A stubborn stage actor navigates single fatherhood, a strenuous theatre project, an adulterous love affair, and the confounding dreams awakened by a puzzling street encounter with a mysterious stranger.
Four out-of-shape car mechanics decide to participate in the Rotterdam marathon. If they reach the finish in time, they will be able to pay off their debt — if they don't, they will lose their garage.
When housewife Ms. Van Dam receives an unexpected visit from a stranger needing the toilet, wild fantasies take over. Based on a short story by Jules Deelder.
In a flashback, the film follows the life of Martin Hogeveen. He leads a life that leaves nothing to be desired: a luxurious apartment, a beautiful young girlfriend and a successful job as an independent municipal policy advisor, whose secondary task it is to combat fraud. His investigations are amply rewarded when he brings to light an extensive building industry fraud. As a result of his report, the director of the local authority is fired and Hogeveen takes over his post. In the meantime, Martin is stalked in his private life by an impetuous student who even harasses his girlfriend. Martin gets entangled in a situation involving murder and blackmail, and eventually makes an unexpected discovery. Zinloos is based on René Appel's novel Zinloos geweld.
For all Frits, a farmer's son, knows, his mother died when giving birth to him. He and his father make up a strong team. In the literal and figurative sense, because his father not only teaches him to milk the cows and hunt, he is also the coach of his soccer team. The happy tide turns when the boy turns eighteen and is scouted as a promising soccer talent. Suddenly, Frits's future is no longer with his father on the farm, but on the green grass of the Nijmegen soccer club NEC. His son's splendid soccer career may be the crowning glory of the farmer's hard work, but he is afraid he will also lose his only child. Desperate, he reveals the lie with which he raised his son. Frits is bewildered and makes a dramatic decision.
Tragicomedy about two brothers who married two sisters, walking the streets of Deventer at night lamenting the fact that each should have married the other one's wife.
A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.
데이트를 즐기던 두쌍의 연인이 탄 엘리베이터가 층과 층사이에 멈춰 질식 직전에 구조된다. 고장난 엘리베이터를 고치기 위해 펠릭스(Felix Adelaar: 휴브 스테펠 분)라는 정비공이 고용되지만 엘리베이터는 고장난 것이 아니었다. 한편 같은 건물에 위치한 부동산 소개소에서 아파트를 구한 맹인 노신사가 엘리베이터를 타려고 하는데 그만 문만 열리고 엘리베이터가 도착하지 않아 추락사하고 만다. 마치 악령이 씌인 듯 계속 하여 사고가 발생하는 엘리베이터에 무언가 있다고 생각한 펠릭스는 여기자와 함께 조사를 시작하는데...
