Released Date:
1981-09-17
Languages:
Dutch, German
Countries:
Netherlands
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (594 Reviews)
Director:
Ben VerbongBen Verbong
Pieter de Vos
Theun de Vries (novel)
Johanna 'Hannie' Schaft tells, in flash-backs, how she decides during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, to interrupt law studies to 'do something for real'. She joins the Dutch resistance, which uses her in missions to 'eliminate' collaborators. Even her parents may not know. Tough colleague Hugo initially looks down upon her girlish hesitations, but they fall in love. A failed attempt to shoot SD-informant de Ruyter puts the Germans on their trace.
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:
1994-04-21
Languages:
Dutch, English
Countries:
Netherlands
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (309 Reviews)
Director:
Ben VerbongRoos Hartman is a young doctor who lives with her son in a large apartment complex. When a fellow tenant is brutally murdered, the police and Hartman's friends suspect her mysterious neighbour, Eric Coenen. As she becomes romantically involved with Coenen, she doubts he would commit such a crime, but soon she begins to investigate the case further and discovers some startling facts relating to his involvement...
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