Screenplay: Ulrich Seidl

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ulrich Seidl. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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

Safari

2016 · Documentary · 91 min. · Austria

Direction Ulrich Seidl

Cast Gerald Eichinger · Eva Hoffman · Manuel Heichinger · Tina Hoffman

Plot Africa. In the wild expanses, where bushbucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush,...

6.8

420 votes

6.8

420 votes

Animal Love

1996 · Documentary · 120 min. · Austria

Direction Ulrich Seidl

Plot In conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a highly technological society, in which communication has never played such a significant role, man has...

6.7

119 votes

6.7

119 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

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

In the Basement

2014 · Documentary · 81 min. · Austria

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Models

1999 · Movie · 118 min. · Austria

Direction Ulrich Seidl

Cast Viviane Bartsch · Tanja Petrovsky · Lisa Grossmann · Elvyra Geyer

Plot From one of cinema’s most notorious and acclaimed documentarians -- Ulrich Seidl's Models is a revealing and devastating portrait of a group of aspiring real-life Viennese models. Vivian will stop...

6.4

239 votes

6.4

239 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

Paradise: Hope

2013 · Movie · 91 min. · Austria

Direction Ulrich Seidl

Cast Melanie Lenz · Joseph Lorenz · Verena Lehbauer · Michael Thomas

Plot Her mother goes off to Kenya in search of beach boys willing to provide her with amorous services. Her staunchly Catholic aunt is absorbed in house-to-house evangelism. Thus, thirteen-year-old Melanie...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

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

The Bosom Friend (TV)

1997 · Documentary · 60 min. · Austria

Direction Ulrich Seidl

Cast Rene Rupnik

Plot Main character of this movie is Rene Rupnik, a former math teacher. He is forty years old and lives together with his mother in a desolate block of flats. Ever...

5.7

25 votes

5.7

25 votes

One Fourty (S)

1980 · Documentary · 16 min. · Austria

Direction Ulrich Seidl

Cast Karl Wallner

Plot Karl Wallner, the protagonist of this film, is a man aged about 50. At the age of 14 he stopped growing and didn't get any taller than 1 meter 40...

5.6

40 votes

5.6

40 votes

Direction Ulrich Seidl

Plot This documentary, Ulrich Seidl's full-length film debut, examines the lives of the street newspaper sellers in Vienna, a mixture of men from Turkey, India, Pakistan, Egypt and Eastern Europe, standing...

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The Last Real Men

1994 · Documentary · 60 min. · Austria

Direction Ulrich Seidl

Cast Karl Schwingenschloegl · Hermann Schneeweisz · Teresita Schneeweisz · Conchita Klausner

Plot Disappointed by failed relationships and the demands set by local women, more and more Austrians search for happiness in a marriage with women from Thailand and the Philippines. Asked about...

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Loss Is to Be Expected

1992 · Documentary · 118 min. · Austria

Direction Ulrich Seidl

Cast Paul Hutterová · Vladimir Kundrát · Rusena Machaloyá · Alois Paur

Plot The main character of the documentary is the 60+ retired Austrian who's just lost his wife and is looking for a new one across the Austrian-Czech border. He is very...

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Bilder einer Ausstellung

1996 · Documentary · 45 min. · Austria

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Der Ball

1982 · Documentary · 50 min. · Austria

Direction Ulrich Seidl

Cast Hans Rasch · Otto Mayer · Heinz Sommer · Franz Hochhinaus

Plot This is a film about the 'students ball' in Horn, the little Austrian town Seidl grew up. The movie portraits the young débutantes as well as the local notables, all...

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