Philippe Graber

Philippe Graber

Born: December 6, 1975
in Luzern, Switzerland

Movies for Philippe Graber...

The Universal Theory
Title: The Universal Theory
Character: Kommissar Amrein
Released: October 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets Karin, a mysterious jazz pianist who seems to know more about him than she can know. Suddenly, mysterious deaths begin to pile up and Johannes tries to uncover the secret under the mountain.
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Title: The Sheikh
Character: Urs
Released: December 22, 2022
Type: TV
Follows a con artist who reinvents himself as the heir of an Arabic fortune.
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Title: The Sheikh
Released: December 22, 2022
Type: TV
Follows a con artist who reinvents himself as the heir of an Arabic fortune.
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Lost in Fuseta
Title: Lost in Fuseta
Character: Benedict
Released: September 10, 2022
Type: Movie
Due to his developmental disorder, the autistic inspector Leander Lost has a photographic memory and a feeling for whether his counterpart is lying. For this, he has trouble understanding irony and understanding social and emotional connections. As part of a European exchange program, Lost is transferred to the small fishing town of Fuseta, where he is supposed to help solve the murder of a private detective.
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Caged Birds
Title: Caged Birds
Released: January 21, 2022
Type: Movie
Barbara Hug is a young radical lawyer fighting Switzerland's antiquated prison system in the 1980s. Walter Stürm is in and often escaping out of jail becoming known as the Jailbreak King. When the two meet an unlikely alliance is formed.
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Confessions of Felix Krull
Title: Confessions of Felix Krull
Character: Bank Employee #2
Released: September 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Literary adaptation: a handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel.
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Title: Advent, Advent
Character: Beat
Released: November 29, 2020
Type: TV
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One-way to Moscow
Title: One-way to Moscow
Character: Viktor Schuler
Released: February 13, 2020
Type: Movie
30 years ago, Switzerland was shaken by a scandal that seems to have already been forgotten: more than 900,000 people were surveilled because of their political convictions. Against the backdrop of this "secret files scandal," Micha Lewinsky sets his film. Conscientious policeman Viktor Schuler is tasked by his superior to infiltrate the Schauspielhaus, a renowned Zurich theatre, in order to keep an eye on its leftist scene. However, Viktor finds himself quite taken with the artist's life and falls in love with the subversive actress Odile Lehmann.
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Vagenda Stories
Title: Vagenda Stories
Character: Freak
Released: August 11, 2019
Type: Movie
When Leila discovers at her sister Amanda's wedding that the latter is pregnant, she promptly reveals the carefully guarded secret. While the guests are happy, Amanda worries about her career and Leila about her fertility. Panic-stricken, Leila sets herself a goal: get pregnant! So together with her friend Sophie she throws herself into the nightlife. Sophie is more concerned with the search for babysitters and probably won't snatch a man from her.
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Now or Never
Title: Now or Never
Character: Gero
Released: June 14, 2019
Type: Movie
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The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
Title: The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
Character: Optician
Released: July 5, 2018
Type: Movie
The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage candidate after the other. Unfortunately none of the woman pleases him, because they all look just like her. The situation gets even more complicated, when Motti secretly falls in love with the non-Jewish girl Laura, a so-called Shiksa.
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Mr. Moll and the Chocolate Factory
Title: Mr. Moll and the Chocolate Factory
Character: Glotz
Released: December 21, 2017
Type: Movie
A weekend alone at home with the children - and already breaks out of the mess with Papa minor. For while Moll pushes overtime in the chocolate factory, between his children and the offspring of his boss a merciless battle breaks out: for cotton candy, homework - and the most famous circus dog in the world.
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Lottery
Title: Lottery
Character: Hunziker
Released: January 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Philipp wishes to give his terminally ill father Walter one last treat. To coax him out of his hospital bed he tells a white lie: Philipp pretends that his father has won the lottery.
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Eastfrisian for Beginners
Title: Eastfrisian for Beginners
Character: Bernd Meyer-Fröhlich
Released: October 27, 2016
Type: Movie
A heart warming comedy about a grumpy old man, who is confronted with a group of migrant workers and has to challenge his prejudices.
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Title: Roiber und Poli
Character: Urs
Released: October 2, 2015
Type: TV
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Rider Jack
Title: Rider Jack
Character: Young Paul
Released: August 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Jack, who has all but failed at life, dreams of a fresh beginning abroad. Instead, he unexpectedly has to take care of his hated father Paul, who he has not seen since childhood. Paul suffers from Alzheimer's and wants to make peace with his son while he still can. But Jack has very different plans for Paul. Two worlds collide, and a journey to Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, turns into an odyssey back to a painfully suppressed past.
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Polder
Title: Polder
Character: Stauffacher
Released: July 7, 2015
Type: Movie
NEUROO-X, a German-Swiss-Chinese entertainment company group, stands for games that dissolve the boundary between reality and gaming). A new gadget, the myth-enshrouded RED BOOK, offers the ultimate gaming experience. The most secret longings of gamers are scanned by the engine and transformed into fantastic adventures. The conspiracy psychoses of users are the raw material for the storytelling of NEUROO-X. Marcus, Chief Development Manager of NEUROO-X dies shortly before completion of the RED BOOK. His lover Ryuko finds out that something terrible happened during testing of the game in China, and the deeper she submerges into the secret of NEUROO-X, the more she loses touch with reality. She neglects her son Walter, who logs into the game and disappears into the digital parallel world. The more Ryuko fights the corporation in order to rescue her son, the more she updates the narrative desired by NEUROO-X. Ryuko finds herself in a world full of demons, witches, knights and terrorists.
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Daughters
Title: Daughters
Character: Junger Beamter
Released: February 8, 2014
Type: Movie
Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray called Ines who no longer leaves her side...
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Title: The Undertaker
Character: Christian Lüscher
Released: January 8, 2013
Type: TV
A detective leaves the force to take over the family business as an undertaker at the same time as he is being investigated for murder. His close encounters with corpses and his earlier police training lead him to see things some of his ex-colleagues miss and he investigates the crimes he encounters in an unofficial capacity often to the dismay of the official police.
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Summer Outside
Title: Summer Outside
Character: Hannes
Released: September 27, 2012
Type: Movie
An unusually hot summer. Fourteen year-old Wanda moves with her family from Berlin to Switzerland. Everything will be better here. The move is meant to heal the open wounds of the family. Anna, the mother, has lost her self-confidence due to an affair her husband Joachim had in Berlin. The big house with the overgrown garden and the pretty small town all seems like one big promise. But the new beginning is difficult for everyone. Joachim, 40, throws himself into family activism while Anna, also 40, tries to strengthen the family with new rituals.
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The Devil from Milan
Title: The Devil from Milan
Character: Igor
Released: September 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Sonia’s nightmare is never ending. Her super-rich husband Frederic is now locked in a psychiatric unit after he attempted to kill her. But her mother-in-law continues to make her life hell by controlling her every move. Getting a job at a wellness spa in the mountains comes at just the rights time. However, on arriving, Sonia quickly realises that the villagers are not particularly sympathetic to newcomers and mysterious things begin to happen, all of them strangely connected to the legend of the devil of Milan. But is it just her mind playing tricks on her? DER TEUFEL VON MAILAND is a thriller based on the novel by Swiss author Martin Suter.
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Mary & Johnny
Title: Mary & Johnny
Character: Johnny
Released: July 5, 2012
Type: Movie
Set during one feverish night at the Zurich Festival in 2010. The final of the Football World Cup is approaching. Mary wants to see the game, but her boyfriend Johnny is not in the mood. He has just lost his job and is badly depressed. They start to fight and their ways part. On their journey through the night they come across shady characters and turbulent events, tragically, they miss each other again and again. An adaptation of "Casimir and Caroline" by Odon von Horvath.
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Blitzeis
Title: Blitzeis
Character: Andreas
Released: March 21, 2012
Type: Movie
Andreas is a journalist covering a story on Larissa, a patient with tuberculosis. At the hospital he meets a nurse called Yvonne. The encounter with the two women moves Andreas more than he wishes to admit. A short film about luck and its inevitable slipping away.
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Will You Marry Us?
Title: Will You Marry Us?
Character: Mörli
Released: March 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Rahel Hubli is employed as a civil registrar. She hasn't believed in the so-called "love of her life" in ages. But when a childhood friend, Ben, suddenly turns up, Rahel recalls again what it felt like to be in love. And that leads to even more problems, because Rahel is already married. And Ben would like to get married: by Rahel
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The Friend
Title: The Friend
Character: Emil Funk
Released: January 17, 2008
Type: Movie
In reality Emil and Larissa would never have been a couple she is an idolized singer, he is a shy outsider. Ironically, Emil is just getting to know Larissa when she dies unexpectedly. He pretends to have been her boyfriend and finally gets the recognition he has always yearned for, with the added bonus of a surrogate family in the form of Larissas. Things would be just great if Emil didnt fall in love - with Larissas sister Nora. The more he gets to know her, the harder it becomes for him to pretend.
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Her Second Chance
Title: Her Second Chance
Character: Polizist
Released: April 23, 2006
Type: Movie
After many years in jail, Sonjas returns to her home village where she takes up her fight for custody of her 8-year old son Tim. But neither the authorities, nor her in-laws, nor Tims foster parents will ever consider handing over little Tim to Sonja, a purported spouse killer. Sonja must bring light into her dark past if she is to win back Tim's love. Tobias Ineichen's film is led by Melanie Winiger, one of Switzerland's brightest talents.
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NVA
Title: NVA
Character: Stadlmair
Released: September 29, 2005
Type: Movie