Amsterdam

For this comedy thriller Frans Weisz has used the same formula that made De inbreker such a success, and cast the same actors in the leading parts.

Rijk de Gooyer, who is particularly at home in this type of role, plays the part of Rick Lemming, the owner of an amusement arcade. Jon Bluming is once again his willing mate but this time as Ed Swaan, head of a karate school. The setting for their various adventures is typically Amsterdam, including the world of television, yellow journalism and disc promotion, seen in a satirical light.

Comedy about the post-war housing shortage.

Een koninkrijk voor een huis! is based on the Amsterdam city council’s decision to requisition rooms to house homeless people. Heintje Blom, a simple working woman, is told to move into a villa in a posh part of town. The inhabitants are none too pleased but in spite of the class division, a romance blossoms between the rich family’s son and Heintje’s daughter. The two families warm to each other in the end and the happy pair is united in wedded bliss.

Based on a story by the novelist W.F. Hermans. A fairly uncouth yellow press journalist is out for a scoop about a blind photographer.

Four-part film project with short films by Claude Chabrol, Ugo Gregoretti, Hiromichi Horikawa and Roman Polanski.

'Overload' is a term from the computer world indicating that a computer is unable to process any further data. The film Overload tries to realise a similar process with its audience. 'I intend Overload to be provocative and controversial', director Mel Clay said during a presentation of his film.

Children’s film about the friendship between two children and a dog.

Orphans Elsje and Henk are staying with their uncle Janus Zwengel, a poor organ grinder. Every day after school, they and their dog Hector help Janus as he plies his trade. One day Hector is stolen by a dog catcher who sells him to a rich lady and her ill son Freddy.

Joszef Katus returns to Amsterdam on 29 April 1966 after an absence of many months spent travelling, mainly in Eastern Europe.

Crime comedy involving a rented tuxedo starring Kees Brusse.

A secret document, a stolen tuxedo, a detective, a chase or two and a baffling chain of events… Nothing seems to faze insurance agent Hans (Kees Brusse) who also finds time to win the heart of a beautiful girl. German director Georg Jacoby’s airy comedy included a raft of well-known Dutch actors, such as Rijk de Gooyer, Lex Goudsmit and Andrea Domburg as well as old hands Johan Kaart and Bernhard Droog.

Social drama around a street urchin who kills his mother in a fit of anger.

Ciske de Rat brought the first two instalments of Piet Bakker’s famous trilogy about Amsterdam street urchin Ciske Vrijmoet to the screen.

Ciske’s father is at sea and his cruel mother neglects him. The only people who care about what happens to him are schoolmaster Bruis and his father’s new girlfriend aunt Jans. When Ciske accidentally kills his mother by throwing a knife at her in a fit of anger, he is sent to reform school. It looks as if he will be marked for life.

English-Swedish-Dutch crime film about a lone champion of justice.