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Lovers
π¨π SwitzerlandSet in Paris the story follows Lisa, who, while on vacation with her husband, rekindles a passionate affair with her ex-boyfriend. But that may lead to a murder.
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Beyto
π¨π Switzerland The 2010sTalented swimmer, motivated apprentice, cool buddy: Beyto is in the midst of life. But when the only son of a Turkish migrant family falls in love with his coach Mike, an ideal world falls to pieces. His parents only see one way out: They lure him to their home village and plan his wedding with Seher, his childhood friend. Suddenly, Beyto finds himself in a disruptive love triangle. A subtle, summerly sensuous love story about three young people by Gitta Gsell.
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Princess
π¨π Switzerland The 1980s The 2020sA Story of Addiction and Redemption β When his younger sister, a single parent, moves into the second apartment with her 5-year-old daughter Nina, an unexpected friendship develops between Josef and the uncared-for little girl.
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Harald Naegeli - Der Sprayer von ZΓΌrich
π¨π Switzerland The 1970sThe Swiss artist Harald Naegeli became known around the world as the βSprayer of Zurichβ in the late 1970s. With his graffiti he criticized the monotonous, inhospitable cityscape of Zurich, but also the politics and the handling of the environment. In her sensitive portrait, director Nathalie David shows Harald Naegeli's multifaceted personality - as a visionary, argumentative artist, rebel, philosopher and astute, humorous person.
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Adolf Muschg β The Other
π¨π Switzerland The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sIn his exploration of the cultural dynamic between East and West, Adolf Muschg, the most significant Swiss writer since Frisch and DΓΌrrenmatt, searched for the other in himself in order to understand otherness.
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Les nouvelles Γves
π¨π Switzerland The 2020sJune 2020, Corona, one year after the national women's strike. Six directors dive into the everyday life of six women and explore what it means to be a woman in today's Switzerland.
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The Willoughbys
π¨π Switzerland The 2020sA family story for anyone who ever wanted to get away from their family β When the four Willoughby children are abandoned by their selfish parents, they must learn how to adapt their Old-Fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.
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The Bay of Silence
π¨π SwitzerlandSome secrets echo forever. β Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of their son's suspected murder, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to another unsolved crime.
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My Little Sister
π¨π SwitzerlandBerlin playwright Lisa follows her husband Martin to Switzerland, where he manages a private school. However, when her twin brother Svenβs leukaemia begins to wreak havoc on his health, she decides she must return to her roots, which has significant consequences for her relationship.
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The Hero
π¨π Switzerland The 2010sFifteen years ago Andrey graduated from a Secret Service school under the guidance of his father, that trained teenagers to be agents for the Foreign Intelligence Service. When this experimental school is closed, he settles in Europe and cuts ties with Russia. One day his father who was believed to be dead calls him to warn him that some security forces want Andrey dead so he must run and hide. While on the run Andrey finds Masha, his ex-classmate from the Secret Service school. He faces love and betrayal and learns the real scale of the ruthless spy game that he was dragged into against his will.
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
π¨π Switzerland The 1930sIn 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her mother Dorothea, follow him shortly thereafter. Anna has to leave everything behind, including her beloved pink rabbit, and to face a new life full of challenges and privations abroad.
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Unforgiven
π¨π Switzerland The 2000sI've Given Up On God β Based on true and tragic events in the life of Vitaly Kaloyev, an architect and family man. In 2002, his wife and children die in a mid-air collision along with 70 other people, mostly children. Vitaly is one of the first people to discover the bodies of his family at the site of the crash. The blame is put on the company responsible for monitoring the air space, as well as the lone air traffic controller on duty at the time. Two years later, after much obstructed efforts to get apologies and answers, Vitaly flies to Switzerland to obtain justice.
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Meet Me in St. Gallen
π¨π SwitzerlandThe story of Jesse and Celeste who meets at an unexpected time in their lives. They then realize their names are the same as the characters in the popular break-up romantic comedy, Celeste and Jesse Forever.
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The Hunter's Prayer
π¨π SwitzerlandIt's just business β An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.
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A Cure for Wellness
π¨π Switzerland The 2010sThere is a Cure β An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.
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Me Before You
π¨π SwitzerlandLive boldly. β A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.
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Snowden
π¨π Switzerland The 2000s The 2010sThe only safe place is on the run. β CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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My Life as a Zucchini
π¨π Switzerland The 2000sAfter his motherβs death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
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The Railroad Lady
π¨π SwitzerlandSometimes life seems to pass at 300 km/h β Elise Lafontaine has a secret routine. Every morning and evening for many years, she has been waving at the express train that passes her house. One fateful day, she finds a letter from the train conductor in her garden and her lonely life is turned upside down. She engages in a promising correspondence through poetic and thoughtful letters where the two anonymous writers share their worlds with each other. But Eliseβs fairytale is cut short when the train line permanently detours for a shorter route to Paris. Not willing to do without her daily delight, Elise prompts a daring escape from her comfort zone and sets out to find the train conductor.
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The Price of Fame
π¨π Switzerland The 1970sA criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.
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Thani Oruvan
π¨π SwitzerlandAn idealistic cop and an ambitious scientist-businessman indulge in a high-stake battle of wits.
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Youth
π¨π SwitzerlandTwo lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?
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Vanity
π¨π SwitzerlandDavid Miller wants to die and chooses assisted euthanasia. He planned everything: the place, the time and the manner. However, nothing goes right. With Esperanza, member of the association, and TrΓ©plev, young prostitute, David embarks on his ultimate night with total strangers.
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Heidi
π¨π Switzerland The 1880sHeidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair. Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather.
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Goodbye to Language
π¨π Switzerland"It's a simple subject. A married woman and a single man meet. They love each other, fight, blows rain down. A dog wanders between town and countryside. Seasons pass. The man and woman get back together. The dog comes between them. The other is in one of them. One of them is in the other. And then there are three people. The ex-husband makes everything explode. A second film begins. The same as the first. And yet, not. From the human species, we move on to metaphor. It will end in barking. And a baby's cries." JLG
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Edge of Tomorrow
π¨π Switzerland The 2020sLive, Die, Repeat β Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
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Muppets Most Wanted
π¨π Switzerland The 1960sTaking the world by farce β While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
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Clouds of Sils Maria
π¨π SwitzerlandA veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
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The November Man
π¨π SwitzerlandA spy is never out of the game. β An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
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The Circle
π¨π Switzerland The 1950sA young teacher in Zurich in the 1950s falls in love with a transvestite star but is torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality. He joins a gay organization that is eventually seen as the pioneer of gay emancipation in Europe.
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United Passions
π¨π Switzerland The 1900sEvery dream has its own rules β An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determined men who created it. Driven by their vision and passion, three men, overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make the World Cup a reality. Spanning the tumultuous 20th Century, this timeless saga celebrates the event that became the most popular sporting event in the world.
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Iron Man 3
π¨π Switzerland The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sUnleash the power behind the armor. β When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
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The Wolf of Wall Street
π¨π Switzerland The 1980s The 1990sEARN. SPEND. PARTY. β A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
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Night Train to Lisbon
π¨π Switzerland The 1960sOnly when you are lost can you truly find yourself β Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
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Particle Fever
π¨π SwitzerlandWith one switch, everything changes. β As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time -- or perhaps their greatest failure.
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Love Is the Perfect Crime
π¨π SwitzerlandMarc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor β and still living with his sister Marianne in a huge, isolated chalet that they inherited when they were very young β he carries on one love affair after another with his students. Winter has almost ended when one of his most brilliant students, Barbara, suddenly disappears. Two days later, Marc meets Barbaraβs mother, Anna, who wants to find out more about her vanished daughter.
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Longwave
π¨π Switzerland The 1970sIt is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerlandβs aid to poor countries. Sparks fly during the bus trip with Bob, sound engineer approaching retirement. The projects financed by Switzerland prove to be calamitous and the workersβ revolution that suddenly breaks out doesnβt help, obliging our heroes to disregard first the radioβs management, and then their own codes of conduct.
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Kvadrat
π¨π SwitzerlandA feature-length documentary, Kvadrat explores the realities of techno DJing, using the example of Andrey PUSHKAREV, a Russian DJ recognized worldwide. Filmed as a hybrid between a road-movie and a music video, the film not only illustrates the festive atmosphere of techno night clubs, but also reveals the lesser known side of this profession: weeks of track selection, lengthy travel, difficult schedule. The film suggests to reconsider the stereotype of a popular musician, to find out whether the artist is happy, to ponder what's most important to him and his audience? Shot in Switzerland, France, Hungary, Romania and Russia, the film omits the typical documentary elements: no interviews, no explanatory voice-over, no facts, no figures. The visuals and the techno music replace them, leaving the detailed interpretation to the viewer.
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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
π¨π SwitzerlandThey Have One Shot to Get Back Home. β Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo casino. When French animal-control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus.
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Liz & Dick
π¨π Switzerland The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sGlamorous, infamous, scandalous β On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky, passionate, relationship, born in front of the cameras, was subsequently captured in a series of films, including The V.I.P.s and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The last of the great, extravagant stars, flaunting diamonds, yachts and private planes, they continually seized the headlines. They even divorced and married again - only to divorce again - but remain in each other's hearts. This Elizabeth Taylor - Richard Burton story is a no-holds barred account of their undying, but impossible love.
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Contagion
π¨π SwitzerlandNothing spreads like fear β As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
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A Dangerous Method
π¨π Switzerland The 1910s The 1900sWhy deny what you desire the most. β Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jungβs weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabinaβs spell.
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X-Men: First Class
π¨π Switzerland The 1960s The 1940sWitness the moment that will change our world. β Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
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Largo Winch II
π¨π SwitzerlandThe Burma Conspiracy β Propelled to the head of the W Group after the death of his adoptive father, Largo Winch decides, to everyone's surprise, to sell it, and use the proceeds to create an ambitious humanitarian foundation. But on the very same day, he finds himself accused of crimes against humanity by a mysterious witness. To prove his innocence, Largo will have to retrace the steps of his past life, in the heart of the Burmese jungle.
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
π¨π Switzerland The 1890sThe game is afoot. β There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmesβ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
π¨π Switzerland The 2000sEvil shall with evil be expelled. β This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
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The Foster Boy
π¨π Switzerland The 1950sSwitzerland, 1955. The young orphan Max is sent as a foster child and contracted to work for the BΓΆsiger family who lives on a farm. His foster parents treat him like a workhorse while their son seizes every opportunity to humiliate him. Playing the accordion is the one thing that is entirely his. But when the new teacher stands up for Max, it only makes a bad situation much worse. The only thing preserving his will to survive is his friendship with Berteli, who was also taken on to work at the farm. Max dreams of Argentina with her: a fantasy world, where allegedly even hayforks are made of silver.
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Hereafter
π¨π Switzerland The 2000sTouched by death. Changed by life. β Three people β a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy β are touched by death in different ways.
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Sennentuntschi
π¨π Switzerland The 1970s1975, Swiss Alps: In a remote mountain village, a beautiful and mysterious woman shows up. Only the village policeman takes care of the strange woman and tries to find out who she is. There are hints that she came from the HΓΆhenalp Alp, where herdsmen do unthinkable things to get the company of women. Many dark truths are revealed that should better have remained hidden. A tragedy of lust, insanity and murder is brought to a seemlingly pure and perfect world. It is the beginning of a nightmare of religious insanity, hypocrisy, abuse and belief in demons, who destroys a young family and brings a whole village to destruction.
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Gus
π¨π SwitzerlandChange is in the air. β A 'cave' boy with disruptive flatulence and his father live a cold life in the Alps, until the boy is sent outside and changes life forever.
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