NEW DUTCH DVD RELEASES 2019-20
GEWOON VRIENDEN/JUST FRIENDS (15) 2018 NETHERLANDS SMIT, ELLEN £14.99
Light-hearted romance about two young men in love.
SAINT (15) 2010 NETHERLANDS MAAS, DICK £5.99
Comedy horror re-imagining Santa Claus as a psychopathic child-killing zombie.
SPETTERS (18) 1980 NETHERLANDS VERHOEVEN, PAUL BLU RAY AND DVD £20.99
Three young amateur motorcycle racers are desperate to emulate their hero Gerrit Witkamp and escape from the working class streets of Rotterdam.
VANISHING (15) NETHERLANDS 1988 SLUIZER, GEORGE DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Award winning thriller. Rex and his girlfriend, Saskia visit a service station, when suddenly Saskia disappears. Three years later Saskia's kidnapper makes contact with Rex and offers answers to the mystery
WE (18) 2018 NETHERLANDS ELLER, RENE £15.99
The film is based on the novel by Elvis Peeters, eight teenage friends combat their boredom over the course of one hot summer on the Belgium-Netherlands border, by engage in a series of experimental challenges with one another. This innocent game soon turns darker as the challenges become increasingly depraved, and the friends find themselves having to confront the consequences of their actions.
BACK LIST - DUTCH/FLEMISH DVDS
21 DAYS - THE HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING 2011 NETHERLANDS TREURNIET, MAARTEN £12.99
In 1983 Alfred Heineken in was one of the world s most successful brewers and perhaps the most influential man in the Netherlands and thus a target for kidnappers. He is snatched by a team of inexperienced, hot headed young criminals and is held for 21 gruelling days in a cold, cramped cell. Rendered powerless for the first time in his life, Heineken finds himself at the mercy of the gang s youngest member, who takes special pleasure in humiliating and frightening the business magnate. When the huge ransom is finally paid, Heineken is set free and begins to plot his elaborate revenge.
THE ADMIRAL - COMMAND AND CONQUER (15) 2015 NETHERLANDS REINÉ, ROEL £15.99
Action-packed historical drama set in the 17th century.
AMSTERDAMNED (15) 1988 NETHERLANDS MAAS, DICK £12.99
Set in Amsterdam, this blackly comic thriller follows a divorced police officer who is on the trail of a serial killer.
BEN X (15) 2007 NETHERLANDS BALTHAZAR, NIC IN FLEMISH £15.99
Ben, an autistic teenager, has a hard time fitting in at school and is often the victim of bullying. He copes with this by immersing himself in a video game, ‘Archlord’; an online universe where he is in control of his fate, not the bullies.
BLACK BOOK (15) 2006 NETHERLANDS VERHOEVEN, PAUL £19.99
Epic war drama based on a true story about a Jewish woman who joins the Dutch resistance in WW2.
BLACK WIDOW: SERIES 1 (15) 2010 NETHERLANDS £23.99
Three women are gathered at a cabin with their three colleague husbands when they watch the men blow up in the boat just going out fishing. A police man investigates the widows, who will have to try to explain what happened.
BLIND DATE (15) 1996 NETHERLANDS GOGH, THEO VAN £19.99
Drama chronicling the attempts of a recently-bereaved couple to rebuild their shattered relationship following the death of their young daughter.
BUSINESS IS BUSINESS (18) NETHERLANDS 1971 VERHOEVEN, PAUL £19.99
Comedy set in the 1960s Amsterdam red light district.
CLAUSTROFOBIA (18) 2011 NETHERLANDS BOERMANS, BOBBY £15.99
Young veterinary student and aspiring actress, Eva (Carolien Spoor), wakes up after a night out with her friend, and soon realises she's been taken hostage and chained to a bed. She must then fight for her freedom and seek answers to why her masked abductor keeps drawing blood from her.
EUROPE’S SECRET ARMIES - LOW COUNTRIES E) IN ENGLISH £10.99
Documentary traces the history of the resistance in Holland.
THE FOURTH MAN (18) NETHERLANDS 1983 VERHOEVEN, PAUL £19.99
Thriller about a man who becomes involved with a woman whos past three husbands are all dead.
FUCHSIA THE MINI WITCH (PG) 2010 NETHERLANDS NIJENHUIS, JOHAN £15.99
Family comedy starring Rachelle Verdel as Fuchsia, a small witch with big dreams.
IT'S ALL SO QUIET NETHERLANDS (15) 2013 NETHERLANDS LEOPOLD, NANOUK £14.99
A middle-aged farmer cares for his elderly father but is tired of his loneliness invites young farmhand Henk to live with him but finds himself repressing his desires due to the continued presence of his father.
KATIE TIPPEL (18) NETHERLANDS 1975 VERHOEVEN/PAUL £19.99
Period drama about a country girl who’s illusions are shattered when they move to Amsterdam.
LOVE LIFE (15) 2009 NETHERLANDS OERLEMANS, REINOUT £15.99
Debut feature is a study of a marriage torn apart by cancer.
NO MAN'S LAND (15) 2014 NETHERLANDS EIJKEREN, KLAAS VAN £14.99
Set in Paris at the outbreak of the First World War, Dutch-Indian Arthur Knaap (Timothy Flohr) feels compelled to take up arms in the protection of his adopted homeland and joins the Foreign Legion.
NORTH SEA TEXAS (15) 2011 BELGIUM DEFURNE, BAVO FLEMISH
DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £15.99
Coming-of-age drama set in a small town on the Belgian coast. Jelle Floorizoone stars as Pim, a lonely gay teenager who lives with his neglectful accordionist mother Yvette (Eva van der Gucht). Pim often finds comfort at the home of his 'second mum', Yvette's co-worker Marcella (Katelijne Damen), where he harbours an unrequited passion for her slightly-older son, motorbike enthusiast Gino (Mathias Vergels).
OORLOGSWINTER/WINTER IN WARTIME (15) 2008 NETHERLANDS KOOLHOVEN, MARTIN
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Based on the children’s novel ‘Oorlogswinter’ by Jan Terlouw. In the final days of World War Two, fourteen-year-old rebel against his father, the town mayor, by becoming involved with the underground resistance movement.
THE OUT-LAWS (15) 2012 BELGIUM IN FLEMISH £17.99
Comedy drama series about five sisters who vow to stick together after their parents deaths. When one of the sisters marries troublemaker Jean-Claude, the sisters decide to murder him and make it look like an accident, for the good of the family.
THE POOL (15) 2014 NETHERLANDS MITCHELL,C.W £15.99
Dutch horror about a family's traumatic camping trip in the woods.
RED AND WHITE (15) 2009 NETHERLANDS SUGANDI, YADI £15.99
Indonesian war drama set against the backdrop of Indonesia's struggle for independence from the Dutch in 1947. The film chronicles the tale of a group of young soldiers, led by Muslim teacher Amir, who overcome differences of class, race and religion to launch a united guerilla resistance movement against the Dutch.
SAINT (15) 2010 NETHERLANDS MAAS, DICK £5.99
Comedy horror re-imagining Santa Claus as a psychopathic child-killing zombie.
SCHONE HANDEN/CLEAN HANDS (15) 2015 NETHERLANDS PENNING, TJEBBO £15.99
Thriller following a drug dealing family man as he descends deeper into madness. Eddie is a gangster running a drug dealing operation in Amsterdam. However his wife finally decides to take action for the sake of their two children and runs away, while Eddie becomes determined to find them.
THE SILENT ARMY (15) 2008 NETHERLANDS VAN DE VELDE, JEAN £12.99
Dutch pop singer Marco Borsato stars in this drama depicting the plight of child soldiers in Africa.
SOLDIER OF ORANGE (18) NETHERLANDS 1978 VERHOEVEN, PAUL £19.99
World War Two seen from the Dutch perspective.
SPETTERS (18) 1980 NETHERLANDS VERHOEVEN, PAUL BLU RAY AND DVD £20.99
Three young amateur motorcycle racers are desperate to emulate their hero Gerrit Witkamp and escape from the working class streets of Rotterdam.
THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS (18) 2013 BELGIUM CATTET, H/FORZANI, B IN FLEMISH £17.99
Thriller in which a man looks for his wife in their locked apartment. Has she disappeared into their mysterious building !
SUPERNOVA (15) 2014 NETHERLANDS VAN DEN DOP, TAMAR £15.99
Sixteen year old Meis lives with her dysfunctional family in a remote backwater. She dreams about an exciting life.
THE THEO VAN GOGH COLLECTION (18) NETHERLANDS £29.99
Trio of dramas directed by the late Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. 'Blind Date' (1996) chronicles the attempts of a recently-bereaved couple to rebuild their shattered relationship, In '1-900' (1995), two lonely professionals meet through a telephone sex chatline and 'Interview' (2003), political correspondent Pierre (Pierre Bokma) is assigned to
interview Dutch actress Katja Schuurman (appearing as herself). Annoyed at being given such a lightweight assignment, Pierre arrives at Katja's loft apartment having prepared no questions for the interview - but before long the pair are coaxing their deepest, darkest secrets out of each other.
THE TREATMENT (18) 2014 BELGIUM HERBOTS, HANS IN FLEMISH £15.99
Still haunted by the childhood kidnapping of his younger brother Bjorn (Roy Aernouts), Inspector Nick Cafmeyer (Van Rampelberg) is appointed lead investigator on a disturbingly similar case two decades later.
TURKISH DELIGHT (18) NETHERLANDS 1973 VERHOEVEN, PAUL £19.99
Amoral artist changes when he meets a beautiful woman.
TWIN SISTERS (15) 2002 NETHERLANDS SOMBOGAART, BEN IN FLEMISH £19.99
Based on Tessa de Loo bestseller which combines the sweeping historical epic with an examination of daily lives in the period leading up to, and during, World War II.
VANISHING (15) NETHERLANDS 1988 SLUIZER, GEORGE DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Award winning thriller. Rex and his girlfriend, Saskia visit a service station, when suddenly Saskia disappears. Three years later Saskia's kidnapper makes contact with Rex and offers answers to the mystery
WE (18) 2018 NETHERLANDS ELLER, RENE £15.99
The film is based on the novel by Elvis Peeters, eight teenage friends combat their boredom over the course of one hot summer on the Belgium-Netherlands border, by engage in a series of experimental challenges with one another. This innocent game soon turns darker as the challenges become increasingly depraved, and the friends find themselves having to confront the consequences of their actions.
WINTER IN WARTIME/OORLOGSWINTER (15) 2008 NETHERLANDS KOOLHOVEN, MARTIN DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Based on the children’s novel ‘Oorlogswinter’ by Jan Terlouw. In the final days of World War Two, fourteen-year-old rebel against his father, the town mayor, by becoming involved with the underground resistance movement..
WOLF (15) 2013 NETHERLANDS TAIHUTTU, JIM £19.99
Crime drama set in the suburbs of Utrecht
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