Carlos Leal
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Biography: Carlos Leal (born 9 July 1969) is a Swiss rapper and actor. He was born in Lausanne to Galician immigrants. In 1990, he co-founded Sens Unik. The group produced four gold records and contributed music to the films La Haine (1995) and Neutre (2001).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lausanne, Switzerland
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Snow White
Overview: The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco, the front man of a rap band. She finds herself drawn to his independent, creative and profound way of life, so different from her own. With naiveté and infinite self-confidence, she tries to adopt his lifestyle - without anticipating the consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-08-07
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Verso
Overview: Alex belongs to an elite unit of the Geneva police. When Victor, his former teammate, is released from prison, Alex is caught up with his past. He testified against Victor, and fears reprisals. The ex-cop is hired as a henchman for a powerful mafia boss. Alex decides to follow him, without consulting his superiors, and begins a long descent into hell.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-19
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Broken Embraces
Overview: Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-03-18
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Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps
Overview: 1975, Swiss Alps: In a remote mountain village, a beautiful and mysterious woman shows up. Only the village policeman takes care of the strange woman and tries to find out who she is. There are hints that she came from the Höhenalp Alp, where herdsmen do unthinkable things to get the company of women. Many dark truths are revealed that should better have remained hidden. A tragedy of lust, insanity and murder is brought to a seemlingly pure and perfect world. It is the beginning of a nightmare of religious insanity, hypocrisy, abuse and belief in demons, who destroys a young family and brings a whole village to destruction.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-09-23
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The Station In-Between
Overview: Theo and Louis, two gay gentlemen, embark on a train journey to Paxmal. They are carrying an urn - it is the last journey for a friend. On their way deep into the Swiss Alps the two men, struggling with their fate, meet various people. While some of these people remind Theo and Louis again of the beautiful things in life, others confront them with ghosts from the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-08-14
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For the Good of Others
Overview: Diego is a doctor so used to working in extreme situations that he has immunized himself to others' pain. He has switched off from his work, his partner and his commitment as a father. Over the course of a disturbing meeting, Diego is threatened with a gun. Hours later, he can only remember the sound of a bang and the strange feeling of having being hit with something more than a bullet. Diego has to take an irreversible decision which will affect his own life and that of his loved ones.
Genres: Thriller Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-06-03
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Carré Blanc
Overview: Philippe lives in a world controlled by a caste system. Those who play the "game" correctly become higher and more powerful. Phillipe plays the game well but his wife wants him to return to reality. Its a love story after marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-06
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Father Stu
Overview: The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization that he's meant to be a Catholic priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-13
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Nobody's Rose
Overview: Manuela is a young photographer and artist who lives confined in her dark past. Daniel is a French writer who spends his days between the novels he writes, and returns to the small town to meet Manuela, with whom he shared an sinister experience long ago. By knowing the distant, hostile and self-destructive world of Manuela, the writer is deeply mesmerized by the dark side of his partner and try to explore its limits. They build a relationship of light and shadow, profoundly marked by the common past and the universe of Manuela. While Manuela remains trapped and tries to overcome her present, Daniel will find a way of life to the extreme and will end facing a tough test.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-11
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Looking for Eimish
Overview: The young Lucas shares a flat with her partner Eimish in Madrid. One day to buy a rose for her, which prevents her crossing the street when she left. When he gets home he finds a letter that says he is going to Germany. It is then that without a second thought, and acting for the first time in his life moved by impulse, decides to take the first train traveling to Berlin to try to convince his girlfriend to come back to his side. When he reach the city he will realize that she is not there, so he decides to take new direction to Verona (Italy). But things get worse in the adventure: she must stand up to certain situations in her past, and he will change his idea about family and love.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-11-09
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Collision
Overview: Deceit and betrayal rise to the surface after newlyweds survive a deadly car accident in the Moroccan desert.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-30
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To the Sea
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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20 Rules! For Sylvie
Overview: Adalbert, a paranoid, overprotective single dad imposes a set of 20 rules on his daughter Sylvie before she leaves the small town of Ormont-Dessus for university. Making sure that she obeys them perfectly, he secretly follows her to Basel, but ends up falling in with a party crowd and breaking all the rules himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-09-18
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The American Tetralogy
Overview: Entirely made in California, the film brings together 30 American and European actors in an epic which crosses the mythical territories of that cinematic land from Zabriskie Point to Mulholland Drive. California is revisited through the movie memories incarnated by the very presence of famous actors and actresses. "The American Tetralogy" is a way of staging reality which questions the fictional nature of the movies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-12
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Who Killed Johnny
Overview: The life of two desperate Swiss Expats who try to write their first script turns up side down when they discover a dead body on the street.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-13
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Tant qu'il pleut en Amérique
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: am
Release Date: 2013-04-20
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Ein Sommer in Amalfi
Overview: German travel guide researcher Kai, a gay player, breaks a leg on mission in Amalfi, once more paying too much gay attention to Italian stallions. This forces his editor Claudia Wesskampe, who hates the Mediterranean on account of her absent Italian stepfather, to join Kai to finish the field work, as he's already dangerously close to her deadline. Friendly locals like padre Leo Muti and his flirtatious cousin Luca soon convert her to appreciate the country, its people and even her unraveled family history.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-04-07
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Afternoon Delight
Overview: An affluent Hollywood producer spends a pleasant afternoon by the hot tub with his ex-lover, whom he hasn't seen in years, while his friend - a renown photographer - takes headshots of her teenage daughter in the room nearby. It's just another leisurely afternoon. Or isn't it...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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Willie and Me
Overview: Trapped in a stagnant marriage, German housewife Greta finds solace in Willie Nelson's music. When he announces his farewell concert, she embarks on a journey to Las Vegas, leaving her husband behind, rediscovering her past.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-09
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Casino Royale
Overview: Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-14
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Oro verde
Overview: Mario is an unemployed engineer, a victim of the economic crisis. Discouraged by job advertisements that do not reflect his capabilities and demoralized by numerous financial deadlines, he decides to organize the heist of the century. The police has just stored in a military facility the largest quantity of cannabis ever seized in Switzerland, and it will be burned shortly. Mario plans to substitute it with common hay without anybody noticing: if the evidence simply disappears, so does the crime... Searching for trustworthy members of his gang, Mario brings together Ivan, Augusto, Leo, Monica and 'The Professor', each of them more desperate than the other and convinced to have found the 'green gold' that will change their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-01-25
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Cricket
Overview: Cricket Sullivan (Skye Dakota Turner) is an introverted 14-year-old struggling to come to terms with a broken family. Drawn to churches as an easy mark to steal candles for her sick mother, she is caught by a grieving choir director and set a penance of polishing the church pews. The most unlikely friendship emerges as Cricket finds her true gift to the world and unlocks a channel through which both student and choir director can face their own fears and emotions. This is a lyrical film about love, loss, and the resilience of the human spirit.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-06
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Lilith: Ouverture
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Genres: Fantasy History
Original Language: fr
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Spaceman
Overview: Story of former major league baseball pitcher Bill 'Spaceman' Lee following his release by the Montreal Expos.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-19
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The Way
Overview: When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-10
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Babylon 2
Overview: The first film about second-generation Swiss immigrants: A Turkish ice hockey player explains why, in Switzerland, he could only fall in love with an Italian. A young Italian woman explains why she prefers to rap in English. A hip-hop artist with Hispanic origins fights for his political rights and the director reminisces on how, despite his Arabic roots, he's been persecuted as a Jew. Babylon 2 reflects the rise of a new urban culture in Switzerland, which is instigated by the second generation of immigrants and the help of electronic media.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-02-02
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Escape from Tibet
Overview: On the roofs of a Tibetan monastery two boys let fly a kite, but suddenly a shot rips the relaxed silence, and one of the two guys gets shot, the "Golden Boy" which is the fictitious successor to the Dalai Lama. The monks act immediately and bring him out of Tibet to secure his body. In the meantime, the Berlinese mountaineer Johanna and her Swiss friend travel to the monastery to stay there for some days...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-05-30
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Corps étrangers
Overview: A young Chinese, lands after a long trip illegally in France, somewhere around Paris. She does not know where she is, neither she speaks the language. Straying around she meet Felipe, son of spanish immigrants. He offers her to stay one night in his apartment. His frustration and the young woman's need for protection draw them together. The language barrier instead blocks real communication. Soon Felipe gets tired of her. How should he get rid of her?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The Last Thing He Wanted
Overview: At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-14
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Lester
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Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-08-08
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Wasp Network
Overview: Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-29
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Dirty Money: Undercover
Overview: A Swiss policeman infiltrates an international money laundering ring. Based on a true story.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Week End Break
Overview: Phil and his brother Tony want to escape the rigors of winter. To pay for the trip, Tony forges a cheque and sends his brother to cash it. Phil's mission fails, but through a surprising series of circumstances, he manages to obtain the security codes to a bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-24
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When We Were Sisters
Overview: 1996: Fifteen-year-old Valeska is going on vacation to Crete with her mother Monica. Jacques, her mother's new boyfriend, and his daughter Lena, who Valeska doesn't get along with at first, are joining them. Slowly, however, a friendship develops between the two girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-10-06
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