Henny Vrienten

1 Dorp, 1 Postcode, 43 Miljoen (2015)

Sonny Boy (2011)

Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika already h ...

Ciske de Rat De Musical (2010)

Ciske de Rat - the Musical, based on Piet Bakker's trilogy, not only tells the famous story of Ciske, the boy with a heart of gold and his cheeky antics, but also how Ciske fares as an adult. ...

Doe Maar the Musical (2008)

Doe Maar was a Dutch ska band with punk and reggae influences. Their career ran from 1978 to 1984 and they were one of the most successful pop bands in Dutch history. Doe Maar translates as Go Ahead or Just do it, a phrase mostly used in a deprecatory, sul ...

Peter Bell II: The Hunt for the Czar Crown (2003)

Peter Bell and his Black Hand gang tangle with evil newspaper tycoon Stark once again, as the latter schemes to steal a priceless royal crown with his two cronies. ...

Flight of the Imagination (2003)

An explicator of silent movies falls in love with the star of film he's accompanying. ...

Sea of Silence (2003)

1969. Nine-year old Caro lives on a pig farm in a small town with her four other siblings and another on the way. She is curious and determined to understand the mysteries of the world around her. But her devout catholic father can't explain the new world ...

Peter Bell (2002)

Peter is a cheerful -- but not very obedient -- boy from a very ordinary family in pre-war Rotterdam. His many pranks amuse some and cause a lot of trouble to others, even making the front pages of the big city newspapers. His growing popularity brings him ...

The Stone Raft (2002)

An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residen ...

De Verlossing (2001)

A Flemish family comes together in their maternal home. Oscar, the grotesque patriarch, his bedridden wife Magda, his feeble son Johnny and his daughter Julia, who's married to a Moroccan soccer player. There's something wrong with Magda, who's not only pl ...

The Discovery of Heaven (2001)

Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may b ...

Little Crumb (1999)

The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb. His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien filled with shame was forced to turn him ...

The Flying Liftboy (1998)

Pupil Abel is the victim of Laura's nasty prank, yet gets accidentally blamed and overreacts. His ma withdraws him from school and gets him a job as lift-boy. But its' a special lift: when he pushes the forbidden green button, it takes him, Laura, Jozias T ...

Scratches in the Table (1998)

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 th ...

Left Luggage (1998)

While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which makes him ...

Sur place (1996)

A mysterious foreign woman who is staying temporarily in a house there. Who she is and what her secret is are both slowly revealed in the reconstruction of a story about passion, revenge and war. Paul Ruven's homage to the films of Marguerite Duras and Cha ...

De Kresj (1995)

Around 1970, director Marije Meerman attended the anti-authoritarian daycare center Prins Constantijn in Amsterdam, where children were raised by a collective of parents to become 'socially critical, creative, emancipated, pleasurable, inclusive people'. T ...

De nietsnut (1994)

For all his life Frank Goudvis has tried not to follow in the footsteps of his father. When his father is mysteriously murdered, Frank loses his alibi for his cherished passivity and decides to travel to the crime scene. ...

Going Home (1993)

Johan Ten Berghe joins the Dutch army when the Dutch East Indies unilaterally declare independence as Indonesia. He initiates his naive driver Twan in life in the East, having grown up there as son of colonial official Hendrik, now missing. Their adventure ...

The Three Best Things in Life (1992)

In this melancholic comedy we follow the successful young violinist Sacha as she travels by train from Paris to Amsterdam and three days later when she returns, bereft of many illusions yet purified within. ...

The Generous Lover (1990)

A comedy based on two novels by Marjan Berk about a smooth-talking artist with love problems. He is in love but is pursued by former lovers. ...

Jan Rap en z'n maat (1989)

This is a movie about a group of young people with all sorts of problems. They all live in some old house with a number of volunteers helping them to get back on track. The young people yell and scream a lot and destroy about every object you get to see in ...

The Vanishing (1988)

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he s ...

Shadow of Victory (1986)

During World War II, two members of the Dutch resistance share the same goal but use very different methods to reach it. ...

Death in the Shadows (1985)

A woman and her daughter lives in Oostdijk, a village near Amsterdam. One night when the mother is on her way home, she is killed in a car accident in the street they live in. ...

Unknown Brood (2016)

"When I do my suicide for you, I hope you'll miss me too," Herman Brood sang in "Rock 'n' Roll Junkie" – just one of many announcements of his own death Brood worked into his songs. It's a subject Brood, who jumped off the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton 15 ...

Doe Maar: Dit is Alles (2013)

This documentary is a chronicle of the legendary career of the Dutch 80's band Doe Maar. ...

Doe Maar: Symphonica in Rosso (2012)

A registration of legendary reggaeband Doe Maar's Symphonica in Rosso reunion concert accompanied by Guido's Orchestra. ...

Doe Maar: Hees van Ahoy (2000)

The live recording of one of the 16 soldout concerts Doe Maar gave in 2000 in Ahoy. This DVD contains the complete concert (23 songs in the superior AC3 sound standard) and many extras. ...

Muziek: Harry Bannink (2000)

This documentary explores the life and life of Harry Bannink, an important Dutch composer for theatre and television. ...

Little Crumb (1999)

The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb. His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien filled with shame was forced to turn him ...

The Flying Liftboy (1998)

Pupil Abel is the victim of Laura's nasty prank, yet gets accidentally blamed and overreacts. His ma withdraws him from school and gets him a job as lift-boy. But its' a special lift: when he pushes the forbidden green button, it takes him, Laura, Jozias T ...

Doe Maar - Afscheidsconcert 1984 (1984)