Alex is Finlander married to an Italian who works as a taxi driver in Berlin. Read More »
Tag Archives: Switzerland
La vallée fantôme (1987) Alain Tanner, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacob Berger, Laura Morante
This uneven drama concerns the efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include Read More »
We Who Dwell in the Mountains Cannot Be Blamed for Being There AKA Wir Bergler in den Bergen sind eigentlich nicht schuld, daß wir da sind (1974) Fredi M. Murer
In Göschenen, at the foot of the Gotthard, industrialization has long since taken hold Read More »
The Blue Villa AKA Un bruit qui rend fou (1995) Dimitri de Clercq, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Fred Ward, Arielle Dombasle, Charles Tordjman
A sailor who was accused of killing a teenage girl and who was presumed Read More »
Memoir of War AKA La douleur (2017) Emmanuel Finkiel, Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay
June 1944, France is still under the German occupation. Read More »
Naked Tango (1990) Leonard Schrader, Vincent D’Onofrio, Mathilda May, Fernando Rey
Returning by ship to South America, a young girl escapes her elderly husband Read More »
Sexy Baby AKA Unruhige Töchter (1968) Hansjörg Amon, Joerg Anderson, Inge Burckhardt, Maria Caleita
Sue is a young smart pretty cunning self-confident assertive sexually-liberated feminist student Read More »
La Paloma (1974) Daniel Schmid, Ingrid Caven, Peter Kern, Peter Chatel
A love story between a “demi-mondaine” kept by various lovers, suffering from tuberculosis Read More »
She Devils of the Ss AKA Eine Armee Gretchen (1973) Erwin C. Dietrich, Elisabeth Felchner, Karin Heske, Renate Kasché
In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with the brave Nazi soldiers. Read More »
Savage Souls AKA Les âmes fortes (2001) Raoul Ruiz, Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal, Arielle Dombasle
At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Read More »
Madonnas AKA Madonnen (2007) Maria Speth, Sandra Hüller, Luisa Sappelt, Coleman Swinton
Rita is walking with a baby in her arms through a village in Belgium. Read More »
The Sorrow and the Pity AKA Le chagrin et la pitié (1969) Marcel Ophüls, Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave
From 1940 to 1944, France’s Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Read More »
Marie-Louise (1944) Leopold Lindtberg, Hermann Haller, Josiane Hegg, Germaine Tournier, Heinrich Gretler
Amidst the Nazi invasion of France in 1942, a young girl is evacuated to Switzerland Read More »
Lumumba: Death of a Prophet AKA Lumumba: La mort du prophète (1991) Raoul Peck, Patrice Lumumba
Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba Read More »
Genet à Chatila (1999) Richard Dindo, Mounia Raoui, Leila Shahid, Jean-François Stévenin
A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. Read More »