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- Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½ (1963).
- The true story of the nineteenth century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
- A man condemned to death and on the run has a last intense sexual relationship with a porn actress.
- This Dallas-type series is about two competing Dutch families, Noordermeer and De Graaf, running ancestral firms in the Rotterdam shipbuilding business, each with numerous internal tensions, especially between the generations, as some are business-prone, others adverse, some ruthless, some soft or moralistic, but also with their staff, often meeting each-other in both ruthless commercial rivalry and personal relationships, again also with staff and third parties (clients, competitors, suppliers...), producing an intricate web of sub-plots, some sex, some crime etcetera.
- Do Not Disturb tells the story of an American family in Amsterdam whose mute 10 year old daughter witnesses a murder. The murderers chase the child through nightly Amsterdam.
- After years living in France, The grandfather of Jakob returns back too his old house. He buys the house and asks his grand-son too help renovate it. When his grandfather falls and get hurt, an older woman decides too look out on Jakob.
- The journey of a homeless boy who tries to find his father, set in the 1920's in Holland.
- Iconic artist Rembrandt van Rijn worked in the fields of painting, drafting, and printing, becoming the most iconic artist in all of Dutch history. This documentary profiles the story of a man whose varied works left an indelible mark on the world.
- The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
- Ramses, a somewhat shy 20-year old boy living in a communal cult, gets permission to leave to visit his dying father.
- 9 contestants and 1 mole (mol). The nine contestants have to complete a series of challenges. When challenges are successfully completed, a certain amount of money is earned.
- Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten.
- You can't choose who your brothers are. Tim is six and a half and lives on Daltonstreet with his three brothers Erik, Jelle, and Daantje. Tim experiences lots of small adventures, which seem like unimportant events, but Tim is left with an indelible impression.
- A North Holland amateur soccer team struggles to end their season successfully.
- Documentary about the fall of Srebrenica (Bosnian civil war, 1995). For a large part consisting of original video material shot by people involved themselves.
- A Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers.
- Benny and his girlfriend Alma own a nightclub in the red light district of Amsterdam. Everything's going well until Charley starts working in the club.
- After watching their small business go up in flames, three lifelong friends need money fast. Opportunity knocks when a local drug lord offers them a small fortune to smuggle 25 million dollars worth of Ecstasy from Amsterdam to Barcelona.
- During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
- The film takes place in a small cafe on the forecourt. When Gerard, one of the regular visitors, appears in the cafe to inform him that he is leaving, the usual course of the cafe's life suddenly breaks.
- * (Dutch with English subtitles) FAMILY (2000) A young boy develops a passion for archeology and tries to unravel the truth about his ancestry.
- A real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramovic. Rather than a mechanical reproduction of the artist's work, the film tries to create a new reality by translating the performances into cinematographic images that intensify the fictional context of the film. Abramovic plays herself, but ,appearing in multiple forms, blurs her own identity. Memories and fantasies intermingle with day to day rituals.
- The world premiere of Endemol's reality-soap Big Brother.
- The movie stars you see on the screen have once been selected amongst others. The glamor of the premiere is preceded by mug shots, selections, interviews, wining, dining, backstabbing and sex. In the end, everyone gets what they deserve.
- Besides the stray dog Mingus, 11 year old Sophia has no real friends. She is pushed around by the "Beastie boys", a gang of street kids who have built an entire camp in the trees of a junk yard. One day Sophia hears that the yard is ordered to be cut down by Carlow, the mayor. Mingus, who lives in the yard, will be taken away and put to sleep. Sophia is shocked but just then she meets a gypsy, who lends her an old leather ball. For five days only. The ball is alive and may just be able to help her saving the yard. And indeed the ball proves being an amazing character. It makes objects fly and communicates with Sophia through whistling, and successfully attacks Carlow's bodyguard "Sweetlove". Sophia is accepted in the gang. She realises that the ball might chase the mayor's men off the yard. Yet, Sophia discovers that even great magic sometimes has dark sides: when Sophia's new friend Romeo tries to kiss her, the ball grows jealous and turns vicious... Her plans and everything seems to go downhill again...
- Portrait of the popular Dutch singer Andre Hazes.
- Saint Nicholas has employees who make sure the Evening of the Presents goes according to plan. Hoofdpiet is in charge with Wegwijspiet and Chefpiet while other Pieten include Testpiet, Hoge Hoogte Piet, Muziekpiet, Profpiet and others.
- Series of seven movies, each by a different writer/director with a different crew and cast, each about one of the seven classical virtues.
- This film was shot entirely in Rotterdam and shows the German couple David (Helmut Berger) and Tanya (Sheri Hagen) who are kept by Ludwig (Udo Kier), David's half-brother. Ludwig has some dubious business to do and so he is staying in the port for a while. David and Tanya have followed him and are staying in a hotel. They pass the time committing robberies. When David finds a photo of an attractive young man among the booty of a robbery, his life is turned upside down. He will have to close the door on a suffocating past.
- 15 questions, 10 contestants, 3 life-lines and 1 million euros.
- A documentary about a German-Jewish actor of the stage, cabaret, and films who landed up being forced to make a propaganda film for the Nazis about their Theresiensadt camp in Czechoslovakia, and then was sent to die in Auschwitz.
- Portrait of Nugayev, the Tchetchenian mafia leader and independence fighter.
- Dennis, Stefan and Gina are homeless and on the run from the ghosts of their pasts. Individually they each try to survive the hardships of Amsterdam. As a counterpoint to the story the European Heads of State have gathered in Amsterdam to debate the future of European unity. Entire streets are blocked off for security reasons and the shelters are packed with Eastern European tourists pretending to be homeless. As Stefan, Dennis and Gina cross paths they cheat manipulate and curse on another yet somehow an undeniable intimacy blossoms and they negotiate their way to friendship.
- King Olaf of Haland is an albino who lives in a gloomy castle. Abraham Mogèn, an alchemist, wants to aid the king. But on his way to the castle he is murdered by the highwayman Wogram and his servant Onorg. Wogram disguises himself as the alchemist and wins the favor of the king.
- A visually stunning paean to spiritual pilgrimage that creates a world of intense reverence, distinctly Asian in its imagery. Set to Georgian folksongs with 3½ tons of shimmering golden grains of rice.
- The life and works of the artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) usually referred to as M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist.
- A montage of scenes featuring silent cinema divas, taken from 12 European films made between 1913 and 1920 (including "Carnivalesca", "La donna nuda" and "Rapsodia satanica"), tied with Loek Dikker's orchestral score.
- A documentary film by Heddy Honigmann on the traumatic effects of war on the soldiers of United Nations peacekeeping missions.
- Prague Stories is a film about relationships and love seen from four different perspectives. The punctuation of four full stops in the film's title represents the film's four directors: Vladimir Michalek, Michaela Pavlatova, Martin SulIk, and Artemio Benki. Each of them has shot a 20-minute episode set in contemporary Prague. Fatal crosses in love affairs, tragi-comic barriers in communication and the uneasy overcoming of distance and alienation are the topics of the individual episodes.