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Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Björk

With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bodil Jørgensen

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeroen van Koningsbrugge

A fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kika van de Vijver

In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emily Watson

As the youngest of the family, Sam is haunted by the notion that someday he could become the last remaining survivor, all alone. On a family vacation...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Coops van Utteren

Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Plowright

Divided into chapters, the film first chronicles Hemel's many sexual conquests, but then takes on a different tone as it explores her complicated...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hannah Hoekstra

In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eugene Jarecki

A young girl sets out to prove to her disapproving mother she can house-train the endearing but unruly little piglet she gets as a birthday gift from...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Hiba Ghafry

The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Melanie Hyams

A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Misha Defonseca

Africa in the sixties. The Nile perch, a ravenous predator, is introduced into Lake Victoria as a scientific experiment, causing the extinction of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga Nsese

With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jacqueline Siegel

1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gijs Scholten van Aschat

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frances Barber

Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound human...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carice van Houten

A mild-mannered gay dentist and a womanizing bar owner rekindle their unlikely friendship when, upon meeting by chance after a decade apart, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cees Geel

In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elmer Bäck