Switzerland:16 certified movies

The Jacket (2005)

Friday, February 26th, 2010
The Jacket
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Adrien Brody | Keira Knightley | Kris Kristofferson | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Kelly Lynch | Brad Renfro | Daniel Craig | Steven Mackintosh | Brendan Coyle | Mackenzie Phillips | Laura Marano | Jason Lewis | Richard Dillane | Jonah Lotan | Angel Coulby
Directors: John Maybury
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In 1991, in Iraq, the military Jack Starks is shot in the head and presumed dead. When he blinks his eyes in the morgue, the doctor is called. One year later, after being discharged from the army, while hitchhiking in a road in Vermont having amnesia problem, he helps a drunken woman, Jean Price, and her daughter, Jackie Price, fixing their car. Later, he gets a lift, but the driver is stopped by the police and kills the policeman with three shots. Jack is also shot in the head and incriminated by the real killer, who leaves his gun close to the fainted Jack. He goes to court and is sentenced to the mental institution Alpine Grove for insane criminals. Jack becomes the experiment of Dr. Thomas Becker, who drugs and dresses him with a jacket and lock him in a drawer for corpses in the morgue. While locked, Jack travels to 2007, where he meets a grown-up Jackie Price and they fall in love for each other. Jack envisions that the only exit from the institution is though the jacket.

Monster’s Ball (2001)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Monster’s Ball
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Mos Def | Billy Bob Thornton | Taylor Simpson | Gabrielle Witcher | Heath Ledger | Amber Rules | Peter Boyle | Charles Cowan Jr. | Taylor LaGrange | Anthony Bean | Francine Segal | John McConnell | Marcus Lyle Brown | Milo Addica | Leah Loftin
Directors: Marc Forster
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Hank Grotowski is a prison guard. He works with his son, Sonny, and lives at home with his racist father, Buck. Lawrence Musgrove has just been executed and a horrible tragedy has happened at home. Now, Hank has just met Leticia, a young black woman struggling to make ends meet and they quickly fall in love to ease each other’s pains. If only he knew that Leticia is Musgrove’s widow…

Nightwatch (1997)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Nightwatch
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Ewan McGregor | Nick Nolte | Patricia Arquette | Josh Brolin | Lauren Graham | Brad Dourif | Alix Koromzay | Erich Anderson | Lonny Chapman | Scott Burkholder | Michael Matthys | Alison Gale | Robert LaSardo | Mongo | Candy Ann Brown
Directors: Ole Bornedal
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A law student takes a job as the night-watch in a morgue, thinking that he will have much time to study, with his biggest problem being his paranoia in this scary setting, but in the history of this morgue lies a dark secret: there was once a man raping female corpses, but is history really gone? And who can he really trust? Will he discover truth before it’s too late for him and his best friend?

Caché (2005)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Caché
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Daniel Auteuil | Juliette Binoche | Maurice Bénichou | Annie Girardot | Bernard Le Coq | Walid Afkir | Lester Makedonsky | Daniel Duval | Nathalie Richard | Denis Podalydès | Aïssa Maïga | Caroline Baehr | Christian Benedetti | Philippe Besson | Loic Brabant
Directors: Michael Haneke
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Guilt. Anne and Georges Laurant have a book-lined Paris townhouse, jobs at a publishing house and as the host of a high-brow talk show, and a teenage son, Pierrot, who’s on the swim team. Their dinner parties sparkle, but there’s tension. They have little to say to each other: Anne may be on the verge of an affair with a close family friend, and Pierrot is monosyllabic and out with friends some evenings. There’s new strain when they begin to receive tapes of their home under surveillance—tapes accompanied by childlike drawings of a boy and blood. Anne and Georges are unnerved, dreams give Georges a clue, but he shares little with Anne. What part of himself and his past has he kept hidden?

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Pan’s Labyrinth
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Ivana Baquero | Sergi López | Maribel Verdú | Doug Jones | Ariadna Gil | Álex Angulo | Manolo Solo | César Vea | Roger Casamajor | Ivan Massagué | Gonzalo Uriarte | Eusebio Lázaro | Francisco Vidal | Juanjo Cucalón
Directors: Guillermo del Toro
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“Pan’s Labyrinth” is the story of a young girl who travels with her pregnant mother to live with her mother’s new husband in a rural area up North in Spain, 1944, after Franco’s victory. The girl lives in an imaginary world of her own creation and faces the real world with much chagrin. Fascist repression during the first years of Franco’s dictatorship is at its height in rural Spain and the girl must come to terms with that through a fable of her own.

Chrysalis (2007)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Chrysalis
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Albert Dupontel | Marie Guillard | Marthe Keller | Mélanie Thierry | Claude Perron | Alain Figlarz | Smadi Wolfman | Patrick Bauchau | Guy Lecluyse | Cyril Lecomte | Francis Renaud | Manon Chevallier | Estelle Lefébure | Mika Cotillon
Directors: Julien Leclercq
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Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeon saves her daughter’s life at the cost of manipulating her dreams and memories.

Meanwhile gung-ho police officer Hoffman loses his wife and partner in a pitched gun battle with an escaped thug. When the shattered cop gets a new partner the hunt is on as Hoffman seeks revenge and justice, his investigation takes him all the way to the surgeon and clinic run by the iron hand of technology where all is not as it seems.

Sheitan (2006)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Sheitan
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Vincent Cassel | Olivier Bartélémy | Roxane Mesquida | Nico Le Phat Tan | Leïla Bekhti | Ladj Ly | Julie-Marie Parmentier | Gérald Thomassin | Quentin Lasbazeilles | Guillaume Bacquet | Alexandre Borrel | Georgette Crochon | François Levantal | Monica Bellucci
Directors: Kim Chapiron
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On Christmas Eve, in the Styxx Club in Paris, the troublemaker Bart and his scum friends, Thaï and Ladj, meet the bartender Yasmine and the customer Eve, and after a fight of Bart in the nightclub, Eve invites the group to go to her house in the country. While on the road near the cottage, they are introduced by Eve to the weird shepherd and housekeeper, Joseph, whose wife is pregnant. Joseph feels a sort of attraction for Bart, and during this Christmas night, Joseph discloses his real intentions.

The MR 73 aka Last Deadly Mission (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
MR 73 aka Last Deadly Mission, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Daniel Auteuil | Olivia Bonamy | Catherine Marchal | Francis Renaud | Gérald Laroche | Guy Lecluyse | Philippe Nahon | Clément Michu | Moussa Maaskri | Jean-Paul Zehnacker | Roland Bijaoui | Alexandre Bourguignon | Dan Bronchinson | Thierry Calas | Vince Castello
Directors: Olivier Marchal
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In Marseilles, the discredited and alcoholic Detective Schneider hijacks a bus and forces the bus driver with a gun to drive him home. He is arrested by the swat force and his washed up career in the police department practically ends. Schneider is removed from the investigation of a serial-killer that is committing hideous crimes against women and assigned to a bureaucratic work in the night-shift in the precinct. Through glimpses from his recollections, Schneider recalls the tragic accident that killed his daughter and left his wife attached to a life support system. Meanwhile, the sick criminal Charles Subra, who killed the parents of two girls many years ago, convinces the probation committee in the prison that he has found God and is regenerated and may be released. Justine, one of the daughters that survived, has never overcome the trauma of her loss and is worried with the possibility of the freedom of the criminal. When Schneider discovers the identity of the serial-killer, he finds also the corruption in the high command of the police, and he decides to go to his last mission on Earth in his descent to Hell.

Pulse (2006)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Pulse
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Kristen Bell | Tate Hanyok | Ian Somerhalder | Christina Milian | Rick Gonzalez | Riki Lindhome | Jonathan Tucker | Amanda Tepe | Samm Levine | Steve Talley | Joseph Gatt | Corryn Cummins
Directors: Jim Sonzero
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Imagine our wireless technologies made a connection to a world beyond our own. Imagine that world used that technology as a doorway into ours. Now, imagine the connection we made can’t be shut down. When you turn on your cell phone or log on to your e-mail, they’ll get in, you’ll be infected and they’ll be able to take from you what they don’t have anymore — life.

The General’s Daughter (1999)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
General’s Daughter, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: John Travolta | Madeleine Stowe | James Cromwell | Timothy Hutton | Leslie Stefanson | Daniel von Bargen | Clarence Williams III | James Woods | Peter Weireter | Mark Boone Junior | John Beasley | Boyd Kestner | Brad Beyer | John Benjamin Hickey | Rick Dial
Directors: Simon West
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Military police detectives Paul Brenner and Sarah Sunhill investigate a horrifically bizarre rape and murder of a respected female Pysch-Ops officer who is also the daughter of a renowned retiring general. Yet the case becomes more complicated when the autopsy showed no evidence of sexual assault. Furthermore, that is but the beginning of the twists when they discover the victim’s secret life, her past and a disturbing determination by senior staff to keep this investigation short and quiet.

Celebrity (1998)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Celebrity
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Greg Mottola | Jeff Mazzola | Dick Mingalone | Vladimir Bibic | Melanie Griffith | Francisco Quidjada | Aleksa Palladino | Dan Moran | Peter Castellotti | A. Lee Morris | Douglas McGrath | Kenneth Branagh | Maurice Sonnenberg | Winona Ryder | Craig Ulmschneider
Directors: Woody Allen
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Lee Simon, unsuccessful journalist and wanna-be novelist, tries to get a foot into the door with celebrities. After divorcing his wife Robin, Lee gets to meet a lot folks of the rich and / or beautiful, partly through journalism, partly because he has a script to offer. But life among those from out-of-this-world is hard, and his putative success always results in defeat. Meanwhile Robin meets a very desirable TV-producer and takes the first steps in the world of celebrities herself.

The Gift (2000)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Gift, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Cate Blanchett | Giovanni Ribisi | Keanu Reeves | Katie Holmes | Greg Kinnear | Hilary Swank | Michael Jeter | Kim Dickens | Gary Cole | Rosemary Harris | J.K. Simmons | Chelcie Ross | John Beasley | Lynnsee Provence | Hunter McGilvray
Directors: Sam Raimi
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When a local woman (Katie Holmes) disappears and the police can’t seem to find any leads, her father (Chelcie Ross) turns to a poor young woman (Cate Blanchett) with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the arrest of an abusive husband (Keanu Reeves), but did he really do it? Greg Kinnear is the missing woman’s fiancee, Hilary Swank plays Reeve’s abused wife, and Gary Cole is a sleazy attorney with ties to the missing woman.

54 (1998)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
54
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Ryan Phillippe | Salma Hayek | Neve Campbell | Mike Myers | Sela Ward | Breckin Meyer | Sherry Stringfield | Ellen Albertini Dow | Cameron Mathison | Noam Jenkins | Jay Goede | Patrick Taylor | Heather Matarazzo | Skipp Sudduth | Aemilia Robinson
Directors: Mark Christopher
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Mike Myers stars as the late Steve Rubell, real-life owner and cocaine-addict of New York’s notorious Studio 54 in a fictionalized portrayal of ’70s disco.

Blue Streak (1999)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Blue Streak
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Martin Lawrence | Luke Wilson | Peter Greene | Dave Chappelle | Nicole Ari Parker | Graham Beckel | Robert Miranda | Olek Krupa | Saverio Guerra | Richard C. Sarafian | Tamala Jones | Julio Oscar Mechoso | Steve Rankin | Carmen Argenziano | John Hawkes
Directors: Les Mayfield
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Miles Logan is a jewel thief. Things go awry while he’s stealing a huge diamond in downtown L.A.: a thief, Deacon, tries a double-cross, the police arrive, and Miles is arrested, but not before he hides the jewel in an air duct of a building under construction. Two years’ later, he’s out of prison and he heads for the site: it’s L.A.’s new police headquarters! Posing as a reassigned cop, Miles gets into the building, but before he can recover the swag, he’s partnered with a naive detective and sent out to investigate burglaries. With Deacon on his trail, he must recover the diamond, keep the cops fooled, and do a few good deeds as a detective who can think like a criminal.

History of Violence, A (2005)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
History of Violence, A
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Viggo Mortensen | Maria Bello | Ed Harris | William Hurt | Ashton Holmes | Peter MacNeill | Stephen McHattie | Greg Bryk | Sumela Kay | Kyle Schmid | Deborah Drakeford | Gerry Quigley | Heidi Hayes | Aidan Devine | Bill MacDonald
Directors: David Cronenberg
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The tale of Tom Stall. Tom is a loving family man and well-respected citizen of a small Indiana town. But when two savage criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all that media attention has the likes of mobsters showing up at his doorstep, charging that Tom is someone else they’ve been looking for. Is it a case of mistaken identity or does Tom have a history that no one knows about? Either way, someone’s about to find out if there’s a history of violence.

The Black Dahlia (2006)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Black Dahlia, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Josh Hartnett | Scarlett Johansson | Aaron Eckhart | Hilary Swank | Mia Kirshner | Mike Starr | Fiona Shaw | Patrick Fischler | James Otis | John Kavanagh | Troy Evans | Anthony Russell | Pepe Serna | Angus MacInnes | Rachel Miner
Directors: Brian De Palma
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The Black Dahlia is set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two cops, Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short, a young woman found brutally murdered. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police department.

The Brave (1997)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Brave, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Johnny Depp | Marlon Brando | Marshall Bell | Elpidia Carrillo | Frederic Forrest | Clarence Williams III | Max Perlich | Luis Guzmán | Cody Lightning | Nicole Mancera | Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman | Pepe Serna | Lupe Ontiveros | Alexis Cruz | Chuck E. Weiss
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An unemployed alcoholic Native American Indian lives on a trailer park with his wife and two children. Convinced that he has nothing to offer this world, he agrees to be tortured to death by a gang of rednecks in return for $50,000.

Festen (1998)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Festen
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Ulrich Thomsen | Henning Moritzen | Thomas Bo Larsen | Paprika Steen | Birthe Neumann | Trine Dyrholm | Helle Dolleris | Therese Glahn | Klaus Bondam | Bjarne Henriksen | Gbatokai Dakinah | Lasse Lunderskov | Lars Brygmann | Lene Laub Oksen | Linda Laursen
Directors: Thomas Vinterberg
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The Father turns 60. His family, which is a big one of the kind, gathers to celebrate him on a castle. Everybody likes and respects the father deeply…or do they? The Youngest Son is trying to live up to The Father’s expectations. He is running a grill-bar in a dirty part of Copenhagen. The oldest son runs a restaurant in France, while the sister is a lawyer. The older sister has recently committed suicide and the father asks the oldest son to say a few words about her, because he is afraid he will break into tears if he does it himself. The oldest son agrees without arguments. Actually he has already written two speeches. A yellow and a green one. By the table, he asks the father to pick a speech. The father chooses green. The oldest son announces that this is the Speech of Truth. Everybody laughs, except for the father who gets a nervous look on his face. For he knows that the oldest son is about to reveal the secret of why the oldest sister killed herself.

End of Days (1999)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
End of Days
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Gabriel Byrne | Robin Tunney | Kevin Pollak | CCH Pounder | Derrick O'Connor | David Weisenberg | Rainer Judd | Miriam Margolyes | Udo Kier | Victor Varnado | Michael O'Hagan | Mark Margolis | Jack Shearer | Rod Steiger
Directors: Peter Hyams
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On December 28th, 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, the Devil (Byrne) decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man’s body, and searching for his chosen bride, a 20-year-old woman named Christine York (Tunney). If he bears her child between 11:00 PM and midnight on New Year’s Eve, the world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist ex-cop named Jericho Cane (Schwarzenegger), who no longer believes in God because of the murder of his wife and daughter.

The Hole (2001)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Hole, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Thora Birch | Desmond Harrington | Daniel Brocklebank | Laurence Fox | Keira Knightley | Embeth Davidtz | Steven Waddington | Emma Griffiths Malin | Jemma Powell | Gemma Craven | Anastasia Hille | Kelly Hunter | Maria Pastel | Celia Montague | Kevin Trainor
Directors: Nick Hamm
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One misty morning, Liz Dunn stumbles down the road to her school and screams for help. A police psychologist gets her to reveal her story: A month earlier: three rebellious teenagers – Mike, Frankie and Geoff are trying to ditch the school field trip to Wales. The school nerd Martin helps them out by allowing them to stay in an old war bunker for the three days on the condition that his friend Liz joins them. The teens go down, party and have great fun but Martin doesn’t return to let them out and they hope and pray that someone will find them…