Catherine ten Bruggencate

Nico and Leo are getting married. Their entire family and both their exes are in attendance. Some of these are performing musical numbers on stage....

Konraad, 83, has written a letter to his relatives saying he wants to die. Maria, Konraad's daughter and only child, refuses to discuss her fathers...

Two very different friends who share an apartment in Amsterdam have reached a dead end in their lives. The arrival of a parcel looks like an...

Rising, rather autobiographical novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's...

A Dutch couple is confronted with the husband's rapid onset of senility during a snowy winter in North Eastern Canada.

The characters from Leedvermaak have fared twelve years later. Lea's first husband, Alexander, makes a sequel to the wedding film and shows us the...

Frans van de Staak, Holland's most prominent avant-garde director, made this film "...about people who want to get something done. I leave out the...

Feature film about the life of Aletta Jacobs (1854-1929). Aletta Jacobs knows from an early age that she wants to become a doctor. She asks Thorbecke...

Six people are about to undertake a journey by foot from the very north of the Netherlands to the very south, in search of the mountains. Only two of...

Following 'Leedvermaak' (Schadenfreude) from 1989 and 'Qui vive' from 2001, the trilogy is now complete with 'Happy end'. Frans Weisz directed,...

When the Germans invade the Netherlands in 1940, Leiden student Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema and his friends have a carefree student life. The boys, then...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon...

A portrait of a woman and 26 witnesses who appear to be accusing her of something but we'll never know what. We'll never even know who she is and who...

Third part of a triptych by filmmaker Kees Hin about the late Frans van de Staak.