Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Academy Award-winner Jack Nicholson stars as Jerry Black, a Nevada homicide detective who volunteers for one final investigation on the eve of his retirement. He offers his expertise at a compromised crime scene and ends up making a promise to the young victim's mother that will change his life forever. (Warner Brothers)

A once-prosperous Senegalese village has been falling further into poverty year by year until the village's elders are reduced to selling town possessions to pay debts. Linguère, a former resident and local beauty, now very rich, returns to this, the village of her birth... (imdb)

Several young girls were killed. Policeman Matthaei travels to the region where it happened and searches a child that looks similar to the ones that were murdered. He finds one and stays with her and her mother, not telling them that he is waiting for the killer to start his bloody work one more time ... (imdb)

These three retired magistrates want to carry on with their work: judging people is their idée fixe.

An unwed pregnant teenager is run out of town and years later she returns there as a rich woman, raising the town's expectations with her generosity, but she's only out for revenge. (imdb)

While investigating a high-profile murder case, a savvy but unorthodox veteran police inspector has to cope with a bad conscience, bad health, an overzealous partner, a timid superior and interference from political interests. This is an existential whodunit, but a good one, and like any good whodunit, ends with a very surprising conclusion. (imdb)

An old and rich lady returns to her home town and wants "justice". She offers a lot of money if her former lover is killed.

Laguna Verde is a small town like any other: its mayor is involved in some shady deals and the citizens have all the familiar vices and virtues. Then one day she (the great Isabel Sarli) returns--the beautiful woman who once loved unwisely and got driven out of town for her "whore's" passion. Forget peace and quiet! The lady has plenty of money--unlike her old Laguna Verde acquaintances--and all the power in the world to humiliate those who once shamed her. (filmfestamiens.org)

A former inspector is called in to investigate a child murder. A suspect confesses to the crime, but knowing that the confession came only after the man was browbeaten, the inspector's instincts tell him that the man is not the murderer and there is a serial killer at work. However, he is alone in his assessment and the case is closed. He is warned by a psychiatrist that the murderer he seeks might not exist, and he might drive himself mad with his obsession in finding the man...

An urbanite couple who plan to relieve tiredness of the whole week on saturday, find themselves surrounded by a much more tiring environment.

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

Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and is sentenced to twenty years. Kohler then gets his daughter Helene to pay the reluctant Spat to reinvestigate the case, on the assumption that Kohler is innocent. The newspapers pick up on this and begin to question whether Kohler was wrongly convicted. (WIll Gilbert (imdb)

Sci-fi film by Vittorio Cottafavi made for TV.

Shantata. Court Chalu Aahe is political and social satire on middle-class society's hypocrisy. (imdb)

Police Commissioner Berlach (Nikolay Simonov) in post-war Switzerland is looking for hiding Nazi criminals. Upon learning that a former Nazi doctor is running one of the clinics under an assumed name, the seriously ill Berlach is sent there for treatment. The film is based on the novel "Suspicion" by Friedrich Durenmatt. (Odesa Film Studio)