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- DirectorFons RademakersStarsDerek de LintMarc van UchelenMonique van de VenA Dutch doctor, haunted by grueling childhood memories of World War II, struggles to find peace as he spends his life looking for answers about the tragic night that shaped him.
- DirectorJoram LürsenStarsMichiel RomeynThomas AcdaAnneke BlokThe bumpy love lives of four Amsterdam couples intersect during the days leading up to Dutch national holiday Sinterklaas.
- DirectorDick MaasStarsHuub StapelMonique van de VenSerge-Henri ValckeA hard-boiled police detective sets out to capture a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the canals of Amsterdam.
- DirectorRudolf van den BergStarsThom HoffmanRijk de GooyerViviane de MuynckFrits van Egters' life in the last ten days of the year 1946.
- DirectorAndré van DurenStarsSylvia HoeksMatthias SchoenaertsFrank LammersNetherlands, 1938. In a small town in the province of North Brabant called Oss, Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town. The harder she tries, the more she is involved.
- DirectorWillem van de Sande BakhuyzenStarsPeter BlokPierre BokmaGijs Scholten van AschatFour old college friends in their forties come together in a time of trouble and despair. Old joy relives, but the harsh reality of their problems can't satisfy them and eventually endangers their friendships.27-08-2012
Four friends reunite at middle age. One is about to become a Secretary of Foreign Affairs, one is a theatre director, one was a lawyer but recently snapped finding himself in his underpants in Barcelona and than under psychological treatment, one is working in the art archives of the city.
The last one became paintings out of the archive, as birthay presents. Became or sole, that is unclear. Now the paintings turn out to become very valuable, they want them back. His quest is to keep the paintings of which he already sold four. The lawyer helps him and sees this as a chance to recover after his treatment. The director has a fling with the daughter of the state secretary to be and is a total ass, but loyal. The state secretary is weak in his human interaction, especially with his own family.
The state secretary drops his help to the record keeper to save his own skin. His real character finally shows. The record keeper than sees only one escape and kills himself. The director continues his fling with the daughter of the state secretary. The state secretary becomes an under state secretay of culture, which he feels as a demotion. The lawyer no longer is clean. - DirectorGerrard VerhageStarsPeter Paul MullerChantal JanzenFrank LammersIn the world of the drugs business - where it's is all about money - friendship and loyalty is most important. That is what becomes the demise of gangster Klaas Bruinsma.
- DirectorKoen MortierStarsDries VanhegenNorman BaertGunter LamootThree handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
- DirectorDick MaasStarsNelly FrijdaHuub StapelRené van 't HofA rather a-social family, gets a chance to live in an upper-class neighborhood. As they are not accepted by the snobs living there, they get in all sorts of trouble.
- DirectorAntoinette BeumerStarsCarice van HoutenMarcel HensemaWaldemar TorenstraAfter giving birth to her first child, a happily-married woman sees her picture-perfect life spiral out of control.
- DirectorOrlow SeunkeStarsPierre BokmaEsmée de la BretonièreChristine HakimA picture of the history of the Dutch East Indies in the period 1939-1949. Adventurer Theo Staats leaves for the Dutch East Indies for superficial reasons, but along the way he learns to see the bitter reality of colonialism.
- DirectorFelix van GroeningenStarsKenneth VanbaedenValentijn DhaenensKoen De GraeveA thirty-something novelist and impending father looks back on his all-too-formative years in the hapless, alcohol-ridden milieu of his youth in 1980s rural Flanders, Belgium.
- DirectorDimitri Frenkel FrankStarsGerard ThoolenBruno GanzRenée SoutendijkThe story of a Jewish man, escaped from Berlin in the beginning of World War II, now an owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. The city is a battlefield between local Germans and the resistance. The film shows how war destroys basic human relationships forever.07-03-12
Movie based on the events showing the first signs of the upcoming holocaust, in which many dutch participated. But the movie also shows how the neighbourhood stood up for each other.
The story makes up for the overacting. - DirectorMike van DiemStarsPavlik Jansen op de HaarJan DecleirFedja van HuêtJacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs.
- DirectorReinout OerlemansStarsCarice van HoutenBarry AtsmaAnna DrijverA serial adulterer faces his demons when his loving wife falls severely ill.
- DirectorJean van de VeldeStarsCas JansenRicky KooleThomas AcdaBased on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend turned gangster. The childhood friend turns informant. But his revelations are hardly the most important "leaks" in the story. In fact, the new relationship between old friends goes all wrong, and the young policeman becomes increasingly involved in a deadly web of lies, crimes, treason, and revenge, all seemingly out of control.15-08-2012
*Major spoiler alert*
This is quit a "typical" dutch movie. It starts with a murder while karaokeing on André Hazes, followed by a non taboo discussion about how to get pregnant.
A cop discovers that one of his collegues must be a snitch. It turns out that the local penoze has connections with his friend and collegue. His friend and collegue played by Thomas Acda, introduces him to the penoza boss, because they want to have the name of a leak on their side. He refuses to give the name, but taped the conversation. The penoza boss sends him a threat through his wife, who loses her unborn child because of the beating she got. His revenge is a hollywood solution in a dutch movie: he chases them, alone, killing the criminal who shot the penoza boss through the troat. Acda, because he introduced the good cop, is invited for a short trip. - DirectorDick MaasStarsHuub StapelWilleke van AmmelrooyJosine van DalsumA lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.15-08-2012
Classic dutch movie about a lift a.k.a. elevator which starts to develop a life on its own, induced by the bio-chips used for the heart of the lift: the computer which regulates everything.
The part of discovering the situation by Huub Stapel, takes the better part of the movie. If he would have conversated with his wife, she wouldn't have left him.
Special effects like the head being cur off bythe lift are poor, even for 80's standards. Still an enjoyable classic. - DirectorErik Van LooyStarsKoen De BouwFilip PeetersMatthias SchoenaertsFive close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.
- DirectorAntoinette BeumerStarsFedja van HuêtBarry AtsmaJeroen van KoningsbruggeFive best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment to carry on affairs.14-08-2012
It had to happen once: I had to watch this version of Loft kowing the belgium version is better. And it is, the characters in this version are a little less balanced as are the belgium ones.
Five friends buy or rent a loft together, in order to be able to cheat on their wives in all privacy. However, one day a woman is found dead. One of the five made love with the young sister of one, the wice of an other and the dream woman of a third of the friends. They frame him, since the woman had comitted suicide and with some extra's added could put him away for years.
However, the woman was not dead when they added the extra's, so it became a real murder. But the suicide attempt wasn't even real, since the jealous friend had staged that as part of his masterplan to take revenge on his friend who always gets the best girls. - DirectorPeter de BaanStarsMarcel HensemaBen AbelsmaNettie BlankenOne hour before the State Opening of Parliament, something very unusual happens. The Prime Minister appears and demands an adjustment to the Queen's speech. The speech concerns aid to Africa. Even with all the pressure around the State Opening, Beatrix goes back in time, and remembers her banishment to Canada, the visit to the victims of the Flood disaster and the turbulence suffered by her parents at Palace Soestdijk during the Hofman case.
- DirectorBen VerbongStarsRenée SoutendijkPeter TuinmanLoes LucaThe story of Hannie Schaft of the Dutch resistance told in flashbacks how she tries to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.08-03-12
Dutch movie about the life of Hannie Schaft, killed age 25 a few weeks before the end of the war because she had shot several germans and collaborators. Black and white adds to the drama. - DirectorDana NechushtanStarsFrank LammersFedja van HuêtPeggy Jane de SchepperDennis is a taxi driver trying to start out his own company. One day, he gets the opportunity to buy a scarce and expensive but lucrative license.
- DirectorSteffen HaarsFlip Van der KuilStarsHuub SmitTim HaarsWesley van GaalenFive friends from 'Maaskantje' are getting fired because of the economic crisis. They decide that they won't pay for anything anymore.
- DirectorAlex van WarmerdamStarsJack WouterseAnnet MalherbeRudolf LucieerDuring the summer of 1960, the idiosyncratic residents of a one-street Dutch suburb collide in intertwining stories of desire and frustration.
- DirectorAlex van WarmerdamStarsAlex van WarmerdamAriane SchluterJaap SpijkersA downtrodden waiter decides to take up matters with the screenwriter determined to make him suffer.
- DirectorHans HylkemaStarsJeroen KrabbéRik LaunspachMartin SchwabJohan Ten Berghe joins the Dutch army when the Dutch East Indies unilaterally declare independence as Indonesia. He initiates his naive driver Twan in life in the East, having grown up there as son of colonial official Hendrik, now missing. Their adventures intertwine with Johan's childhood memories, especially concerning his native best friend, Oeroeg, who joined the rebellion, as well as their nanny and later de facto stepmother. Conflicting loyalties become tangible in extreme situations.
- DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsMartijn LakemeierJamie Campbell BowerYorick van WageningenIn German-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.07-03-12
A boy in wartime Holland discovers that not all those who seem good are what they are, as are the bad. Rescuing a crashed pilot in the proces.
Nice thing about dutch movies: the english speak enlish, the german german and the dutch dutch. Why? Because they normally do... - DirectorPaul RothaStarsAb AbspoelHenk AdmiraalChris BaayCrime-thriller based on a true story. In 1944 Resistance fighter Bakker is sent to a prison in Leeuwarden by the Gestapo. There he and other Allied resistance fighters are about to be rescued in a giant prison escape by their comrades.06-03-12
A tribute to the Resistance in the Netherlands. Classic dutch war movie, filmed in the right atmosphere of those days, read: without the Hollywood glamour. - DirectorKarim TraïdiaStarsJaap SpijkersMonic HendrickxRudi FalkenhagenPolish deceived woman hides from pimps on a Dutch farm, and shares an intriguing romance with the farmer.
- DirectorHanro SmitsmanStarsGerson OratmangoenMartin SchwabTerence SchreursMore than 30 years after the dramatic ending of a train hijack five people involved meet each other on a television show. Starting point is the death of the only female hijacker: Noor. One by one the five enter the studio. Each with their own expectations or hidden agenda.
- DirectorVictor D. PontenJim TaihuttuStarsNasrdin DcharAchmed AkkabiMarwan KenzariThree friends drive from Holland to Morocco to deliver a taxi to a family friend, but the trip turns out more complicated than expected.26-10-2012
Movie is about three maroccan friends , going to Marocco with an old mercedes. The car is a gift from his father, but is just an excuse to meet the girl one of them is supposed to marry. But he falls in love with a hitchhiker he learns to know better during a short stay in Barcelona.
He meets his future bride, who he will not marry, since his love for the hitchhiker is too big.
Nice conversations between the three, of which two don't have real carrier opportunities. They stall the acceptance of this fact by starting a restaurant, which already takes two years without noticable result. The trips turns out to be a revelation for their future and their friendship. - DirectorMichaël R. RoskamStarsMatthias SchoenaertsJeroen PercevalJeanne DandoySint-Truiden, Belgium. Jacky, a young cattle farmer who is constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, is approached by a veterinarian to make a deal with a notorious beef trader.05-09-2012
*Spoiler alert*
Jacky seems to be the tough guy, working for the hormon maffia in Belgium. A policeman gets killed and the the guys hired to dispose of the car just sold the parts. The police finds the car and gets closer to the gang. But Diederik, an old friend warns him for the upcoming police raid. Diederik is informer, taking the easy way out, as he did when he saw Jacky's balls gruwesomely squashed by the son of a notorious beef trader. The trader is part of the gang too, so lots of mixed emotions.
Jacky, although ballless is in love with his youth crush, who works in a perfume shop. She finds out he almost killed a guy who flirted with her and doesn't want to see him anymore. He visits her at home after he escapes the police raid. But she calls the police, which comes and gets him. But he so drugged up himself, he probably committed suicide by doing that. But in his last moments, he snaps and although arrested dies a free man.
One of Belgiums finest. Very good acting, intrigueing story. The flash backs of Jacky's youth are chilling. The end was a bit weird though. But you really get a good feel for the mixture of rage and helplessness Jacky experiences his whole life and progressively increases to a climax. - DirectorRuud van HemertStarsPeter FaberGeert de JongAkkemay ElderenbosA peaceful family-life is suddenly disturbed when the children enter puberty. The children take over the house and ban their parents from their lives.
- DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsNoah ValentynBracha van DoesburghMimoun OaïssaA romantic comedy about the adventures of Nordip Doenia, a young Moroccan criminal in The Netherlands. His parents destine him for great things, but Nordip clearly has different ideas
- DirectorEddy TerstallStarsCees GeelMarcel HensemaRifka LodeizenA mild-mannered gay dentist and a hedonist womanizer rekindle their unlikely friendship when the latter's terminal cancer drives them back together after a decade apart.27-08-2012
Briliant movie about euthanasia. Simon has an always optimistic character. And he can say anything to anyone. But cancer in the brain makes him decide to choose his end in stead of let the cancer choose for him. The movie shows it is everyones individual choise to choose yourself, for youself, about yourself.
So well acted by Cees Geel, splendid performance of a dutch actor I didn't know before. - DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsRutger HauerJeroen KrabbéSusan PenhaligonDuring World War II, Dutch students join the resistance movement against the German occupation of the Netherlands.13-08-2012
The at least 5th time I watched this movie, still entertaining. Nice to see Hauer, Faber, De Gooijer and Krabbé in their younger years. Frat boys becoming spies for the English, based in the true story of Eric Hazelhoff. - DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsBernard-Pierre DonnadieuGene BervoetsJohanna ter SteegeRex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.14-08-2012
*Spoiler alert*
A dutch girl and a belgian man are on a holiday trp to France. At a petrol station, Saskia is obducted and never heard from.
The kidnapper reacts to Rex's appearances on national television, travels to Amsterdam and takes him to France. He gives Rex the choice: leave and never know what happened to Saskia, or drink a cup of coffee with dissolved sleeping medicin in it and he will understands everything. He wakes up and immediately knows what happened to Saskia, because the same is happening to him.
Nice movie, although the story line is somewhat jumpy. The characters are interesting, liked the beard. - DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsMonique van de VenRutger HauerTonny HuurdemanAn aimless young artist learns to face his responsibilities when a former lover develops a terminal illness.
- DirectorBen SombogaartStarsEllen VogelGudrun OkrasThekla ReutenTwin sisters Lotte and Anne grow up very differently after their parents death. Now adults, they want to reunite but World War II and their growing socioeconomic differences complicate things.
- DirectorNouchka van BrakelStarsRenée SoutendijkErik van 't WoutAdriaan OlreeTragic story of a wealthy woman whose sexual desires change her into a prostitute, working on the streets of Paris during the 1880s.
- DirectorPieter KuijpersStarsEgbert Jan WeeberTygo GernandtAngela SchijfTwo small-town Dutch boys have such a close socially unnatural friendship that they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality, sliding into violent crime.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsJeroen KrabbéRenée SoutendijkThom HoffmanA man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.
- DirectorAte de JongStarsJeroen KrabbéMarijke MerckensHenriëtte TolMaarten, a bachelor living with his terminally ill mother, is haunted by a nightmare in which God tells him to lose his virginity or die within the week. He desperately tries to lose his cherry, but only succeeds in doing so after his mother finally passes away, somehow setting him free from the stifling religious atmosphere he grew up in.20-08-2012
*Spoiler alert*
I tend to think that religion is the equivalent of stopping with thinking by yourself, so I am a little bit biased towards this movie.
Maarten was born in a black stockings religiuos family. Raised in the way of the bible, he is 34, lives with his dying mother and is still virgin. He dreams he has to "know" a woman within a week or else he will die. He fancies his assistant but is too shy and clumsy to approach her. Her or any woman. He goes to a conference in Switserland where he meets Adrienne, who seemed to like him and he actually speaks with her. But his womanizing best friend and Adrienne, well...
Martha is his youth love, but he doesn't dare approach her. His one and only lifetime friend and womanizer Huub cannot persuade him to talk to her. Her or any girl. Ths makes him the mockery of the school so he gets bullied. But the one time he fights back, Martha sees the fight and despises him. He is traumatised by it, not the least because he discovers that his womanizing best friend and Martha, well....
As a former christian raised in similar conditions, I remember the impact both the book and the movie had. On our christian school it was forbidden to read the book for the final exams, although the book being a master piece of Dutch literature. Those days in those families, god was indisputable, as were the minister, the teacher and the parents. They all interpret the bible as they see fit.
Great scene is the scene in which the elders come to visit his mother. How dogmatic and utterly arrogant can people be.
Title refers to the flock of birds he sees when his mother dies, symbolizing his mothers spirit leaving the body. - DirectorRoeland KerboschStarsMaarten SmitAndrew KelleyJeroen KrabbéSet in The Netherlands at the end of WW II, this touching story, told in flashbacks, explores the complex and romantic relationship between an adult soldier and a displaced, lonely adolescent boy.
- DirectorErik de BruynStarsFedja van HuêtFrank LammersFrederik BromThree friends live an anguished existence in a small village by the sea. All three want to break loose. Motorcycling, music and partying gives temporary satisfaction, but no solution.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsJim van der WoudeStéphane ExcoffierJohn Kraaijkamp Sr.A woman gets off a train by mistake and finds herself stranded alone with a peculiar man who doesn't even speak her language.
- DirectorRobert Jan WestdijkStarsKim van KootenRomijn ConenHugo MetsersMartijn is obsessed with his younger sister Daantje and visits her to make a documentary about her. He manages to invade Daantje's life with his video camera, but soon unresolved issues from a distant past come to the surface.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsCarice van HoutenSebastian KochThom HoffmanIn the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.08-03-12
Nice movie about occupied Netherlands at the end of the war. Suspense, realistic action and a bit morality make this one of the best dutch movies ever made. Carice proves again she is the best dutch actress. - DirectorPieter KuijpersStarsTheo MaassenLisa SmitBob SchwarzeA man convicted of killing his own father and sister escapes from a criminal hospital to track down his mother and prove his innocence.
- DirectorHarrie GeelenBjørn Frank JensenBert KroonStarsFred BenaventeTrudy LibosanLuc LutzBumble the Bear (Olivier Bommel) finds an egg that, it turns out, has a cute little dragon in it. However, this dinosaur grows huge every time it is upset. As this causes a lot of problems, Ollie Bommel has to face a difficult dilemma.
- DirectorErik Van LooyStarsKoen De BouwWerner De SmedtJan DecleirVincke and Verstuyft are the best detectives of the Antwerp police department. They are confronted with the murder on a leading executive and put all their effort to catch the murderer.
- DirectorGuido PietersStarsDanny de MunkWilleke van AmmelrooyHerman van VeenA poor 11-year-old schoolboy with a heart of gold grows up in 1930s Amsterdam.06-03-2012
Movie depicts how bad the influence of an abusive and neglective parent can affect a little boy, how powerless a father and a teacher can be and how preoccupied dutch society was in the 1930's. - DirectorPieter KuijpersStarsJeroen KrabbéJan DecleirAstrid JoostenMarch 11th, 2002. John Voerman takes the head of security and 17 others hostage in Amsterdam biggest skyscraper. John demands to speak with the Philips head of Sound&Vision. His goal is to warn people about a large-scale fraud, aimed at brainwashing consumers by means of widescreen TV sets. In the film, we find out about John's preliminary frustrations, his bizarre encounter with Philips head of Sound and Vision Gerard Wesselinck, their impossible friendship, rivalry and John's armed attempt to force the executive to do penance in public.
- DirectorStijn ConinxStarsJan DecleirGérard DesartheAntje de BoeckIn the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.
- DirectorDominique DeruddereStarsJosse De PauwEva van der GuchtWerner De SmedtJean is a family man and factory worker who dreams of becoming a songwriter. Pinning his hopes on his teenage daughter, Marva, he takes her to singing contests in which the awkward and overweight girl struggles to belt out a tune. When Jean is suddenly fired because of cut backs, he is ashamed and even more desperate to have his daughter succeed. In a chance meeting Jean kidnaps the most famous pop star in the country and holds her hostage demanding to be heard by the music industry. Catching the attention of the media and the eyes of the nation, Jean and Marva realize that the show must go on until everyone is famous.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsRené GroothofVeerle DobbelaereRené van 't HofLate 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War. Flanders, 1568: Italian minstrel Campanelli tells he followed a Dutchman, the robber of a golden chalice, but failed to prevent him being taken -after banging a country-girl- by the men of a rigid farmer Netelneck, who has him tied-up inside a huge shit-container. After Campanelli frees him, the gold stays inside, and the Dutchman is killed, but the minstrel turns to offer the paying audience a happier version. Seven years later, he scares the Dutchman's posthumous son into bringing him food and convinces the kid he can fly, like his dad, who is on a grand ship, but fails to drag the gold out and is blinded and chased by Netelneck. Fourteen years later, the minstrel returns and tricks Netelneck into diving after the gold himself so he can drawn the bastard, then sets the 'little Dutchman' on the road to find his father, who proves a mere thief living in a beached shipwreck. Both join a brigand band, but it ends up arrested by the Spaniards and imprisoned under the authority of Netelneck's son, who has him thrown in an oubliette forced to scoop water, but Lotte, his only lover ever, notices something she gave him and believes her son, now she's Netelneck junior's wife, is the little Dutchman's...
- DirectorBen SombogaartStarsOlivier TuinierGenio de GrootAdelheid RoosenMees has a problem. By accident he took his best friend's pocket knife home with him. Unfortunately he is too late to return it as the next day Tim moves house. All that Mees knows is that Tim has gone to Flevoland. His parents are tied up in their own lives and have no room for little Mees' problems. His mother is a world-famous singer and it seems Mees sees her more on TV than in real life. His father is under a lot of pressure acting as a housekeeper and as secretary for his popular wife. So little Mees must search alone for his friend.....
- DirectorAlbert Ter HeerdtStarsMimoun OaïssaMehdia Doui-IssiSalah Eddine BenmoussaAbdullah 'Ap' Bentarek is happy that his father Ali moved to the Netherlands, but the boy has lousy friends who are his partners in crime, and unrealistic expectations at the employment office.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsHans van TongerenRenée SoutendijkToon AgterbergSeveral Dutch teenagers realize the cruel difference between dreams and reality.
- DirectorAlex van WarmerdamStarsHenri GarcinIngeborg ElzevierAlexander ElmeckyAn artist, a school girl, a maid, a train conductor and a business executive are drawn into a great wheel of misfortune as all their lives are touched by the existence of one very particular summer dress.
- DirectorAlex van WarmerdamStarsAlex van WarmerdamAnnet MalherbeAriane SchluterThe wife of an illiterate farmer hires a beautiful woman to teach him how to read and write.26-08-2012
*Major spoiler alert*
Brand is a 45 years old farmer, living in the rurals with his dominant over aged wife only. She hires a teachter to teach him read and write. She fancies him and he fancies her, so they plan a date on eastern sunday in church. His cunning wife makes him look for easter eggs though, ruining the date.
Keet, his wife, wants him to hit on Lena, so they agree to act as brother and sister. Lena and Brand Have an affair in the same house his wife still lives. They even have to go trough her room to enter theirs.
All this to get a child, which gets born after about a year. Brand realy loves Lena and Kate, but the women hate each other. Off course Kate poisons Lena and off course Brand kills Keet
Nice minimalistic dutch atmosphere, verry good Warmerdamned. - DirectorAlex van WarmerdamStarsMarlies HeuerGene BervoetsAnnet MalherbeA woman living in a large country home drives her servants to mutiny with her outrageous demands as she waits for death to come for her.26-08-2012
I like it when the writer writes the weirdest role for himself. He plays Theo, the human dog.
Emma is dying, making her a bigger itch than she already was. She sleeps with the housekeeper, their daughter is the waitress. The cook does it with the housekeeper, the waitress with the handyman who is the son of the cook. Theo dry humps all as he is the dog.
Because Emma is such a bitch, she reaps what she sows with her uutterly negative approach to everything. The servants are not happy being treated that way. And there is a stranger in town, fancied by the waitress.
Why they all did this? Beause of the promise of a fortune to be left after Emma dies. But there is no fortune and telling that to her staf turns the tide for Emma. Theo kills the stranger and is killed himself for probably running of with the waitress. He is buried in the sam grave as his sister, Emma. - DirectorMarleen GorrisStarsWilleke van AmmelrooyJan DecleirVeerle van OverloopA Dutch matron establishes and, for several generations, oversees a close-knit, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism thrive.
- DirectorSteffen HaarsFlip Van der KuilStarsHuub SmitTim HaarsWesley van GaalenGerrie, Richard, Rikkert, Robbie and Barry from Maaskantje are in a big fight with the village of Schijndel. When a zombie kills someone from Brabant, things get out of hand.
- DirectorBen SombogaartStarsKarina SmuldersAnna DrijverElise SchaapA romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.
- DirectorFrank van MechelenStarsFilip PeetersEls OlaertsKyoko ScholiersIn August 1996, bus drivers Marcel Van Loock and Wim Moreels are apprehended by the Moroccan Customs for drug trafficking. Inside their bus, hidden behind a false compartment, they have discovered 700 pounds of hashish. Although the owner of the bus company is arrested as well and makes a full confession clearly indicating that both drivers were unaware of the hidden drugs, the Moroccan judge sentences both men to 5 years in the Moroccan prison of Tangiers. Nothing could have prepared the two men for life inside a Moroccan prison. Without food, clothes or medical care, they must learn how to take care of themselves to survive their stay in prison. Corrupt guards, corrupt lawyers and judges, a consul who doesn't care and frequent beatings are only part of the terrible prison. Meanwhile their families at home are left without any information, any help or any hope - finding out that their own government doesn't care for Belgian people in prisons abroad.27-08-2012
Belgian movie about a bus driver wrongly accused of smuggling drugs from Marocco to the Netherlands. Movie depicts the demise of men imprisoned in third world country like conditions and the lack of attention of the belgian government. For crying out loud, that diplomat should be trialed for inhumanity. If someone needs medicin, it doesn't matter what you are, you help if you can.
Acting is quit good actually, surprising performance by Filip Peeters. - DirectorNic BalthazarStarsKoen De GraeveGeert Van RampelbergLotte PinoyBased on a true story, 'Tot altijd' introduces us to a band of friends in the eighties, who spend their days enjoying their youth and turbulent (love) life. Mario Verstraete (Koen De Graeve) rushes into marriage with Sofie (An Miller), who gives birth to their son Milan. His secret admirer Lynn (Lotte Pinoy) takes a step back. A few years later, Mario and Sofie divorce and the group fragments. Thomas (Geert Van Rampelberg), a recent medicine graduate and Mario's closest friend, gets stuck between a rock and a hard place when he diagnoses Mario with MS (Multiple Sclerosis). Though not a fatal disease, it slowly consumes the patient's bodily functions and - in some cases - their minds. Mario becomes the leading spokesman for the action group Waardig Sterven ("Dignified Death") in support of the Belgian legalisation of euthanasia. Thomas does everything in his power to avoid losing his best friend, but also can't stand the sight of his continued degeneration. The film follows the journey of both Thomas and Mario, as the latter asks: "will you help me, when the time comes?"
- DirectorPieter KuijpersStarsTheo MaassenGijs Scholten van AschatMaryam HassouniA lonesome ambulance driver turns both his life and society upside down after one night he violently loses his temper with the hoodlum youths who hinder him in performing his duties.
- DirectorRudolf van den BergStarsJeroen SpitzenbergerKarl MarkovicsNyncke BeekhuyzenDuring WWII, a member of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam finds a way to spare children from deportation to the death camps.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsMonique van de VenRutger HauerAndrea DomburgThe young girl Keetje moves to Amsterdam in 1881 with her impoverished family, and is led into prostitution in order to survive. In the process she sees the corrupting influence of money.
- DirectorGuido PietersStarsJet NovukaErik van der HorstGijs Scholten van AschatAbout the first black professional soccer player in the Netherlands Steve Mokone who played for Heracles. Based on true events.
- DirectorAlex van WarmerdamStarsAlex van WarmerdamHenri GarcinOlga ZuiderhoekA well-to-do, shut-in thirty-something faces city life, family secrets and his own quirks when he is finally thrown out by his parents.
- DirectorHanro SmitsmanStarsJohn BuijsmanChris ComvaliusGuus DamRaised in a home broken by wartime trauma, the frustrated teenage son of a Dutch Holocaust survivor starts down a path of further tragedy when he finds belonging in a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads.21-01-13
A jewish boy becomes a neo-nazi although his father is a survivor of the holocaust. The son thinks of his father as a weakling and father indeed has no control over his adolescence son. Both struggle to get along with each other. The tension between the two reaches a climax when some neo-nazie friends show their respect at his mother's funeral.
Drawn into a world of violence, he and a nazi friend mix in the fight between a snack bar keeper and a some local moluccan youth, he stabs one of them to death and gets imprisoned for it. There, he gets in trouble with the black population, since they don't like the swastika on his chest. The help of a former friend who is also imrisoned is not enough to save him from the inevitable.
Acting of Robert de Hoog was ok, especially the scene where his nose starts to bleed and he keeps acting. - DirectorFrank van MechelenStarsKoen De BouwFilip PeetersAxel DaeseleireTom Vansant is an emergency physician from Brussels who is desperately searching for his daughter who ran away from home and is now missing for eighteen months. He meets a girl of whom he thinks that she knows what happened to his daughter but the girl doesn't want to talk about her past. In his search to find out why she doesn't talk about it he ends up in a small village in the Ardennes where no one wants to help him discover what really happened.
- DirectorFelix van GroeningenStarsKoen De GraeveWine DierickxPieter GenardThe lives of a group of friends get disturbed when one of them comes back after having been away for some years.
- DirectorJoost WynantStarsBram Van OutryveGilles De SchryverRobrecht Vanden ThorenFour good friends, all seventeen-year old, lose their innocence during their last summer together.
- DirectorDiederick KoopalStarsStefan de WalleMartin van WaardenbergMarcel HensemaAfter finding out that they have a tax debt of forty thousand euros, four very out-of-shape men working at a car shop start to train for a marathon in which they can win the money to pay the debt.25-02-2013
You don't have to be first to be the best. Thats the main theme of this movie, giving an inside in the live of four Rotterdam car mechanics. They have to run the marathon of Rotterdam for which they are trained by their collegue nicknamed Camel because he is Egyptian. On of the four is gay, but his collegues don't know. The second one is married with an overzealous wife, the third has a relationship with a hooker and takes care of her child, the fourth has terminal cancer.
However, the characters in the movie make jokes about everything, probably tempting the ethical nerves of most people. But if you would know the real Rotterdammer, you would know it is their normal way to cope with life.
One of the best dutch movies I have seen. Areal shots are nice, the movie inspres, makes you laugh and cry at the same time. - DirectorPieter KramerStarsArjan EderveenAlex KlaasenHans LeendertseA collection of classic fairy tales such as Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, with a nod and a wink to contemporary times. The film offers characters such as the 'ugly sisters' Paris and Hilton, an updated relationship between Red Riding Hood and the big bad wolf, homosexuality and corny humor. Also musical scenes in which the characters sing the songs of current pop artists as well as many popular Dutch hits.
- DirectorJean van de VeldeStarsDanny de MunkDaniël BoissevainPeter Paul MullerThe friends of soccer team Swift Boys 8 now come together only once a year to play a soccer match. As a result, over the years their friendship has become somewhat diluted.
- DirectorTom BarmanStarsFrank VercruyssenDiane De BelderEric KloeckSort of a low-budget Short Cuts (1993), set in the Flemish port city of Antwerp on a warm day in June. Natalie, her brother Chouki, her boyfriend Walter and his ex Lara, the gallery keeper Firmin, unhappily married French language teacher Paul Garcin, a couple of party-loving studs from Ghent (another Flemish city) and the enigmatic Windman, independently go about their lives, which have little in common, yet all end up on the same place for a grand party that evening.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsDirk van DijckKees PrinsPeer MasciniThe film takes place in a small cafe on the forecourt. When Gerard, one of the regular visitors, appears in the cafe to inform him that he is leaving, the usual course of the cafe's life suddenly breaks.
- DirectorErik Van LooyStarsTom Van LanduytMathias SercuTom Van BauwelCollege initiation rites on one Belgian campus end in tragic death of one freshman. His friends are determined to see the justice done.
- DirectorDiederik EbbingeStarsKo AertsFrits BroerRenée Fokker
- DirectorChristophe Van RompaeyStarsBarbara SarafianJurgen DelnaetJohan HeldenberghMatty, a 41-year old mother of three with a husband in his midlife-crisis, meets 29-year old Johnny, a truck driver, who takes an interest in her.
- DirectorFrank van MechelenStarsStany CretsTiny BertelsMichel van DousselaereGermaine Debruycker is 18 when the workers at the Vieille Montagne factory, including her father, go on strike to obtain a 10 franc raise. The turbulent strike lasts for 9 weeks and changes their lives forever. Based on a true story.
- DirectorBoudewijn KooleStarsRick LensLoek PetersCahit ÖlmezA young boy and his father have a difficult relationship, but are trying to reach each other. They need a catalyst to make that happen.
- DirectorPeter MonsaertStarsWim WillaertAnemone ValckeMourade ZeguendiAfter seven years in prison, Rudy has set himself two clear objectives: get back to work as a washing machine repairman, and - more importantly - become reconciled with the family he had left behind. But despite the help and support of Denise, a retired hairdresser, and his prison friend Rachid, a taxi driver his plans fail. His wife categorically forbids him to see his teenage daughter, Vicky. Upon learning from Patrick that she works part-time in a sex-cam chat, he registers in it under Rachid's name and begins to communicate with her. However, the past reminds of itself again, and he has to make the most difficult decision in his life.
- DirectorStijn ConinxStarsUrbanusSylvia MillecamFrank AendenboomHector had been in the orphanage for 35 years, until his aunt Ella and uncle Achiel pick him up. They want him to work at their bakery. At his new home he also helps training Achiel's son, Jos, who wants to be a cycling champion, and Ella with studying her role in a play.
- DirectorDiederik EbbingeStarsTon KasRené van 't HofPorgy FranssenA lonely widower finds himself facing both his own regrets and his devout Calvinist community when he takes a deranged vagrant into his home.
- DirectorJean van de VeldeStarsGaite JansenNeil SandilandsDaniel JanksThe Price Of Sugar tells the alternately gripping, romantic and heart-wrenching story of Sarith and Mini-Mini as they grow up on the sugar plantations of Suriname in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Where Sarith is the most beautiful woman in the colony, the mulatto Mini-Mini is forever in her shadow, slave to her own half-sister.
- DirectorAlex van WarmerdamStarsJan BijvoetHadewych MinisJeroen PercevalA vagrant enters the lives of an arrogant upper-class family, turning their lives into a psychological nightmare in the process.
- DirectorJim TaihuttuStarsMarwan KenzariChems Eddine AmarSteef CuijpersA promising kickboxer struggles to resist the temptations of a life of crime.
- DirectorGeoffrey EnthovenStarsCharlotte TimmersRoos Van VlaenderenRobrecht Vanden ThorenThree guys in their twenties love wine and women but they are still virgins. Under the guise of a wine tour they embark on a journey to Spain hoping to have their first sexual experience. Jozef is blind, Philip is paralyzed from the neck down and Lars is in a wheelchair with a brain tumor, but they're not going to let anything stand in their way...
- DirectorFelix van GroeningenStarsVeerle BaetensJohan HeldenberghNell CattrysseElise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He's a romantic atheist, she's a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.
- DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsCarice van HoutenRoeland FernhoutLinda van DyckA weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.
- DirectorFons RademakersStarsPeter FaberSacha BulthuisAdendu SoesilaningratAn idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the nineteenth century is convinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people of whom he is in charge.
- DirectorAntoinette BeumerStarsLies VisschedijkFedja van HuêtDan KaratySoof is reaching 40 and has everything she ever wanted: three children, a small catering business, a sweet husband Kasper, and a lovely home. Until she starts asking herself: 'Is this all there is?'
- DirectorPaula van der OestStarsSallie HarmsenMarwan KenzariBarry AtsmaA young assistant DA puts a serial killing nurse behind bars, only to discover evidence that may prove her innocence.
- DirectorWim VerstappenStarsFrederik de GrootLeen JongewaardCoen FlinkIn a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator.
- DirectorPieter KuijpersStarsHuub StapelJeroen van KoningsbruggeElla-June HenrardLove is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the year 'Grease' hit the big screen.