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Swiss
see all genres ›Somewhat overshadowed throughout its history by the filmic outputs of neighboring France, Germany and Italy, whose languages it shares, Switzerland has nonetheless produced a number of important filmmakers (Alain Tanner, Barbet Schroeder, Daniel Schmid and others) as well as numerous famous actors from Ursula Andress to Bruno Ganz.
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Genres / International / European / Swiss
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Arab Cortege, Geneva
An early film document of international relations, the subject of this Lumière short exceeds its title. The promised processional of Arab dignitaries walks by the camera at the outset but what of the African men who pass on the other side of the street? A crowd of gawking Swiss men and women in the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Beast Within
Nobody wants them but everybody is watching: in living memory, animal fights have been as much looked down upon as they have been loved. THE BEAST WITHIN pursues the reasons for man's drive to have animals fight against each other. It picks up the trails of our martial instincts that lead into various...Start your free trial to watch
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The Color of Your Socks
The documentary THE COLOR OF YOUR SOCKS follows the Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist as she prepares for a major show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since winning the Duemila Prize at the Biennale di Venezia in 1997, Rist has established herself as a major presence in video art. For the first...Start your free trial to watch
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F. est un salaud
Clean-cut 16-year-old Beni is a Zurich high school student just itching for an alternative life. That opportunity comes when he goes to a rock concert where he falls madly in love with Fögi, the dangerously attractive lead singer of the Minks. With looks suggesting a thuggish Keanu Reeves, the 26-year-old...Start your free trial to watch
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Filmstudie
Hans Richter, painter and filmmaker, was introduced to abstract art in 1912. He moved from Germany to Switzerland in 1916, where he joined the Dada movement and began film experiments. Richter continued filmmaking in the United States after 1940. The readings on the soundtrack are fragments from several poems by Dadaist Hugo...Start your free trial to watch
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Four in a Jeep
Intrigue and danger follow the International Police on their rounds in post-WWII Vienna in this suspenseful made-on-location drama. The city is divided between the U.S., England, France and (oh-oh!) Russia. Each Jeep patrol is comprised of one sergeant from each country. The beautiful Franziska (Viveca Lindfors) wants to...Start your free trial to watch
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Greta: Haus ohne Männer
Greta, now a vicious warden, runs a mental hospital for young women. A girl deliberately "checks in" to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there. Meanwhile Greta and one of the guards are forcing inmates to have sex with male prisoners, filming them and selling them as...Start your free trial to watch
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Hippie Masala
In the 1960s and 1970s thousands of hippies journeyed east to India in search of enlightenment. Indian peasants assumed that a severe drought in the West was the reason for their migration. India’s holy men saw it as a search for spirituality. Most moved back to their home countries after a few months or years while others...Start your free trial to watch
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In Their Hands
IN THEIR HANDS follows the psychotherapy of vulnerable people, that in some cases have been destroyed by acts of torture. Their speech deals with an inhuman past: they want to stop the pain, rule out the folly and protect their family from the violence that sleeps within them, be understood and recognized; these are the...Start your free trial to watch
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Kick That Habit
KICK THAT HABIT is a film created in the bleak eastern region of Switzerland. At first, a group plays a game of mini-golf, then the Swiss musicians Voice Crack (Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl) rehearse in the studio, afterward heading up to Alpstein, at which point you are right in the middle of a concert, next stepping away...Start your free trial to watch
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The Saltmen of Tibet
Shot under extreme conditions in one of the world’s most remote and beautiful locations, THE SALTMEN OF TIBET documents the ancient traditions and daily rituals of a Tibetan nomadic community and transports us into a realm untainted by the tides of foreign invasion or encroaching modernity. Step by step we...Start your free trial to watch
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Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse
Amidst the chaos of their dead mother’s apartment, two brothers irreverently piece together their family history. It’s a strange but unique saga involving baronesses and counts, stolen lovers and Nazi officers, lawsuits and counter lawsuits and lots and lots of cats. Compelling and darkly hilarious.Start your free trial to watch
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Signer's Suitcase
SIGNER'S SUITCASE is a kind of a road movie that follows a magically charged fault-line through the European landscape. From the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland... a wide-ranging attempt at setting an ideal travel speed. The artist, Roman Signer, marks out situation with his array...Start your free trial to watch
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Through the Eastern Gate
What moves young, educated people to give up lives of material security for a spiritual quest that confronts uncertainty? Filmed in the gorgeous countryside and ancient cities of India and Turkey, THROUGH THE EASTERN GATE is a compelling documentary following the journeys of three young people who have...Start your free trial to watch