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Alpine Hotel at Christmas
Lap up the luxury and opulence of the festive season at Switzerland's Gstaad Palace hotel, as we discover one of the most exclusive hotels in the world, where staff and management work hard to ensure their guests enjoy the ultimate 5-star festive experience. Run by third generation hotelier Andrea Scherz, whose family have owned the hotel since 1938, the hotel is one of the last in Switzerland to close between the summer season and winter. When it reopens in mid-December, with rooms costing up to £18,000 per night, the pressure is on to provide a truly first class Christmas.
Premiata Forneria Marconi - PFM in Classic da Mozart a Celebration
Premiata Forneria Marconi performs live with a symphony orchestra on the Lugano Estival Jazz 2013. Shown on the channel RSI 2 in HD.
Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen
When '80s B-movie icon Tim Thomerson wakes up one day to realize the acting roles are not coming his way any more, he sets out on a quest to find his former co-star Lance Henriksen to discover his secret of Hollywood longevity and gets more than he bargained for in the process.
The Tax Evader Chapter II
Two years ago, Rex Mose committed tax fraud, setting in motion a series of events leading to the fall of the Wisconsin government. Now, two former IRS agents must regain their knowledge of taxation in order to put Mose’s tyranny to an end.
The Importance of Acquiescence
A young woman's day is interrupted by the arrival of a film crew in her home, hellbent on making her the star of their film.
Mona
Two 35 year old men going backwards in life meet a vibrant 23 year woman, bounding unselfconsciously forward.
Rubbers
This psychological film follows for several days a very shy young adult woman, a loner with a good heart, who has the misfortune of growing up with obsessional attraction to rubber clothing, the attraction that potentially could make her a target for social rejection. She carefully conceals from her co-workers in a food factory the fact she wears such undergarments. One day an attractive male co-worker befriends her. When they get close in her apartment he indeed reacts to her rubber fetish with rejection. But they resume dating and now strive to meet each other's need for an intimate friendship.
Silverlake Life: The View from Here
An extraordinary video diary about living with AIDS documenting, with guts and humor, the love and dedication of longtime companions Tom Joslin and Mark Massi, from the emotional challenge of living with a fatal illness to the frustration of maintaining daily routines,.
El barco de Teseo
#73, Shantinivasa
When Raghu enters a dysfunctional family as a cook, he clears their misunderstandings and brings the members closer to each other. However, there is more to him than what he shows.
Threads of Life
The human genome contains the secret of human life, recording our evolution and holding the key to our future. In this one-off documentary, Robert Winston shows how the genome demonstrates how to build and run a person, thereby offering us the potential to interfere with fate.
West Hollywood Motel
Various lives intersect in and around a West Hollywood motel in this kaleidoscopic comedy about sex, love, and the meaning of life.
Lux Aeterna
This happened in real, current times, while nobody took notice. It is the death story of Casiano and Blacina, an over-80-year-old married couple of authentic peasants who live on the mountainsides far away from the closet village and who, in a situation of complete abandonment, greet death with a profound sense of peace. This is a requiem for this deceased couple which focuses on the ceremonious, on the passiveness and acceptance of death.
The Dawn Of Victory
In 1943, a commando team wants to try to destroy the largest airport of the Germans in Crete. The leader of the commando, Nikitas is Cretan, but Lefteris, who is the leader of the resistance group, refuses to help him. Eventually the mission succeeds, but Nikitas is captured. Then the resistance fighters attack in prison and release the prisoners who were to be executed.
Thank You in Your Language
Actor Tiina Vainio has to make an audition tape in a hotel room as soon as possible for the role of her life.
Rose of Tralee
An Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family.
A Woman Like Me
A WOMAN LIKE ME is a hybrid documentary that interweaves the real story of director Alex Sichel, diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2011, with the fictional story of Anna Seashell, who struggles to find the glass half full when faced with the same diagnosis. The film follows Alex as she uses her craft to explore what is foremost on her mind while confronting a terminal disease: parenting, marriage, faith, life, and death. When we are stuck between a rock and hard place, can our imagination get us out?
Broncho Billy's Adventure
Fairfax, California, is the location used for this film, one of the earliest Broncho Billy films. Anderson includes his usual mix of comedy and drama as Broncho Billy gets caught in the middle of a family dispute between a jealous hotel owner and his daughter when she flirts with her boyfriend, a cowboy her father dislikes.