Micha Hulshof

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

Four Dutch girlfriends from 'het Gooi' decide to go to Paris to take a break from their troubles in the Netherlands.

Alex van Zuilen has a decent home but loves spending time with grandma Roos. When she's robbed at home by teenage hooligans Lucos and Evert, she makes Alex promise to keep silent, fearing his ma will send Roos to a retirement home. But the thugs now work out their frustrations about abuse at home on Alex, who is pestered, blackmailed and threatened to steal old ladies's purses for them.

Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen. (imdb)

Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. (imdb)

About a police station in Amsterdam

Dutch crime series

Detective Ben Slagter gets in trouble after an encounter with a home invader. Meanwhile the other detectives respond to a drug-related call, but find themselves in an equally troublesome situation. As everyone deals with their difficulties, newly arrived public prosecutor Berg makes things even more complicated by running it all by the book.

In a Frisian town in the Netherlands, a police team solves crimes, led by chief Carla Vreeswijk.

What begins as an exciting parachute jumping adventure takes a nightmarish turn, when the instructor shows signs of suicidal behavior.

After her husband is assassinated, housewife Carmen reluctantly has to take charge of the criminal business of her family.

Romy has to stay with her grandma Stine after school. It's so boring. Her hairdresser Grandma is strict and in love with her salon. But grandma's memory is not the best, and charming Romy can be at some help with customers and economy.

Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law... (imdb)

Johan, convicted for killing his own father and sister, escapes from a TBS clinic (a criminal hospital in the Netherlands) and tracks down his mother in order to prove his innocence. (imdb)

The story of two 18-year old best friends who grew up together in the suburbs of Amsterdam. Dunya is Moroccan, grown up with Ramadan, imams and Mecca. Desie is as Dutch as cheese and tulips. On her 18th birthday Dunya is told that her family would like her to marry a second cousin from Morocco. She shall meet him during the family's holiday in Morocco but she's not looking forward to it. Desie, who has recently begun taking driving lessons, unexpectedly gets pregnant from her driving instructor. (imdb)

A second generation Moroccan boy called Nordip works in a restaurant as a dishwasher. The kitchen there is a micro-cosmos of the Dutch multicultural society, with Nordip trying to make sense of it all but especially the cute waitress Agnes, who will one day inherit the restaurant. (cineuropa.org)

In order to find her father in Surinam, Grace is forced to take some desperate measures. Grace is the only black child of an all-white family, desperate to find out everything about her father. Grandpa can help her, but his memory gets worse every day since the death of his wife. When the family decide to put Grandpa into a retirement home, he and Grace decide to use his savings to travel to Surinam - but the family has blocked access to his bank account. (imdb)

The undocumented refugee Sabr (35) works in the Dutch illegal male prostitution. Short, gritty drama about the tragic cycle of abuse, dominance and power. Following his feature debut Paradise Drifters, Mees Peijnenburg presents a short, gritty and significantly less hopeful portrait, in his by now idiosyncratic, poetic-realistic style. The 35-year-old undocumented refugee Saba is caught within illegal male prostitution. His date with a john turns out different than expected, when several men are

As Brian (13) cares for his severely mentally disabled brother over a sweltering summer holiday he is forced to grow up, and finds unexpected love and affection. Brian and his father Maurice live in a shabby mobile home park. When the care institution housing Brian's severely mentally disabled brother Lucien offers Maurice a large financial incentive if they take care of him over the summer holiday, Maurice immediately agrees. Brian is given the responsibility of caring for Lucien, and they slow

Jongens tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national relay championships and meets the intriguing and unpredictable Marc. The friendship that develops seems nothing out of the ordinary, but Sieger secretly harbours stronger feelings for Marc. He engages in a lonely struggle with himself when it emerges that Marc is also in love with him (imdb)

When Indy (9) learns that her father doesn't have enough money for a birthday treat at school, she feels mortified. To keep her situation at home secret from her classmates at all costs, she decides to fix a treat herself.

The police preacher Cas Wulffers supports the enforcement unit in Amsterdam.