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Tag Archives: Netherlands
Blind (2007) Tamar van den Dop, Joren Seldeslachts, Halina Reijn, Katelijne Verbeke
In late 19th century’s Netherlands, an albino woman and a blind man develop an indiscriminate love for one another. Will love be blind? Read More »
Drowning by Numbers (1988) Peter Greenaway, Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson
Tired of her husband’s philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. Read More »
Loos (1989) Theo van Gogh, Tom Jansen, Renée Fokker, Marie Kooyman
A lawyer must defend a nightclub owner accused of committing a crime-of-passion. Read More »
The Misfortunates (2009) Felix van Groeningen, Kenneth Vanbaeden, Valentijn Dhaenens, Koen De Graeve, Wouter Hendrickx
13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Read More »
Mother Dao, the Turtlelike (1995) Vincent Monnikendam
In a span of ninety minutes the film aims to show how the Netherlands administered its colony as a colonial enterprise and what the relations were like at the time. Read More »
Habitat (1997) Rene Daalder, Balthazar Getty, Tchéky Karyo, Alice Krige
In a future world where Earth’s ozone layer has been completely destroyed, a brilliant but obsessed scientist Read More »
The Paradise Suite (2015) Joost van Ginkel, Anjela Nedyalkova, Boris Isakovic, Erik Adelöw
The Paradise Suite is a story about six people finding each other and, sometimes with just one glance, influencing each other’s lives irreversibly. Read More »
The Dress (1996) Alex van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Ingeborg Elzevier, Khaldoun Elmecky
The Dress is a tale filled with sex, violence, comedy and drama as it follows the life of a dress. Read More »
Tokyo Sonata (2008) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company. Read More »