Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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 has a new guest. But the village has a new...

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 news that she wants to help - as long as the townsfolk kill someone for her.

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 news that she wants to help - as long as the townsfolk kill someone for her.

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 bankrupt and in urgent need of money. Everybody hopes Clara will come to the rescue. And she will. However, there is a condition: somebody must kill the man who was her lover all those years ago.

En un pequeño pueblo de Nevada, Jerry Black es un solitario detective de homicidios que está a punto de jubilarse. Resignándose a dejar el trabajo, lo único que en realidad da sentido a su vida, decide hacerse cargo de un último caso cuando se descubre en las montañas el cuerpo sin vida de una niña. Tras jurarle a una madre desconsolada que hallará al culpable, comienza una investigación en la que irá más allá de las evidencias y de su horario laboral, volcándose por completo.

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

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 earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.

In this grim story, three murders of young girls are committed in a similar manner, and their bodies are all found in the woods. The only suspect, a young man assumed to be a paedophile, commits suicide during the investigation. A policeman becomes obsessed with solving the mystery of this serial killer and he continues to investigate even after he has been taken off the case.

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 news that she wants to help - as long as the townsfolk kill someone for her.

Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's party, an unwitting American becomes part of the game.

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Cuando llega la noche, un italiano que se dirige a Suiza se ve obligado a pedir alojamiento en un castillo. Durante la cena, el anfitrión y tres de sus amigos, todos ellos ex-funcionarios de justicia, invitan al huésped a participar en un peculiar juego y le ofrecen el único puesto vacante, el de acusado. Mentira y verdad se confabulan en una oscura farsa, que lleva a reflexionar profundamente acerca del imperfecto intento del hombre de ser justo. (FILMAFFINITY)

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 rescue but only if her old lover who had once abandoned her pregnant is killed.

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 show up, a local stagehand is asked to replace him. An improvised, free-flowing 'rehearsal' is arranged and a mock trial is staged to help the novice understand court procedures. A (mock) charge of infanticide is levelled against Miss Benare, another cast-member. Suddenly the pretend-play turns into an accusatory game when it emerges from the trial that Miss Benare is carrying an out-of-wedlock child from her failed illicit relationship with Professor Damle, the missing cast-member.

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

An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.

Karla, la viuda de un magnate del petróleo, vuelve a su ciudad natal. Ahora que es rica y poderosa, se propone vengarse de los que la despreciaron y, sobre todo, del hombre que la abandonó por otra.

Karla, la viuda de un magnate del petróleo, vuelve a su ciudad natal. Ahora que es rica y poderosa, se propone vengarse de los que la despreciaron y, sobre todo, del hombre que la abandonó por otra.

Sci-fi film made for TV by Vittorio Cottafavi.

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 enough money to revitalize the town.

Una niña aparece asesinada en el bosque de un pequeño pueblo suizo. Enseguida las sospechas recaen sobre el viejo vendedor ambulante que encontró el cadáver. Solamente el comisario Matei duda de su culpabilidad, pero se acaba de retirar y deja el caso en manos de un compañero. Mientras tanto, el anciano, incapaz de resistir la situación, se suicida en su celda. Ya en el aeropuerto, a punto de coger el avión, el comisario Matei repara en algunos detalles contados por los niños de la escuela y decide aplazar su viaje para empezar a investigar por su cuenta.

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

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