Promise of Pisa 2019
A promising young Dutch-Moroccan trumpet player sets out to succeed at a posh Amsterdam music conservatory.
A promising young Dutch-Moroccan trumpet player sets out to succeed at a posh Amsterdam music conservatory.
In All Stars 2 Old Stars, the unexpected wedding of one of the boys means they treat themselves to an ‘old-fashioned training camp’ in the form of a long weekend in Barcelona. The match between Barcelona and Real Madrid is meant to be the high point of the trip. But of course not everything goes according to plan for the Swift Boys.
Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend turned gangster. The childhood friend turns informant. But his revelations are hardly the most important "leaks" in the story. In fact, the new relationship between old friends goes all wrong, and the young policeman becomes increasingly involved in a deadly web of lies, crimes, treason, and revenge, all seemingly out of control.
Two passionate people, Marleen and Vince, embark on a scorching love affair. They are sucked down by the fierceness of their feelings and literally drown in them..
An intelligent woman keeps falling for the wrong guy. With her latest lover David and a kilo of cocaine in her purse she barely escaped an arrest. Back in Holland she starts a B&B. Her first guest is the attractive Aziz, who wants to steal an old Moroccan mosaic at the International Art Fair.
An almost bankrupt pig farmer is blackmailed by a shady trader who supplies him with contaminated pig feed and starts carrying on with his wife. Then, swine fever breaks out on the farm. In the hope that the outbreak will go by unnoticed, the farmer buries his dead pigs on a corner of his farmland. The trader catches him in the act.