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- A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
- An introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.
- Legendary Swedish sex bomb Anita Ekberg stars as Sister Gertrude, a cruel nun who discovers depraved pleasure in a frenzy of drug addiction, sexual degradation and sadistic murder.
- Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher acquires a Swiss bank and a silver mine - alleged to be worth a billion dollars. As rivals close in from all sides, Doc must fight a complex struggle to keep hold of both the bank and the mine.
- A female road movie. A touching story about the close relationship between sisters Malgorzata (Magdalena Cielecka) and Lucja (Marta Nieradkiewicz).
- Luciano Lutring is a dangerous fugitive in Italy, he meets Candida, a nightclub singer and they fall in love. On their back is Candida's lover Franco Magni, a two-bit gangster. Powered by his new-found fame and reputation, Lutring increasingly becomes more and more reckless, robbing as many jewelry stores as he can and pawning them before the cops catch up with him. One of the first of many poliziesco movies of the time and based on the life of real-life criminal Luciano Lutring; the infamous jewelry thief also known as the "machine gun soloist", a name he acquired by the media by keeping his weapon in a violin case.
- A salesman chasing by car a beautiful female biker in order to flirt finds a castle where he is accused in a game trial for murder.
- At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing of a book on Borromini. Along with his wife Alienor feels her relationship with Alexandre is gradually slipping away. Along the way they meet siblings Goffredo and Lavinia. Gofffredo is about to embark in architectural studies. A story of rediscover the joys of life and overcoming anxiety.
- Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American businessman he thinks responsible for his friend's death. He succeeds in getting a hundred thousand swiss francs and uses them to carry out the second part of his plan.
- A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity.
- Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges (Vittorio Gassman), Roman Prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane (Dame Joan Collins), an English girl he has met who accompanies him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He plans some hanky-panky on their various stops along the route, but Jane has other plans, as she is only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection. The car clears customs--as do the stolen million dollars she is smuggling. Sandro (Jacques Bergerac), her former boyfriend, is following them and plans to hijack the loot, leaving Jane empty-handed.
- The attentive parish priest Don Simone must recognize that no one in his small people is really interested in religion. Despite his efforts, he cannot convince the boys to attend church.
- First edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest under the name "Gran Premio Eurovisione 1956 della Canzone Europea" on May 24th, 1956 from the Teatro Kursaal in Lugano, Switzerland. "Refrain" from Lys Assia is the first winner.
- Psychedelic international marijuana cult classic: 3 Americans grow fields of cannabis in Switzerland and meet the divine feminine spirit that lives within the THC crystal. Featuring over 500 special effects, animations and an incredible music soundtrack.
- A beautiful new teacher arrives in a small, traditional village in Switzerland. Luca immediately falls in love with her - until he realizes that his best friend receives as much of her (professional) attention. But the sleazy mayor is after her too. When she refuses his blunt advances, he's out for revenge by ruining her reputation, using the love of her pupils.
- The young Renée is a bubbly, fun-loving, young woman. She has a very close relationship with her young father, the worse her relationship with her stepmother is.
- Set in Milan in 1989, this is the story of four people - an expert in market research, a nurse, a university professor and a pharmaceutical researcher - whose destinies intertwine through a lost diary in a city which seems, by its very nature, unsuitable for establishing human relationships.
- A film about the journey from adolescence to adulthood, about growing self-awareness, about the lonely choices of dreams and fears, successes and failures.
- Helped by his old friend Fernand, Sami tries to make Julie realise that she is the love of his life.
- Sandro Lorenzini is a Lugano (Italian Switzerland) lawyer. He is as good and self-confident in his job, as uncertain and confused in his private life. Who is the woman of his life? The wife Elisabeth, mother of his daughter Chiara, or the young and attractive journalist Lorenza? For him it is not so easy to decide. In each episode of this legal fiction, we follow the cases of the Levorani & Lorenzini law firm. Guido Levorani stars as the senior attorney and founder of the firm. His son, Walter, completes the roster of this heterogeneous legal trio.
- With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself to the police, since they don't know about his existence. At least, that's the way his rescuer Bruno (Granz) sees it. Besides, Bruno needs such an overly enterprising fellow to help him pull off a really big heist that he's been planning for a long time. It takes some doing but the boy and his girlfriend are recruited by the older man, who has been keeping a low profile by working as a gardener.
- Emanuele Sansoni, a rich fixer hunted by the Guardia di Finanza and some bandits, fleeing as a diver from his yacht off Rapallo, gets on board a taxi led by a clumsy taxi driver named Gino.
- 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.
- The "people among us" are Berlin building tenants, a cross section of late 20s society.Among them: a government assessor and his wife,who gives birth while in prison, and a flighty landlady who is swindled by a diamond seller.
- Three friends, addicted to scratch cards, are forced to quit cold turkey.
- Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rekindles old memories and reopens old wounds.
- A Canton Ticino family goes up for the weekend to the house in the mountains where the father spent his childhood. The journey to the valley, suffered at intervals by his wife and children, is an obsessive ritual for Alfredo, repeated week after week as he searches for his past.
- A husband orders his wife to recover a lost slipper. The wife enlists the aid of her friend, Beatrice (Betty Stockfield) to bring the slipper to her in Switzerland, and Georges (Roger Treville) follows Betty.
- An undercover intelligence operative manages to record a video testimonial of how, after being threatened with execution for treason, he tracked his turncoat informant across Europe.
- Money rules the world, and the devil likes it that way. He wants to use three tramps to prove that greed can ruin even the best friendships. A Swiss film classic by Kurt Früh, starring Ruedi Walter, Max Haufler and Zarli Carigiet.
- Kurzversion: Maxim Charkow wächst als Sohn russischer Einwanderern in einem kleinen Bergdorf auf. Als er elf ist, kommen sein Vater und seine Schwester bei einem Bergunfall ums Leben. Ihre Leichen werden nie gefunden. Dieses Ereignis und die Kälte seiner Mutter werfen Schatten auf Maxims Wesen. Kaum erwachsen, flüchtet er vom Dorf in die Stadt, wo er sich zum Ermittler der Mordkommission ausbilden lässt. Doch seine Flucht kann nicht verhindern, dass ihn die Vergangenheit einholt. Der gewaltsame Tod eines Jugendfreundes - ein Journalist, der an einem Artikel zum Kunstraub im zweiten Weltkrieg recherchiert - zwingt ihn, ins Dorf zurückzukehren, um den Fall zu lösen. Dort beginnt er mit seinen Ermittlungen, die ihn immer tiefer in seine eigene Vergangenheit führen. Sein erster und schwerster Weg führt ihn zu einer Berghütte, die die Mutter seines toten Jugendfreundes leitet, um ihr den Tod ihres Sohnes mitzuteilen. Durch einen Zufall begegnet er dort dem jungen Polizisten Cla Corai, dem er bei der Bergung einer mumifizierten Mädchenleiche, die sich auf dem nahegelegenen Gletscher befindet, helfen soll - ein vor kurzem niedergegangener Bergsturz hatte die Überreste wohl freigelegt. Charkow tut dies widerwillig, doch Cla hilft ihm als Gegenleistung bei den Ermittlungen im Mordfall seines Jugendfreundes. Doch die Ermittlungen führen Charkow in Sackgassen. Francine Boviard, Rechtsmedizinerin und Vertraute von Charkow, hilft ihnen bei der Identifizierung der Mädchenleiche. Fancine Boviard hat einen Verdacht zu Identität des Mädchens: Sie vermutet, dass es sich um Charkows verschollene Schwester handeln könnte. Doch der Fundort der Leiche stimmt nicht mit dem Gebiet, wo sie vor über dreissig Jahren verschollen war, überein. Um weitere Indizien für die Identifizierung zu sammeln müssen die Drei noch einmal zurück auf den Gletscher. Während der Suche verschlechtert sich das Wetter zunehmend. Ein Schneesturm kommt auf, indem Francine Boviard in eine Felsspalte stürzt. Der Sturm hat dramatische Aussmasse erreicht und so müssen die Drei die Nacht in der Höhle verbringen, die sich unter der Felsspalte verbarg. Die Höhle entpuppt sich aber als alte Bunkeranlage aus dem 2. Weltkrieg. Neugierig erkunden sie die Anlage, in der Hoffnung auf einen besseren Ort für ihre unfreiwillige Übernachtung. Doch anstatt eines besseren Lagers, finden sie zwei weitere mumifizierte Männerleichen, die sie eindeutig als die Vermissten identifizieren können: die Väter von Charkow und seinem Jugendfreund. Weitere Ermittlungen ergeben, dass beide Männer durch einen Genickschuss regelrecht hingerichtet wurden und dass es sich bei der Mädchenleiche tatsächlich um Anna - Charkows Schwester - handelt. So tragisch die Entdeckungen für Charkow sind, so hat er doch den Mord an seinem Jugendfreund aufzudecken. Erst langsam entdeckt er das Geheimniss, welches die Ermordung seines Vaters und die seines Freundes verbindet. Eine Zeichnung - die sein authistischer Bruder wie ein Mantra immer wieder zeichnet - führt ihn auf die Spur zur Lösung des Falls. Die Zeichnung zeigt einen toten Soldaten in einer schrecklichen, von Granattrichtern übersäaten, Kriegslandschaft. Charkow ermittelt, dass es sich um ein bekanntes Gemälde von Otto Dix mit dem Titel "Der Schützengraben" handelt welches seit dem 2. Weltkrieg als verschollen gilt. Der Umstand, dass sie die Leiche des vierten Vermissten - Pietro Caduff - noch nicht gefunden haben, veranlasst Charkow zur Annahme, dass er noch leben könnte. Auf Grund dieser Annahmen kann er Pietro Caduff eine raffinierte Falle stellen und ihn verhaften. Er erfährt, dass Caduff der Mörder seines Jugendfreundes und seiner Familie ist. Sein Vater hatte damals bei seiner Flucht aus Russland Raubkunst gestohlen und illegal in die Schweiz gebracht. Caduff war ein kleiner Angestellter in einer Kunstgalerie in Zürich und sollte ihm beim Verkauf der Bilder helfen. Die Männer fanden ein passendes Versteck in der alten Bunkeranlage. Doch Caduff wollte nicht teilen. Er brachte die beiden Männer und Anna um, nahm die Bilder an sich und sprengte den Zugang zur Bunkeranlage. Die Behärden nahmen an, dass alle Vier bei einer Bergtour ums Leben kamen. Nach zwei Wochen vergeblicher Suche gabe sie auf. Da Caduff selbst als Verschollen galt, konnte er sich eine neue Identität aufbauen. Der Verkauf der Bilder machte ihn reich und er konnte seine eigene Gallerie in Zürich gründen - bei der er sich aber sehr im Hintergrund hielt. Doch hatte er noch eine Schmach zu tilgen: ein einziges Bild - "Der Schützengraben" von Otto Dix - hatte Charkows Vater vor ihm versteckt. Caduff wusste, dass es immer noch in der Schweiz sein musste. Er wusste, dass es nie verkauft wurde. Also musste es irgendwo ihm Dorf oder im Bunker sein, dessen Eingang nach dem Bergsturz frei war - dies hatte er in der Presse gelesen und diese Pressemitteilung war Charkows Falle gewesen. Caduff wird verhaftet. Die Beerdigung für die Verschollenen im Dorf ist geplant. Da erinnert sich Charkow an die Zeichnung seines Bruders. Auf jeder Zeichnung findet er ein russisch-orthodoxes Kreuz, welches im verschollenen Werk von Otto Dix nie zu finden war. Dieses Kreuz erinnerte ihn an das Portrait, welches sein Vater von seiner Mutter gemalt hatte. Er rennt ins Atelier in seinem Elternhaus, wo das Portrait immer noch auf der Staffelei steht, die sein Vater vor dreissig Jahren zurückgelassen hat. Unter der Leinwand dieses Portraits findet er ein zweites Gemälde: Otto Dix' "Der Schützengraben". Charkow hat sein Familiengeheimnis gelüftet und mit der Beerdigung seiner Angehörigen kann er auch seine eigene Geschichte begraben.
- At the beginning of 2023, in the city of Lugano, Switzerland, "La tour vagabonde" arrived for three months, bringing alternative culture in a city that just 2 years before illegally demolished the oldest anarchic community center.
- Christl's aunt urges her to marry Dr. Heider. Although she hardly knows him, Christl accepts - mainly to escape her overprotective aunt. But since she doesn't want to live with her new husband, she switches roles with her self-assured twin sister Annelie, who promises to get rid of him in just a week. Meanwhile Christl substitutes her in her job as secretary of a componist. Of course both get into their roles and start to like their exchanged men...
- The documentary is a portrait of Davide Caprani, a Swiss police officer, who volunteers for a year of service for the United Nation police troops in Liberia.
- Fifteen directors each made their own short films under supervision of Bela Tarr. A re-interpretation of spaces in and around Locarno (city, cable car, Val Bavona, Corippo).
- The film is about two artists: one from the mountains, the Italian-Swiss architect Mario Botta who built a chapel, and the other, the Italian painter: Enzo Cucchi, a man of the sea who painted the frescoes in the chapel, up to 70 meters.
- On the 8th of September 1943 Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961), future first president of the Italian Republic, abandoned Turin, which was occupied by the Wehrmacht, and went to Switzerland. It was "the flight of the people in the face of the barbarians", he wrote in his "Diary of Exile". Taking this as a starting point, the filmmaker Villi Hermann interviews those individuals still alive (Swiss and Italian, soldiers and partisans, Jews who were denied entry to Switzerland and survived the holocaust), who provide an account of this troubled period from an unusual perspective: Luigi Einaudi.