Cinematography: Wolfgang Thaler
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Wolfgang Thaler. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Megacities
1998 · Documentary · 90 min. · Austria
Direction Michael Glawogger
Plot A "portrait" of people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in Bombay, New York, Moskou and Mexico City.
7.5
93 votes
7.5
93 votes
Unorthodox (TV Miniseries)
2020 · Series · 52 min. · Germany
Direction Alexa Karolinski · Anna Winger · Maria Schrader
Cast Shira Haas · Amit Rahav · Jeff Wilbusch · Alex Reid
Plot Mini-series (2020). 4 Episodes. A young woman who leaves an arranged marriage in New York and sets out on her own to Berlin. The story is inspired by Deborah Feldman’s...
7.2
18K votes
7.2
18K votes
Whores' Glory
2011 · Documentary · 110 min. · Austria
Direction Michael Glawogger
Plot Tells several stories of prostitution around the world. The documentary revolves around the lives and individual hopes, needs and experiences of the women.
7.0
239 votes
7.0
239 votes
Paradise: Love
2012 · Movie · 121 min. · Austria
Direction Ulrich Seidl
Cast Margarete Tiesel · Inge Maux · Peter Kazungu · Gabriel Mwarua
Plot On Kenya’s beaches they are known as "sugar mamas": European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian woman, travels to this...
6.8
3K votes
6.8
3K votes
The Forgotten Space
2010 · Documentary · 112 min. · Netherlands
Direction Allan Sekula · Noël Burch
6.8
25 votes
6.8
25 votes
Sparta
2022 · Movie · 99 min. · Austria
Direction Ulrich Seidl
Cast Georg Friedrich · Hans-Michael Rehberg · Marius Ignat
Plot Ewald moved to Rumania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the area, he...
6.7
513 votes
6.7
513 votes
Rimini
2022 · Movie · 115 min. · Austria
Direction Ulrich Seidl
Cast Michael Thomas · Tessa Göttlicher · Hans-Michael Rehberg · Inge Maux
Plot The death of his mother brings Richie Bravo back from his adopted home in Italy to his teenage bedroom in Lower Austria, where Charlton Heston is still flexing his biceps...
6.6
382 votes
6.6
382 votes
Theeb
2014 · Movie · 100 min. · Jordan
Direction Naji Abu Nowar
Cast Jacir Eid · Hassan Mutlag · Hussein Salameh · Marji Audeh
Plot In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
Dog Days
2001 · Movie · 120 min. · Austria
Direction Ulrich Seidl
Cast Maria Hofstätter · Erich Finsches · Alfred Mrvas · Gerti Lehner
Plot In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on the run...
6.6
774 votes
6.6
774 votes
Paradise: Faith
2012 · Movie · 113 min. · Austria
Direction Ulrich Seidl
Cast Maria Hofstätter · Nabil Saleh · Natalija Baranova · Rene Rupnik
Plot In PARADIES: Glaube Ulrich Seidl explores what it means to bear the cross. For Annamaria, an X-ray technician, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her vacation to missionary work, so...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
Import/Export
2007 · Movie · 141 min. · Austria
Direction Ulrich Seidl
Cast Ekateryna Rak · Paul Hofmann · Michael Thomas · Maria Hofstätter
Plot Two individual fates move in opposite directions. Olga, a nurse fed up with merely scraping by, leaves Ukraine and travels West in search of a better life. That better life...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
Jesus, You Know
2003 · Documentary · 87 min. · Austria
Direction Ulrich Seidl
Cast Elfriede Ahmad · Waltraute Bartel · Hans-Jürgen Eder · Thomas Grandegger
Plot Six Catholics share their thoughts and problems with Jesus in different churches. The camera accompanies them.
6.1
89 votes
6.1
89 votes
Contact High
2009 · Movie · 98 min. · Austria
Direction Michael Glawogger
Cast Michael Ostrowski · Raimund Wallisch · Alexis Santiago Hernández · Jeremy Strong
5.9
45 votes
5.9
45 votes
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
2016 · Movie · 101 min. · Austria
Direction Maria Schrader
Cast Josef Hader · Aenne Schwarz · Tómas Lemarquis · Barbara Sukowa
Plot Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn...
5.9
1K votes
5.9
1K votes
Transatlantic
2023 · Series · 48 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anna Winger · Stéphanie Chuat · Véronique Reymond · Mia Maariel Meyer
Cast Gillian Jacobs · Cory Michael Smith · Yoli Fuller · Nadiv Molcho
Plot An American journalist who, during 13 months spent in France in 1940-41, managed to arrange safe passage out of France and on to the U.S. for more than 2,000 refugees...
5.6
283 votes
5.6
283 votes
Slugs
2004 · Movie · 86 min. · Austria
Direction Michael Glawogger
Cast Raimund Wallisch · Michael Ostrowski · Pia Hierzegger · Iva Lukic
4.8
34 votes
4.8
34 votes
Cathedrals of Culture: Centre Georges Pompidou
2014 · Documentary · 165 min. · Germany
Direction Karim Aïnouz · Michael Glawogger · Michael Madsen · Margreth Olin
Cast Jonas Salk · Louis Khan · Clodagh O'Shea · Thomas D. Albright
Plot Six directors tackle the question "If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" by capturing iconic buildings with narration from the perspective of the buildings.
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Chucks
2015 · Movie · 93 min. · Austria
Direction Gerhard Ertl · Sabine Hiebler
Cast Anna Posch · Markus Subramaniam · Thomas Schubert · Stefanie Reinsperger
Plot Mae roams the streets of Vienna as a punk in her dead brother's Converse shoes. She lives on canned beer, sprays walls, tries her hand at poetry slams. She's not...
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Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX)
2006 · Documentary · 79 min. · Austria
Direction Timo Novotny
Plot A remix of images and sounds, using a films original material and mixing it with new imagery.
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Ants, Nature´s Secret Power
2004 · Documentary · 54 min. · Austria
Direction Wolfgang Thaler
Plot In this documentary we will be transported into the world of ants through the eyes of Bert Hölldobler, a world authority on these amazing animals.
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