Archive for the ‘Switzerland’ Category

Date Movie (2006)

Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Date Movie
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Alyson Hannigan | Adam Campbell | Sophie Monk | Eddie Griffin | Meera Simhan | Fred Willard | Jennifer Coolidge | Marie Matiko | Judah Friedlander | Carmen Electra | Tony Cox | Mauricio Sanchez | Beverly Polcyn | Valery M. Ortiz
Directors: Jason Friedberg
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Julia Jones has found the perfect guy, the very-British and very-unfortunately-named Grant Fockyerdoder. But before they can have their Big Fat Greek Wedding, they must Meet the Parents, hook up with The Wedding Planner, and contend with Grant’s friend Andy who wants to put an end to her Best Friend’s Wedding.

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Les choristes (2004)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Les choristes
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Gérard Jugnot | François Berléand | Kad Merad | Jean-Paul Bonnaire | Marie Bunel | Jean-Baptiste Maunier | Maxence Perrin | Grégory Gatignol | Thomas Blumenthal | Cyril Bernicot | Simon Fargeot | Théodule Carré-Cassaigne | Philippe Du Janerand | Carole Weiss | Erick Desmarestz
Directors: Christophe Barratier
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On 15 January 1949, the former music teacher Clément Mathieu arrives in “Fond de l’ Etang” (“Bottom of the Well”), a boarding school for orphans and problematic boys, to work as an inspector. The place is administrated with iron fist by the cruel director Rachin, and most of the boys have severe punishments for their faults. Clément decides to teach the boys to sing in a choir in their spare time, and identify the musical potential of the rebel Pierre Morhange, the son of a beautiful single mother for whom he feels a crush. He also has a special feeling for the young Pépinot, a boy that expects the visit of his father every Saturday near the gate, but indeed lost his parents in the war. With his methods, Clément changes the lives of the boys, of the other employees and his own.

Nordwand (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Nordwand
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Benno Fürmann | Florian Lukas | Johanna Wokalek | Georg Friedrich | Simon Schwarz | Ulrich Tukur | Erwin Steinhauer | Branko Samarovski | Petra Morzé | Hanspeter Müller | Peter Zumstein | Martin Schick | Erni Mangold | Johannes Thanheiser | Arnd Schimkat
Directors: Philipp Stölzl
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NORTH FACE is the tense, edge-of-your-seat documentary that relives 48 death-defying hours in the lives of the two climbers who scaled the eponymous wall of the Eiger Mountain in 1936. What started as an event that bore the expectations of their nation and Fuhrer became a race for survival when the pair became threatened by serious injury and unrelenting weather conditions.

Manon Of The Spring (1986)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Manon Of The Spring
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Yves Montand | Daniel Auteuil | Emmanuelle Béart | Hippolyte Girardot | Margarita Lozano | Yvonne Gamy | Ticky Holgado | Jean Bouchaud | Elisabeth Depardieu | Gabriel Bacquier | Armand Meffre | André Dupon | Pierre Nougaro | Jean Maurel | Roger Souza
Directors: Claude Berri
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In a rural French village an old man and his only remaining relative are successful flower growers using water from a spring on an adjoining property they now own. The grown-up daughter of the previous owner still lives in the hills as a goatherd and comes to realise that not only these two but the whole village knew of the existence of the spring when her father was desperately trying to water his crops. An accident with one of the goats leads her by chance to the source of the spring and the possibility of a terrible revenge.

Not on the Lips (2003)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Not on the Lips
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Audrey Tautou | Sabine Azéma | Isabelle Nanty | Pierre Arditi | Daniel Prévost
Directors: Alain Resnais
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A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He’s negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte’s first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arlette, Gilberte begs Eric not to tell Georges about the marriage. Meanwhile, a young artist, Charly, pursues Gilberte while Arlette tries to match him with the young Huguette, who loves him. Will Eric play along or try to re-win Gilberte’s affection? Can Gilberte play one off against another? And who will manage to kiss whom on the lips?

Ready, Steady, Charlie! (2003)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Ready, Steady, Charlie!
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Marco Rima | Martin Rapold | Myriam Aegerter | Melanie Winiger | Michael Koch | Mike Muller | Max Rudlinger | Nicolas Steiner
Directors: Mike Eschmann
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The “Original” Swiss Army Comedy

Three Colours: Red (1994)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Three Colours: Red
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Irene Jacob | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Frédérique Feder | Jean-Pierre Lorit | Samuel Le Bihan | Marion Stalens | Teco Celio | Bernard Escalon | Jean Schlegel | Elzbieta Jasinska | Paul Vermeulen | Jean-Marie Daunas | Roland Carey | Brigitte Raul | Leo Ramseyer
Directors: Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Valentine is a young model living in Geneva. Because of a dog she ran over, she meets a retired judge who spies his neighbours’ phone calls, not for money but to feed his cynicism. The film is the story of relationships between some human beings, Valentine and the judge, but also other people who may not be aware of the relationship they have with Valentine or/and the old judge. Redemption, forgiveness and compassion…

Three Colors: Blue (1993)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Three Colors: Blue
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Juliette Binoche | Benoît Regent | Florence Pernel | Charlotte Véry | Hélène Vincent | Philippe Volter | Claude Duneton | Hugues Quester | Emmanuelle Riva | Florence Vignon | Daniel Martin | Jacek Ostaszewski | Catherine Therouenne | Yann Trégouët | Alain Ollivier
Directors: Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Three Colors: Blue is the first part of Kieslowski’s trilogy on France’s national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed European composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The film’s theme of liberty is manifested in Julie’s attempt to start life anew free of personal commitments, belongings grief and love. She intends to spiritually commit suicide by withdrawing from the world and live completely independently, anonymously and in solitude in the Parisian metropolis. Despite her intentions, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heals Julie and irresistably draws her back to the land of the living.

Three Colours: White (1994)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Three Colours: White
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Zbigniew Zamachowski | Julie Delpy | Janusz Gajos | Jerzy Stuhr | Aleksander Bardini | Grzegorz Warchol | Cezary Harasimowicz | Jerzy Nowak | Jerzy Trela | Cezary Pazura | Michel Lisowski | Philippe Morier-Genoud | Piotr Machalica | Francis Coffinet | Barbara Dziekan
Directors: Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Karol (Polish) marries Domininque (French) and moves to Paris. The marriage breaks down and Dominique divorces Karol, forcing him into the life of a metro beggar and eventually back to Poland. However he never forgets Dominique and while building a new life for himself in Warsaw he begins to plot…

Supernova (2000)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Supernova
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips | Robin Tunney | Robert Forster | Angela Bassett | James Spader | Wilson Cruz | Peter Facinelli
Directors: Walter Hill
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Supernova chronicles the search and rescue patrol of a medical ship in deep space in the early 22nd century and its six-member crew which includes a Captain and Pilot (Robert Forster),a co-pilot (James Spader), a medical officer (Angela Bassett), a medical technician (Lou Diamond Phillips), a search and rescue paramedic (Robin Tunney), and a computer technician (Wilson Cruz). When their vessel, the Nightingale 229, answers an emergency distress signal from a comet mining operation in a distant galaxy, the crew soon finds itself in danger from the mysterious young man (Peter Facinelli) they rescue, the alien artifact he’s smuggled aboard, and the gravitational pull of a giant star about go supernova the most massive explosion in the universe.

Microcosmos (1996)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Microcosmos
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
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Directors: Claude Nuridsany | Marie Perennou
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A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.

Steppenwolf (1974)

Monday, January 18th, 2010
Steppenwolf
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Max von Sydow | Dominique Sanda | Pierre Clémenti | Carla Romanelli | Roy Bosier | Alfred Baillou | Niels-Peter Rudolph | Helmut Förnbacher | Charles Régnier | Eduard Linkers | Silvia Reize | Helen Hesse | Sunnyi Melles
Directors: Fred Haines
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In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He’s decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He’s rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humor, sin, and derision lead to salvation?

The Beast Within (2008)

Monday, December 14th, 2009
The Beast Within
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
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Directors: Yves Scagliola
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Nobody wants them but everybody is watching: from time immemorial, 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 cultures.

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977)

Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Susan Hemingway | William Berger | Herbert Fux | Ana Zanatti | Aida Vargas | Vítor Mendes | Isa Schneider | Herman José | José Viana | Patricia Da Silva | Victor de Sousa | Nicolau Breyner | Esther Studer | Dagmar Bürger | Anton Diffring
Directors: Jesus Franco
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16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D’Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists. Her confessor is in collusion with the Mother Superior. Maria is tortured, forced into sex with men, women, and the horned Devil, and told that it’s all a bad dream. She writes a letter to God, and a Knight rescues her, only to fall into the hands of the Inquisition, put on the rack, and condemned to death like Joan of Arc.

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Waltz with Bashir
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Ron Ben-Yishai | Ronny Dayag | Dror Harazi | Yehezkel Lazarov | Mickey Leon | Ori Sivan | Zahava Solomon
Directors: Ari Folman
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One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can’t remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.

The Wild Geese (1978)

Monday, October 19th, 2009
The Wild Geese
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Richard Burton | Roger Moore | Richard Harris | Hardy Krüger | Stewart Granger | Winston Ntshona | John Kani | Jack Watson | Frank Finlay | Kenneth Griffith | Barry Foster | Ronald Fraser | Ian Yule | Patrick Allen | Rosalind Lloyd
Directors: Andrew V. McLaglen
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A British multinational seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006)

Friday, October 16th, 2009
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Wade Adams | Abdul Samad Al-Awadi | Fadhil J. Al-Chalabi | Roscoe Bartlett | Robert Bottome | Colin J. Campbell | Marcello Colitti | Alberto Quirós Corradi | Mir-Babajev Mir-Jusiv Fazilogli | Daniele Ganser | Dr. David L. Goodstein Ph.D. | Franklin M. Orr Jr. | Matthew David Savinar | Matthew Simmons | Alfred M. Spormann
Directors: Reto Caduff
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Supported by a powerful mix of archival footage, NASA shots of burning oil fields, and, often unintentionally hilarious, historical film excerpts, OilCrash guides us on an exotic, visual journey from Houston to Caracas, the Lake of Maracaibo, the Orinoco delta, Central Asia’s secretive republic of Azerbaijan with its ancient capital Baku and the Caspian Sea, via London & Zürich. OilCrash visits cities around the world to learn of our future from such leading authorities as oil investment banker Matthew Simmons, former OPEC chairman Fadhil Chalabhi, Caltech’s head of physics, Professor David Goodstein, Stanford University political scientist, Terry Lynn Karl, peak oil expert, Matthew Savinar and many more.

Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977)

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Ilsa, the Wicked Warden
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Dyanne Thorne | Tania Busselier | Eric Falk | Lina Romay | Esther Studer | Esther Moser | Peggy Markoff | Alex Exler | Howard Maurer | Sandra L. Brennan | Angela Ritschard
Directors: Jesus Franco
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Ilsa, 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 Ilsa and one of the guards are forcing the inmates to have sex with male prisoners, filming them and selling it as pornoflicks.

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Barbed Wire Dolls (1975)

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Barbed Wire Dolls
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Lina Romay | Paul Muller | Monica Swinn | Roger Darton | Ronald Weiss | Martine Stedil | Eric Falk | Peggy Markoff | Nathalie Mann | Denis Torre | Raymond Hardy | Beni Cardoso | Frieda Altstadt | Madeleine Ammann
Directors: Jesus Franco
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The first Franco/Erwin Dietrich effort is probably Franco’s most exploitive film with numerous sadistic scenes of torture and perversion. A true exploitation masterpiece that only a director like Franco could make. Maria (Lina Romay) is sentenced to prison for life for killing her father that attempted to rape. She is sent to a special section of the jail know for it’s cruel and sadistic treatment of prisoners. The wardress (Monica Swinn) is a sadistic lesbian who knows no mercy and takes pleasure in her job. Maria seduces a male nurse who she eventually kills in order to spring an escape from the hellhole. A must for all fans of sadistic WIP films and for Jess Franco addicts. Also stars Franco regulars Paul Muller, Martine Stedilm and Eric Falk.

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Mosquito the Rapist aka Bloodlust (1976)

Monday, July 20th, 2009
Mosquito the Rapist aka Bloodlust
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Switzerland
Actors: Werner Pochath | Ellen Umlauf | Birgit Zamulo | Gerhard Ruhnke | Peter Hamm | Charly Hiltl | Hary Olsbauer | Marion Messner | Fred Berhoff | Roswitha Geuther | Karl Yblagger | Sonja Costa | Jony Soster | Christa Abel | Marisa Feldy
Directors: Marijan David Vajda
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A deaf and dumb accountant suffers from a psychic trauma in his childhood. He is collecting puppets and mutilates female bodies in the mortuary. After his secret love died by an accident he starts to kill.

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