Paul Ruven

A struggling actress gets one last shot at her Hollywood dream - with just one hour to turn an unreleased Dutch movie into a $100 million sequel to "Babygirl."

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When painter Pieter Athmer discovered that his inspiration David Hockney was living in nearby Normandy, he created a surprise for him, and left on a roadtrip from Amsterdam to France with his good friend, director Gerardjan Rijnders.

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You wake up, with no memory. You have 90 minutes before your kidnappers will kill you, unless you find out who you are and why these foreign people want to kill you. A thriller in the vein of “Buried” with a devious twist.

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A thriller with a surprise twist about the NSA Deputy Director, who needs a genius plan to save his child from a kidnapper, who wants him to betray the privacy of all US citizens and make him the next Snowden with a devious marketing plan.

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The Surrender is a romantic erotic film based on the novel The surrender of Floor by Renee Amstel. A critic called the novel: "the Dutch answer to the Fifty Shades of Grey hype". Eva is a pretty young woman. She works in a cafe and her dream is to be a singer. One day, the famous actor Tim asks if she wants to play with him in a movie. There is no script, only the romantic erotic novel The Surrender Of Floor. Does she want to see with him how they can play the two characters in the book? That is the beginning of their tempestuous relationship, in which they are trying to be honest to their own secret fantasies and go beyond their limits. How far do they go in love?

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Ushi Hirosaki has to marry according to Japanese tradition before her 30th birthday. Because time is running out, her family decides she has to marry a huge sumo wrestler. A rather unfortunate combination, so Ushi wants to look for a nicer candidate herself. She travels halfway around the world to find her dream husband. Along the way she does valiant efforts, for example to learn table manners and to lose her Japanese accent.

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Five years after the disappearance of high school girl Natalee Holloway in Aruba, an ambitious journalist wants to break into alleged murderer Joran van der Sloot's home to force a breakthrough in the case.

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Mahmut, the son of a poor Turkish greengrocer in the Netherlands, dreams of escaping his retail fate by becoming a rapper. But things change radically when he and his best friend Apo find out that a dangerous Turkish gang is extorting money from their fathers. With the help of the police they go undercover within that gang - but can these two aspiring rappers succeed?

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Just before his wedding, a Dutch man discovers that he has an African daughter. Is it blackmail or not? He has to find out quickly before the wedding. He has to travel with his alleged daughter through an African country in turmoil to uncover a surprising mystery.

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February 2002. An Argentinian mother and her daughter visit Amsterdam during the wedding of prince Willem-Alexander and princess Máxima. She is looking for a miracle, the reappearing of her husband Alejandro, who got lost during the regime. She experiences difficulty as the police don't believe her story. On top of it all her daughter disappears in the crowd. Police officer Felix Bos also has a problem. His girlfriend Min has just heard some bad news. She's going to be evicted from the country. The situation brings Felix into trouble with the police. This is also the day he finds out his mother couldn't have been his mother.

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A Hollywood producer tries to grab the role of a lifetime.

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A mysterious foreign woman who is staying temporarily in a house there. Who she is and what her secret is are both slowly revealed in the reconstruction of a story about passion, revenge and war. Paul Ruven's homage to the films of Marguerite Duras and Chantal Akerman.

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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.

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In this art-film, a famous multimedia artist abandons his former life for a new one in a hermetically sealed room filled with living portraits. His new space becomes a haven for the terminally dysfunctional. Trouble ensues when two strangers, the world-weary Col. Hardy and the handsome son of an aspiring presidential candidate, come to collect on a commissioned work of art.

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Switching from one popular TV-genre to another, a dramatic love-story unfolds between the nun Agnes and a Tv-reporter/Rock-star.

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Lou is a Turkish cellmate on leave, who has started proving his Turkish cellmate to save him from marrying another with his Turkish lover. The leaver enlists the help of his wife who has suddenly entered into a relationship with the responsible probation officer. Equipped with a revolver and telephone, the shaky couple drives through the streets of Amsterdam.

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A woman is forced to confront her apathy to the murders she witnesses every evening.

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Ryder is a psychiatrist who can flawlessly analyze his clients' problems, but is hopelessly alone in solving his own mental distress. One day, Sleuth, a detective, bursts into Ryder's office with the news that Ryder is suspected of murdering three women. Ryder is unaware of any wrongdoing. However, he has received a mysterious letter announcing a murder, and Lizzy, his secretary, has disappeared without a trace. The confessions of a new patient set Ryder thinking. A verbal cat-and-mouse game ensues between Ryder and Sleuth, but it raises more questions than it answers. If the murders have been committed, what is the motive? And if there is no motive, can there be a suspect? Or has everything been staged? Perhaps by Sleuth or Ryder himself?

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Based on the traditional Dutch smartlap genre (an overly dramatic folk song). Maria Machita has to deal with a lot of heartache in this short musical film; her father dies in an accident, her mother perishes in the theatre, and her sweet Turkish boyfriend is leaving the country. Awarded with a Gouden Kalf for Best Short Film, the Prijs van de Stad Utrecht and the Pathé Tuschinski Award. (from http://www.filmfestival.nl/publiek/films/de-tranen-van-maria-machita)

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D.C. has been abandoned by his girlfriend Nola, wants to go to Hollywood and participates in 'chicken races' out of desperation and lack of money; a perilous event in which one travels a certain distance on the road by car without stopping.

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The romantic pharmacist Max is in a relationship with Willie and also has a platonic relationship with Laura. The artist Henk is the fourth player in this game of quartets. The foursome is comically torn between the urge for independence and the desire for a partner. Jealousy and relationship anxiety cause the relationships to constantly change, resulting in continuous relocations. In between, there is the minor drama involving Bonita: Max has a passion for pigeons. Together with the melancholic pigeon fancier Gisbers, he is the owner of the cock pigeon Bonita, who never wins any prizes...

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A series of short vignettes set in a Berlin Mietskaserne (rental barracks for the poor), framed by Schönberg's atonal piece Pierrot Lunaire.

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After debuting in 1983 with Casta Diva, Eric de Kuyper immediately made Naughty Boys in 1984, a film that he himself described as “a sad musical comedy” in which he pays homage to the old musicals and comedies. The film is set in an unspecified time, somewhere between both World Wars in a large English country house. Six gentlemen in dinner jackets try to maintain the atmosphere of a party that has just ended. Naughty Boys was the second film De Kuyper made with friends and students, but here for the first time they were joined by a “professional” actress, Linda Polan.

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In a series of long held shots, men are observed performing simple tasks in real time, while on the soundtrack we hear excerpts from opera.

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A struggling actress gets one last shot at her Hollywood dream - with just one hour to turn an unreleased Dutch movie into a $100 million sequel to "Babygirl."

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A well-to-do white family struck by overnight financial ruin struggle to find their place in the urban, multicultural working-class neighborhood they are forced to move into.

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Documentary about one of the most talked-about Dutch renovations of the moment: the redesign of Soestdijk Palace. The ambitious renovation team, stakeholders, and opponents are followed for several years.

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Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.

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Before bedtime is the worst time of the day for Duco, a 12-year-old boy. Only one way seems to remain to permanently put an end to this.

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