Swiss Movies

Three rock climbing ascents in Val Bregaglia, Italy by Karl Freimann and Philipp Wieland, who made the first ascent of Fiamma in 1936. The film...

Silver Forest is a brutally realistic coming-of-age story, set in a small Swiss town in a bleak winter landscape. A group of boys struggle with their...

‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by...

The latest stand-up special by Swiss-German comedian Hazel Brugger.

Bouldering in Switzerland.

War mobilization in 1939: the clumsy Läppli, a loudmouth and busybody, is imprisoned for anti-military speeches. When he is later promoted to...

A mountain film set around the popular ski pass in the 1930s.

A trio of Swiss college students visit L.A. for spring break. Unfortunately, the relaxing fun in the sun vacation they were expecting, doesn't turn...

In The Call of the Mountain (L’appel de la montagne) a couple are childhood sweethearts who are separated, she marries a rich man and he...

An old film about the mountains of I Denti della Vecchia, a mountain group in the Lugano Pre-Alps, between Switzerland (Val Colla) and Italy...

"An early color film presented as 'Ascent to the Bernina Massif'. Two mountaineers break from the Forno hut and first climb the Punta Rasica and then...

Vers les Cimes is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in the Bernese Alps. It was directed by Charles-Georges Duvanel in 1940 and produced...

Starting from the Swiss village of Zermatt, two people and a guide make a perilous ascent of the Matterhorn. Local villagers mount a torchlight...

At the height of the Cold War, Brigadier Jean-Louis Jeanmaire a respected general officer in the Swiss Armed Forces was accused of passing highly...

Set in a traditional Swiss Carnival, we follow Amir, a little boy, who would have much preferred to dress up as a princess rather than a knight. But...