Praesens-Film Popular Movie

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Heinz Rühmann

French Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vincent Dedienne

When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Vincent D'Onofrio

In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Montgomery Clift

In the dense and murky woodlands of provincial Hungary, the search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Péter Haumann

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hertha Thiele

Heidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss Alps to live with her ornery grandfather. At first, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elsbeth Sigmund

If any one man is responsible for the rejuvenation of the postwar Swiss film industry, that man was director Leopold Lindtberg. Matto Regiert...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Heinrich Gretler

Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ewart G. Morrison

The titular Marie-Louise is a young French lass who is evacuated to Switzerland when her country is overrun by the Nazis. Suffering a nervous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josiane Hegg

A policeman is not convinced that the prime suspect in a murder case is realty guilty and so decides to reinvestigate the case, despite the lack of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heinrich Gretler

In exploring sex offenses, particularly against children, this film reveals the inner workings of the Zurich police and INTERPOL as they pursue...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Arens

A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cornel Wilde

Genre: War

Cast: Hans Stüwe

In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gian Maria Volonté

In Bern above Junkerngasse 54 the caretaker has died - the old Hutzli. On the day on which he was buried, it's started again, this howling in the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Emil Hegetschweiler

The film traces Uli's progress from his humble peasant surroundings to the homes of the wealthy and prominent. The characterizations are convincing,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hannes Schmidhauser

Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viveca Lindfors

Genre: Comedy

Cast: O.E. Hasse

Heidi lives with Alp-Öhi n the Swiss Alps in the summer, where she helps Peter tend the goats. In winter, she stays in the village and attends...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elsbeth Sigmund