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- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsMonique van de VenRutger HauerTonny HuurdemanAn aimless young artist learns to face his responsibilities when a former lover develops a terminal illness.
- DirectorPaula van der OestStarsChris PetersPierre BokmaRifka LodeizenAfter 21-year-old student Tonio dies in a traffic accident, his novelist parents face sorrow and regret as they suffer the agony of losing their only child.
- DirectorKees Van OostrumStarsEster SpitzGerard ThoolenKitty Courbois15 year old Sara, a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands during the German occupation slowly begins to realize the danger she and her family are in. When her parents are forced to move to a ghetto in Amsterdam, she decides to follow them rather than live with her brother and his girlfriend. She also keeps in touch with Greet, a girlfriend she met while in hospital, despite the fact that Greet's father is collaborating with the Germans.
- DirectorFons RademakersStarsLex SchoorelNan LosVan DoudeThe fainthearted cigar trader Ducker keeps himself quiet during World War II. That changes when parachutist Dorbeck lands in his backyard. It turns out the parachutist bears a remarkable resemblance to Ducker. Ducker follows Dorbeck blindly, becomes involved in the Dutch resistance and soon starts killing people. When he escapes through German lines to the freed South Netherlands, no one has ever heard of Dorbeck.
- StarsBob De LangePleuni TouwWillem NijholtStrange things are happening in colonial Indonesia as family relations unravel in this mini-series based on the classic novel by Louis Couperus.
- DirectorHarry KümelStarsMarianne BaslerMonique van de VenJohan LeysenEline Vere is a neurotic young woman with a turbulent family.
- 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.
- DirectorHeddy HonigmannStarsJoop AdmiraalMarja KokMelanie DoaneMaarten, a Dutch immigrant in America, is suffering from dementia and finds senility gradually robbing him of his identity.
- 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.
- DirectorRudolf van den BergStarsThom HoffmanRijk de GooyerViviane de MuynckFrits van Egters' life in the last ten days of the year 1946.
- 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.
- DirectorJean van de VeldeStarsAntonie KamerlingOlivier TuinierLoes WoutersonPoet Valentijn comes in contact with his former teacher Mieke. After a brief relationship Valentijn leaves her. But when he later gets to know his son, a bond develops between the two.
- 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.
- DirectorRuud van HemertStarsAntonie KamerlingAngela SchijfBeau van Erven DorensReza explodes into the boring life of writer Eric, she's unpredictable and intense. After she moves in with him, jealousy and fits of bizarre self-destruction become part of her quixotic moods.
- DirectorJeroen KrabbéStarsMaureen LipmanWill BowdenJeroen KrabbéGod is disappointed with the human race and wants His stone tablets back. An angel is given the assignment and, with Gabriëls help, tries to manipulate several humans on earth to get his job done. But humans have a will of their own.
- 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.
- DirectorPollo de PimentelStarsEgbert Jan WeeberKatja SchuurmanJohnny de MolA young dropout falls in love with a nightclub dancer...
- DirectorMaarten TreurnietStarsPeter Paul MullerHalina ReijnCarice van HoutenAfter the passing of his wife, a man learns he is infirtile and their son cannot be his.
- DirectorWillem van de Sande BakhuyzenStarsTijn DocterCarice van HoutenCatherine ten BruggencateAfter a death in the family turns his world upside down, an introverted young novelist struggles to maintain his relationship with his successful girlfriend.
- DirectorReinout OerlemansStarsCarice van HoutenBarry AtsmaAnna DrijverA serial adulterer faces his demons when his loving wife falls severely ill.
- DirectorRudolf van den BergStarsGijs Scholten van AschatSylvia HoeksJohanna ter SteegeA laid-off book editor sets out to find his teenage daughter when she and her boyfriend go missing on holiday in Namibia.
- DirectorMenno MeyjesStarsThekla ReutenDaan SchuurmansJacob DerwigTwo well-to-do couples with plenty to lose have dinner to discuss the gruesome act their teenage sons may or may not have committed together.
- DirectorTallulah Hazekamp SchwabStarsHendrikje NieuwerfSuzan BoogaerdtSteven van WatermeulenTo be Chosen. That is the most important life goal in the strict religious environment of Katelijne. For her, though, reading and stories are much more important. Is she thus risking her 'Grace period'?
- DirectorNicole van KilsdonkStarsKasper van KootenWilfried de JongLeopold WitteFour old friends relive happy days gone by as they climb France's Mont Ventoux by bike like they did thirty years before, only to find themselves forced to face a ghost from their shared past.
- 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.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsMillie PerkinsShelley WintersJoseph SchildkrautDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
- StarsBen KingsleyHannah Taylor GordonBrenda BlethynThe life of Anne Frank and her family from 1939 to 1945: pre-war fears, invasion of Netherlands by German troops, hiding in Amsterdam, deportation to the camps, return of Anne's father.
- DirectorJon BlairStarsKenneth BranaghGlenn CloseIsa BaschwitzTells the story of the Frank family and paints a portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsMaximilian SchellJoan PlowrightJames CocoDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
- DirectorAkinori NagaokaStarsRena TakahashiGô KatôFumie KashiyamaDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
- StarsKatharine SchlesingerEmrys JamesElizabeth BellDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
- DirectorJohn ErmanStarsMary SteenburgenPaul ScofieldHuub StapelMiep Gies struggles to keep Anne Frank and her family hidden and safe inside the secret annex, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down.
- 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.
- DirectorIneke HoutmanStarsIsa HoesAbbey HoesKees BootA Dutch woman escapes her family life in search for happiness in the Portuguese Algarve.
- 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.
- DirectorRoel ReinéStarsFrank LammersSanne LangelaarBarry AtsmaWhen the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France, and Germany, and the country is on the brink of civil war, only one man can lead the country's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet: Michiel de Ruyter.
- DirectorLodewijk CrijnsStarsGeza WeiszImanuelle GrivesJeroen KrabbéDavid lives in a neighborhood with "only orderly people" and rich parents. He has been in a relationship with his girlfriend Naomi for a few years. But one day David spots a beautiful black woman. He decides to give up his relationship with Naomi, to find a new girl from a different neighborhood.
- DirectorReinout OerlemansStarsRobert de HoogVictor ReinierJan DecleirA Dutch exploration team sets sail to find the North East passage to the Indies. The weather had other ideas for them.
- 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.
- DirectorMark de CloeStarsMatthijs van de Sande BakhuyzenLoïs Dols de JongTygo GernandtWhat if you lived your entire life in one day and would have just one time to enjoy each moment: first kiss, going to school, growing up, making love. In Marc de Cloe's Life in One Day, Benny and Gini fall head over heels for each other in a place where a lifetime indeed exists in a single day. But they can't fathom their love ever ending. They hatch a seemingly-clever plan to beat the system and ultimately spend eternity together. Their destination? Hell. Well, it sounds good in theory.
- DirectorMarion BloemStarsTerence SchreursAnneke GrönlohGepke HaakmaFollowing the death of her stepmother, a young woman leaves her life in the USA behind, and rekindles the bonds with her Indonesian-Dutch grandmother.
- DirectorMonique van de VenStarsSophie HilbrandWaldemar TorenstraJeroen Willems14 months after loosing his partner while making a UNICEF documentary in Afghanistan, Dutch photographer Bob Griffioen's benefactor Federico Federici has landed him a National Geographic assignment on the Wadden island Texel. Shooting wildlife there, Bob meets hedonistic waitress-student Kathleen, who practices nudism on the beach. Alas, her boss and sugar-daddy 'the Mummy' is involved in major drug trade. Both lovers are soon dragged into it, without knowing if they even can trust each-other.
- DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsBibi AnderssonAnthony PerkinsSandra DumasWhen a museum directer, who has long been divorced, takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationship with the girl.
- DirectorGerrit van ElstStarsPierre BokmaMargo DamesJaap SpijkersA young Amsterdam lawyer seems to be doing well, but every now and then he is attacked by an inescapable lust for drink.
- DirectorHerbert CurielStarsDerek de LintThom HoffmanSigrid KoetseIn a crash on the stock exchange Inni Wintrop (40) loses his fortune and his girlfriend, on the same day. Adrift and looking for something to hold on to he becomes obsessed with Japanese rituals of faith, death and eroticism.
- DirectorNanouk LeopoldStarsJeroen WillemsHenri GarcinWim OpbrouckA middle aged farmer, living with his old and bedridden father, tries to find truth in life.
- DirectorTheo van GoghStarsHidde KuiperCasper de BoerCas EnklaarLiterary adaptation: an artist returns to the stifling atmosphere of the small Dutch village where he grew up, a place marked by morbidity, suppression of emotion, Calvinist hypocrisy and a suffocating patriarchy.
- DirectorAte de JongStarsMonique van de VenPeter Jan RensEllen VogelA young painter takes up French lessons with an elder lady to ensure he'll get a grant for a French arts institute. That way he meets Anna, a beautiful married woman nursing the lady's old father, and falls in love with her.
- DirectorGuido PietersStarsDerek de LintTingue DongelmansJoop AdmiraalErik is avoiding the Nazi occupants and staying out of the hands of the Germans--in Elly's arms instead.
- DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsFedja van HuêtKim HuffmanMarcel HensemaPsychological thriller. Geography teacher smuggles a case of heroin for a friend.
- DirectorDana NechushtanStarsStijn WestenendRoef RagasGwen EckhausThe 17-year old Philip gets in a conflict with his teacher Frits. Visiting the teacher's home to apologize Philip meet Linda, Frits girlfriend.
- DirectorOtto JongeriusStarsKitty CourboisJan DecleirEric ClerckxAt the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorKarim TraïdiaStarsTygo GernandtEva DuijvesteinRijk Smit"If only these walls could speak and tell us their stories" Based on the same name novel by Vonne van der Meer, the movie is set on the Dutch island Vlieland, telling the diverse stories of the people visiting cottage Duinroos (Dune rose) over the course of the summer. Against the background of the idyllic nature, the individual stories of the guests develop as their relational perils and personal moments of love, desire, loss and trust show the world as it is. Without knowing, and almost imperceptibly, the visitors' lives intertwine and join into one story.
- DirectorRobert Jan WestdijkStarsBracha van DoesburghThom HoffmanHalina ReijnWhen Karen and her family move to a posh suburban neighborhood, she soon befriends a mysterious dinner club.
- DirectorTjebbo PenningStarsJeroen van KoningsbruggeThekla ReutenBente FokkensA drug lord's wife faces a crisis of loyalty when her husband's cutthroat dealings compel her to flee with their young children.
- DirectorMenno MeyjesStarsThekla ReutenDaan SchuurmansMarie-Mae van ZuilenSabine is looking for the truth behind the disappearance of her best friend twenty years ago. An encounter with Olaf, a handsome man she met in her teenage years, and the announcement of a high school reunion turns her life upside down.
- DirectorAntoinette BeumerStarsLoes HaverkortMark van EeuwenEvi van der LakenShe had a dream and achieving it didn't seem that difficult. Or so she thought.
- DirectorMaarten TreurnietStarsMonic HendrickxLisa SmitSallie HarmsenWhile she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter.
- StarsThomas AcdaTim HaarsEric van SauersAfter being absent for a year, police detective Peter van Opperdoes goes back to work when he gets involved in a murder case. In order to solve the case, he has to work with his replacement, the young and eager detective Jacob Holm.
- DirectorDiederik Van RooijenStarsMatteo van der GrijnMonique van de VenDerek 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.
- DirectorPeter de BaanStarsDaan SchuurmansTim MurckAnniek PheiferAfter being wrongfully accused of a fatal hit-and-run, a man finds himself hunted by cops and criminals alike as he attempts to find out who has stolen his identity.
- DirectorMarc RothemundStarsLisa TomaschewskyKaroline TeskaDavid RottRather than let cancer run her life, a young woman starts wearing different wigs to express herself and live her life to the fullest.
- DirectorArne ToonenStarsRaymond ThiryKim van KootenBas KeijzerAfter ruthless gangsters wrongfully accuse him of stealing from them, a retired criminal has 24 hours to creep back into his past life and retrieve a bag of coke before his fiancée is killed.
- DirectorSimon de WaalHans PosStarsJeroen WillemsMarcel HensemaKees BootEnigmatic Dutch crime lord Mirko is always a step ahead of the national police team. When Mirko's gang are forced to kill Russian mob baron Oleg's brother Boris, the cops hope their time has come. Both sides resort to dirty tricks, testing loyalties and using the antagonists' daughters and independent pimp Aziz for blackmail, which makes several bloody victims.
- DirectorWill KoopmanStarsTjitske ReidingaMark RietmanNanette DrazicPlastic surgeon Mathilde is smart and successful as well as happily married with children. However, appearances are deceiving. The renovation of their home threatens to turn into a disaster and her marriage is faltering. Until she accepts the helping hand of an old boyfriend.
- DirectorDick MaasStarsBarry AtsmaPierre BokmaSusan RadderA famous game show host is being harassed in a restaurant by a strange man who claims to have kidnapped his wife and daughter. A morbid game ensues in which the game show host turns out to be the contestant.
- DirectorBen SombogaartStarsAbbey HoesCamilla DianaPeter PostThe seventeen year old Stach is faced with five impossible assignments he has to complete in order to become king. Things do not go as easily as the boisterous Stach had expected, especially when he is confronted with matters of life and death.
- DirectorBen SombogaartStarsHalina ReijnTineke CaelsWim OpbrouckA famous actress finds herself captured by a morbidly deranged paintress.
- DirectorErik de BruynStarsAchmed AkkabiNajib AmhaliCharlie Chan DageletA political comedy about an illegal Morrocan who makes it to President of the Netherlands. As we follow his unlikely rise and selfsought fall, Joes learns that it's easy to win the support of the people, but to rule them is a whole other story.
- StarsDaan SchuurmansAnna DrijverBenja BruijningDutch software consultancy firm's rising man Michael Bellicher's life turns into a living nightmare when he's framed for a murder and later other crimes by the well-connected goons of the mysterious Mr. Miller, who also try to kill him. He must risk appealing to now uncertain loyalties to find out who and why, avoid the police and counter what turns out to be an EU-wide virtual conspiracy.
- CreatorDiederik Van RooijenPieter Bart KorthuisStarsMonic HendrickxSigrid ten NapelStijn TaverneAfter her husband is assassinated, housewife Carmen reluctantly has to take charge of the criminal business of her family.
- DirectorArne ToonenStarsMichael NierseEva van der GuchtMarcel MustersFat adolescent Dik Trom enjoys growing up in a hedonistic town devoted to food and fun. When a restaurant chain offers his father the life-long-dreamed opportunity to run his own, the Trom family moves. Their new home town Dunhoven is however inhabited by health freaks who prefer only fitness to dietary sobriety.
- DirectorWill KoopmanStarsLinda de MolAriane SchluterDaan SchuurmansA woman tries to escape a stalker by moving with her children to her sister's isolated beach house.
- DirectorJan VerheyenStarsKoen De BouwWerner De SmedtBlerim DestaniVincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 VerhoeffStarsYannick van de VeldeQuinten SchramRüdiger VoglerThe medieval quest of sixteen-year old Tiuri, who risks his future as a Knight to fulfill a promise, and in so doing discovers adventure, honor, valor and love.
- 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.
- DirectorSteven de JongStarsPim WesselsMartijn HendrickxBilly ZomerdijkA ripping adventure yarn about teenage boys who join the crew of a ship of the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century. After a dramatic shipwreck and escape from an attack by natives, they must make their way to safety by themselves.
- CreatorSimon de WaalStarsMaarten SpanjerJoost PrinsenJim BakkumBoks is the name of cop, who works at an Amsterdam precinct and who solves crimes in his very unusual way.
- DirectorBen SombogaartStarsJohnny FlynnStephanie LeonidasEmily WatsonAfter using his mother's newly built time machine, Dolf gets stuck in the year 1212. He ends up in a children's crusade where he confronts his new friends with modern techniques. However, the Crusade turns out to be even trickier than he first imagined.
- DirectorTheo van GoghStarsThijs RömerTara EldersCahit ÖlmezA fictional version of the events that led to the assassination of the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn on May 6, 2002.
- DirectorRene EllerStarsAimé ClaeysTijmen GovaertsPauline CasteleynEight teens - four guys and four girls - are the best of friends. One summer, out of boredom they experiment with all manner of new means to entertain themselves. This degenerates into some extreme behaviour and will lead to tragedy.