Schweizer Filme-gesehen

Housewife and mother Therese Karlen spontaneously breaks out of the family rut one weekend and leaves her snotty teenage daughter Melanie and her son Valentin with her jovial and overwhelmed husband Alois. She travels through Switzerland and to herself with Liselotte, an older lady. Therese, 39, has been slightly depressed, cheerless and plagued by insomnia for some time. She bravely attempts to conceal her state of mind from her two children and her husband. She has been married to the bustling Alois for 18 years. Routine has the couple firmly in its grip. The time has long since passed when there was room for romance and passion. One Saturday, on the way to the dentist, once again tired from a sleepless night, she runs into an older woman, who is luckily uninjured. Liselotte Wildi is a former primary school teacher and likes to imagine her life as somewhat more glamorous than it really is. Therese offers to drive her home, but the short drive turns into an ever longer excursion. While she moves farther away from the family and becomes increasingly relaxed, thanks to the eccentric Lieselotte, Alois faces the full challenge of life at home. A weekend full of adventure, insights and surprises.

When an amateur sexting video makes the rounds on social media, several involved individuals have to face the consequences.

Philipp (Urs Jucker) wants to make his sick father Walter (Peter Freiburghaus) happy one last time. To lure him out of his hospital bed, he resorts to a white lie: Philipp claims that his father has finally won the lottery - millions, Walter's old dream. After this happy news, Walter actually recovers and wants to enjoy his good fortune once again. He wants to pay off his debts and give his children and friends everything he was never able to give. Philipp, together with his sister (Liliane Amuat) and Walter's friends, must now pretend to have won the fictitious millions and do everything they can to prevent the fraud from being discovered.

An old man is shot in an allotment garden in Basel, which is already on French territory.

When Hans looks back, he must say: That was a good life! He saw the world, loved his wife Martha and yes, two, three things went wrong. But that doesn't need to be talked about. And now? Two years ago Martha died, Hans can barely manage his daily routine anymore, and after a visit to the vet his beloved dog Miller doesn't return home. Hans is tired. Basically he can't be bothered anymore. He wants to die. But one doesn't talk about this. At best maybe with Willi, his friend. He trusts in him, he considers him as his ally, who should help him implement his plan...

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.

Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown into disarray.

Isolated in the Swiss Alps, a young woman who would have liked to become a teacher teaches her deaf brother arithmetic and writing. An incestuous relationship develops between them.

The world is against Fifteen-year-old Matteo. He has no friends and his parents seem to live in a different universe. One night two men carry him off: sent to a remote alp, where he is forced to spend the summer working hard.

Teenager Wanda and her siblings experience the deterioration of the relationship between their parents, which adds to their own problems.

A Swiss-German rural peasant family takes Max, a crude 15-year-old boy, into a foster situation of constant bullying. Soon, a foster girl is added to the mix.

The resolute mother Wieser dominates her family and knows exactly where everyone has to find their happiness. But her ambitious ideas turn out to be a grand delusion.

Hunkeler's last official act goes wrong: a diamond courier eludes surveillance, the goods end up in the Basel sewers and Lüdi is critically injured. Plagued by guilt, pensioner Hunkeler sets off in search of the "silver pebbles".

Rich Bodenbauer is in the clutches of a corporation, effectiveness is measured in revenue only. Tenant Hans is farming part of Bodenbauer's land the traditional way and opposes him. When there is no compromise what will become of the farm?

A 12 year old girl regularly writes letters to Brad Pitt telling him about the boring life in the province, her unnerving sister and her clumsy father.

A co-operative that was founded in 1993 in Ticino (the Alpine southernmost Canton of Switzerland) by Ulrich Stamani and 12 other people continues to prosper as a small farm and eco-resort thanks to the help and support of people like Katharina Luthi, a skilled farmer. Over the course of a year the co-operative has to readjust itself to the needs of its members and try to find new younger people to progress the simple life it preserves.

Ten directors of a new generation of filmmakers tell how differently people in Switzerland cope with the worst imaginable disaster; the fact of being dependent on other countries.

Lena is in love with her brother Noah. In the desperate attempt to conquer her feelings, she retreats into a world of her own.

Money rules the world, especially the one of Schaggi Streuli in the role of chef Hans Egli. Zum goldenen Ochsen may refer to his determination to turn everything into gold he picks up. But when he plans the future of his only daughter particularly business-minded, she's upsetting his plans together with her mother.

They're single, widowed or divorced ; they've had children, husbands, a job. They have a life behind them, but also one to come - "Ladies" reveals the intimate lives of five women in their sixties who are waging a discreet daily battle against loneliness. It's true that men often prefer younger women, it's true that one feels invisible in a youth-oriented society, but they are not washed up, far from it. One fills her time with activities, another is recovering from the loss of her husband, others find sustenance in nature - And love? They still believe in it, of course. It's never too late to dream.

At the age of three, little Wolfgang has lost his parents. Since then his uncle Eduard raises the boy. As a former concertmaster Eduard has recognized how gifted his nephew is and the boy learns the hard way. The 6-year-old must practice daily 6 hours at the piano and already impresses at famous music parties. When Eduard Fabricius breaks a leg after a concert in Lucerne and must go to the hospital, he can be persuaded by a paediatrician to grant some carefree vacation weeks in a manor for Wolfgang. The manor belongs to the young widow Elisabeth who soon grows very fond of the little boy. Wolfgang makes friends with 11-year-old Heidi and Jöggi, a boy his age who first saw a rival in him. When Wolfgang saves a young dog from a mountain stream, however, he gets pneumonia, and Elisabeth worries about him. But when he recovers, his uncle fetches him. A strenuous concert tour begins. One day at the piano the boy breaks down. Eduard Fabricius recognizes that he has demanded too much of his nephew, and finally makes up his mind.

Lisa, the daughter of ordinary people, has won a scholarship for an elite boarding school and is supposed to go to school there in a few weeks and do her high school diploma. But bad news throws a spanner in the works: Lisa is pregnant.

Jasmin takes part in the Miss Switzerland elections. In the Misses' camp on an exotic island she not only meets her first love but also death in person. Within a short period of time, several Miss Switzerland candidates fall victim to him.

Tom, Ritz and Andi are friends who, 20 years ago, founded the bicycle courier company The Cooperative. For years, the lads were market leaders in Zurich, but now there is competition in the city: the Girls. Messengers. They are younger, prettier and have better business ideas. The Cooperative is on the verge of bankruptcy. They borrow money from Fat Frank, an old ally turned enemy, and launch a counter-campaign. Their marketing concept is adventurous. It can certainly be described as explosive. It ruins The Cooperative and their friendship... Almost.