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A list of films produced in the Cinema of Austria in the 1990s ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of articles on Austrian films see Category:Austrian films.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
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| Felix Mitterer | Satire | ||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
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| I Love Vienna | Houchang Allahyari | Comedy | ||
| Malina | Werner Schroeter | Isabelle Huppert, Mathieu Carrière | Drama | Entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival |
| Ruth Beckermann | Documentary | ||
| Requiem for Dominic | Robert Dornhelm | Documentary | ||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
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| The Arrival of Averill | Michael Schottenberg | Andras Jones | Drama | Screened at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival |
| Benny's Video | Michael Haneke | Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe | Drama |
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| Walter Wippersberg | Documentary, Comedy | ||
| Rochade | Peter Patzak | Michael York, Iris Berben, Ernst Schröder, Jaroslav Filip | Spy thriller | Austrian-Czechoslovak co-production |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Harather | Tragicomedy | Film Prize of the Minister-President of Saarland and Public Prize at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis | |
| Mother's Day | Harald Sicheritz | Alfred Dorfer, Roland Düringer, Andrea Händler, Eva Billisich | Comedy | |
| Trotsky | Leonid Maryagin | Drama, Biography | Ö/RU/CH/USA/MEX/TUR | |
| Yilmaz Arslan | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
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| 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance | Michael Haneke | Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl, Anne Bennent, Udo Samel | Drama | |
| 1945 | Peter Patzak | Konstantin Wecker, Cornelia Froboess, Vadim Glowna, Juraj Kukura, Joachim Bißmeier | Historical drama | |
| I Promise | Wolfgang Murnberger | Christoph Dostal | Drama | |
| International Zone | Milan Dor | David Steffen , Peter Lohmeyer, Sophie von Kessel, Jennifer Nitsch, Gunther Philipp, Johannes Silberschneider, Relja Bašić, Erwin Leder | Drama | |
| Die Nacht der Nächte | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Senta Berger | Comedy | |
| The Quality of Mercy | Andreas Gruber | Oliver Broumis, Merab Ninidze, Volkmar Kleinert | Historical drama | Jury Award at San Sebastián International Film Festival |
| Tafelspitz | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Christiane Hörbiger | Comedy | |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
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| Ant Street | Michael Glawogger | Robert Meyer, Monika Tajmar, Bibiane Zeller | Comedy | Dor Film |
| Before Sunrise | Richard Linklater | Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Hanno Pöschl | ||
| Julian Pölsler | Leon Askin | Drama |
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| Harald Sicheritz | Comedy |
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| Joint Venture | Dieter Berner | Gregor Bloéb | Epo-Film | |
| Lovers | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Michaela May, Erwin Steinhauer, Diego Wallraff | ||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Kreihsl | Drama |
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| Ruth Beckermann | Documentary | ||
| Jugofilm | Goran Rebić | Wolf Bachofner, Michael Jovanovic | Drama | Avanti-Films |
| Nikolaus Leytner | Lukas Resetarits, Andreas Lust | Tragicomedy | Allegro Film / Geco Bildwaren |
| Tempo | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Xaver Hutter, Nicolette Krebitz, Dani Levy | Comedy | |
| Christian Frosch | Blixa Bargeld, Sophie Rois, Lars Rudolph | Thriller | |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
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| Reinhard Schwabenitzky | Elfi Eschke, Andreas Vitasek | Comedy | |
| Curt Faudon | Heino Ferch, Natalia Wörner | TV Thriller | Sat.1 |
| Ruth Beckermann | Documentary | Aichholzer-Film | |
| Girls Under Investigation (Untersuchung an Mädeln) | Peter Payer | Elke Winkens, Anna Thalbach, Otto Sander, Max Tidof |
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| In Heaven | Michael Bindlechner | Sylvie Testud, Xaver Hutter , Merab Ninidze | ||
| Inter-View | Jessica Hausner | Birgit Doll, Hagnot Elischka | ||
| Northern Skirts | Barbara Albert | Nina Proll, Edita Malovčić | Drama |
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| Outer Space | Peter Tscherkassky | Short film, animation | Black and white | |
| Wanted | Harald Sicheritz | Western |
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A list of the most notable films produced in the Cinema of Austria, ordered by year and split by decade of release.
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