Christine van Stralen

Two middle-aged men, one of them Moroccan-Dutch, sit in a misty sauna and discuss the state of their lives. Their friendly banter begins in a typically defensive male style: racist, homophobic and sexist jokes, complaints about other people. Slowly, the Dutch man’s defences crumble as we learn about the emotional ruin of his life. Can he reach out to his children, his ex-wife, even his soon-to-depart best friend?

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Blessed with exceptional hearing, blind Roman Mertens lands his dream job in the local police wiretapping unit — a job more dangerous than he expected.

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The 12-year-old black girl Ella is deprived of safety, opportunities, and freedom. Ella discovers that she has lived multiple lives in Ghana, Curaçao and Surinam as the immortal, extraterrestrial Xoxo. In this magical realistic feature with elements of science fiction, a paralleled world is created from where the aliens observe human thoughts and feelings.

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The temporarily displaced teenager Olivia wants nothing more than to return to her mother Selma. In crisis center Girla, she discovers just how suffocating their symbiotic bond truly is.

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We follow the destructive life of 37-year-old Cat. People around her are worried. Cat is not. Due to a great loss within the family, which is largely not talked about, there is barely a sense of family left. Her mother IS a panic attack. Her father writes self-help books.

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One summer morning Sven experiences something odd--cold shower, no lights and a leaky fridge. Also, no power and Sven has invited his friends over to watch a soccer match. Sven decides to look for alternative solutions himself.

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At the start of their weekend trip, a couple decides to stop by the House of Books. They want to donate a box of children's books. An exercise in letting go.

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Charles Dujardin - psychiatrist - starts losing his precious sense of control when Lotte, a seductive and promiscuous client offers her confession. Her story takes hold of his mind. After his ailing wife is sped off to the hospital Charles grows obsessed with Lotte. Reality and fantasy start mixing. An ethical commission starts asking difficult questions. There's been a complaint. An official investigation is started. But he didn't do anything wrong. Did he?

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The young, successful vet Isa is a little unsure about her body and love. Ruben is the perfect man. Good looking, works with his hands and loves his labrador Bo dearly. One day when Isa saves Bo from a chocolate poisoning, she falls for his owner like a glove. And he for her, but Isa doesn't dare to believe ...

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During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between right and wrong. As innocence is crushed in depraved games and sexual exploitation, the teenagers soon turn into ruthless predators.

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Incredibly enough, one day before the start of his pension and just hours before his 65th birthday, window cleaner Alfred suddenly finds himself stricken by vertigo. A 64-year and 364-day journey through glass and lather reveals why he is afraid to either go up or go down the ladder. And whilst he finds himself to be an accidental Cupid by hitting anyone but himself with his arrows, it’s not until that particular day, 44 years after meeting Dirkje for the first time, that he realizes he has to point the arrow at himself.

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In our society, where self-fulfillment seems to have become an obligation, identical twin sisters enter a retreat. Encouraged by their spiritual coach, Vera and Josefien are searching for their own selves. When Vera finds out that she wants to free herself from her sister, their relationship and identity as twins are put to the test.

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Flikken Rotterdam takes place in Rotterdam, and is after Flikken Maastricht the second Dutch spin-off of the Flemish show Flikken.

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Festival favorite Huub Smit (New Kids Nitro; New Kids Turbo; Bros Before Hos) stars as a Dutch cop raised on far too many American action films in this outrageous action comedy.

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Hairdresser Suus ends up in jail after attempting to murder her husband.

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Story with a macabre twist about a peculiar boy, who gathers cats from the street and returns them - for a reward - to the rightful owner. One day, he comes across a poster that reports the missing of a beautiful girl. His observations, distorted by loneliness, lead him to believe he knows where she is, but during his rescue operation he loses sight of the dangers of the real world.

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Plasterer Cor has been an introvert all his life. When he is retrained to become a taxi driver, he is forced to crawl out of his shell, but it also put his marriage under a lot of stress.

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Dunya and Desie are two 18 year old best friends from Amsterdam North. Dunya is Moroccan and Desie is Dutch. On Dunya's Birthday she is told that her marriage has been arranged with a distant cousin in Morocco. Dunya and her family will travel to Morocco to meet him. After Desie discovers that she is pregnant she joins Dunya in Morocco in a search for Desies father.

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Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.

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A special team searches for missing persons.

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There is only one thing Winky wants: a horse, a real horse to ride. But horses are expensive. Fortunately it is the season of Sinterklaas; Winky just asks Sinterklaas for a horse. Than everything will work out alright. Or will it?

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This adventurous feature film is a sequel to Paul Verhoeven's legendary youth series from 1969. In this modern film version - the Middle Ages are more imaginative and larded with anachronistic jokes - the story revolves around Floris (grandson of Rutger Hauer's character from the series), a peace-loving bloke whose father despises him because he refuses to carry on the family tradition of stout-hearted knights defending freedom: Floris is an actor. To prove to his father that he can still be a hero, he helps him search for a missing sacred relic with special powers. This is the last hope for the Duke of Burgundy, his father's boss, to eliminate the mean Duchess of Gelre. Along with his oriental girlfriend Pi, Floris goes through some perilous moments when he enters into battle with the duchess and her stooges Van Rossum jr., Kleine Pier jr. and Sergeant jr..

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Film about a couple of which the man is confronted for the umpteenth time with an initiative by his wife to make their sex life a little more exciting: a ribbed condom. He tells his daughter the condom is a sluikrups (a fake caterpillar). But the consequences of this white lie confront him with his sexual shortcomings.

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