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A vibrant saga combining feminist rigour with a dynastic narrative. At age 85 Antonia reflects on the five decades since returning to her native village in Holland, years which have seen her raise daughter Danielle, make a life on the farm for herself and a small community of society's flotsam and jetsam, and become a richly experienced grandmother. Judicious character development whisks us through the generations, with ample compassion for the women's struggle against the farming patriarchy and find out more...

The Netherlands towards the end of WWII and Jewess Rachel Stein must abandon her hiding place and make a break for freedom. After escaping the massacre of a boat load of refugees fleeing toward Allied lines, Rachel, alone, bereft and terrified, joins the Resistance and, using her feminine wiles and intelligence, infiltrates the lair of those responsible for her grief. Black Book is a cracking thriller; tense, gripping, and full of irony, Dutch resistance heroes aren't all models of virtue and we find out more...

The story begins with 12-year-old Harry harbouring innocent fantasies of passion, cruelly denied him as he grows into a young man ravaged by hideous acne and, finally achieving his dream, as a hopeless alcoholic, with a fresh corpse. Bizarre. find out more...

A tender story of a 12 yr old boy, Jeroen, an evacuee from Amsterdam in 1944, who comes to live with a loving family in Northern Holland. When the Allies arrive, Jeroen is befriended by Walt, a young British soldier, and they strike up a close and lasting friendship. Excellent, touching drama. find out more...

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Television reporter Angela Vidal and her cameraman are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles fire crew. But when an apparently routine call takes them to a rundown apartment block the easy going banter is soon lost. Police officers have already arrived at the scene in response to reports of screaming from one of the flats, what they discover is an initially unknown infection that is not only killing the residents but sending them into a murderous psychosis before they die. As if t find out more...

Set during WW2 and loosely based on war hero Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema's memoir, we follow the varying fortunes of a group of friends under Nazi occupation and the ultimately disastrous mission by the two of them who join the Dutch resistance. Soldier of Orange is an early Paul Verhoeven film, and ranks as one of his best, tense, gripping but also intimate and intelligent. find out more...

Dutch drama which follows the lives of three young amateur dirt-bike motorcycle racers who fall in love with a young woman who sells French fries and hot dogs at the races. Everyone is looking for a better life. She wants out of the business and away from her brother and the motocross racers want to make their marks as professional racers, like their hero, Gerrit Witkamp (Rutger Hauer).

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A superbly black and surreal comedy set in 1960's Holland. Through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy we look inside the heart and soul of an apparently normal little village, and find that the villagers are not as they seem. Their weird obsessions, and sexual peccadilloes are revealed brilliantly. Excellent fun. find out more...

On holiday in France Rex and Saskia stop at a garage, she walks to the shops and disappears. Three years later Rex starts receiving postcards from her abductor promising to reveal her fate. Reminiscent of Blue Velvet, the understated direction creates a sinister and shocking atmosphere. find out more...

Erik Vonk (Rutger Hauer) is a carefree artist and ladies man until he meets Olga (Monique van de Ven), a beautiful young woman with an equal passion for sexual adventure. They marry in a frenzy of erotic ecstasy, only to find that real life has other plans. When Olga is struck by a tragic illness, Erik must make a searing choice between a lust that cannot be tamed and a love that refuses to die. find out more...

Bingham spends his life flying round the good Ole US of A making a living as somebody who professionally fires people. He loves the airport/flying ritual and having casual flings with other frequent fliers, but he is forced to reassess things when a young upwardly mobile rival threatens his life-style! An extremely funny mid-brow stab at touching contemporary American, and perhaps our own, desires and phobias. find out more...

A young 14-year-old Dutch boy, ashamed of his father's cosying up to the Germans, comes across the hiding place of a downed RAF pilot and vows to help him. A boy discovering that war is not a fantasy adventure, game of rugby etc... but this time with a violin so heavily troweled on that you could peel it off. find out more...