Switzerland Movies

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Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

A woman is passing through her home town, that isn’t home to her anymore. She has an appointment at 4 p.m. Bullingerplatz and everybody’s late except her and Kerim. Once they were close, but haven't spoken for a long time. Strained and estranged they now wait...

An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.

Martin indulged in his excessive use of drugs. He recorded his frenzied life in his diaries while his friend Ivo passionately captured everything on film with his Super 8 camera. Both sought for the absolute – average was not an option. Through the lens of thi...

A profile of two ambulance drivers in Geneva over 300 days during the COVID-19 pandemic

Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war, a young journalist's body is discovered dressed in the uniform of an international mercenary group. Twenty years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel investigates his story.

Jean & Michel go on a journey in the Clos du Doubs in search of a rare bird. During their wanderings, the couple crosses seasons at full speed, a certain amount of rivers and above all, ups and downs.

Choucroute (Sauerkraut) is lonely and bored. A hungry duck flies past. Choucroute sees the duck as a remedy for his loneliness. The duck sees Choucroute as a meal. The story of an impossible love between a duck and a sauerkraut.

A criminal gradually integrates himself into a broken household by methodically asserting control over a teenage girl and her lonely mother.

A couple is torn apart for a whole night, evoking old age, death, memories, everyday life together, their work, their anguish.

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She believes her husband's love has cured her, but her efforts to love him begin t...

What does ‘normal’ actually mean? And what is ‘crazy’? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that her mother, Suzanne, is mentally ill. Her father wants to see her returned to the psychiatric clinic, but Léa refuses to see her mother in the same light: Suzanne is...

Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.

On Montana’s Blackfeet Reservation, a ten-year-old boy watches as screens consume his family. When the lights go out, he glimpses what he’s been missing – and makes a choice that could change everything.

April is released from prison after having been busted as an illegal sex worker. In the basement of a luxury hotel in Tbilisi where she works, she meets Dije, a young man who has left his native country Nigeria behind. Believing he is on his way to Georgia in...