Nadja Hüpscher
Maud thinks she can calm down a bit: the children are almost out of the house, the relationship with Koen is still good and the obstetrics practice is also going well. Time to enjoy! But then her mother Babs starts to change. She no longer cooks and she no longer finds cleaning necessary. What makes her dirty on her own? Maud will clean, cook and arrange. Juliette thinks it's nonsense and doesn't participate. She's there for the fun stuff. When Babs literally and figuratively gets lost, Maud tries to apply for home help. That turns out to be easier said than done. She becomes entangled in a maze of healthcare organizations.
A comical portrait of three young suburban friends, whom we follow around Amsterdam over the course of 24 hours. The three do everything they can to get inside the famous nightclub Jimmy Woo that evening, in order to prove their worth to a group of girls.
In a juvenile delinquent center two girls find comfort in love for each other. Once one of them gets released, they don't know how to deal with this and both seek for a solution, with tragic consequences - A contemporary love story based on the motives of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
After the death of their best friend, three young women decide to complete her bucket list - only to find one particular entry exceptionally challenging: finding true love.
Roos is pretty, successful and in her early-thirties. Every time she dreams of marriage, she gets dumped. When she gets invites to weddings from people all around her, she takes her young intern Daan as her date. She puts herself in awkward situations en falls deeply in love with a handsome doctor. They say one marriage leads to the other, but is he the one she'll say "Yes, I do!" to?
In an attempt to escape mediocracy, grade school teacher Bert decides to do something special: he's going to make a documentary about...something.
Sex and the City with men in diving suits. Relationship troubles that take place in the restaurant and living room with male characters dressed in diving suits, complete with glasses and flippers.
Eve is very much intrigued by the mating behaviour of the animals in the Garden of Eden and she asks God to create a man for her. She doesn't approve at all of John, the man who then appears. One day John seduces Eve to enter God's forbidden garden shed. Overthere Eve discovers things which will change her life forever.
When Camiel, a gay dentist, and Simon, a carefree café owner, collide in a traffic accident their lives become intrinsically entangled. When they bump into each other 14 years later, Simon is severely ill. Camiel experiences at close range how Simon and those around him come to terms with his illness. The strength and humour that Simon shows during this time leave a lasting impression on Camiel.
In the TV film Polonaise, traffic jams have grown into a phenomenon in which traffic jam call girls, hairdressers and photographers enliven the endless delays. The film follows a number of people in a jam on the A5. The central character is a Pole in an expensive Saab Convertible, who is wanted by the police. A red Panda carries the heavily pregnant Hilde and her cynical sister. Hilde is worried because she has not seen her friend anymore after a quarrel. In an old Saab, a young couple is bickering. She is a `yuppie cunt' who stakes her marriage for a parking licence and is tired of her husband smoking dope. Charlie the music promoter is driving his son's car. He likes traffic jams, because they allow him to settle his deals undisturbed and meet his secret love, the traffic jam call girl Nena. While the characters are confronted with each other and themselves more and more, tension rises to a peak. A radio pirate connects the story lines with his chatter.
Uitgesloten is set in 1983. Jonathan is 18 and, just like his best friend Coen, he has grown up in the Jehovah's Witnesses. In this world with its strict rules, Jonathan and Coen however have their own ideas. Both have girlfriends, Marjan and Annemiek, who live in a very different world: the girls study at art school and mix with squatters. The boys do not tell their girlfriends about their background and they anxiously keep Marjan and Annemiek hidden from their own community. The friends lead a double life: they ring doorbells to distribute the Ontwaakt! and play in a band for the Jehovah's Witnesses, while they also visit ska concerts and squatters' bars and become increasingly caught up in the worldly life of Marjan and Annemiek.
The movie stars you see on the screen have once been selected amongst others. The glamor of the premiere is preceded by mug shots, selections, interviews, wining, dining, backstabbing and sex. In the end, everyone gets what they deserve.
A story about a bunch of 20-somethings in Amsterdam and their love-life, as told from 2 perspectives.
