The Seventh Continent (German: Der siebente Kontinent) is a 1989 Austrian psychological horror film directed by Michael Haneke.

The film chronicles three years in the life of an Austrian family, which consists of Georg, an engineer; his wife Anna, an optometrist; and their young daughter, Eva.

They then systematically destroy every possession in the house in an automatic and passionless manner, with barely any speaking (as are almost all of their actions in the film).

At the end of the film, text says that, despite the suicide note, Georg's parents thought it may have been a homicide and a police investigation was conducted.

Its image is visualized as an isolated beach and desert, with a mountain range on the left border and pool of water with mysterious waves (which are clearly physically impossible) in between.

Michael Haneke said that the film is based on a news article[4] he read about a family who committed suicide in this manner; police discovered that their money was flushed because bits of currency were found in the plumbing.

Haneke claims to have correctly predicted to the producer that audiences would be upset with that scene, and remarked that in today's society the idea of destroying money is more taboo than parents killing their child and themselves.