Baseado na história real do notório Caso Deventer. Em 1999, na Holanda, o jornalista Bas Haan investiga o assassinato de uma viúva que foi morta em sua casa, e começa a suspeitar de Ernest Louwes, última pessoa a falar com a vítima. Após uma reportagem de Bas, Ernest começa a ser difamado pela mídia, que transforma a vida dele e de sua esposa em um verdadeiro pesadelo. Arrependido, Bas decide lutar contra as conspirações, a polícia, a mídia e até os juízes para descobrir a verdade, mas acaba percebendo que a imagem às vezes é mais forte do que os fatos.
Doodslag (Dutch for "Manslaughter") is the story of Max, a paramedic who is repeatedly hindered in performing his duties by loutish behaviour. As his ambulance hurries towards a complicated childbirth, some youths prevent Max from reaching the distressed woman in labour. Spurred on by the emergency and the incendiary words of a TV pundit, he reaches a boiling point and forcefully hits one of the men obstructing his ambulance. Max's strike has far-reaching, unintended consequences.
Hannah, the headstrong rebel of seven siblings, tries to avoid the preparations for her parent's wedding anniversary, but her charming brand-new lover Victor sort of drags her along, and soon proves an ideal son-in-law, which arouses mixed feelings in her. The sister in law who for years tries to fit in but always felt ignored gets a fit because Victor is immediately invited to chip in and join the anniversary river cruise, so they take over the organization from her. Yet when he confides in her the bunch is miserable at communicating, she claims he can't judge after just one evening and seems suddenly uncertain whether to stay with Victor who proves quite patient and understanding...
Uma trama que a principio é esquisita, mas bem inventiva, é a chave de partida desse filme que mistura suspense e aventura policial. Um novo tipo de psicopata está solto nas ruas da Holanda. Um homem toma os empregados de uma torre como refém. Sua motivação é um tanto estranha: ele protesta contra os aparelhos de televisores widescreen porque acredita que as faixas negras superiores e inferiores que aparecem na imagem contém mensagens e códigos escondidos. Buscando compreender a loucura do homem, descobre-se que durante anos ele tentou lutar contra esse tipo de aparelho e outras várias tecnologias modernas. O clima está tenso e o dia avança para um final trágico nessa produção que reflete sobre as trágicas consequências da modernidade e da tecnologia.
Kees (Ramsey Nasr) is a gently eccentric loner who takes his imaginary dog for a walk each evening and likes to listen in on his neighbors' conversations. He is lonely. He has no real family, as his father is dead and his mother is institutionalized. However, when the chronically unemployed Kees gets a job at a bank, many of his co-workers don't know what to make of him, and scarcely anyone talks to him -- until the day someone comments on a photo in his wallet. Though he doesn't actually know the woman in the picture, Kees tells them the woman in the photo is his girlfriend and starts spinning tales about their "relationship." Before long, Kees has invented an entire alternate personality and is stealing photos from others to fit the new "friends" and "family" he's created.
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.
