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- A model discovers a retired judge is keen on invading people's privacy.
- Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
- An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.
- Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha (Moka) color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives.
- What lives in the blind spot of our true selves? Are we all capable, of being a human and a monster in one being? A man named Jack, is sitting in a DARK ROOM. One of the survivors of a brutal triple homicide, which took place in the elegant Mansion, of a charismatic Film Producer, Robert Spier (Christopher Lambert). Jack Butland was there, but he can't remember what happened or he doesn't want to? DARK ROOM is a tense psychological thriller, where the truth unfolds under the guidance of a neuroscientist, Dr Leonard (Bruce Payne) and also from the re-collected vantage point, of 5 witnesses to the massacre. A disturbed and frenetic type of "Rashomon", meets "Woyzeck" meets "Falling Down", where the 'behind closed doors' atmosphere and unexpected climax will draw you into the DARK ROOM, right next to Jack Butland. An intimate nightmare loop, where sometimes life just smashes you in the face and splits you in two. But, which half is the real you?
- In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist André Polonski that she would be his daughter. André has just remarried his first wife, the heiress of a Swiss chocolate factory Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller and they live in Lausanne with André's son Guillaume Polonski. Out of the blue, Jeanne visits André and he offers to give piano classes to help her in her examination. Jeanne becomes closer to André and sooner she discovers that Mika might be drugging her stepson with Rohypnol. Further, she might have killed his second wife Lisbeth.
- Moles threaten to foil a team of secret agents' plan.
- Lisa has bid goodbye to her ambitions as a playwright and the Berlin arts scene and now lives in Switzerland with her husband, who runs an international school. When her twin brother falls ill, she returns to Berlin.
- After a brief affair with her seductive professor, a young student mysteriously disappears. As the police and the girl's stepmother tighten the noose on the cryptic tutor, he experiences a long-forgotten feeling. Is love the perfect crime?
- This coming-of-age drama deals with a young man, realizing who he really is and which things he will never do. Loic, 18 years old, being annoyed by his work in a chocolate factory, cruises in the internet by night to have sex with older men. His life is turned upside down by a row of events such as his friendship to a man who is not just interested in his body and the suicide of his best friend...
- An insurance investigator is looking for a stolen priceless medieval Russian icon.
- Vincent, a down-at-the-heels French cab driver, desperately in need of cash for child support is intrigued when Thelma charters his cab for a trip to Crete. As they travel, talk and flirt, they become friends but the situation grows complicated when Vincent discovers that Thelma is transgender. Will Vincent decide to explore a country that he's never been to with her ?
- A young poet falling in love. A city that awaits a drama to unfold. A time of sadness and conformity, a time of decisions. There is light, there is hope, there is poetry behind the dark clouds of our world.
- A successful woman's life is disrupted by her mother's decision to move away to write poetry.
- Two friends decide to steal Charlie Chaplin's body, right after his death, for ransom.
- Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he's on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to deal with a crisis situation, Frank makes a brutal decision and gets fired. Profoundly shaken, betrayed by a system to which he gave his all, he has to progressively question himself to save the one connection that still matters to him: the bond he's managed to maintain with his youngest daughter, Mathilde.
- Benjamin, repulsed Young man, and rejected by his and his family tries to manage all on his own having been thrown outside of the place of residence of her mother continuation has his Coming out - Having other appeal than the prostitution to take out there, he lives in the roaming street at nights has the search for "Clents", to survive and also help in secret her mother, depressive and person with suicidal tendencies - In the bend of a night-meeting he crosses Sophie's path - Psychologist but eaten away by the disappearance of Her parents - She will become her best friend and trying confidante, in vain to retie the family links.
- After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?
- After the theft of a priceless Van Gogh from a Parisian museum, Maigret follows his chief suspect to Lausanne where the suspect is found murdered.
- While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people. He recalls the solo trapeze act of La Mara; Tarzan, Sahib, and their elephant; Marco's sword-balancing act; an archery act in which Grey Arrow shoots an apple off the head of Zuni, his wife; the Mascott Sisters' head-to-head balancing act on a high ladder; the juggling of Rudy Cardenas; high bar specialists, the Tongas; Gunther Gebel Williams with his tiger; the flying bar act of the Laribles; Carl Sembach-Krone's trained horses; lion tamer Pablo Noel; the Gaonas and the Four Titos on the trampoline; the Flying Armors on the flying trapeze; Frieda Krone and her elephants; Fredy Knie, Sr., and his Lippizaner; the Francesco Clowns; Lilly Yokoi on her bicycle; Mendez and Seitz on the tightrope; and Pauline Schumann on the trick horse.
- Amidst the Nazi invasion of France in 1942, a young girl is evacuated to Switzerland but is still haunted by the terrors she has witnessed.
- Dr. Paul Calmet is dead. His son Jean again feels the familiar feeling of anguish caused by his father; victim of this torture, he is carrying the virus of misfortune.
- Adopted by a well-off Swiss couple with slightly older son and daughter, Vinh never cut off links with his country of origin. Postcards from the adoptive family regularly conveyed to Vinh's mother in Vietnam reassurance about the warmth and nurturing environment that she always wished for her boy. Now grown up, Vinh is getting married; after so many years, the wedding is the ideal opportunity for his mother, accompanied by uncle Dac, to visit the adoptive family. Nothing would cause a greater consternation among its members. The parents underwent a less than amicable divorce, the father is bankrupt, the sister estranged, the elder brother brooding, the model family broken up. What can be done to prevent the unavoidable and profound disappointment of Vinh's mother and uncle Dac when they discover the fiasco?
- The evolving relationship between design and business is illustrated and discussed in insightful interviews and inspiring case studies.
- Roman has just robbed a bank. The suitcase full of banknotes, he hides in a small remote village in the Helvetian countryside. But, barely arrived in the only hotel in the village, he discovers, limply slumped in the bathtub of his room, the body of a young girl. Since he prefers no to have no contact with the police, Roman decides to get rid of the corpse as discreetly as possible. The next day, he buys a trunk and brings the body in the cellar of a gas station located a little outside the village. On his way back, he meets the little girl whose body he has just thrown away. Little by little, memories begin to come back to him. Memories of a life he didn't live. At the very least, not for a few centuries .
- A divorced Swiss couple must come to terms with their daughter's life-threatening illness. He, a scientist, snatches his daughter from the examining table at the clinic and takes her away as if to kidnap her from the disease. His ex-wife, an actress, takes to bed weeping uncontrollably when she learns of her daughter's tumor. The girl's step-mother, an Asian-American physician, is clinical in her response, outlining a treatment regimen of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. It is left to the girl herself, ten-year-old Violette, to be calm, reassuring, philosophical, and even metaphysical as she faces death.
- A young, recently widowed mother takes her daughter for a walk and a picnic in the forest. But things take a turn for the dramatic when a game of hide and seek goes terribly wrong.
- Kathleen Thielhelm, a ballerina from Wisconsin, gets the chance to dance an important role at the Paris Opera House. When the premiere finally arrives, what happens is what no dancer would ever hope to experience.
- Omar and Kevin, two young men from the projects decide to hold up a local grocery store. As they're making their escape, they steal a car with a baby inside, causing a major disruption to their plans. But they will learn an important lesson.
- A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs of Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Modest bank employee and passionate billiard player in his spare time, Bernard Noblet is bored stiff.
- Two young kids try to dance their way out of the favelas of Rio.
- Nothing is right in Martin's life anymore: his wife cheats on him, his boss fires him, his colleagues don't take him seriously. Inside the head of a man in the midst of an existential crisis, dream and reality merge.
- A small library in Switzerland has big problems when the head librarian retires and an audit shows missing funds.
- The intertwined trajectories of three Cuban women, coming from the same family: Gloria, 93 years old, anchored in Havana, her daughter Glorita, 64 years old, settled in Louisiana and Yilian, 38 years old, settled in Switzerland. The film is built around Yilian Cañizares, her destiny as a little girl passionate about violin, whose life changes after obtaining two scholarships that lead her to Venezuela as a teenager, then to Switzerland as an adult, causing painful family separations, but nourishing an urgent need for professional progress.
- Harry App is a private detective with only one goal: bring the priceless rabbit Mister Theo alive and well to Switzerland.
- At night, in his studio perched high above the lights of New York, Bill Diamond, a famous photographer, invents stories and fairy tales, to chase away the evil spirits his memories keep bringing back. One of these stories is about Mark, a gifted photographer who lives alone, embittered and withdrawn from the world, in a church that once was his studio on the lake of Geneva. Mark has lost everything: his fame, his wife, his friends, and above all, his self-esteem. His dear friend Luc, the village policeman, is the only companion he has left. Into this bleak world, Bill sends Jessi, a beautiful model he once worked with. Jessi tells Mark that Bill is dead, and that he is now to continue the work the elder photographer had begun. Mark reacts to this offer with cynicism, but because he needs money, he accepts. The relationship between Mark and Jessi is difficult and tense. Yet in the course of their work Mark becomes more and more fascinated by this strange, gentle woman. Could Jessi really be the angel Bill Diamond says she is?
- Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman leaves her native village for the canton of Bern where she manages to be hired by Anton Muller, a wealthy, authoritarian farmer. Under the young woman's spell, Anton wants to make his servant his mistress but Thérèse refuses energetically.. Later on, she nevertheless accepts to marry Anton. On the wedding day, she meets Gottfried, her bridegroom's son, and they instantly fall passionately in love with each other...
- The Love Express dating agency is organizing a singles party on Lake Geneva. André and Anne-Charlotte, who officiate as masters of ceremonies, find the opportunity to take stock of their own romantic relationship.
- Markus is a mail clerk in Lausanne. He wants to live in a faster and easier way. Thanks to a chance encounter with an old school mate, he begins to deal with drugs and gets confronted with all the rough edges of the job: death, madness, ghosts.
- Helped by his old friend Fernand, Sami tries to make Julie realise that she is the love of his life.
- Lester, a vampire, gets into a girl's apartment to suck her blood. Woken up by this strange visitor, she will find herself involved in a game in which only he seems to know the rules. What about you? What do you know about vampires?
- Alongside the world's greatest athletes are the world's most zealous collectors, a group of self-proclaimed hunters who will stop at nothing to take home a prize from the games. Explore the lives of 5 people who are obsessive Olympic Pin Collectors as they approach their crowning moment at the Torino Olympic Games.
- During the Algerian War between 1954-1962 few young Frenchmen defaulted on military service. These draft dodgers believed in non-violence. Some fled to Switzerland where they received help from Swiss citizens.