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In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Montgomery Clift

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Heinz Rühmann

In the dense and murky woodlands of provincial Hungary, the search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Péter Haumann

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hertha Thiele

French Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vincent Dedienne

Heidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss Alps to live with her ornery grandfather. At first, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elsbeth Sigmund

Heidi lives with Alp-Öhi n the Swiss Alps in the summer, where she helps Peter tend the goats. In winter, she stays in the village and attends...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elsbeth Sigmund

When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Vincent D'Onofrio

Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ewart G. Morrison

The titular Marie-Louise is a young French lass who is evacuated to Switzerland when her country is overrun by the Nazis. Suffering a nervous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josiane Hegg

If any one man is responsible for the rejuvenation of the postwar Swiss film industry, that man was director Leopold Lindtberg. Matto Regiert...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Heinrich Gretler

In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gian Maria Volonté

Genre: Drama

Cast: Schaggi Streuli

Gilberte Montavon was a legend in her own lifetime. As a young woman, she was confidante to hundreds of thousands of Swiss-German speaking soldiers...

Genre: War

Cast: Erwin Kohlund

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Caterina Valente

Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viveca Lindfors

The film traces Uli's progress from his humble peasant surroundings to the homes of the wealthy and prominent. The characterizations are convincing,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hannes Schmidhauser

A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cornel Wilde

Farmer Heiri has sold his calf and celebrates his temporary wealth in the big city. But in doing so he is confronted with many temptations and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ruedi Walter

At the end of the Second World War, orphans of various nationalities come together at the Pestalozzi Children's Village in Trogen. When the order...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Justin