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Switzerland Cinema
Top 203 films from Switzerland (out of 203 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Salam Godzilla | 2,019 | Gilles Aubry | Documentary | 10 | 13 | French | When the terrible 1960 earthquake hit Agadir, the local cinema Salam was showing Ishiro Honda and Terry O. Morse’s Godzilla, King of Monsters! Weirdly enough, it was also one of the few buildings to survive the tragedy. Many years later, Gilles Aubry visits the place trying to understand how the memory of the seismic event has survived and is transmitted to the new generations. Shot inside the cinema and in the surroundings of Agadir, the film is driven by an abstract soundtrack recorded on location. |
| Riverboom | 2,024 | Claude Baechtold | Documentary, Comedy | 8.3 | 14 | French | In the year following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, young journalist Claude Baechtold finds himself in the war zone of Afghanistan. Not entirely voluntarily, the avowed anti-militarist is dragged by two fearless reporters on a round trip through the entire country. |
| Kaya Yanar - Reiz der Schweiz | 2,018 | Paul Hauptmann | Comedy, Documentary | 8.3 | 13 | German | Stand-up comedian Kaya Yanar dissects the allure of Switzerland through the eyes of a German who's lived there. |
| Million Dollar Baby | 2,004 | Clint Eastwood | Drama | 8 | 10,174 | English | Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her. |
| Late Shift | 2,025 | Petra Biondina Volpe | Drama | 7.8 | 192 | German | Dedicated nurse Floria navigates the relentless pace of her hospital’s understaffed surgical ward with humanity and warmth. As her overnight shift intensifies, she is pushed to the brink in a race against time. |
| Absolut | 2,005 | Romed Wyder | Thriller | 7.8 | 30 | English | Two guys against globalization want to plant a virus in the network of a finance corporation. On the day of the attack Alex has an accident and cannot remember anything. Visions and reality are thrown together in a confusing maze. Alex tries to escape from this muddle but what he discovers turns out to be rather frightening… |
| The Yellow Mercedes | 1,993 | Tunç Okan | Comedy, Action, Drama | 7.7 | 39 | Turkish | The film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey's west border - and extensively from thereon to his village close to Ankara - capital of Turkey. He begins his journey purchasing a second hand yellow Mercedes - possibly his first car - using his meager savings working as a laborer. Offering deep insight into the mind of a manual laborer Bayram (Ilyas Salman) making his first trip back home, resorting to flashbacks in highlighting Bayram's motivation and experiences from his childhood right up to the events leading to his first departure from Turkey to Germany. |
| Man on Fire | 2,004 | Tony Scott | Action, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 | 5,526 | English | Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life. |
| Breathe | 2,017 | Andy Serkis | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 788 | English | Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed. |
| Alice | 1,988 | Jan Švankmajer | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure | 7.4 | 350 | Czech | A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare - no matter how twisted or odd that way must be. A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland". |
| Vitus | 2,006 | Fredi M. Murer | Music, Drama | 7.4 | 84 | German | Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him. |
| War Photographer | 2,001 | Christian Frei | Documentary | 7.4 | 71 | German | Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever. |
| The White Stadium | 1,928 | Arnold Fanck | Documentary | 7.4 | 14 | German | A profile of the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland. |
| The Divine Order | 2,017 | Petra Biondina Volpe | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 | 137 | German | Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971. |
| More Than Honey | 2,012 | Markus Imhoof | Documentary | 7.3 | 97 | German | With dazzling nature photography, Academy Award®–nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) takes a global examination of endangered honeybees — spanning California, Switzerland, China and Australia — more ambitious than any previous work on the topic. |
| A Crude Awakening | 2,006 | Basil Gelpke | Documentary | 7.3 | 29 | English | Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack's nonfiction treatise Crude Awakening joins Maxed Out, An Inconvenient Truth, and other recent documentaries devoted to unearthing and exploring forces that are untying the connective threads of contemporary society. The subject at hand is crude oil - specifically, the depletion of petroleum from the Earth, in an era when consumption threatens to exceed supply. |
| Death and the Winemaker | 2,021 | Victor Jaquier | Animation, Fantasy | 7.3 | 13 | French | In a fairy tale world, a winemaker creates the most exquisite wine in the world. When Death herself wants to taste the wine, he discovers that his bride is next on Death list. |
| Every Day | 2,018 | Michael Sucsy | Romance, Fantasy | 7.2 | 2,285 | English | 16-year old Rhiannon falls in love with a mysterious spirit named “A” that inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and “A” work each day to find each other, not knowing what the next day will bring. |
| Heidi | 1,952 | Luigi Comencini | Drama, Family | 7.2 | 12 | German | Heidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss Alps to live with her ornery grandfather. At first, he resents her presence, but, after a short while, Heidi manages to pierce his gruff exterior, and the two become close. She also befriends a young shepherd named Peter. After three years, Heidi's aunt arrives and demands Heidi's return to Frankfurt. |
| Jethro Tull: Live At Montreux 2003 | 2,007 | Luca De Luigi | Music | 7.2 | 10 | English | Jethro Tull is one of the most successful British acts of all time with a career reaching from the late sixties to the present day. In 2003 they made their first (and so far only) visit to the Montreux Festival. As ever Ian Anderson leads from the front with his instantly recognizable voice and inimitable style of one-legged flute playing. Split into a semi-acoustic first half and a full on electric second half, the concert was a triumph combining newer songs such as “Dot Com”, “Pavane” and “Budapest” with classic favorites. |
| The Things of Life | 1,970 | Claude Sautet | Drama, Romance | 7.1 | 259 | French | The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes… |
| Mario | 2,018 | Marcel Gisler | Drama, Romance | 7.1 | 144 | German | Two young gay soccer players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love. |
| The Swissmakers | 1,978 | Rolf Lyssy | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 7.1 | 39 | German | This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections. However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship. |
| A German Youth | 2,015 | Jean-Gabriel Périot | Documentary, History | 7.1 | 24 | French | At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalism and a state apparatus in which they believed they saw fascist tendencies. This generation included journalist Ulrike Meinhof, lawyer Horst Mahler, filmmaker Holger Meins as well as students Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader. |
| The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy | 2,009 | Peter Liechti | Documentary | 7.1 | 15 | German | The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man was discovered by a hunter in one of the most remote parts of the country. The dead man's detailed notes reveal that he actually committed suicide through self-imposed starvation only the summer before. Liechti's film is a stunning rapprochement of a fictional text, which itself is based upon a true event: a cinematic manifesto for life, challenged by the main character's radical renunciation of life itself. |
| The Search | 1,948 | Fred Zinnemann | Drama, War | 7 | 78 | English | In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him. |
| The Ravishing of Frank N. Stein | 1,982 | Georges Schwizgebel | Animation, Mystery, Horror | 7 | 22 | French | The slow construction of an image, to the rhythm of steps, ends when the monster meets his Bride. |
| Sew Torn | 2,025 | Freddy Macdonald | Thriller, Comedy, Crime | 7 | 21 | English | A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead to drastically different outcomes along the way. |
| Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World | 2,014 | Belinda Sallin | Documentary | 6.9 | 45 | German | An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome as they are fascinating, inhabitants of nightmarish biomechanical worlds. |
| Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | 2,013 | Sophie Huber | Documentary | 6.9 | 45 | English | An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs. |
| Savages | 2,024 | Claude Barras | Animation, Adventure, Family, Drama | 6.9 | 35 | French | In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin Selaï comes to live with them seeking refuge from the conflict between his indigenous tribe and the logging companies. Kéria, Selaï and the little orangutang, now named Oshi, will have to fight against their forest’s destruction. |
| Needle Park Baby | 2,020 | Pierre Monnard | Drama | 6.9 | 28 | German | Spring 1995 - after the closure of the Needle Park and the public drug scene in Zurich, eleven-year-old Mia and her heroin addicted mother Sandrine are relocated to the countryside. While caring for her mother, Mia spends time with her imaginary friend and a gang of local teenage misfits. These friendships finally give her the strength to rebel and break free from her abusive mother. |
| Little Mountain Boy | 2,015 | Xavier Koller | Family, Adventure | 6.9 | 18 | German | A boy must brave deep winter snow to obtain an important family keepsake. Before he can even start this difficult journey he must first help his family survive financial ruin, rescue his beloved pet goat, and with his best friend, outwit a bratty bully who seems out to get him at every turn. Will he make it back to the village in time to celebrate the end-of-winter holiday of Chalandamarz? |
| Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes | 2,019 | Sophie Huber | Documentary, Music | 6.9 | 13 | English | Explore the vision behind the iconic American jazz record label. Since 1939, Blue Note artists have been encouraged to push creative boundaries in search of uncompromising expressions. Through current recording sessions, rare archive and conversations with iconic Blue Note artists, the film reveals an intimate perspective of a legacy that continues to be vital in today’s political climate. |
| Goal! | 2,005 | Danny Cannon | Drama | 6.8 | 1,180 | English | Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United. |
| The Salamander | 1,971 | Alain Tanner | Drama, Comedy | 6.8 | 40 | French | Pierre and Paul, journalist and writer respectively, team up to write a screenplay based on the real story of a young woman accused by her uncle of trying to kill him. They decide to meet her. |
| The Man Without a Shadow | 2,004 | Georges Schwizgebel | Animation | 6.8 | 26 | French | A man exchanges his shadow for wealth, then, disappointed with the result, he has to be content with the seven-league boots, which will help him to find his way. |
| A Decent Man | 2,016 | Micha Lewinsky | Thriller, Drama | 6.8 | 20 | German | Conflict-avoidant Thomas just wants a relaxing holiday in the Swiss Alps. But, it's a slippery slope from the beginning. In an effort to repair his own family ties and to impress his boss, he takes his family and his employer's daughter with him. Tragedy strikes and Thomas feels responsible. Should he be his typical passive self? Or risk doing the right thing at the expense of his relationships with his family and employer? |
| The Book of Mary | 1,985 | Anne-Marie Miéville | Drama | 6.8 | 13 | French | Anne-Marie Miéville, frequent collaborator of Jean-Luc Godard, made this partner piece to Godard's own 'Je vous salue, Marie'. Marie, eleven years old, is experiencing difficult times. Her parents will separate. The perception of her universe is profoundly disturbed. This exacting portrait of a child immersed in her books, music and dancing casts a dispassionate yet touching eye on the girl's reaction to the new upheaval in her life. |
| 8 | 2,010 | Aćim Vasić | War | 6.8 | 12 | French | In the depths of a snowy forest in an unknown wartime, two soldiers from opposing armies try to outwit each other in a perilous game of cat and mouse - until they find themselves outplayed by destiny. |
| Discipline | 2,014 | Christophe M. Saber | Comedy | 6.8 | 11 | French | In a moment of anger in a grocery store in Lausanne, a father loses patience and disciplines his disobedient child. A shocked customer immediately intervenes to express her concern. Other customers join the conversation and the discussion soon turns into a debate that gradually gets out of hand. |
| Anna's Time | 2,016 | Greg Zglinski | Drama | 6.8 | 10 | French | Canton of Neuchâtel, 1917 to 1933. A young watchmaker falls head over heels with a mysterious young woman. Jean and Anna get married, love each other madly and go through all life experiences together, supported by their happiness and friends at their side. Jean wants to invent a new waterproof watch, and the future looks promising. But Anna suddenly seems to suffer from a strange sickness which gets worse each day. Will Jean's love for her be enough to save her? |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith | 2,005 | Doug Liman | Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 | 11,037 | English | A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignments require them to kill each other. |
| The Girl Next Door | 2,004 | Luke Greenfield | Comedy, Romance | 6.7 | 3,910 | English | Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn star. As Danielle's past catches up with her, Matthew's love for her forces him to re-evaluate his goals. |
| Blue My Mind | 2,017 | Lisa Brühlmann | Fantasy, Drama | 6.7 | 237 | German | 15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, Mia is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful than she is. |
| And Tomorrow You Will Be Dead | 2,021 | Michael Steiner | Drama, Thriller | 6.7 | 31 | German | In 2011 the young married Swiss couple Daniela Widmer and David Och got kidnapped while being on a long trip along the old Silk Road in Pakistan. They were hand over to the Taliban and were held as hostages for 8 months under the most precarious conditions. |
| Timber | 2,014 | Nils Hedinger | Animation, Drama | 6.7 | 13 | German | A group of logs is about to freeze to death in a cold, icy desert. When they realize only themselves are possible fuel for a warming fire things start heating up. |
| Cat | 1,979 | Roman Signer | N/A | 6.7 | 12 | English | 8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer. |
| Sas | 2,019 | Léa Célestine Bernasconi | N/A | 6.7 | 11 | French | We follow the degenerate walk of a young woman and her obsessional thoughts. This movie is a meeting with people who suffer from an eating disorder and the ones living with them. |
| The Fortress | 2,008 | Fernand Melgar | Documentary | 6.7 | 10 | French | The personal stories of the people from all around the world waiting for a decision in an asylum-seekers centre in one of most restrictive countries in the world, Switzerland. |
| Stay | 2,005 | Marc Forster | Mystery, Thriller, Drama | 6.6 | 1,465 | English | Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him. |
| The Legend of Bagger Vance | 2,000 | Robert Redford | Drama, Romance, Fantasy | 6.6 | 967 | English | World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance. |
| The Venerable W. | 2,017 | Barbet Schroeder | Documentary, Drama | 6.6 | 52 | English | A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar. |
| Vodka Lemon | 2,003 | Hiner Saleem | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.6 | 39 | HY | In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless--she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet when Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected love revitalizes them. |
| Prora | 2,012 | Stéphane Riethauser | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 37 | German | In this deserted former Nazi holiday camp and communist military complex, teenagers Jan and Matthieu embark on an adventure that could change everything. Whilst exploring their surroundings they confront their identities and ultimately put their friendship at risk. |
| The Railroad Lady | 2,016 | Timo von Gunten | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 | 29 | French | Élise Lafontaine has a secret routine. Every morning and evening for many years, she has been waving at the express train that passes her house. One fateful day, she finds a letter from the train conductor in her garden and her lonely life is turned upside down. She engages in a promising correspondence through poetic and thoughtful letters where the two anonymous writers share their worlds with each other. But Elise’s fairytale is cut short when the train line permanently detours for a shorter route to Paris. Not willing to do without her daily delight, Elise prompts a daring escape from her comfort zone and sets out to find the train conductor. |
| Alpine Fire | 1,985 | Fredi M. Murer | Drama | 6.6 | 29 | German | A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It's the tradition of the father's family, called "The Irascibles" by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know. |
| Parvaneh | 2,012 | Talkhon Hamzavi | Drama | 6.6 | 19 | English | Parvaneh is a young Afghan immigrant who recently arrived at a transit centre for asylum seekers in the Swiss Alps. The only things she has got to know yet are the rural area surrounding the centre and the centre itself. |
| The Mirror | 2,010 | Laurent Fauchere | Family | 6.6 | 10 | French | About a man going from early childhood to old age in the time it takes to freshen up. |
| Unrest | 2,022 | Cyril Schäublin | Drama, History | 6.5 | 46 | German | In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement (“unrueh") of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers. There she meets Piotr Kropotkin, a moony Russian traveller. The two of them meet at a time when new technologies such as time measurement, photography, and the telegraph are transforming the social order, and anarchist discourse is addressing emerging nationalism. During a walk in the woods, Josephine and Piotr ask themselves whether time, money, and the government are not all but fictions. |
| The Circle | 2,014 | Stefan Haupt | Drama, Documentary | 6.5 | 41 | German | A young teacher in Zurich in the 1950s falls in love with a transvestite star but is torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality. He joins a gay organization that is eventually seen as the pioneer of gay emancipation in Europe. |
| Charles, Dead or Alive | 1,970 | Alain Tanner | Drama | 6.5 | 29 | French | On the 100th anniversary of the founding of a watchmaking company in Geneva, Charles Dé the founder's 50-year-old grandson has had it: he speaks eccentrically to a reporter, recognizing his grandfather as a craftsman and his son as a businessman, but is evasive about himself. He gives his family the slip and moves in with a young couple he meets by chance, doing the cooking, reading, drinking, and engaging in philosophical discussions with them. The young couple comes to love Charles. In secret, he stays in touch with a daughter, and the rest of the family hires a private investigator to find him, setting in motion a business take-over that threatens his Bohemian happiness. |
| The Way Things Go | 1,987 | David Weiss | Documentary | 6.5 | 25 | English | Artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss create the ultimate Rube Goldberg machine. The pair used found objects to construct a complex, interdependent contraption in an empty warehouse. When set in motion, a domino-like chain reaction ripples through the complex of imaginative devices. Fire, water, the laws of gravity, and chemistry determine the life-cycle of the objects. The process reveals a story concerning cause and effect, mechanism and art, and improbability and precision, in an extended science project that will mesmerize the mind. |
| One-way to Moscow | 2,020 | Micha Lewinsky | Comedy | 6.5 | 20 | German | 30 years ago, Switzerland was shaken by a scandal that seems to have already been forgotten: more than 900,000 people were surveilled because of their political convictions. Against the backdrop of this "secret files scandal," Micha Lewinsky sets his film. Conscientious policeman Viktor Schuler is tasked by his superior to infiltrate the Schauspielhaus, a renowned Zurich theatre, in order to keep an eye on its leftist scene. However, Viktor finds himself quite taken with the artist's life and falls in love with the subversive actress Odile Lehmann. |
| Before Summer Ends | 2,017 | Maryam Goormaghtigh | Documentary | 6.5 | 16 | French | After five years studying in Paris, Arash has not adjusted to life there and has decided to return to Iran to live. Hoping to change his mind, his two friends Hossein and Ashkan convince him to take a last trip through France. |
| A Dangerous Method | 2,011 | David Cronenberg | Drama | 6.4 | 2,183 | English | Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell. |
| Aloys | 2,016 | Tobias Nölle | Drama, Fantasy | 6.4 | 82 | German | A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as “telephone walking”. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation. |
| My Little Sister | 2,020 | Véronique Reymond | Drama | 6.4 | 37 | German | Berlin playwright Lisa follows her husband Martin to Switzerland, where he manages a private school. However, when her twin brother Sven’s leukaemia begins to wreak havoc on his health, she decides she must return to her roots, which has significant consequences for her relationship. |
| I Am the Keeper | 2,014 | Sabine Boss | Drama, Romance | 6.4 | 20 | German | Goalie has just been released from prison after spending a year inside for keeping his mouth shut for his best buddy Ueli. He heads for his hometown of Schummertal, a small town where everyone knows you. He's going to start over, without drugs. Meanwhile, Ueli has gotten ever deeper into drugs, can't understand why Goalie suddenly wants to be a square. Although they've been friends since childhood, everything is different now. Goalie wants a new life but finds his past. |
| Rascals on the Road | 2,005 | Michael Steiner | Family, Comedy | 6.4 | 18 | German | Four kids - Eugen, Wrigley, Bäschteli and Eduard - leave for an adventure around Switzerland, searching for the fabulous treasure of Titicaca Lake, discovered by Fritzli Bühler. |
| The Reformer. Zwingli: A Life's Portrait | 2,019 | Stefan Haupt | History | 6.4 | 14 | German | 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. |
| The Fam | 2,022 | Fred Baillif | Drama | 6.4 | 12 | French | Told episodically and bordering between the fictional and the documental, the film intimately interweaves the life stories of young women who no longer have a real home with their own families. They are given refuge in a temporary youth home, where they and their carers bond to form a new family. La Mif is a safe haven for wounded protagonists who do not spare themselves or others. |
| The Host | 2,013 | Andrew Niccol | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction | 6.3 | 4,038 | English | A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free humans. |
| Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps | 2,010 | Michael Steiner | Thriller, Horror, Mystery | 6.3 | 83 | German | 1975, Swiss Alps: In a remote mountain village, a beautiful and mysterious woman shows up. Only the village policeman takes care of the strange woman and tries to find out who she is. There are hints that she came from the Höhenalp Alp, where herdsmen do unthinkable things to get the company of women. Many dark truths are revealed that should better have remained hidden. A tragedy of lust, insanity and murder is brought to a seemlingly pure and perfect world. It is the beginning of a nightmare of religious insanity, hypocrisy, abuse and belief in demons, who destroys a young family and brings a whole village to destruction. |
| Oh, Woe Is Me | 1,993 | Jean-Luc Godard | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 6.3 | 40 | French | This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husband. |
| Late Bloomers | 2,006 | Bettina Oberli | Comedy | 6.3 | 34 | German | Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown into disarray. |
| Worst Case, We Get Married | 2,017 | Léa Pool | Drama | 6.3 | 24 | French | Aïcha is a troubled teenage girl who cannot forgive her mother for kicking out the stepfather she adored. Aïcha longs for him to come back and take her away. When she meets Baz, a man twice her age, it’s love at first sight for her; the real kind, the one that hurts. Baz wants to help this lost little girl, but she wants much more from him, and is ready to do anything to get it. |
| Midnight Runner | 2,018 | Hannes Baumgartner | Drama | 6.3 | 20 | German | Marathon runner Jonas Widmer is looking for a way to overcome his tragic past. As a result, he becomes more and more entangled in an ominous double life. The true drama about a well-known top athlete, who evolves into a serial offender. |
| The Sandman | 2,011 | Peter Luisi | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 6.3 | 17 | German | One fine morning, Benno finds sand in his bed. While he tries to ignore this at first, he soon must realize that he himself is loosing the sand. |
| The Forgotten | 2,019 | Daria Onyshchenko | Drama | 6.3 | 11 | Ukrainian | Nina, 30, a Ukrainian language teacher who can't leave the city of Luhansk, occupied by separatists in Eastern Ukraine, is forced to undergo retraining courses for teaching Russian. Andrii, 17, is a student who was orphaned in the aftermath of the war. They cross paths when Nina witnesses Andrii being arrested by the police after hanging the Ukrainian flag from the roof of his school. Nina knows that because they live in a world of injustice and lies Andrii can stay in jail for a long time, and she risks her life to free him. As they gravitate towards each other, they try to remind people in the occupied territories that they deserve a future, too. |
| Déchaînées | 2,009 | Raymond Vouillamoz | Drama | 6.3 | 10 | French | Lucy, a 19-year old law student and intern at a Swiss television network in Geneva, comes across her double in archival footage about the woman’s liberation movement in the 70’s. Her family’s resistance to talk about this time convinces Lucy that a secret lurks behind this mysterious woman, named Genevieve. |
| Femme Fatale | 2,002 | Brian De Palma | Mystery, Crime, Thriller | 6.2 | 638 | English | A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both. |
| Churchill | 2,017 | Jonathan Teplitzky | Drama, History | 6.2 | 328 | English | A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day. |
| Who Dares Wins | 1,982 | Ian Sharp | Action, Thriller | 6.2 | 48 | English | When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident? |
| 78 Tours | 1,986 | Georges Schwizgebel | Animation | 6.2 | 35 | XX | A waltz played with an accordion starts a short story about the running time. |
| Nouvelle Vague | 1,990 | Jean-Luc Godard | Drama | 6.2 | 32 | French | Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies, but some time later he reappears in the woman’s life looking for a job. Or could it be the man’s twin brother? |
| Streaker | 2,017 | Peter Luisi | Comedy | 6.2 | 23 | German | A high school teacher who is wrestling with a financial crisis dreams up a get-rich-quick scheme involving streakers and illegal sports betting. |
| Madonnas | 2,007 | Maria Speth | Drama | 6.2 | 22 | German | A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother. |
| The Jodorowsky Constellation | 1,994 | Louis Mouchet | Documentary | 6.2 | 19 | English | This documentary depicts the filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky talking about his life, his loves, his career as a filmmaker, graphic novelist, and workshop leader, and his eccentricities including tarot reader and theatrical director during The Panic Movement. Directed by Louis Mouchet, La Constellation Jodorowsky includes a lengthy on-camera interview with Jodorowsky in Spanish with subtitles. Marcel Marceau, Fernando Arrabal, Peter Gabriel, Jean "Moebius" Giraud, and Jean Pierre Vignau make appearances discussing their various projects with the director. In addition to the interview and film clips, Mouchet features some bizarre footage from Jodorowsky’s absurdist plays in which topless women splattered with paint writhe around the stage in a theatrical production meant to represent The Panic Movement, i.e., an artistic expression in which reason cannot fully express the human experience. |
| The Grüninger File | 2,014 | Alain Gsponer | History, Drama | 6.2 | 16 | German | 1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not all Swiss officials observe this inhuman order. |
| Special Flight | 2,011 | Fernand Melgar | Documentary | 6.2 | 13 | French | Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and immigration officials. The passengers are flown to their native countries, where they haven't set foot in in up to twenty years, and where their lives might be in danger. Children, wives and work are left behind in Switzerland. Near Geneva, in Frambois prison, live 25 illegal immigrants waiting for deportation. They are offered an opportunity to say goodbye to their families and return to their native countries on a regular flight, escorted by plain-clothes police officers. If they refuse this offer, the special flight is arranged fast and unexpectedly. The stories behind the locked cells are truly heartbreaking. |
| The Year of the Deer | 1,995 | Georges Schwizgebel | Animation, Drama | 6.2 | 12 | French | The story of a young deer deceived by appearances, or how a good deed in haste can be the cause of a tragedy. |
| Pearl | 2,018 | Elsa Amiel | Drama | 6.2 | 10 | French | Competitive bodybuilder Léa Pearl is preparing to compete for the prestigious Miss Heaven title. Her coach, Al, a former bodybuilding star, hopes that, thanks to Léa, he will be back in the spotlight once again. But at the last minute, Léa's ex arrives with their son Joseph, who she hasn't seen in four years. |
| American Ultra | 2,015 | Nima Nourizadeh | Action, Comedy | 6.1 | 2,910 | English | Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive. |
| Jobs | 2,013 | Joshua Michael Stern | Drama, History | 6.1 | 2,555 | English | The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century. |
| Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry | 2,023 | Elene Naveriani | Romance, Drama | 6.1 | 34 | German | In a small traditional Georgian village, Etero, the owner of a housekeeping shop, is a forty-eight-year-old spinster. She cherishes her freedom, as much as her cakes, and is preparing for a peaceful and comfortable retirement away from gossip. But a fiery affair with her delivery man could derail all her plans. |
| Greatest Days | 2,023 | Coky Giedroyc | Music, Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 29 | English | Based on the Take That musical, five best friends have the night of their lives seeing their favourite boy band in concert. Twenty-five years later, their lives have changed in many different ways as they reunite for one more epic show by their beloved band, to relight their friendship and discover that maybe their greatest days are ahead of them. |
| Dreamin' Wild | 2,023 | Bill Pohlad | Music, Drama | 6.1 | 27 | English | The true story of the Emerson family and the tumult that followed the success of their self-recorded pop-funk album of the same name, which went largely unnoticed until critics rediscovered and reappraised it decades later. Now, as an adult, Donnie is forced to confront the ghosts from the past and grapple with the emotional toll his dreams have taken on the family who supported him. |
| Mr. Moll and the Chocolate Factory | 2,017 | Manuel Flurin Hendry | Family, Comedy | 6.1 | 17 | German | A weekend alone at home with the children - and already breaks out of the mess with Papa minor. For while Moll pushes overtime in the chocolate factory, between his children and the offspring of his boss a merciless battle breaks out: for cotton candy, homework - and the most famous circus dog in the world. |
| Return from Africa | 1,973 | Alain Tanner | Drama | 6.1 | 13 | French | A young Swiss couple, Vincent and Françoise, plan to leave Geneva and settle in Africa: a friend of theirs living in Algeria promises to give them a job there. |
| Hotel Yugoslavia | 2,017 | Nicolas Wagnières | Documentary, History | 6.1 | 10 | German | A journey through the times and spaces of the Hotel Jugoslavija. |
| Rosie | 2,013 | Marcel Gisler | Drama | 6.1 | 10 | German | Lorenz Meran, 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. 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. |
| Film Socialisme | 2,010 | Jean-Luc Godard | Drama | 6 | 56 | French | A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona. |
| The Girl and the Spider | 2,021 | Ramon Zürcher | Drama | 6 | 40 | German | Lisa is moving. Upheaval all around: Her mother flirts with a handyman. An eccentric woman seems to be preparing for a glamorous event, a family next door returns from vacation, and a girl documents the adventurous day. As boxes are transported, walls painted white, and furniture is assembled, underlying problems in need of fixing are revealed, a to-do list expands, and desires and needs flair up. |
| Fugue | 1,999 | Georges Schwizgebel | Animation | 6 | 25 | XX | A work of visual art that borrows from music the principles of the fugue, with the sudden flight of a man to his hotel room as its main theme. Where he dreams. |
| Summer Games | 2,011 | Rolando Colla | Drama | 6 | 22 | Italian | The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic's parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms with his father's traumatizing violent outbursts in games with other children. He tries to teach Marie, who is of his age and suffers from her own relationship with her father, to feel nothing. In fact, both of them are transformed by their experience of the joys and pains of first love. |
| Borderline | 1,930 | Kenneth MacPherson | Drama | 6 | 22 | XX | When a black couple vacations at a resort in Switzerland, an interracial affair stirs racial tensions among the townsfolk. |
| The Middle of the World | 1,974 | Alain Tanner | Drama, Romance | 6 | 15 | French | Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision. |
| The Neighbours From Upstairs | 2,023 | Sabine Boss | Comedy | 6 | 14 | German | Anna and Thomas' evening takes a surprising turn when their upstairs neighbors make them a spicy offer. |
| Cronofobia | 2,019 | Francesco Rizzi | Drama | 6 | 11 | Italian | A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity. |
| Dark Fortune | 2,016 | Stefan Haupt | Drama | 6 | 10 | German | Late at night, the psychologist Eliane Hess is called to the hospital to take care of Yves, an eight-year-old boy, who just has lost his parents and siblings in a car accident. Eliane is both shocked and curiously drawn to the traumatized boy. As time goes by, she loses the professional distance to the patient, and when Yves' relatives begin a heavy dispute about the boy's future, Eliane makes an unorthodox decision, that throws her life off track. |
| Cargo | 2,009 | Ivan Engler | Thriller, Mystery, Science Fiction | 5.9 | 424 | German | The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over. |
| Beyto | 2,021 | Gitta Gsell | Drama, Romance | 5.9 | 28 | German | Talented swimmer, motivated apprentice, cool buddy: Beyto is in the midst of life. But when the only son of a Turkish migrant family falls in love with his coach Mike, an ideal world falls to pieces. His parents only see one way out: They lure him to their home village and plan his wedding with Seher, his childhood friend. Suddenly, Beyto finds himself in a disruptive love triangle. |
| The Last Chance | 1,945 | Leopold Lindtberg | Drama, War | 5.9 | 22 | German | Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a multi-national party of refugees for the Italian underground. |
| Early Birds | 2,023 | Michael Steiner | Thriller | 5.9 | 21 | German | The neo-noir thriller EARLY BIRDS tells the story of the two wildly different women Annika and Caro, who become embroiled in a web of unpredictable events following a night out on the town. As the two flee together from the police, drug dealers and themselves, they're confronted by the collision of two worlds: their personal freedom and unrelenting violence. |
| My Wonderful Wanda | 2,021 | Bettina Oberli | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 | 15 | German | The Polish woman Wanda, 35, looks after Joseph, 70, in his family villa by the lake. She is there for him around the clock and also helps his wife Elsa, 75. The youngest son Gregi, 28, likes her very much. The work is poorly paid, but Wanda needs the money for her own family in Poland. Since everyone lives under one roof, Wanda gets an intimate view of their family life. So intimate that Wanda unexpectedly becomes pregnant. |
| Madame | 2,019 | Stéphane Riethauser | Documentary | 5.9 | 15 | French | The intimate journey of Caroline, a flamboyant grandmother, and Stéphane, her filmmaker grandson, exploring the development and transmission of gender identity. |
| Box | 1,976 | Roman Signer | N/A | 5.9 | 14 | English | 8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer. |
| Golden Years | 2,022 | Barbara Kulcsar | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.9 | 12 | German | A newly retired couple embarks on a cruise, but they find themselves drifting further apart. When things don’t go as planned, they learn to evolve their relationship in this affectionate comedy about self-discovery and developing new ways to spend one’s golden years. |
| Last Dance | 2,023 | Delphine Lehericey | Comedy, Music, Family | 5.9 | 11 | French | Germain, an introspective retiree, abruptly becomes a widower at 75. He barely has the time to realize what has happened to him before his family forces their way into his daily life: non-stop phone calls and visits, meals and activities organized in advance – all meant to make his life as regular as clockwork. But Germain’s mind is elsewhere. Honoring a promise he made to his dear departed wife, he suddenly finds himself at the heart of a contemporary dance company’s newest work. |
| Venus Boyz | 2,002 | Gabrielle Baur | Documentary | 5.9 | 10 | English | This intimate look into the real world of drag kings -- women exploring their masculinity -- crosses continents, traveling through drag king nightclubs from New York to London. |
| Big Momma's House 2 | 2,006 | John Whitesell | Comedy, Crime | 5.8 | 1,676 | English | FBI agent Malcolm Turner goes back undercover as Big Momma, a slick-talking, slam-dunking Southern granny with attitude to spare! Now this granny must play nanny to three dysfunctional upper-class kids in order to spy on their computer hacker father. |
| The Ride to the Abyss | 1,992 | Georges Schwizgebel | Animation, Music | 5.8 | 29 | French | ‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by Hector Berlioz. |
| Six Swedish Girls at a Pump | 1,980 | Erwin C. Dietrich | Comedy | 5.8 | 28 | German | A gas station becomes the center of social life in the village after six Swedish girls start working there. |
| Those Who Are Fine | 2,018 | Cyril Schäublin | Drama | 5.8 | 18 | German | Using her skills of selling Internet and insurance deals, young call center employee Alice calls up elderly strangers and pretends to be their granddaughter in urgent need of money. As this trick quickly makes her rich, the film observes people and places in Zurich, all mysteriously connected to Alice’s business. |
| Unveiled | 2,018 | Jacob Berger | Drama, TV Movie | 5.8 | 15 | French | Three women, three generations, two secrets. In the early 1970s, a bomb exploded on board the Swissair flight 330 to Tel Aviv. Isabelle's husband also died. The young, very pregnant widow feared that her lover, the Palestinian activist Djibril, might be entangled in it ... Now, 47 years later, Isabelle finds out that her granddaughter Anaïs has converted to Islam. But why does the young student keep her new faith secret from the family? Anaïs's mother, Léa, immediately rings the alarm. |
| Candy Mountain | 1,988 | Robert Frank | Music, Drama | 5.8 | 12 | English | A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker. |
| Mad Heidi | 2,022 | Johannes Hartmann | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 5.7 | 248 | English | In a dystopian Switzerland that has fallen under the fascist rule of an evil cheese tyrant, Swiss mountain girl Heidi transforms herself into a kick-ass female fighting force who sets out to liberate the country from a cheese-fueled machinery of hate. |
| Ashanti | 1,979 | Richard Fleischer | Adventure, Drama | 5.7 | 46 | English | Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task. |
| Tell | 2,007 | Mike Eschmann | Adventure, Comedy | 5.7 | 10 | German | Film tells the story of how Switzerland came into being - albeit in a slightly different way to the historical circumstances we have known up to now: William Tell proves himself a national hero against his will in the midst of the comic chaos of court intrigues, mishaps and misguided love of country. Habsburg occupiers and Swabian tourists stand in the way of the Confederates' fight for independence, but a parodic all-round attack ensures that all patriots learn their history lesson - and in the process are relegated to their respective national borders. |
| Therapy for a Vampire | 2,014 | David Rühm | Comedy, Horror | 5.6 | 36 | German | Horror comedy film following vampire count Geza von Kösznöm who's visiting groundbreaking neurologist Sigund Freud because he's bored of his life and frustrated of the "eternally long" relationship with his wife Elsa. |
| Accomplices | 2,009 | Frédéric Mermoud | Drama, Thriller | 5.6 | 35 | French | Two police detectives investigate the murder of a high-end male prostitute, and his relationship with his girlfriend. |
| Secrets of a French Maid | 1,980 | Erwin C. Dietrich | Comedy | 5.6 | 32 | German | Frau Oberst has 2 young nieces who are very open with their sexuality. She hopes to find adequate lovers for her nieces and along the way finds herself in some precarious sexual situations. After a series of sexual encounters between just about everyone at the estate, the Countess drops by for a party where the nieces announce their wedding intentions. |
| Under a False Name | 2,004 | Roberto Andò | Romance, Drama, Mystery | 5.6 | 26 | Italian | A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire. |
| Cappuccino | 2,010 | Tamer Ruggli | Drama, Comedy | 5.6 | 17 | French | Despite his marginal and extrovert looks, Jérémie is a shy teenager who keeps a heavy secret: his homosexuality. While trying to find his way between his classmate and sexual fantasy Damien and his very generous but protective mother Gina, his life is about to change. |
| 7 Seconds | 2,005 | Simon Fellows | Action, Crime, Thriller | 5.5 | 251 | English | When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the criminal to hatch a rescue plan. |
| Call of the Blonde Goddess | 1,977 | Jesús Franco | Crime, Drama, Thriller, Horror | 5.5 | 62 | German | Susan arrives in Haiti to live with her husband Jack, who lives with a lesbian housekeeper and Olga, a nymphomaniac platinum blonde, introduced to her as Jack's sister. Susan begins to have nightmares about voodoo ceremonies and murder. |
| A Flirtatious Woman | 1,955 | Jean-Luc Godard | Comedy, Romance | 5.5 | 34 | French | Agnès, a bourgeois young woman from Geneva, writes a letter to a friend, telling how she ended up cheating on her husband. Fascinated by the attitudes and gestures adopted by a prostitute to attract clients, Agnès decides to imitate her and seduces the first man she sees, sitting on a garden bench. |
| Downtown | 1,975 | Jesús Franco | Comedy, Crime | 5.5 | 32 | German | A private eye who's over his head in debt takes on a job snapping photos of his client's rich husband in bed with another woman. But when the husband winds up with three bullet holes that seem to have come from the private eye's own gun, he's got to prove he's not the murderer meanwhile getting tangled deeper in a web of deceit, lies, and steamy night club dancers! |
| Animals | 2,017 | Greg Zglinski | Thriller | 5.5 | 20 | German | Nick and Anna are off to Switzerland for six months. Nick, a chef, wants to collect recipes of local cuisine and Anna hopes to write a new book. The journey can also be good for their relationship, because Anna suspects that Nick had an affair with other woman. Meanwhile, Mischa will take care of their Viennese apartment. |
| Cyanide | 2,013 | Séverine Cornamusaz | Drama | 5.5 | 17 | French | Achille, 13, awaits, full of hope, the release from prison of his father, unknown and fantasized. His dream of living as a threesome, like a real family, will be seriously undermined by a mother exhausted from waiting and this father who is unsuitable and made irresponsible by so many years of incarceration. Will this vulnerable person with a flamboyant past be able to keep the promise he made to his son to never live apart from him again? |
| The Wonderful Crook | 1,975 | Claude Goretta | Comedy, Drama | 5.5 | 15 | French | A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victims. |
| Vanity | 2,015 | Lionel Baier | Comedy, Drama | 5.5 | 14 | French | David Miller wants to die and chooses assisted euthanasia. He planned everything: the place, the time and the manner. However, nothing goes right. With Esperanza, member of the association, and Tréplev, young prostitute, David embarks on his ultimate night with total strangers. |
| Night and Day | 1,991 | Chantal Akerman | Drama | 5.5 | 13 | French | Jack and Julie live in a bare Parisian flat. By day, they make love; by night, Jack is a taxi driver while Julie wanders the city. One day, Julie meets Joseph, the daytime cabbie, and soon Julie spends her nights with Joseph and her days with Jack. |
| Marija | 2,016 | Michael Koch | Drama | 5.5 | 10 | German | Marija, a young Ukrainian woman, earns a living as a cleaning woman in a hotel in Dortmund, but dreams of having her own hairstyling salon, and puts away some money each month. But when she is fired without notice, her dream is suddenly postponed to an uncertain future. Jobless and under financial pressure, she is forced to look for alternatives but, in order to achieve her goal, she is ready to discard her body, her social relationships and her own feelings. |
| Maggie | 2,015 | Henry Hobson | Horror, Drama, Science Fiction | 5.4 | 1,659 | English | There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to eradicate those with the virus, Wade is pushed to the limits in an effort to protect her. Joely Richardson co-stars in this post-apocalyptic thriller. |
| Hold the Dark | 2,018 | Jeremy Saulnier | Thriller, Mystery, Crime | 5.4 | 1,027 | English | In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery. |
| Marquise | 1,997 | Véra Belmont | Drama, Comedy | 5.4 | 50 | French | Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one. |
| Caged Women | 1,980 | Erwin C. Dietrich | Action, Adventure, Drama | 5.4 | 37 | German | A bunch of delinquent women are shipped to an island prison run by the sadistic warden Carla. Forced into situations of sexual perversion and violence and torture, the prisoners band together to try to overthrow Carla and escape the island. |
| Ready, Steady, Charlie! | 2,003 | Mike Eschmann | Comedy, Romance | 5.4 | 31 | German | In a Swiss church, Antonio Carrera is getting married to the pretty daughter of an Italian Mafioso, when army police officers march in and take him to the 15 week compulsory Swiss military training. |
| Stupid Boy | 2,004 | Lionel Baier | Comedy, Drama | 5.4 | 24 | French | This coming-of-age drama deals with a young man, realizing who he really is and which things he will never do... |
| Dreamland | 2,013 | Petra Biondina Volpe | Drama | 5.4 | 15 | German | An affluent city is covered in snow, all seems perfect – on the surface. Divorcé Rolf is doing his best to rebuild his relationship with his daughter. Pregnant Lena appears to be living a faultless family life with her husband and son. Social worker Judith has a tough job and escapes it through her fantasies, whilst widowed Maria has finally built up the courage to invite her male acquaintance to a romantic dinner. In the course of one day, all of them will cross paths with the Bulgarian Mia, who works in the red-light trade and their seemingly perfect lives will never be the same… |
| Fraulein | 2,006 | Andrea Štaka | Drama | 5.4 | 14 | German | Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops between the two strong willed women. |
| Colors in the Dark | 2,011 | Sophie Heldman | Drama, Family | 5.4 | 11 | German | Anita and Fred have been a couple for 50 years, and happily married for nearly as long. They have two grown children, and their grandchildren are finishing school. Both can look back at a fulfilling past, but their lives are still rich and vibrant. The fact that Fred is terribly ill has been hidden from the family. For the first time in all these years, Fred takes some liberties, which his wife interprets as an affront. Never before has she felt so abandoned. Although she starts to question her relationship, a love like theirs cannot end so easily. Indeed it should never end. |
| Daredevil | 2,003 | Mark Steven Johnson | Fantasy, Action | 5.3 | 5,370 | English | A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses. |
| One Way Trip | 2,011 | Markus Welter | Horror | 5.3 | 26 | English | Eight young people drive to the Swiss Jura region, food and tents in the trunk. It's autumn and high season for a magic mushroom that grows there - the reason for their trip. After a few problems they arrive at the desired location deep in the woods, the tents are set up, the mushrooms are collected and when it gets dark the party starts. Everything is fine until one of the youths wants to get beer and comes back with a blood-covered and smashed face. They don't know what happened but need to find help. As they discover that their car has a flat tire and their phones don't work, they seek shelter in a nearby farmhouse. But that's just where they were supposed to go. In a nerve racking countdown one after another gets killed by their dangerous haunters |
| Tiger Team: The Mountain of 1000 Dragons | 2,010 | Peter Gersina | Adventure, Family | 5.3 | 10 | German | The Viennese detective children Biggi, Patrick and Luke find a key in dragon form, and their curiosity is aroused. They realize that the sinister Lady Q is interested in opening the legendary moon palace and find the elixir which is believed that promises eternal youth. The Tigers must prevent that Lady Q enters into possession of the priceless liquid. |
| Self Service Girls | 1,975 | Erwin C. Dietrich | Comedy | 5.3 | 10 | German | A series of vignettes depict different sexual fantasies. |
| Operation Concrete | 1,958 | Jean-Luc Godard | Documentary | 5.2 | 13 | French | Godard returned to Paris briefly before getting a job as a construction worker on a dam project in Switzerland. With the money from the job, he made a short film about the building of the dam called Opération béton (Operation Concrete). |
| Tarzan and the Valley of Gold | 1,966 | Robert Day | Action, Adventure | 5.2 | 12 | English | In Central America, a little native boy, Ramel, is abducted by Vinaro, a madman who believes the child to be the sole link to a lost Aztec city of gold. Vinaro uses one of his diabolical explosive mechanisms to eliminate police and army officials; and the legendary Tarzan is flown in to help locate the jungle city, rescue the boy, and bring Vinaro to justice. |
| Another Man | 2,009 | Lionel Baier | Drama | 5.2 | 11 | French | Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague. A challenging look at the essence of film critique as well as an erotic encounter between two unequals. |
| Johnny Suede | 1,991 | Tom DiCillo | Comedy, Romance | 5.1 | 72 | English | Johnny Suede (Brad Pitt) longs to be a teen-age idol like Ricky Nelson. He has a pair of black suede shoes, an impressive pompadour, a guitar, and some pals who will play backup for him. Yet he doesn't have much talent or drive. |
| Thunder | 2,022 | Carmen Jaquier | History, Drama | 5.1 | 26 | French | Summer 1900, Switzerland. Elisabeth, 17, is about to take her vows when the sudden death of her older sister forces her to leave the convent and return to the family farm. Stifled by the suffocating and strict rules of the village, walking in her sister’s step to uncover the mystery of her death, Elisabeth is slowly driven to rebel against the local order and for her right to live her life. |
| The Ring Thing | 2,004 | Mark Schippert | Comedy | 5.1 | 18 | German | All Friedrich wanted was to propose to Heidi, his supervisor, on a business trip. But while rehearsing on an airplane toilet, he and his ring drop out into the sky over the alps. Only to land in a very strange fairytale world. Come to find out, Middle Earth is right in the heart of Switzerland! To make matters worse, the quirky inhabitants mistake Friedrich for Frido the Tellyhobbie. Before he can say Tolkien, he‘s on a mission to save the world from an evil wizard who wants to dip the whole planet in one huge sizzling Swiss cheese fondue. A mission so crazy… it just might wake the hero in him. A spoof of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy set in Switzerland. |
| Eden | 2,006 | Michael Hofmann | Drama | 5.1 | 10 | German | Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels romantically neglected. Gregor's deserts seduce her, first trough her brat daughter Leonie, to spend time with him and his fabulous dishes. That soon becomes a rather platonic affair, and domestic troubles. Xaver decides to exact revenge on Gregor, with tragic results. |
| She Devils of the SS | 1,973 | Erwin C. Dietrich | Drama, War | 5 | 94 | German | In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with the brave Nazi soldiers. But when they start having sex with each other, things get complicated. Especially with the increasing danger from the revengeful Soviet army! |
| Welcome to Switzerland | 2,004 | Léa Fazer | Comedy | 5 | 33 | French | Thierry, an ethnologist specializing in the Sami people, travels to his native Switzerland with his partner, Sophie, to attend his grandmother's funeral. There he reunites with his family and discovers that he has inherited two million Swiss francs, but that in order to obtain it, he will have to pretend to adapt to the Swiss values and lifestyle that he had rejected. To do so, he agrees to undergo a sort of crash course provided by his Swiss cousin Aloïs, who seems to have his eye on Sophie. |
| Slaves | 1,977 | Jesús Franco | Action, Thriller, Mystery | 5 | 22 | German | A brothel owner is questioned in the disappearance of the daughter of a wealthy man after she is still not returned, or told of her possible whereabouts, after the $5,000,000 ransom was paid. |
| The Way We Weren't | 2,019 | Rick Hays | Comedy, Romance | 5 | 21 | English | Charlotte and Brandon meet online just after their previous relationships have imploded; in an effort to make themselves more appealing, they have fudged, exaggerated, re-imagined, and outright lied about their pasts in an attempt to be each other's perfect match. Now that they've said their "I do's" they are about to get a funny, hellish, and eye-opening look at just who they've vowed to spend the rest of their lives with. Will familiarity breed contempt... or bliss? |
| War | 2,014 | Simon Jaquemet | Drama | 5 | 14 | German | Fifteen-year-old Matteo is attractive, albeit somewhat effeminate. The whole world is against him. He has no friends and his parents seem to live in a different universe. The pressure increases as his awkward attempts to win his father’s respect fail. One night two men carry him off: his parents send him to a remote alp, where he is forced to spend the summer working hard on a family farm. When Matteo arrives on the alp, a surprise awaits him. |
| Guess What Happened to Count Dracula? | 1,971 | Laurence Merrick | Horror, Comedy | 5 | 12 | English | The latter-day adventures of Count Dracula, now calling himself Adrian and running a haunted-house-themed nightclub in Los Angeles. |
| Ready, Steady, Ommm! | 2,013 | Oliver Rihs | Comedy | 4.9 | 19 | German | Alex and his girlfriend Anna have a problem: Anna couldn't be more pregnant, and neither can find an affordable flat. The only one who can help is ... |
| The Amorous Sisters | 1,980 | Erwin C. Dietrich | Comedy | 4.9 | 18 | German | Comedy about some schoolgirls being taught anatomy (of the sexual nature) by the sexually frustrated Barbara Moose. In bed at nighttime the girls practice their daily lessons on each other and on any unsuspecting visitors of the night. When they're not in class they enjoy frolicking around outside (naked most of the time!) experiencing the joys of nature. |
| Fourbi | 1,996 | Alain Tanner | Drama, Comedy | 4.9 | 14 | French | Writer Paul attempts to interview Rosemonde, a young woman who killed an alleged rapist in self-defense six years prior, for a true crime television program. When Rosemonde refuses to divulge details of the events, Paul encourages his actress girlfriend to befriend her, but the three are repeatedly sidetracked from their initial commission. |
| Mad Foxes | 1,981 | Paul Grau | Action, Crime, Thriller | 4.8 | 52 | German | A man seeks revenge after a biker gang murders his loved ones. |
| Women in Cellblock 9 | 1,978 | Jesús Franco | Drama, Action, Crime, Horror | 4.8 | 42 | German | A group of female freedom-fighters led by Karine Levere is caught by the warden of a women's prison, located somwhere in the South American jungle.... |
| Amateur Teens | 2,015 | Niklaus Hilber | Drama | 4.8 | 20 | German | A group of normal 14-year-old teenagers at a secondary school in Zürich with the normal yearnings for love and acceptance. But the power of social media, with its high-gloss selfies and perpetual pressure towards cooler and sexier, increasingly forces the kids to deny their true feelings. So a tragedy runs its course, one in which it is almost impossible to differentiate between perpetrator and victim, guilt and innocence. |
| The Innocent | 2,018 | Simon Jaquemet | Drama | 4.8 | 13 | German | Ruth is committed to her work, her family, and her faith, but when an ex-lover is released from prison and comes back into her life, her convictions are threatened. |
| L'Amour aller-retour | 2,009 | Eric Civanyan | Comedy, Romance, TV Movie | 4.8 | 11 | French | From Paris to the Canadian wilderness, Elisa, a young writer must reunite with her ex-lover, to reach for her dreams of success. |
| Fire in Paradise | 1,997 | Markus Imhoof | Drama | 4.8 | 11 | German | On her honeymoon on a ship the daughter of a rich plant owner realizes that she's not happy with her marriage. She meets a poor woman on the way to... |
| Animal Heart | 2,009 | Séverine Cornamusaz | Drama | 4.8 | 10 | French | Suddenly he thinks her alone, his wife. This person whom he doesn't know how to love and who is now falling prey to a gnawing disease. This woman whom he knows so little about and whom he would like to be with him. Right now, Just like before. |
| Freddy Got Fingered | 2,001 | Tom Green | Comedy | 4.7 | 474 | English | Unemployed cartoonist Gord Brody moves back in with his parents Jim and Julie and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he retaliates by spreading rumors that Jim is sexually abusing Freddy. |
| Love Camp | 1,977 | Jesús Franco | Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime | 4.7 | 31 | German | A group of women are kidnapped by guerrillas and brought to a jungle brothel where they are forced to work as prostitutes for the soldiers. Those who refuse to cooperate are decapitated by the cruel, sadistic wardress of the camp, who is privately interested in some of the women herself. |
| Barbed Wire Dolls | 1,976 | Jesús Franco | Crime, Drama, Horror | 4.6 | 59 | French | Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden. |
| Sexy Sisters | 1,977 | Jesús Franco | Drama, Horror | 4.6 | 36 | German | Edna keeps her younger sister Millie drugged and chained to her bed. The drugs have made Millie a nymphomaniac who's endless supply of men that Edna providers her cannot satisfy her and seeing her sister unsatisfied gets Edna off. But Edna's main plan from all of this is to inherit her deceased parents' fortune which is supposed to all go to Millie on her 21st birthday, so if she can prove Millie insane she will get the fortune. But when one of the men appears to satisfy Millie, Millie discovers the outside world and the two will try to stop Edna's evil plans. |
| Me, a Groupie | 1,970 | Erwin C. Dietrich | Music, Drama | 4.6 | 22 | German | A beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets out with her girlfriend across Europe to track him down. On the way, however, she gets mixed up with everyone from a gang of nasty bikers to a ring of devil worshipers. |
| 99 Moons | 2,023 | Jan Gassmann | Drama | 4.5 | 35 | German | Everything is under control, she thinks. Everything is lost, he thinks. And then they meet. And fall. |
| Box | 1,975 | Roman Signer | N/A | 4.5 | 30 | English | 8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer. |
| The Cook | 2,022 | Vincent Bossel | Drama | 4.5 | 11 | English | A young chef cooks up a mysterious dish. |
| Tribute to Eric Rohmer | 2,010 | Jean-Luc Godard | Documentary | 4.5 | 10 | French | Brief, fragmented memories of Rohmer spoken by Godard, while the screen shows various titles of articles Rohmer wrote for Cahiers du Cinema. |
| Naughty Nymphs | 1,972 | Franz Antel | Comedy | 4.4 | 16 | German | Two sisters and their lovers try to make sure their older sister is deflowered by every man in town. They make a potency pill so every man chases her, but the use of the pills turn into a disaster. |
| Date Movie | 2,006 | Aaron Seltzer | Comedy, Romance | 4.3 | 1,032 | English | Spoof of romantic comedies which focuses on a man, his crush, his parents, and her father. |
| Decay | 2,012 | Luke Thompson | Horror, Thriller | 4.3 | 13 | English | Decay follows several students that discover that the maintenance crew of the Large Hadron Collider have been transformed into zombies after the particle accelerator malfunctions. The students must try to evade the zombies while running through CERN's maintenance tunnels. |
| Women Without Innocence | 1,978 | Jesús Franco | Mystery, Thriller | 4.2 | 21 | German | Margarita is found, naked and bloody in a luxurious house and is promptly taken to a mental institute. The doctors and nurses meant to take care of her aren't exactly who they seem and a mysterious figure, clad in black, circles the premise at night, offing nubile young women. |
| Left Foot Right Foot | 2,013 | Germinal Roaux | Drama | 4.2 | 10 | French | The loss of youth and innocence can be played for comedy or tragedy. The stunning black-and-white cinematography and hypnotic electric guitar that fill "Left Foot Right Foot", as portentous as they are beautiful, are a pretty clear indication which side of the coin photographer Germinal Roaux intends to focus on in his first feature. |
| Tarzan Goes to India | 1,962 | John Guillermin | Action, Adventure | 4.1 | 17 | English | Summoned by an Indian princess, Tarzan travels to India where hundreds of wild elephants are in danger. A company is building a hydroelectric dam and the contractors have only a few weeks to finish the job. The building of the dam will flood the valley surrounded by mountains. There is one pass through which the elephant herd can escape but that is being closed. Tarzan comes up against an old nemesis, Bryce, the chief engineer. Bryce undertook a similar dam project in Africa and had a penchant for shooting elephants. It's up to Tarzan to organize the move before Bryce manages to close the pass. |
| Wonderland | 2,016 | Lisa Blatter | Drama | 4 | 20 | German | An apocalyptical storm threatens to wipe out an entire country. A state of emergency is raised while mayhem breaks out. |
| The Devil in Miss Jonas | 1,974 | Erwin C. Dietrich | Horror, Mystery | 3.8 | 15 | German | She's a young girl and a Nymphomaniac condemned to death by a kinda tribunal . She arrives in hell and is greeted by the devil himself. He discovers however that she's arrived too early so she's sent back to earth for a final night of pleasure nightmares and pleasure. |
| Singularity | 2,017 | Robert Kouba | Science Fiction | 3.7 | 226 | English | When Elias van Dorne, CEO of the world's largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention, Kronos-a super-computer designed to end all wars-it determines that humans are the biggest threat and launches a worldwide attack on mankind. A small band of survivors must form an unlikely alliance to survive the greatest artificial intelligence threat man will ever know. |
| The Bed Hostesses | 1,973 | Erwin C. Dietrich | Comedy | 3.6 | 12 | German | A man of many occupations -- who gets "all the women" -- describes sex he's seen and some sex he's had to a movie producer. |
| Family Practice | 2,019 | Jeshua Dreyfus | Drama | 3.6 | 10 | German | Simon has a love-hate relationship with his father. When his parents go on holiday, Simon initiates a seductive game of cat-and-mouse with his father’s mistress and gets disastrously tangled up in the sticky family network. |
| 11:23 - 09:59 (About Fear) | 2,014 | Luca Ribler | Horror | 3.5 | 17 | English | Shortly before graduating, six drama students set off into the Swiss Alps. The aim of their excursion is to test the extent of and overcome their fears using a series of dares. They plan to stay overnight in an underground alpine bunker. As the group initially jokes about the similarity of their situation with THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, the game soon turns into an unpredictable trial of courage for them all. This no-budget-horror-experiment from director Stefan Jäger takes us into the uncomfortable underworld of the Swiss réduit, a huge defence complex, the construction of which began before the First World War. |
| What Really Happened to Miss Jonas? | 1,974 | Erwin C. Dietrich | Comedy | 3.2 | 10 | German | Was Miss Jonas a porn star possessed by the devil or just a great bitch? A private working for a wealthy businessman investigates. The true story of the photo model Christa, who worked as a painter model and call girl before she was to star in "Miss Jonas". |
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