Jacob Derwig – MRQE

Bankier van het Verzet

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.

Tiramisù

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jacob, a bookkeeper, meets Anne, an actress and his newest client. Her personal finances are in terrible shape and she has to sell her beloved houseboat. Jacob buys the boat and plans to give it to Anne, but she comes up with a plan of her own.

Publieke werken

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States. Committed – or is it pride? – the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences.

Alles is familie

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

All the members of the De Roover family have ended up at a point of no return in their lives where crucial choices have to be made. Winnie wants a child. Her husband Rutmer wants to get in touch with his feelings. His brother Charlie doesn’t want any responsibilities. Their brother-in-law Dick wants his deceased wife back. Head of the family Arend wants to be happy. Mother Jeannette wants somebody to want her. Written by Topkapi Films

Grimm

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

One cold winter’s day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out of work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle is dead. Marie meets Diego, a wealthy charming Spanish surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his sick, domineering sister, Teresa. To Jacob’s astonishment, Marie wants to marry Diego. Even after the wedding has taken place, jealous Jacob tries to get his sister away from Diego. When this doesn’t succeed, Jacob starts to provoke his brother-in-law. It soon transpires that no one will go unpunished for this.

Zus & zo

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this Oscar-nominated comedy, 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 personal differences and set out to stop the wedding at all costs.

Îles flottantes

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A group of 30-something friends’ lives are complicated by love triangles and interpersonal drama. At the center are two relationships: Kaat (Maria Kraakman) and Max (Leopold Witte), who just broke up, and the seemingly happier Isa (Halina Reijn) and Christophe (Kuno Bakker). However, Kaat and Christophe had a secret fling, and when Kaat learns she’s pregnant, she doesn’t know who the father is. She eventually confides in her friend Sacha (Manja Topper), who urges her to tell both men the truth.

Lek

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

Temmink: The Ultimate Fight

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Somewhere in the near future, exists The Arena. Here men with an ‘agression gene’ with which they want to live no longer, are being admitted to fulfil their wish to die. Through fights to the death, televised by the commercial sportschannel, lives are being ended before one’s time. Temmink, one of the gladiators, wins his first fight, finds a friend in a colleague and falls in love with one of the prostitutes. He becomes a national hero and loses his will to die. But, once admitted to the The Arena, there is no return…

De jurk

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of a summer dress and those who have to do with it, especially the train conductor (played by van Warmerdam, the director). The dress functions as catalyst for the whimsical events, which turns out to be either tragic or hilarious.