Marcel Hensema

A sexy, witty, emotional and life-affirming story of friendship and family, which shows that even through difficult times the love, strength, and humor of the ones closest to you can make life, no matter how brief, worth living. (Strand Releasing)

The start of the career of Herman Brood, who lived his life filled with sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Guided by his manager they aim to take over the USA with his music. (imdb)

Four old college friends in their forties come together in a time of trouble and despair. Old joy relives, but the harsh reality of their problems can't satisfy them and eventually endangers their friendships (Imdb)

This movie is about a group of young people struggling with what 'true love' means. Main character is a boy who doesn't want to commit himself to one woman. (imdb)

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.

a ravishing moving story about an impossible love... (imdb)

The Heineken Kidnapping is based on the kidnapping of beer tycoon Freddy Heineken that hit the news in the Netherlands and abroad in the eighties of the last century. The film exceeds the well known story of the kidnap and goes on to tell the story of Alfred Heineken's revenge, which culminates in a chase of the kidnappers across the world. Focusing on the psychological power struggle between the successful and charismatic beer brewer and a ruthless young criminal with a grudge". (imdb)

Four men attempt to run the Rotterdam marathon to save their garage from bankruptcy.

Just before a truck hits a ten-year-old boy everything comes to a standstill. A man who is witnessing the accident is the only one who can move in the frozen world and he discovers a way to save the life of the child. But in his attempt to alter the boy's fate he has to face a cruel dilemma... (imdb)

For a manipulative childhood friend, a geographer smuggles a suitcase of heroin to an Asian city. The woman he hands the smuggled goods to says, just like him, not to have any experience in the drugs trade. How did these people come to this?

It's the hot summer of 1972. On the 9th floor of a tower block on the outskirts of a Dutch provincial town the sixties finally kicked in. Change is in the air and actually materializes the moment a new resident, an artist named Loes, moves in.

A historical drama that focuses on a decade-long investigation into events in the Pacific during and after WWII. (imdb)

The once unconditional friendship between police officers Vincke and Verstuyft hits a very rough patch when they come up against a series of gruesome murders. Complicating matters even further, a survivor of the killer drives a wedge between them when Verstuyft falls for her charms. Meanwhile, the serial killer has a new victim in sight... (imdb)

Dutch filmmakers gathered to make this compilation movie, consisting of 17 segments, as a reaction to the status quo in The Netherlands after the assassination of filmmaker Theo van Gogh on November 2, 2004.

Series about a class of school kids

A woman is shopping in a crowded shopping mall, with her husband and two kids. In the shopping mall she meets a stranger, who brings romance to a dreadfull saturday.

A dangerous and illegal game is organized by Polish workers in Holland. It has cost many lives and offers the ultimate way out: a last chance to earn a lot of money. When Marek and Katarzyna are laid off on the lands where they work there's nothing much left to stay for in Holland. Why not move back to Poland and care for their little girl? But when the game - called BLINDRUNNING - catches up with them they have to ask themselves: is their love strong enough to resist temptation?

Following WWII, the Dutch judge Röling becomes one of the eleven Allied judges on the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. The political, professional, and personal conflicts cause this to be the most important of his life.

Wet & Waan" was a Dutch television series broadcasted by AVRO between December 2000 and January 2004. The series revolves around a public prosecutor and a psychiatrist who are in a relationship and regularly encounter each other professionally as well

A young Amsterdam lawyer seems to be doing well, but every now and then he is attacked by an inescapable lust for drink.

Series of seven movies, each by a different writer/director with a different crew and cast, each about one of the seven classical virtues.

"In Our Jordaan" is a Dutch miniseries from 2000, directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen. The series is based on the biography "De zon schijnt voor iedereen" (The Sun Shines for Everyone) about Johnny Jordaan, written by Bert Hiddema. It was adapted into a three-part series with episodes lasting 50 minutes each, edited by Kees Prins and Frank Ketelaar.

Jurre and Saar live with their children in Rotterdam. Saar works as a prosecutor on an important case and Jurre is a history teacher. They are both fighting their own secret battle without knowing this about each other.

Forensic psychiatrist Fokke Augustinus makes an unexpected career change when he inherits his father's mansion in Groningen where he becomes involved with a criminal organization with a marijuana plantation on his father's land. (imdb)

Minke a 14-year-old is kidnapped but years later she appears with a mysterious tattoo on her back. Minke is changed by her disturbing experience and without anyone knowing she is played by her captor. (imdb)