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- Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
- Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?
- Cheating husband open minded open merreage.
- In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humor, sin, and derision lead to salvation?
- A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.
- An account of man's development through his scientific and technological achievements.
- Crime comedy series about an ex-cop who founds an improvised detective school and gives his students real cases to solve.
- After eighteen years of marriage, Alice finds herself confronted with the fact that her husband Frank feels more and more attracted to men. Not only Frank, but also she and their three children undergo an irreversible change.
- When Heidi, a little girl who leads an idyllic life with her grandfather in the Alps, is cruelly taken from the mountain retreat by a stern aunt, she adapts to life in the village below by bringing humor and goodwill to every situation.
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- Semret a single mom works at a local Zurich hospital, she does everything to ensure a better life for her daughter Joe. When Semret was wrongfully accused at the hospital she stand up for her rights, so as not to lose everything she loves.
- An overview of the major players in the contemporary art market and of the economic factors that motivate those individuals and institutions.
- The dramatic story of the Anabaptist movement and two of its first leaders, Michael and Margaretha Sattler.
- The stunning discovery of the lost letters of Anne Frank's father, Otto reveal an unknown chapter of their family's life.
- The story of two best girlfriends and how love, sex, hate and unhealthy relationships slowly start to demolish them both mentally.
- Janette is terminally ill and wants to die in a dignified way but British laws do not allow it. She gets in touch with Dr. Erika in Switzerland, who is willing to help her. Muscular dystrophy, the illness that Janette suffers from, has affected her family for generations. Janette's mother was wheelchair bound for decades, becoming a prisoner in her own body. Janette refuses to wait for death in unbearable pain so she opts for physician-assisted suicide. Before leaving on her last journey from England to Switzerland, she has to explain her intention to her family members and close friends. Her son Simon has also inherited this illness and, therefore, has much more sympathy regarding her decision than his sister Bridget. If no cure for this illness is found, he will face the same decision process as his mother. Both children try to convince Janette to postpone her death. Do we own our life or does it own us?
- Set in Zurich in the 1950s, a special agent who is near retirement receives a major assignment: Bring down Harry Wind, a top PR manager who has been accused of spying.
- On the 8th of September 1943 Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961), future first president of the Italian Republic, abandoned Turin, which was occupied by the Wehrmacht, and went to Switzerland. It was "the flight of the people in the face of the barbarians", he wrote in his "Diary of Exile". Taking this as a starting point, the filmmaker Villi Hermann interviews those individuals still alive (Swiss and Italian, soldiers and partisans, Jews who were denied entry to Switzerland and survived the holocaust), who provide an account of this troubled period from an unusual perspective: Luigi Einaudi.
- Petrus,a Montmartre photographer,is accidentally wounded by Migo,a dancer at the Frou Frou night club,when she is trying to shoot her faithless lover Rodrigue,a counterfeiter.Though Petrus tries to reconcile the lovers, Migo lands up with him after Rodrigue is finally killed by another jealous dancer.
- Money rules the world, especially the one of Schaggi Streuli in the role of chef Hans Egli. Zum goldenen Ochsen may refer to his determination to turn everything into gold he picks up. But when he plans the future of his only daughter particularly business-minded, she's upsetting his plans together with her mother.
- Paul Hubschmid is Paul Finney aka Upperseven, master of disguise. He's out to stop a diamond smuggling operation which fronts for a missile building project.
- By using Lord Elgin's actual letters written when he was Ambassador in Constantinople in 1802 the film analyses how and why he took the majority of the sculptures from the Parthenon Temple in Athens and shipped them back to England.
- Three generations of women navigate a radical approach to dying.
- A cyberpunk's quest for enlightenment in the digital age, during which the viewer is taken through a narrated virtual world populated by smart people in search of answers to the "Big Five" questions relating to the human experience.
- The story of orphan girl Heidemarie, who is taken in by distant relatives only interested in getting care allowance, but is mentally and physically tormented by them.
- Theo goes looking for someone who can tell him about his dad and the person he loved. His quest leads him into the Alps, where George has been living as a recluse for ten years. As they meet, the two men start to make sense of their lives.
- Elisabeth is a wealthy woman who is reaching her forties. She travels regularly on the TEE Rheingold train. One day, she meets a former school flirt, who works as a flight attendant on the train.
- An exchange of memories spanning over 250 years interweaves everything from the philosophy of Empedocles to excerpts from Madame Bovary, to extant paintings by Cézanne, to the buildings of the artists' village at Mont Sainte-Victoire.
- Six people travel to Mexico to meet a shaman and take part in an ancient ritual. They eat hallucinogenic mushrooms with the intention of alleviating their physical and psychological ailments.
- A documentary about the lives of italian workers in the after-WW2 Switzerland.
- This documentary about Europe at night makes you reflect on service processes and infrastructures that never sleep.
- A survey of Hans Holbein's career from his beginnings as a religious painter to his work for Henry VIII and beyond. The program also includes a close analysis of "The Ambassadors"
- Andre Korb is a Swiss boy. In Switzerland, his father, François enjoys relations with the Third Reich. The Korbs also have a Polish refugee, Anna. When she returns years later, she sees Andres. The reunion wakens shared childhood memories.
- An old man is shot in an allotment garden in Basel, which is already on French territory.
- This is a portrait of a man and of a country, as he travels through it. He is a travelling salesman, and travels through Switzerland selling cosmetics to beauty parlors.
- After a magazine scoop in Switzerland on the "12 Theses," everyone associated with it dies. As a series of mysterious and deadly events unfold, Captain Martin Jakobi and theology student Claire have to find out why and who.
- The habitual criminal Roby Schmucker is sent to prison for fourth time. He steadily begins to have confidence in his cell mate Mohammed Hiab.
- 1939, border occupation. Swiss men in uniform spend their time in the service. The only diversion is the excursions to the Cerf country pub. At the center of this 1940 classic is the innkeeper's daughter Marguerite.
- Stephanie Glaser in her last major role as a renitent mystery author who, together with her grandson, foils the plans of a murderer.
- The story of four men and their relationships with the opposite sex.
- A man's clumsy attempts to marry his young naive ward. Ophuls' idea was: show the Louis Jouvet theater troupe, which had decamped to Geneva, playing for an audience and show things like the actors getting made up, and going behind stage.
- A small idea grows to a big mission, when a group of young Swiss people escape the everyday life to engage in volunteering abroad. A social response to the European refugee crisis 2015.
- The director's swansong, also a vehicle for his actress wife here a failing opera diva who kills herself. The actress later appears as different women interviewed by police: a peasant, a schoolteacher, a bargekeeper's raucous wife.
- A black and white documentary which captures nighttime scenes in various European cities.