Ben Verbong

Ein ganz normaler Tag (2019)

When fear of one's own civil courage prevails: A provocation on the streetcar escalates and ends in a brawl. In front of numerous passengers, a fellow passenger is beaten up by two teenagers. One of the male victims ends up in a coma, while his girlfriend ...

The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music (2015)

Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of a well-known musical family, overcomes many obstacles to pursue her musical career and move to the United States. ...

Sophie kocht (2015)

Three more years, then she will be 40: Sophie is slowly getting scared. Actually, she should be happy and have everything under control: three growing children, a small catering agency, a large farmhouse and a husband, Hubertus, who is reasonably successfu ...

Hochzeitskönig (2015)

Gentle, patient Bavarian policeman Barney Brunner soon starts regretting having agreed to merge his household -including duly skeptic preteen son Feddy - with his chaotic lover, workaholic social worker Hanna König -with teen brat Lia, who asks neither be ...

Mona kriegt ein Baby (2014)

The 14-years old Mona becomes pregnant. Problems in the family are the result. ...

Ein vorbildliches Ehepaar (2012)

Two men meet in the men's room of a courthouse. Both just divorced, they decide to help each other recover their wives. ...

Das Mädchen auf dem Meeresgrund (2011)

When Hans Hass seeks a secretary for his Viennese office in the summer of 1947, Lotte Baierl applies for the job. She has just graduated from high school and is a big fan of Hass. Lotte is learning how to handle diving equipment and underwater cameras, as ...

Takiye: Allah Yolunda (2010)

The film depicts the breakdown of a family that lost all its money to one of the Islamic investment companies that are very common in Europe. Metin invested all his money in one such company, JIMPA, and even convinced his close friends and family to do the ...

Ob ihr wollt oder nicht (2009)

The film starts with the main character Laura, a young woman with advanced cancer, entering quite upset the home of her parents and claiming to have stopped chemo therapy and having left her husband. The worried parents call the other three adult daughters ...

Herr Bello (2007)

After his mother's death, the 12-year-old Max, son of pharmacist Sternheim, wishes for a pet. One day a dog appears in Max's life. By his power of persuasion he is allowed to keep this dog and names him "Bello". In the meantime a new tenant, Verena Lichtbl ...

A Christmoose Carol (2005)

A bullied young boy befriends a flying, talking moose that crashed through his ceiling after a test-flight with Santa went terribly awry in this holiday film for the whole family. But later, just as Mr. Moose and Beril strike up a friendship, the young boy ...

Brautpaar auf Probe (2005)

Alleinerziehende Mutter Leslie geht aus lauter Verzweiflung eine Scheinehe mit Koofi ein, der seinen Job als Computerfachmann aufgrund einer Flaute in der Branche verloren hat und damit auch seine Blue Card. Ein Beamter der Ausländerbehörde jedoch schöp ...

Zerbrechliche Zeugin (2004)

A male prostitute and a handicapped girl witness a murder. ...

My Magical Friend Sams (2003)

Sams in danger, it is said, when Mr. Taschenbier's son Martin brings the Sams back into the household, which, however, is kidnapped shortly afterwards by the sports teacher because of his special skills. ...

The Slurb (2001)

One Saturday, the Slurb, a strange little creature with a proboscis nose, enters Mr. Taschenbier's life. Slurb, who immediately adopts the shy Mr. Taschenbier as his "daddy," is, however, his sheer opposite: he is cheeky and chaotic and throws his well-ord ...

Hanna: wo bist Du? (2001)

Lieber böser Weihnachtsmann (1999)

House Call (1994)

Roos Hartman is a young doctor who lives with her son in a large apartment complex. When a fellow tenant is brutally murdered, the police and Hartman's friends suspect her mysterious neighbour, Eric Coenen. As she becomes romantically involved with Coenen, ...

The Indecent Woman (1991)

A woman with a steady marriage and a little daughter, goes bezerk and enters a seducing game. ...

Lily Was Here (1989)

Lily works as a checkout girl at the local supermarket. She becomes pregnant, but before the child is born, the black father is attacked by skinheads and killed. Following his death, she flees to the city, where she soon finds herself under the wings of a ...

The Scorpion (1984)

It's 1956. Truck driver Loe Wolf wants to emigrate to America, but he doesn't have the money to take this step in life. When his boss entrusts him with a certain amount of money, he takes a gamble. ...

A Question of Silence (1982)

When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why. ...

The Girl with the Red Hair (1981)

During the second world war law student Hannie Schaft is a member of the Dutch resistance movement. ...

Doctor Vlimmen (1978)

A veterinarian lives together with his sister and her son in a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. He has to cope with gossip and distrust from the villagers. ...

Het kruis van Tegelen (2022)

The Tegelse Passion Play, which is performed every five years, is about the last days of suffering of Jesus Christ. This tradition, in which almost the entire Limburg village in the Netherlands participates, goes back to 1931. It is also a tradition that i ...

The Scorpion (1984)

It's 1956. Truck driver Loe Wolf wants to emigrate to America, but he doesn't have the money to take this step in life. When his boss entrusts him with a certain amount of money, he takes a gamble. ...