THE UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA is a glorious documentary profile of musicians who play on the sidewalks of Paris and in the Metro. Read More »
Tag Archives: Netherlands
The Girl with the Red Hair AKA Het meisje met het rode haar (1981) Ben Verbong, Renée Soutendijk, Peter Tuinman, Loes Luca
Johanna ‘Hannie’ Schaft tells, in flash-backs, how she decides during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands Read More »
Suite 16 (1994) Dominique Deruddere, Pete Postlethwaite, Antonie Kamerling, Géraldine Pailhas
Glover is a shadow of the man he was. Once a handsome playboy, he is now confined to the luxurious prison Read More »
Zulu Dawn (1979) Douglas Hickox, Burt Lancaster, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott
In 1879 South Africa, the administrators of the British Cape Colony have designs to eliminate the Zulus as a hindrance to their colonial economy. Read More »
The Northerners AKA De Noorderlingen (1992) Alex van Warmerdam, Jack Wouterse, Annet Malherbe, Rudolf Lucieer
A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960’s housing development. Read More »
Forever (2006) Heddy Honigmann, Yoshino Kimura, Bertrand Beyern, Camille Solari
Père-Lachaise – one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Read More »
So Much Water AKA Tanta agua (2013) Ana Guevara, Néstor Guzzini, Malú Chouza, Joaquín Castiglioni
Alberto, a divorced father, takes his two children for a vacation at a thermal resort in Salto. Read More »
The Little Blonde Dead AKA De kleine blonde dood (1993) Jean van de Velde, Antonie Kamerling, Olivier Tuinier, Loes Wouterson
Poet Valentijn comes in contact with his former teacher Mieke. After a brief relationship Valentijn leaves her. Read More »
Leak AKA Lek (2000) Jean van de Velde, Cas Jansen, Ricky Koole, Thomas Acda
Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene Read More »
Max Havelaar (1976) Fons Rademakers, Peter Faber, Sacha Bulthuis, Adendu Soesilaningrat
An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is convinced that he can make the kinds of changes Read More »
The 4th Man AKA De vierde man (1983) Paul Verhoeven, Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman
The morbid Catholic writer Gerard Reve who is bisexual, alcoholic and has frequent visions of death Read More »
Hurricane (1979) Jan Troell, Jason Robards, Mia Farrow, Max von Sydow
The desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and an American painter, against the will of her father. Read More »
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (2000) Paul Tickell, Nick Moran, Neil Stuke, Kate Ashfield
A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society. Read More »
Journey to the Sun AKA Günese Yolculuk (1999) Yesim Ustaoglu, Nazmî Kirik, Newroz Baz, Mizgin Kapazan
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. Read More »
The Cold Light of Day (1996) Rudolf van den Berg, Richard E. Grant, Lynsey Baxter, Perdita Weeks
In the countryside of an Eastern Europe country, three little girls are murdered in the wood by a pedophile and found naked with one precise cut on the throat. Read More »