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This is a list of films produced in Switzerland. For an A-Z list see Category:Swiss films.
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This is a list of films produced in Switzerland. For an A-Z list see Category:Swiss films.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1920 | ||||||
| 1921 | ||||||
| Histoire de Monsieur Vieux-bois | Robert Collard, Cavé | Animation | Available online [1] | |||
| 1922 | ||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | ||||||
| 1941 | ||||||
| Kampf dem Hunger | Julius Pinschewer | Animation | ||||
| Die kleine Kartoffel | Julius Pinschewer | Animation | ||||
| Paradisia | Julius Pinschewer | Animation | ||||
| A Village Romeo and Juliet | Hans Trommer , Valérien Schmidely | Erwin Kohlund, Margrit Winter | Drama | |||
| 1942 | ||||||
| Gilberte de Courgenay | Franz Schnyder | Rudolf Bernhard, Anne-Marie Blanc | Biopic | |||
| 1943 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 1947 | ||||||
| Madness Rules | Leopold Lindtberg | Heinrich Gretler, Heinz Woester | Crime | |||
| 1948 | ||||||
| The Search (Die Gezeichneten) | Fred Zinnemann | Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon | Drama | American-Swiss co-production | ||
| 1949 | ||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 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 | ||||||
| 1963 | ||||||
| 1964 | ||||||
| 1965 | ||||||
| Diamonds Are Brittle | Nicolas Gessner | Claude Rich, Jean Seberg, Elsa Martinelli, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Günther Ungeheuer | Crime comedy | French-Swiss-West German-Italian co-production | ||
| 1966 | ||||||
| 1967 | ||||||
| The Unknown Man of Shandigor | Jean-Louis Roy | Entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| 1968 | ||||||
| The Colonel's Nieces | Erwin C. Dietrich | Kai Fischer | ||||
| 1969 | ||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||||||
| My Little Sister | Stéphanie Chuat , Véronique Reymond | Nina Hoss, Lars Eidinger, Marthe Keller | Drama | |||
| Needle Park Baby | Pierre Monnard | Luna Mwezi, Sarah Spale, Jerry Hoffmann | Drama | Original Title "Platzspitzbaby" | ||
| 2021 | ||||||
| Beautiful Minds (Presque) | Bernard Campan, Alexandre Jollien | Bernard Campan, Alexandre Jollien | Comedy-drama | |||
| The Girl and the Spider (Das Mädchen und die Spinne) | Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher | Henriette Confurius, Liliane Amuat | Drama | |||
| 2022 | ||||||
| De Humani Corporis Fabrica | Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel | Documentary | France-Switzerland coproduction | |||
| Thunder (Foudre) | Carmen Jaquier | Lilith Grasmung | Drama | |||
| 2023 | ||||||
| Sisi & I | Frauke Finsterwalder | Susanne Wolff, Sandra Hüller, Stefan Kurt, Tom Rhys Harries | Biography/Drama | Germany-Switzerland-Austria coproduction [2] [3] | ||
| 2024 | ||||||
| Hanami | Denise Fernandes | Dailma Mendes, Sanaya Andrade, Alice da Luz | Drama | Switzerland-Portugal-Cape Verde coproduction | ||
| 2025 | ||||||
| The Safe House | Lionel Baier | Michel Blanc, Dominique Reymond | Comedy-drama | France, Switzerland and Luxembourg co-production [4] | ||
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