
A gentle portrait by the famous German-Swiss-Austrian Hollywood actor Maximilian Schell about his no less famous sister Maria. Read More »
Tag Archives: Switzerland
Black for Remembrance (1995) Noir comme le souvenir

This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Read More »
The Bus (1975) Otobüs

A group of illegal immigrants are brought to Stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports, and then runs away. Read More »
Green Mountain (1990) Fredi M. Murer, Fredy Breitschmidt, Marcos Buser, Peter Hug

A few months after Tchernobyl’s disaster, some inhabitants of a small village in Switzerland are told by the radio Read More »
A Flame in My Heart (1987) Alain Tanner, Myriam Mézières, Benoît Régent, Azize Kabouche

The film relates the painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African Read More »
The Damned / La caduta degli dei (1969) Luchino Visconti, Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem

The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich. Read More »
Charles, Dead or Alive (1969) Alain Tanner

On the 100th anniversary of the founding of a watchmaking company in Geneva Read More »
Thelma (2001) Pierre-Alain Meier, Laurent Schilling, Pascale Ourbih, Natalia Kapodistria

Vincent, a down-at-the-heels French cab driver, desperately in need of cash for child support is intrigued Read More »
Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) Jan Svankmajer, Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová

Six people unknowingly form a cycle of masturbation as they each cause others to privately indulge in their fetishes. Read More »
Brass Target (1978) John Hough, Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Max von Sydow

General Patton tries to transfer the German gold stock to Frankfurt. But someone foils his plan. The military police begin to find the guilty… Read More »
Reas (2024) Lola Arias, Ignacio Amador Rodriguez, Yoseli Arias, Carla Canteros

Gentle or rough, blonde or shaved, cis or trans, long term inmates or those newly admitted Read More »
New Wave / Nouvelle vague (1990) Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Jacques Dacqmine

Elena Torlato-Favrini, a headstrong Italian countess and business empire heiress Read More »
Happy as Lazzaro / Lazzaro felice (2018) Alice Rohrwacher, Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani

This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded Read More »
Angel on the Right / Fararishtay kifti rost (2002) Jamshed Usmonov, Uktamoi Miyasarova, Maruf Pulodzoda, Kova Tilavpur

Set in the Tajik village of Asht, this film draws on the Muslim notion that we are born Read More »
La femme de Gilles / Gilles’ Wife (2004) Frédéric Fonteyne, Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet

Gilles’ wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him Read More »