Switzerland:16 certified movies

The Cooler (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: William H. Macy | Alec Baldwin | Maria Bello | Shawn Hatosy | Ron Livingston | Paul Sorvino | Estella Warren | Arthur J. Nascarella | Joey Fatone | M.C. Gainey | Ellen Greene | Don Scribner | Tony Longo | Richard Israel | Timothy Landfield
Directors: Wayne Kramer
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The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas’ aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse.

The Brave One (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Jodie Foster | Terrence Howard | Nicky Katt | Naveen Andrews | Mary Steenburgen | Ene Oloja | Luis Da Silva Jr. | Blaze Foster | Rafael Sardina | Jane Adams | Gordon MacDonald | Zöe Kravitz | John Magaro | Victor Colicchio | Jermel Howard
Directors: Neil Jordan
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A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

5×2 (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France
Actors: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Stéphane Freiss | Françoise Fabian | Michael Lonsdale | Géraldine Pailhas | Antoine Chappey | Marc Ruchmann | Jason Tavassoli | Jean-Pol Brissart | Eliane Kherris | Yannis Belkacem | Sylvie Debrun | Jean Neisser | Ninon Brétécher | Marie-Madeleine Fouquet
Directors: François Ozon
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Marion (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) and Gilles (Stéphane Freiss) are living their last minutes as a married couple. After having formalized their divorce, they will make love for the last time in a hotel, but the experience is rather traumatic for Marion, contributing to increase the crisis between them. From this point, the story, broken down in 5 episodes, will run backwards, telling us the couple’s married life, showing us their devoted love to their little son, but also how Gilles hurt Marion in several ways. Then, we see Marion’s labour at the hospital, with an indifference attitude from Gilles about the matter. The two last episodes, tell how was the wedding, the party and the wedding night, and finally, how Marion and Gilles met each other during a trip in the Italian coast.

Bully (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Brad Renfro | Rachel Miner | Bijou Phillips | Nick Stahl | Michael Pitt | Leo Fitzpatrick | Kelli Garner | Daniel Franzese | Nathalie Paulding | Jessica Sutta | Ed Amatrudo | Steve Raulerson | Judy Clayton | Alan Lilly | Irene B. Colletti
Directors: Larry Clark
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After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend’s twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby’s often cruel ways, couldn’t agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby, with a group of willing and unwilling participants in a small Florida town. In the midst of their plotting, they find themselves contemplating with the possible aftermath of what could happen.

Femme Fatale (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Rebecca Romijn | Antonio Banderas | Peter Coyote | Eriq Ebouaney | Edouard Montoute | Rie Rasmussen | Thierry Frémont | Gregg Henry | Fiona Curzon | Daniel Milgram | Jean-Marc Minéo | Jean Chatel | Stéphane Petit | Olivier Follet | Eva Darlan
Directors: Brian De Palma
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International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidently assumes the identy of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas while evading her former partners-in-crime still looking for her to reclaim the stolen diamonds.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Laura Linney | Tom Wilkinson | Campbell Scott | Jennifer Carpenter | Colm Feore | Joshua Close | Kenneth Welsh | Duncan Fraser | JR Bourne | Mary Beth Hurt | Henry Czerny | Shohreh Aghdashloo | Steve Archer | Arlene Belcastro | David Berner
Directors: Scott Derrickson
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The nineteen years old Catholic college girl Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) dies a couple of days after being submitted to an exorcism carried out by her parish priest, Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson). Emily believed she was possessed by six demons, and although authorized by Emily and he parents, Father Moore is accused of negligent homicide, since he had suggested Emily to interrupt the use of medications for epilepsy. In order to avoid a scandal, the Archdiocese hires the successful, ambitious and agnostic lawyer Erin Bruner (Laura Linney), and the prosecution assigns the religious prosecutor Ethan Thomas (Campbell Scott). Along the days, there is a battle between science and religion in the court.

Tideland (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Jodelle Ferland | Janet McTeer | Brendan Fletcher | Jennifer Tilly | Jeff Bridges | Dylan Taylor | Wendy Anderson | Sally Crooks | Alden Adair | Harry Gilliam | Kent Wolkowski
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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After her mother dies from a methadone overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother, Jeliza-Rose’s attempts to deal with what’s happened result in increasingly odd behavior, as she begins to communicate mainly with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears a beekeeper’s veil.

The Last King of Scotland (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Forest Whitaker | James McAvoy | Kerry Washington | Gillian Anderson | Simon McBurney | David Oyelowo | Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga | Adam Kotz | Barbara Rafferty | David Ashton | Giles Foden | Andy Williams | Martina Amati | Peter Salmon | Michael Wawuyo
Directors: Kevin Macdonald
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In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan, a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin, who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department and becomes one of Amin’s closest advisers. However as the years pass, Garrigan cannot help but notice Amin’s increasingly erratic behavior that grows beyond a legitimate fear of assassination into a murderous insanity that is driving Uganda into bloody ruin. Realizing his dire situation with the lunatic leader unwilling to let him go home, Garrigan must make some crucial decisions that could mean his death if the despot finds out.

300 (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Gerard Butler | Lena Headey | Dominic West | David Wenham | Vincent Regan | Michael Fassbender | Tom Wisdom | Andrew Pleavin | Andrew Tiernan | Rodrigo Santoro | Giovani Cimmino | Stephen McHattie | Greg Kramer | Alex Ivanovici | Craig Kelly
Directors: Zack Snyder
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It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius’ master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries’ request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes’ way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents’ complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied “molon lave,” which means “Come and get them.” The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn’t been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) “In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions).” For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) “Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws,” meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians’ morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.

Snakes on a Plane (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Julianna Margulies | Nathan Phillips | Rachel Blanchard | Flex Alexander | Kenan Thompson | Keith Dallas | Lin Shaye | James Bruce | Sunny Mabrey | Casey Dubois | Daniel Hogarth | Gerard Plunkett | Terry Chen | Elsa Pataky
Directors: David R. Ellis
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When Sean Jones witnesses a murder, he is asked to fly from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify against the notorious gangster Eddie Kim. However, Kim has paid an assassin to release a crate-full of deadly snakes loose when the plane is 30,000 feet in the air. Only FBI agent Neville Flynn can protect Sean and rally the passengers together in hope of landing in L.A. alive.