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- Two young football players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love.
- In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt, but the Army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hitman to kill the General.
- A twelve-year-old piano prodigy who suffocates from his parent's big dreams for him decides to make his escape--and with the aid of his grandfather--chase his own dreams instead.
- In exploring sex offenses, particularly against children, this film reveals the inner workings of the Zurich police and INTERPOL as they pursue persons accused of voyeurism, rape, fetishism, sadism, and masochism. After the criminals are arrested and given psychological tests, they may be sentenced to an institution or undergo brain surgery (with their consent) in order to be rehabilitated.
- The director's swansong, also a vehicle for his actress wife here a failing opera diva who kills herself. The actress later appears as different women interviewed by police: a peasant, a schoolteacher, a bargekeeper's raucous wife.
- In his book "Der schnurgerade Kanal" Gerhard Meier describes the writer K. as follows: "He left technical college early, got married and took on a temporary job in a factory - where he got stuck". In Meier's own case it was after dropping out of technical college that he got a job in the lamp factory in Niederbipp. After working in the factory for 33 years, he finally made up his mind to quit and become a writer. His wife started working in a kiosk in order to make a living for them both. The film asks questions about the sort of literature than can spring from a biography like Meier's. It shows the conflict of a provincial citizen who becomes a poet, and it accompanies the writer, who sees life in terms of eyeopening images, on his wanderings trough his immediate and extended home territory, including the island of Rügen and the house of Tolstoi's birth.
- Switzerland, late 70s: The young social pedagogue Christa joins after graduation at the University of Zurich, her first position as head of the social services in a rural psychiatric hospital clinic. Her boyfriend Marc has been working there for a long time as an assistant doctor. Wear with enthusiasm, the two of them presented their new and advanced therapy ideas into the aging walls, which are surrounded by the clinic director Professor Sennhauser, still in the old spirit. Christa wants so many patients outside the clinic walls as much as possible. They are to be accommodated in shared flats on an outpatient basis. Sennhauser, who was a representative of old structures is cleverly trying in the background to complete his project of sabotage. He succeeds in finding Marc and Christa to play off against each other. In addition, he lets Christa knowingly working her project with a patient at risk.
- The trials of the wealthy Emmentaler family Jowäger, adapted from the 19th century novel of the same name by Jeremias Gotthelf (pen-name of Albert Bitzius).
- Tired from his amateur acting career, Diego is seeking RAV officer Lisa's help to move to Berlin. This encounter changes Lisa's way of dealing with her abusive husband.
- lovely simple and gentle crash with techno soundtrack
- The trials of the wealthy Emmentaler farming family Jowäger, adapted from the 19th century novel of the same name by Jeremias Gotthelf (pen-name of Albert Bitzius), which was also published in two parts.
- Young activist Elena Jenni looses her flower shop over turmoils caused by climate change and ongoing pandemics. Plus, she realizes that she's pregnant. Will she keep the child or is she too desperate for her own and the baby's future?
- Manuel is in a new town, in a new school and has people around him with a different language. It's not easy for him to settle in, till he meets another boy from his class.
- For the first time in life, famous swiss writer Peter Bichsel travels to Paris. He will not leave his room n.202 in the hotel located inside railway station Gare de l'Est. There he will explore his life.
- As a newly arrived pianist starts rehearsing, her neighbor starts a sound war that very rapidly brings all the neighbors to their windows. While everyone shouts at each other, the pianist plays till she faints. When the police witness the crowd of hysterical neighbors shouting at each other, they take the side of the pianist, who, after a moment of intense madness, is now playing a serene Mozart piece.
- The death of his only cow puts an end to the peaceful life of Max. He decides to leave the Swiss mountains for the city life. In the city he is forced to beg for his food and when he finds a red ladies shoe in a phone booth, he follows the lead to a lady named Maria in Rome... and ends up in Siberia.
- The portrait of a Swiss school class shortly before being released to work.
- Henning, a lonely watchmaker, is struggling with his social anxiety. When he meets the extroverted July, his world seems to change for the better. But everything is not as it seems.
- This is a movie about the last "witch" that got burned in switzerland. It's based on a true story and is a movie adaptation of the well known book by Eveline Hasler.