10 Best Movies Set in or About Switzerland

10 Movies Set in or About Switzerland

Foreign-led films whose sustained setting or subject remains centered on Switzerland.

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   1. Dream Team 1935

   Sapņu komanda 1935 · 2012

   In 1935, the Latvian national basketball team travels to Geneva to compete in the first-ever European Championship, an unknown sport and an underdog nation chasing an improbable dream. A rousing sports drama based on a true story.

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   2. The Consequences of Love

   Le conseguenze dell'amore · 2004

   A reserved, mysterious man who has spent years in self-imposed exile in a Swiss hotel, chained to a hidden routine, has his carefully guarded life upended when he finally allows himself to feel something for the young barmaid. Paolo Sorrentino's cool, stylish drama.

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   3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

   1988

   In Prague in the 1960s, a womanizing surgeon torn between a free-spirited mistress and the earnest woman he marries finds his life and loves upended by the Soviet crushing of the Prague Spring. Adapted from Milan Kundera's novel.

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   4. Bread and Chocolate

   Pane e cioccolata · 1974

   An Italian immigrant desperate to build a life in prim, prosperous Switzerland takes on ever more menial jobs and humiliations in a losing struggle to fit in and stay. A bittersweet tragicomedy of the migrant's plight.

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   5. Un franco, 14 pesetas

   2006

   In 1960, two friends leave Franco's Spain and their families behind to seek work in Switzerland, where they build new lives and are gradually pulled between the country that took them in and the home they left. A warm drama of emigration.

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   6. Kvadrat

   2013

   This documentary follows the internationally acclaimed Russian techno DJ Andrey Pushkarev on the road, capturing the unglamorous grind behind the booth and the meaning he finds in the music. Part road movie, part portrait of an artist.

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   7. Swiss Miss

   1938

   Two hapless mousetrap salesmen travel to Switzerland certain that a land of cheese must be full of mice, and blunder into a series of mountain misadventures. A Laurel and Hardy comedy.

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   8. Hard Time for Princes

   La congiuntura · 1965

   A cash-strapped Roman prince and papal guardsman schemes to seduce and swindle a wealthy Englishwoman during a pleasure trip to Switzerland. An Italian comedy of aristocratic desperation.

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   9. Secret Agent

   1936

   During World War I, a novelist recruited by British intelligence is sent to Switzerland under a false identity to find and kill an enemy spy, only to be plagued by doubt about the target and his own conscience. Alfred Hitchcock's tense espionage thriller.

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    10. Frankenstein Unbound

    1990

    A scientist from 2031 whose doomsday weapon rips holes in time is flung back to 1817 Switzerland, where he meets Lord Byron, Mary Shelley — and the very real Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. Roger Corman's wild sci-fi horror.