Friedrich Dürrenmatt Movies

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joachim Król

A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Nicholson

A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard E. Grant

Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jon Voight

In the dense and murky woodlands of provincial Hungary, the search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Péter Haumann

An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heinz Rühmann

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Therese Giehse

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ingrid Bergman

As a young woman, Klara left her hometown in disgrace. Now she is old and unimaginably rich, as for the first time she returns. The town is nearly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ljuba Tadić

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A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

A Businessman's car breaks down near the house Rahmi, who decides to host him until his car is repaired. Rahmi and his friends play a game about a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mostafa Fahmy

Genre: Comedy

Cast: O.E. Hasse

On his weekly train ride through Switzerland a student notices that the tunnel they are driving through is unusually long. The persistent darkness...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Detlev Buck

Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: George Segal

As a young woman, Claire left her hometown in disgrace. Now she is old and unimaginably rich, as for the first time she returns. The town is nearly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ita Ever

Sci-fi film made for TV by Vittorio Cottafavi.

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A political and social satire on middle-class society's hypocrisy. A group of teachers plan to stage a play in a village. When a cast-member does not...

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Cast: Amrish Puri

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hubert von Meyerinck

Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jon Voight

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Regimantas Adomaitis

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helmuth Lohner

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ivan Volkov

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nikolai Simonov

A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Djibril Diop Mambéty

In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yekaterina Vasilyeva

Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maximilian Schell

In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christiane Hörbiger

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Heinz Rühmann

Genre: Crime

Cast: Peter Ahrweiler

The old and sick detective superintendent Bärlach has to investigate the murder of his colleague Ulrich Schmied, who was murdered in the middle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karl-Georg Saebisch

The old and sick detective superintendent Bärlach has to investigate the murder of his colleague Ulrich Schmied, who was murdered in the middle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karl-Georg Saebisch

An enormously wealthy woman returns to her hometown with a dreadful bargain: She wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her in exchange for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elisabeth Flickenschildt

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ingrid Bergman

In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christiane Hörbiger

Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to...

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Cast: Mary Marquet

Hungarian TV movie based on the work of swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

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A remote village has not had a previous boom for years. Residents have either been forced to migrate or are in poverty and misery, but the village...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Parviz Parastouei

Mahmoud son of Jaber abandons the owner of one of the factories for Hind daughter of Juma the chief worker in the factory, after he promised her to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rushdy Abaza