Switzerland Movies

Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the...

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style,...

Eva is in her mid-50s and is stuck in a rut. Her marriage has lost all passion and she begins to write reviews for a sex toy start-up hoping the extra...

The line between fantasy and reality blurs when an actress begins behaving like the 19th-century murderer she is playing.

Looking for easy money, three young dropouts auction themselves on the Internet. One sells his future, one sells his past. The third sells his soul. W...

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

The film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It covers...

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.

The life and works of the great artist Michelangelo Buonarroti are shown against the historical background of his time. It begins with his earliest ar...

In 1992 – 500 years after the beginning of Spain's global empire with the discovery of America – Spain proudly presented itself to the international c...

A biographical drama directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb.

Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken Nogma, Saga's promised bride, for himself. Still in love w...

Artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss create the ultimate Rube Goldberg machine. The pair used found objects to construct a complex, interdependent co...

On a container ship, the young sailor Rudmer dreams of becoming a captain himself one day. When newcomer Tycho comes on board, Rudmer is annoyed by hi...

In a small Swiss village, a school sports coach is accused of molestation by the mother of one of his pupils. The citizens are outraged…that the mothe...

Giulia Tonelli, principal dancer at the Zurich Opera House, returns from maternity leave. She has to fight to find her place and a new balance, betwee...

Passionate for climbing, Allegra is victim of a terrorist attack, in which her friends lose their lives. She isolates herself after crushing fear towa...

When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they are already international celebrities of the litera...

The adventure of five seniors who engage in an intense training of their mind. For the purpose of a scientific study, the impact of meditation on agin...

On September 22, 1998, the Iranian poet Hamid Hajizadeh and his nine-year-old son Karun, whose name symbolically refers to Iran's longest river, were...