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- A retired orchestra conductor is on vacation with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- Swiss Professor Raimund Gregorius abandons his lectures and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself.
- Countess Irma finds Empress Sisi in Greece, away from the etiquette of the Austro-Hungarian court. They live in freedom, but no matter how much they resist, in the end they are left with only one fatal path that will bind them forever.
- A European joint investigation team investigates organized crime across borders in Europe.
- A detective returns to her hometown in the Swiss mountains to remember her brother, who died in an accident many years ago along with several other children. After a murder in the town, she stays and starts to investigate.
- Barbara Albert's film adaptation of Julia Franck's bestseller, which won the German Book Prize, is a stirring homage to female physicality and self-empowerment.
- Born 1861, Lou Andreas Salomé shuns tradition in pursuit of intellectual perfection, inflaming the hearts and minds of the 19th century's greatest thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud.
- A Swiss-German rural peasant family takes Max, a crude 15-year-old boy, into a foster situation of constant bullying. Soon, a foster girl is added to the mix.
- When an amateur sexting video makes the rounds on social media, several involved individuals have to face the consequences.
- "Grounding" tells the story of Swissair's downfall in 2001, highlighting the impact on Switzerland's economy and morale. It follows the story of manager Mario A. Corti and the people who lost their jobs, homes, and faith in Switzerland.
- A look at the life, work, activism and controversies of actress and fitness tycoon, Jane Fonda.
- Spring 1995 - after the closure of the Needle Park in Zurich, 11-Year- Old Mia and her heroin addicted mother Sandrine are relocated to the countryside.
- 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.
- Nicu (Razvan Vasilescu) runs a print shop in Bucharest, Romania, and Brindusa (Alexandra Maria Lara) is his secretary and translator. They were lovers years ago; now they maintain a friendly, if occasionally awkward, relationship. When Nicu orders a new printing-press, German engineer Stefan (Felix Klare) is sent to install it. Soon after his arrival, he and Brindusa begin dating. When Nicu learns of their relationship, he grows increasingly obsessed with breaking them up.
- Albrecht Schuch plays the leading role of James Larkin White, an American who, on a train journey through Switzerland, is mistaken for Anatol Stiller, a sculptor who disappeared seven years earlier and is wanted for his involvement in a dubious political affair. "I am not Stiller", White declares at the beginning of Frisch's novel - and again and again from then on. In order to convict him, the public prosecutor played by Max Simonischek asks Stiller's wife Julika (Paula Beer) to identify her husband, but she is unable to do so conclusively. Memories reveal more and more about the couple's relationship - and it turns out that the prosecutor has a surprising connection to the missing man.
- 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?
- Small town guy «Goalie» lands in prison for not ratting out his childhood friend Ueli to the police. After a year spent in jail, he heads back to his hometown Schummertal. He sets for a fresh start, but the old ghosts come back again. He finds no love lost around, except for the waitress Regula who seeks shelter at his place after leaving her violent partner. Goalie takes her to a short trip to Spain, but messes up with her when he finds out the truth behind his year spent in prison.
- 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.
- Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family.
- For the love of the beautiful Elena the young fisherman's son Marcello turns a whole village upside down.
- On Pentecost Sunday 2014, the caver Josef Häberle had an accident in the Riesending shaft cave near Berchtesgaden. With a life-threatening head injury, he lies at a depth of more than 1000 meters.
- The film takes us back in time, to a relatively recent yet forgotten period in history, when many women like Lina were forced to fold in the face of unfair and blinkered authorities. The victim of an administrative internment aimed at re-educating her after her so-called "depraved behaviour", Lina finds herself completely abandoned, confused and humiliated. In present day, when she is 60 years old, for the first time in her life, our brave protagonist can finally "spill the beans", thus freeing herself of a burden that has threatened to destroy her all these years.
- A reconstruction of the real events leading to and following the fatal aircraft accident happening near the city of Überlingen in southern Germany in 2002.
- 75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...
- Perfection-obsessed Bin Inspector, Hansjörg Sthäli, falls for the wrong girl, Lily Frei, a charming waitress at his local diner and a compulsive hoarder at home.
- Inner chaos breaks free in two families.
- Teenager Wanda and her siblings experience the deterioration of the relationship between their parents, which adds to their own problems.
- Early evening - a big city. Two teenagers shyly flirt with each other, a housewife sits down to watch her daily soap, nurses in a hospital gossip before the nightshift starts, a trendy couple drives through rush hour, so excited they can hardly wait to get home - a man with a rifle enters a building seeking revenge. In the blink of an eye seemingly unrelated events turn upside down what were once secure, happy, 'normal' lives. Behind fear, beyond the unexpected, there is love and hope
- Marwan, an attractive young immigrant from Sri Lanka, has been working as a kitchen assistant in a star restaurant in Zurich since the death of his parents in the Sri Lankan civil war, but dreams of having his own restaurant. He wants to combine traditional Indian cuisine, as his great aunt taught him, with avant-garde molecular cuisine. Their motto is "Cooking is transforming": cold to hot, hard to soft, sour to sweet. It turns out that his creations have a strong aphrodisiac effect: when he invites his co-worker Andrea to dinner, she seduces him after eating, even though she is a lesbian and even though she is very conservative. And thinks arranged marriages are right. The two of them founded a joint catering service called Love Food, which they use to bring new life into the love lives of married couples who have undergone sex therapy. Since Marwan needs money for his terminally ill great aunt, the catering company turns into an environment of commercial sex. Andrea's partner Makeda, who works for an escort service, makes contact. Business is booming and money is flowing liberally into Marwan's pockets. Meanwhile, Marvan's nephew Ulagu returns to his homeland and is recruited by the Tamil guerrilla fighters the Tamil Tigers. Marwan fails to save him; Ulagu died from a weapon that suspected businessman Dalman - a client of the catering service - could have delivered to the crisis zone. When Marwan's aunt also dies, Marwan decides to stop cooking for Love Food. During the last meal that he prepares for Dalman and Andrea's girlfriend, he ensures that Dalman, who has a heart condition, dies due to the drug mixed in his drink. Andrea and Makeda come together and Marwan can turn to the delicate Sandana, with whom a marriage was arranged for him, but who initially rejected him.
- After an accident, the 21-year-old Elodie relies on a wheelchair. A stroke of fate that Elodie and her family initially do not know how to handle.
- A successful chef falls for a married woman.
- ROBERT BLOCK (50), a psychiatrist and analyst, discovers that his young wife CAROLE (30) is having an affair with a much younger man. Totally overwhelmed by the situation, his obsession with it prevents him from concentrating on his patients until LEO DEBOND (40) appears on the scene. Leo is a depressive and psychotic bachelor who has never got over an unhappy love affair with an actress fifteen years previously. Secretly identifying himself with Leo, Robert listens to him with a mixture of compassion and disgust, and when Carole lets him know that she is going to leave him for good, Robert realizes that Leo will provide him with the perfect means of relieving his suffering.
- A teenage patient in hospice care dons a VR headset to travel on a mission to the International Space Station. Leaving behind the confines of his broken body, he embarks on a spacewalk - a profound life experience which stirs his soul.
- Kathy is a single mother who is reluctant to have her 17-year-old autistic son Jimmie return to a home. She takes him in, even though everyone dissuades her from doing so. She is forced to accept that her proximity to Jimmie does not have the desired effect for his progress. On the contrary, his reactions to the unfamiliar situation are fierce, taking her to her limits time and again. The only thing that makes Jimmie feel comfortable is swimming: his greatest passion. When the swim coach discovers his talent, new prospects seem to open for him.
- 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.
- Adrian Weynfeldt, wealthy bachelor and art expert, lives in a vast apartment in the heart of Zurich. He has closed the "love" chapter in his life. But then, one evening, he meets a mysterious woman and suddenly his tidy tailor-made world begins to crumble.
- The story of Rezsö (Rudolf) Kasztner and his rescue mission of 1.700 Hungarian Jews. In 1954 he was denounced in an Israeli Court for collaboration with the Nazis and subsequently assassinated for having "sold his soul to the Devil".
- TV Series
- Jens Lienhart is an ambitious business student at St.Gallen University, researching his thesis at Refine Trading, an international oil trading company. Then Beatrice, a Greenpeace environmental activist confronts Jens with some crucial facts which are only confirmed by his own research: Refine Trading charters cheap tankers only fit for the scrap heap, some of which have caused huge oil spill accidents. As he's discovering the firms long list of cover-ups things become dangerous ...and personal. Will Jens submit to Greenpeaces pressure to go public? This is a delicate issue as Jens' father is not only on the company board, but also about to be elected for parliament.