Carice van Houten

Alex, a 28 year-old photographer, is no longer able to photograph people, for some mysterious reason. Every time he focuses his camera on someone, the same woman appears in his viewfinder - an image he cannot bear. When his brother Aram, whom he has not seen or spoke to for years, unexpectedly phones him and asks him to come to their parental home because their mother is severely ill and may not have long to live, he panics.

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

A cat who turns into a young woman (Carice van Houten as 'Minoes'), retains some of her feline characteristics and helps a journalist (Theo Maassen as 'Tibbe') to gather news for the frontpage of a local newspaper. With the help of Minoes, who can talk to the cats in the small town, he soon discovers that the helpful and popular chairman of the "Club For Friends of Animals" and boss of a nearby factory has evil plans with the village. (imdb)

Klaasje has divorced Dennis, who cheated on her with a school teacher. Dennis would like her back, but when she moves in with a young lover it looks as if he has missed the boat. Meanwhile, Klaasje's best friend Simone is the pivot of her family. Her husband Ted often feels redundant and he does not have the guts to tell her that he has been laid off... (imdb)

Armin is in crisis. One fateful day he discovers he is infertile and has been throughout his life. From this he discovers his first wife, Monika was unfaithful before she died, how else could she have had the child that Armin thought was always his. His paranoia drives him to find the truth and in turn pushes those closest to him further away, particularly his now teenage son, Bo. But Armin is unprepared just how deep those closest to him are involved. (imdb)

Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII. (imdb)

Jane Morton, a psychiatrist from Dublin in deep mourning following the accidental death of her husband and son, is assigned to work on the case of Dorothy Mills, a teenaged girl in a small village who tried to strangle a baby. After miraculously surviving a car accident, Jane discovers a village darkened by strange events and meets a very nervous Dorothy, who swears she never touched the baby... (imdb.com)

Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.

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.

The father of Katinka is a fanatic fan of comedian Hans Teeuwen. This causes at Katinka fears and delusions. By advice of a psychiatrist she is meeting Hans Teeuwen for real and falls in love with him. (filmtotaal.nl)

A man in the prime of life faces his wife's terminal illness. Based on the bestseller 'Komt een vrouw bij de dokter' by Dutch author Kluun. (cineuropa.org)

The bubonic plague is sweeping over England and a young monk is given the task of leading a knight and his men to a village not touched by the scourge in an effort to find and hunt down a necromancer.

Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's latest film transcends the confines of the horror genre through an emotional engagement with childhood fears, human frailty and the threat of the unknown. Clive Owen stars as John Farrow, a father who cannot protect his young daughter from faceless intruders, in this intense psychological drama. (tiff.net)

She searched for a home, she searched for love. Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of censorship. With men like Jack Cope and Andre Brink she found much love, but no home. In his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addresses her as one of the finest poets of South Africa. (imdb)

A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations. (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)

Novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's suffering an incurable decease in which she suffers from paraplegia. Her inevitably ensuing death is brought forward with euthanasia. Giph is struggling to handle the situation with his mother. Shortly after his mother has passed he away, he decides to join his fun loving friends on La Palma for a holiday. There Samarinde tells her boyfriend she's expecting his baby. (imdb)

All the members of the De Roover family have ended up at a point of no return in their lives where crucial choices have to be made. Winnie wants a child. Her husband Rutmer wants to get in touch with his feelings. His brother Charlie doesn't want any responsibilities. Their brother-in-law Dick wants his deceased wife back. Head of the family Arend wants to be happy. Mother Jeannette wants somebody to want her. (imdb)

A dramatic thriller based on real events, THE FIFTH ESTATE reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization. (imdb)

Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy. (imdb)

A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.

A triumphant epic of survival and a tale of powerful womanhood and resistance against the unforgiving cruelty of a hell on earth. Our heroine is Liz, carved from the beautiful wilderness, full of heart and grit, hunted by a vengeful Preacher- a diabolical zealot and her twisted nemesis.But Liz is a genuine survivor;she's no victim - a woman of fearsome strength who responds with astonishing bravery to claim the better life she and her daughter deserve. Fear not. Retribution is coming. (imdb)

A scientist with the ability to enter the subconscious minds of the possessed must save a young boy from the grips of a demon with powers never seen before - while facing the horrors of his past. (imdb)

A Copenhagen police officer seeks justice for his partner's murder by a mysterious man. (imdb)

In spite of her expertise and experience, a seasoned psychologist falls for the manipulations of the sex offender she is treating in a penal institution.

UK version of the Norwegian show about a surgeon who is determined to save his dying wife to the point of agreeing to treat criminals and others for cash in his highly illegal secret underground clinic. (imdb)

Haunted by her past, an English teacher explores love and dust with a dashing yakuza gangster in Tokyo (imdb.com).

A theater actor looks back on his life. Present and past tumbling over each other, real life will have the dimensions of a play and the other men of flesh and blood are reduced to characters.

A pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others by using the power of seduction. TV adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'

Three women get caught in the world of human trafficking, prostitution and organized crime when one their husbands disappears. The women, with a completely different background, meet on a similar turning point in their life.

"Luifel & Luifel" was a Dutch police series that was broadcast in the fall of 2001 on SBS6. Both seasons of the series were regularly rerun by SBS6 until 2007. "Luifel & Luifel" was co-written, developed, and produced by Chiem van Houweninge, known for comedies such as "Zeg 'ns Aaa" and "Oppassen!!!" and German crime dramas like "Tatort." Initially, Van Houweninge wanted to create a "krimidie," a cross between a crime drama and a comedy. However, in season 2, the series became darker and more