Movies and TV shows set in swiss alps

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in swiss alps ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, psychological and captivating films and TV shows about / with mountain, family relations, snow, death, train, girl, suicide, orphan, love and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres shot in France, Switzerland, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as swiss alps: Wilder (2017), Heidi (2005), A Cure for Wellness (2016), Alpine Fire (1985), Resistance (2020), The Magic Mountain (1982), Beloved Sisters (2014), Five Days One Summer (1982), Youth (2015), Heidi (2015).

List of movies set in swiss alps

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Wilder (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
TV show
Story: A detective returns to his home town in the Swiss mountains to remember her brother who died in an accident many years ago along with several other children. After a murder in town, she stays and starts to investigate.
Style: enigmatic, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: crime investigation, cold case, murder, crime solving, investigation, murder investigation, forensics, police detective, family tragedy, teamwork, partners against crime, uncover truth ...
Place: swiss alps, switzerland
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 6.5
 1K
Heidi (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: grandfather granddaughter relationship, youth, family relations, village, family life, escapades, goat, power relations, isolation, village life, misfit, orphan ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: swiss alps, switzerland, alps, germany, europe
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A Cure for Wellness (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they ...
Style: gothic, suspense, dark, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: cure, therapist, patient, hospital, dark secret, spa, capitalism, macabre, slut, experiment, torture, boobs ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2017, future
Place: swiss alps, switzerland, alps, germany, america ...
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 1K
Alpine Fire (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws ...
Style: offbeat, erotic, serious, realistic, surreal ...
Plot: incest, brother sister incest, forbidden love, brother sister sex, sex with brother, sex with sister, incestuous sex, deaf, youth, siblings relations, female nudity, sex scene ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: swiss alps, switzerland, germany, europe
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 6.5
 9K
Resistance (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Style: powerful, costume drama
Plot: french resistance, occupied france, nazi officer, world war two, orthodox jew, world war, secret, love, husband wife relationship, saving a life, mother daughter relationship, anti semitism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1938, year 1943, year 1939 ...
Place: europe, swiss alps, geneva switzerland, munich germany, switzerland ...
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The Magic Mountain (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 153 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: surreal
Plot: quarantine, psychology, literature, tuberculosis, young man, mountain, sanitarium, high society, disease, hillside, german abroad
Time: pre world war one
Place: swiss alps
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Beloved Sisters (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.
Style: romantic, realistic, emotional, serious, touching ...
Plot: love triangle, writers, sisters, family relations, fall in love, family life, love affair, novelist, love and romance, sister sister relationship, suffering, loneliness ...
Time: 18th century, 1780s, 1790s
Place: germany, swiss alps, indiana, switzerland
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Five Days One Summer (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A 1930s Scottish doctor (Sean Connery) goes climbing in the Alps with an infatuated niece (Betsy Brantley) he passes off as his wife.
Style: independent film, touching, gloomy, realistic, serious ...
Plot: climbing, rock climbing, 007, mountaineering, catastrophe, interwar period, love triangle, marital infidelity, unrequited love, accidental death, couples, infidelity ...
Time: 1930s, year 1982, year 1932
Place: swiss alps, alps, switzerland, europe
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 83K
Youth (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Switzerland, UK, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: YOUTH explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing ...
Style: melancholic, talky, philosophical, touching, psychological ...
Plot: aging, composer, screenwriter, father daughter relationship, hotel, life & death, sex scene, husband wife relationship, existentialism, spa, art, orchestra ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: switzerland, swiss alps, italy, venice, alps
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Heidi (2015)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, Australia, Germany
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Knee-high to a grasshopper, Heidi, a young orphan brunette with curly hair and the face of an angel, is brought by her aunt to the Swiss Alps to live with her grand-father, a silent and solitary old man. Taking up the challenges of her new ...
Style: scenic, emotional, sincere, touching, atmospheric
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: grandfather granddaughter relationship, orphan, friendship, little girl, children, kids and family, optimism, friends, love of one's life, life philosophy, sister sister relationship, best friend ...
Time: 19th century
Place: swiss alps, switzerland, europe, alps
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 2K
Heidi (1993)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 193 min.
TV show
Story: After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair.
Style: costume drama, juvenile, sad, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, orphan, physical disability, aging, families, grief, smart kid, disability, family relations, friendship, mountain, friends ...
Place: swiss alps, alps, switzerland, europe, germany
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Courage Mountain (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, War
Country: USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In this version of "Heidi," a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school at the beginning of World War I.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, independent film ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: boarding school, orphan, school, survival, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, fish out of water, adoption, family life, danger, female protagonist, christmas ...
Time: 1910s, year 1915
Place: switzerland, italy, swiss alps, europe, alps
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 6.5
 3K
The Swindle (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever, witty ...
Plot: gambling, casino, scam, hidden identity, crime gone awry, intrigue, dishonesty, disorder, gangster, betrayal, criminal heroes, mafia ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: swiss alps, france
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 7.4
 16K
North Face (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 126 min.
Story: North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
Style: touching, exciting, serious, captivating, breathtaking ...
Plot: climbing, mountain climbing, mountaineer, mountain, disaster, survival, adventurer, wehrmacht, man versus nature, rivalry, mountaineering, forces of nature ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: switzerland, alps, germany, swiss alps, bavaria
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 7K
Sister (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, social ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, ski, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, snow, petty criminal, mountain, boy, self discovery, society, family relations, unemployment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, france, europe, swiss alps, alps
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Johnny English Reborn (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The most prominent heads of state in the world begin gathering for a conference that could have a major impact on global politics. When MI-7 receives word that the Chinese premier has become the target of some high-powered killers, it falls on ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, spoof, witty ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: farce, espionage, secret agent, james bond spoof, spy spoof, secret service, british, prime minister, gadget, betrayal, agent, goofy hero ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, hong kong, america, britain, macau ...
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Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
Style: realistic, psychological, melancholic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: actress, aging, lesbian, skinny dipping, midlife crisis, divorce, women, loneliness, character study, suicide, obsession, suicide attempt ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: switzerland, alps, swiss alps, london, zurich switzerland
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The Swiss Conspiracy (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Filmed on location in Zurich, Switzerland, The Swiss Conspiracy is concerned with a Swiss bank that discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The bank's president (Ray Milland) contacts David Christopher ...
Style: independent film
Plot: spy, bank, swing, bmw, steam train, helicopter, train, assassination, tax evasion, blackmail, hitman, mountain ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: zurich switzerland, switzerland, swiss alps
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Women in Love (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Close friends Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich begin romances with siblings Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen. After the couples wed, they take a joint honeymoon to Switzerland, where things begin happily -- but they become increasingly complicated as the ...
Style: visual, sexy, erotic, sexual, scenic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: male nudity, bisexual man, male pubic hair, sex, erotica, love, lgbt, marriage, female nudity, friendship, literary, gay ...
Time: 1920s, year 1969
Place: england, alps, europe, swiss alps
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Requiem for a Killer (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Lucretia is a killer for hire. Specialised in poisoning and passionate about opera, she'll have to fulfill a difficult contract in the heart of the Swiss alps. Posing as a singer, Lucretia will have to appear on the scene of the higly exclusive ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, eurospy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassination, opera singer, corporate crime, disorder, hidden identity, undercover, danger, secret identity, espionage, criminal heroes, dishonesty, intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: somalia, lyon, swiss alps, europe, paris france ...
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Black Panther: The Story of Emilie and Jacob (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 79 min.
Story: After many years apart, Emilie (26) meets her brother Jakob (22) again. She not only shares her sadness about the loss of their parents with him, but also a secret... It is Emilie's wish to arrange the sale of their jointly inherited holiday ...
Style: ambiguous ending, melancholic, psychological, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: brother sister incest, incest, female nudity, incestuous desire, brother sister relationship, bare breasts, sex with brother, infidelity, moral dilemma, brother sister sex, sex scene, sex with sister ...
Place: swiss alps, alps
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Heidi (1965)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Austria
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After her mother's death, the five year old orphan Heidi is brought by her aunt to her grumpy grandfather Alp, who leads a hermit life in the beautiful Swiss mountains. Heidi's natural cheerfulness quickly brings renewed joy in grandfather ...
Plot: physical disability, goat, obstacle, family relations, aunt, child's point of view, mountain, rescue, orphan, governess, affection, child abuse ...
Place: swiss alps, alps
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: James Bond tracks archnemesis Ernst Blofeld to a mountaintop retreat where he's training an army of beautiful but lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco -- and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld. ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, saga, controversial, visually stunning ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: 007, james bond, espionage, secret agent, agent, secret service, car chase, bond girl, cold war, assassin, winter, transformation ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: switzerland, alps, england, portugal, swiss alps ...
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Love Is the Perfect Crime (2013)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Marc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor — and still living with his sister Marianne in a huge, isolated chalet that they inherited when they were very young — he carries on one love affair ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: womanizer, male pubic hair, male nudity, teachers and students, twists and turns, disorder, power relations, protagonist as suspect, campus, sexual content, incest, university ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: switzerland, swiss alps, alps
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The Magic Flute (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 17-year-old Tim Walker travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart's "The Magic Flute."
Style: captivating, thrilling
Plot: boarding school, magic, school, musician, fantasy world, dream world, parallel world, boarding school life, magical, magical object, music, magical power ...
Place: swiss alps
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A Charming Mass Suicide (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: mass suicide, road trip, dead body, nudity, voice over narration, bare butt, alcoholism, wife abuse, card playing, male female relationship, death, restaurant ...
Place: finland, helsinki finland, swiss alps, france, switzerland ...
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Heidi's Song (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Much under-rated animated feature film from the people behind the classic film "Charlotte's Web" (and most notably Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, and Tom and Jerry). Unlike the limited animation they developed for television, ...
Style: anime, independent film, 2d animation
Audience: kids
Plot: literary, singing, girl, singer, locked in a basement, governess, mansion, rescue, snow, butler, hawk, child protagonist ...
Time: year 1982
Place: swiss alps, switzerland, alps, europe, germany
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His ...
Style: gothic, scary, gothic horror, costume drama, stylized ...
Plot: frankenstein, mad scientist, supernatural, monster, obsession, frankenstein's monster, experiment gone awry, science, macabre, justice, rescue, death ...
Time: 19th century, 90s, georgian era, victorian era, 1900s ...
Place: germany, geneva switzerland, swiss alps
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Careful (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of ...
Style: surreal, cult classic, experimental, disturbing, stylized ...
Plot: surrealism, family problems, erotica, mother son incest, psychology, survival, magic realism, human relationship, village, mountain, ghost, voyeur ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: swiss alps
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Treasures of the Snow (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An adaptation of the book "Treasures of the Snow“ written by Patricia M. St. John.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, train, mountain, coming of age, introspection, escapades, hopes, self discovery, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, woods, cat ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: switzerland, europe, swiss alps
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