Ali G Show, following Ali G Indahouse and Borat.

1997 film directed by Mimi Leder

1968 film directed by Brian G. Hutton

1986 film by Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang

1993 film by Stephen Herek

1997 film by Michael Haneke

2011 film by Brett Ratner, Dominic Sena

2015 film directed by Aleksander Bach

1955 film about empress Elisabeth of Austria, by Ernst Marischka

2023 film directed by Neill Blomkamp

1998 film directed by François Girard

1994 film by Bernard Rose

2019 film by Terrence Malick

2023 film directed by Sam Hargrave

2004 film directed by Andy Cadiff

1985 film by István Szabó

1957 film by Ernst Marischka

1948 film by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder

2017 film directed by Ali Abbas Zafar

1926 film by Clarence Brown

1968 film by Terence Young

2011 film by Fernando Meirelles

1970 film by Tadeusz Chmielewski

2002 film by Christian Duguay

1984 film by Tony Richardson

1970 film by Roy Ward Baker

1932 film by Leni Riefenstahl, Béla Balázs

1967 film by 5 different directors: Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vittorio De Sica, Mauro Bolognini, Franco Rossi

1966 film by Volker Schlöndorff

1977 film by Harold Prince

1919 film directed by Erich von Stroheim

2008 film by Götz Spielmann

Import/Export is an Austrian drama film by the director Ulrich Seidl from 2007. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix - Golden Apricot reward at the Yerevan International Film Festival. The film was shot in Vienna, Ukraine, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia from 2005 until May 2007 on 16mm film. Simultaneously, the film follows a nurse from Ukraine searching for a better life in the West and an unemployed security guard from Austria heading East for the same reason.

2017 film directed by Taran Killam

1972 film by Robert Young

2023 film directed by Maneesh Sharma

1971 film by John Hough

1943 film directed by Richard Thorpe

1960 film by Abel Gance

film directed by Mar Targarona

1974 film by Ken Russell