List of Swiss films

A list of films produced in Switzerland. For an A-Z list see Category:Swiss films

1930s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1930
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1932
Tannenberg	Heinz Paul	Hans Stüwe, Käthe Haack	War	Swiss-German co-production
1933
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1934
William Tell	Heinz Paul	Hans Marr, Conrad Veidt	Historical	Swiss-German co-production
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1935
Demon of the Himalayas	Andrew Marton	Gustav Diessl, Erika Dannhoff	Adventure
The Eternal Mask	Werner Hochbaum	Peter Petersen, Mathias Wieman	Drama	Swiss-Austrian co-production
1936
Fräulein Veronika	Veit Harlan	Thekla Ahrens, Carl Esmond	Comedy	Swiss-Austrian co-production
The Postman from Longjumeau	Carl Lamac	Carl Esmond, Rose Stradner	Musical comedy	Swiss-Austrian co-production
Where the Lark Sings	Carl Lamac	Mártha Eggerth, Alfred Neugebauer	Musical	Swiss-German-Hungarian co-production
1937
Kleine Scheidegg	Richard Schweizer	Leopold Biberti, Emil Hegetschweiler	Drama
1938
Fusilier Wipf	Hermann Haller, Leopold Lindtberg	Paul Hubschmid, Heinrich Gretler	Drama
1939

1940s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1940
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1941
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1942
Gilberte de Courgenay	Franz Schnyder	Rudolf Bernhard, Anne-Marie Blanc	Biopic
1943
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1944
Marie-Louise	Leopold Lindtberg	Josiane Hegg, Heinrich Gretler	Drama
1945
The Last Chance (Die Letzte Chance)	Leopold Lindtberg	Ewart G. Morrison, John Hoy, Ray Reagan	Drama	won Golden Globe and Grand Prize in Cannes
1946
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1947
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1948
The Search (Die Gezeichneten)	Fred Zinnemann	Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon	Drama	American-Swiss co-production
1949

1950s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1950
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1951
Bluebeard	Christian-Jaque	Hans Albers, Fritz Kortner, Cécile Aubry	Comedy	French-West German-Swiss co-production
Four in a Jeep	Leopold Lindtberg, Elizabeth Montagu	Ralph Meeker, Viveca Lindfors	Drama
1952
Heidi	Luigi Comencini	Elsbeth Sigmund, Heinrich Gretler	family movie, Drama
1953
The Village	Leopold Lindtberg			Entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival and the 3rd Berlin International Film Festival
1954
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1955
Heidi and Peter	Franz Schnyder	Heinrich Gretler, Elsbeth Sigmund	Family/Drama	Sequel to the 1952 film Heidi
1956
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1957
Der 10. Mai	Franz Schnyder			Entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival
1958
The Cheese Factory in the Hamlet	Franz Schnyder	Annemarie Düringer, Franz Matter	Historical comedy
It Happened in Broad Daylight	Ladislao Vajda	Heinz Rühmann, Gert Fröbe, Michel Simon	Thriller	Swiss-West German-Spanish co-production. Entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival
1959
The Model Husband	Karl Suter	Walter Roderer, Silvia Frank	Comedy

1960s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1960
Sacred Waters	Alfred Weidenmann	Hansjörg Felmy, Cordula Trantow, Hanns Lothar, Gustav Knuth	Drama
William Tell	Michel Dickoff			Entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival
1961
The Shadows Grow Longer	Ladislao Vajda	Hansjörg Felmy, Luise Ullrich, Barbara Rütting	Drama	Swiss-West German co-production
1962
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1963
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1964
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1965
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1966
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1967
The Unknown Man of Shandigor	Jean-Louis Roy			Entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival
1968
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1969

1970s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1970
Black Out	Jean-Louis Roy			Entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival
1971
The Light at the Edge of the World	Kevin Billington	Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar		Spanish-American-Swiss co-production
The Salamander	Alain Tanner	Bulle Ogier
1972
The Surveyors	Michel Soutter			Entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival
Der Fall	Kurt Früh	Walo Lüönd, Katrin Buschor, Annemarie Düringer	Drama
1973
The Pedestrian	Maximilian Schell			Swiss-West German co-production
The Invitation	Claude Goretta			Won the Jury Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival
1974
General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait	Barbet Schroeder		Biography	Swiss-French co-production
The Middle of the World	Alain Tanner
1975
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1976
Assassination in Davos	Rolf Lyssy	Peter Bollag, Gert Haucke	Thriller
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000	Alain Tanner
The Sudden Loneliness of Konrad Steiner	Kurt Gloor	Ettore Cella		Entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival
Shadow of Angels	Daniel Schmid			Entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival
1977
Providence (1977 film)	Alain Resnais
Women in Cellblock 9	Jesús Franco
1978
The Swissmakers	Rolf Lyssy			Highest-grossing movie in Switzerland until 1997.
1979
Les petites fugues	Yves Yersin			Entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival
Messidor	Alain Tanner			Entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival

1980s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1980
Palermo or Wolfsburg	Werner Schroeter			Swiss-West German co-production
1981
The Boat Is Full	Markus Imhoof			Won a Silver Bear at Berlin
The Homeless One	Villi Hermann			Entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival
The Inventor	Kurt Gloor	Bruno Ganz		Entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival
Kassettenliebe	Rolf Lyssy	Emil Steinberger, Franziska Oehme	Comedy
Teheran 43	Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov	Alain Delon, Curd Jürgens		Soviet-French-Swiss co-production
1982
Hécate	Daniel Schmid	Bernard Giraudeau, Lauren Hutton		Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival
1983
The Death of Mario Ricci	Claude Goretta	Gian Maria Volontè, Magali Noël, Heinz Bennent		Won the Best Actor award at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival
Glut	Thomas Koerfer	Armin Mueller-Stahl, Katharina Thalbach, Krystyna Janda, Matthias Habich	Drama
In the White City	Alain Tanner	Bruno Ganz		Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival
1984
Dangerous Moves	Richard Dembo	Michel Piccoli		Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Man Without Memory	Kurt Gloor			Entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival
1985
Höhenfeuer	Fredi M. Murer
Derborence	Francis Reusser			Entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival
1986
1987
Jenatsch	Daniel Schmid			Screened at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival
1988
La méridienne	Jean-François Amiguet			Screened at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
1989
Bankomatt	Villi Hermann			Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival
The Favorite		Maud Adams

1990s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1990
Angels	Jacob Berger			Entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival
Journey of Hope	Xavier Koller			Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
1991
Always & Forever	Samir			Entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival
The Mountain	Markus Imhoof			Entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival
1992
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1993
The Diary of Lady M	Alain Tanner
1994
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1995
Adultery: A User's Guide	Christine Pascal
Before Sunrise	Richard Linklater
Silent Night	Dani Levy			Entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival
1996
Fourbi	Alain Tanner			Screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival
1997
Blue Mountain	Thomas Tanner			Entered into the 20th Moscow International Film Festival
1998
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1999
Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland	Daniel Schmid		Satirical comedy	Screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival
Pas de café, pas de télé, pas de sexe	Romed Wyder		Dramatic comedy
General Sutter	Benny Fasnacht	Werner Bachofen, Hannes Schmidhauser	Historical

2000s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
2000
Angry Kisses	Judith Kennel			Entered into the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival
Joy Ride	Martin Rengell
2001
Kilimanjaro: How to spell Love!	Mike Eschmann	Martin Rapold, Gesine Cukrowski, Stefan Gubser, Inigo Callo, Eliane Chappuis	Comedy
2002
Ready, Steady, Charlie!		Michael Koch	Comedy	Original title Achtung, Fertig, Charlie!
Crisis in Havana		Viktor Giacobbo, Mike Müller	Comedy	Original title Ernstfall in Havanna
2003
2004
Bienvenue en Suisse	Léa Fazer			Screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival
Love Express	Elena Hazanov	Mathilda May, Vincent Winterhalter, Sibylle Blanc, Carlos Leal, Roberto Bestazzoni	Comedy
Sternenberg	Christoph Schaub	Mathias Gnädinger, Sara Capretti	Comedy	Nominated for Swiss Film Prize 2005
Absolut	Romed Wyder		Psychological Thriller
Strähl	Manuel Flurin Hendry		Drama
2005
Clean	Geoffrey Engelbrecht		Short Film	Best Short Film Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival
We Are The Faithful			Documentary
2006
Grounding	Michael Steiner		Drama
2007
Love And Mania	Michael C. Huber	Sibylle Canonica, Michael Koch	Drama
Late Bloomers	Bettina Oberli	Stephanie Glaser	Drama	Original title Die Herbstzeitlosen
Vitus	Fredi M. Murer		Drama
2008
Geld oder Leben	Roger Mäder	Daniel Rohr	Comedy
Home	Ursula Meier	Isabelle Huppert
Happy New Year	Christoph Schaub			Entered into the 31st Moscow International Film Festival
2009
Cargo	Ivan Engler		Science fiction

2010s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
2010
Sennentuntschi	Michael Steiner	Roxane Mesquida, Andrea Zogg, Carlos Leal and Nicholas Ofczarek	Horror, Mystery	Swiss-Austrian co-production
2011
Hell	Tim Fehlbaum	Hannah Herzsprung, Stipe Erceg and Lisa Vicari	Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction	Swiss-German co-production
One Way Trip 3D	Markus Welter	3D Film
2013
Rosie	Marcel Gisler
Longwave (Les Grandes ondes (à l'ouest))	Lionel Baier	Valérie Donzelli, Michel Vuillermoz, Patrick Lapp, Francisco Belard	comedy-drama	Swiss-French-Portuguese co-production
2014
List of Swiss films of 2014
2015
Dawn	Romed Wyder	Joel Basman, Jason Isaacs, Sarah Adler	Historical Drama	Swiss-British-German co-production
Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents (Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern)	Stina Werenfels	Victoria Schulz	Drama

External links

• Swiss film at the Internet Movie Database
• Swiss Film Directory
• artfilm.ch Swiss Films on DVD