Switzerland Movies

1901. Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in 1901

Four athletes learning the ropes on the world stage of freeride skiing. Navigating the line between a documentary style and traditional ski film, we...

...where the whole expedition, by the breaking of an ice cornice on the summit, escaped death by a hair's breadth. The miraculous escape is recorded...

Released in 1901

A tour of the mountains, valleys and cities of this beautiful country. Visit Neuchatel, then shop in elegant Lausanne. The dungeon of the Chateau de...

Released in 1901

A unique view of one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world. The film is tinted to portray the falls amid highly picturesque setting in the...

Released in 1901

1906, produced by Charles Urban, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in 1923, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

A three-part documentary about the long road to women's suffrage in Switzerland.

In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain...

A stop-motion short about death.

Is the solution to Switzerland's future to integrate Germany into the confederation? After all, like Michael Ringier, CEO of the Ringier media group,...

An old film about the mountains of I Denti della Vecchia, a mountain group in the Lugano Pre-Alps, between Switzerland (Val Colla) and Italy...

Stephan, the son of an old-school mountain guide, is seduced by a city beauty. He leaves his mother, siblings, and girlfriend and travels to Zurich....