Movies: Praesens Film

  • 2020
    Terrible Jungle

    Terrible Jungle (2020)

    Terrible Jungle

    5.22020HD

    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 the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his possessive...

    Terrible Jungle
  • 1958
    It Happened in Broad Daylight

    It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)

    It Happened in Broad Daylight

    7.41958HD

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

    It Happened in Broad Daylight
  • 1990
    Twilight

    Twilight (1990)

    Twilight

    71990HD

    In the dense and murky woodlands of provincial Hungary, the search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession enshrouded by irresolution and despair, even long after he has been taken off the case. What emer...

    Twilight
  • 1948
    The Search

    The Search (1948)

    The Search

    6.91948HD

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

    The Search
  • 1952
    Heidi

    Heidi (1952)

    Heidi

    7.21952HD

    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 resents her presence, but, after a short while, Heidi manages to pierce his gruff exterior, and the tw...

    Heidi
  • 1939
    Sergeant Studer

    Sergeant Studer (1939)

    Sergeant Studer

    6.81939HD

    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 co-operation from locals....

    Sergeant Studer
  • 1990
    Naked Tango

    Naked Tango (1990)

    Naked Tango

    6.31990HD

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

    Naked Tango
  • 1944
    Marie-Louise

    Marie-Louise (1944)

    Marie-Louise

    61944HD

    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 breakdown, she is given comfort and shelter by a wealthy family. Unfortunately, living in the lap of luxury ...

    Marie-Louise
  • 1989
    Pestalozzi's Mountain

    Pestalozzi's Mountain (1989)

    Pestalozzi's Mountain

    6.31989HD

    In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he sacrificed himself for his pedagogical theories. Five years later, the project of the idealistic educator f...

    Pestalozzi's Mountain
  • 1932
    Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

    Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)

    Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

    71932HD

    Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the...

    Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
  • 1945
    The Last Chance

    The Last Chance (1945)

    The Last Chance

    5.91945HD

    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 multi-national party of refugees for the Italian underground....

    The Last Chance
  • 1938
    Füsilier Wipf

    Füsilier Wipf (1938)

    Füsilier Wipf

    01938HD

    A hairdresser is being recruited during World War I by the Swiss military where they turn this soft civilian into a 'real man'....

    Füsilier Wipf
  • 1951
    Four in a Jeep

    Four in a Jeep (1951)

    Four in a Jeep

    5.41951HD

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

    Four in a Jeep
  • 1963
    The Molesters

    The Molesters (1963)

    The Molesters

    21963HD

    In exploring sex offenses, particularly against children, this film reveals the inner workings of the Zurich police and INTERPOL as they pursue persons accused of voyeurism, rape, fetishism, sadism, and masochism. After the criminals are arrested and...

    The Molesters
  • 1955
    Uli the Tenant

    Uli the Tenant (1955)

    Uli the Tenant

    5.51955HD

    Uli has been the tenant of the "Glunggen-farm" for two years. His wife Vreneli gave him two children and the couple is happy. But this year, the harvest looks bad and his landlord calls in the rent, as the old man urgently needs money to satisfy the ...

    Uli the Tenant
  • 1962
    Snow White and the Seven Jugglers

    Snow White and the Seven Jugglers (1962)

    Snow White and the Seven Jugglers

    51962HD

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    Snow White and the Seven Jugglers
  • 1960
    Anne Bäbi Jowäger I. Part - How Jakobli comes to a woman

    Anne Bäbi Jowäger I. Part - How Jakobli comes to a woman (1960)

    Anne Bäbi Jowäger I. Part - How Jakobli comes to a woman

    4.81960HD

    The trials of the wealthy Emmentaler farming family Jowäger, adapted from the 19th century novel of the same name by Jeremias Gotthelf (pen-name of Albert Bitzius), which was also published in two parts....

    Anne Bäbi Jowäger I. Part - How Jakobli comes to a woman
  • 1940
    Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe

    Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe (1940)

    Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe

    6.81940HD

    While on a longer business trip, a wannabe poet urges his beautiful but more simple wife to answer his overly swollen love letters. With no idea how to respond she forwards the letters to a new young school teacher to use his answers instead......

    Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe
  • 1956
    The Mountains Between Us

    The Mountains Between Us (1956)

    The Mountains Between Us

    01956HD

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    The Mountains Between Us
  • 1955
    Heidi und Peter

    Heidi und Peter (1955)

    Heidi und Peter

    6.81955HD

    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 school. One day, a letter arrives from Heidi's German friend, Klara Sesemann, announcing her visit. Klara i...

    Heidi und Peter