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

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

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Love Island

2014 · Movie · 86 min. · Croatia

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One Day in Sarajevo

2015 · Documentary · 60 min. · Bosnia and Herzegovina

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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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Not rated