Arthur Schnitzler

Eyes Wide Shut

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

Release Date1999-07-16

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JobAuthor

Vote Count6632

Alta comedia

Release Date1970-04-19

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Theatre 625

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

Release Date1964-05-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Rinbu

Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's novel, "La Ronde", many people are having sex in a variety of ways. A girl and her boyfriend go to a pool bar where she is served a free cocktail drink courtesy of a man who wants to date her. Another guy challenges her boyfriend to a game with the girlfriend being the prize. Three men are fighting over the young woman and a winner takes the girl. It ends up as four guys and the woman in a hotel room.

Release Date1988-01-09

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Love's Devotee

Two friends, Fritz and Theodor, make the acquaintance of Christine and Mizzi, who are also friends. Fritz is immediately captivated by Christine, who is bashful and modest as opposed to the eager, effervescent Mizzi. But even though the love between the two grows, Christine is not the only woman in Fritz’s life. His affair with a married woman will prove to have fatal consequences.

Release Date1914-01-22

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Deseo

Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.

Release Date2013-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count266

Circle of Love

In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."

Release Date1964-10-16

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count16

Christine

Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the Baron von Eggersdorf provokes a duel with Lobheiner. But the former is no longer a real threat to the Baron. Lobheiner is now passionately in love with Christine. How will this love quartet end?

Release Date1958-12-19

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count55

Daybreak

An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.

Release Date1931-05-02

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count5

Liebelei

Film by Jacob and Luise Fleck.

Release Date1927-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count2

La Ronde

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

Release Date1950-09-27

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count135

Das Wort

Arthur Schnitzler's key piece describes the liaisons of his artist colleagues from the Cafe Central, Vienna. Behind the character "Treuenhof" is Peter Alterberg recognized, "Winkler" = Arthur Schnitzler, "Flatterer" = Frida Uhl, "Rapp" = Stefan Großmann, "Willi" = Hans Lang, "Van Zack" = Adolf Loos, and "Lisa" = Lina Loos.

Release Date1970-01-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Bachelor

In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.

Release Date1990-03-29

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Das weite Land

Release Date1960-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Liebelei

Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past misfortune...

Release Date1933-03-10

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count34

Fair Game

Release Date1928-02-21

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Love Story

A young German officer's (Wolfgang Liebeneiner) life is turned upside when he tries to end his affair with a married baroness (Olga Tschechowa) after falling for an innocent young singer (Magda Schneider). French version of Ophuls' Liebelei.

Release Date1933-03-10

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count4

Late Fame

A long time ago Ed Saxberger wrote a book of poetry that no one ever cared about. When a group of young artists rediscover his work, he must reassess his genius. The wild card in the group is Gloria, a talented and mercurial theatre actress who toys with affections and who is all set to be admired by Saxberger.

Release Date2025-08-29

DepartmentWriting

JobAuthor

Vote Count2

Anatol

Release Date1961-12-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Exposure

The film, based on Schnitzler's 1924 novella "Fräulein Else," follows Lili, a 19-year-old lawyer's daughter, who undergoes a humiliating naked show to prevent her father's imprisonment.

Release Date2025-06-27

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JobWriter

Young Medardus

Patriotic Austrian costume drama, about the martyr Medardus who opposed Napoleon's occupation of Vienna in 1809. The plot proceeds in a series of confrontations with Medardus, his mother and sister, the blind exiled Count of Valois, his ambitious daughter, and Napoleon himself (portrayed as a cool strategist), including several brief flashbacks.

Release Date1923-10-05

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JobAuthor

Vote Count5

The Talent

A gifted young cellist from a fallen aristocratic family must make an impossible choice when her best friend's powerful father offers a solution to her family's desperate situation.

Release Date2025-09-05

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Las tres perfectas casadas

Release Date1973-02-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

Fräulein Else

Else is the pretty daughter of a Viennese lawyer. The young lady has been invited by her aunt to spend a few days on a summer holiday in San Martino. There she receives an express letter from her mother requesting her to ask the wealthy art dealer Dorsday for a much-needed loan. Her father is facing bankruptcy due to embezzlement. Else approaches Dorsday and describes the difficult family situation. Dorsday is willing to lend the necessary money, but stipulates that Else must expose herself to him naked for a quarter of an hour. Else reacts indignantly to this request, but over the course of the evening realizes the dilemma she faces. Caught between unconditional loyalty to her father and a strong longing for autonomy and self-determined femininity, she cannot commit to either alternative.

Release Date1975-07-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

Traumnovelle

After his wife confesses to having sexual fantasies about another man, a revered doctor becomes intrigued by a secret sex 'ball' attended by some of the city’s most prominent. Disguising himself in a cloak and mask, he sneaks in, despite warnings that attending could destroy his life.

Release Date2025-01-16

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

Slepý Geronimo a jeho brat

The story of a brother's hard-tested love, based on Arthur Schnitzler's novel.

Release Date1993-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

New York Nights

Nine New Yorkers' successful lives all intertwined in a treacherous tale of passion, a game of seduction. The only rule; anything goes.

Release Date1984-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count5

Hello Again

Ten lost souls slip in and out of one another's arms in a daisy-chained musical exploration of love's bittersweet embrace. A film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa's celebrated musical, originally based on Arthur Schnitzler's play, La Ronde.

Release Date2017-11-08

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count71

Casanova's Return

Leo Bernardi is a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He’s approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He has just finished shooting his last movie and he’s deeply sad. The movie is inspired by the novel about Casanova written by Arthur Schnitzler, a character so similar to the director, even more than he could imagine. Schnitzler’s Casanova is aged, glory days are over: he lost his charm and his attraction to women, he’s broke and no more eager to travel through Europe. After a long exile, he just wants to go back to Venice, his homeland. While traveling home Casanova meets a girl, Marcolina. She reawakens his desire, lost for years. So, he tries to seduce her but that leads him to a tragic understanding: he’s an old man now. It’s not by chance that Leo Bernardi decided to tell this story right now, in a pivotal moment of his life and career. The destiny of both Casanova and his director leads them to a final confrontation.

Release Date2023-03-30

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count101

Nightmare in Venice

A brilliant surgeon and millionaire, married to a beautiful woman, and highly regarded in the society of Venice, wants more from life and searches for new sensations. Adapted from the 1926 novella Dream Story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.

Release Date1989-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count7

Dying

Morir revolves around the couple Luis and Marta, whose lives are paralyzed by the outbreak of a disease that is accompanied by guilt, lies and fear, testing the stability and love between them.

Release Date2017-10-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count15

Fräulein Else

While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences.

Release Date1929-03-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count6

Tod eines Lesenden

A man reads a book. Ordinary enough, except that he is sentenced to death and scheduled to be shot in ten minutes. Obviously, he will not get to the end of the story. Based on an unfinished short story by Arthur Schnitzler.

Release Date1984-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Traumnovelle

After a frank confession by his wife, a doctor is called to see a dying patient. The cause of the night brings him to meet an old friend, a pianist, who tells him of a mysterious ball where he is due to perform. Based on the book "Traumnovelle" ("Rhapsody: A Dream Novel") by Arthur Schnitzler, which was the inspiration for the film Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

Release Date1969-08-31

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count6

Liebelei

Release Date1958-01-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Knight, Death and The Devil

A family of the three fall into a dark and disturbing nightmare after meeting the mysterious Orlok and the seductive punk girl Patty. Adapted from the 1926 novella Dream Story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.

Release Date1983-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobIdea

Vote Count1

Der Mörder

Release Date1984-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg

The 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the cast of the "Queen of the Night", opera that promoted singer Klare Hell. Klare shows no gratitude however.

Release Date1991-03-30

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count4

Ringlek

Scrutinizes the sexual morals and class ideology of its day through a series of encounters between pairs of characters, shown before or after a sexual encounter. A prostitute is cheated out of her money by a drug-dealer, in the next scene the dealer seduces a maid, who in turn is hit by the son of her employer, and so on, until an actress engages in a little hanky-panky with the count, who - and this is where the circle joins - in a final scene ends up at the prostitute's apartment.

Release Date1982-01-05

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Episode Count3

Vote Count1

Sterben

Release Date1971-04-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Reigen

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

Release Date1973-10-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

The Return of Casanova

Release Date1980-01-06

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

New Year's Eve

A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzler, with Hanna Schygulla: a night of New Year’s Eve, when the family meal is finished, Hanna is in a window while a young man entertains her and talks of the one he loves but can’t join at that time.

Release Date1978-12-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Love Circles

French erotic auteur Gerard Kikoine makes the world his canvas in this sexy roundelay of intimate encounters across the globe. Following a pack of cigarettes that ends up with partner after partner, the film moves from Paris to Rome, Cannes, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and New York, exposing carnal couplings that take place everywhere from a furniture store to an airplane cockpit. Marie-France, Sophie Berger and Josephine Jacqueline Jones co-star.

Release Date1985-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count14

The Doctor

A girl lies dying in a hospital room. A priest wants to enter, but her doctor, Ruth Wolff, won't allow it. The incident brings her into such heavy external fire that the survival of her hospital is threatened. At the same time, a colleague takes advantage of the case to bend an internal appointment procedure to his will.

Release Date2022-05-22

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Concept

The Merry-Go-Round

Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons herself.

Release Date1920-02-27

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count1

Fräulein Else

Else joins her aunt to spend her holidays in a remote luxury hotel in India. She receives a message by her mother disclosing that her father has enormous debts and her mother asks Else for help. This gets Else into serious troubles - with deadly consequences.

Release Date2014-05-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

The Other

After his wife's death, a man makes a dramatic discovery that turns his life upside down.

Release Date2020-08-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Way Out

Such a soul torments young composer Georg von Wergenthin, around whom the author creates a precise picture of the fin de siècle, its neuroses and its politics. Georg starts a relationship with a young singer, but does not confess to her in front of his friends, even when she becomes pregnant by him.

Release Date1983-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Liebelei

Release Date1969-01-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Das Märchen

Release Date1966-06-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Return of Casanova

After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardon he meets a young lady named Marcelina. The more he shows his affection, the more ostentatiously she rejects him. Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts. In return for the required money Lorenzo tells Casanova about a looming secret rendezvous with Marcelina. Moreover he lets Casanova take his place. Undercover of the night Casanova finally seduces her. Lorenzo later feels his honor was besmirched and demands satisfaction. Casanova kills him in a duel and then goes home to Venice.

Release Date1992-05-12

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count33

Profesor Bernhardi

Release Date1993-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Ich

Release Date2011-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

The Naked Angel

A sculptor lends money to a bankrupt man, who agrees to allow his daughter pose for the sculptor's next work. The film caused a scandal in Argentina for the depiction of then 17-year-old Olga Zubarry's naked back. Adaptated from the novel "Fräulein Else" by Arthur Schnitzler.

Release Date1946-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count5

Gefährtin

Release Date1954-07-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Affairs of Anatol

Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats on him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.

Release Date1921-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count9

Romance/Romance

This delightful pairing of one-act musicals, one classic and one modern, takes a comical and moving look at the mysteries of love. Act I, based on Schnitzler's The Little Comedy, is a delightful romp through the sexual ennui of turn-of-the-century Vienna, as two wealthy but bored socialites masquerade as impoverished bohemians seeking romance. Act II, based on the Jules Renard play Summer Share, explores modern affection and disaffection as two married couples share a summer house in the Hamptons. An Off-Off-Broadway sensation that successfully moved to Broadway, Romance/Romance is a charming and tuneful small-cast gem, here filmed live for television.

Release Date1993-02-09

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

The Way Out

Such a soul torments young composer Georg von Wergenthin, around whom the author creates a precise picture of the fin de siècle, its neuroses and its politics. Georg starts a relationship with a young singer, but does not confess to her in front of his friends, even when she becomes pregnant by him.

Release Date1918-01-04

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Der einsame Weg

Release Date1987-11-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Das weite Land

Hofreiter, who has a relationship with Natter's wife Adele, confronts Natter after the latter launches a newspaper advertisement linking the suicide of an admirer of Hofreiter's wife to Hofreiter himself. In his tried and tested manner, Hofreiter challenges his vis-a-vis to a duel, but contrary to all etiquette, Natter refuses and exposes Hofreiter's system of vain notions of honor by confronting him with "genuine feeling". Natter: "I am hopelessly in love with my wife. That happens, dear Hofreiter. Nothing helps. That's just the way it is." His revenge is of a different nature, because he gets out of Hofreiter's narcissistic game and disavows his deceptive maneuvers and strategies of shifting blame.

Release Date1970-03-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Der einsame Weg

Release Date1962-11-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Fräulein Else

TV adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s eponymous book with Edith Clever as the only film actress.

Release Date1987-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Distant Land

Vienna at the turn of the century: The industrialist Friedrich Hofreiter is a vain, self-important man who is used to taking what he wants and who enjoys exercising power. His tender wife Genia increasingly recognizes his deceitfulness. The Russian pianist Alexei Korsakov, a subtle artist, commits suicide because of her. Hofreiter, on the other hand, travels to the Dolomites with his friend and family doctor Dr. Mauer, who is in love with the young Erna. Hofreiter makes her his lover in front of Mauer's eyes. In turn, he provokes Genia's lover into a duel and shoots him. In the end, there is only emptiness. Faithful adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's stage play.

Release Date1987-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count1

Circle of Love

A redefined love story in the footsteps of Schnitzler

Release Date2021-07-03

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Mademoiselle Else

"Mademoiselle Else" is an adaptation in video of Fräulein Else, a novel by Arthur Schnitzler. It is the account in the first person of the last days of a young girl from a good family who, on holiday in the Alps, has to ask Dorsday, an old art agent and bon-vivant for money to help her father, a Viennese lawyer ridden with debts. Dorsday asks in exchange to be allowed to admire her nude. Scenes shot in the Alps break up the story to allow Else to literally distance herself from the rest of the film shot in the studio, a dark room that becomes the recipient of the various mental projections of the young girl. These two different environments enable us to understand the comings and goings in the Else who weighs herself up and Else who weighs up the situation. As it is indeed at Else's level, around sexual benchmarks, that Schnitzler develops his critique of liberalism.

Release Date2010-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Mistress Berta Garlan

The adaption of Arthur Schnitzler's brilliant study of the moral illusion and reality in a small town near Vienna at the end of the century. - After the famous radio adaption by Max Ophüls in 1954.

Release Date1989-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobBook

Mademoiselle Else

Release Date2021-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobAuthor

Vote Count1

The Green Cockatoo

Silent amateur movie based on the grotesque by Arthur Schnitzler.

Release Date1932-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1