Movies and TV shows set in alps

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in alps ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with mountain, snow, female nudity, catastrophe, friendship, love, death, family relations, nature and danger plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as alps: Six Swedish Girls in the Alps (1983), Force Majeure (2014), North Face (2008), The Wall (2012), The Maiden and the Wolves (2008), The Sound of Music (1965), 4 Days in France (2016), The Eiger Sanction (1975), The Eight Mountains (2022), The Dark Valley (2014).

List of movies set in alps

Six Swedish Girls in the Alps (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This comedy has everyone's favorite 6 Swedish gals enjoying their stay in the alps. When the girls aren't enjoying the pleasure of their own company they're out having a good time with nearly everyone else in town.
Style: sex comedy, erotic, psychotronic, sensual
Audience: adult
Plot: public nudity, nudism, female nudity, female pubic hair, male nudity, sex, nature, lesbian sex, small town, male pubic hair, nudity, lesbianism ...
Place: alps
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 7.2
 72K
Force Majeure (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, France, Norway, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
Style: dark comedy, tense, art house, neurotic, emotional ...
Plot: nordic, avalanche, cowardice, ski resort, marital strife, passive aggressive behavior, nervous breakdown, family vacation, family holiday, tourism, mountain, vacation gone wrong ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014
Place: alps, scandinavia, europe
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 7.4
 17K
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, serious, exciting, captivating, crying ...
Plot: mountain, mountaineer, mountain climbing, climbing, survival, adventurer, wehrmacht, disaster, man versus nature, rivalry, mountaineering, forces of nature ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: switzerland, alps, germany, swiss alps, bavaria
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 6.7
 8K
The Wall (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the countryside. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the ...
Style: psychological, sexy, surreal, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Plot: nature, isolation, solitude, wilderness survival, survival, dog, forest, human animal relationship, diary, human nature, introspection, mountain ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alps, germany, austria
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The Maiden and the Wolves (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Not long before World War I, in a French Alpine town near the Italian border, a pack of slaughtered wolves is delivered to local taxidermist Leon (Patrick Chesnais). A surviving black cub comes down from the mountains looking for his family, and is ...
Style: emotional, serious, disturbing, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: wolf, mountain, beast, escapades, danger, wilderness, world war one, female protagonist, animal rescue, wild animal, great war, forest ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, post world war one
Place: alps, france, europe
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The Sound of Music (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: Film adaptation of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a nun who becomes a governess for an Austrian family.
Style: sentimental, feel good, visually stunning, christian film, retro ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, toddlers, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: love story, love, love and romance, convent, nanny, catholic, single father, nazi, mischievous children, beautiful scenery, world war two, stepmother ...
Time: 1930s, ancient times, 50s, 20th century, year 1938 ...
Place: austria, alps, europe, germany
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4 Days in France (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A man leaves everything behind to travel aimlessly through France, letting himself be guided only by the people and landscapes he encounters: four days and four nights of wandering, during which his lover tries to locate him via Grindr, a smartphone ...
Style: psychological, visually appealing, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot: gay interest, gay, homosexuality, gay sex, lgbtq, gay relationship, breakup, loneliness, stranger, countryside, awkward situation, parisian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alps
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The Eiger Sanction (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
Style: visually stunning, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, political thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: mountain climbing, mountain, hitman, climbing, catastrophe, assassination, revenge, murder, mountaineering, desert, cold war, secret agent ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: alps, switzerland, europe, arizona, germany ...
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The Eight Mountains (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, France, UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story: An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: friendship, building a house, friendship between men, mountain, male bonding, father son relationship, bromance, friendship between boys, male male relationship, snow, friend, cow ...
Time: year 1984
Place: alps, nepal, himalaya
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The Dark Valley (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Through a hidden path a lone rider reaches a little town high up in the Alpes. Nobody knows where the stranger comes from, nor what he wants there. But everyone knows that they don't want him to stay.
Style: serious, gloomy, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: mountain, mysterious character, tough heroes, isolation, danger, under the surface, snow, cowboy, village, revenge, lone wolves, vengeance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: alps, austria, germany, europe
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Brother of Sleep (1995)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Schlafes Bruder tells the story a few exceptionally talented individuals who grew up in a remote mountain town in the Alps. The film, based on an internationally successful novel by Robert Schneider of the same name, depicts the slow withering of ...
Style: psychological, enigmatic, melancholic, disturbing, sexual ...
Plot: gay love, mountain, jealousy, village, unrequited love, talent, poverty, music, social differences, introspection, couples, friendship ...
Time: 1800s, 19th century, 70s
Place: alps, austria, europe, tokyo, ireland
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Brothers of the Wind (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The way of the eagle is to raise two chicks. The stronger is destined always to throw the weaker from the nest. Man also has his ways, often to hurt those closest to him. Lukas suffers at the hands of a father who has withdrawn since the loss of ...
Style: touching, sincere, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: eagle, human animal relationship, child in peril, father son relationship, animal, bird, free spirit, free spirited, friendship, friends, help, relationships ...
Time: 60s
Place: alps
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The Girl in the Fog (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Based on the bestselling novel by Donato Carrisi, THE GIRL IN THE FOG is a gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where enigmatic Detective Vogel is investigating on the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old Anna ...
Style: realistic, psychological, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Plot: investigation, murder, disappearance, clue, unsolved crime, schoolgirl, community, girl, vanity, reporter, teacher, psychiatrist ...
Place: alps, italy
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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, psychological, dark, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: therapist, cure, patient, capitalism, health, slut, capitalist, nubile girl, sauna, hospital, spa, lust ...
Time: year 2016, future, year 2017, 2010s
Place: swiss alps, switzerland, alps, america, germany ...
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Five Days One Summer (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 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, contemplative, gloomy, touching, serious ...
Plot: rock climbing, forbidden love, tragic romance, unrequited love, accidental death, marital infidelity, uncle, 007, mountaineering, interwar period, catastrophe, love triangle ...
Time: 1930s, year 1982, year 1932
Place: alps, swiss alps, switzerland, europe, glasgow scotland
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 5.3
 2K
Autumn Blood (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two young orphans in the Tirolian Mountains come under siege by a vicious band of hunters. Frightened of being separated by child services following the death of their mother, a self-sufficient 16-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother - who ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: rape, teenage rape, child in peril, youth, orphan, social relations, isolation, coming of age, family relations, danger, vengeance, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alps
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Belle and Sebastian (2017)
Genre: Animation
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 12 min.
TV show
Story: When Sebastian, a young orphan living in the Alps, meets Belle, a huge white Great Pyrenees, they set off together on a series of fantastic adventures around the mountains.
Style: feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, scenic ...
Audience: family friendly, kids
Plot: dog, boy, friendship, human animal relationship, children, animal human communication, friends, lifestyle, best friend, pets, animal, bonding ...
Time: 20th century
Place: alps
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Washington Square (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only ...
Style: costume drama, romantic drama, romantic, stylized, sex comedy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: father daughter relationship, marriage proposal, love, betrayal, victorian england, forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, gilded age, american history, couple relations, love and romance, marriage ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, year 1997, 1870s ...
Place: alps, geneva switzerland, manhattan new york city, america, new york ...
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 4.7
 645
The Ice Forest (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the harsh snowy landscape of the Italian Alps, a young technician arrives to repair an electric power plant of a village plagued by blackouts. There, he encounters a strange disappearance.
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, detective
Plot: police inspector, female detective, crime investigation, investigation, mysterious disappearance, investigative reporter, illegal immigrant, female protagonist, female journalist, snow, mobster, power ...
Place: alps
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 8.0
 13K
Pagan Peak (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: When a gruesomely staged body is found, propped up on a mountain pass in the Alps close to the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate. For German detective Ellie, this is the first real challenge of her career; her Austrian ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, detective, tense, slasher ...
Plot: murder, danger, violence, police investigation, death, society, abduction, folk horror, murderer, brutality, life philosophy, blood ...
Place: germany, alps, austria, central europe, europe
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Charter Trip 2 (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Stig-Helmer takes another vacation with his norwegian friend Ole. This time it's time for a skiing vacation in the Alps. Of course, Stig-Helmer has never learnt downhill skiing, but he attends a ski school. And together they manage to charm two ...
Style: not serious, realistic, exciting, offbeat, humorous
Plot: hang gliding, ski resort, winter, picnic, holiday, christmas time, new year, hotel, skiing, family relations, silly humor, mountain ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: alps, switzerland, swiss alps, eastern europe
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 6.6
 737
Heidi (1968)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfather, who has been at odds with the villagers for years and lives in seclusion on ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: orphan, mountain, family relations, youth, physical disability, girl, adoption, basement, governess, friendship, optimism, disability ...
Time: 19th century
Place: alps, switzerland, swiss alps, europe
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 7.8
 93K
Charade (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World ...
Style: suspenseful, humorous, atmospheric, rom com, exciting ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids
Plot: spy, murder, funeral, investigation, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, love and romance, love story, hotel, photograph, marriage proposal, police inspector ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, year 1944, 60s, 1930s
Place: paris france, france, alps, europe, persia ...
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Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general ...
Style: retro, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, mind blowing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, mountain, nazi, two man army, winter, military, espionage, machine gun, fortress, castle, secret mission, army ranger ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, alps, bavaria, europe, austria
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House of Voices (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families. Anna, who is secretly pregnant, meets the last orphan , Judith, left behind because of her mental ...
Style: surprise ending, scary, suspenseful, bleak, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, female nudity, pregnancy, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, housekeeper, elevator, kitten, mirror, insanity, orphan ...
Time: year 1958, 1950s, year 1946, post world war two, year 2004 ...
Place: alps, france, europe
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The Last 4 Days (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The true story of the greatest manhunt of the century!
Style: contemplative, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: fascism, italian politics, world war, italian history, escape attempt, partisan, resistance, totalitarian state, dystopia, biopic, military, rise and fall ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place: alps, milan italy, italy
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 6.3
 28K
Chalet Girl (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story: While working a job at an exclusive ski resort to support her Dad, Kim learns to snowboard and is so good at it that she enters a competition with a huge cash prize. She has to dig deep to overcome her fears, but her life gets more complicated ...
Style: feel good, witty, sexy, rom com, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family outing ...
Plot: snowboarding, love and romance, cinderella story, fall in love, resort, skiing, teenager, ski resort, workplace, contests and competitions, boss and employee, workplace romance ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: austria, alps, united kingdom, britain, europe
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 5.5
 191
Snow Job (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A famous skier (Jean-Claude Killy), his mistress (Danièle Gaubert) and a ski instructor (Cliff Potts) rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crevasse.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: caper, insurance investigator, ski resort, skiing, resort, conspiracy, mountain, disorder, master criminal, forgery, crime gone awry, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: alps, italy
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 7.3
 88K
Youth (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, France, UK, Switzerland
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: sexy, philosophical, cerebral, meditative, melancholic ...
Plot: composer, screenwriter, hotel, life, husband wife relationship, love, aging, sex scene, spa, nude women, father daughter relationship, sauna ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: switzerland, swiss alps, italy, venice, alps
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The Magic Mountain (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 153 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: philosophical, art house, surreal, period drama, pre war
Plot: sanitarium, tuberculosis, mountain, literary, isolation, melancholy, existential crisis, symbolism, mortality, existentialism, world war one, totalitarianism ...
Time: 1910s, pre world war one
Place: swiss alps, alps
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