Popular from Switzerland
Take and Run
(Ala Kachuu)
Sezim is a young Kyrgyz woman with dreams of studying in the capital, but her plans are cut short when she's kidnapped and forced to marry a stranger.
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- Switzerland, Kyrgyzstan • 2020
- Director Maria Brendle
- Cast Alina Turdumamatova, Nurbek Esengazy Uulu, Madina Talipbek, Taalaikan Abazova, Kanat Abdahmanov, Aybike Erkinbekova
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Three Colors: White
(Trois couleurs : Blanc)
After his wife divorces him and frames him for arson, a Polish expatriate plots his revenge.
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- Switzerland, France, Poland • 1994
- Director Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Cast Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr, Aleksander Bardini, Grzegorz Warchoł
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Pingu
This stop-motion claymated television series follows a family of a penguins living at the South Pole.
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- Switzerland, United Kingdom • 1986
- Creator Otmar Gutmann, Erika Brueggemann
- Cast Marcello Magni, David Sant
- Genre Animation, Comedy, Kids
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Unrest
(Unrueh)
In late 19th century Switzerland, a factory worker becomes involved with a local group of anarchist watchmakers.
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- Switzerland • 2022
- Director Cyril Schäublin
- Cast Stefano Knuchel, Valentin Merz, Clara Gostynski, Alexei Evstratov, Laurence Bretignier, Li Tavor
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Amazon Video
The Beach Bum
You gotta go low to get high.
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- Switzerland, United Kingdom, France • 2019
- Director Harmony Korine
- Cast Matthew McConaughey, Isla Fisher, Snoop Dogg, Stefania LaVie Owen, Martin Lawrence, Zac Efron
- Genre Comedy
- Available on fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Paramount+ with Showtime, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
New Heights
(Neumatt)
A city boy inherits a failing farm, and with it, family drama.
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- Switzerland • 2021
- Creator Marianne Wendt
- Cast Julian Koechlin, Sophie Hutter, Anouk Petri, Jérôme Humm, Marlise Fischer, Rachel Braunschweig
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Under the Skin
Unsuspecting men fall under the spell of a seductive alien that prowls the streets of Glasgow.
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- Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States • 2014
- Director Jonathan Glazer
- Cast Scarlett Johansson, Kryštof Hádek, Paul Brannigan, Michael Moreland, Scott Dymond, Jeremy McWilliams
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, FlixFling, Kanopy
New from Switzerland
A Thousand Fires
A family in Myanmar runs an unregulated oil field.
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- France, Switzerland, Netherlands • 2021
- Director Saeed Taji Farouky
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DocAlliance Films
Take and Run
(Ala Kachuu)
Sezim is a young Kyrgyz woman with dreams of studying in the capital, but her plans are cut short when she's kidnapped and forced to marry a stranger.
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- Switzerland, Kyrgyzstan • 2020
- Director Maria Brendle
- Cast Alina Turdumamatova, Nurbek Esengazy Uulu, Madina Talipbek, Taalaikan Abazova, Kanat Abdahmanov, Aybike Erkinbekova
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Winter Nomads
(Hiver Nomade)
Two shepherds in Switzerland move 800 sheep 600km over four months with the help of three donkeys and four dogs.
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- Switzerland, France, Germany • 2012
- Director Manuel von Stürler
- Cast Pascal Eguisier, Carole Noblanc, Jean-Paul Peguiron
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID
The Promise
(Das Versprechen)
A love, a hope, a wall.
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- Germany, France, Switzerland • 1995
- Director Margarethe von Trotta
- Cast Meret Becker, Corinna Harfouch, Anian Zollner, August Zirner, Eva Mattes, Hark Bohm
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on MUBI
The Line
(La ligne)
Forbidden by restraining order from entering her family home, Margaret seeks connection with her family from behind this imaginary line.
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- France, Belgium, Switzerland • 2023
- Director Ursula Meier
- Cast Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Stéphanie Blanchoud, Benjamin Biolay, Dali Benssalah, Elli Spagnolo, India Hair
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Year of the Discovery
(El año del descubrimiento)
In the shadow of the 1992 Olympic Games held in Spain, massive labor riots erupt in Cartagena.
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- Spain, Switzerland • 2020
- Director Luis López Carrasco
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Film Movement Plus
Mother Lode
Jorge leaves his home and family in the outskirts of Lima to try his luck in the goldmines of the Andes.
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- France, Italy, Switzerland • 2023
- Director Matteo Tortone
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Film Movement Plus
Unrest
(Unrueh)
In late 19th century Switzerland, a factory worker becomes involved with a local group of anarchist watchmakers.
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- Switzerland • 2022
- Director Cyril Schäublin
- Cast Stefano Knuchel, Valentin Merz, Clara Gostynski, Alexei Evstratov, Laurence Bretignier, Li Tavor
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Amazon Video
Bassidji
To better understand their ideas, Mehran Tamadon engages with extremist supporters of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Basij.
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- Iran, France, Switzerland • 2009
- Director Mehran Tamadon
- Cast
- Genre
- Available on DocAlliance Films
Telescope Recommends
My Life as a Zucchini
(Ma vie de courgette)
A stop-motion tale of loss, friendship, and young love.
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- Switzerland, France • 2016
- Director Claude Barras
- Cast Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud, Michel Vuillermoz, Raul Ribera
- Genre Animation, Drama, Family
- Available on Criterion Channel
At Eternity's Gate
The story of Vincent van Gogh's artistic genius — and the misunderstanding public.
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- Switzerland, Ireland, United Kingdom • 2018
- Director Julian Schnabel
- Cast Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Freevee, Hoopla
The Sun
(Солнце)
Confronted by General Douglas MacArthur, Emperor Hirohito of Japan must negotiate the terms of the country’s surrender.
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- Russia, Italy, Switzerland • 2005
- Director Aleksandr Sokurov
- Cast Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi, Shirô Sano, Dmitriy Podnozov
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Google Play Movies, YouTube, Kanopy
The Wonders
(Le meraviglie)
Gelsomina’s family works according to some special rules.
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- Italy, Switzerland, Germany • 2014
- Director Alice Rohrwacher
- Cast Maria Alexandra Lungu, Alba Rohrwacher, Sam Louwyck, Sabine Timoteo, Agnese Graziani, Monica Bellucci
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, OVID, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
The Four Times
(Le quattro volte)
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy.
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- Italy, Germany, Switzerland • 2010
- Director Michelangelo Frammartino
- Cast Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpan
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kanopy
My Little Sister
(Schwesterlein)
The bond of twin siblings is tested by a diagnosis of leukemia in this poignant Swiss drama.
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- Switzerland, Germany • 2020
- Director Stéphanie Chuat
- Cast Nina Hoss, Lars Eidinger, Marthe Keller, Jens Albinus, Thomas Ostermeier
- Genre
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
La Chimera
Arthur, an archaeologist with a supernatural gift for locating Etruscan relics, reunites with a ragtag group of tomb raiders.
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- Italy, France, Switzerland • 2023
- Director Alice Rohrwacher
- Cast Isabella Rossellini, Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Alba Rohrwacher, Vincenzo Nemolato, Chiara Pazzaglia
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Microsoft Store
Happy as Lazzaro
(Lazzaro felice)
A pure-hearted sharecropper Lazzaro forms an unlikely friendship that will change his world.
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- Italy, Switzerland, France • 2018
- Director Alice Rohrwacher
- Cast Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Luca Chikovani, Alba Rohrwacher, Sergi López, Tommaso Ragno
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Jean de Florette
When Jean de Florette inherits land in Provence, he decides to take up farming. But his scheming neighbors have other plans…
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- France, Switzerland, Italy • 1986
- Director Claude Berri
- Cast Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Margarita Lozano, Ernestine Mazurowna
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Swiss Series
The Undertaker
(Der Bestatter)
A police detective leaves the force to take over the family business as an undertaker, where he discovers that the two jobs have some surprising areas of overlap.
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- Switzerland • 2013
- Creator Hartmut Block
- Cast Mike Müller, Barbara Terpoorten, Reto Stalder, Samuel Streiff, Suly Röthlisberger
- Genre Crime
- Available on Amazon Video, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice
Banking District
(Quartier des banques)
A thriller set in the heart of the Swiss banking sector, where the members of a banking family wage a ruthless battle for control.
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- Switzerland, Belgium • 2017
- Creator Jean-Marc Fröhle
- Cast Laura Sépul, Féodor Atkine, Arnaud Binard, Vincent Kucholl, Brigitte Fossey, Lauriane Gilliéron
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Amazon Video, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice
Wilder
A detective returns to her home town to come to terms with the death of her brother who died in an accident many years ago.
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- Switzerland • 2017
- Creator Béla Batthyany, Alexander Szombath
- Cast Sarah Spale, Marcus Signer
- Genre Crime
- Available on MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice
Labyrinth of Peace
(Frieden)
In the aftermath of World War II, neutral Switzerland finds itself a nexus of escaped Nazi war criminals, Holocaust survivors, and spies.
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- Switzerland • 2020
- Creator Michael Schaerer, Petra Biondina Volpe
- Cast Miron Sharshunov, Gustav Strunz, Britta Güntert, Dimitri Stapfer, Annina Walt, Max Hubacher
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Chai Flicks, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Scene of the Crime
(Tatort)
German, Austrian, and Swiss police solve complex crimes in this long-running crime procedural.
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- West Germany, Austria, Switzerland • 1970
- Creator Günter Rohrbach, Gunther Witte
- Cast
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, The Roku Channel, Hoopla, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice
New Heights
(Neumatt)
A city boy inherits a failing farm, and with it, family drama.
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- Switzerland • 2021
- Creator Marianne Wendt
- Cast Julian Koechlin, Sophie Hutter, Anouk Petri, Jérôme Humm, Marlise Fischer, Rachel Braunschweig
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Documentaries from Switzerland
Dark Star: HR Giger’s World
(Dark Star: HR Gigers Welt)
The life and work of H.R. Giger told on-screen.
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- Switzerland • 2014
- Director Belinda Sallin
- Cast H.R. Giger, Leslie Barany, Sandra Beretta, Mia Bonzanigo, Tom Gabriel Fischer
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Cineverse, Midnight Pulp, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
The Venerable W.
(Le vénérable W.)
This documentary follows the Islamophobia of an influential Buddhist monk in Myanmar, the “Venerable Wirathu.”
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- France, Switzerland • 2017
- Director Barbet Schroeder
- Cast Bulle Ogier, Barbet Schroeder, Ashin Wirathu
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Sing Me a Song
Documentarian Thomas Balmès witnesses the transformative impact of the internet on a young Buddhist monk in Bhutan.
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- France, Germany, Switzerland • 2020
- Director Thomas Balmès
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, MGM Plus, fuboTV, Epix Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Freevee, Hoopla
More Than Honey
Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worldwide, are facing extinction.
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- Switzerland, Germany, Austria • 2012
- Director Markus Imhoof
- Cast Fred Jaggi, Randolf Menzel, John Miller, Liane Singer, Heidrun Singer
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Kanopy, Hoopla
Picture of Light
This documentary follows an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.
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- Canada, Switzerland • 1994
- Director Peter Mettler
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DocAlliance Films, Kanopy
Genesis 2.0
After the discovery of a well-preserved mammoth carcass, scientists hope it could be a major step forward in bioengineering.
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- Switzerland, China, Russia • 2018
- Director Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev
- Cast Peter Grigoriev, Semyon Grigoriev, George Church, Spira Sleptsov, Woo Suk Hwang
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kanopy
A Skin So Soft
(Ta peau si lisse)
From the strongman to the top-class bodybuilder, these are the gladiators of modern times.
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- Canada, Switzerland • 2018
- Director Denis Côté
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Cineverse, Kanopy
Winged Migration
(Le peuple migrateur)
Five film crews follow a rich variety of bird migrations through forty countries and across each of the seven continents.
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- France, Germany, Switzerland • 2001
- Director Jacques Perrin
- Cast Philippe Labro, Jacques Perrin
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand
Iranian
(Iranien)
An atheist Iranian filmmaker engages four mullahs in a group conversation about faith, belief, and daily life.
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- France, Switzerland, Iran • 2014
- Director Mehran Tamadon
- Cast Mohsen Kalhor
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV
Océans
What wonders await under the surface of the oceans?
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- France, Switzerland, Spain • 2009
- Director Jacques Perrin
- Cast Pierce Brosnan, Lancelot Perrin
- Genre Documentary, Family
- Available on Disney Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Colossal Youth
(Juventude Em Marcha)
After his home neighborhood is destroyed, an aging immigrant is forced him to squat in the slums outside Lisbon.
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- Portugal, France, Switzerland • 2006
- Director Pedro Costa
- Cast Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte, Gustavo Sumpta, Cila Cardoso, Isabel Cardoso
- Genre Documentary, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, TCM
En La Boca
An Argentinian matriarch attempts to keep her family from going too deep into the criminal underworld of Buenos Aires.
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- Argentina, Switzerland • 2016
- Director Matteo Gariglio
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Video
Advocate
(לאה צמל, עורכת דין)
The gripping true story of Lea Tsemel, a Jewish Israeli lawyer who represents Palestinian political prisoners.
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- Israel, Canada, Switzerland • 2019
- Director Philippe Bellaiche
- Cast Lea Tsemel
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
Europe, She Loves
Four young couples across Europe struggle with life and love.
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- Switzerland, Germany • 2016
- Director Jan Gassmann
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, myfilmfriend
My Sister Maria
(Meine Schwester Maria)
The life of classical Hollywood actress Maria Schell, as told by her brother.
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- France, Germany, Switzerland • 2002
- Director Maximilian Schell
- Cast Maria Schell, Maximilian Schell, Yul Brynner, Nastassja Schell, Gerhard Hannak
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Tubi TV