Captain Darman is a communist party hitman now living peacefully in exile in England where he runs a bookshop in Brighton. Read More »
Tag Archives: Netherlands
Hamaca paraguaya AKA Paraguayan Hammock (2006) Paz Encina, Ramon Del Rio, Georgina Genes, Jorge López
Set in 1935, a couple of aged smallholders are waiting for their son, for rain, for better days. Read More »
Taxandria (1994) Raoul Servais, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elliott Spiers, Katja Studt
A young prince is taken for tuition at a seaside hotel but there quickly bores and wanders off to visit a nearby lighthouse. Read More »
Caged (2011) Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Chantal Demming, Babette Holtmann, Victor Reinier
After years of suppressing her desires, Stella finds she can no longer ignore her deep-rooted longings. Read More »
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) Peter Greenaway, Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Read More »
Pastorale 1943 (1978) Wim Verstappen, Frederik de Groot, Leen Jongewaard, Coen Flink
In a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator. Read More »
Off Screen (2005) Pieter Kuijpers, Jeroen Krabbé, Jan Decleir, Astrid Joosten
March 11th, 2002. John R. takes the head of security and 17 others hostage in Amsterdam biggest skyscraper. Read More »
Dakota (1974) Wim Verstappen, Kees Brusse, Monique van de Ven, Willeke van Ammelrooy
A Dutch pilot with a real passion for flying risks everything to keep his DC3/Dakota plane in the air. Read More »
Outsider in Amsterdam (1979) Wim Verstappen, Rijk de Gooyer, Rutger Hauer, Willeke van Ammelrooy
When a hanged man is found, the question is whether it is suicide or murder. Read More »
Khadak (2006) Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth, Batzul Khayankhyarvaa, Tsetsegee Byamba, Banzar Damchaa
Magical realism, epilepsy, and the steppes of Mongolia. A pilot dies. His son Bagi, who, like his father, has epilepsy Read More »
Obsessions (1969) Pim de la Parra, Alexandra Stewart, Dieter Geissler, Tom van Beek
Student Nils is spying on his neighbor doing kinky stuff while his girlfriend Marina, a journalist, is looking for a missing girl. Read More »
Layla Fourie (2013) Pia Marais, Rayna Campbell, August Diehl, Rapule Hendricks
Layla Fourie, a young single-mother in South Africa, receives a job assignment as polygraphist. Read More »
Everyman (1975) Jos Stelling, George Bruens, Henk Douze, Bob Kars
Elckerlyc is a man without scruples living in Medieval times. Read More »
The Trouble with Money (1936) Max Ophüls, Herman Bouber, Rini Otte, Matthieu van Eysden
When bank messenger Brand realises that 50,000 pounds sterling have gone missing in Amsterdam, it is a catastrophe for him. Read More »
Fertile Memory (1980) Michel Khleifi, Farah Hatoum, Sahar Khalifeh
The first full length film to be shot within the disputed Palestinian West Bank “Green Line,” Read More »