Monic Hendrickx

Mag ik je aanraken? (2023)

How do Dutch actors in the post-#MeToo era look back at intimate scenes and what do they think about the arrival of the intimacy coordinator? From her experience as an actress and filmmaker, Tamar van den Dop talks to several past and present icons. ...

Only You (2023)

A young woman finds herself at a crossroads as she spends an intimate weekend with a stranger she falls for on her bachelorette night. ...

Ome Cor (2022)

A down-on-his-luck Rotterdam dock worker struggles to get his financials and family life back on track. ...

Hazard (2022)

Noah loves his girlfriend Lea and their daughter Zita dearly, just about as much as his extremely pimped car with vanity plate "H4Z4RD". ...

The Revelation (2022)

Unemployed Jacob moves in with his elderly mother at the start of the corona lockdown. He falls under the influence of an internet conspiracy-theorist and goes slowly insane. ...

Ferry (2021)

Before he built a drug empire, Ferry Bouman returns to his hometown on a revenge mission that finds his loyalty tested — and a love that alters his life. ...

Aardbei (2020)

In a smudgy hotel, guests and staff have a run in with fate. ...

Penoza: The Final Chapter (2019)

The Black Widow is not dead ... Drug Queen Carmen van Walraven is hiding in Canada and leads an anonymous life there. One evening a colleague is harassed and Carmen helps her. In self-defense, she kills the perpetrator, is arrested and extradited to the Ne ...

Promise of Pisa (2019)

A promising young Dutch-Moroccan trumpet player sets out to succeed at a posh Amsterdam music conservatory. ...

A Certain Kind of Silence (2019)

While working abroad, young au pair Mia unwittingly surrenders her reason, her heart and her dreams to a radical family community. ...

God Only Knows (2019)

Three middle-aged siblings — two sisters and a brother — with wildly different personalities struggle to make it through the Easter holidays as the brother suffers one of his psychotic episodes. ...

Younger Days (2017)

A group of middle-aged former bandmates reunite to scatter the ashes of their deceased lead singer, only to have their bond put to the test by the unexpected presence of one of the friends' twenty-something girlfriend. ...

The Hero (2016)

After Sara Silverstein suddenly finds herself involved in a series of violent attacks she realizes she needs to unravel her father's past in order to neutralize this threat. ...

As If I'm Crazy (2016)

When a successful young artist named Benjamin is involuntarily committed, he is completely baffled, for he doesn't remember anything about what happened. Life in the psychiatric institute is violent and absurd, but step by step, Benjamin seems to come to ...

Café Derby (2015)

1985. Georges is a born market vendor. As a driven salesman he sells anything, anytime, to anyone. When he hears that the Pope is coming to Belgium, he smells his chance. In addition to the grounds, where tens of thousands of believers will attend an open- ...

Nena (2014)

The film tells the story of sixteen-year-old Nena, who is confronted with the suicide attempt of her handicapped father. At the same time she falls head over heels in love for the first time in her life with Carlo, whose father has just outed himself. Away ...

Kenau (2014)

While she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter, because her fear and pain are covered by her stu ...

The Rotterdam Bombing (2012)

A thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the centre of ...

Lotus (2011)

A mosaic film about a group of people in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands strugging with loneliness, hope and love. ...

Penny's Shadow (2011)

During a riding vacation on the island Ameland, a young girl discovers a dangerous horse who distrust people. To prove that the horse isn't dangerous at all, the girl secretly trains the horse to trust humans again. ...

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 ...

Overmorgen (2010)

The Storm (2009)

A fictional story within the historical context of the disastrous flood that engulfed the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland in 1953. When their farmhouse is destroyed by the flood, teenage mother Julia gets separated from her baby boy, whom she kept hidden ...

3 (2009)

Two sisters (Geerteke van Lierop, Nicole Moerland) meet with their estranged mother (Monic Hendrickx). While they're trying to connect over the course of a day, we hear the thoughts of their deceased father (Rutger Hauer). ...

Julia's hart (2009)

Thomas and Julia are inseparable. When Julia dies in a car accident and her heart is transplanted, Thomas does everything he can to find his beloved's heart. ...

Radeloos (2008)

In Radeloos, Yara has had a crush on Paco for a while. He goes to her school and DJs at parties. But Paco is into Floor and doesn't notice her. Could it be because she's too fat? Yara's mother wants her daughter to become a model, but Yara actually wants t ...

Dag in dag uit (2008)

Every morning six people who live in the same street are taking the bus into town. Thanks to their own routine they survive each day, until one of them meets death. ...

The Letter for the King (2008)

Young Tiuri has to pass the final test before before being knighted by king Dagonaut. He has to pass a night in the chapel, what is suddenly disturbed by a strangers request of help. With his decision to help the stranger, Tiuri abandons his given task and ...

Heartbeat (2008)

Senna (13) composes a street sounds symphony for her sick grandfather, so he can once more make his favorite walk trough town. ...

Nadine (2007)

A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and extreme actions. ...

Unfinished Sky (2007)

An Outback farmer takes in an Afghani woman who has fled from a brothel. ...

The Chosen One (2006)

The two brothers Van der Laan, of strict religion, have been running Holland's most successful software company for 10 years when suddenly their financial manager leaves the firm. The lives of the brothers and their families get turned upside down when the ...

Diep (2005)

A story about the 14 year old Heleen who makes the transition of child to adult with pain and effort in the wild 70s. While her parents going to divorce she is exploring the world of sex, drugs and love on her own. ...

Masterclass (2005)

An actor tempts fate when he convinces a legendary, but loose-cannon, theater director out of retirement to give a masterclass at a drama school. ...

Leef! (2005)

Anna is a vital woman who is married and has two daughters. She picks up her old passion of writing again after frequent requests by a colleague and a friend, but she had not foreseen the consequences of family and friends reading her stories... ...

Wanted: Man (2005)

When Bas puts up the note Wanted: Man on the notice board of the local supermarket for his single mother, she does not know about it. The self-willed Bas tries to find a solution for the separation between him and his mother, who no longer knows how to cop ...

Amazones (2004)

Four women are sick of being poor. They decide to rob a bank. They are surprised how easily they get away with it and start to commit more robberies. When the net finally closes around them they decide to make one last big hit. ...

Hidden Flaws (2004)

Seventy-year-old Agnes takes the ashes of her dear Robert and travels to their regular holiday cottage on the Scottish island of Mull. On the way, two Dutch runaways, the ten-year-old girl Chris and her younger brother Tommie, sneak into her car. The child ...

The South (2004)

Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her prosth ...

Young Kees (2003)

Little boy Kees is based on the famous classical masterpiece by Theo Thijssen and deals with a twelve year old Amsterdam schoolboy who grows up at the end of the 19th century in the Jordaan (part of Amsterdam. Kees Bakels is a dreamer who seeks refuge from ...

Flight of the Imagination (2003)

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

Dajo (2003)

To show the many lovers of his mother how he feels about them, a young boy buries the gifts he gets from them in the woods. But then one of them gives him a dog, called Dajo. ...

Dwaalgast (2003)

Woman finds a young girl in her shed. ...

Maxima's Miracle (2003)

February 2002. An Argentinian mother and her daughter visit Amsterdam during the wedding of prince Willem-Alexander and princess Máxima. She is looking for a miracle, the reappearing of her husband Alejandro, who got lost during the regime. She experience ...

Zus & Zo (2002)

Three wacky sisters try to save their inheritance from their supposedly gay brother, who suddenly appears with a fiancé in tow. If he gets married, their father's will stipulates that he gets the family hotel in Portugal. So the sisters put aside their pe ...

The Moving True Story of a Woman Ahead of Her Time (2001)

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

Soul Assassin (2001)

A security agent at an investment bank uncovers espionage that is linked to his girlfriend's murder. He vows to seek revenge on those responsible. ...

Speakers of the Truth (2000)

Algerian journalist Sahafi is faced with a dilemma. If he returns to Algeria, he's almost certain to be assassinated. If he takes political asylum in the Netherlands, he is treated like a pariah. ...

Mates (1999)

October 1997. Paul Winters (35) is deputy public prosecutor in Arnhem and is working on his first major case: an investigation in to the allegations of a Bosnian girl that she was raped by three soldiers in the Dutch UN contingent and whose brother is alle ...

One Man and His Dog (1999)

Kees (Ramsey Nasr) is a gently eccentric loner who takes his imaginary dog for a walk each evening and likes to listen in on his neighbors' conversations. He is lonely. He has no real family, as his father is dead and his mother is institutionalized. Howev ...

The Polish Bride (1998)

Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her. ...

All Stars (1997)

Seven young men who played soccer together since their early youth grow apart and are forced to think about the nature of their friendship. In a comic way and a very Dutch setting, All Stars is about pregnant girlfriends and homosexuality, career plans and ...

Aletta Jacobs, Het Hoogste Streven (1995)

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 to allow her to attend university and, after completing her studies, becomes the first female doctor in Am ...