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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.
- Five gymnasts from Izmir qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, only to face an unprecedented twist: the COVID-19 pandemic. They navigate a roller coaster of challenges but persevere in training to win Turkey's first-ever Olympic medal.
- 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?
- Cheating husband open minded open merreage.
- A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.
- An account of man's development through his scientific and technological achievements.
- 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.
- 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.
- Crime comedy series about an ex-cop who founds an improvised detective school and gives his students real cases to solve.
- By using Lord Elgin's actual letters written when he was Ambassador in Constantinople in 1802 the film analyses how and why he took the majority of the sculptures from the Parthenon Temple in Athens and shipped them back to England.
- 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.
- 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.
- Janette is terminally ill and wants to die in a dignified way but British laws do not allow it. She gets in touch with Dr. Erika in Switzerland, who is willing to help her. Muscular dystrophy, the illness that Janette suffers from, has affected her family for generations. Janette's mother was wheelchair bound for decades, becoming a prisoner in her own body. Janette refuses to wait for death in unbearable pain so she opts for physician-assisted suicide. Before leaving on her last journey from England to Switzerland, she has to explain her intention to her family members and close friends. Her son Simon has also inherited this illness and, therefore, has much more sympathy regarding her decision than his sister Bridget. If no cure for this illness is found, he will face the same decision process as his mother. Both children try to convince Janette to postpone her death. Do we own our life or does it own us?
- 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.
- Semret a single mom works at a local Zurich hospital, she does everything to ensure a better life for her daughter Joe. When Semret was wrongfully accused at the hospital she stand up for her rights, so as not to lose everything she loves.
- "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.
- The stunning discovery of the lost letters of Anne Frank's father, Otto reveal an unknown chapter of their family's life.
- 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.
- 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.
- Obsessed with making a discovery among the stars, Issac isolates himself to pursue his dream, only to discover he already had everything he wanted.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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"
- Twenty bands unite from around the world for one film. Twenty months of filming, struggles and peace. Twenty visions one director.
- Three generations of women navigate a radical approach to dying.
- 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.
- 1939, border occupation. Swiss men in uniform spend their time in the service. The only diversion is the excursions to the Cerf country pub. At the center of this 1940 classic is the innkeeper's daughter Marguerite.
- Petrus,a Montmartre photographer,is accidentally wounded by Migo,a dancer at the Frou Frou night club,when she is trying to shoot her faithless lover Rodrigue,a counterfeiter.Though Petrus tries to reconcile the lovers, Migo lands up with him after Rodrigue is finally killed by another jealous dancer.
- 2008's European Footballing Championship, held in Austria and Switzerland.
- Short documentary presents a high-tension soccer match from the perspective of an ever-vigilant referee.
- After twenty years Sarah Hirt returns to her rural hometown in Swiss canton Basle-Land, where she has spent part of her childhood. Together with her mother und brother she wants to clear her deceased grandfather's house. There she finds a mysterious book, a collection with local myths about witches, dwarfs, ghosts and the so called "Bachpfattli". After a nightly visit from an old man who wants the myth book and after her brother sees a giant dog and suffers from a swollen head the next day, Sarah realizes there's something going on in her hometown.
- 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.
- A man's clumsy attempts to marry his young naive ward. Ophuls' idea was: show the Louis Jouvet theater troupe, which had decamped to Geneva, playing for an audience and show things like the actors getting made up, and going behind stage.
- King Philip and friends share their personal outlook on growing up in Dorchester.
- In June of 1866, while in Washington to pursue reparations from Congress for property losses during the Gold Rush, Swiss-born John Sutter sits for a portrait that still hangs in Solothurn. As Frank Buchser paints, Sutter relates his life story: his childhood, apprenticeship, early marriage, business failures, and departure to America, alone, in the late 1830s. He establishes his business empire in what becomes Sacramento, losing out again when gold is discovered at a mill he's building, his lands to be trampled by the world rushing in. Nearly 20 years later, reunited with his wife and living in New York, dignified and without regrets, he futilely lobbies Congress.