According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give birth to something evil to unleash horror and destruction upon human kind. Ugly septuplet brothers reproduced within the framework of mysterious genetic experiments terrorize a young innocent girl who seems to be chosen for the sinister predestination.
Professor Lupardi developed a weather machine with which he can change the climate and destroy the world. Can Captain Rob stop him?
After 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.
De Cock and Vledder investigate the robbery of an armored truck which leads to several murders.
Dora Leenders is about to give birth. Since she was impregnated during a school reunion, she invites both men whom she had sex with that night to her flat to witness the birth.
A behind the scenes look and edited registration of the groundbreaking theater play 'Going to the dogs' by the Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers. The play was performed by six Alsations (German Shepherds).
When Winston Righter decides eligible to stand for the presidency in Suriname, he is confronted with his criminal past. A chess breaks loose as he competes with justice and the underworld.
Johnny Bingo is the story of a man, no hero, no villain, just an ordinary man, who tries to fight his way out of the suffocating world of Bingo, where addiction, lust, loneliness and even love turn out to be formidable adversaries.
Every morning six people who live in the same street are taking the bus into town. Thanks to their own routine they survive each day, until one of them meets death.
Paul has a full-time lover, an older English woman whose common sense and down-to-earth qualities more than compensate for her relative lack of passion. After all, he is surrounded by women clamoring for time with him in bed. So are all the other men in the story. When one of his sons dies suddenly during an operation, Paul is devastated and cannot make out what has gone wrong in his life. None of his current crop of friends has any insight to offer. Some of these questions become clearer when his sister, with whom he is almost unnaturally close, comes to visit.
A satire about the difficult way films are made in the Netherlands. The focus is on the painstaking way in which aspiring filmmakers, have to see the script in hand, grants and funds available.
The notorious December killings in Surinam in the early eighties seem to be the starting point for the political thriller Paramaribo Papers. Largely shot in Surinam, this TV film tells about secret agent Robert Lipmann, who is ordered by the Dutch government to start a search for the disappeared journalist Kevin Poelgeest. The country is plagued by great agitation under the military regime of commander Raymond Markelo, who is forcefully thwarting the opposition. During his search, Lipmann meets Elvira, Kevin's sister who is having an affair with the commander. Like Lipmann, she is convinced that Kevin's supposed death involves a settlement in the drug scene. But then, important evidence pops up and the cause of Kevin's disappearance has to be regarded from quite a different perspective. Unknowingly, they head for the tragic events of 8 December 1982.
Ama, the daughter of Senegalese asylum seekers, feels completely Dutch. When Ama's mother and brother are arrested, Ama sets off in search of her father through Rotterdam in the middle of winter, hoping to avoid deportation. During this frightening and exciting journey, she discovers her roots, thanks in part to her extraordinary totem animal: a gigantic porcupine.
A tasty, vulgar, low-budget, urban road movie about a satirical drawn art environment with great impromptu renditions and Peter Falk detective pastiche Wingers to lick your thumbs and fingers. The American-Dutch psychiatrist Bold Wasser plays in his role as Detective Scotty all professional actors of the cloth. Long plan sequence shots give the film an almost documentary, authentic appearance.
The daring journey through Europe of two somewhat naive friends, Salvatore and Felice, fleeing a small town in Puglia, who find themselves catapulted to Rotterdam and then to Iceland. For the first time in their lives they will discover what it means to feel alive and happy. Through some mishap and with the help of the generous and extravagant Anke, they will overcome their fears and inhibitions. They will be overwhelmed by life, discovering the joy of existing and of experiencing and receiving affection and love in a strange triangle of relationships typical of a 'modern family', bizarre and reassuring at the same time.
University teacher Horatio and his young wife Hortense are so wrapped up in their marital crisis, that they are unaware of the conspiracy unfolding around them.
When his wife Lydia commits suicide, succesful attorney Robert Havinck is freed from his unhappy marriage. Unfortunately, it turns out she took a complete stranger along with her, and a feeling of guilt and curiosity about her motives lead Havinck to team up with his fifteen-year old daughter to explore Lydia's final days.
When Grandpa Cor has to take care of his grandson Coentje, he gets tempted to participate in a card tournament and loses track of Coentje. His daughter Carola is furious and forbids her father from having any further contact with his grandson
At the Bol'Es distillery, Hanna van Bol'Es, her husband Gert, and Paul are hard at work preparing for an important visit from the prince of Macau. Meanwhile, Hanna's sister Claudia gets commended by the mayor for her hard work at Irado, the garbage collection service. When the gift for the prince disappears, tensions rise between the two sisters, leading to an intense feud. Elsewhere, some teenagers - including Hanna and Gert's son Han and Paul's children Lars and Ruud - organize a small party to barbecue and drink exclusive, unreleased "Diamond Gin" by the van Bol'Es distillery. As the night unfolds, hidden emotions surface and the party spirals out of control, until their furious parents arrive to put an end to it. Then, while fulfilling their punishment for underage drinking by working at Irado, Guido and Ronald discover something horrible.
Han and his friends' party ends up in the newspaper in an unpleasant way. Hanna is furious-especially when his actions cause the deal with the Prince of Macau to fall through. But how did this prince even get to see the newspaper? In the middle of the night, the friends make a shocking discovery on Irado's premises. Han and Ophelia grow closer. When Hanna suspends Gert from the company and Claudia shares information with her about the family history, the turmoil within the family only grows.
Han and his friends are training to stop Irado’s villains. While Guido thinks something is blossoming between him and Hollie, the love between Gert and Hanna has hit rock bottom. A conversation between Claudia, Hanna, and their mother completely spirals out of control. Could this be the moment the sisters finally reconnect? Ophelia makes a big decision, but her father doesn’t react the way she hoped. Claudia and Gert grow closer. The night of the deal - and the confrontation between two generations - is about to begin…
Hollie and Ophelia are in Osric's hands, and things are threatening to end badly. Hanna and Claudia, however, seem to be growing closer. But, is this real, or just an act..? Guido and Ronald are also playing a double role, Lilly is becoming more and more dangerous, and Han must now make a long-delayed choice: take action or not?