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In the dense and murky woodlands of provincial Hungary, the search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Péter Haumann

A policeman is not convinced that the prime suspect in a murder case is realty guilty and so decides to reinvestigate the case, despite the lack of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heinrich Gretler

The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco, the front man of a rap band. She finds herself...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julie Fournier

Glacier pilot Hermann Geiger flies over a four-thousand-meter peak in the Valais Alps and observes a glacier collapse. The next day, three rope teams...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Annemarie Düringer

Oscar Bänz is a solid, middle-class taxi driver and widower. He loves his daughter Irma with all his heart. In order to provide for her, he has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Schaggi Streuli

The titular Marie-Louise is a young French lass who is evacuated to Switzerland when her country is overrun by the Nazis. Suffering a nervous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josiane Hegg

A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cornel Wilde

When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Vincent D'Onofrio

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ewart G. Morrison

Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viveca Lindfors

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hertha Thiele

While on a longer business trip, a wannabe poet urges his beautiful but more simple wife to answer his overly swollen love letters. With no idea how...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alfred Rasser

In exploring sex offenses, particularly against children, this film reveals the inner workings of the Zurich police and INTERPOL as they pursue...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Arens

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elsbeth Sigmund

Gilberte Montavon was a legend in her own lifetime. As a young woman, she was confidante to hundreds of thousands of Swiss-German speaking soldiers...

Genre: War

Cast: Erwin Kohlund

Florestan Mississippi, a public prosecutor by profession, visits a lady named Anastasia and, while drinking coffee with her, convicts her of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: O.E. Hasse

If any one man is responsible for the rejuvenation of the postwar Swiss film industry, that man was director Leopold Lindtberg. Matto Regiert...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Heinrich Gretler

In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gian Maria Volonté

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adolf Eichmann

The film traces Uli's progress from his humble peasant surroundings to the homes of the wealthy and prominent. The characterizations are convincing,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hannes Schmidhauser