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Antonia Brico dreams of becoming a conductor, but she isn't taken seriously because she is a woman.

A zoo veterinarian gets caught up in a grisly adventure as she finds herself leading the city-wide hunt for a monstrous lion terrorizing the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.

A Dutch woman and a young man 17 years her junior from Suriname, struggle to make their relationship work in spite of the social and economic obstacles they face.

A romantic drama about a working-class woman and her experiences traveling back home.

There is never a dull moment in 10-year-old Peter's life; his adventures appearing in newspaper headlines based unfortunately on outright lies. Together with his own little army, The Black Hand Club, Peter decides to right these wrongs.

Renowned journalist Pierre has to interview the most famous Dutch actress, Katja Schuurman, against his wishes.

President Isimo wants to get rid of all the ugly children. Paul is one of these children, but he manages to escape and start a movement in an attempt to overthrow President Isimo.

Against a background of holocaust memories, a liberal Jewish girl becomes a nanny to a young Jewish boy with a disability and grows fond of him.

Dutch teenagers Kars and Isa are furious when their eternally-rowing parents decide to move to France and open a campsite there, and the uprooting feels to them like exile in Timbuktu. Luckily, Isa meets motherless half-Dutch boy Jules, who becomes their friend while trying to hide that his dad is a shameful lush and wheeler-dealer. On top of all the family misery, they get involved in dangerous business.

The journey of a homeless boy who tries to find his father, set in the 1920's in Holland.

Rik Boskamp is dreaming of a different life where he's not constantly bullied in and one in which his father is not a total loser.

David's classmate Jochem is bullied because he is too heavy. Although David increasingly stands up to the bullying, it turns out to be too late.

Melissa is a nice and pretty girl with natural dreams and ambitions. But because of bad influences, her life becomes a nightmare. Until her real friends decide to get her out of there.

When drugstore owner Geelman's watch is missing, he accuses incorrigible rascal Pietje Bell. The boy is thrown in jail without trial, but quickly escapes and is proved innocent. During his short prison stay he meets gangmate Willem Sproet's dad Jan Lampe, who wants to resume contact, and crimelord Stark, who buys himself a luxury regime in jail and keeps organizing crime from within. Pietje mobilizes his 'Robin Hood'-type Black Hand gang. He also causes havoc at a party to 'punish' his sister Martha's lover, well-meaning newspaper owner Paul Velinga, and gets abducted to be extorted in jail solitary by Stark. That opens the way for Geelman's son Joost, which Pietje and his gang must prevent. Meanwhile, Stark plans to have a Russian czarist crown stolen from a visiting exposition, but Pietje is tipped off.

In this short motion picture, schoolboy Kees is intelligent, introvert and sensitive, but gets ridiculed verbally and physically at an all-boys school by mindlessly cocky class mates and even insensitive teachers, especially in gym, where his physical weakness is mercilessly abused to make him a defenseless laughing stock in front of his smirking peers. His awakening sexual interest goes to boys, and in particular to Charel, a beautiful athletic classmate who probably feels an undetermined interest but would never risk admitting (possibly not even to himself) having any gay or bi appreciation, least of all for a 'sissy', and thus remains unresponsive to shy Kees' overtures. When the hunk finally comes over to Kees' place while his parents are away, a desperate disappointment with a tragical twist is in the making...

Eva is afraid of her sex-obsessed stepfather Willem. Feeling forlorn, she meets Ricardo, a streetwise hustler who cheers her up, promising a trip to Paris. But instead he drags her to a sex club where she's held prisoner. Mees, on whom she has a crush, embarks on a desperate search to rescue her but his arrival at the sex club coincides with a police raid, at which point Eva is astonished to discover that Willem is actually an undercover vice cop.

A young couple gets new English neighbors next-door to their modern home. Of course, everyone is not who they seem.

A lawyer must defend a nightclub owner accused of committing a crime-of-passion.

Distraught is a Dutch film from 2008 by Dave Schram at the scenario of Mary Peters among others Marius Gottlieb, Marloes van der Wel, Renée Soutendijk, Monic Hendrickx and Victor Löw. The scenario is based on the book by Carry Slee. On October 16, 2008 Marius Gottlieb was raided on the set of SpangaS by writer Carry Slee who told him that the film 100 000 visitor. Story Edit Spoiler warning: The following text contains details of the content and / or the end of the story. Yara (Marloes van der Wel) already has an eye on for a while Paco (Marius Gottlieb) who attends school with her and as a DJ at parties running plates. But Paco has something to Floor (Robin Martens) and does not stand her. Yara's mother wants her daughter model but actually wants Yara to art school. Yara wants to lose weight to be not too thick and because Paco her might enjoyable. Therefore, she eats little, but they induced vomiting after a meal by stabbing a finger in her throat. Later she used a laxative. Paco's father garages where Paco also works. Paco and his father love each other. Paco's mother has a friend, Paco can not stand him. Floor gets to Paco, though he is under 18 and has no driver's license, her pick a car. Paco does, he enters an old Daphie but Floor embarrassed to be seen in it and refuses to move. Paco's father is angry, Paco promises that he will not do it again. Paco goes with his father on the road by car. The mobile phone of his father's battery is depleted, and Paco does not find it necessary to make his own cell phone. Paco's father suffers a heart attack on the highway Paco sends the car to the side. He would like to call an ambulance, but has no cell phone, and long-coming cars stop at first. He wants to drive, but does not because of his promise to his father. This takes longer for an ambulance comes. Paco's father dies, Paco feels guilty. Floor makes it awkwardly with Paco. At school Yara knocked unconscious by an overdose of the laxative. Paco warns the history teacher, Sulders (Kees Hulst), but that does not listen. Paco lends them without asking his car and bring Yara to hospital and call from there to school to say Sulders' car is there. Sulders is evil and comes up with the police to the hospital; the friend of Paco's mother comes and says that he borrowed the car, and Paco will thereby protect.

A boy's friends frame him after an act of senseless violence, then turn against him for trying to tell the truth.

The story is about Sven a boy who gets beaten and bullied at home because his father favors his brother over him. Sven goes to school and tries to hide his bruises. When his crush sees them he tells her he fell whilst free running. Sven's best friend decides to teach him how to free run so that he can impress his crush. Unfortunately, the beatings at home get worse and Sven has to escape.

Guy Moeyaert is a well-meaning colonial official in a jungle district of the Belgian Congo in the last years of white colonial rule, after the Second World War, a paternalistic system where the state, unable to be properly present all over the vast, sparsely populated country, collaborates systematically with the Roman Catholic missions -in his post, father Alexis- and private enterprise, in case mainly the mining company -locally represented by engineer Lenaers- which also helps out with money and labor for such public tasks as road building. Even his grip on the natives is weak, as they live under hereditary tribal leaders, which must take from its people what they are legally obliged to deliver to the state in taxes and labor; coercion is done by force, including whipping on the bare buttocks, which Guy hates. Guy also starts a love affair with Hélène Vermarcke, who gets estranged from her husband Luk (the three were already friends in Belgium) as he devotes all his efforts the their plantation, leaving her alone with the native staff and their son, or is it Guy's? The adultery makes his position in the white community far weaker then is compatible with his position of theoretical authority without sufficient independent means. He also depends heavily on his educated black clerk Gabriel Ndazaru and ambitious white deputy Arthur. It all gets worse for everybody as the call for 'dipenda', black independence as in Ghana, gets stronger, in time even accepted 'in principle' by the Belgian government which plans a gradual transition which the idealist Guy supports but all other whites oppose, while the natives have neither patience nor insight and start attacking every symbol of the old regime, regardless of its objective value, and soon white people and 'collaborators' too- it gets physically dangerous, but Guy won't budge or flee...

Caspar goes searching for his father, when he learns that his mother is very ill.