Swiss German-language Movies

79 movies found (page 1/3):

Heidi(2015)

3.6/5 (with 168 votes)

Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair. Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather.

Directed by Alain Gsponer - With Bruno Ganz, Katharina Schüttler, Jella Haase, Hannelore Hoger, Maxim Mehmet, Peter Lohmeyer, ...

Vitus(2006)

2h | Music, Drama

3.7/5 (with 34 votes)

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.

Directed by Fredi M. Murer - With Teo Gheorghiu, Bruno Ganz, Julika Jenkins, Urs Jucker, Fabrizio Borsani, Daniel Rohr, ...

Mario(2018)

2h 3min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 56 votes)

Two young gay soccer players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love.

Directed by Marcel Gisler - With Max Hubacher, Aaron Altaras, Andreas Matti, Beat Marti

Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps(2010)

1h 50min | Thriller, Horror, Mystery

3.2/5 (with 30 votes)

1975, Swiss Alps: In a remote mountain village, a beautiful and mysterious woman shows up. Only the village policeman takes care of the strange woman and tries to find out who she is. There are hints that she came from the Höhenalp Alp, where herdsmen do unthinkable things to get the company of women. Many dark truths are revealed that should better have remained hidden. A tragedy of lust, insanity and murder is brought to a seemlingly pure and perfect world. It is the beginning of a nightmare of religious insanity, hypocrisy, abuse and belief in demons, who destroys a young family and brings a whole village to destruction.

Directed by Michael Steiner - With Roxane Mesquida, Andrea Zogg, Carlos Leal, Joel Basman, Nicholas Ofczarek, Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart, ...

The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch(2018)

1h 34min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 61 votes)

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.

Directed by Michael Steiner - With Joel Basman, Noémie Schmidt, Inge Maux, Udo Samel, Aaron Arens, Michael von Burg, ...

The Little Ghost(2013)

1h 32min | Kids & Family, Fantasy

2.9/5 (with 32 votes)

The Little Ghost lives in the castle over looking a small town and awakens for precisely one hour after the clock strikes midnight. Follow him on this adventure to see his first sunrise ever!

Directed by Alain Gsponer

The Divine Order(2017)

1h 36min | Comedy, Drama

3.7/5 (with 62 votes)

Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.

Directed by Petra Volpe - With Marie Leuenberger, Max Simonischek, Sibylle Brunner, Bettina Stucky, Therese Affolter, Sofia Helin, ...

Beyto(2021)

1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Talented swimmer, motivated apprentice, cool buddy: Beyto is in the midst of life. But when the only son of a Turkish migrant family falls in love with his coach Mike, an ideal world falls to pieces. His parents only see one way out: They lure him to their home village and plan his wedding with Seher, his childhood friend. Suddenly, Beyto finds himself in a disruptive love triangle.

Directed by Gitta Gsell - With Dimitri Stapfer, Beren Tuna, Burak Ateş

The Circle(2014)

1h 40min | Documentary, Drama

3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

A young teacher in Zurich in the 1950s falls in love with a transvestite star but is torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality. He joins a gay organization that is eventually seen as the pioneer of gay emancipation in Europe.

Directed by Stefan Haupt - With Sven Schelker, Marianne Sägebrecht, Anatole Taubman, Antoine Monot Jr., Matthias Hungerbühler

The Universal Theory(2023)

1h 58min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Directed by Timm Kröger - With Jan Bülow, Hanns Zischler, Olivia Ross, Gottfried Breitfuss

Aloys(2016)

1h 30min | Drama, Fantasy

3.4/5 (with 33 votes)

A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as “telephone walking”. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.

Directed by Tobias Nölle - With Georg Friedrich, Kamil Krejčí

Heidi(1952)

1h 40min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Heidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss Alps to live with her ornery grandfather. At first, he resents her presence, but, after a short while, Heidi manages to pierce his gruff exterior, and the two become close. She also befriends a young shepherd named Peter. After three years, Heidi's aunt arrives and demands Heidi's return to Frankfurt.

Directed by Luigi Comencini - With Heinrich Gretler, Elsie Attenhofer, Carl Wery, Max Haufler, Theo Lingen, Willy Birgel, ...

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The Foster Boy(2011)

1h 43min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 16 votes)

Switzerland, 1955. The young orphan Max is sent as a foster child and contracted to work for the Bösiger family who lives on a farm. His foster parents treat him like a workhorse while their son seizes every opportunity to humiliate him. Playing the accordion is the one thing that is entirely his. But when the new teacher stands up for Max, it only makes a bad situation much worse. The only thing preserving his will to survive is his friendship with Berteli, who was also taken on to work at the farm. Max dreams of Argentina with her: a fantasy world, where allegedly even hayforks are made of silver.

Directed by Markus Imboden - With Max Hubacher, Katja Riemann, Stefan Kurt, Max Simonischek, Miriam Stein, Andreas Matti, ...

The Sandman(2011)

1h 28min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

One fine morning, Benno finds sand in his bed. While he tries to ignore this at first, he soon must realize that he himself is loosing the sand.

Directed by Peter Luisi - With Fabian Krüger, Irene Brügger-Hodel, Beat Schlatter, Siegfried Terpoorten, Max Rüdlinger

Journey of Hope(1990)

1h 50min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

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 their seven children in the care of the eldest and his parents; his father advises him to take one son to be educated in Europe, as economic insurance. The three set off for Istanbul, Milan, and Switzerland, stowing away on a ship. At Lake Como, they pay the rest of their money to unprincipled men who abandon them at an Alpine pass before a blizzard. Father and son are separated from Meryem. Will anyone reach the land of promise?

Directed by Xavier Koller - With Nur Sürer, Yaman Okay, Mathias Gnädinger, Dietmar Schönherr, Erdal Merdan

Marie-Louise(1944)

1h 43min | Drama, War

2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

The titular Marie-Louise is a young French lass who is evacuated to Switzerland when her country is overrun by the Nazis. Suffering a nervous breakdown, she is given comfort and shelter by a wealthy family. Unfortunately, living in the lap of luxury makes Marie-Louise hesitant to return home to her mother and war torn home. Eventually the girl comes to her senses, but it isn't easy.

Directed by Leopold Lindtberg, Franz Schnyder - With Heinrich Gretler, Anne-Marie Blanc, Margrit Winter, Armin Schweizer, Mathilde Danegger, Pauline Carton, ...

Therapy for a Vampire(2014)

1h 25min | Comedy, Horror

3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

Horror comedy film following vampire count Geza von Kösznöm who's visiting groundbreaking neurologist Sigund Freud because he's bored of his life and frustrated of the "eternally long" relationship with his wife Elsa.

Directed by David Ruehm - With Tobias Moretti, Jeanette Hain, Cornelia Ivancan, David Bennent, Karl Fischer, Erni Mangold, ...

Who Killed Johnny(2013)

1h 22min | Comedy

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The life of two desperate Swiss Expats who try to write their first script turns up side down when they discover a dead body on the street.

Directed by Yangzom Brauen - With Melanie Winiger

Lubo(2023)

2h 55min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Lubo Moser is a jenisch, a gypsy. Mirana, who tried to oppose him, was killed. But how could this have happened? Why? Because Switzerland considers nomadism a social scourge, and, to eradicate it, it takes the children of the jenisch. Thus, without children, the Jenisch will be without a future. The mastermind is a state-run humanitarian institution, Pro Juventute, the arm the Street Children's Work: everything is perfectly legal and there is no opposition to the law. Lubo feels himself dying. And something about him really does die, on that night of wind and snow: it will be a new Lubo, tough and impenetrable, who will set up a project with unexpected implications to avenge his family and his people... and it will lead us to rethink the sense of justice, in the blurred boundaries between good and evil.

Directed by Giorgio Diritti - With Franz Rogowski

Unrest(2022)

1h 33min | History, Drama

2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement ("unrueh") of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers. There she meets Piotr Kropotkin, a moony Russian traveller. The two of them meet at a time when new technologies such as time measurement, photography and the telegraph are transforming the social order and anarchist discourse is addressing emerging nationalism. During a walk in the woods, Josephine and Piotr ask themselves whether time, money and the government are not all but fictions.

Directed by Cyril Schäublin

Eldorado(2018)

1h 30min | Documentary

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Drawing inspiration from his personal encounter with the Italian refugee child Giovanna during World War II, Markus Imhoof tells how refugees and migrants are treated today: on the Mediterranean Sea, in Lebanon, in Italy, in Germany and in Switzerland.

Directed by Markus Imhoof

Füsilier Wipf(1938)

1h 56min

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Directed by Hermann Haller, Leopold Lindtberg - With Paul Hubschmid, Heinrich Gretler, Robert Trösch, Zarli Carigiet, Emil Hegetschweiler, Alfred Rasser, ...

The Boat Is Full(1981)

1h 41min | Drama, History, War

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

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. They seek temporary refuge with a couple who run a village inn. They pose as a family: the deserter as husband, Judith as his wife, an old man from Vienna as her father, his granddaughter and the French lad, whom they beg to keep silent, as their children. Judith's teenage brother poses as a soldier. The fabrication unravels through chance and the local constable's exact investigation. Whom will the Swiss allow to stay? Who gets deported?

Directed by Markus Imhoof - With Tina Engel, Hans Diehl, Curt Bois, Mathias Gnädinger, Michael Gempart

Akte Grüninger(2014)

1h 40min | History, Drama

3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

According to the Swiss documentary filmmaker Richard Dindo (1944), the media want to make us believe that Swiss non-alignment during World War II was only a thin veneer around Nazi sympathies and anti-Semitic feelings. This stirred his interest in the story of Paul Grüninger, a Swiss policeman who in the late thirties provided false travel documents to hundreds of Jews who had fled from Austria.

Directed by Alain Gsponer - With Helmut Förnbacher, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Peter Jecklin, Julia Jelinek, Martin Klaus, Stefan Kurt, ...

The Swissmakers(1978)

1h 47min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

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 couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections. However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship.

Directed by Rolf Lyssy - With Claudio Caramaschi, Walo Lüönd, Emil Steinberger, Beatrice Kessler, Wolfgang Stendar

Marmorera(2007)

1h 35min | Mystery

1.8/5 (with 2 votes)

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Directed by Markus Fischer - With Anatole Taubman, Corin Curschellas, Mavie Hörbiger, Ursina Lardi, Mathias Gnädinger

A Decent Man(2016)

1h 32min | Thriller, Drama

3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Conflict-avoidant Thomas just wants a relaxing holiday in the Swiss Alps. But, it's a slippery slope from the beginning. In an effort to repair his own family ties and to impress his boss, he takes his family and his employer's daughter with him. Tragedy strikes and Thomas feels responsible. Should he be his typical passive self? Or risk doing the right thing at the expense of his relationships with his family and employer?

Directed by Micha Lewinsky - With Therese Affolter, Maren Eggert, Max Hubacher, Stéphane Maeder, Beat Marti, Oriana Schrage, ...

Alpine Fire(1985)

2h | Drama

3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

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 an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It's the tradition of the father's family, called "The Irascibles" by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.

Directed by Fredi M. Murer - With Rolf Illig, Tilli Breidenbach, Dorothea Moritz

Late Bloomers(2006)

1h 26min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

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.

Directed by Bettina Oberli - With Stephanie Glaser, Heidi Maria Glössner, Annemarie Düringer, Monica Gubser, Peter Wyssbrod, Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart, ...

Rosie(2013)

2h 6min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Lorenz Meran, 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. But it is not only his mother's battle against being dictated to and losing her dignity that he is struggling with. It's also his own midlife crisis.

Directed by Marcel Gisler - With Sibylle Brunner, Fabian Krüger, Judith Hofmann, Anna-Katharina Müller