Cinematography: Christine A. Maier
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Christine A. Maier. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Quo Vadis, Aida?
2020 · Movie · 104 min. · Bosnia and Herzegovina
Direction Jasmila Zbanic
Cast Jasna Djuricic · Izudin Bajrovic · Boris Ler · Dino Bajrovic
Plot Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands...
7.4
3K votes
7.4
3K votes
Esma's Secret - Grbavica
2006 · Movie · 90 min. · Bosnia and Herzegovina
Direction Jasmila Zbanic
Cast Mirjana Karanovic · Luna Mijovic · Leon Lucev · Kenan Catic
Plot 2006: Berlin Film Festival: Golden Bear. Single mother Esma lives with her 12-year-old daughter, Sara, in post-war Sarajevo. Sara wants to go on a school trip and Esma starts working...
6.8
3K votes
6.8
3K votes
Stories on Human Rights
2008 · Movie · 56 min. · Russia
Direction Walter Salles · Marina Abramovic · Hany Abu-Assad · Armagan Ballantyne
Cast Svetlana Ustinova · Yelena Anisimova · Arseniy Gevorkyan · Mariya Shalayeva
Plot The film comprises twenty two 3 minute shorts directed by international filmmakers to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They are inspired by six themes:...
6.3
23 votes
6.3
23 votes
On the Path
2010 · Movie · 100 min. · Bosnia and Herzegovina
Direction Jasmila Zbanic
Cast Zrinka Cvitesic · Leon Lucev · Ermin Bravo · Mirjana Karanovic
Plot A look at a Bosnian/Herzegovinan relationship.
6.3
950 votes
6.3
950 votes
Free Rainer (Reclaim Your Brain)
2007 · Movie · 130 min. · Germany
Direction Hans Weingartner
Cast Moritz Bleibtreu · Elsa Schultz Gambard · Milan Peschel · Gregor Bloéb
Plot Successful TV producer Rainer has it all. He has reached the top by creating TV shows of the most stupid and vulgar kind. One day, mysterious young woman Pegah vengefully...
6.0
2K votes
6.0
2K votes
Itty Bitty Titty Committee
2007 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Jamie Babbit
Cast Melonie Diaz · Nicole Vicius · Carly Pope · Melanie Mayron
Plot High School grad and all American gal, Anna finds her purpose and herself after she hooks up with the radical feminists in The Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
5.7
197 votes
5.7
197 votes
Colors in the Dark
2010 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany
Direction Sophie Heldman
Cast Leonie Benesch · Senta Berger · Bruno Ganz · Ruth Glöss
Plot As the story begins, we are taken to the bedroom of Fred and Anita, a couple of a certain age, comfortably set for what appears to be a happy retirement....
5.7
93 votes
5.7
93 votes
Life Guidance
2017 · Movie · 101 min. · Austria
Direction Ruth Mader
Cast Fritz Karl · Katharina Lorenz · Florian Teichtmeister · Petra Morzé
Plot The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is supported by a high performer class, contented and motivated people living in a bright,...
5.6
62 votes
5.6
62 votes
Mademoiselle Paradis
2017 · Movie · 90 min. · Austria
Direction Barbara Albert
Cast Susanne Wuest · Maria-Victoria Dragus · Devid Striesow · Stefanie Reinsperger
Plot A blind pianist living in 18th-century Vienna forms an extraordinary relationship with the physician who is trying to restore her sight.
5.4
107 votes
5.4
107 votes
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
2013 · Movie · 72 min. · Bosnia and Herzegovina
Direction Jasmila Zbanic
Cast Kym Vercoe · Boris Isakovic · Jasna Djuricic · Leon Lucev
Plot An Australian tourist discovers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities when she arrives in a seemingly idyllic little town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia.
5.0
136 votes
5.0
136 votes
Balanceakt (TV)
2019 · Movie · 89 min. · Austria
Direction Vivian Naefe
Cast Julia Koschitz · David Rott · Jeremy Miliker · Franziska Weisz
4.3
26 votes
4.3
26 votes
Tatort: Vielleicht (TV)
2014 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany
Direction Klaus Krämer
Cast Boris Aljinovic · Lise Risom Olsen · Laura Tonke · Fabián Busch
Plot Felix Stark has to deal with a case which he was warned of two weeks before of a woman with fortune-telling skills.
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Northern Skirts
1999 · Movie · 103 min. · Austria
Direction Barbara Albert
Cast Nina Proll · Edita Malovcic · Astrit Alihajdaraj · Tudor Chirila
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Love Island
2014 · Movie · 86 min. · Croatia
Direction Jasmila Zbanic
Cast Ariane Labed · Ada Condeescu · Franco Nero · Leon Lucev
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One Day in Sarajevo
2015 · Documentary · 60 min. · Bosnia and Herzegovina
Direction Jasmila Zbanic
Cast Mirsad Sijaric · Valentin Inzko
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Die Liebe der Kinder
2009 · Movie · 84 min. · Germany
Direction Franz Müller
Cast Marie-Lou Sellem · Àlex Brendemühl · Katharina Derr · Tim Hoffmann
Plot Two single parents decide to move in together and their two teenage children fall in love.
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Lucy
2006 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany
Direction Henner Winckler
Cast Kim Schnitzer · Gordon Schmidt · Feo Aladag · Polly Hauschild
Plot Maggy is an eighteen-year-old single mother. She still lives with her own mother, and has broken up with the father of her child, Lucy. Maggy meets Gordon in a disco...
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Elfriede Jelinek - die Sprache von der Leine lassen
2022 · Documentary · 97 min. · Germany
Direction Claudia Müller
Cast Elfriede Jelinek · Sophie Rois · Maren Kroymann · Stefanie Reinsperger
Plot A documentary film about Elfriede Jelinek, who in 2004 became the first Austrian author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, focuses on her artistic approach to language.
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Alice Schwarzer
2022 · Documentary · 100 min. · Austria
Direction Sabine Derflinger
Cast Alice Schwarzer
Plot Alice Schwarzer has always been a polarising force. As a popular figure on TV, she has divided married couples watching from their sofas across the German-speaking world and encouraged women...
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Serviam – I Will Serve
2022 · Movie · 106 min. · Austria
Direction Ruth Mader
Cast Maria-Victoria Dragus · Leona Lindinger · Anna Elisabeth Berger · Sophia Gómez-Schreiber
Plot An all-girl Catholic boarding school for the wealthy Austrian elite. Faith is declining. The head of the institution, an energetic young nun, fights with ardor against it. Martha, one of...
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