During WWII's crucial Battle of the Scheldt, the lives of a glider pilot, a Nazi soldier and a reluctant Resistance recruit tragically intersect.
Two poor farmers spend all their money on a chicken, while waiting for her first egg they slowly start to get the feeling there’s something very wrong with the animal.
If you love beer, maybe you shouldn't work in a brewery. Head brew master Herman values his lager more than his life. During one of his drunken sprees he topples over into a beer kettle. An event that will prove to have strange effects on his colleagues, a group of Japanese tourists, and eventually: the typical Dutch tradition of Queen's Day.
An intimate look into the life of a 13 year old girl in northern Amsterdam who 'looses' her Russian mother and older sister to the cruel world of prostitution. Little sister remains alone in a flat at the IJ-square. Through her unconditional love and her lack of inhibition she manages to keep her head up in the relentless world of porn, drugs, and neon ads.
Ferry and Robert have been best friends since the beginning of their life's. Robert slowly changes into a zombie after he gets himself into trouble. The big question is: is their friendship strong enough to last?
The film’s premise is about a group of warriors and scientists, who gathered at the “Oude Kerk” in Amsterdam to stage a crucial event from the past, in a desperate attempt to rescue the world from destructive robots.
An experimental musical period drama about the witchhunts in 1595 in the south of the Netherlands. The film depicts the last days of the life of the young woman Heylken.
This is an absurd tragicomedy about Freek who, while clearing his childhood home, is surprised by a visit from none other than Little Moustache, his imaginary best friend from when he was a kid.
Emily has just started her job as a telephone psychic. Not that she is that spiritual herself, but she can use the money. So initially she does not really mind that the call center applies rather double standards. In her readings, Emily carefully follows the script formulated by the organisation. But during the conversations, she gradually discovers her spiritual side, as shown in this debut. Is there something supernatural, after all?
Following 'Leedvermaak' (Schadenfreude) from 1989 and 'Qui vive' from 2001, the trilogy is now complete with 'Happy end'. Frans Weisz directed, Judith Herzberg wrote. A family history in which three generations of a Jewish family each struggle in their own way...
based on the novel by Tommy Wieringa (Publisher: De Bezige Bij)
A racist truckdriver gets a new muslim colleague after his previous co-driver was beat up by two Moroccan men.