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- The life of Anne Frank and her family from 1939 to 1945: pre-war fears, invasion of Netherlands by German troops, hiding in Amsterdam, deportation to the camps, return of Anne's father.
- Following the success of his poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron becomes the toast of London.
- The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.
- A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
- Fifteen-year-old Beni falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a Rock band. As Fögi seduces him, Beni is willing to follow him where ever he takes him. But Fögi is a drug addict and pulls Beni deeper and deeper into his addiction.
- When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him, then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship.
- Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.
- The adventures of Boomer, a stray dog who travels the country helping those in trouble.
- The sisters Bimbo and Molle live on a farm. One day, her cousin Peggy and her cousins drag Danny and Ben to the farm because their parents had a fatal accident.
- Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s.
- Anna is a young teenager with a passion for ballet dancing. When she is seriously injured in a car accident, it seems that her dream of becoming a ballerina is over. In rehab she meets the up-beat Rainer, who is paralyzed and in a wheelchair. They become friends, and he helps her regain the will to live. Eventually, Anna recovers and is able to dance again.
- People are trapped in the basement of a New York apartment building on the hottest day of the summer.
- In his last feature film, "The 6 Kummerbuben", Franz Schnyder tells of difficult days and meager joy in the life of a day laborer family.
- On her honeymoon on a ship the daughter of a rich plant owner realizes that she's not happy with her marriage. She meets a poor woman on the way to meet her future husband, a missionary in India. The women decide to swap roles...
- For Sandra, a woman in her late teens, life is wonderful. She has recently fallen in love with Daniel, a member of the group of young men she hangs around with frequently. Daniel is flattered by Sandra's affection for him and they begin to spend more time together, apart from the rest of the gang. Their relationship remains diffuse and directionless, provoking tension and threatening to cause a schism within the group.
- Senta von Meissen invites the fellow students of her graduation class from 1938 - 50 years ago - for a class reunion into her castle. They expect to happily party through the weekend - but that's not what their host intends for them. A foreboding steals upon Senta's visitors, when there remains an empty seat at the dinner table, preserved for a student, who came to death during one of their scholar excursions.
- Since 1886, there has been a weather-station master at the summit of the mountain. He telegraphs his daily measurements into the valley from where they are transmitted to Rome, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.
- The day after the night of the full moon, 12 children all 10 years of age are found to be missing in the four language regions of Switzerland. The police and the media reassuringly claim that there are plenty of leads and clues.
- Max is unemployed. He shares an apartment with a prostitute, dreaming of another life, and Jiri, a refugee who believes the world is doomed. Max is certain that he will one day find the deal that will make him rich.
- Kelly, a successful career woman and single mother, and her friend Evelyn are both in search of the ideal man. Kelly eventually finds herself torn between sophisticated art dealer Thomas and struggling writer Jonathan, while Evelyn continues her quest for a flesh and blood version of Michelangelo's "David". But will either woman find the happiness they are seeking?
- A Swiss guitar player and a female saxophonist from Berlin live and work together. They perpetually discuss about staying together or separating and look up to couples who live together permanently.
- "Honey and Ashes" tells the stories of three women from contemporary North Africa. Caught between tradition and modernity, they seek success in their lives and in their relationships with men. Although their age and social backgrounds differ, their paths cross, bringing to light the multiple obstacles which society has placed in their way.
- An unusual family story about two father and son generations, beginning on a German country side and ending in the students' revolt in Berlin.
- The political activist Claude is shot. While in the realm of the dead he falls in love with the hairdresser Dodo. They only have 12 hours.
- Rival families of farmers disagree about which is the most suitable crop to plant.
- An examination of the rise to power, election, overthrow and exile of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.
- Sing Yesterday When I Was Young in the Style of "Roy Clark". Stingray Karaoke Country, Classic, 1969, English, Key Dm.
- A poetic love story between a German actor and a Japanese student
- The fate of a market woman who is mentally and physically abused by her husband for years until she can begin a new life in freedom with her son in a women's shelter.
- This movie concerns Sergei (Roger Jendly), a revolutionary who kills a student in Russia and flees to Switzerland. Though he has the gifts and abilities to unify various revolutionary groups within Russia, once he has been forced to flee, they have no interest in him. When his presence in Switzerland threatens a trade agreement with the Tsar, he is tracked down and expelled.
- The first film about «secondos»: A Turkish ice hockey player explains why, in Switzerland, he could only fall in love with an Italian. A young Italian woman explains why she prefers to rap in English. A hip-hop artist with Hispanic origins fights for his political rights and the director reminisces on how, despite his Arabic roots, he's been persecuted as a Jew. Babylon 2 reflects the rise of a new urban culture in Switzerland, which is instigated by the second generation of immigrants and the help of electronic media.
- The film takes us back to the turbulent time of the formation of modern Switzerland 170 years ago and describes how Jakob Rudolf Steiger went from being a liberal revolutionary to the highest-ranking Swiss in the new Confederation.
- Portrait of the German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, who lived in the south of France during World War II where she painted nearly 1000 gouaches recounting her life.
- Studies the acclaimed designs of contemporary Spanish architect-engineer Santiago Calatrava for public buildings in Spain, France, Portugal, Switzerland and the USA. Calatrava discusses the creative process and his sources of inspiration, nature and the human form.
- This is a portrait of a man and of a country, as he travels through it. He is a travelling salesman, and travels through Switzerland selling cosmetics to beauty parlors.
- At night, in his studio perched high above the lights of New York, Bill Diamond, a famous photographer, invents stories and fairy tales, to chase away the evil spirits his memories keep bringing back. One of these stories is about Mark, a gifted photographer who lives alone, embittered and withdrawn from the world, in a church that once was his studio on the lake of Geneva. Mark has lost everything: his fame, his wife, his friends, and above all, his self-esteem. His dear friend Luc, the village policeman, is the only companion he has left. Into this bleak world, Bill sends Jessi, a beautiful model he once worked with. Jessi tells Mark that Bill is dead, and that he is now to continue the work the elder photographer had begun. Mark reacts to this offer with cynicism, but because he needs money, he accepts. The relationship between Mark and Jessi is difficult and tense. Yet in the course of their work Mark becomes more and more fascinated by this strange, gentle woman. Could Jessi really be the angel Bill Diamond says she is?
- Without knowing it, Alfred and Julia live in a land of pure invention. It is the richest and most beautiful land in the world. From a height, this land looks like a piece of felt, from close up like a clean and tiny park.