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- A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
- Legendary Swedish sex bomb Anita Ekberg stars as Sister Gertrude, a cruel nun who discovers depraved pleasure in a frenzy of drug addiction, sexual degradation and sadistic murder.
- An introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.
- Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher acquires a Swiss bank and a silver mine - alleged to be worth a billion dollars. As rivals close in from all sides, Doc must fight a complex struggle to keep hold of both the bank and the mine.
- A female road movie. A touching story about the close relationship between sisters Malgorzata (Magdalena Cielecka) and Lucja (Marta Nieradkiewicz).
- The attentive parish priest Don Simone must recognize that no one in his small people is really interested in religion. Despite his efforts, he cannot convince the boys to attend church.
- Psychedelic international marijuana cult classic: 3 Americans grow fields of cannabis in Switzerland and meet the divine feminine spirit that lives within the THC crystal. Featuring over 500 special effects, animations and an incredible music soundtrack.
- A salesman chasing by car a beautiful female biker in order to flirt finds a castle where he is accused in a game trial for murder.
- Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American businessman he thinks responsible for his friend's death. He succeeds in getting a hundred thousand swiss francs and uses them to carry out the second part of his plan.
- At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing of a book on Borromini. Along with his wife Alienor feels her relationship with Alexandre is gradually slipping away. Along the way they meet siblings Goffredo and Lavinia. Gofffredo is about to embark in architectural studies. A story of rediscover the joys of life and overcoming anxiety.
- Luciano Lutring is a dangerous fugitive in Italy, he meets Candida, a nightclub singer and they fall in love. On their back is Candida's lover Franco Magni, a two-bit gangster. Powered by his new-found fame and reputation, Lutring increasingly becomes more and more reckless, robbing as many jewelry stores as he can and pawning them before the cops catch up with him. One of the first of many poliziesco movies of the time and based on the life of real-life criminal Luciano Lutring; the infamous jewelry thief also known as the "machine gun soloist", a name he acquired by the media by keeping his weapon in a violin case.
- A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity.
- Helped by his old friend Fernand, Sami tries to make Julie realise that she is the love of his life.
- 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.
- Emanuele Sansoni, a rich fixer hunted by the Guardia di Finanza and some bandits, fleeing as a diver from his yacht off Rapallo, gets on board a taxi led by a clumsy taxi driver named Gino.
- Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges (Vittorio Gassman), Roman Prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane (Dame Joan Collins), an English girl he has met who accompanies him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He plans some hanky-panky on their various stops along the route, but Jane has other plans, as she is only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection. The car clears customs--as do the stolen million dollars she is smuggling. Sandro (Jacques Bergerac), her former boyfriend, is following them and plans to hijack the loot, leaving Jane empty-handed.
- Sandro Lorenzini is a Lugano (Italian Switzerland) lawyer. He is as good and self-confident in his job, as uncertain and confused in his private life. Who is the woman of his life? The wife Elisabeth, mother of his daughter Chiara, or the young and attractive journalist Lorenza? For him it is not so easy to decide. In each episode of this legal fiction, we follow the cases of the Levorani & Lorenzini law firm. Guido Levorani stars as the senior attorney and founder of the firm. His son, Walter, completes the roster of this heterogeneous legal trio.
- A Canton Ticino family goes up for the weekend to the house in the mountains where the father spent his childhood. The journey to the valley, suffered at intervals by his wife and children, is an obsessive ritual for Alfredo, repeated week after week as he searches for his past.
- With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself to the police, since they don't know about his existence. At least, that's the way his rescuer Bruno (Granz) sees it. Besides, Bruno needs such an overly enterprising fellow to help him pull off a really big heist that he's been planning for a long time. It takes some doing but the boy and his girlfriend are recruited by the older man, who has been keeping a low profile by working as a gardener.
- A beautiful new teacher arrives in a small, traditional village in Switzerland. Luca immediately falls in love with her - until he realizes that his best friend receives as much of her (professional) attention. But the sleazy mayor is after her too. When she refuses his blunt advances, he's out for revenge by ruining her reputation, using the love of her pupils.
- Set in Milan in 1989, this is the story of four people - an expert in market research, a nurse, a university professor and a pharmaceutical researcher - whose destinies intertwine through a lost diary in a city which seems, by its very nature, unsuitable for establishing human relationships.
- 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.
- The young Renée is a bubbly, fun-loving, young woman. She has a very close relationship with her young father, the worse her relationship with her stepmother is.
- The "people among us" are Berlin building tenants, a cross section of late 20s society.Among them: a government assessor and his wife,who gives birth while in prison, and a flighty landlady who is swindled by a diamond seller.
- Three friends, addicted to scratch cards, are forced to quit cold turkey.
- Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rekindles old memories and reopens old wounds.
- A film about the journey from adolescence to adulthood, about growing self-awareness, about the lonely choices of dreams and fears, successes and failures.
- An undercover intelligence operative manages to record a video testimonial of how, after being threatened with execution for treason, he tracked his turncoat informant across Europe.
- First edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest under the name "Gran Premio Eurovisione 1956 della Canzone Europea" on May 24th, 1956 from the Teatro Kursaal in Lugano, Switzerland. "Refrain" from Lys Assia is the first winner.
- The documentary is a portrait of Davide Caprani, a Swiss police officer, who volunteers for a year of service for the United Nation police troops in Liberia.
- Christl's aunt urges her to marry Dr. Heider. Although she hardly knows him, Christl accepts - mainly to escape her overprotective aunt. But since she doesn't want to live with her new husband, she switches roles with her self-assured twin sister Annelie, who promises to get rid of him in just a week. Meanwhile Christl substitutes her in her job as secretary of a componist. Of course both get into their roles and start to like their exchanged men...
- Money rules the world, and the devil likes it that way. He wants to use three tramps to prove that greed can ruin even the best friendships. A Swiss film classic by Kurt Früh, starring Ruedi Walter, Max Haufler and Zarli Carigiet.
- The Formichiere (Anteater) is a serial killer, while Will is a policeman with a shameful secret in his past. Only a mad judge of souls like the Formichiere would know how to reveal, in a tension-filled finale, Will's true nature.
- At the beginning of 2023, in the city of Lugano, Switzerland, "La tour vagabonde" arrived for three months, bringing alternative culture in a city that just 2 years before illegally demolished the oldest anarchic community center.