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- The life of Anne Frank and her family from 1939 to 1945: pre-war fears, invasion of Netherlands by German troops, hiding in Amsterdam, deportation to the camps, return of Anne's father.
- The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.
- A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
- Following the success of his poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron becomes the toast of London.
- When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him, then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship.
- The adventures of Boomer, a stray dog who travels the country helping those in trouble.
- Fifteen-year-old Beni falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a Rock band. As Fögi seduces him, Beni is willing to follow him where ever he takes him. But Fögi is a drug addict and pulls Beni deeper and deeper into his addiction.
- The sisters Bimbo and Molle live on a farm. One day, her cousin Peggy and her cousins drag Danny and Ben to the farm because their parents had a fatal accident.
- Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.
- Anna is a young teenager with a passion for ballet dancing. When she is seriously injured in a car accident, it seems that her dream of becoming a ballerina is over. In rehab she meets the up-beat Rainer, who is paralyzed and in a wheelchair. They become friends, and he helps her regain the will to live. Eventually, Anna recovers and is able to dance again.
- For Sandra, a woman in her late teens, life is wonderful. She has recently fallen in love with Daniel, a member of the group of young men she hangs around with frequently. Daniel is flattered by Sandra's affection for him and they begin to spend more time together, apart from the rest of the gang. Their relationship remains diffuse and directionless, provoking tension and threatening to cause a schism within the group.
- Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s.
- People are trapped in the basement of a New York apartment building on the hottest day of the summer.
- On her honeymoon on a ship the daughter of a rich plant owner realizes that she's not happy with her marriage. She meets a poor woman on the way to meet her future husband, a missionary in India. The women decide to swap roles...
- Rival families of farmers disagree about which is the most suitable crop to plant.
- "Honey and Ashes" tells the stories of three women from contemporary North Africa. Caught between tradition and modernity, they seek success in their lives and in their relationships with men. Although their age and social backgrounds differ, their paths cross, bringing to light the multiple obstacles which society has placed in their way.
- The day after the night of the full moon, 12 children all 10 years of age are found to be missing in the four language regions of Switzerland. The police and the media reassuringly claim that there are plenty of leads and clues.
- The film takes us back to the turbulent time of the formation of modern Switzerland 170 years ago and describes how Jakob Rudolf Steiger went from being a liberal revolutionary to the highest-ranking Swiss in the new Confederation.
- Without knowing it, Alfred and Julia live in a land of pure invention. It is the richest and most beautiful land in the world. From a height, this land looks like a piece of felt, from close up like a clean and tiny park.
- A handful of people are dissatisfied with their actually good life: while Ludwig (Rudolf Nadler) would like to go on vacation, his girlfriend Anna (Anne Knaak) only has eyes for Stefan (Matthias Tiefenbach) and sinks into work. Toni and Cyrill (Dina Leipzig and Cyrille Rey-Coquais) almost only argue with each other and the actor Max (Christoph Krix) wishes for more glorious times.
- Senta von Meissen invites the fellow students of her graduation class from 1938 - 50 years ago - for a class reunion into her castle. They expect to happily party through the weekend - but that's not what their host intends for them. A foreboding steals upon Senta's visitors, when there remains an empty seat at the dinner table, preserved for a student, who came to death during one of their scholar excursions.
- This is a portrait of a man and of a country, as he travels through it. He is a travelling salesman, and travels through Switzerland selling cosmetics to beauty parlors.
- Kelly, a successful career woman and single mother, and her friend Evelyn are both in search of the ideal man. Kelly eventually finds herself torn between sophisticated art dealer Thomas and struggling writer Jonathan, while Evelyn continues her quest for a flesh and blood version of Michelangelo's "David". But will either woman find the happiness they are seeking?
- A Swiss guitar player and a female saxophonist from Berlin live and work together. They perpetually discuss about staying together or separating and look up to couples who live together permanently.
- Leo, a stout, calm, actually boring, but nice fellow ist persuaded by a frivolous friend (who has a wife) to marry his Thai girlfriend in pretence, so that she with a Swiss husband is allowed to stay in Switzerland. Quite funny, how shy both behave, when she reluctantly comes to Leo's flat. But after some time - you may have guessed - the unplanned happens: she begins to like and even love Leo, and turns away from her airy boyfriend. Leo in return also falls in love with her and has a hard time to explain to his mother, that he secretly has married only to do his friend a favour. Things get complicated, as Apia (so the name of the Asian girl) works in a brothel and Leo has to buy out the pimp to free Apia from this milieu. He even fight the Swiss bureaucracy, which got wind of the false marriage without knowing, it has become real love. Leo literally saves Apia in the last minute at the airport when she forcibly is to be repatriated. This eventually convinces the state clerk. The film ends with a surprise for Leo when Apia's whole family arrive at the airport, because all family members should come together, when a baby is due.
- Joseph Paul Jernigan was 39 years old when he was executed in Huntsville, Texas, in 1993. Ten minutes after the lethal injection, he was handed over to scientists, transported to Denver, frozen in blue gelatin and, over a period of four months, photographed as he was planed off, millimeter by millimeter. He would be reborn on the Internet as the "visible man" -- the first completely digitized human being. This worldwide, digitally distributed Visible Human Project is the result of a unique interaction between science and justice.
- At night, in his studio perched high above the lights of New York, Bill Diamond, a famous photographer, invents stories and fairy tales, to chase away the evil spirits his memories keep bringing back. One of these stories is about Mark, a gifted photographer who lives alone, embittered and withdrawn from the world, in a church that once was his studio on the lake of Geneva. Mark has lost everything: his fame, his wife, his friends, and above all, his self-esteem. His dear friend Luc, the village policeman, is the only companion he has left. Into this bleak world, Bill sends Jessi, a beautiful model he once worked with. Jessi tells Mark that Bill is dead, and that he is now to continue the work the elder photographer had begun. Mark reacts to this offer with cynicism, but because he needs money, he accepts. The relationship between Mark and Jessi is difficult and tense. Yet in the course of their work Mark becomes more and more fascinated by this strange, gentle woman. Could Jessi really be the angel Bill Diamond says she is?
- In his last feature film, "The 6 Kummerbuben", Franz Schnyder tells of difficult days and meager joy in the life of a day laborer family.
- Since weeks it's cold and wet. It's already late, Karl Winter is on his way home. Under dark circumstances he accidentally meets a woman of mysterious fascination - Martha. And so begins a love story of fatal dynamics which throws Karl far off the tracks of reason. Wicked dreams and subliminal changes in Karl's surroundings confirm his feelings that with Martha the uncanniness has also entered his life.
- The first film about «secondos»: A Turkish ice hockey player explains why, in Switzerland, he could only fall in love with an Italian. A young Italian woman explains why she prefers to rap in English. A hip-hop artist with Hispanic origins fights for his political rights and the director reminisces on how, despite his Arabic roots, he's been persecuted as a Jew. Babylon 2 reflects the rise of a new urban culture in Switzerland, which is instigated by the second generation of immigrants and the help of electronic media.
- An examination of the rise to power, election, overthrow and exile of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.
- A young man from the Bernese drug milieu provides spy services to the police in order to escape imprisonment. As a commuter "between the drug scene and the police, he becomes an uprooted person.
- An unusual family story about two father and son generations, beginning on a German country side and ending in the students' revolt in Berlin.
- A body is found on top of a newly buried grave. DI Studer takes over and soon finds out that there are different murderers possible.