In a medium size city, where life seems to have gone into retirement, a man, seemingly indifferent to the world, roams the streets by day and by night. His turf is a bar, an empty apartment and the paths connecting the two. He cannot be with others and he is sick of himself. He meets a young woman who prefers to be on the move because the thought of having to be responsible for someone or something sends her into a panic.

Max, 30, professional violinist, has a chance encounter with a former circus director in a trailer camp. When Max learns that the old man has resumed circus life to train elephants, he follows him and finds him touring with a small circus. Max stays, drives the tractor, helps setting up and dismantling the camp. He discovers that the world he desires is in reality a tough business. The circus people try to talk him into performing. He balks although secretly this might be just what he wants. He remains undecided even after a visit from his girlfriend Marion.

Hans Sturzenegger is the mayor of a small provincial town in Switzerland. A middle class widower and a liberal, he is respected in local politics by friend and foe alike. However, the political system has made him indolent. He loses a great deal of credibility when, during a conflict over an illegally occupied building, a respected member of his own party is exposed as a real estate speculator. The death of his best friend gives rise to rumors that he is homosexual, and he resigns from office.

Tom drifts into the drug scene and cuts all ties with his parents. “The Commuter” is about the power of drugs and their role in a counter-culture that represents the dark side of middle class respectability.

A journalist investigates a historical murder. As the borders between the centuries dissolve, he is drawn into an intrigue that took place in seventeenth-century in Grisons.

The "Kehrsatz murder"-trial aroused strong public feeling and the verdict provoked considerable protest, much of it triggered by a member of the jury, a housewife and member of the SVP (Swiss People's Party), who came to doubt the integrity of a legal system which no longer seemed to honor the principle of the presumed innocence of the accused. The film tells this juror's story throughout the long trial.

Detective von Burg of the Bern City Police is working on a murder case. He is investigating a religious sect and its web of lies, involving a college teacher and his illicit love affair with a female student, a spurned female lover and a case of blackmail, the leader of a sect and the therapy chosen for his daughter...

A vagabond dreams that he is King Vano, ruler of a small state. The story is played out in three different epochs; the same figures reappear in each epoch playing different roles. The characters change from scene to scene, sometimes within a single scene: a person of wealth suddenly turns into a pauper. Treachery, lies, destruction, and good intentions betrayed alternate in quick succession until finally, towards the end of the film, the characters are beginning to see the true values of life.

Three men have a love affair with the same woman. The action takes place in Venice, a crossroads between East and West, between Christianity and Judaism. Venice challenges all the criteria that normally determine the founding of cities and cultures. Venice is the only city where this story could happen because it is a place where reality and fiction, fantasies and genuine longings mix freely.

In this episode of Tatort, Komissar von Burg und his "life and limb"-group are up against the covert and therefore doubly treacherous Bern branch of the "Russian Mafia". Arms trafficking, white slavery, protection rackets, drug dealing - all the lucrative little specialties of organized crime - are masterminded by an individual hiding behind diplomatic credentials in the federal capital and carried out by brutal henchmen.