A young painter takes up French lessons with an elder lady to ensure he’ll get a grant for a French arts institute. That way he meets Anna, a beautiful married woman nursing the lady’s old father, and falls in love with her.
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...
Hedwig, a young wealthy woman growing up in the straight-jacket of bourgeois morality in the Victorian era, descends into madness after years of sexual repression and tragedy.
Film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Simon Vestdijk from 1968. During a dinner with the Van der Laan family, memories are reminisced about previous parties that ended in orgy-like scenes.
The story of the murder of Dutch comedian Jean-Louis Pisuisse and his wife, by the hands of jealous singer Tjakko Kuiper. Based on Gerben Hellinga's play, and performed by the Publiekstheater.
In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
De Mantel der Liefde is a bizarre, over the top and at times hilarious settling of scores with the Catholic Church, commercial movie culture and 1970's petit bourgeois Dutch culture in general.
Four inmates are ordered to enter an annual four day walking tournament. When they get over their initial annoyment, each one of them finds a way to take advantage of their time out of jail.
Cornelis van Doorn is the CEO of VD, a meat factory as well as a developer of contraceptives. Cornelis is the patriarch of the Van Doorn family: a decadent bunch of loose morals who only lust for money and power. When the man is thinking about retiring, he has to find the right heir to take over the family business.
