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When they are confronted with the disease of the pater familias, all the members of the Liefhebber family have to face their fears, faults and their troubled interrelationships.
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Monique, una cirujana cardiovascular de 39 años, tiene solo un enfoque en la vida: su carrera médica. Todo lo demás es secundario para ella. Incluso encuentra que encontrar pareja es una pérdida de tiempo. Más adelante, la llegada del extrovertido Max, un nuevo vecino que se ha mudado al barrio, hace que surja una amistad especial que permite a Monique darse cuenta de que la vida no tiene que dedicar únicamente a su carrera médica.
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Tres amigos jóvenes crecen como estudiantes en Amsterdam. Cuando sucede la muerte del padre de uno de ellos, todo se pondrá en una nueva perspectiva.
A woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer gathers her three dearest friends together to make the most of the time she has left.
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Treurniet nos traslada a la historia de esa mujer que tomó el mando durante el asedio a la ciudad de Harleem por parte del ejército español al inicio de la Guerra de los Ochenta Años. Ese asedio duró seis meses (entre diciembre de 1572 y julio de 1573) hasta que la población de Haarlem se vio obligada a rendirse ante la falta de alimentos, capitulación que supuso un gran golpe a los protestantes holandeses que se habían rebelado contra la dominación católica española.
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Película dirigida por Antoinette Beumer. Sofie (Carice van Houten) y Daan (Jelka van Houten) son dos hermanas gemelas que fueron criadas en Holanda por una pareja formada por dos hombres (Paul Case y Jaap Spijkers). Un día, reciben una llamada telefónica desde Estados Unidos, llamada que les informa de que su madre biológica se encuentra en el hospital debido a una complicada fractura de una pierna. Su madre se encuentra a la espera de que la trasladen a un centro de rehabilitación y las quiere conocer.
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Saar y Johan viajan a Buenos Aires, donde se enamoraron, para ver si pueden arreglar su matrimonio que se está haciendo pedazos. Pero parece que es una causa perdida. Desilusionados, esperan al autobus que les llevará al aeropuerto de regreso a casa cuando filman de manera accidental un tiroteo. Una mujer muere frente a ellos, convirtiendo a la pareja en testigos de un asesinato y con la evidencia en su cámara de video. Lo que sigue será un verdadero suplicio, pero será algo que finalmente puede llegar a revitalizar su amor. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Simon es un joven muchacho que disfruta de una infancia idílica en el campo sueco mientras la sombra del nazismo y la Segunda Guerra Mundial va cubriendo Europa. Aunque lo han educado unos padres de clase obrera que le han transmitido su cariño y sus principios, él se siente distinto. Un día conoce al joven Isaac (Karl Linnertorp), un niño judío hijo de un rico librero que huye de la persecución nazi en Alemania... Adaptación del best seller "La historia de Simon", de Marianne Fredriksson.
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Lea is an immaculate 30-something wife whose husband’s job in real estate allows her an enviably glossy lifestyle. The word ‘emancipation’ simply isn't in her vocabulary and as long as the money rolls in, all is rosy. So, when Harry Jr. arrives, she is a little traumatized at having to swap canapés for nappies.
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A story on the trials and tribulations of a mother-and-son relationship, which goes downhill after son Damiaan passes his school exams and almost immediately moves into a squat, while his widowed mother Aleid falls for the charms of a skipper and moves in with him just as soon.
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A group of holidaymakers descends on the West Frision Island Vlieland, where each of them is confronted with relational problems. Loneliness, surfacing secrets or a crisis; everyone gets their share.
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Mother Stan
Two small town Dutch boys whose socially unnatural friendship is so close, they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality, sliding into violent crime.
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In the TV film Polonaise, traffic jams have grown into a phenomenon in which traffic jam call girls, hairdressers and photographers enliven the endless delays. The film follows a number of people in a jam on the A5. The central character is a Pole in an expensive Saab Convertible, who is wanted by the police. A red Panda carries the heavily pregnant Hilde and her cynical sister. Hilde is worried because she has not seen her friend anymore after a quarrel. In an old Saab, a young couple is bickering. She is a `yuppie cunt' who stakes her marriage for a parking licence and is tired of her husband smoking dope. Charlie the music promoter is driving his son's car. He likes traffic jams, because they allow him to settle his deals undisturbed and meet his secret love, the traffic jam call girl Nena. While the characters are confronted with each other and themselves more and more, tension rises to a peak. A radio pirate connects the story lines with his chatter.
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By accident, Luc discovers the whereabouts of his brother Ad, who mysteriously disappeared fifteen years before. As it turns out, he is living with Els, secluded from the rest of the world, on a farm. Luc decides to stay a few days, even though he and his wife Mieke are not welcome at first. After a while, Mieke heads home. Also, Luc hears strange sounds coming from a barn at the farm. He decides to investigate the matter. He discovers a secret that Ad and Els have been hiding for years.
Onno (30) applies for a dream job as curator in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. He makes it through to the last round with the arrogant yuppie Alex. The younger and self-assured Alex seems to have a better chance of getting the job and Onno will not tolerate that. A few days before the last interview, he kidnaps his opponent and locks him up in a remote cottage that his girlfriend has just inherited near a railway line. As soon as he gets the job, he releases his victim. Three years later - Onno now lives together and has a son - he is a successful curator at the Rijksmuseum and needs an assistant. While interviewing applicants, he is confronted with Alex, now blind in one eye.
The Iranian refugee Amir finds two golden retrievers while jogging on the beach. They have slipped their leash in the hands of Marijke, a middle-aged woman who takes out her daughter Emma's dogs every day and does her housekeeping. Marijke is not capable of keeping her selfish daughter in line and has no authority over the dogs. Amir wants to help her. When Emma hears she has subcontracted the dogs to a refugee, mother and daughter come into conflict. Emma looks for a replacement, but is eventually forced to ask Amir. When they meet, they get on at once, until his residence permit runs out.
The parents of five sisters have been married for forty years; the daughters have gathered in the family beach house to make a video for them. The encounter is marked by many confrontations as well as cheerful moments. Reminiscent of the sweet children's poems that mother recited are countered by Elsschot's Marriage: 'He thought: I'll kill her and set light to the house...' It also turns out that father had once disappeared for eighteen months, a 'secret' that the daughters have different ideas about. Brittle, an intimate film version of a play written and performed by the same actresses, is about rivalry in a family, the right to silence, but also about the need for solidarity. At the Netherlands Film Festival in 1997 the Golden Calf for Best Actress was awarded to the five actresses together.
