Swiss Alps Movies

During an early, unsuccessful attempt at climbing the Matterhorn, Edward Whymper finds himself rescued by an italian guide, Jean Antoine Carrel. The...

The mountain guide and ski instructor Hans Turri has been hired by the tourist Gregory Milacz to make a route in the mountains. Both are caught by a...

This film by Yannick Bacher tells the passion of brothers Frédéric and François Nicole for climbing. Through the sites of...

In this Traveltalk series short we learn that four million ethnic French, German and Italian people live in Switzerland. The Alps and their important...

Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression.

The traditional healers in the Swiss and French mountains.

Marcel is on the eve of his 95th birthday. He trained his two sons, Claude and Yves, in the world of climbing where they are key figures. When old...

The mountain guide Jakob is a controversial figure. His supposed father dies and leaves behind a great heritage to the people. In the town they...

In this blackly comic and brilliantly concise short, a man wanders at the foot of the Swiss Alps—until, like Alice, his attention is attracted...

Constance, the young widow of a wealthy American, gets a love letter from the Engadine region, signed by the famous guide Toni Anewater she had met...

On September 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the Matterhorn....

The young engineer Peter and his best friend, the mountain guide Anderl, are passionate mountaineers. When Peter falls in love with Clarissa, the...

Herdsman Fabiano will be a father soon. He owns fifty goats and eight cows and is trying his best to produce the alpine cheese that his hippie...

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his...

A record of the ascent of the Jungfrau by Frederick Burlingham accompanied by four mountain guides. The film starts with panoramics of the Eiger...

...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 1923, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

The ascent of the Zinalrothorn filmed by Frederick Burlingham in September 1916. Burlingham, known at the time as 'The man who kinematographed the...

This is an excellent and spirited picture of fine quality depicting the international curling contests in Switzerland, showing the Scotch champion...

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.