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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A look at the life, work, activism and controversies of actress and fitness tycoon, Jane Fonda.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Inner chaos breaks free in two families.