218 Films & TV Shows Set In Switzerland
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The Inventor
🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1910sIn this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. He receives unconditional support from his friend Otti (Walo Luond), but that is about all; the other villagers do not tolerate Jakob's eccentricities very well, and regard him as a crackpot. He perserveres in spite of this obstacle and finally invents a viable carriage that does not run on wheels but on a tread. Unfortunately for Jakob, the military have already come up with the same invention: the tank. The discovery finally breaks him, and he is quickly shuttled off to an asylum.
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Travelling Warrior
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandThis is a portrait of a man and of a country, as he travels through it. He is a travelling salesman, and travels through Switzerland selling cosmetics to beauty parlours.
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Avalanche Express
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia The 20th CenturyThe Fast Track For All-Star Adventure. — CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
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Bloodline
🇨🇭 Switzerland New YorkWhen her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.
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Love and Bullets
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandHe was chosen by his Government to expose organised crime . . . Now he must run from them both! — Charles Bronson is out for revenge in this action drama. Jackie Pruit (Jill Ireland) is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa (Rod Steiger). When it looks as if Jackie's life is being threatened by Bomposa's goons, the FBI moves in to protect her, in hopes that she'll have incriminating evidence that the Bureau can use against Bomposa in court. Veteran agent Charlie Congers (Bronson) is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes obvious that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he also falls in love with her. However, Bomposa decides that it would be a lot more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, and he orders her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen manage to slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer to the angry and vengeful Congers.
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Meteor
New York 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇭🇰 Hong KongThere's No Place On Earth To Hide! — After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough fire power. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
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Messidor
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandTwo young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to the world they once knew.
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Boarding School
🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1950sWhen the new girls arrives, the girls of St. Clare's Academy get quite an education — This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...
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The New Adventures of Heidi
New York 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandHeidi leaves the mountains of Switzerland for a trip to New York City.
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The Consequence
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandThomas is the son of a prison warden. He falls for and seduces Martin, who is older and one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, They try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will leave them alone.
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Silver Bears
Nevada 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates 🇮🇷 IranFinancial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa, consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi. This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything he's worked for, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife.
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The Cassandra Crossing
🇵🇱 Poland 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇩🇪 Germany The 20th CenturyThe Fear Is Spreading — Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
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The Swiss Conspiracy
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandA Swiss bank discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The bank's president contacts David Christopher, a former agent with the U.S. Treasury, to help discover who the blackmailer is and to foil his plot. As Christopher delves into the mystery, he uncovers a complicated web of intrigue, car chases, and shoot-outs that takes all of his wits to unravel.
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Crime and Passion
🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandHe cheated with money and with love... but now... he was gambling with his life! — Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he and the new wife are to be murdered by her new husband.
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Sex with a Smile
🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandAfter you've tried everything else... try Sex with a Smile. — Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.
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The Return of the Pink Panther
🇫🇷 France 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandThe famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.
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The Eiger Sanction
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandHIS LIFELINE - held by the assassin he hunted. — A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
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End of the Game
🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1970s The 1940s"I could murder her in front of your eyes and you couldn't prove it," said the master criminal to the master detective. And so the game began... — Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard Gastmann. Though Baerlach's partner meets his demise while investigating Gastmann, his replacement, Walter Tschanz, is undaunted. Meanwhile, the lovely Anna Crawley becomes involved in the case, which proceeds to take many twists and turns.
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Superbug, the Craziest Car in the World
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandDudu, the craziest car in the world, takes part in the goofiest race in the world!
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Daisy Miller
🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1870sShe did as she pleased. — In this comedy of manners, the American Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.
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Bread and Chocolate
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandYou'll Laugh Till Your Heart Breaks — 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?
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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandA successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he attained success, and the warped perceptions of right and wrong he has adopted to remain successful.
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
England 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1920sLove means never having to say you're ugly. — Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are responsible and begins exacting his revenge on all those involved.
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
🇵🇹 Portugal 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1960sFar up! Far out! Far more! James Bond 007 is back! — James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
England 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇩🇪 Germany The 20th CenturyA group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days.
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