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Two promising dancers navigate the demanding world of ballet in 1970s Amsterdam.

Two former lovers find themselves struggling for shared closure as one of them prepares to stage a play about the unspeakable tragedy that tore them apart decades ago.

The stately wader and national bird tells the story of how to survive on its journey around the world on its way to its breeding grounds in the Netherlands.

When 52-year-old Nora plays her supporting role for the umpteenth performance and again undergoes the toxic behaviour of the theatre company and the bullying of the male lead actor, she decides to take matters into her own hands.

Fifty-year-old Barry is a special kind of cleaner: he cleans crime scenes where demons have wreaked havoc. While making a corporate film about his work, a normal working day for Barry gets out of hand in a bloody way.

In Roman tragedies, Ivo van Hove and Jan Versweyveld have created a unique arena in which Shakespeare speaks about our time more than ever and the political game in all its facets.

Um pai embarca numa busca frenética por toda a Europa pela esposa e filhos desaparecidos. Fica aliviado ao localizar as suas filhas gêmeas em uma vila remota no norte da França, mas rapidamente se transforma em horror quando ele descobre que seu filho mais novo morreu misteriosamente. Não sabendo em quem ou em que pode confiar, ele sai em uma busca incessante para descobrir a verdade sobre o desaparecimento de sua esposa e a morte de seu filho.

Sam é uma jovem de 14 anos que, após a morte da mãe, fica responsável pela maior parte das tarefas da casa. Quando a garota também acaba indo para o além e descobre que pode fazer diferente, ela dá uma nova chance à vida com o único propósito de salvar a mãe.

On the very eve of shooting his debut film, a harried young director struggles to balance fiction and reality as he spends one fever dream of a night searching for the inspiration that eludes him.

Baseado na história real de Antonia Brico que, na Nova Iorque de 1930, tornou-se a primeira mulher a conduzir, com sucesso, uma orquestra. Ela ousou seguir o sonho de se tornar uma maestrina, embora ninguém acreditasse ser possível.

Acquitted of a fatal on-duty incident but tormented by its harrowing personal repercussions, a police officer and impending father struggles to piece his uprooted life back together while sent on leave to a holiday resort in Greece.

On the eve of her forty-fifth birthday Doris Doorenbos (Tjitske Reidinga) ends up like a divorced woman with two children at a dead end.

A história acontece num mundo futurista, onde o piloto esta lutando para salvar sua família após um experimento por energia ilimitada e controle de universos paralelos dar errado. A ficção científica é baseada no curta "What’s in the Box?", de Tim Smit, e tem seu roteiro escrito por Charlie Kindinger e Omid Nooshin.

Stanley A. McChrysta (Brad Pitt) é um militar letal que comanda os norte-americanos na Guerra do Afeganistão. Em uma estratégia radical, ele junta sua equipe de subordinados e assessores de imprensa em uma investida para fazer aliados em todo o mundo, pedindo reforços, negociando no campo de batalha e driblando a imprensa durante a guerra.

Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Hanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.

Tiny, de língua afiada e imponente, sofre de mysophobia. O sobrinho Albert a ama e, uma vez crescido, ele a confronta, após o que todos os segredos da família finalmente vêm à tona.

Em 1888, um obstinado fabricante de violino de Amsterdã se vê envolto em perigo e tragédia após desafiar empresários que ameaçam sua comunidade.

As the everlasting renovation of his house spirals out of control, an angst-ridden fifty-something man struggles to keep his grip on reality and all he holds dear.

Duas famílias vão acampar em uma floresta inapropriada para acampamento e montam suas barracas perto de uma lagoa. Isolados de qualquer civilização, eles acabam descobrindo que a lagoa contém uma misteriosa força, que não os deixará ir embora.

Duas famílias vão acampar em uma floresta inapropriada para acampamento e montam suas barracas perto de uma lagoa. Isolados de qualquer civilização, eles acabam descobrindo que a lagoa contém uma misteriosa força, que não os deixará ir embora.

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.

When the Dutch peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan is nearly over, soldier Diederick dies in the arms of his 21-year-old platoon mate Johnny. Johnny comes home as coffin bearer and after the ceremony at the Eindhoven Airbase, he is being welcomed home in the bar of his parents who treat him as a hero. Johnny undergoes the welcome party passively. He doesn't feel comfortable or at home. The next day he drives with a loaded gift to Aerdenhout. The gift is a DVD containing a movie that Diederick had made for his twin sister's birthday, Fleur. He rings the bell at the ancestral home of Diederick. The loss of Diederick has put the family relations on edge. Because of his gift, Johnny is sucked into the unpredictable family struggling with their pain. Johnny sees it as his duty to help them, but he doesn't know how. To be able to come home, he must first allow himself to experience his own grief.

O mundo de Jörgen está desmoronando. Forçado a uma aposentadoria precoce e perturbado pela separação de sua esposa, a única coisa em sua vida que parece fazer sentido - a amada filha Tirza - se acaba quando a garota desaparece misteriosamente num final de semana na Namíbia. Após semanas de incertezas, Jörgen decide ele mesmo sair em busca da filha. Mas o forte calor, suas bebedeiras e as tristes memórias só ajudam a enlouquece-lo de vez. Sua única salvação aparece na pele de uma menina prostituta chamada Kaisa. Juntos, eles embarcam numa jornada na imensidão africana para descobrir qual foi de fato o destino de Tirza. Candidato da Holanda ao Oscar de Filme Estrangeiro em 2011

Stijn e Carmen formam um casal de jovens publicitários que viveram uma intensa paixão no passado. Agora eles lutam para manter uma vida de felicidade e amor depois que ela descobre que está com câncer de mama.

Tiuri é quase um cavaleiro. Ele só tem de passar em um teste e ele vai ser condecorado. Ele só tem de dormir uma noite na capela, sem falar e sem abrir a porta. Então, alguém bate à porta da capela e pede ajuda. Arriscando seu título, Tiuri abre a porta e ajuda o indivíduo. Tiuri tem que entregar uma carta a um cavaleiro na floresta, que contém uma mensagem importante para um rei aliado. Quando Tiuri encontra o cavaleiro, o cavaleiro é mortalmente ferido e pede Tiuri para entregar a carta. Tiuri hesita, mas aceita a missão. A aventura começa …. Tiuri conseguirá entregar a carta na hora? Qual o conteúdo da carta?

Bookkeeper Jacob newest client is the talented and flamboyant actress Anne. They first meet each other on her houseboat, the morning after the premiere of Anne's new theatrical play. Anne has made a mess of her personal finances and she has a lot of debt. So much so that she may even have to sell her houseboat. Jacob does what he can to help her.

Seven socio-economically successful women around the age of fifty come together in France for their annual multi-day bike ride.

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.

A dark evening. A father drives home with his daughter on the back seat. A head-on collision. A man awakes in a large empty room, where the father appears to want something from him. That night, victim and inflictor reconstruct the biggest mistake of their lives.

Melissa is a 15-year-old girl who loves to dance. Her parents think she is taking classes in classical ballet, but once at the dance school she devotes herself to the hip-hop dance classes. Melissa is good friends with Jordi and he is very happy for Melissa when she is asked to dance in the music video of the famous rapper Brainpower. But because of bad influences, her life becomes a nightmare. Until her real friends decide to get her out of there.

A class of young drama students are led to believe that they are attending an actual masterclass of famous Dutch comedy actor Peer Mascini. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but to the increasing bewilderment of the students, Mascini confronts them with the most bizarre questions and assignments.

The twinbrothers Sietse and Hielke Klinkhamer want to raise money for their ill friend, Marieke.

Armin is in crisis. One fateful day he discovers he is infertile and has been throughout his life. From this he discovers his first wife, Monika, was unfaithful before she died. How else could she have the child that Armin always thought was his? His paranoia drives him to find the truth.

Four old college friends in their forties come together in a time of trouble and despair. Old joy relives, but the harsh reality of their problems can't satisfy them and eventually endangers their friendships.

A mother is struggling with her baby monitor.

Two young boy twins receive a boat of their own by a stroke of luck. It turns out to be very fast and they use their boat to help out their friends.

Psychological thriller. Geography teacher smuggles a case of heroin for a friend.

A man with bloody hands is arrested as prime suspect in a murder case. He does not understand why and refuses to cooperate. Bernard Van de Wiele, the suspect, is a writer. One of the police inspectors comes up with the idea to give him a typewriter: an Olivetti 82. The interrogators hope that this way he will agree to share his story. Bernard begins his memoir: a long search for love and protection. Little by little the truth comes to light.

The actor Lucas Bron performs the play King Lear by William Shakespeare for the pupils of his son Patja. After the show, Patja has already got home when he is warned that his father's house is on fire. He rushes to the fateful spot. The fire brigade has already arrived and is unable to say whether his father is still in the house. Patja desperately runs into the burning house and finds his father unconscious on the kitchen floor. But Lucas' spirit is in the theatre. In a magic train of thought, just before he dies, Lucas directs and acts, assisted by his son, high points and low from his eventful life in the theatre, but also outside. Theatre and reality become intertwined. It slowly becomes clear that Lucas still has something to tell his son.

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Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend turned gangster. The childhood friend turns informant. But his revelations are hardly the most important "leaks" in the story. In fact, the new relationship between old friends goes all wrong, and the young policeman becomes increasingly involved in a deadly web of lies, crimes, treason, and revenge, all seemingly out of control.

A man is travelling on a long haul express train journey from Amsterdam to Paris. He shares his sleeper compartment with another man who he engages in conversation. He learns that the man is a cannibal who intends to kill and eat him. The man is unsure of where his life is going and begins to be swayed by the cannibal's assertions that being eaten would give his life meaning and purpose. However, how long can the man stall for, with questions on the finer points of eating someone?

After losing sight of each other for 25 years, the paths of three childhood friends cross paths. It concerns successful conductor Victor Slingeland, successful writer Sander Vastenhout and general practitioner Bert Duprez. Slingeland enjoys a reputation as a womanizer. This intrigues Vastenhout who, as is often the case with authors, is without inspiration. Vastenhout sees the unraveling of Slingeland's complex personality as possible new material for a novel. With the help of Dr. Duprez, Vastenhout tries to find out about Slingeland's secret by imitating his behavior and thus challenging him.

Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him to complete the novel reality and fiction become blurred; in this feverish atmosphere of excess Dostoyevsky's characters come to life as he struggles to complete his work.

A biography of Isabelle de Charrière and her friendship with Benjamin Constant.

In this melancholic comedy we follow the successful young violinist Sacha as she travels by train from Paris to Amsterdam and three days later when she returns, bereft of many illusions yet purified within.

Frank de Roover returns to the village of his birth, Portland. There he reconnects with his childhood friends Peter and Koos, as well as the girl all three of them fell in love with, Lili.

Frits Egters can't quite get a hold of himself. An intelligent and sensitive young man, repulsion and desillusion turned him cynical. According to Frits there should be more to life - he just doesn't know where to find it.

A murderer is at large: a well-dressed businessman incarcerates his victims, chains and starves them, and documents their death amid their filth with Instamatic snaps. Meanwhile, in another part of town, a woman joins a brothel...