Pierre Bokma

As the year 1946 draws to a close, Frits van Egters runs through Amsterdam. He is in his early twenties and still lives with his parents. He has a job in a dusty archive and feels annoyance at his surroundings...

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'. Intricate staging, graphic nudity, and lavish art production are part of this lurid spectacle. Shakespeare has never seemed quite the same. (imdb)

A middle-aged journalist interviews the real-life Dutch star Katja Schuurman, in her own loft. Pierre, the journalist is annoyed at being given such a fluffy assignment, as he is normally a political correspondent. Initially he has no questions for Katja, but soon they are coaxing their darkest secrets out of each other. (imdb)

The two brothers Van der Laan, of strict religion, have been running Holland's most successful software company for 10 years when suddenly their financial manager leaves the firm. The lives of the brothers and their families get turned upside down when they hire a young hot shot financial specialist, in order to pursue their goal to bring the company to the NASDAQ. (imdb)

A hot summer in the early sixties. 16 year-old Simon wants to become popular with the immensely wealthy brothers Arnout and Victor van Riebeeck. On the capital estate where the two brothers live, the boys spend their time playing tennis, listening to music and dancing with Arnout's beautiful girlfriend Frederique. Meanwhile, in the attic of the villa they keep their friend Ronnie hidden... (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)

woman tries to escape a stalker by moving with her children to her sister's isolated beach house. (imdb)

The events that took place in the Netherlands on this day in 1963 when 10.000 people started an ice-skating tour that only 69 of the tourskaters would bring to an end. (imdb)

Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde's ex-pat community. She can't bear the separation from her 14-year-old daughter, Helen, who is attending boarding school in Germany. (www.berlinale.de)

Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town of Oss in the 30ties of the 20th century. The harder she tries, the more she is involved. (imdb)

A famous game show host is being harassed in a restaurant by a strange man who claims to have kidnapped his wife and daughter. A morbid game ensues in which the game show host turns out to be the contestant.

Classical tragedy and financial thriller about banker Rijkman Groenink and the downfall of ABN AMRO. Based on Smit's bestseller, the series tells the story of the rise and fall of Rijkman Groenink, who takes office in 2000 as successor to chairman of the board Jan Kalff. With his unscrupulous, ambitious course to get the bank in the top five of largest international banks, it soon turns out he is playing with fire and putting more at stake than he thinks. (filmfestival.nl)

On a desolate island, suicidal sheep Franck meets his fate in a quirky salesman, who offers him the gift of a lifetime. Little does he know that he can only handle this much 'lifetime'. (imdb)

Four women are sick of being poor. They decide to rob a bank. They are surprised how easily they get away with it and start to commit more robberies. When the net finally closes around them they decide to make one last big hit.

Sweder Speelman leads a successful life with his wife Cecile. But he realizes he's a spectator of his own life. Sweder decides to disappear to see how Cecile responds to his absence. As he observes his wife, he loses touch with reality.

After 21-year-old student Tonio dies in a traffic accident, his novelist parents face sorrow and regret as they suffer the agony of losing their only child. (imdb)

In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, banker brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall face their greatest challenge yet when they decide to help fund the Dutch resistance. (imdb)

Patrick (38) lives with his parents on a naturist campsite. When his father dies he finds himself in charge, but has lost his favorite hammer. His search becomes an existential quest, when a hammer is used in a break-in crime.

Dick Maas is one of the Netherlands' most successful directors. Who is the man behind Flodder, Amsterdamned, Prooi and De Lift really? (imdb)

Theo Staats arrives at his uncle's rubber plantation in the then Dutch colony of Indonesia. He meets and falls in love with Ems, a beautiful Dutch Indonesian singer, The movie follows their story from the period of colonial power to the Japanese occupation during World War II and the following war of Independence.

Nico and Leo are getting married. Their entire family and both their exes are in attendance. Some of these are performing musical numbers on stage. But memories of the war and the fact that Leo's mother died in a concentration camp keeps coming to the forefront. (Il Tesoro)

A put-upon, middle-aged waiter whose life seems to be dictated by the writings of his best friend begs the author of his colorless autobiography for a new hue... (All Movie Guide)

TV series in three episodes shows the current politico-social drama as a result of the fall of the enclave Srebrenica, as seen through the eyes of three protagonists. Eight years after date, the former Bosnian Dutchbat interpreter Hadzic, the Serbian sergeant Bokan and the Dutch Minister of Defence Terhoef are confronted with each other at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. The thread through this triptych is Hadzic's story. He works at the The Hague Trib

Comedy about the adventures of a group of friends in Amsterdam, who are planning a party during their summer holiday. When the ticket sales are disappointing they think of a new and exiting way to attract more people to the party. (imdb)

Dutch crime series

Four women are living together: a mother with her two daughters and her sister. All have different experiences with love (or none at all), all try to find more love...

A group of regulars in a pub, who share their stories and their lives with lots of songs and joy.

Ronnie, once a child star, is chased by two madmen and a raven. To hide he gets a job with the lonely owner of Camping HIVO. The guests there go crazy finding a star in their midst. Things get absurd.

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.

It's Christmas night when Victor gets stranded in a deserted hotel in Baltimore. To pass the lonely hours, he decides that for first time in his life he's going to order the services of a call girl. When Victor mistakenly recognizes a beautiful young woman at the bar for the call girl, he is taken aback by her warm response to his shy approach. From this moment on, the line between real love and paid love quickly dissolves.

Dutch TV program in which actors improvise a scene.

Günter, found in a German forest as a four-year old, grows up in a foster family. Four decades later, he leads a normal life: he earns a living as a stage actor, spends time with his daughter Lizzy, and has an affair with a married woman. He doesn't start wondering about his origins until a stranger on a bridge whispers a single word in his ear.

A fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes her seriously.

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.

Series about a police station in Rotterdam

A successful kick-boxer, Turkish by birth, finds out that under the window-dressing of Dutch society something dark is brewing.

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.

Twenty three year old virtuoso pianist Jennifer Rogiers has been living with a terrible secret most of her life. When she enters the world famous Queen Elisabeth competition the memory of a traumatic childhood experience surfaces again. (imdb)

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

Wilfried Wils must survive as an auxiliary policeman during the Nazi occupation of Antwerp.

Rundfunk is an absurd, horrendously funny and shamelessly politically incorrect high school comedy about two best friends, Tim and Erik, who spend their time trying to do as little as possible during their final year at high school. (imdb)

"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.

"Russen" is a Dutch police series produced by KRO that was first aired in 2000. In 2004, after the fifth season, a total of 42 episodes of the series were produced. The episodes of "Russen" were written by a team of writers, including Dick van den Heuvel, Simon de Waal, Stan Lapinski, and Addy Weijers. Various directors were involved in the production, but the majority of the episodes were created by Pollo de Pimentel and Anne van der Linden. Other directors such as Danniel Danniel, Casper Ve

In 1940s Amsterdam, Jewish Council co-chairman David Cohen and his daughter Virrie have their bond tested as they pursue increasingly opposing ways of safeguarding their community under Nazi rule.

The story of Dutch commando Marco Kroon, who, after becoming the first recipient of his country’s highest military award in over five decades, finds himself in the crosshairs of the law for alleged drugs and weapons violations. (Letterboxd)