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- Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?
- Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
- A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.
- In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humor, sin, and derision lead to salvation?
- An account of man's development through his scientific and technological achievements.
- After eighteen years of marriage, Alice finds herself confronted with the fact that her husband Frank feels more and more attracted to men. Not only Frank, but also she and their three children undergo an irreversible change.
- When Heidi, a little girl who leads an idyllic life with her grandfather in the Alps, is cruelly taken from the mountain retreat by a stern aunt, she adapts to life in the village below by bringing humor and goodwill to every situation.
- An overview of the major players in the contemporary art market and of the economic factors that motivate those individuals and institutions.
- The dramatic story of the Anabaptist movement and two of its first leaders, Michael and Margaretha Sattler.
- Paul Hubschmid is Paul Finney aka Upperseven, master of disguise. He's out to stop a diamond smuggling operation which fronts for a missile building project.
- Theo goes looking for someone who can tell him about his dad and the person he loved. His quest leads him into the Alps, where George has been living as a recluse for ten years. As they meet, the two men start to make sense of their lives.
- Elisabeth is a wealthy woman who is reaching her forties. She travels regularly on the TEE Rheingold train. One day, she meets a former school flirt, who works as a flight attendant on the train.
- Set in Zurich in the 1950s, a special agent who is near retirement receives a major assignment: Bring down Harry Wind, a top PR manager who has been accused of spying.
- Andre Korb is a Swiss boy. In Switzerland, his father, François enjoys relations with the Third Reich. The Korbs also have a Polish refugee, Anna. When she returns years later, she sees Andres. The reunion wakens shared childhood memories.
- Six people travel to Mexico to meet a shaman and take part in an ancient ritual. They eat hallucinogenic mushrooms with the intention of alleviating their physical and psychological ailments.
- This is a portrait of a man and of a country, as he travels through it. He is a travelling salesman, and travels through Switzerland selling cosmetics to beauty parlors.
- The stunning discovery of the lost letters of Anne Frank's father, Otto reveal an unknown chapter of their family's life.
- The Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel, Switzerland, designed by Mario Botta, opened in 1996, five years after the Swiss sculptor's death. META MECANO is a poetic depiction of the genesis of this mono-graphic museum, from the builders' first plans and Mario Botta's designs to its construction and the assembly of Tinguely's fragile mobile sculptures. In interviews with Mario Botta, Tinguely's wife Niki de Saint Phalle, museum director Pontus Hultén and Tinguely himself, the film goes on to explore the mission of museums and of art in general today. META MECANO is a unique document on the significance of the artist Jean Tinguely and on the role that museums play in our day and age.
- The film shows how passion can save lives and push the human experience beyond limits around the work of glass artist Jeremy Wintrebert.
- The story of orphan girl Heidemarie, who is taken in by distant relatives only interested in getting care allowance, but is mentally and physically tormented by them.
- The story of two best girlfriends and how love, sex, hate and unhealthy relationships slowly start to demolish them both mentally.
- A small idea grows to a big mission, when a group of young Swiss people escape the everyday life to engage in volunteering abroad. A social response to the European refugee crisis 2015.
- "The Hope: The Rebirth of Israel" examines the creation of the State of Israel, covering a time period from early Jewish settlers and philanthropists in the 19th century to the Israeli declaration of statehood in 1948. The series tells the story through the perspective of Zionist leaders and visionaries such as Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir.
- A survey of Hans Holbein's career from his beginnings as a religious painter to his work for Henry VIII and beyond. The program also includes a close analysis of "The Ambassadors"
- An old man is shot in an allotment garden in Basel, which is already on French territory.
- An exchange of memories spanning over 250 years interweaves everything from the philosophy of Empedocles to excerpts from Madame Bovary, to extant paintings by Cézanne, to the buildings of the artists' village at Mont Sainte-Victoire.
- This documentary about Europe at night makes you reflect on service processes and infrastructures that never sleep.
- "Armenia" is a cinematic interweaving of film, literature and history. The day after his fiftieth birthday, Haig Boghos (Alain Croubalian), a world-weary singer embarks on a personal journey revisiting his family's history of genocide, exile, and diaspora. His journey leads from his current hometown Basel, to his childhood home Marseille to Armenia-the homeland of his forefathers. Haig's odyssey culminates in the discovery of a mass grave- the last resting place of many of the victims of the Armenian Genocide-including Haig's great-grand parents. Circling themes of family, identity, and spirituality, Armenia is a geographical, historical and psychological journey into one man's mind and into the collective consciousness of a troubled country and its people. However, Haig Boghos' odyssey is not solely a personal journey, it is much rather the journey of an archetype, a universal tale of displacement and forlornness that will resonate with everyone who feels a sense of spiritual homelessness.
- The story of four men and their relationships with the opposite sex.
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- After a magazine scoop in Switzerland on the "12 Theses," everyone associated with it dies. As a series of mysterious and deadly events unfold, Captain Martin Jakobi and theology student Claire have to find out why and who.
- Dr. Claudia Keller, project manager at Swiss pharmaceutical giant Beyler, discovers deadly side effects of a new diet pill. The management wants to silence her, but she investigates further with the help of her ex-husband.
- PHOENIX tells the story of six different characters who meet on a rooftop to commit suicide. They all stand for different nationalities and therefore for different social backgrounds. Their meeting leads to unpleasant situations on the roof. It becomes increasingly unclear whether they will actually commit suicide or not.
- In one of the first films about the European Court of Human Rights, top human rights cases reflect human dramas which brought the applicants to the Court.
- Dr. Vladimir Cmiljanovic, and his sister Dr. Natasa Cmiljanovic, discovered a cure for cancer and they are finishing the great project of the Swiss government concerning the production of COVID-19 vaccine.
- Stephanie Glaser in her last major role as a renitent mystery author who, together with her grandson, foils the plans of a murderer.
- The 10th Amendment Project is an anti-federalist attempt at story-telling. Upsetting the hierarchy of a movie set by removing the director, the professional cast and crew were free agents in an attempt to build a collective story.
- A unemployed man, a qualified social worker, is given a tricky assignment by two angels. He is to lead the only righteous man out of town with his family, for the town is about to perish. He accepts the assignment, but soon realizes his mission is not going to be easy.
- This documentary film gives us a close inside look into the biggest art movement the world has seen so far, and into an art form that is not really accepted as such and yet not understood by most of the people.
- Many years after World War II, evidence showing a connection between Swiss policy and the deportation and murder of Charles and Sabine Sonabend's parents at Auschwitz fall into Charles's hands.