Best Movies from Switzerland by Rank
133
1
1994
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Drama / Romance
Poland / France / Switzerland
French
297
2
1993
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel
Drama / Music / Romance
France / Poland / Switzerland / UK
French
369
3
1986
Claude Berri
Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu
Drama / Period Film
France / Switzerland / Italy
French
442
4
1994
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr
Comedy / Drama
France / Poland / Switzerland / UK
Polish
443
5
1986
Claude Berri
Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil
Drama
Italy / France / Switzerland
French
501
6
1983
Robert Bresson
Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Vincent Risterucci
Crime / Drama
France / Switzerland
French
531
7
1969
Marcel Ophüls
Georges Bidault, Matthäus Bleibinger, Charles Braun
Documentary / War / History
France / Switzerland / West Germany
French
574
8
1991
Jacques Rivette
Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart
Drama / Romance
France / Switzerland
French
631
9
1965
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, John Gielgud
Comedy / Drama / War
Spain / Switzerland
English
911
10
1969
Luchino Visconti
Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger
Drama / War
Italy / Switzerland / West Germany
Italian
949
11
1982
Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney
Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer, Halil Ergün
Drama
Turkey / Switzerland / France
Turkish
1022
12
1994
Béla Tarr
Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth, László Lugossy
Drama
Hungary / Germany / Switzerland
Hungarian
1088
13
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey
Drama / War
Switzerland / USA
English
1284
14
2000
Jafar Panahi
Nargess Mamizadeh, Maryiam Palvin Almani
Drama
Iran / Switzerland / Italy
Persian
1334
15
1977
Alain Resnais
Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud, David Warner
Drama
France / Switzerland
English
1374
16
1988
Jan Svankmajer
Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power
Animation / Fantasy / Experimental / Adventure
Czechoslovakia / Switzerland / UK / West Germany
English
1593
17
1992
Gianni Amelio
Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Giuseppe Ieracitano
Drama / Adventure
France / Switzerland / Germany / Italy
Italian
1642
18
2004
Christophe Barratier
Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Kad Merad
Romance / Drama / Music
France / Switzerland / Germany
French
1700
19
2001
Walter Salles
José Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Rita Assemany
Drama
Brazil / France / Switzerland
Portuguese
1736
20
1963
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian, Darryl F. Zanuck
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Biography
UK / USA / Switzerland
English
1776
21
1973
Maximilian Schell
Peggy Ashcroft, Elisabeth Bergner, Lil Dagover
Drama
Switzerland / West Germany / Israel
German
1812
22
1973
Claude Goretta
Jean-Luc Bideau, François Simon, Jean Champion
Comedy
Switzerland / France
French
1821
23
1990
Xavier Koller
Necmettin Çobanoglu, Emin Sivas, Yaman Okay
Drama / Adventure
Switzerland / Turkey / UK
Turkish
1863
24
1976
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel
Drama / War / Comedy
Ivory Coast / France / West Germany / Switzerland
French
1895
25
1998
Jean-Luc Godard
Alain Cuny
Short / Documentary / Experimental
France / Switzerland
French
1920
26
1989
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouédraogo
Family / Drama
Burkina Faso / Switzerland / France
Mòoré
1947
27
2002
Patrice Leconte
Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stéven
Drama / Comedy
France / Germany / UK / Switzerland
French
1961
28
1996
Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
Kristin Scott Thomas
Documentary / Family
France / Switzerland / Italy
English
1988
29
1955
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Jack Watling, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff
Thriller / Crime / Mystery / Drama
France / Spain / Switzerland
English
2093
30
1983
Alain Tanner
Bruno Ganz, Teresa Madruga, Julia Vonderlinn, José de Carvalho
Drama
Switzerland / Portugal / UK
French
2127
31
2001
Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats
Philippe Labro, Jacques Perrin
Documentary / Family
France / Italy / Germany / Spain / Switzerland
English
2130
32
1935
Werner Hochbaum
Thekla Ahrens, Tom Kraa, Peter Petersen, Franz Schafheitlin
Drama / Fantasy
Austria / Switzerland
German
2131
33
1980
Jean-Luc Godard
Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, Roland Amstutz
Drama
France / Austria / West Germany / Switzerland
French
2174
34
1995
Richard Linklater
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert, Hanno Pöschl
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA / Austria / Switzerland
English
2226
35
1981
Walter Hill
Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, T.K. Carter
Drama / Thriller / War / Action
USA / Switzerland / UK
English
2227
36
1976
Alain Tanner
Jean-Luc Bideau, Myriam Boyer, Jacques Denis, Roger Jendly, Dominique Labourier
Drama / Experimental / Comedy
France / Switzerland
French
2284
37
2011
David Cronenberg
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel
Drama / Thriller / Biography / History
Canada / Germany / UK / Switzerland
English
2286
38
2014
Jean-Luc Godard
Héloïse Godet, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevallier, Zoé Bruneau
Drama / Experimental
Switzerland / France
French
2344
39
2011
Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos, Ricsi
Drama
Hungary / France / Germany / Switzerland / USA
Hungarian
2395
40
1991
Lars von Trier
Jean-Marc Barr, Max Von Sydow, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier
Thriller / Drama / Experimental
Denmark / Sweden / France / Germany / Switzerland
English
2411
41
2000
Ken Loach
Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Jack McGee, Monica Rivas
Drama
UK / France / Germany / Spain / Italy / Switzerland
English
2420
42
1981
Markus Imhoof
Tina Engel, Hans Diehl, Martin Walz, Curt Bois
Drama / War
Switzerland / West Germany / Austria
German
2445
43
1984
Richard Dembo
Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann
Drama / Thriller
France / Switzerland
French
2458
44
2003
Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier
Claus Nissen, Majken Algren Nielsen, Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier
Documentary
Denmark / Switzerland / Belgium / France
Danish
2466
45
2015
Paolo Sorrentino
Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda, Mark Kozelek
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France / Switzerland / UK
English
2482
46
2018
Alice Rohrwacher
Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Luca Chikovani, Alba Rohrwacher
Drama
Italy / Switzerland / France / Germany
Italian
2490
47
2016
Claude Barras
Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud, Michel Vuillermoz, Raul Ribera
Animation / Family / Comedy / Drama
Switzerland / France
French
2541
48
1945
Leopold Lindtberg
Ewart G. Morrison, John Hoy, Ray Reagan
War / Drama
Switzerland
English
2543
49
2017
Samuel Maoz
Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray, Shira Haas, Dekel Adin
Drama
Israel / Switzerland / Germany / France
Hebrew
2546
50
2017
Lucrecia Martel
Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele
Drama
Argentina / Brazil / Spain / Dominican Republic / France / Netherlands / Mexico / Switzerland / USA / Portugal / Lebanon
Spanish
2551
51
2001
Jean-Luc Godard
Bruno Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Jean Davy, Françoise Verny
Drama
France / Switzerland
French
2584
52
1999
Frédéric Fonteyne
Nathalie Baye, Sergi López, Jacques Viala, Paul Pavel
Drama / Romance
France / Switzerland / Belgium / Luxembourg
French
2605
53
2004
Frédéric Fonteyne
Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet, Alice Verlinden
Drama / Period Film
Belgium / France / Luxembourg / Italy / Switzerland
French
2605
53
2006
Fredi M. Murer
Fabrizio Borsani, Bruno Ganz, Teo Gheorghiu, Julika Jenkins, Urs Jucker
Drama / Music
Switzerland
Swiss German
2633
54
2021
Leos Carax
Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg, Devyn McDowell, Angèle
Drama / Musical / Romance
France / Belgium / Germany / USA / Japan / Mexico / Switzerland
English
2642
55
1991
Chantal Akerman
Guilaine Londez, Thomas Langmann, François Négret
Drama / Romance
France / Belgium / Switzerland
French
2645
56
2018
Julian Schnabel
Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric
Biography / Drama
Switzerland / UK / France / USA / Ireland
English
2645
56
2019
Hirokazu Koreeda
Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, Clémentine Grenier
Drama
France / Japan / Switzerland
French
2666
57
2000
Silvio Soldini
Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston, Antonio Catania
Comedy / Romance
Italy / Switzerland
Italian
2676
58
2005
Anand Tucker
Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman, Bridgette Wilson, Sam Bottoms
Drama / Romance / Comedy
UK / Switzerland / USA
English
2688
59
1977
Claude Goretta
Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti, Annemarie Düringer
Drama / Romance
France / Switzerland / West Germany
French
2688
59
2008
Philipp Stölzl
Benno Fürmann, Johanna Wokalek, Ulrich Tukur, Florian Lukas, Georg Friedrich
Adventure / Drama / History / Sports / Period Film
Germany / Austria / Switzerland
German
2688
59
2001
Cédric Kahn
Stefano Cassetti, Isild Le Besco, Patrick Dell'Isola, Viviana Aliberti
Biography / Crime / Drama
France / Switzerland
French
2689
60
1969
Alain Tanner
François Simon, Marcel Robert, Marie-Claire Dufour, André Schmidt
Drama / Comedy
Switzerland
French
2691
61
1985
Jean-Luc Godard
Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Manon Andersen
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Religion
France / Switzerland / UK
French
2708
62
1950
Richard Lyford, Robert J. Flaherty, Curt Oertel
Fredric March
Documentary / Biography
Switzerland / West Germany
English
2709
63
1970
Maximilian Schell
John Moulder-Brown, Dominique Sanda, Maximilian Schell
Drama / Romance
West Germany / Switzerland / Hungary
German
2709
63
1999
Eric Valli
Thilen Lhondup, Gurgon Kyap, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Karma Wangel
Adventure / Drama
France / UK / Switzerland / Nepal
Tibetan
2717
64
1990
Jean-Luc Godard
Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Roland Amstutz
Drama / Experimental / Fantasy / Romance
Switzerland / France
French
2734
65
2014
Alice Rohrwacher
Monica Bellucci, Alba Rohrwacher, Margarete Tiesel, André Hennicke
Drama
Italy / Switzerland / Germany
Italian
2740
66
2023
Alice Rohrwacher
Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Isabella Rossellini
Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Drama / Period Film
Italy / France / Switzerland
Italian
2748
67
2000
Pedro Costa
Vanda Duarte, Lena Duarte, Zita Duarte, Manuel Gomes Miranda, Diogo Pires Miranda
Drama
Portugal / Germany / Switzerland
Portuguese
2756
68
2001
Robert Beavers
Short / Experimental
USA / Switzerland / Greece
English (No Dialogue)
2758
69
2018
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard, Dimitri Basil
Drama / Experimental
Switzerland / France
French
2779
70
1981
Alain Tanner
Trevor Howard, Mick Ford, Bernice Stegers, Henri Virlojeux
Drama / Sci-Fi
Switzerland / France
English
2779
70
1982
Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Bernard Menoud, Anne-Marie Miéville
Jean-Luc Godard
Documentary
France / Switzerland
French
2779
70
1990
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Rasmane Ouedraogo, Ina Cissé, Roukietou Barry
Drama
Switzerland / UK / France / Burkina Faso / Germany
Mòoré
2783
71
2008
Sergei Dvortsevoy
Askhat Kuchencherekov, Samal Esljamova, Ondas Besikbasov, Tolepbergen Baisakalov
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Germany / Kazakhstan / Poland / Russia / Switzerland
Kazakh
2788
72
2015
Marco Bellocchio
Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lydiya Liberman, Fausto Russo Alesi
Drama / History
Italy / France / Switzerland
Italian
2788
72
1996
Otar Iosseliani
Amiran Amiranashvili, Dato Gogibedachvili, Guio Tzintsadze
Comedy / Drama
France / Russia / Italy / Switzerland
French
2788
72
1991
Manoel de Oliveira
Maria de Medeiros, Luís Miguel Cintra, Mário Viegas
Drama / Religion
Portugal / France / Switzerland
Portuguese
2788
72
1996
Jean-Luc Godard
Madeleine Assas, Ghalia Lacroix, Bérangère Allaux
Drama / Experimental / War
France / Switzerland
French
2788
72
1999
Philippe Garrel
Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Duval, Xavier Beauvois, Jacques Lassalle
Drama / Romance
France / Italy / Switzerland
French
2788
72
2023
Giorgio Diritti
Franz Rogowski, Valentina Bellè, Joel Basman, Cecilia Steiner
Drama
Italy / Switzerland
Italian
2788
72
2007
Paolo Franchi
Elio Germano, Bruno Todeschini, Irène Jacob, Maria de Medeiros
Drama
Italy / Switzerland / France
Italian
2788
72
1999
Barbara Albert
Nina Proll, Edita Malovcic, Astrit Alihajdaraj, Tudor Chirila
Drama / Romance
Austria / Germany / Switzerland
German
2788
72
2001
Babak Payami
Nassim Abdi, Cyrus Abidi, Youssef Habashi, Farrokh Shojaii
Comedy
Italy / Canada / Switzerland / Iran
Persian
2788
72
2016
Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti
Shin Kubota, Leola One Feather, Felix Rohner, Sabina Schärer
Documentary / Experimental
Italy / Switzerland
Italian
2788
72
2013
Emma Dante
Elena Cotta, Emma Dante, Alba Rohrwacher, Renato Malfatti, Dario Casarolo
Drama / Comedy
Italy / Switzerland / France
Italian
2788
72
2004
Greg Zglinski
Gilles Tschudi, Blerim Gjoci, Marie Matheron, Gabriela Muskala
Drama
Switzerland / Belgium / Poland
French
2788
72
2011
Philippe Garrel
Monica Bellucci, Louis Garrel, Céline Sallette, Jérôme Robart
Drama / Romance
France / Italy / Switzerland
French
2788
72
2023
Timm Kröger
Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuss, David Bennent
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Germany / Austria / Switzerland
German
2788
72
2016
Amat Escalante
Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jesús Meza, Edén Villavicencio
Drama
Mexico / Denmark / France / Germany / Norway / Switzerland
Spanish
2789
73
1978
Jules Dassin
Melina Mercouri, Ellen Burstyn, Andréas Voutsinas
Drama
Greece / USA / Switzerland
English
2789
73
1993
Hans W. Geissendörfer
Maximilian Schell, Thomas Heinze, Anna Thalbach
Drama / Crime
Germany / Switzerland
German
2792
74
1988
Rudy Wurlitzer, Robert Frank
Kevin J. O'Connor, Harris Yulin, Tom Waits, Bulle Ogier
Drama / Comedy / Music
Switzerland / Canada / France
English
2792
74
1998
Manoel de Oliveira
Jose Pinto, Luis Miguel Cintra, Isabel Ruth, Leonor Silveira
Drama
Portugal / France / Spain / Switzerland
Portuguese
2792
74
1987
Raoul Ruiz
Jean-Marie Böglin, Jean-François Lapalus, Alain Rimoux
Drama
Switzerland / France
French
2792
74
1993
Philippe Garrel
Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Johanna ter Steege
Drama
France / Switzerland
French
2792
74
1995
Jacques Rivette
Marianne Denicourt, Nathalie Richard, Laurence Côte
Comedy / Music / Mystery
France / Switzerland
French
2800
75
2021
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Tilda Swinton, Elkin Díaz, Jeanne Balibar, Juan Pablo Urrego
Drama
Colombia / Thailand / France / Germany / Mexico / Qatar / UK / China / Switzerland
English
2801
76
2008
Ursula Meier
Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Adélaïde Leroux, Madeleine Budd
Drama
Switzerland / France / Belgium
French
2801
76
2010
Michelangelo Frammartino
Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano
Drama
Italy / Germany / Switzerland
Italian
2801
76
2000
Olivier Assayas
Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Perrier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Switzerland
French
2801
76
1974
Alain Tanner
Olimpia Carlisi, Philippe Léotard, Juliet Berto, Denise Péron
Romance / Drama / Comedy
France / Switzerland
French
2801
76
2012
Ursula Meier
Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston, Gillian Anderson
Drama
France / Switzerland
French
2804
77
2004
Jean-Luc Godard
Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Simon Eine
Drama / Experimental
France / Switzerland
French
2807
78
2018
Sophie Huber
Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Robert Glasper, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell
Documentary / Music
Switzerland
English
2807
78
1999
Léa Pool
Karine Vanasse, Pascale Bussières, Miki Manojlovic
Drama
Switzerland / Canada / France
French
2816
79
2014
Olivier Assayas
Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz, Lars Eidinger
Drama
France / Switzerland / Germany / USA / Belgium
English
2817
80
2002
Delphine Gleize
Chiara Mastroianni, Ángela Molina, Lio, Lucia Sanchez, Esther Gorintin
Drama
France / Belgium / Spain / Switzerland
French
2817
80
2009
Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
Pierce Brosnan, Jacques Perrin, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Rie Miyazawa
Documentary / Drama
France / Switzerland / Spain
English
2818
81
2019
Alejandro Landes
Sofia Buenaventura, Moises Arias, Julianne Nicholson, Laura Castrillón
Drama / Thriller / Adventure
Colombia / Argentina / Netherlands / Germany / Sweden / Uruguay / USA / Switzerland / Denmark
English
2833
82
2006
Pedro Costa
Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte, Gustavo Sumpta, Cila Cardoso, Isabel Cardoso
Drama / Documentary
Portugal / France / Switzerland
Portuguese
2840
83
2021
Blerta Basholli
Yllka Gashi, Cun Lajci, Aurita Agushi, Kumrije Hoxha, Adriana Matoshi
Drama
Kosovo / Switzerland / Albania / Rep of N Macedonia
Albanian
2840
83
2019
Massoud Bakhshi
Sadaf Asgari, Behnaz Jafari, Babak Karimi, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy
Drama
Iran / France / Germany / Switzerland / Luxembourg
Persian
2851
84
1993
Manoel de Oliveira
Leonor Silveira, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ruy de Carvalho
Drama / Romance
France / Portugal / Switzerland
Portuguese
2852
85
2001
Sandra Nettelbeck
Martina Gedeck, Maxime Foerste, Sergio Castellitto, August Zirner
Comedy / Romance / Drama
Italy / Germany / Austria / Switzerland
German
2852
85
1995
Margarethe von Trotta
Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner, Walerij J. Alexeiew, Anka Baier
Romance / Drama
Germany / France / Switzerland
German
2852
85
1997
Claude Chabrol
Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet
Comedy / Thriller / Crime
France / Switzerland
French
2854
86
1982
Jean-Luc Godard
Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
Drama
France / Switzerland
French
NR
-
2005
Philip Gröning
Documentary / Religion
France / Switzerland / Germany
French
