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Sabine Boss – Der Goalie bin ig (2014)

Goalie has just been released from prison after spending a year inside for keeping his mouth shut for his best buddy Ueli. He heads for his hometown of Schummertal, a small town where everyone knows...

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Robert J. Flaherty & Richard Lyford & Curt Oertel – The Titan: Story of...

The life and works of the great artist Michelangelo Buonarroti are shown against the historical background of his time. It begins with his earliest artworks, and follows his life and career as he...

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Robert J. Flaherty & Richard Lyford & Curt Oertel – The Titan: Story of...

Imdb says: The life and works of the great artist Michelangelo Buonarroti are shown against the historical background of his time. It begins with his earliest artworks, and follows his life and career...

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Belinda Sallin – Dark Star: HR Gigers Welt (2014)

He feels at home in places we would flee from and lives his life among the very things we fear. Throughout his life, HR Giger had inhabited the world of the uncanny, a dark universe on the brink of...

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Alain Tanner – Les hommes du port (1995)

After 40 years Alain Tanner again travels to the port of Genoa, where he worked for a shipping company as a 22-year-old. On the back of his own memories he depicts the rough world of the dockworkers,...

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Andrea Staka – Cure: The Life of Another (2014)

Quote: 1993, Dubrovnik after the siege. The city is still shaken and wounded by the horrors of war and the traces of that agonizing past-present are still visible on the walls of houses but above all...

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Jean-Luc Godard – Remerciements de Jean-Luc Godard à son Prix d’honneur du...

Jean-Luc Godard to receive Honorary Award The 2015 Swiss Film Honorary Award will go to Jean-Luc Godard, one of cinema’s true visionaries and a virtuoso in the art of film editing, whose avant-garde...

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Alain Tanner – Messidor (1979)

Two Swiss girls around twenty, one a history student and the other a store clerk, meet while hitch-hiking. Out of a whim and with nothing better to do, they decide to go on hitch-hiking together...

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Yves Yersin – Les Petites Fugues aka Little Escapes (1979)

Synopsis Pipe (Michel Robin) has worked on the same farm for forty of his 66 years of living. Now he is in his “salad” years, and in retirement is free to explore the world in ways he never did...

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Jean-Marie Straub – La madre (2012)

The texts in Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con leucò” have a stake in the old and the new alike. It is the lively tension, the bridge between myth and modernity of these texts that deeply touches us and...

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Stina Werenfels – Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern AKA Dora or...

Dora,a young girl becomes pregnant which is strange for her mother who would like to have a second child.This event causes tremendous upheaval in their lives....

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Erwin C. Dietrich – She Devils of the SS (1973)

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. But when they start having sex with each other, things get...

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Cleo Uebelmann – Mano destra (1986)

Drama. Dressed in dominatrix leather fetish wear, the director pictures herself tying up her consenting girlfriend in frozen black and white images cut to the sound of high-heels clattering down a...

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Talkhon Hamzavi – Parvaneh (2012)

About the Film A 25 minute Swiss short film; which was nominated for an Academy Award, for Best Live Action Short Film, at the 87th Academy Awards. The short is about an Afghan immigrant, living in...

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Jesús Franco – Frauen im Liebeslager AKA Love Camp (1977) (HD)

Synopsis A group of women are kidnapped by guerrillas and forced to serve as prostitutes for them in a jungle brothel. The sadistic female warden decapitates uncooperative girls. Jess Franco has made...

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Claudia Lorenz – Unter der Haut AKA What’s Between Us (2015)

Quote: After eighteen years of marriage, Alice finds herself confronted with the fact that her husband Frank feels more and more attracted to men. Not only Frank, but also she and their three children...

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Alain Tanner – Jonas et Lila, à demain (1999)

Jonas et Lila: A Demain by Paul Kalina March 2000 Senses of Cinema So far at least, new millennium events appear to have produced little of lasting value, apart from early retirement packages for...

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Theodor Boder – Strasek, der Vampir (1982)

Serbia, in the year 1910: Milena Strasek has lived with her 12-year-old son Stefan in a small village since the father abandoned the family shortly after Stefan was born. Many years of uncertainty...

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Julie N. Books – What is Film? (2016)

In What Is Film?, Julie N. Books critically evaluates three philosophical doctrines of film realism (transparency, illusionism, and perceptual realism) and defends her view that films are creative...

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Tobias Nölle – Aloys (2016)

Quote: Aloys Adorn is a middle aged private detective who lives and works with his father. He experiences life from a safe distance, through a video camera he keeps recording 24 hours a day, and the...

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