Released Date:
1979-08-16
Languages:
Dutch, English, German
Countries:
Netherlands, Belgium
Runtime:
165 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (8628 Reviews)
Director:
Paul VerhoevenErik Hazelhoff Roelfzema (book)
Kees Holierhoek
Gerard Soeteman
Paul Verhoeven
This film depicts World War II through the eyes of several Dutch students. It follows them through the beginning of the war, the Nazi occupation and the liberation.
Released Date:
1983-03-24
Languages:
Dutch
Countries:
Netherlands
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (4960 Reviews)
Director:
Paul VerhoevenGerard Reve (novel)
Gerard Soeteman
The morbid Catholic writer Gerard Reve who is bisexual, alcoholic and has frequent visions of death is invited to give a lecture in the literature club of Vlissingen. While in the railway station in Amsterdam, he feels attracted to a handsome man who embarks on another train. Gerard is introduced to the treasurer of the club and beautician Christine Halsslag, a wealthy widow who owns the Spider beauty shop, and they engage in a one night stand. On the next morning, Gerard sees the picture of Christine's boyfriend Herman and recognizes him as the man he saw in the train station. He urges her to bring Herman to her house to spend a couple of days together, but with the secret intention of seducing the man. Christine travels to Kèln to bring her boyfriend and Gerard stays alone in her house. He drinks whiskey and snoops through her safe, finding three film reels with names of men; he decides to watch the footage and discovers that Christine had married each; all of whom died in tragic accidents. Later Gerard believes Christine is a Black Widow and questions whether Herman or he will be her doomed fourth husband.
Released Date:
1986-12-19
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (4777 Reviews)
Director:
Richard PearceMaverick Chicago cop Eddie Jillette poses as a hit man to meet with someone in from New Orleans looking to have a job done. The result is that both the guy and Jillette's partner wind up very dead, while a stunning blonde in on the setup disappears. He heads south to settle the score and soon finds himself being hunted, with the girl in tow and the local police anything but happy. New Orleans may never be the same again.
Released Date:
1987-07-31
Languages:
English, Arabic, French, German, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Dari, Pushto
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
130 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (63310 Reviews)
Director:
John GlenRichard Maibaum (screenplay)
Michael G. Wilson (screenplay)
James Bond 007's mission is to firstly, organise the defection of a top Soviet general. When the general is re-captured, Bond heads off to find why an ally of General Koskov was sent to murder him. Bond's mission continues to take him to Afghanistan, where he must confront an arms dealer known as Brad Whitaker. Everything eventually reveals its self to Bond.
Released Date:
1988-09-16
Languages:
English, French, Hebrew, Yiddish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (2591 Reviews)
Director:
Joan Micklin SilverSusan Sandler (play)
Susan Sandler (screenplay)
Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help Isabelle's love-life along. Enter pickle-maker Sam who immediately takes to Isabelle. She however is irritated by the whole business, at least to start with.
Released Date:
1988-06-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, Zimbabwe
Runtime:
113 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1112 Reviews)
Director:
Chris MengesGenres:
DramaA White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?
Released Date:
1992-11-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Hungary, Russia
Runtime:
172 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1658 Reviews)
Director:
Ivan PasserJosef Stalin rises from his rejection as being physically unfit in the Czar's army during world War I to undisputed head of the huge Soviet empire of the 1950s. After the success of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 he vies with arch-rival Leon Trotsky for power under the acknowledged leader, Vladimir Lenin. After Lenin's stroke, the merciless Georgian's ruthless methods soon eliminates all rivals and his cruel paranoia and overt sadism help him maintain power by eliminating every possible rival including many former comrades.
Released Date:
1993-08-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (5590 Reviews)
Director:
Steven SoderberghA.E. Hotchner (memoir)
Steven Soderbergh (screenplay)
A boy whose mother is forced into a sanitarium and father gets a job as a traveling salesman. The boy fends for himself in a seedy SRO hotel.
Released Date:
1993-05-07
Languages:
Dutch, German, English, Eastern Frisian
Countries:
Netherlands
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (3404 Reviews)
Director:
Roeland KerboschDon Bloch
Rudi van Dantzig (novel)
Roeland Kerbosch
The story of a romantic relationship between a grown-up and a child. Set in the Netherlands near the end of WWII, the film is a flashback recalling an adolescent relationship between Jeroen and a Canadian soldier. A difficult subject handled with style and feeling.
Released Date:
1995-03-17
Languages:
French, Italian
Countries:
France, Italy, Belgium
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (4867 Reviews)
Director:
Gèrard CorbiauAndrèe Corbiau (original scenario)
Gèrard Corbiau (original scenario)
Marcel Beaulieu (adaptation)
Andrèe Corbiau (adaptation)
Gèrard Corbiau (adaptation)
Andrèe Corbiau (dialogue)
Farinelli, is the artistic name of Carlo Broschi, a young singer in Handel's time. He was castrated in his childhood in order to preserve his voice. During his life he becomes to be a very famous opera singer, managed by his mediocre brother (Riccardo).
Released Date:
1995-01-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (17748 Reviews)
Director:
Bernard RoseThe life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had many women in his life.
Released Date:
1998-03-30
Languages:
English, Hebrew, Yiddish
Countries:
USA, Netherlands, Belgium, UK
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (2485 Reviews)
Director:
Jeroen KrabbèGenres:
DramaCarl Friedman (novel)
Edwin de Vries
While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which makes him look obsessed. He keeps checking old maps and keeps digging, trying to find, in fact, those he lost. His daughter Chaya is a beautiful modern girl looking for a part-time job. She finds a place as a nanny in the strictly observant Chassidic family with many children, although her secular manners clearly fly in the face of many commandments. One of the reasons she is accepted is that mother of the family is absolutely overburdened by the household, so she stays despite the resistance of the father, normally - an indisputable authority in the family. She develops a special bond with the youngest of the boys, four-year old Simcha, so far incapable of speaking. She teaches him while walking in the park, and it seems that during the upcoming Passover Seder, Simcha will be able to chant parts of the Haggadah. The old repulsive superintendent of the building is a constant wet blanket for the entire family and now for Chaya. However, as opposed to the observant Jews, she cannot be a victim and is not going to put up with his anti-Semitic tricks, so she fights him, thus exciting the children's admiration and family head's wrath. Unfortunately, walks with Simcha end in a tragedy: after sneaking to the park, he drowns in the pond, and some Chassids hold Chaya responsible. A beautiful, warm picture filled with compassion and humanism, making understandable even the behavior of the superintendent - a mean pathetic anti-Semite: he is so terribly lonely that has only his dog to talk to.
Released Date:
2001-10-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, Netherlands
Runtime:
150 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (3461 Reviews)
Director:
Jeroen KrabbèHarry Mulisch (novel)
Edwin de Vries
God is disappointed with the human race and wants his stone tablets back. An angel is given the assignment and, with Gabrièls help, tries to manipulate several humans on earth to get his job done. But humans have a will of their own...
Released Date:
2005-08-12
Languages:
English, Dutch
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
83 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
4.6 (38914 Reviews)
Director:
Mike BigelowGenres:
ComedyHarris Goldberg (characters)
Rob Schneider (characters)
Rob Schneider (story)
Rob Schneider (screenplay)
David Garrett (screenplay)
Jason Ward (screenplay)
Deuce Bigalow ('Rob Schneider') goes to Amsterdam after a little accident including two irritating kids and a bunch of aggressive dolphins. There he meets up with his old friend TJ Hicks ('Eddie Griffin'). But a mysterious killer starts killing some of Amsterdams finest gigolos and TJ is mistaken for the extremely gay murderer. Deuce must enter the gigolo industry again to find the real murderer and clear TJs name.
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