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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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The story of two best girlfriends and how love, sex, hate and unhealthy relationships slowly start to demolish them both mentally.
- The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have swapped bodies. Lucie wants to abort an unplanned pregnancy, while Pierre longs for the experience of motherhood.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This documentary about Europe at night makes you reflect on service processes and infrastructures that never sleep.
- 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.
- "The Hope: The Rebirth of Israel" examines the creation of the State of Israel, covering a time period from early Jewish settlers and philanthropists in the 19th century to the Israeli declaration of statehood in 1948. The series tells the story through the perspective of Zionist leaders and visionaries such as Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir.
- The stunning discovery of the lost letters of Anne Frank's father, Otto reveal an unknown chapter of their family's life.
- The habitual criminal Roby Schmucker is sent to prison for fourth time. He steadily begins to have confidence in his cell mate Mohammed Hiab.
- Stephanie Glaser in her last major role as a renitent mystery author who, together with her grandson, foils the plans of a murderer.
- 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"
- The film shows how passion can save lives and push the human experience beyond limits around the work of glass artist Jeremy Wintrebert.
- 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.
- During an excursion to Zurich, Gerda, the pretty boarder of a Lausanne school, falls in love with Hans Landolt, the owner of the hotel where she stays. Now, the young lady is still a minor and Sir Walter, her eccentric uncle and legal guardian living in Calcutta, opposes the marriage. The complicating factor is that the old man does not want a mere hotel keeper in the family. So deep are Hans' feelings for Gerda that he is ready to sell his establishment and to find something higher in keeping with Sir Walter's demands. But it is without counting Schultess, the former wine steward, now retired. If Sir Walter opposes the marriage Schultess for his part opposes the sale. And for a good reason: Landholt Sr. had indeed promised him the right to - a free meal of the day for the rest of his life.
- The Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel, Switzerland, designed by Mario Botta, opened in 1996, five years after the Swiss sculptor's death. META MECANO is a poetic depiction of the genesis of this mono-graphic museum, from the builders' first plans and Mario Botta's designs to its construction and the assembly of Tinguely's fragile mobile sculptures. In interviews with Mario Botta, Tinguely's wife Niki de Saint Phalle, museum director Pontus Hultén and Tinguely himself, the film goes on to explore the mission of museums and of art in general today. META MECANO is a unique document on the significance of the artist Jean Tinguely and on the role that museums play in our day and age.
- 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.
- "Armenia" is a cinematic interweaving of film, literature and history. The day after his fiftieth birthday, Haig Boghos (Alain Croubalian), a world-weary singer embarks on a personal journey revisiting his family's history of genocide, exile, and diaspora. His journey leads from his current hometown Basel, to his childhood home Marseille to Armenia-the homeland of his forefathers. Haig's odyssey culminates in the discovery of a mass grave- the last resting place of many of the victims of the Armenian Genocide-including Haig's great-grand parents. Circling themes of family, identity, and spirituality, Armenia is a geographical, historical and psychological journey into one man's mind and into the collective consciousness of a troubled country and its people. However, Haig Boghos' odyssey is not solely a personal journey, it is much rather the journey of an archetype, a universal tale of displacement and forlornness that will resonate with everyone who feels a sense of spiritual homelessness.
- The story of four men and their relationships with the opposite sex.
- Computerexperte Frank arbeitet in einer Bank und versucht vergeblich auf Sicherheitslücken im e-banking hinzuweisen. Als eine Kundin ihr Geld verliert und Frank ihr zu ihrem Recht verhelfen will, wird er gefeuert und landet wegen einer Anzeige der Bank in U-Haft. Im Gefängnis überredet ihn der Polizist Max, sich mit einem e-banking-Trick an der Bank zu rächen. Als Frank merkt, dass ihn Max und die schrägen Ganovenbrüder Tony und Carlito in einen veritablen Millionen-Raub verwickelt haben, ist es schon fast zu spät. Zum Glück ist da Rahel, die schöne und toughe Polizistin. Als alles aussichtslos erscheint, ist sie zur Stelle.
- 2008's European Footballing Championship, held in Austria and Switzerland.
- Starting out in mid 2010 as a web-series, Good Cop Kurt and Bad Cop Nando set out to entertain movie lovers like themselves by talking about their very own opinions regarding movies of all genres. Since October 2012, the show has made it to a regional TV station (gemeindetv.ch) and different specials (like a "MovieCops Movie-Quiz", interviews with many different stars and more) have and will be added continuously.
- 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.
- In June of 1866, while in Washington to pursue reparations from Congress for property losses during the Gold Rush, Swiss-born John Sutter sits for a portrait that still hangs in Solothurn. As Frank Buchser paints, Sutter relates his life story: his childhood, apprenticeship, early marriage, business failures, and departure to America, alone, in the late 1830s. He establishes his business empire in what becomes Sacramento, losing out again when gold is discovered at a mill he's building, his lands to be trampled by the world rushing in. Nearly 20 years later, reunited with his wife and living in New York, dignified and without regrets, he futilely lobbies Congress.
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- 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.
- The mountain guide Andreas loves Marie, the hotelier's daughter whom a guest from the city, Alfred, is courting. He thinks about getting rid of his rival, who doesn't suspect anything. Alfred even hires Andreas as a guide for an ascension to the Jungfraujoch. The weather worsens during their climb and Andreas decides to give up, but Alfred is still determined to reach the summit and perishes in the attempt. When Andreas returns to the village alone, Marie accuses him of being responsible for Alfred's death and he is sentenced to ten years of prison. Many years later, Alfred's body reappears from under the glacier and a revealing note is discovered.
- 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.
- The 10th Amendment Project is an anti-federalist attempt at story-telling. Upsetting the hierarchy of a movie set by removing the director, the professional cast and crew were free agents in an attempt to build a collective story.