Switzerland movies

Humans

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: France | Luxembourg | Switzerland
Actors: Deutsch, Lorànt | Forestier, Sara | Pinon, Dominique | Tournier, Manon | Otzenberger, Élise | Nahon, Philippe | Kmiotek, Christian | Olinger, Marc | von Roesgen, Marie-Paule | Robert, Catherine | Michel, Jacques | Brantschen, Monsieur | Zurkinden, René-Joseph | Brantschen, Marie | Jagut, Mégane
Directors: Molon, Jacques-Olivier
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A team of several researchers travel to the Swiss Alps to investigate a scientific discovery on human evolution. The trip, however, turns into a deadly fight for survival when the team crash into a gully and find themselves falling prey to someone…or something.

Europa

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: Denmark | France | Germany | Sweden | Switzerland
Actors: Barr, Jean-Marc | Sukowa, Barbara | Kier, Udo | Järegård, Ernst-Hugo | Mørk, Erik | Reenberg, Jørgen | Jensen, Henning | Constantine, Eddie | von Sydow, Max | Poulsen, Benny | Müller, Erno | Kuhlbrodt, Dietrich | Simpson, Michael Phillip | Perfort, Holger | Thomsen, Anne Werner
Directors: von Trier, Lars
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A young American of German roots goes to work as a sleeping car conductor with his uncle in occupied Germany and soon is involved in the languid but subversive world of an industrialist’s daughter.

Banter

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: Spain | Switzerland | USA
Actors: Curtis, Tony | Gómez, José Luis | Henry, Gregg | Paulin, Scott | Telletxea, Fernando | Bayo, Lola | Miracle, Irene | Shepard, Patty | Vernon, Kate
Directors: Hachuel, Hervé
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An alcoholic partier becomes a paranoid maniac when a manuscript that predicts real-life horrors takes possession of his mind.

Les choristes

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: France | Germany | Switzerland
Actors: Jugnot, Gérard | Berléand, François | Merad, Kad | Bonnaire, Jean-Paul | Bunel, Marie | Maunier, Jean-Baptiste | Perrin, Maxence | Gatignol, Grégory | Blumenthal, Thomas | Bernicot, Cyril | Fargeot, Simon | Carré-Cassaigne, Théodule | Du Janerand, Philippe | Weiss, Carole | Desmarestz, Erick
Directors: Barratier, Christophe
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On 15 January 1949, the former music teacher Clément Mathieu arrives in “Fond de l’ Etang” (“Bottom of the Well”), a boarding school for orphans and problematic boys, to work as an inspector. The place is administrated with iron fist by the cruel director Rachin, and most of the boys have severe punishments for their faults. Clément decides to teach the boys to sing in a choir in their spare time, and identify the musical potential of the rebel Pierre Morhange, the son of a beautiful single mother for whom he feels a crush. He also has a special feeling for the young Pépinot, a boy that expects the visit of his father every Saturday near the gate, but indeed lost his parents in the war. With his methods, Clément changes the lives of the boys, of the other employees and his own.

Waltz with Bashir

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Animation | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: Australia | Belgium | Finland | France | Germany | Israel | Switzerland | USA
Actors: Ben-Yishai, Ron | Dayag, Ronny | Harazi, Dror | Lazarov, Yehezkel | Leon, Mickey | Sivan, Ori | Solomon, Zahava
Directors: Folman, Ari
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One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can’t remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.

Nordwand

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Drama | History | Sport
Countries: Austria | Germany | Switzerland
Actors: Fürmann, Benno | Lukas, Florian | Wokalek, Johanna | Friedrich, Georg | Schwarz, Simon | Tukur, Ulrich | Steinhauer, Erwin | Samarovski, Branko | Morzé, Petra | Müller, Hanspeter | Zumstein, Peter | Schick, Martin | Mangold, Erni | Thanheiser, Johannes | Schimkat, Arnd
Directors: Stölzl, Philipp
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NORTH FACE is the tense, edge-of-your-seat documentary that relives 48 death-defying hours in the lives of the two climbers who scaled the eponymous wall of the Eiger Mountain in 1936. What started as an event that bore the expectations of their nation and Fuhrer became a race for survival when the pair became threatened by serious injury and unrelenting weather conditions.

Manon Of The Spring

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | Italy | Switzerland
Actors: Montand, Yves | Auteuil, Daniel | Béart, Emmanuelle | Girardot, Hippolyte | Lozano, Margarita | Gamy, Yvonne | Holgado, Ticky | Bouchaud, Jean | Depardieu, Elisabeth | Bacquier, Gabriel | Meffre, Armand | Dupon, André | Nougaro, Pierre | Maurel, Jean | Souza, Roger
Directors: Berri, Claude
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In a rural French village an old man and his only remaining relative are successful flower growers using water from a spring on an adjoining property they now own. The grown-up daughter of the previous owner still lives in the hills as a goatherd and comes to realise that not only these two but the whole village knew of the existence of the spring when her father was desperately trying to water his crops. An accident with one of the goats leads her by chance to the source of the spring and the possibility of a terrible revenge.

Not on the Lips

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: France | Switzerland
Actors: Tautou, Audrey | Sabine Azéma | Nanty, Isabelle | Pierre Arditi | Daniel Prévost
Directors: Alain Resnais
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A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He’s negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte’s first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arlette, Gilberte begs Eric not to tell Georges about the marriage. Meanwhile, a young artist, Charly, pursues Gilberte while Arlette tries to match him with the young Huguette, who loves him. Will Eric play along or try to re-win Gilberte’s affection? Can Gilberte play one off against another? And who will manage to kiss whom on the lips?

Ready, Steady, Charlie!

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Marco Rima | Martin Rapold | Myriam Aegerter | Melanie Winiger | Michael Koch | Mike Muller | Max Rudlinger | Nicolas Steiner
Directors: Mike Eschmann
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The “Original” Swiss Army Comedy

Three Colours: Red

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Poland | Switzerland
Actors: Jacob, Irene | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Feder, Frédérique | Jean-Pierre Lorit | Le Bihan, Samuel | Marion Stalens | Celio, Teco | Escalon, Bernard | Schlegel, Jean | Jasinska, Elzbieta | Vermeulen, Paul | Daunas, Jean-Marie | Carey, Roland | Raul, Brigitte | Ramseyer, Leo
Directors: Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Valentine is a young model living in Geneva. Because of a dog she ran over, she meets a retired judge who spies his neighbours’ phone calls, not for money but to feed his cynicism. The film is the story of relationships between some human beings, Valentine and the judge, but also other people who may not be aware of the relationship they have with Valentine or/and the old judge. Redemption, forgiveness and compassion…