Danny de Munk

The members of a Dutch soccer team have been playing together since they were little boys. Now, in their twenties, they all have have their own "grown-up" problems. With the team's 500th game coming up, personal issues take almost all their time... (imdb)

11 year old Amsterdam schoolboy Ciske, a scamp with a heart of gold, causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher. Yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. His mother works in a bar and Ciske helps out often late into the night - his father is at sea and his mother supplements her income with prostitution. Ciske also smolders with rage at life's injustices. (imdb)

Ever since they were 6 years old, the Swift Boys have been close friends, except for Peter who joined one year later and always remained the odd one out. Now, 35 years later, team captain Bram announces his wedding, which is to take place in Barcelona, Spain. The team decides to not just be there for their life-long friend, but also have an old-fashioned training camp. On their way to the festivities, the seven friends run into a series of unexpected events. (imdb)

Young Barend is worried about the safety of the sailing vessel he is on. The owner is an unscrupulous and stingy man who skimps on repairs and Barend becomes aware of this. Inevitably there is drama and tragedy. The film is set in an early 20th century Dutch fishing village with local period costume and colour. (imdb)

Life in prison

The series follows a set of female prisoners, each with her own sorrows. They are guarded by wardens (mostly male and a few female) which sometimes leads to risky situations (like flirting or falling in love for real). The reasons for being behind bars vary: one shot her husband after catching him cheating, another one killed her baby with a pillow and yet another one staged an accident to get rid of her husband who pestered her. Fellow prisoners use each other but in fact, they are all the same

Vuurdoop is a short industrial for the Traffic Insurance Board. We see how a tough trainee truck-driver makes his first foreign trip with an experienced, but overconfident and therefore often careless co-driver. A traffic accident along the way gives the boy a nightmare that threatens to come true. Awarded a Golden Calf in 1988.