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- DirectorPeter de BaanStarsTamar van den DopThom HoffmanHuub StapelThis tv-movie is about a political drama in the Netherlands between procureur general Arthur Docters van Leeuwen en minister Winnie Sorgdrager. They stride between power and trust.
- DirectorPeter de BaanStarsEric van der DonkSimón AndreuSilvia MuntA dramatized interpretation of historical events of the run-up to the wedding of the Dutch crown prince Willem-Alexander and Máxima Zorreguieta.
- StarsPierre BokmaClaire BenderTanya ZabaryloIn 1940s Amsterdam, Jewish Council co-chairman David Cohen and his daughter Virrie have their bond tested as they pursue increasingly opposing ways of safeguarding their community under Nazi rule.
- CreatorMichael LeendertseStarsJoy DelimaThomas HöppenerYorick van WageningenAl Boeing 747 crashes on the Bijlmermeer, the Netherlands is suddenly world news. Two journalists sink their teeth into an investigation that leads to the much-discussed parliamentary inquiry in 1998.
- StarsTijmen GovaertsAimé ClaeysMona Mina LeonA journey back in time to the turmoil of the 1980s, when the Brabant Killers sowed terror in Belgium.
- DirectorStijn ConinxStarsJan DecleirGérard DesartheAntje de BoeckIn the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.
- DirectorPeter de BaanStarsMarcel HensemaBen AbelsmaNettie BlankenOne hour before the State Opening of Parliament, something very unusual happens. The Prime Minister appears and demands an adjustment to the Queen's speech. The speech concerns aid to Africa. Even with all the pressure around the State Opening, Beatrix goes back in time, and remembers her banishment to Canada, the visit to the victims of the Flood disaster and the turbulence suffered by her parents at Palace Soestdijk during the Hofman case.
- StarsJim DeddesSophie van WindenKees Hulst"Eileen" is loosely based on the story of Tanja Nijmeijer, the student who joined the FARC to fight for the poor and oppressed population at the bottom of Colombian society. Eileen grows up in Groningen in a harmonious family. She is a happy, socially engaged young woman who studies Spanish and is active in the squatting movement. She receives the opportunity to become an intern in Bogota, Colombia. Even though she stays in an decent environment, she is also exposed to the atrocious living conditions in the slums. On her return to the Netherlands, Eileen has changed. She finds her friends from the squatting movement spoiled and egocentric. They have no interest for the really relevant, political problems, like the ones she was confronted with in Latin America. Against the wishes of her family she goes back to Colombia, because she finds she has to be there in order to do something about the injustice that prevails. In Bogota, she comes in contact with the FARC through a Colombian student she met in Groningen. She is tested and in the end conscripted into the resistance movement. Her initial enthusiasm and faith in the cause are put under pressure when she becomes involved in actions that are unacceptable in her opinion. However, slowly her values shift. She radicalizes and becomes on of the most dedicated fighters. She also turns into an international symbol of the FARC, an important weapon in the PR strategy of the guerrilla movement. But is this really what is looking for? And is her family just going to put up with it?
- StarsHadewych MinisAoibhinn McGinnityMichel SluysmansMiniseries about a succession of IRA attacks that really took place in the late 1980s in Limburg, Germany. Team leader Jeanine Maes opens the hunt for the ruthless Fiona Hughes.
- StarsTheu BoermansSylvia PoortaJoanna GeldofThe Partisans is inspired by the curious events that took place in the North Limburg forests during World War II. In view of the liberation, a group of resistance fighters makes more than thirty Germans prisoners of war. When the Gestapo learns of their venture, they are forced to flee from hideout to hideout with the prisoners.
- StarsPierre BokmaAnniek PheiferVictor LöwDe Prooi tells the story of the rise and fall of Dutch banker Rijkman Groenink and the fall of ABN AMRO Bank. It is based on the acclaimed novel by research journalist and professor Jeroen Smit. Groenink is a briljant banker. Most of his colleges see him as a financial wonderboy. In 2000 he is chosen as chairman of the Board of Directors of ABN AMRO Bank. In his inauguration speech he states that ABN AMRO will be within the top 5 of the worlds biggest operational banks and will focus only on shareholder value. To achieve this ambitious position, Rijkman starts to negotiate with other banks in order to be able to purchase them. Soon is it is very clear his professional strategy and ambition is not supported by his personal skills. Rijkman is not empathic and his sick jokes make more enemies then friends and cost the bank more money than he will admit. The young and beautiful Julia Bouwens is appointed as Rijkmans personal assistant. Although she has the right qualifications, her main goal is to make sure Rijkman is improving his social skills in order to be more successful in strategic business meetings. Although in 2005 business magazine Elsevier acclaims Groenink as 'Dutch businessman of the Year', the downfall of the bank has already set in. Big purchases cost the bank more than calculated. After a number of dramatic incidents, Rijkman has to do everything to prevent the bank from being split and sold. But he will not succeed. In 2007 a consortium of three banks, Fortis, RBS and Banco Santander, take over ABN AMRO and Rijkman Groenink has to leave. The Perfect Prey is not a series about the question of guilt or who is to blame for the fall of one of the biggest banks in the Netherlands. It is a psychological drama about the mechanisms of power at work in a era in which people believed money was everywhere and inexhaustible.
- StarsHalina ReijnBarry AtsmaLies VisschedijkA dramatized interpretation of historical events based on the controversial relationship between Mabel Wisse Smit and Prince Friso van Oranje.
- StarsJoop KeesmaatCatherine ten BruggencateHubert FerminThe country is in turmoil when it appears that Prince Bernhard has accepted a bribe. Queen Juliana is in danger of resigning. Prime Minister Den Uyl has to act.
- StarsGuy ClemensAus GreidanusNoortje HerlaarThe story of Dutch journalist Hans Knoop's 1970s struggle to uncover the truth about World War II war criminal Pieter Menten.
- StarsJuan Carlos TajesBahareh BorzueeBracha van DoesburghA Dutch criminal lawyer builds a tight-knit and powerful family firm, only to find his four male heirs' waning loyalty put everything at risk.
- DirectorMaarten TreurnietStarsRutger HauerReinout Scholten van AschatGijs NaberA bold, amateur kidnapping goes wildly awry in this fictionalized account of beer magnate Alfred Heineken's 1983 abduction, which would go on to become one of The Netherlands' most infamous crimes.
- DirectorHanro SmitsmanStarsGerson OratmangoenMartin SchwabTerence SchreursMore than 30 years after the dramatic ending of a train hijack five people involved meet each other on a television show. Starting point is the death of the only female hijacker: Noor. One by one the five enter the studio. Each with their own expectations or hidden agenda.
- DirectorHanro SmitsmanStarsMatthijs van de Sande BakhuyzenGaite JansenRoos NetjesThe haunting search to discover why fifteen-year old Jessie was murdered by her closest friends.
- DirectorHanro SmitsmanStarsJohn BuijsmanChris ComvaliusGuus DamRaised in a home broken by wartime trauma, the frustrated teenage son of a Dutch Holocaust survivor starts down a path of further tragedy when he finds belonging in a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads.
- DirectorPieter KuijpersStarsJeroen KrabbéJan DecleirAstrid JoostenMarch 11th, 2002. John Voerman takes the head of security and 17 others hostage in Amsterdam biggest skyscraper. John demands to speak with the Philips head of Sound&Vision. His goal is to warn people about a large-scale fraud, aimed at brainwashing consumers by means of widescreen TV sets. In the film, we find out about John's preliminary frustrations, his bizarre encounter with Philips head of Sound and Vision Gerard Wesselinck, their impossible friendship, rivalry and John's armed attempt to force the executive to do penance in public.
- DirectorJoram LürsenStarsJacob DerwigBarry AtsmaFockeline OuwerkerkIn Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, banker brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall face their greatest challenge yet when they decide to help fund the Dutch resistance.