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- 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.
- DirectorPieter KuijpersStarsAngela SchijfRoeland FernhoutDora van der GroenStella, a journalist, discovers the secrets of Lotte de Heus Verolmen, the widow of Ewald de Heus Verolmen, the head of the Dutch Nazi Party (NSB).
- DirectorFrank KetelaarStarsPeter Paul MullerRoeland FernhoutRifka LodeizenOnno Staling kidnapped Alex Bickers to ensure he won't get the prestiguous job at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Onno desperately wants. Now, three years later, they meet again.
- DirectorMark TimmerStarsTheo PontFrans VorstmanMirjam Citroen
- DirectorPieter van RijnStarsVictor ReinierAngela SchijfThom HoffmanThe relationship between Detective Eva and her colleague Floris comes under heavy pressure. Floris is in prison for stealing four million euros of government money and Eva is trying to forget him.
- DirectorThomas AcdaStarsWilliam BoevaWarre BorgmansKitty CourboisRomantic crime comedy about a robbery at an art fair.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorFrans WeiszStarsRijk de GooyerJon BlumingAnny de LangeBurglar and master safe-cracker Glimmie is asked to find a young woman called Fanny by her rich stepfather Van Borsen. However, Glimmie remains suspicious of the man and decides that Fanny has to be protected by him and his pal De Bonk. He is soon proved correct and winds up a scapegoat in Van Borsen's scheme. After his release from prison, Glimmie plans his revenge with some help from a young cleaning girl called Slofje.
- DirectorRudolf van den BergStarsThom HoffmanLysette AnthonyMarijke VeugelersAfter his wife Marjan has died in a car crash, Philip de Wit becomes a total wreck. Only after months does he return to a more or less normal life and even then he only works in his wife's bookstore. A year later Eileen walks in the store, a girl from Northern Ireland with her baby in her arms. When Philip sees her, he's dumbfounded, for she's the spitting image of his dead wife. Obsessed with her, he goes and tries to find her again, but he soon finds out that he's not the only one who's looking for Eileen.
- StarsJim DeddesSophie van WindenKees Hulst"Eileen" is loosely based on the story of Tanja Nijmeijer, the student who joined the FARC to fight for the poor and oppressed population at the bottom of Colombian society. Eileen grows up in Groningen in a harmonious family. She is a happy, socially engaged young woman who studies Spanish and is active in the squatting movement. She receives the opportunity to become an intern in Bogota, Colombia. Even though she stays in an decent environment, she is also exposed to the atrocious living conditions in the slums. On her return to the Netherlands, Eileen has changed. She finds her friends from the squatting movement spoiled and egocentric. They have no interest for the really relevant, political problems, like the ones she was confronted with in Latin America. Against the wishes of her family she goes back to Colombia, because she finds she has to be there in order to do something about the injustice that prevails. In Bogota, she comes in contact with the FARC through a Colombian student she met in Groningen. She is tested and in the end conscripted into the resistance movement. Her initial enthusiasm and faith in the cause are put under pressure when she becomes involved in actions that are unacceptable in her opinion. However, slowly her values shift. She radicalizes and becomes on of the most dedicated fighters. She also turns into an international symbol of the FARC, an important weapon in the PR strategy of the guerrilla movement. But is this really what is looking for? And is her family just going to put up with it?
- 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.
- DirectorSander BurgerStarsFedja van HuêtYorick van WageningenLies VisschedijkA Dutch TV journalist finds himself challenging the police, courts and media as he attempts to uncover the truth about the controversial Deventer murder case.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorHanro SmitsmanStarsMatthijs van de Sande BakhuyzenGaite JansenRoos NetjesThe haunting search to discover why fifteen-year old Jessie was murdered by her closest friends.
- 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.
- DirectorMike van DiemStarsJeroen van KoningsbruggeGeorgina VerbaanJan DecleirAfter signing an agreement with a company that offers to end their lives when they least expect it, a dejected millionaire and a disheartened young woman fall in love and must find a way to get out of their binding contracts.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorDiederik Van RooijenStarsFedja van HuêtMatteo van der GrijnDerek de LintUpon learning she has an autistic brother she is convinced is unjustly behind bars for a brutal murder, a lawyer sets out to prove her sibling's innocence - only to uncover even more life-changing secrets in the process.
- DirectorRobert Jan WestdijkStarsBracha van DoesburghThom HoffmanHalina ReijnWhen Karen and her family move to a posh suburban neighborhood, she soon befriends a mysterious dinner club.
- DirectorRoel ReinéStarsWaldemar TorenstraSallie HarmsenJeroen SpitzenbergerOn his tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marco Kroon heroically leads his men through firefights and is awarded the highest decoration in the Netherlands: the Military Order of William. However, in the years that follow, Kroon is discredited. He struggles with traumas he cannot share even with Mirjam, the love of his life and everyone has an opinion about him, in the media and in the street. Kroon finds himself swept up in an emotional rollercoaster. As he tries to exonerate himself, he may face his toughest mission yet.
- DirectorMaarten TreurnietStarsRutger HauerReinout Scholten van AschatGijs NaberA bold, amateur kidnapping goes wildly awry in this fictionalized account of beer magnate Alfred Heineken's 1983 abduction, which would go on to become one of The Netherlands' most infamous crimes.
- DirectorArno DierickxStarsErik van HeijningenMatthijs van de Sande BakhuyzenDerk StenversIn 1960s Holland, a teenage boy and his two upper class friends are driven to desperate measures when the petty thief they offer refuge decides to blackmail them.
- DirectorArne ToonenStarsWaldemar TorenstraTygo GernandtLisa SmitA mild-mannered police detective freshly stationed in tumultuous 1980 Amsterdam enters a race against time when he encounters a violent plot against the Dutch royal family.
- DirectorMaria PetersStarsRicky KooleSergio HasselbainkAngelo ArnhemA Dutch woman and a young man 17 years her junior from Suriname, struggle to make their relationship work in spite of the social and economic obstacles they face.
- DirectorJoram LürsenStarsJacob DerwigBarry AtsmaFockeline OuwerkerkIn Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, banker brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall face their greatest challenge yet when they decide to help fund the Dutch resistance.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorFons RademakersStarsPeter FaberAndré van den HeuvelDirk de BatistWhen the gendarmes order a garage owner to open the boot of his car, they find a treasure of shares, jewels, gold and bonds. They belong to an old opera singer who got robbed. The garage owner drove the car at the request of Jules Depraeter, a bon vivant and dubious businessman from Ghent. When he is questioned by the police, he causes the Ghent examining magistrate Jensens to fall down as he wanted Depraeter to kill his wife. Based on a true story.
- DirectorDave SchramStarsMarius GottliebMarloes van der WelRobin MartensDistraught is a Dutch film from 2008 by Dave Schram at the scenario of Mary Peters among others Marius Gottlieb, Marloes van der Wel, Renée Soutendijk, Monic Hendrickx and Victor Löw. The scenario is based on the book by Carry Slee. On October 16, 2008 Marius Gottlieb was raided on the set of SpangaS by writer Carry Slee who told him that the film 100 000 visitor. Story Edit Spoiler warning: The following text contains details of the content and / or the end of the story. Yara (Marloes van der Wel) already has an eye on for a while Paco (Marius Gottlieb) who attends school with her and as a DJ at parties running plates. But Paco has something to Floor (Robin Martens) and does not stand her. Yara's mother wants her daughter model but actually wants Yara to art school. Yara wants to lose weight to be not too thick and because Paco her might enjoyable. Therefore, she eats little, but they induced vomiting after a meal by stabbing a finger in her throat. Later she used a laxative. Paco's father garages where Paco also works. Paco and his father love each other. Paco's mother has a friend, Paco can not stand him. Floor gets to Paco, though he is under 18 and has no driver's license, her pick a car. Paco does, he enters an old Daphie but Floor embarrassed to be seen in it and refuses to move. Paco's father is angry, Paco promises that he will not do it again. Paco goes with his father on the road by car. The mobile phone of his father's battery is depleted, and Paco does not find it necessary to make his own cell phone. Paco's father suffers a heart attack on the highway Paco sends the car to the side. He would like to call an ambulance, but has no cell phone, and long-coming cars stop at first. He wants to drive, but does not because of his promise to his father. This takes longer for an ambulance comes. Paco's father dies, Paco feels guilty. Floor makes it awkwardly with Paco. At school Yara knocked unconscious by an overdose of the laxative. Paco warns the history teacher, Sulders (Kees Hulst), but that does not listen. Paco lends them without asking his car and bring Yara to hospital and call from there to school to say Sulders' car is there. Sulders is evil and comes up with the police to the hospital; the friend of Paco's mother comes and says that he borrowed the car, and Paco will thereby protect.
- DirectorMaria PetersArne ToonenStarsSem VeegerMatthijs van de Sande BakhuyzenTommie ChristiaanMelissa is a nice and pretty girl with natural dreams and ambitions. But because of bad influences, her life becomes a nightmare. Until her real friends decide to get her out of there.
- DirectorPieter VerhoeffStarsPeter TuinmanHuub StapelJoke TjalsmaOn the turn of the 20th century, in Netherlands, three socialist activists and brothers are imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit. The prosecutor tries to get to the truth, but their comrades and others betray them.
- 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.
- DirectorPieter VerhoeffStarsKees BootHans BreetveldElsie de BrauwThe film tells the story of an investigator trying to find out what actually happened in Screbrenica, looking for a missing photo-roll.shot by a Dutchbat-soldier. Amazing piece of drumming by the leading actor Victor Reinier at the end.
- DirectorEric OosthoekStarsDragan BakemaNyncke BeekhuyzenDai CarterAfter a comrade is brutally murdered, a number of retired resistance heroes take matters into their own hands.
- 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.
- DirectorBoris Paval ConenStarsMeral PolatNasrdin DcharAli Ben HorstingA Dutch cop works in a small city until she gets an assignment to infiltrate the Turkish mob.
- DirectorDiederik Van RooijenStarsMonic HendrickxNiels GompertsSigrid ten NapelDrawn out of hiding in Canada, a Dutch former drug baroness returns to Amsterdam to face unfinished business and once and for all save her family from her life of crime.
- DirectorFrans WeiszStarsKitty CourboisPeter OosthoekCatherine ten BruggencateNico and Leo are getting married. Their entire family and both their exes are in attendance. Some of these are performing musical numbers on stage. But memories of the war and the fact that Leo's mother died in a concentration camp keeps coming to the forefront.
- DirectorFrans WeiszStarsKitty CourboisPeter OosthoekCatherine ten Bruggencate'Qui Vive' is made with more or less the same cast and crew as the widely-praised 'Leedvermaak' (Polonaise, 1989) and is based on a play by Judith Herzberg. The relations in a family badly-scarred by war traumas remain complicated years later.
- DirectorFrans WeiszStarsGaite JansenCharlie Chan DageletPierre BokmaAbout a Jewish family still struggling with the Holocaust past. Last part of a trilogy, together with "Leedvermaak" (1989) and "Qui vive" (2001).
- DirectorKarim TraïdiaStarsJaap SpijkersMonic HendrickxRudi FalkenhagenPolish deceived woman hides from pimps on a Dutch farm, and shares an intriguing romance with the farmer.
- DirectorTheu BoermansStarsSallie HarmsenReinout Scholten van AschatElsie de BrauwLucas and Johanna live in the 80s, madly in love, in a world full of dreams and ideals. Then a disastrous accident, during their sailing trip on the Atlantic, separates them. Thirty-five years later, in the autumn of their lives, the two of them meet again and their deep-rooted love is still very strong. Will Johanna dare to trust Lucas and let him into her deep secret from the past?
- DirectorJim TaihuttuStarsMarwan KenzariChems Eddine AmarSteef CuijpersA promising kickboxer struggles to resist the temptations of a life of crime.
- DirectorMischa KampStarsVita HeijmenBeppie MelissenNoortje HerlaarRomy has to stay with her grandma Stine after school. It's so boring. Her hairdresser Grandma is strict and in love with her salon. But grandma's memory is not the best, and charming Romy can be at some help with customers and economy.
- DirectorDana NechushtanStarsJacob DerwigMaryam HassouniSabri Saad El-HamusHaron is asked to infiltrate in a group of terrorists who are suspected to be working on a strike.