Tiros na Escuridão (1999)
When you can't scream you can only run...
Gênero : Thriller
Runtime : 1H 34M
Director : Dick Maas
Sinopse
Combining a family vacation with business, Walter Richmond takes his wife and their 10-year-old, mute daughter, Melissa , to the Netherlands -- where Melissa inadvertently witnesses a murder. Unable to tell anyone what she's seen, the frightened girl vanishes in an attempt to elude the killers. Meanwhile, her parents try desperately to piece together the puzzle leading to Melissa's disappearance.
The bizarre story takes place in Amsterdam-West, where a virus turns people into bloodthirsty zombies. Although much blood is flowing and many limbs chopped off, there is a lot to laugh at in this bizarre horror comedy.
Detectives Grijpstra and De Gier are sent to investigate the case of a man who apparently hanged himself in a center for oriental meditation. It is ruled as suicide and the case seems to be closed, but the same night there is an attempted break in. The investigation hits a dead end and everyone involved is a suspect. Based on the book "The Corpse in the Haarlemmer Houttuinen” by Jan-Willem van de Wetering.
A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico and Vincenzo take off together for the city's red-light district, where the women pose in windows for prospective customers. There the duo meet Else and Carrel who are willing to leave their windows to spend a weekend at a resort with the two men. Soon Else has fallen in love with Vincenzo and the future of the two hookers, as well as the miners, seems to look brighter.
In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons. Under police interrogation, Dominici confesses to have killed the family and it looks certain that he will be charged, tried and sentenced to death. But then the case begins to collapse. The old man retracts his confession and the lack of evidence against him becomes apparent…
Quando um gângster conhecido como J.D. (Rik Sinkeldam) sai pelas ruas no centro de Amsterdan em busca de vingança, uma conspiração revelada. Perseguido pelo agente da CIA Martin Keele (Michael Madsen), o rapaz é sequestrado pela máfia tailandesa, drogado e forçado a revelar os segredos de seu chefe, o perigoso Gunter. Deixado para morrer, J.D. consegue retornar a Amsterdam e encontra abrigo no famoso Distrito da Luz Vermelha da capital holandesa. Lá, ele é ajudado por Monique (Alison Carrol), uma dançarina. Quando J.D. começa a refazer seus passos e recuperar sua memória, perceque que sua luta será a única forma de enfrentar seus inimigos, que o querem vivo ou morto.
Madrid, the beginning of the century. One day, the police inspector Santos Trinidad coming home very drunk, is involved in a triple murder. But there is a witness who managed to escape and that could incriminate him. Santos undertakes an investigation to locate and eliminate the witness. Meanwhile, Chacón a judge in charge of investigating the triple murder, meticulously advances in the search for the murderer. Santos and Chacon soon discover that what seemed a simple case of drug trafficking is actually something far more dangerous.
Em Reno, Nevada, Deloris Van Cartier é uma cantora que acidentalmente testemunha um brutal assassinato cometido pelo seu namorado, Vince LaRocca, um gângster. Enquanto tentam capturar Vince, um detetive, Eddie Souther, é encarregado de protegê-la. Deloris é colocada no programa de proteção às testemunhas e é mandada para um convento em São Francisco disfarçada de freira, usando o nome de irmã Mary Clarence. Mas seu jeito extrovertido, que não é aprovado pela Madre Superiora, acaba fazendo ela dar uma nova vida ao coral, chamando a atenção das pessoas e de Vince.
Anne Desbarèdes is a young woman who is married to a wealthy businessman and lives a monotonous existence in the small commune town of Blaye. After indirectly witnessing a murder in a café, she returns to the scene of the crime the next day and meets Chauvin, who informs her in more detail about the events that took place. Mentally unbalanced, Anne begins to believe that Chauvin intends to kill her.
Michelle lives in Paris with René, who is influential politicians. One morning as Michelle discovers that her 18-year-old daughter Lauren has not come home from a pub tonight. René does not want to involve the police, because he does not want a scandal that could affect his political career negative. They decide instead to hire a private investigator. It turns out that Lauren has been kidnapped to be used by a gang producing snuff. Detective withdraws from the case, however, because he fears for his life and Michelle decides to find their own daughter. The hunt goes by porn swamps in Paris, Amsterdam and Hamburg.
Hazel e Gus dividem um senso de humor sarcástico, um desgosto por convenções sociais e, por fim uma amor que vai levá-lo para uma jornada transformadora e inesquecível. Embora os dois adolescentes enfrentem desafios extraordinários, sua coragem e dedicação ao outro provam que a vida pode não ser perfeita, mas o amor é.
Maarten meets the woman of his dreams, unfortunately he's hammered.
A noir action thriller about an amateur MMA fighter who is quickly and unknowingly thrust into the world of a criminal organization.
A tecnologia nos levou ao caos. Depois de evoluirmos tanto, perdemos o controle sobre a robótica. Agora, nesta Amsterdam futurista, nos deparamos com uma equipe de cientistas e guerreiros que busca salvar o mundo das garras de um robô amargurado. Uma máquina que sentiu revolta ao perceber que os humanos podem ser falsos e perigosos
A child psychologist, Hollis who's marriage collapsed after she learned she was barren, bonds with Luke Winfield, who witnessed his father's murder at the hands of rain-slicker wearing killer with a cargo hook. Along the way she befriends Detective Bass as he investigates a series of homicides, each with the same M.O. As Hollis gets closer to Luke she discovers some trouble family secrets ensuring she is next to be slain.
On a beach in Barcelona appears the body of a young man, his face eaten by fish, who has tattooed on his arm the phrase: "I was born to revolutionize the hell." So begins a strange enigma. To begin we must find a name to this dead, find their identity. This is the charge receiving Pepe Carvalho detective Galician, former CIA agent and vocational skeptical, which does not prevent you from enjoying and savoring the pleasures of good food and good bed. Among the Barcelona underworld and the streets and canals of Amsterdam, Carvalho soon gives the answer.
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...
Prominent cinematographer Christopher Doyle continues to hone his talents as a director with this thriller set in Eastern Europe and inspired by the as-yet-unsolved murder of a Polish politician in 2001. A young prostitute is spending the evening with a prominent Polish official when he's suddenly assassinated in Warsaw. In the aftermath of the hit, the triggerman takes the prostitute to an apartment and subjects her to a complex personality replacement program designed to wipe out any memories she may have retained about the evening's events.
Compilation of film clips from 1905-1915, found footage of silent movies and documentaries from the Jean Desmet Archive of the Netherlands Film Museum. Jean Desmet was one of the first Dutch film distributors. Lyrisch nitraat is a tribute to the craftsmanship of early filmmakers, but also shows the brittleness of old nitrate films. Composed as an opera about love and death, set to music by Bizet, Masek and Puccini.
Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman's murder is witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who do nothing to help and refuse to cooperate with the police.
Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.