Best "switzerland" Movies of All Time

123 movies found (page 1/5):

Youth(2015)

3.5/5 (with 921 votes)

Two lifelong friends bond whilst 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 the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?

Directed by Paolo Sorrentino - With Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Jane Fonda, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Ed Stoppard, ...

A Cure for Wellness(2017)

2h 26min | Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 1,747 votes)

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 seem.

Directed by Gore Verbinski - With Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Celia Imrie, Susanne Wuest, Adrian Schiller, ...

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Double Team(1997)

1h 33min | Action, Science Fiction

2.6/5 (with 336 votes)

A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and sets out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent's family. Together they're a two-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world.

Directed by Tsui Hark - With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, Paul Freeman, Mickey Rourke, Natacha Lindinger, Valeria Cavalli, ...

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon(1942)

1h 8min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 46 votes)

In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he shortly falls into the clutches of Professor Moriarty.

Directed by Roy William Neill - With Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Kaaren Verne, Dennis Hoey, Holmes Herbert, ...

North Face(2008)

2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, Action, History, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 115 votes)

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.

Directed by Philipp Stölzl - With Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, Ulrich Tukur, Erwin Steinhauer, Georg Friedrich, ...

The Palace(2023)

1h 40min | Drama, Comedy

2.8/5 (with 16 votes)

A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.

Directed by Roman Polanski - With Mickey Rourke, Oliver Masucci, Fanny Ardant, John Cleese, Sydne Rome, Joaquim de Almeida, ...

Von Ryan's Express(1965)

1h 57min | War, Action, Drama, History, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 84 votes)

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.

Directed by Mark Robson - With Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Adolfo Celi, Raffaella Carrà, Sergio Fantoni, Brad Dexter, ...

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Mad Heidi(2022)

1h 32min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

3.0/5 (with 44 votes)

In a dystopian Switzerland that has fallen under the fascist rule of an evil cheese tyrant, Heidi lives the pure and simple life in the Swiss Alps. Grandfather Alpöhi does his best to protect Heidi, but her yearning for freedom soon gets her into trouble with the dictator’s henchmen. The innocent girl transforms herself into a kick-ass female fighting force who sets out to liberate the country from the insane cheese fascists.

Directed by Johannes Hartmann, Sandro Klopfstein - With Alice Lucy, David Schofield, Casper Van Dien, Rebecca Dyson-Smith, Katja Kolm, Max Rüdlinger, ...

Secret Agent(1936)

1h 26min | Thriller, Mystery, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 58 votes)

After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Lilli Palmer, Charles Carson, ...

The White Masai(2005)

2h 11min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 27 votes)

A girl, Carola, whose vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a Masai. Carola decides to leave her boyfriend to stay with her lover. There, she has to adapt to the Masai's way of life and get used to their food which includes milk mixed with blood. She also has to face her husband's attitude towards women and what he expects from a wife. Nonetheless, Carola is welcomed warmly into the tribe she has chosen to join.

Directed by Hermine Huntgeburth - With Nina Hoss, Jacky Ido, Nino Prester, Katja Flint

The Consequences of Love(2004)

1h 40min | Drama, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 362 votes)

Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently without purpose. His past is a mystery, nobody knows what he does for a living, he answers indiscreet questions evasively. What secrets does this enigmatic man hide?

Directed by Paolo Sorrentino - With Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini, Gianna Paola Scaffidi, Raffaele Pisu, Angela Goodwin, ...

Lili Marleen(1981)

2h | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 29 votes)

The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - With Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Erik Schumann, Hark Bohm, ...

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A Farewell to Arms(1957)

2h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

2.8/5 (with 21 votes)

An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.

Directed by Charles Vidor, John Huston, Andrew Marton - With Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Oskar Homolka, Mercedes McCambridge, Elaine Stritch, ...

Charter Trip 2: Snowroller(1985)

1h 31min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 27 votes)

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 women also on vacation.

Directed by Lasse Åberg - With Lasse Åberg, Jon Skolmen, Björn Granath, Klasse Möllberg, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs

Downhill Racer(1969)

1h 41min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 35 votes)

An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe for the Olympics.

Directed by Michael Ritchie - With Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Karl-Michael Vogler, Dabney Coleman, Jim McMullan, ...

Bread and Chocolate(1974)

1h 50min | Comedy, Drama

3.6/5 (with 39 votes)

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

Directed by Franco Brusati - With Johnny Dorelli, Anna Karina, Nino Manfredi, Ugo D'Alessio, Tano Cimarosa, Gianfranco Barra, ...

Swiss Miss(1938)

1h 13min | Comedy, Music

3.1/5 (with 30 votes)

Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.

Directed by John G. Blystone, Hal Roach - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Eric Blore, Anita Garvin, Baldwin Cooke, Walter Woolf King, ...

Requiem for a Killer(2011)

1h 31min | Thriller

2.4/5 (with 35 votes)

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 Festival d'Ermeux and try to kill one of her partners: British bariton Alexander Child. Having recently acquired a Scottish distillery, he remains the only obstacle to a strategic pipeline project with considerable economic stakes; having recently won a tough legal battle against British Oil, their last resort is to eliminate him. Complicating everything is Rico, sent by the French contra-espionage, who tries to infiltrate the orchestra and stop the plot against Alexander Child.

Directed by Jérôme Le Maire - With Chris Stills, Clovis Cornillac, Frédérique Tirmont, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Johan Leysen, Mélanie Laurent, ...

The Passionate Friends(1949)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.

Directed by David Lean - With Ann Todd, Claude Rains, Trevor Howard, Wilfrid Hyde-White

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner(1974)

44min | Documentary

3.6/5 (with 25 votes)

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Walter Steiner, Werner Herzog

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, ...

The Crawling Eye(1958)

1h 24min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.4/5 (with 38 votes)

An American investigator for the U.N., a German scientist and a British reporter join forces to investigate a series of disappearances and mutilation-deaths confined to a Swiss Alp and involving a thick, mobile cloud, a telepathic girl, an animate dead man, and tentacled, cyclopean beings from another planet.

Directed by Quentin Lawrence - With Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro

Olga(2021)

1h 30min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

2013. Exiled in Switzerland, Olga, a talented and passionate 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, is trying to secure a place in the National Sports Centre. But the Euromaidan revolt erupts in Kyiv, and suddenly her loved ones are involved. While the girl is adapting to her new country and preparing for the European Championships, the Ukrainian revolution makes its way into her life, and nothing will ever be the same again.

Directed by Elie Grappe

Heidi(1968)

1h 45min | Drama, Kids & Family, TV Movie

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

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 the alm. He at first resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl manages to penetrate his harsh exterior and subsequently has a delightful stay with him and her best friend, young Peter the goat-herd.

Directed by Delbert Mann - With Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons, Michael Redgrave, Jennifer Edwards, Walter Slezak, Peter van Eyck, ...

The Soul Keeper(2003)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love, History

3.4/5 (with 27 votes)

Zurich, 1905. 19-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

Directed by Roberto Faenza - With Emilia Fox, Iain Glen, Craig Ferguson, Caroline Ducey, Jane Alexander, Joanna David, ...

Hannibal Brooks(1969)

1h 42min | Comedy, War

3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland.

Directed by Michael Winner - With Oliver Reed, Michael J. Pollard, Wolfgang Preiss, Helmuth Lohner

Third Man on the Mountain(1959)

1h 45min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family

3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

The thrilling, critically acclaimed account of Rudi Matt (James MacArthur), a young kitchen worker who is determined to conquer the Citadel -- the jagged, snowcapped peak that claimed his father's life.

Directed by Ken Annakin - With Michael Rennie, James MacArthur, James Donald, Herbert Lom, Laurence Naismith, Ferdy Mayne, ...

Absolut(2005)

1h 34min | Thriller

3.9/5 (with 11 votes)

Two guys against globalization want to plant a virus in the network of a finance corporation. On the day of the attack Alex has an accident and cannot remember anything.

Directed by Romed Wyder - With Vincent Bonillo

Brucio nel vento(2002)

2h | Drama, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, he saw life go by without much expectation. One day, he sees Caroline, a former schoolmate from back in Eastern Europe, and falls in love with her, but she's married and has a daughter.

Directed by Silvio Soldini - With Ivan Franěk, Barbara Lukešová, Petr Forman, Zuzana Mauréry, Jitka Ježková, Monika Hilmerová, ...

Crossing Borders(2006)

1h 36min | Drama, History

3.2/5 (with 24 votes)

In 1960, Martín and Marcos are forced by their difficult personal circumstances to travel to Switzerland in search of work, leaving their families in the Madrid of Franco's Spain. But they undertake more than a simple journey; they begin the road to a new life.

Directed by Carlos Iglesias Serrano - With Carlos Iglesias Serrano, Javier Gutiérrez, Nieve de Medina, Isabel Blanco, Francisco Merino

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