Laus Steenbeeke

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 many new friends, but also some very powerful enemies.

A foreign musician unexpectedly arrives in a picturesque Dutch village. The hotel owner offers this tourist a suite, coincidentally for the same amount as what he owes the baker. When the hotelier receives the amount in cash, he can finally settle his debt. Next, it turns out the baker also has an outstanding balance, etcetera. In this absurd comedy about the circular economy, it is clear that constantly making and settling debts brings unanticipated consequences.

Koekebakker is a successful journalist. His old mates, however, turned out failures: Bekker has lost all hope of changing the world, Hoyer works for the socialist party, Bavink suffers from mental problems and Kees is a simple laborer.

Prostitute Dolly co-finances the purchase of a Vermeer painting with art expert Eddy Cremer. When they find out the painting is fake, she returns to the red light district, where conditions have worsened over time.

A 17 year old girl runs away form home and finds shelter with a 50 year old man with a psychiatric past.

Recording of the musical about HEMA, the Dutch variety chain store. Before her Royal Wedding with Crown Prince Wim-Lex, the warm-blooded Latina Max decides to immerse herself in everything Dutch to get to know the Dutch well. After all, that is very important for her future as queen! Disguised as the Spanish-speaking intern Ramona, Max turns up in the typically Dutch HEMA, the place where all Dutch people come together. This self-chosen integration program of Max turns the lives of the employees at HEMA upside down for a while...

Melissa is a 15-year-old girl who loves to dance. Her parents think she is taking classes in classical ballet, but once at the dance school she devotes herself to the hip-hop dance classes. Melissa is good friends with Jordi and he is very happy for Melissa when she is asked to dance in the music video of the famous rapper Brainpower. But because of bad influences, her life becomes a nightmare. Until her real friends decide to get her out of there.

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 over to Mrs. Koster soon after he was born. Foster mother Mrs. Koster, who has cared for him since he was a baby, is very poor too, unable to support him by herself and proves to be a cruel taskmaster who insists Crumb bring her money before shell feed him. Somehow he must earn his keep out on the streets and can only go home after he has earned enough money. Crumb becomes an urchin stealing from the streets barrows and the shops to stay alive, sleeping in churches or huddled in doorways. Sometimes he has to run off from the police and he has earned the enmity of the most grownups around him.

Incredibly enough, one day before the start of his pension and just hours before his 65th birthday, window cleaner Alfred suddenly finds himself stricken by vertigo. A 64-year and 364-day journey through glass and lather reveals why he is afraid to either go up or go down the ladder. And whilst he finds himself to be an accidental Cupid by hitting anyone but himself with his arrows, it’s not until that particular day, 44 years after meeting Dirkje for the first time, that he realizes he has to point the arrow at himself.

A biography of Isabelle de Charrière and her friendship with Benjamin Constant.

Television registration of Dutch theatre comedy by Annie M.G. Schmidt. This three-act comedy plays at the office of the New Positive Foundation – which aims to keep literature pure and especially to keep sex out. The story revolves around the frivolous divorced mother of a young employee at the Foundation, who has tampered with the books a bit. To help prevent the suspicion of fraud, this frisky mother enters the Foundation as a new employee, with all its consequences.

A Dutch mockumentary about children and their ambitious parents' quest for fame at a local talent show in the small town of Bannebroek.

This TV-film is based on a single play written by Willem Wilmink. Life in the war years through the innocent eyes of a child. Kees is ten years old and the Second World War seems strange to him. He becomes sick with fear and is sent to the countryside where life is even stranger, but at least he gets to eat.