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- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.
- Every episode features a cruise to a different spectacular location aboard a German luxury liner. There are usually several storylines, mostly of the romantic kind, involving the passengers and sometimes the crew of every cruise. There is always a feel-good factor and usually a happy ending for all.
- Dr. Laura P. takes a job on a cargo spaceship for 4 years plus 4 years back. She'll join her sister on Rhea. 44 months later, in Laura's shift, strange things happen in cargo. The crew is reanimated and the captain dies mysteriously.
- Young Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the mountains where she discovers the liberty and the beauty of Swiss landscapes.
- A reporter stuck in a border town with an overcrowding of refugees sees a man he believes to be a long lost politician.
- The Little Ghost lives in the castle over looking a small town and awakens for precisely one hour after the clock strikes midnight. Follow him on this adventure to see his first sunrise ever!
- The cases of the Munich police's major-crimes unit.
- Zurich in 1519: The young widow Anna Reinhart lives a barren life between fear of the church and worries about the future of her three children, when the arrival of a man in the city causes turmoil: The young priest Ulrich Zwingli takes up his new position at the Grossmünster in Zurich and sparks fierce discussions with his sermons against the grievances of the Catholic Church. Zwingli's revolutionary thoughts frighten Anna. But when she sees how Zwingli lives charity and not just preaches, she increasingly becomes fascinated by him. But Zwingli's success quickly becomes dangerous. His ideas almost trigger a civil war, and at the same time a struggle for power and interpretive sovereignty breaks out in the inner circle of the movement. When the Catholic forces begin to form internationally, the relationship between Zwingli and Anna is put to a hard test.
- Anna is a young teenager with a passion for ballet dancing. When she is seriously injured in a car accident, it seems that her dream of becoming a ballerina is over. In rehab she meets the up-beat Rainer, who is paralyzed and in a wheelchair. They become friends, and he helps her regain the will to live. Eventually, Anna recovers and is able to dance again.
- The story of a poor Turkish family who try to emigrate illegally to Switzerland.
- The sisters Bimbo and Molle live on a farm. One day, her cousin Peggy and her cousins drag Danny and Ben to the farm because their parents had a fatal accident.
- 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.
- Based on the 1972 film George!, this series continues the adventures of a St. Bernard dog and his owner living in The Alps of Switzerland.
- The Bubble examines often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America's largest retirement community. Retired life beneath the Floridian sunshine however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as one may imagine.
- Annemarie Braun, a daughter of a doctor and her life from five to ten years. She lives in Berlin, Germany with her parents and two brothers in 1910 to 1914. The series is an adoption of the first 3 Nesthäkchen novels by Else Ury.
- When Ava wishes to get rid of her overprotective parents in Hotel Sinestra, next morning all grown-ups have miraculously disappeared. Ava and the other children have to go all out to find a solution to get their parents back.
- A village mayor enacts a bold and futuristic monetary scheme to save his alpine community from global financial crisis and fascism's simple fix. The strength of a woman's love as much as its romance injects the power for the small but passionate hero to see it through.
- Silas, a 13 year old boy runs away from the circus to have adventures.
- Lorenz Meran, (40) a successful gay author suffering acute writers' block, has to leave Berlin and return to eastern Switzerland to provide care for his aged mother, Rosie. When he finds himself confronted with the fact that fun-loving Rosie refuses both outside assistance and a care home, he discovers that he is stuck fast in his small home town of Altstätten. But it is not only his mother's battle against being dictated to and losing her dignity that he is struggling with. It's also his own midlife crisis. And when long-kept secrets are suddenly revealed under the tensions of family dynamics, Lorenz almost fails to notice that love is knocking on the front door of his parent's house...
- Barbara Hug is a young lawyer fighting Switzerland's antiquated prison system in the 1980s. Walter Stürm is in and often escaping out of jail, becoming known as the Jailbreak King. When the two meet, an unlikely alliance is formed.
- On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Enter a dark, dangerous world where the lines between reality and fantasy are blurred. Angela is 18, a stunning Dutch blonde, a comic illustrator, and bored with life. Eager for adventure, she moves to Tokyo to become a bar hostess for Asian men who like Western women. An innocent in this sexual underworld, she confronts sleazy customers, jealous co-workers and a mystery: the disappearance of a former hostess. As she discovers clues, she sketches them out in comic-strip style, and slowly begins to confuse what she knows with what she draws.
- The student Partrick becomes involved in an espionage affair while on vacation in Norway with his parents.
- A comedy about aging, youth and other eternal truths. Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth birthday, Julia has to experience that age makes you invisible. Frustrated, she goes shopping and makes an acquaintance, spontaneously deciding to spend the evening with this stranger, rather than with the guests of her own birthday party. They wait for her in a restaurant, all dressed up and groomed, lively debating the years that have passed. The truths and wisdom of Julia's closest friends on aging and growing old are drowned increasingly in sufficient quantities of alcohol. In the mean time, on her eightieth birthday, Leonie, sulking over the loss of youth, is rebelling against her daughter, the senior citizen's home, conventions, and old age in general - and joyfully sabotaging the party in her honor.
- Thomas Engel is always anxious to avoid conflict. At any cost. This compulsive striving for harmony, however, proves to be his road to ruin. He will fight for a peaceful solution. Violently, if need be.
- What am I? Cheerful professions advise with Robert Lembke.
- Major Scobie is a British official in a West African colony during WWII. Both he and his wife are devout Catholics, and thoroughly unhappy. After he starts an affair with a young girl and breaks the law to hide it, he's consumed by guilt.
- Looks at the culture of motels in the U.S., so far untouched by homo genization and corporatism. In particular the stories of three motels and their owners are covered.
- A conspiracy in Switzerland. While the President, called 'Kater', expects the visit of the Spanish royal couple, an intrigue is already being prepared behind his back to bring him down.
- This tragicomedy is the story of a marriage of many years that is actually nothing but routine. It is the story of a mother-daughter relationship and it is the story of a new beginning.
- ZEN FOR NOTHING tells of the experiences of Sabine Timoteo from Switzerland, as a "Zen novice" in Antaiji in Autumn, Winter and Spring.
- After the death of his father, young Karl Siebrecht goes to Berlin to make a fortune.
- A failed opera singer rises to the leader of a new religious community. Satirical film about the new religious movements of the 1970s and 1980s.
- Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now find a religious upheaval in Switzerland.
- Sculptor Filippo Dobrilla considers art as a rebellion. For over 30 years he sculpted a giant marble nude into the most impervious nature, in an inaccessible cave. But nature itself was fatally opposed to his crazy undertaking.
- In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in honor of a writer who never shows up. Local residents, dealing with the practicality of life, look on as the guests obsess about identity, status, and success. Finally, the writer's fears and doubts are understood, with ironic implications.
- Lucien asks a friend, Léon, to carry to the woman he desires, Alice, a basket of provisions and to thank him for it offers him its cap. Léon seduces Alice, small brunette and admits later to his friend his "overflowings". Léon returns at Alice's home but it is not any more the same person; she is blonde and bears no resemblance to the woman the day before. One is sensual and welcoming, the other, mysterious and independent.
- Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading regulations. One night in Basle, Switzerland, he leaves his home to post a letter, the start of a nightmare journey that leads to terrible consequences for his life, his career and for his wife and children.
- A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against her author.
- Immediately after his arrival in Milan, where he intends to spend a study visit, SEBASTIAN, a Jesuit novice from Munich, falls victim to a pair of under-age tricksters. SEBASTIAN tracks down the young thieves and is horrified to discover a criminal organisation that kidnaps children from all over Europe and subsequently trains them to become thieves and robbers. The two children who have robbed SEBASTIAN, 12-year-old LAURA and her 14-year-old brother LUIS, are also members of a children's gang. SEBASTIAN leaves no stone unturned to get in touch with them and to save them and their friend THIERRY-BIBI from disaster. He soon discovers the leaders of the gang to be unscrupu-lous criminals who will stop at no act of violence. For no sooner do they realize that SEBASTIAN is on their trail than they try to kill him. But the young monk does not give up easily. Together with GIULIANA, the niece of a Milanese Monsignore, he imperturbably traces the children. He is able to win LAURA's confidence in a relatively short time, but he has no idea that he is thus exposing the children to great danger. LAURA and LUIS, who love one another deeply, are separated by the gangsters. LUIS is sent to Marseille, where he is made to work as a pickpocket. He is forbidden to get in touch with his sister. He is told that she will have to suffer for it if he does not work successfully. Not until they have undergone numerous adventures, which even take them to Munich, is SEBASTIAN able to give the police convincing proof that the criminals must be arrested. In the end he even finds LUIS's mother, who has been searching for her lost son for many years. But the happy ending is not what SEBASTIAN had intended for LAURA and LUIS. LUIS and his mother, after their long separation, are not able to love each other any more. The boy feels shut in and overprotected. His mother's ordinary middle-class life is much too constricted for him to feel comfortable. So LAURA and LUIS decide, together with their friend THIERRY-BIBI, to lead an independent life together.They leave Munich, LUIS's mother and SEBASTIAN, to whom they owe their liberty. One day, SEBASTIAN learns that the children are now living in the south of France, where they are earning their living in a legal manner: LAURA sells homemade jewellery on the beach, and LUIS is working for a horse breeder in the Camargue. SEBASTIAN has to admit to himself that there is a lot about life and happiness he doesn't know. He is no longer sure whether being a monk is the right thing for him. He knows he needs time to come to a decision and asks for leave of absence from his order. But he also knows that one day he will meet his friends LAURA and LUIS again and that he is very much looking forward to this meeting.
- Comic portrayals with different characters in every episode, with guest personalities from the world of German entertainment.
- The life and thoughts of an Enlightenment philosopher who suffered from chronic restlessness. A detailed biography which places special emphasis on his most influential texts and commemorates his tercentenary birthday. Using "Les confessions" as the leitmotif, the film alternates between readings by actor Roger Jendly, encounters with international experts and musings on Rousseau's travel destinations. Its manner does not conform to today's tempo, but rather seems to follow the rhythm of a thought as it unfolds, resulting in an inevitably dense portrait on the extraordinary life of one of the leading French philosophers of the Enlightenment.
- Iris and Peter von Roten - the most famous, provocative and beautiful couple in Swiss history. A love story full of political and moral oppositions.