Porgy Franssen
In the serenity of the early morning, the confident Don marches out of his office. Modestly, in Don's shadow, Joris follows behind. Don, adorned with status symbols, takes Joris with him in his Mercedes. When they have to make a stop at Don's house, Joris becomes wary and gradually filled with unease, especially when confronted with all the people in the house catering to Don's every whim.
Director: Pim Vogels
Actors: Porgy Franssen, Huub Smit, Renée Fokker, Mark Smulders
Easter 1965. We see Fien de la Mar as an embittered old woman who makes long phone calls at night with people who would rather not speak to her. Through flashbacks we see her arriving as a young girl on the stage with her father Nap de la Mar. We see her in different stages: when she is already a huge star, when she's on the movie set, when she is a diva with her own theater. And we we see her in her downfall after attempting suicide after her husband's death.
Director: Jan Keja
Actors: Jasperina de Jong, Gees Linnebank, Dick Scheffer, Gerard Thoolen, André van den Heuvel
Edgar works as a waiter in 'Het Westen', a restaurant. He is married and has a lover. His neighbors terrorize him with loud music and garbage. One day after he is mistreated by some customers he is sick of it all and goes to talk to his creator, the scenario writer.
Director: Alex van Warmerdam
Actors: Alex van Warmerdam, Ariane Schluter, Jaap Spijkers, Mark Rietman, Thekla Reuten
Fred lives on his own. His wife is dead, his son has left. He leans on the church, busses, meat-and-two-veg. Then Leo appears. Leo is a tramp. Fred lets Leo move in with him. An absurdist feature debut with a laugh and a tear in stuffy Netherlands.
Director: Diederik Ebbinge
Actors: Ton Kas, René van 't Hof, Porgy Franssen, Michel Sluysmans, Elise Schaap
Young and talented Han van Meegeren is a rebel in the early 1920's Amsterdam art-scene. Because he paints in the style of his idols Rembrandt and Vermeer, critics find his work old-fashioned and they call him a copycat. Just to prove a point, he produces a fake Vermeer and tries to pass it off as a real one. It works. Instead of revealing the truth and thereby embarrassing the art world, he continues to make money off of his many forgeries. Soon he is caught in a web of lies and deceit, and his life spins out of control. Then one day, high ranking Nazi Hermann Göring knocks on his door, looking for a Vermeer for his private collection...
Director: Rudolf van den Berg
Actors: Jeroen Spitzenberger, Lize Feryn, Roeland Fernhout, Porgy Franssen, Dewi Reijs
Director: Rob LĂŒcker
Actors: René van 't Hof, Porgy Franssen, Sanne Vogel, Bas Keijzer, Maartje van den Brink
The mini-series is based on the true story of journalist Hans Knoop, who attempts to find the truth behind the then not yet prosecuted war criminal Pieter Menten. In the seventies, the case caused uproar in the media and in the political landscape in The Netherlands.
Director: Tim Oliehoek
Actors: Guy Clemens, Aus Greidanus, Noortje Herlaar, Carine Crutzen, Arian Foppen
Schnitzel Paradise is a Dutch film about a young Moroccan man working in the kitchen of popular Dutch restaurant.
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Actors: Noah Valentyn, Mimoun OaĂŻssa, Frank Lammers, Bracha van Doesburgh, Tygo Gernandt
Nick and Evy are in love. Knowing that Nick is deaf, Evyâs parents do not consent to their relationship. They run away and move into an abandoned submarine, hidden from judgmental eyes. Their runaway love brings them new opportunities and new hardships...
Director: Joost van Ginkel
Actors: Gaite Jansen, Michael Muller, Eva van Heijningen, Ariane Schluter, Porgy Franssen
Frisian-spoken costume drama about the turbulent marriage between a writer and a socialist politician.
Director: Pieter Verhoeff
Actors: Monic Hendrickx, Jeroen Willems, Peter Tuinman, Rients Gratama, Carine Crutzen
The poet Valentijn Boecke meets his former teacher Mieke. They have a short relation. After a while Mieke appears to be pregnant. Valentijn is through with Mieke and leaves her...
Director: Jean van de Velde
Actors: Antonie Kamerling, Olivier Tuinier, Loes Wouterson, Gees Linnebank, Liz Snoyink
The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Director: Peter Greenaway
Actors: J.J. Feild, Raymond J. Barry, Valentina Cervi, Marcel IureÈ, Steven Mackintosh
Bob and Annie separate. After the court case Annie gives Bob two airline tickets for a tropical island to save their relationship. However, Bob takes someone else with him on holiday: Carmen, the daughter of Mafioso Don Gorgonzola. Annie lags behind in Holland, where she falls in love again with other men.
Director: Paul Ruven
Actors: Paul de Leeuw, Rijk de Gooyer, Olga Zuiderhoek, Porgy Franssen, Willeke Alberti
On a cold November day in 1983, is the world's most successful and richest brewer Alfred Heineken and his chauffeur Ab Doderer the door of his office abducted. What follows is the most notorious and infamous kidnapping case that the Netherlands has ever known. Twenty exhausting and nerve-grueling days staying the manufacturer in a cold, cramped cell, chained down and for the first time in his life utterly powerless. His kidnappers, four criminal friends from Amsterdam, encounter great difficulty to collect the ransom (excerpt from http://www.heinekenontvoering.com/synopsis).
Director: Maarten Treurniet
Actors: Rutger Hauer, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Gijs Naber, Teun Kuilboer, Korneel Evers
Inspired by true events, a chilling psychological drama. A couple's secret pact takes an unexpected, sinister turn.
Director: Tjebbo Penning
Actors: Paul Freeman, Diana Kent, Susan Lynch, Eric van der Donk, Marcel Faber
Psychological thriller. Geography teacher smuggles a case of heroin for a friend.
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Actors: Fedja van HuĂȘt, Marcel Hensema, Kim Huffman, Jeroen Willems, Saskia Temmink
Great adventures can hatch from the smallest eggs. Fucsia wants to learn to do magic just like her father, and so is pleased as punch when she is allowed to go to witches' school. There, Fucsia learns to make wind and conjures with the clouds. But her magic often has unexpected results, however, as she is sometimes that little bit too ambitious.
Director: Johan Nijenhuis
Actors: Rachelle Verdel, Porgy Franssen, Annet Malherbe, Marcel Hensema, Lorenso van Sligtenhorst
Soof is reaching 40 and has everything she ever wanted: three children, a small catering business, a sweet husband Kasper and a lovely home. Until she starts asking herself: 'is this all there is'?
Director: Antoinette Beumer
Actors: Lies Visschedijk, Fedja van HuĂȘt, Dan Karaty, Chantal Janzen, Anneke Blok
A family film, based on a well-known Dutch story from the Middle Ages. Mariken tells the compelling and poetic story of spirited young girl named Mariken. The orphan Mariken lives in a secluded forest with an eccentric old hermit. One day, she decides to leave her surroundings and sets off for town to buy a new goat. On her adventurous journey into the 'real' world, she finds out about the good and bad sides of people.
Director: André van Duren
Actors: Laurien van den Broeck, Jan Decleir, Ramsey Nasr, Kim van Kooten, Willeke van Ammelrooy