Friedrich Dürrenmatt Movies

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

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

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

An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.

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...

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...

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...

A TV adaptation of a historical comedy from Dürrenmatt's early period, depicting in an ironic manner the final moments of the Roman Empire,...

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...

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

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...

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

Florestan Mississippi, a public prosecutor by profession, visits a lady named Anastasia and, while drinking coffee with her, convicts her of...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...