Rik Launspach

Our heroes spend their summer holidays on a mysterious estate in the Netherlands, where Auntie Sidonia succumbs to the influence of a dark diamond with unsuspected powers. To save her, Spike and Suzy set out on an exciting search in 15th Century Holland for an old alchemist, the only one who can lift the ancient curse. (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.

With liberation in sight, a group of resistance fighters, in the forests of Limburg, decide to capture over 30 German prisoners of war. When the Gestapo takes notice of their resistance, they are forced along with their prisoners to flee from refuge to refuge.

Johan Ten Berghe joins the Dutch army when the Dutch East Indies unilaterally declare independence as Indonesia. He initiates his naive driver Twan in life in the East, having grown up there as son of colonial official Hendrik, now missing. Their adventures intertwine with Johan's childhood memories, especially concerning his native best friend, Oeroeg, who joined the rebellion, as well as their nanny and later de facto stepmother. Conflicting loyalties become tangible in extreme situations.