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.

Die Schweizermacher

1978

German

7.1

♡ 6

Rolf Lyssy Director

Walo Lüönd as Max Bodmer

Beatrice Kessler as Milena Vakulic

Emil Steinberger as Moritz Fischer

Bill Ramsey as William S. Tall

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.

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

1974

German

7.6

♡ 5

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Narrator

Walter Steiner as Self

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

The Boat Is Full

1981

German

7.1

♡ 6

75%

Markus Imhoof Director

Ilse Bahrs as Frau Ostrowskij

Tina Engel as Judith Krueger

Michael Gempart as Landjäger Bigler

Curt Bois as Lazar Ostrowskij

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?

Special Flight

2011

French

7.3

100%

Fernand Melgar Director

Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and immigration officials. The passengers are flown to their native countries, where they haven't set foot in in up to twenty years, and where their lives might be in danger. Children, wives and work are left behind in Switzerland. Near Geneva, in Frambois prison, live 25 illegal immigrants waiting for deportation. They are offered an opportunity to say goodbye to their families and return to their native countries on a regular flight, escorted by plain-clothes police officers. If they refuse this offer, the special flight is arranged fast and unexpectedly. The stories behind the locked cells are truly heartbreaking.

Third Man on the Mountain

1959

English

7.0

♡ 6

73%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Ken Annakin Director

Michael Rennie as Captain John Winter

Roger Delgado as Italian Tourist

John Gabriel as Paul - Guide

Helen Hayes as Tourist

Famous British mountaineer Winter wants to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small village but no guide wants to accompany him. A young man from the village, Rudi Matt, whose father died fifteen years earlier during an attempt to climb the Citadel, is determined to accompany him, with the help of his uncle. Winter also manages to hire a guide from a neighboring village and competitor, Emil Saxo. The roped party of four men then begins the ascent of the still untouched summit.

Tyfelstei: An Alpine Horror Tale

2014

German

3.9

♡ 2

Chris Bucher Director

Chris Meyer as Albtraum-Arzt

Carmen Maccagnan as Albtraum-Ärztin

Corina Kündig as Anna

Ramon Kündig as Fackelträger

A young man lands in a cut off village in the Swiss mountains and discovers a dark secret from the past, as the villagers made a pact with the devil...

The White Massai

2005

German

6.4

♡ 9

63%

Hermine Huntgeburth Director

Damaris Itenyo Agweyu as Asma

Christopher Okinda as Beamter Infoschalter

Nina Hoss as Carola Mamutelil geb. Lehmann

Jacky Ido as Lemalian Mamutelil

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.

Tina

2021

English

7.9

♡ 18

92%

Daniel Lindsay Director

B.B. King as Self

Whoopi Goldberg as Self

Mel Gibson as Self

Angela Bassett as Self

Tina Turner overcame impossible odds to become one of the first female Black artists to reach a mainstream international audience. Her road to superstardom is an undeniable story of triumph over adversity. It’s the ultimate story of survival – and an inspirational story of our times.

Olga

2021

Ukrainian

6.8

♡ 6

92%

Elie Grappe Director

Lou Steffen as Andrea

Tanya Mikhina as Ilona Budishkina

Alicia Onomor as Juliette

Aleksandr Mavrits as Vassily

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.

Von Ryan's Express

1965

English

7.1

♡ 23

90%

Mark Robson Director

Edward Mulhare as Costanzo

Ian Abercrombie as English POW

Trevor Howard as Major Eric Fincham

William Berger as Man from the Gestapo

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.

Ready, Steady, Ommm!

2013

German

5.2

♡ 4

Oliver Rihs Director

Matthias Britschgi as Alex

Liliane Amuat as Anna

Manuela Biedermann as Puffmutter

Martin Rapold as Wachtmeister Weiss

Alex and his girlfriend Anna have a problem: Anna couldn't be more pregnant, and neither can find an affordable flat. The only one who can help is Anna's father, Commander Reiker, a sweet but screwy military man who owns an empty house. Reiker, however, to whom the Swiss Army means everything, has problems of his own: how can Switzerland, nation of fabled warriors that even exports its troops to protect the Pope, maintain its fear-inspiring reputation with all the cost-cutting measures? The Army is being forced to save, to restructure, and to take itself seriously. To prevent his ramshackle troops from being axed, Reiker urgently needs help. And just about anyone will do. Like his future son-in-law Alex, the least capable man one could imagine. As a yoga teacher, house-husband and pacifist, Alex has what it takes to be discharged, not put in charge. The pact he concludes with Reiker will not only shake up the Swiss Army, but also Alex's relationship with Anna...

Unrest

2022

German

6.6

♡ 4

87%

Cyril Schäublin Director

Daniel Bachmann as

Bert Siegfried as

Li Tavor as Mila Fuchs

Nikolai Bosshardt as Termineur Künzli

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.

The Divine Order

2017

German

7.1

♡ 7

85%

husband wife relationship

politics

switzerland

village

Petra Biondina Volpe Director

Sofia Helin as Eden

Ella Rumpf as Hanna

Janis Joplin as Herself

Rachel Braunschweig as Theresa

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.

Beautiful Beast

2012

English

5.7

♡ 1

uncle niece relationship

Christie Will Director

Alexander Brough as Hungry Kids

Shona Kay as Isabelle Elliott

Brad Johnson as Jeremy Edmunds

Don Cosney as Lyle Elliott

The classic Beauty and the Beast tale told with a twist! Isabelle is all beauty - on the outside. When she gets lost on a skiing vacation, she is helped by Jeremy, a man hiding from the world and his past. He's the first person to put Isabelle in her place, and Isabelle realizes she might be more beast than she wants to admit. Through Jeremy's influence she begins to change - and fall in love.

The Passionate Friends

1949

English

7.2

♡ 4

75%

David Lean Director

Lisa Daniely as Cinema Usherette

Ann Todd as Mary Justin

Trevor Howard as Prof. Steven Stratton

Arthur Howard as Smith - Butler

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

Nemesis

2020

German

6.9

♡ 1

Thomas Imbach Director

Milan Peschel as T.

The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the perspective of the filmmaker’s window, and with testimony from prisoners awaiting deportation, the film probes how we deal with the extinction of history and its replacement with total security.

Bread and Chocolate

1974

Italian

7.4

♡ 3

100%

Franco Brusati Director

Paolo Turco as Gianni

Angelo Boscariol as Italian worker

Giorgio Dolfin as Paolo

Francesco D'Adda as Rudiger

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?

North Face

2008

German

7.4

♡ 23

84%

Philipp Stölzl Director

Petra Morzé as Elisabeth Landauer

Johannes Thanheiser as Grossvater Kurz

Ulrich Tukur as Henry Arau

Benno Fürmann as Toni Kurz

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.

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

1942

English

6.5

♡ 11

52%

Roy William Neill Director

Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson

Harry Cording as Jack Brady

Colin Kenny as Scotland Yard Detective

Paul Bryar as Swiss Waiter

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 quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty.

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The White Massai

Tina

Olga

Von Ryan's Express

Ready, Steady, Ommm!

Unrest

The Divine Order

Beautiful Beast

The Passionate Friends

Nemesis

Bread and Chocolate

North Face

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon