Movies and TV shows set in switzerland
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in switzerland ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, touching and semi serious films and TV shows about / with society, family relations, friendship, mountain, female nudity, train, male nudity, friends, coming of age and snow plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Adventure genres shot in Switzerland, Germany, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as switzerland: The Swissmakers (1978), Youth (2015), The Last Days of Switzerland (1999), Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), Sister (2012), A Cure for Wellness (2016), Rascals on the Road (2005), Alpine Fire (1985), Vitus (2006), Wilder (2017).
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous
Plot:
immigrant, immigration, surveillance, politics, migration, forbidden love, police, irony, flower shop, italian immigrant, factory worker, racism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
switzerland
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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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Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina (Yelena Panova) is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical ...
Plot:
prostitute, dishonesty, immigrant, politics, state affairs, workplace, social decay, injustice, love and romance, friendship, satire, bdsm ...
Time:
90s
Place:
switzerland, europe
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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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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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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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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Four kids - Eugen, Wrigley, Bäschteli and Eduard - leave for an adventure around Switzerland, searching for the fabulous treasure of Titicaca Lake, discovered by Fritzli Bühler.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
friendship, treasure hunt, friends, farmer, childhood, escapades, on the road, mountain, youth, leaving home, journey, boy scout ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
switzerland
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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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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.
Style:
sincere, semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching ...
Plot:
child prodigy, prodigy, boy, youth, music, coming of age, childhood, family relations, pianist, parents and children, overbearing parent, friendship ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, europe, zurich switzerland
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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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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown into disarray.
Style:
realistic, humorous, sentimental, not serious, touching ...
Plot:
store, friendship, dream come true, self fulfillment, self discovery, best friend, follow your dream, feminism, gender, hopes, elderly, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague. A challenging look at the essence of film critique as well as an erotic encounter between two unequals.
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Plot:
love affair, film critic, journalism, sexual relations, infidelity, media, small town, nudity, rivalry, society, plagiarism, dead animal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the present days, Maria Spielrein and Fraser are in Russia making a research about the life of Sabina Spielrein. In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, this Russian girl was a patient treated by Dr. Jung and later they fall in love for each ...
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, love affair, nazi occupation, mental institution, tragic hero, power relations, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, society, experimenting, male female relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 1900s
Place:
switzerland, russia, europe, zurich switzerland, geneva switzerland ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
1975, Swiss Alps: In a remote mountain village, an immesely beautiful but disturbed and dumb woman shows up. Only the village policeman Reusch takes care of the strange woman and tries to find out whoshe is. There are hints that she came from the ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
mountain, curses spells and rituals, danger, femme fatale, rape, forced sex, clergy, village life, village, folk horror, murder, peeping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, germany, europe, alps
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, longing, friends, immigrant, society, job seeking, secret, female nudity, sex scene, cafeteria, integration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, serbia, europe
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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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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Italian immigrant tries to become a member of Swiss society but fails as a waiter and even as a chicken plucker. He then becomes involved with shady wealthy character and tries to hide his Italian identity. He refuses to give up no matter how awful ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot:
immigrant, food, restaurant, culture clash, bittersweet, racism, female nudity, anti capitalism, migration, erotica, social injustice, gourmet ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
switzerland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ten directors of a new generation of filmmakers tell how differently people in Switzerland cope with the worst imaginable disaster; the fact of being dependent on other countries.
Style:
political, unusual plot structure, tense, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, border, immigrant, political unrest, controversy, european union, world politics, problem, geopolitics, filmmaker, addiction, politician ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
switzerland, zurich switzerland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An affluent city is covered in snow, all seems perfect – on the surface. Divorcé Rolf is doing his best to rebuild his relationship with his daughter. Pregnant Lena appears to be living a faultless family life with her husband and son. Social ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
prostitution, christmas, hypocritical woman, parents and children, couples, sexual content, dishonesty, society, couple relations, family relations, assault, social worker ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, europe
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Lorenz Meran, (40) a successful gay author suffering acute writers' block, has to leave Berlin and return to eastern Switzerland to provide care for his aged mother, Rosie. When he finds himself confronted with the fact that fun-loving Rosie ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, midlife crisis, writer's life, homecoming, elderly, aging, small town, parents and children, small town life, writers, gay son ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, europe, alps, germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lukas (Hans Jakob Mühlethaler) is a successful hip hop star on a drug fuelled fade, much to the annoyance of his producer/lover, Mischa (Domenico Pecoraio). When Mischa opts to include Lukas' brother Sämi (Manuel Neuburger) on his latest ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
gender, rivalry, couples, ego clash, artists and showbiz, musician's life, destructive relationship, drug abuse, hip hop, gay, brother brother relationship, producer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, europe
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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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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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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A televsion reporter tasked with making a feature about Jean Jacques Rousseau's upcoming 300th birthday uses a local Swiss boy with a remarkable knowledge about the philosopher as her angle for the feature. She then brings in a local professor ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, sentimental
Plot:
professor, philosophy, tv reporter, nature, only child, child prodigy, young boy, coming of age, boy, married couple, girl, gentleman ...
Place:
geneva switzerland, switzerland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ricky leaves Hong Kong for Switzerland to look for the lost soul and the past of his deceased Swiss lover, Pascal. Ricky struggles with the confusion of memories, reality and illusion.
Style:
queer cinema
Plot:
gay asian, gay relationship, gay, lgbt, masturbation, gay bar, gay sex, chinese restaurant, gay interest, lgbtq, drunk, parkinson's disease ...
Place:
switzerland, hong kong, beijing china
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland
TV show
Story:
The story of an Americana-obsessed Swiss valley community fighting for survival against the threat of modern society. To honor his recently deceased father, Joris returns on parole to the Wild West atmosphere of Horizonville, immediately finding ...
Style:
thrilling, satirical, captivating, psychological
Plot:
getting home, family relations, social problems, eccentric family, lifestyle, troubled past, confronting the past, social issues, ex convict, satire, freedom, gas station
Place:
switzerland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
family relations, culture clash, parents and children, friendship, disorder, farce, homecoming, love affair, friends, couples, nothing goes right, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
switzerland
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two scientists fight to save the planet after a group of terrorists destroy a particle accelerator.
Style:
tense, exciting, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, chaos, technology gone awry, danger, race against time, terrorism, destruction, scientist, save the planet, end of the world, dystopia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, switzerland, barcelona, geneva switzerland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Switzerland, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, captivating
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, refugee, children, ship, social problems, age-gap relationship, youth, train, politics, soldier, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
switzerland, germany, europe, zurich switzerland
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Turkey, UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two. He wants to leave ...
Style:
sad, serious, realistic, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
immigrant, migration, coming of age, immigration, youth, road trip, refugee, family relations, escapades, obsessive quest, hopes, human nature ...
Time:
year 1990, 80s
Place:
switzerland, middle east, turkey, europe
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