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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: 3,078
2. L'Argent (1983)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A counterfeit bill that starts off as a schoolboy prank leads to incarceration and violence.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Vincent Risterucci
Votes: 11,908
3. Mostly Martha (2001)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama
When a headstrong chef takes charge of her equally stubborn 8-year-old niece, the tensions between them mount... until an Italian sous-chef arrives to lighten the mood.
Director: Sandra Nettelbeck | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Maxime Foerste, Sergio Castellitto, August Zirner
Votes: 8,581 | Gross: $4.16M
4. Every Man for Himself (1980)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, Roland Amstutz
Votes: 3,959
5. Union City (1980)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A man is so obsessed with finding the person responsible for stealing his milk bottles that he ignores his beautiful young wife, who has other ideas on her mind.
Director: Marcus Reichert | Stars: Dennis Lipscomb, Debbie Harry, Sam McMurray, Terry Walsh
Votes: 465
6. Straight for the Heart (1988)
92 min | Drama, Romance, War
A war photographer returns home to Montréal to discover that his two partners have left him to be together. Alone in the city, he photographs what he sees, trying to heal both his war memories and a broken heart.
Director: Léa Pool | Stars: Matthias Habich, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Michel Voïta, Jean-François Pichette
Votes: 256
7. Tosca's Kiss (1984)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, Music
Retired opera singers reenact past roles at a Milan nursing home. Daniel Schmid's "Tosca's Kiss" captures their poignant performances, exploring how music's inspirational power intersects with aging.
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Giuseppe Manacchini, Leonida Bellon, Salvatore Locapo, Giovanni Puligheddu
Votes: 206 | Gross: $0.01M
8. Arsène Lupin (1971–1974)
52 min | Adventure, Comedy
The adventures of the iconic gentleman-burglar, loosely adapted from Maurice Leblanc's pages.
Stars: Georges Descrières, Yvon Bouchard, Roger Carel, Jacques Monod
Votes: 437
9. Cocaine Cowboys (1979)
R | 87 min | Crime, Drama
Dustin (Tom Sullivan) is the leader of a rock band on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they have juggled their music career with cocaine smuggling. The musicians, and their manager Raf... See full summary »
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Jack Palance, Tom Sullivan, Andy Warhol, Suzanna Love
Votes: 457
10. Sotto falso nome (2004)
105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.
Director: Roberto Andò | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Anna Mouglalis, Greta Scacchi, Giorgio Lupano
Votes: 960
11. Hécate (1982)
105 min | Drama, Romance
North Africa in the 1930s. Julien, a young, bored diplomat meets Clothilde, whose husband is on a mission in Siberia. He becomes infatuated with her, and soon ends up spending all his time with her, longing to know everything about her.
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Lauren Hutton, Jean Bouise, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Votes: 187
12. Love, Math and Sex (1997)
100 min | Drama
Sabine, an adolescent girl with a gift for mathematics becomes involved with Jiri, a 40-something man-of-the-theatre from Prague. The story of their relationship and the gradual ... See full summary »
Director: Charlotte Silvera | Stars: Julie Delarme, Georges Corraface, Marie-Christine Barrault, Agnès Soral
Votes: 281
13. The Boat Is Full (1981)
PG | 101 min | Drama, War
During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: ... See full summary »
Director: Markus Imhoof | Stars: Tina Engel, Hans Diehl, Martin Walz, Curt Bois
Votes: 704
14. Des épaules solides (2003 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama, Sport
15-year-old Sabine tries to do everything to become a champion in running.
Director: Ursula Meier | Stars: Louise Szpindel, Dora Jemaa, Nina Meurisse, Guillaume Gouix
Votes: 99
15. Charles, Dead or Alive (1969)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
The portrait of an old man who decides to abandon his comfortable bourgeois way of life and live with a Bohemian couple. There he rediscovers his freedom to think and his joie de vivre.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: François Simon, Marie-Claire Dufour, Marcel Robert, Maya Simon
Votes: 680
16. The Middle of the World (1974)
115 min | Drama, Romance
Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Olimpia Carlisi, Philippe Léotard, Juliet Berto, Denise Péron
Votes: 354
17. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
116 min | Drama
A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Myriam Boyer, Jean-Luc Bideau, Miou-Miou, Jacques Denis
Votes: 1,189
18. Shadow of Angels (1976)
101 min | Drama
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Annemarie Düringer, Adrian Hoven
Votes: 241
19. After Darkness (1985)
R | 104 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
To salve his guilty conscience, an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt, and tries to bring him back to mental competency ... See full summary »
Directors: Sergio Guerraz, Dominique Othenin-Girard | Stars: John Hurt, Julian Sands, Victoria Abril, Pamela Salem
Votes: 241
20. Welcome to Switzerland (2004)
105 min | Comedy
Thierry has left Switzerland and lives in France: he is ethnologist specialized in the Laplanders.Now he returns to Switzerland with his companion Sophie for the burial of his ... See full summary »
Director: Léa Fazer | Stars: Vincent Perez, Emmanuelle Devos, Denis Podalydès, Walo Lüönd
Votes: 433
21. Jeune homme (2006)
90 min | Comedy
An 18 years old man is leaving his Swiss German parent's house to learn 1 year French in Geneva, as au pair helper of this family. He learns there the easy and hard times of life and love.
Director: Christoph Schaub | Stars: Matthias Schoch, Alexandra Vandernoot, Didier Flamand, Jennifer Decker
Votes: 295
22. Beresina or The Last Days of Switzerland (1999)
108 min | Comedy
An innocent Russian call girl believes that she would make use of her influential contacts to get Swiss nationality.
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Elena Panova, Geraldine Chaplin, Martin Benrath, Ulrich Noethen
Votes: 602
23. Jenatsch (1987)
97 min | Drama, Fantasy
A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Michel Voïta, Christine Boisson, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Jean Bouise
Votes: 114
24. Return from Africa (1973)
109 min | Drama
An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Josée Destoop, François Marthouret, Juliet Berto, Anne Wiazemsky
Votes: 182
25. Off Season (1992)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin's family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site's empty halls and ballrooms.
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Sami Frey, Carlos Devesa, Ingrid Caven, Dieter Meier
Votes: 180
26. Ardiente paciencia (1983)
80 min | Drama, Romance
A poor postman in Isla Negra, Chile, befriends Pablo Neruda and asks his help in writing poems to the woman of his dreams.
Director: Antonio Skármeta | Stars: Óscar Castro, Roberto Parada, Marcela Osorio, Naldy Hernandez
Votes: 149
27. Going Private (2006)
96 min | Drama
Investment banker HP has allegedly ridden out the crash of the stock exchange. One evening, at a barbecue event with his banker friends and their wives, HP's Danish au-pair threatens to ... See full summary »
Director: Stina Werenfels | Stars: Olivia Frolich, Selma Jamal Aldin, Mikki Levy, Luca Lüdi
Votes: 150
28. Notre Dame de la Croisette (1981 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Kyra Nijinsky, Bob Rafelson, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 67
29. The Mirror (1984)
88 min | Drama, Romance
A man who killed the son of the owner of the land they worked on for hanging on his wife, bury him in the barn. From this moment on, a spiritually tense process begins for the man and his wife.
Director: Erden Kiral | Stars: Nur Sürer, Suavi Eren, Hikmet Çelik, Vasilis Tsaglos
Votes: 116
30. Swiss Made (1968)
45 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
An alien visits earth and records its experiences.
Directors: H.R. Giger, Fritz E. Maeder, Fredi M. Murer, Yves Yersin | Stars: Clélia Babaiantz, Jean-Louis Cornuz, Erika Dentzler, Herbert Herrman
Votes: 44
31. Slumming (2006)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Two yuppies play mean tricks on one another until one joke has fatal consequences.
Director: Michael Glawogger | Stars: Paulus Manker, August Diehl, Michael Ostrowski, Pia Hierzegger
Votes: 869
32. Mon frère se marie (2006)
95 min | Comedy
Adopted by a well-off Swiss couple with slightly older son and daughter, Vinh never cut off links with his country of origin. Postcards from the adoptive family regularly conveyed to Vinh's... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Stéphane Bron | Stars: Jean-Luc Bideau, Aurore Clément, Cyril Troley, Delphine Chuillot
Votes: 156
33. Alexandre (1983)
80 min | Drama
Directors: Jean-François Amiguet, Anne Gonthier | Stars: Didier Sauvegrain, Michel Voïta, James Mason, Dave Angstadt
Votes: 15
34. La Paloma (1974)
112 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A love story between a "demi-mondaine" kept by various lovers, suffering from tuberculosis, and a young provincial bourgeois. Adaptation from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, "The Lady of the Camellias".
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Ingrid Caven, Peter Kern, Peter Chatel, Jérôme Nicolin
Votes: 138
35. Les petites fugues (1979)
140 min | Comedy, Drama
Pipe, farmhand for 30 years, buys a moped with his old-age insurance allowances. Despite a difficult start, Pipe sets out to discover a reality he did not know.
Director: Yves Yersin | Stars: Michel Robin, Fabienne Barraud, Fred Personne, Dore De Rosa
Votes: 419
36. The Wonderful Crook (1975)
112 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victims.
Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: Marlène Jobert, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Labourier, Jacques Debary
Votes: 230
37. Les Indiens sont encore loin (1977)
95 min | Drama
A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Director: Patricia Moraz | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Christine Pascal, Mathieu Carrière, Chilpéric de Boiscuillé
Votes: 102
38. 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
39. Anna Wunder (2000)
98 min | Drama
The 11-year-old Anna, who single-handed keeps her broken family going, is already well on the way being an adult. She undergoes the problems of puberty and at the same time loses her mother who drank hopelessly.
Director: Ulla Wagner | Stars: Julia Dellgrün, Stephan Dellgrün, Alice Dwyer, Joëlle Fretz
Votes: 45
40. La voix de son maître (1978)
100 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The plot of the film is made of twelve individual interviews with twelve big bosses of large French firms, as well as a group interview with six of them, with some commentaries of the director.
Directors: Gérard Mordillat, Nicolas Philibert | Stars: Michel Barba, Guy Brana, François Dalle, Bernard Darty
Votes: 40
41. White Terror (2005)
PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary
A video about Neo-Nazis originating in Sweden provides the starting point of an investigation of extremists' networks in Europe, North America and Russia. Their propaganda is a message of hatred, war and segregation.
Director: Daniel Schweizer | Stars: Daniel Schweizer, Christine Brand, Olivier Cochet, Stieg Larsson
Votes: 143
42. 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
43. Mirage de la vie (1983 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Douglas Sirk, Hilde Jary
Votes: 37
44. Pierre et Djemila (1987)
86 min | Drama
Pierre, 17, falls in love with Djemila, a young Algerian girl of fourteen.
Director: Gérard Blain | Stars: Jean-Pierre André, Nadja Reski, Abdelkader, Salah Teskouk
Votes: 52
45. Echoes of Home (2007)
G | 82 min | Documentary
What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodler, and what connects the head tone of a Tuvin nomad with the stage show of a vocal artist? The answer is: THE VOICE. ... See full summary »
Director: Stefan Schwietert | Stars: Erika Stucky, Noldi Alder, Christian Zehnder
Votes: 143
46. Signé Renart (1985)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Before entering the stage, Renart warns the owner of the cabaret. There will be damage if he returns his friend Hermeline because she is pregnant.
Director: Michel Soutter | Stars: Tom Novembre, Fabienne Barraud, Armand Deladoey, Jean-Pierre Gos
Votes: 26
47. L'été de Chloé (2004 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Director: Heikki Arekallio | Stars: Jean-Yves Berteloot, Valentina Vargas, Élisabeth Vitali, Stéphane Caillard
Votes: 13
48. Der Gehülfe (1976)
122 min | Drama
Joseph is hired by an inventor and moves in with his family. Although he doesn't get any salary for his work, he stays on because he believes that the highly dysfunctional family needs to be rescued.
Director: Thomas Koerfer | Stars: Paul Burian, Verena Buss, Ingold Wildenauer, Wolfram Berger
Votes: 39
49. Mais im Bundeshuus: le génie helvétique (2003)
90 min | Documentary, Thriller
"Mais im Bundeshuus - le génie helvétique" ("Corn in Parliament") is a vertiginous journey down the corridors of the Federal Parliament building in Bern. Constructed as a feature film, it ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Stéphane Bron | Stars: Jacques Neirynck, Josef Kunz, Liliane Chappuis, Maya Graf
Votes: 199
50. Four of Them (1968)
105 min | Drama
A bold cinematic project which tells the story of four Swiss women, aged 16, 22, 31 and 72: Sylvie, Patricia, Erika and Angèle, by blending fiction and documentary into four individual shorts assembled into a full-length feature film.
Directors: Claude Champion, Francis Reusser, Jacques Sandoz, Yves Yersin | Stars: Mary Adossides, Jo Baumgartner, Kyôko Kosaka, Neige Dolsky
Votes: 11