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1. Tatort (1970– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Stars: Klaus J. Behrendt, Miroslav Nemec, Udo Wachtveitl, Dietmar Bär
Votes: 3,073
2. Frontline (1983– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary, News
FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world and American television's top long-form news and current affairs series since 1983
Stars: Will Lyman, Sarah Childress, Priyanka Boghani, Arun Rath
Votes: 2,301
3. Terra X - Rätsel alter Weltkulturen (1982– )
43 min | Documentary, History
Terra X - Expedition into the unknown.
Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Dirk Steffens, Joachim Bublath, Ramona Leiß
Votes: 181
4. Hyenas (1992)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Mansour Diouf, Ami Diakhate, Mamadou Mahourédia Gueye, Djibril Diop Mambéty
Votes: 1,344 | Gross: $0.02M
5. Yaaba (1989)
90 min | Drama, Romance
A small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother)... See full summary »
Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo | Stars: Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouédraogo
Votes: 758
6. Guru: Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard (2010)
98 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The rise of the so called "sex-guru" Bhagwan and his model commune in Poona and Oregon in the 1970s and 1980s told by his former close disciples, his personal secretary and bodyguard.
Directors: Sabine Gisiger, Beat Häner | Stars: Hugh Milne, Ma Anand Sheela, Osho, Gayan
Votes: 187
7. Kulturplatz (2004– )
25 min | Documentary
Stars: Eva Wannenmacher, Nicole Salathé, Nina Brunner, Nino Gadient
Votes: 22
8. Lumumba: Death of a Prophet (1991)
Not Rated | 69 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Congo) when he was assassinated in 1961.
Director: Raoul Peck | Star: Patrice Lumumba
Votes: 179
9. The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy (2009)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary
A hunter in a remote and idyllic forest stumbles on a make shift tent fashioned from sheets of plastic and containing the mummified remains of a corpse. A detailed journal found on site ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Liechti | Stars: Peter Mettler, Alexander Tschernek, Nikola Weisse
Votes: 583
10. The Journey to Kafiristan (2001)
Unrated | 101 min | Drama
In 1939, the author Annemarie Schwarzenbach and the ethnologist Ella Maillart travel together by car to Kabul, but each is in pursuit of her own project. Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was ... See full summary »
Directors: Donatello Dubini, Fosco Dubini | Stars: Jeanette Hain, Nina Petri, Monika Arnó, Vassilios Avgouteas
Votes: 339
11. Bird's Nest - Herzog & De Meuron in China (2008)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
Superstar architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron must negotiate between two cultures, two architectural traditions, and two political systems to build the new National Stadium for ... See full summary »
Directors: Christoph Schaub, Michael Schindhelm | Stars: Pierre De Meuron, Jacques Herzog, Uli Sigg, Ai Weiwei
Votes: 56
12. Rundschau (1968– )
Documentary, News
Stars: Reto Brennwald, Sandro Brotz, Sonja Hasler, Hannes Britschgi
Votes: 7
13. Ettore Sottsass - Der Sinn der Dinge (2007)
58 min | Documentary
Documentation dedicated to the lifework of the Italian design star Ettore Sottsass, which explores early works as well as the "New Design" of his avant-garde group Memphis, founded in 1981.
Director: Heinz Bütler | Stars: Ettore Sottsass, Balthus, Ernst Beyeler, Henri Cartier-Bresson
14. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (2003)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary, Biography
Artist Henri Cartier-Bresson comments on several of his photographs. One of the last films shot with the photographer, also featuring Robert Delpire, Elliott Erwitt, Isabelle Huppert, Josef Koudelka, Arthur Miller, and Ferdinando Scianna.
Director: Heinz Bütler | Stars: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alexander Brooks, Robert Delpire, Elliott Erwitt
Votes: 359 | Gross: $0.03M
15. Ludwig 1881 (1993)
90 min | Biography, Drama
In 1881 Ludwig of Bavaria goes on a cruise on a Swiss lake. He takes with him a famous actor, Josef Kainz, to act out the scenes from a story which took place on the lake, at the actual locations.
Directors: Donatello Dubini, Fosco Dubini | Stars: Helmut Berger, Max Tidof, Michael Schiller, Dietmar Mössmer
Votes: 64
16. Toumast (2010)
89 min | Documentary
Director: Dominique Margot | Stars: Moussa Ag Keyna, Aminatou Goumar
Votes: 7
17. Les petites couleurs (2002)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
A slightly conformist hairdresser, Christelle, is eager to acquire a revolutionary machine, a true miracle of hair technology. One evening, the young woman argues again with her husband. She fled in his delivery van.
Director: Patricia Plattner | Stars: Anouk Grinberg, Bernadette Lafont, Philippe Bas, Gilles Tschudi
Votes: 158
18. Viktors Spätprogramm (1995–2002)
Stars: Viktor Giacobbo, Patrick Frey, Walter Andreas Müller, Birgit Steinegger
Votes: 30
19. Monte Grande: What Is Life? (2004)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
How is it possible for body and mind to exist as an integrated whole? the Chilean neurobiologist Francisco Varela devoted his entire life - from childhood to death - to answering this ... See full summary »
Director: Franz Reichle | Stars: Francisco Varela, The Dalai Lama, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Amy Cohen Varela
Votes: 37
20. Maria Bethania: Music Is Perfume (2005)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary
Documentary about Brazilian singing star Maria Bethânia and her 40-year-old career. The film features her concerts and her family, including her famous brother, composer/singer Caetano Veloso.
Director: Georges Gachot | Stars: Maria Bethânia, Nana Caymmi, Miúcha, Chico Buarque
Votes: 91
21. Die Nacht ist heller als der Tag - Das kurze Leben des Malers Andreas Walser (2007)
87 min | Documentary
Director: Heinz Bütler | Stars: Anna Kathrin Bleuler, Ueli Jäggi, Rudolf Koella, Edward Piccin
22. LSD und sein Entdecker Albert Hofmann (1993 TV Movie)
42 min | Documentary
Directors: Valentin Faesch, Basil Gelpke | Stars: Antonio Escohotado, Paul Herrling, Albert Hofmann, Aldous Huxley
23. Le livre de cristal (1994)
110 min | Drama
John Billeter, known as JB, an internationally renowned expert in Oriental civilizations, has agreed to return to Sri Lanka at the request of the UNESCO to decode a Book of Crystal, a treatise on memory that Buddha dictated in his old age.
Director: Patricia Plattner | Stars: Jean-François Balmer, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Douglas Ranasinghe, Gamini Fonseka
Votes: 12
24. MTW - Menschen Technik Wissenschaft (1975–2007)
50 min
Stars: Beat Glogger, Peter Lippuner, David Jans, David Trachsler
25. Santiago Calatrava's Travels (1999)
77 min | Documentary
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... See full summary »
Director: Christoph Schaub | Stars: Santiago Calatrava, Hanspeter Müller
Votes: 24
26. Gito, l'ingrat (1992)
90 min | Comedy
Gito is a young African intellectual returning home from France with numerous academic degrees and ministerial ambitions. Gradually his ambitions are crushed by the daily realities of his ... See full summary »
Director: Léonce Ngabo | Stars: Joseph Kumbela, Marie Bunel, Aoua Sangare, Eric Depreter
Votes: 61
27. Devils Don't Dream! (1995)
90 min | Documentary
An examination of the rise to power, election, overthrow and exile of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.
Director: Andreas Hoessli | Stars: Ana Cristina Vilanova de Arbenz, Catalina Aquino, Pio Quinto Hernandez, Guillermo Echeverría
Votes: 11
28. NeXt (1994–2000)
30 min | News
Stars: Monika Schärer, Daniel Hitzig, Marion Friedrich, Viktor Baumgartner
29. Closed Country (1999)
84 min | Documentary
Many years after World War II, evidence showing a connection between Swiss policy and the deportation and murder of Charles and Sabine Sonabend's parents at Auschwitz fall into Charles's hands.
Director: Kaspar Kasics | Stars: Sabine Sonabend, Charles Sonabend, Fanny Popowski, Gaston Popowski
Votes: 8
30. Dutti der Riese (2007)
94 min | Documentary
This documentary shows the Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler. He was a visionary and a realist.
Director: Martin Witz | Star: Gottlieb Duttweiler
Votes: 44
31. Martha Argerich, conversation nocturne (2003)
72 min | Documentary, Music
The director Georges Gachot has a delightful and stylish gab with the great Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich entwined with wonderful excerpts of her presentations and rehearsals. Along ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Gachot | Star: Martha Argerich
Votes: 45
32. Rio Sonata: Nana Caymmi (2010)
85 min | Documentary
Director: Georges Gachot | Stars: Maria Bethânia, Erasmo Carlos, Dori Caymmi, Dorival Caymmi
Votes: 12
33. Max Frisch, citoyen (2008)
94 min | Documentary
Acclaimed Swiss writer Max Frisch was not only a novelist and dramatist but also an alert and engaged witness of the time. The film tells Frisch's story as one of the last great intellectuals who have disappeared and never been replaced.
Director: Matthias von Gunten | Stars: Peter Bichsel, Max Frisch, Günter Grass, Gottfried Honegger
Votes: 27
34. Salonica (2008)
57 min | Documentary
A look at Thessaloniki which for 450 years was mainly Jewish and the predominant language was Spanish. It was populated by the Jews who were expelled from Catholic Spain in 1492 who found refuge in the Ottoman Empire.
Director: Paolo Poloni
Votes: 14
35. Trophäen der Zeit - Die Fotografendynastie Reinhard aus Sachseln (2006 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary
Directors: Angelo A. Lüdin, Barbara Zürcher | Stars: Antoinette Bog, Primus Camenzind, Regina Omlin, Daniel Reinhard
36. Epoca: The Making of History (2002)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
Directors: Andreas Hoessli, Isabella Huser | Stars: Vladimir B. Barkovsky, Joel Barr, Bruno Ganz, Jerzy Konieczny
Votes: 15
37. Riviera Cocktail (2006)
96 min | Documentary
This delightful documentary charts the life of Irish photographer Edward Quinn who shot some of the most iconic photos of 20th century glitterati. He was a fixture on the French Riviera in ... See full summary »
Director: Heinz Bütler
Votes: 42
38. Lilo & Fredi (2004 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Gitta Gsell | Stars: Linda Geiser, Hans-Joachim Frick, Barbara M. Ahren, Ursula Andermatt
Votes: 8
39. Schwarze Tage (1996)
78 min | Documentary
Director: Benno Maggi | Stars: Anthony Busuttil, Pius Condrau, Gie Couwenvergh, Robert De Klark
40. Arnulf Rainer - Sternsucher (1994 TV Movie)
40 min | Documentary
His paintings are always personal, pieces from his soul. Painting that is focused on the inside, that pulls inward. It sets itself off from the outside and becomes increasingly free on its ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brödl | Stars: Maurus Behrens, Günter Brus, Maria Lassnig, Friedhelm Mennekes
41. Elenas Chance (2009)
50 min | Documentary
Director: Bernard Weber | Star: Elena Colicchio
Votes: 9
43. Lucas läßt grüßen (1989 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Beat Kuert | Stars: Margaret Mazzantini, Gabriele Gori, Vadim Glowna, Heinz Kammer
44. Ein klarer Fall (1995 TV Movie)
87 min | Crime
Director: Rolf Lyssy | Stars: Daniel Bill, Hansjörg Betschart, Wolfgang Hofer, Manfred Studer
45. Naturels sur le vif (1997)
54 min
Directors: Jean Couvreu, Rolf Wäber | Stars: Roland Amstutz, Lorna Bornand, Francis Pauchard, Catherine Mouchet
46. Kampf ums Glück (1988 TV Movie)
78 min | Drama
Director: Bernhard Giger | Stars: Stefan Gubser, Uli Eichenberger, Susanne Meierhofer, Roger Burckhardt
47. Big Mac Small World (2002)
100 min | Documentary
Guyer travels to six parts of the world, including China and Brazil, to see how the ubiquitous McDonalds fast-food chain is shaping communities.
Director: Peter Guyer
Votes: 10
48. Rajas Reise (2007)
78 min | Documentary
Director: Karl Saurer | Stars: Zoltan Biedermann, Roland Halbritter, Hans Heiss, Horst Holzer
49. Eine Reise nach Genf (2000)
61 min | Documentary
Director: Irene Loebell | Stars: Fred Wander, Yvette Z'Graggen, Catherine Santschi