Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 60
- A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
- Having doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.
- After thirty years of living abroad, Franz Engi returns to his hometown. A lot of things have changed over the years. There are only very few families with children left in the village and that is why the school is about to be closed down. Franz decides to save the school and teacher Eva's job in a very unusual way: He maintains he never had the time to go to school when he was a child and is claiming his "right to education" now. Franz, the "new kid in town", sets the ball rolling in Sternenberg. Apart from saving the school , Franz's relationship with Eva has another, completely different purpose, because Franz has a secret...
- A study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.
- During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. They seek temporary refuge with a couple who run a village inn. They pose as a family: the deserter as husband, Judith as his wife, an old man from Vienna as her father, his granddaughter and the French lad, whom they beg to keep silent, as their children. Judith's teenage brother poses as a soldier. The fabrication unravels through chance and the local constable's exact investigation. Whom will the Swiss allow to stay? Who gets deported?
- Adaptation of the Schiller play, about a Swiss rebel against the tyranny of Austria in the early 14th century.
- Spain 1960, the dawn of the country's economic development. Industrial "reorganization" means that many workers have lost their jobs and are forced to emigrate. Martin is one of them. Martin, his wife Pilar and their son Pablito live with Mart'n's parents in a basement apartment that comes with their job as superintendents of the building. Encouraged by Marcos, his friend and co-worker, Martin decides to emigrate to Switzerland. The whole family has to admit that for the time being this is the most promising plan. Unable to obtain a work contract from the Swiss Consulate, Martin and Marcos decide to go anyway, pretending they are tourists to get past the border police. Pablito will experience drastic changes in a short period of time: his father's departure, a new way of life in a different country with a different environment and learning another language. But afterwards, in Switzerland, they will face new experiences which will allow them to live with renewed happiness.
- Amidst the Nazi invasion of France in 1942, a young girl is evacuated to Switzerland but is still haunted by the terrors she has witnessed.
- In exploring sex offenses, particularly against children, this film reveals the inner workings of the Zurich police and INTERPOL as they pursue persons accused of voyeurism, rape, fetishism, sadism, and masochism. After the criminals are arrested and given psychological tests, they may be sentenced to an institution or undergo brain surgery (with their consent) in order to be rehabilitated.
- It is August 1, 1914. There is excitement in Master Wiederkehr's hairdressing salon. The local council, the notary, the butcher and other customers discuss the shocking news that Wiederkehr's daughter Rosa has just brought to the house: there is a war. Germany, Belgium and Russia have declared mobilization. The French troops are at the border. The young hairdresser Wipf then experiences his first crucial life experiences during the horrors of war.
- The sequel to "One Franco, 14 Pesetas" - the Spanish migrants return to Switzerland in 1974 as tourists.
- The story of the legendary hero and archer from Switzerland, who lead his country to freedom from tyranny.
- The defense minister of an unnamed European country is murdered. But there is a witness...
- When Huldrych Zwingli starts out as a priest in Zurich in 1519, the Plague affects him. As he looks death in the face, God's Word carries him through and he survives. Encouraged, he turns Zurich upside-down with the Bible in his hand.
- Matthias is the illegitimate son of a factory worker. The child, who has been separated from public life, lives in the house of his aunt, who often mistreats him and barely takes care of his maintenance. After the death of his cousin, the boy escapes from home in search of his mother.
- Roman has just robbed a bank. The suitcase full of banknotes, he hides in a small remote village in the Helvetian countryside. But, barely arrived in the only hotel in the village, he discovers, limply slumped in the bathtub of his room, the body of a young girl. Since he prefers no to have no contact with the police, Roman decides to get rid of the corpse as discreetly as possible. The next day, he buys a trunk and brings the body in the cellar of a gas station located a little outside the village. On his way back, he meets the little girl whose body he has just thrown away. Little by little, memories begin to come back to him. Memories of a life he didn't live. At the very least, not for a few centuries .
- GEMINI, THE TWIN STARS is the story of a star-crossed friendship which springs up when a young man's flight from danger crosses another man's quest for adventure. Traveling from New York to Geneva, from Swiss mountain peaks to remote Greek islands, Matthew McLaren is a carefree New York college student in the midst of finals. His world changes dramatically when he is wrongly implicated in the drug dealings of a friend, who is shot down by undercover agents. Frightened and desperate, Matthew buys a one-way ticket to Switzerland and escapes, unwittingly becoming the object of an international manhunt. Enroute to Geneva, Matthew meets Maria-Helena Buffington, the aristocratic, dissatisfied wife of a U.S. Senator. Maria-Helena introduces Matthew to the fast life of the international set, and the two begin a passionate affair. Matthew's past catches up with him, however, in the form of two policemen hot on his trail. After a frantic chase through a glittering nightclub, Matthew escapes again. this time to the sequestered Appenzell region in the foothills of the Alps. There, Matthew is befriended by Thomas Fassler, a young Swiss man who lives with his farm family. For Thomas, Matthew is the embodiment of the worldly adventurer, an American «cowboy» on holiday. For Matthew, Thomas' innocence, enthusiasm and love of nature are a refreshing change. The pair set off to find adventure, first in St. Moritz where they join Maria-Helena, and later in the never-ending party life of the Greek island of Mykonos. With the police closing in, we realize that Matthew and Thomas share a destiny that is fatefully charged with mystery and jeopardy. Offering a new twist to the classic love triangle, GEMINI, THE TWIN STARS is an international coming of age story.
- After setting in Switzerland, a yenish family escaped their major problems at the beginning of World War Two. However, they will have to deal with the government project "Hilfswerks Barmherzigkeit den Vagantenkindern".
- The first feature documentary dealing extensively with Tibetan medicine.
- Noah - a thoughtful twelve-year-old with a big heart in search of the magic of the world - understands the importance of memories through the Alzheimer disease of his grandfather. When he finds an old lost diary of a stranger, he decides to search for the author and bring him back his memories. His decision leads him on a journey all across Switzerland where he collects many impressions which will accompany him for the rest of his life.
- A miracle pill makes the 80-year-old look young again and she now has to come to terms with a new identity.
- Seven men in peaceful Switzerland swear lifelong friendship, while the rest of the world is at strife, though a conflict arises when the daughter of one (a rich trader) falls in love with the son of another (a lowly tailor).