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Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest army leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.

A group of FBI trainees are taken to a remote island for simulation training. However, once there, they realize that they are being hunted by a serial killer, who might be someone amidst them.

The acclaimed Canadian performance troupe Cirque du Soleil, which combines acrobatics, magic, music, and theater into spectacular stage productions, brings one of their most popular shows to the screen.

A young dropout falls in love with a nightclub dancer...

Constant Wegman (Benja Bruijning), a 14 year old boy, raised by his grandmother (Carry Tefsen) in Zeedijk, Amsterdam. She is the owner of a cafe-hotel "De Rode Laars" ("The Red Boots"). The dreaming Constant runs away from this world of drunkards, gamblers, fighters by writing poems. His grandmother wants him to take control of the cafe. Then Constant secretly subscribes to a national poem writing competition: a new Vondel is born! *** Constant Wegman (Benja Bruijning) een veertienjarige jongen, groeit op bij zijn grootmoeder (Carry Tefsen) op de Zeedijn in Amsterdam. Zij is eigenaresse van cafe-hotel "De Rode Laars". De dromerige Constant ontvlucht deze wereld van drinjkers, gokkers en vechterbazen door gedichten te scrhijven. Zijn grootmoeder ziet liever dat hij de leiding van het cafe overneemt. Dan doet Constant stiekem mee aan een Nationale Dichterswedstrijd: een nieuwe Vondel is geboren!

A prostitute takes in a young orphaned boy.

In this movie -after the classical Godfried Bomans novel of the same Dutch title- with musical elements, Erik is a Dutch ten year-old schoolboy who is studying insects at school, and gets shown and explained a bit about them by his kind and knowledgeable nature-loving grandfather, whose country estate is a good place to do so and turns out to have a book on insects, which allows Erik to pass for one night, rather like Alice in Wonderland, as a miniature man among thus giant-looking, talking insects, who discuss their and other species and their lives with him, mainly winged ones, such as bee, fly and wasp.

Merel, a talented young girl, is suddenly getting bullied at school.

Three sisters taking care of a milkfactory.

Twelve year old Don is a new student on a 'black' school in Holland. As a white rich kid, he's got a lot of problems getting accepted by his class. With his great talent in football, he tries to change everything by submitting in a school tournament. But to win, you have to find 9 other players, and that is not easy when everybody hates you!

Orazbaj, son of an unemployed Uzbekistan fisherman, is a stowaway on a ship towards New York. Stranded in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, he finds affection from the wife and son of a sailorman. Is he save or shall the foreign affairs-police be informed about his illegal stay and send him back home to Uzbekistan?

Frisian-spoken costume drama about the turbulent marriage between a writer and a socialist politician.

Sabrina is 14year old en has a big passion: cycling. She lives with her parents in a small rural village. The hormones are raging through her body and she doesn't know how to deal with it. When her best friend is having a boyfriend she doesn't want to stay behind. Altough she is secretly in love with farmer boy Martijn, she seduces a foreign guy to have sex.

Adriaan (5) his dog Spotty has just died. Every day Adriaan visits Spotty's grave in the forest of Mr. and Mrs. Rabbers and then something unexpected happens that will help Adriaan to cope with his grief.

Old Archibald is chased from the countess's city after she made her physician and counselor Esculaap taste the droppings he bought from him for her. On his way out, he finds a baby in a bundle, marked 'take care of Mariken', and raises the girl his weird, yet sort of wise way, in the wild. One day she wanders off and is captured by the Black Widow -who lost her family and neighbors in a Black Death epidemic- with chained Jan the 'rat boy', being calling both devil's seed, but he helps her escape to the city. There she gets saved by the troop of wandering performers of an actor made up as Devil, but when they play Moritoen on the castle the unhappily childless countess chases the actors but keeps Mariken, who learns her story before escaping and finding out her own and Archibald's...

Johan Dros is born as eleventh consecutive son of soccer-obsessed pa Rinus, who raises his boys mainly as the small island Texel's team. Johan's rare reprieves from training for a sport he doesn't care for cease when ma dies. After captain brother Johhny sort of steals his local girl-friend Evy, Johan leaves for Amsterdam, where he becomes a hairdresser and would-be singer. Soccer, a vocal TV talent-hunt and Evy will bring them all together again, but also raise unprecedented strife in the Dros family.

Boyo lives with his brother Sid, his sister Gwenny and their elderly mother Marlene in an economically depressed area of South-West Wales. Their father has vanished when they were small children, apparently headed for America. The leather-jacketed, motorbike-riding Sid has grown up obsessed with American culture and dreams of joining his father in the States. When the brothers discover that an open-cast mine is opening nearby they join the scramble for jobs, but their mother is unaccountably against the idea. On the morning when they need to report for work, they find she has sabotaged Sid's bike, scuppering their chances of employment. Sid and Gwenny begin to spend more and more of their considerable spare time together, washing down medication they've obtained under their mother's name with pilfered booze. Marlene's increasingly eccentric behaviour leads to her being interred in a hospital, but Boyo is powerless to stop his brother and sister from drifting dangerously out of touch with reality.

Love story in a multicultural society

Mary of Nazarene is one of the most popular female figures of our world's history. When feminist filmmaker and non-believer Nouchka van Brakel saw a painting of Mary, on which she was told that she would give birth to the Messiah, she was struck by Mary's rather reserved expression. Instead of happiness or humble devotion, the look on her face was doubtful. This fascinated Nouchka van Brakel, and led her to make AVE MARIA, a documentary on the one hand about this mythical, particularly beloved woman and on the other hand about her worshippers who make her Queen of Heaven. AVE MARIA portrays the untameable longing of mankind for the Mother of all mothers; from Virgin Mary, to Mother of the Son of God, to Lady of All Nations, to Queen of Heaven. What powerful emotions drive those devoted to Mary? Journeys to Turkey, Poland, Spain and The Netherlands gradually reveal the mystery.... A fascinating quest.

Stella, a journalist, discovers the secrets of Lotte de Heus Verolmen, the widow of Ewald de Heus Verolmen, the head of the Dutch Nazi Party (NSB).

Night has fallen. A thunderstorm approaches. In a lonely house a young woman mourns her deceased husband. In the cemetery across the street the shape of a man rises from a grave...

When Madelief's grandmother dies, her mother takes her to the funeral. She then visits her grandfather, but quickly gets bored, until Mischa tells her how much fun a rural summer can be. She investigates her grandmother's "summer house", made curious by the lock on the door. Madelief didn't remember her grandmother, but from her snooping in the summer house she learns a lot about her.

Leopold is a widower School Director. His housekeeper announces him on the first day of his retirement, that she will be leaving to her homeland, Romania, in order to be with her daughter who just gave birth to her grandson. Leopold thinks it's time to find a suitable wife, and his friend and neighbour Julian, register him in on an internet date-site. Leopold has an estranged relationship with his only son, and between the dates to meet his perfect match, young Rumanian Alina enters Leopold's life, replacing her aunt at housekeeping, presenting to him a different side of life.

'Qui Vive' is made with more or less the same cast and crew as the widely-praised 'Leedvermaak' (Polonaise, 1989) and is based on a play by Judith Herzberg. The relations in a family badly-scarred by war traumas remain complicated years later.