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A Swiss policeman infiltrates an international money laundering ring. Based on a true story.

Henry Dunant, son of a Geneva francophone upper class bourgeoisie family, works for a Swiss exploitation company in French Algeria; when the colonists are thirsty, he returns determined to convince the firm and emperor Napoleon III to build a dam for them. After his Uncle, Dr. Hubert Dunant, diagnoses him not with Algerian typhus, just malaria, also his first meeting -dropping drawers in hospital for a shot- with nurse Cécile Thuillier, and meeting his careerist brother Daniel's fiancée, Léonie Bourg-Thibourg, daughter of the firm's boss, the board approves his plan. On his way to the emperor, who didn't even concede to receive him, Henry gets stuck in Castiglione, part of the Austrian province Lombardy which French troops came to 'liberate'; his Geneva friend Dr. Louis Appia saves his life by presenting him to suspicious Austrian troops as his medical assistant, and he soon gets passionate about senseless cruelties of war while helping out with what he learned from grandpa. Cécile, part of a godsend shipment of Swis staff and supplies, becomes his right hand and true love. After French troops take the village and reinstate senseless abuses, his letters home, published in Geneva by family friend journalist Samuel Lowenthal, whose newspaper gets attacked too, the unprecedented shocking first-hand truth about war cruelty, start enough public commotion to make his plans eventual turn true in the form of the now worldwide indispensable, strictly neutral humanitarian last resort for all in need, the International Red Cross, named after the symbol Dunant devised by painting in blood the Christian symbol French and Austrians had in common as Catholic nations to safely evacuate from Castiglione.

The son of a punk rocker trying to make a comeback and a colourful ex-bimbo, Bob is born, grows up, establishes rock groups and takes flight in the middle of his guitars, his buddies, his girlfriends and his teenage anxieties.

After a successful experiment on Algernon, a mouse whose level of intelligence thanks to that procedure dramatically increased, the scientists decided to go further - the next "guinea pig" is Charles, a mentally retarded young man. The experiment is again successful. But what happens after it?

In 1942, after three years of bringing back dignity to mothers interned in refugee camps and saving the lives of their babies, the Maternity of Elna has been ordered to close it's doors by the French authorities. Its director Elisabeth Eidenbenz, the mothers and their collaborators who have helped to make everything possible, will try to prevent it.

1810. Enrique Faber, a Swiss surgeon, lands in Cuba in search for his son. After a few weeks of investigation, he is told that his son was burnt alive in the attack on a plantation led by a slave revolt. Enrique Faber does not believe this. He settles in Baracoa and carries on with his research. His success as a doctor and his marriage to Juana, a young strange and attractive pariah from the area soon create jealousies. Malicious rumours immediately spread about his high-pitched voice and his fragile appearance. One night, he comes across four men sent by a slave trader. They undress him and discover that Enrique is a woman... Enrique is thrown into jail. Soon begins the most scandalous trial of Cuban colonial history. Based on a true story

Albert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to Hollywood. His trip is filled with adventures.

A doctor broken by 8 years of war in North Africa tries to come back home. On his way, he is faced with a bigger challenge: save a city from the plague... And from madness.

Une station-service au bord de l'autoroute. Abdou, jeune fugueur, se lie d'amitié avec Georges, le pompiste Arabe. Georges profite d'une ultime et violente dispute avec son patron pour plaquer son boulot et accompagner le petit Abdou jusqu'à Marseille. L'enfant souhaite y voir un match de la coupe du monde de football. La tête pleine de rêves et les poches vides, ils vont voyager en s'apprivoisant mutuellement. Une tendre amitié se tissera peu à peu entre eux, et le voyage, parsemé d'embûches, donnera lieu à d'étonnantes rencontres: Louisa, grand coeur et petits trafics, Oleg, le Russe qui vend tout, les Gitans qui sauveront Georges puis l'abandonneront ... Par des chemins détournés, Georges retourne vers celui qu'il fut autrefois: le footballeur professionnel Ahmed Najid. Pour Abdou, c'est un voyage initiatique vers la perte de l'innocence, l'apprentissage de la vie. Tous deux sont à la recherche de leur identité. L'un ne sait pas encore qui il est quand l'autre ne le sait plus!

The ex-gymnast and survival artist Emil (Werner Stocker) falls in love with the prostitute Lissy (Dana Vávrová). Through her he meets some criminals whom he can help thanks to his gymnastic skills. But on his rise in the criminal hierarchy, Lissy might fall by the wayside.

Micheline has dedicated her whole life to her three sons and husband. They live in a typical village in French-speaking Switzerland where everybody know each other. Unexpectedly, one day decides to get a driving license and leaving behind her normal daily life she sets off in a Citroen Dyane with her autistic young neighbor who knows all the road signs by hard. What dream is Micheline pursuing which takes her to see the sea at Knokke-le-Zout?

Three brothers, who spy on and mistrust each other, live together in a large neglected house. They are holding an elderly painter prisoner, trying by all means to make him paint again.

Spencer, Mitsuko, Sidney, Justine and Ben will do it all, even turn on each other, to save their mind-numbing jobs at Global Corp., as Mr. Hackman, A Re-Engineering Facilitator for the corporate giant, makes them jump through the hoops of his twisted logic, in the pursuit of efficiency. That is, until the five bottom-rung employees are pushed too way, way too far. Even for them.

Marie is a petty thief, Joe her law-abiding lover; both dream of becoming music stars, and they have to leave their Swiss coastal town after Marie shoots a man during an abortive robbery, hoping to escape to America.