50 Films & TV Shows Set In Switzerland During The 20th Century
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Princess
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 1980s The 2020sA Story of Addiction and Redemption โ When his younger sister, a single parent, moves into the second apartment with her 5-year-old daughter Nina, an unexpected friendship develops between Josef and the uncared-for little girl.
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Harald Naegeli - Der Sprayer von Zรผrich
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1970sThe Swiss artist Harald Naegeli became known around the world as the โSprayer of Zurichโ in the late 1970s. With his graffiti he criticized the monotonous, inhospitable cityscape of Zurich, but also the politics and the handling of the environment. In her sensitive portrait, director Nathalie David shows Harald Naegeli's multifaceted personality - as a visionary, argumentative artist, rebel, philosopher and astute, humorous person.
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Adolf Muschg โ The Other
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sIn his exploration of the cultural dynamic between East and West, Adolf Muschg, the most significant Swiss writer since Frisch and Dรผrrenmatt, searched for the other in himself in order to understand otherness.
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1930sIn 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her mother Dorothea, follow him shortly thereafter. Anna has to leave everything behind, including her beloved pink rabbit, and to face a new life full of challenges and privations abroad.
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The Price of Fame
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1970sA criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.
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Muppets Most Wanted
California England ๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1960sTaking the world by farce โ While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
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The Circle
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1950sA 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.
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United Passions
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฆ๐ฟ Azerbaijan ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ง๐ท Brazil ๐บ๐พ Uruguay The 1900sEvery dream has its own rules โ An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determined men who created it. Driven by their vision and passion, three men, overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make the World Cup a reality. Spanning the tumultuous 20th Century, this timeless saga celebrates the event that became the most popular sporting event in the world.
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Iron Man 3
Tennessee California Florida Kentucky ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sUnleash the power behind the armor. โ When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
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The Wolf of Wall Street
New York England ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1980s The 1990sEARN. SPEND. PARTY. โ A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
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Night Train to Lisbon
๐ต๐น Portugal ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1960sOnly when you are lost can you truly find yourself โ Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
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Longwave
๐ต๐น Portugal ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1970sIt is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerlandโs aid to poor countries. Sparks fly during the bus trip with Bob, sound engineer approaching retirement. The projects financed by Switzerland prove to be calamitous and the workersโ revolution that suddenly breaks out doesnโt help, obliging our heroes to disregard first the radioโs management, and then their own codes of conduct.
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Liz & Dick
๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sGlamorous, infamous, scandalous โ On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky, passionate, relationship, born in front of the cameras, was subsequently captured in a series of films, including The V.I.P.s and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The last of the great, extravagant stars, flaunting diamonds, yachts and private planes, they continually seized the headlines. They even divorced and married again - only to divorce again - but remain in each other's hearts. This Elizabeth Taylor - Richard Burton story is a no-holds barred account of their undying, but impossible love.
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A Dangerous Method
New York ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1910s The 1900sWhy deny what you desire the most. โ Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jungโs weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabinaโs spell.
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X-Men: First Class
Nevada Virginia District of Columbia Florida England ๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐ต๐ฑ Poland ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฆ๐ท Argentina The 1960s The 1940sWitness the moment that will change our world. โ Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
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The Foster Boy
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1950sSwitzerland, 1955. The young orphan Max is sent as a foster child and contracted to work for the Bรถsiger 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.
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Sennentuntschi
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1970s1975, 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 Hรถhenalp 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.
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North Face
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1930sA true story โ 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.
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Youth Without Youth
๐ฒ๐น Malta ๐ท๐ด Romania ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1930s The 1960sA love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
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The Miracle of Bern
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1950sThe movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. The second story is about a reporter and his wife reporting from the tournament.
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I Am David
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1950sBelieve in the power to change your destiny โ Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark and a compass to help get him there.
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The Soul Keeper
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940s The 1900sIn 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 other and Sabina became his lover. While the researchers read the documents, the romance between Sabina and Dr. Jung is disclosed, in a time of revolution and war.
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Retro Puppet Master
๐ซ๐ท France ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1940s The 1900sThe Legacy Begins ... โ Toulon runs a puppet theatre in the heart of Paris and meets the sorcerer (the mysterious Afzel). When his life is saved by the lovely Swiss Ambassador's daughter Ilsa, we bear witness to the origin of the Puppet Master.
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Chaplin
California England ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sEveryone has a wild side. Even a legend. โ An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, recounting his amazing journey from his poverty-stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention of the Little Tramp.
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Courage Mountain
๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1910sTheir climb to freedom will become the greatest adventure. โ In this version of "Heidi," a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school at the beginning of World War I.
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