Antoinette Beumer

The painful birth of Harry Jr. shoots Lea, a radiant young woman into a terrifying psychosis. The battle that follows, in the asylum between her "fellow fools", and once back home with her mother, her husband and the past, De gelukkige huisvrouw makes a touching, poignant but also funny film about the universal themes as birth, death and motherhood.

Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment. In this loft they meet their mistresses and conquests. Everything seems perfect, until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. (imdb)

Two very different twin sisters from the Netherlands (real-life siblings Carice and Jelka van Houten) travel to America to help out the mother they have never met (Academy Award winner Holly Hunter) in Dutch director Antoinette Beumer's heartwarming, cross-cultural take on the classic American road movie. (tiff.net)

Soof is reaching 40, has three children, a small catering business, and a more or less alienated husband, always busy with his work. She meets a choreographer who is greatly interested in her. He promotes her catering and she becomes a success. It is her turn to get alienated from her family...

Simone is tired and tries to take a new path in her life. She inherites a mansion in France and departs with her spouse Eric and their two children to create a guest house of the mansion. The construction brings a lot of trouble and Simone tries to run away from it all by having an affair with the handsome Michèl. Eric is captivated by the plans of the contractor Peter, however not all is what it seems; it seems to be a nightmare. (filmtotaal.nl)

Eva seems to have it all: a family, a successful business and the house of her dreams. When her mother suddenly dies, she discovers that her life is made up of lies and secrets. Eva becomes increasingly anxious and begins to lose grip on reality. She then decides to contact her father, who has been in a mental institution for more than thirty years. It turns out to be the start of a disconcerting journey into the past.

Series about a police station in Rotterdam