Avro Movies

One and a half years before the begin of the Second World War during the annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Hitler conceived the megalomaniac...

Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It brings back memories of her experiences in the...

Television adaptation of the Dutch musical based on the Dutch novel from 1860 by Multatuli. Max Havelaar tries to battle against the corrupt...

Portrait from 1964 of the editors of the film magazine Skoop, founded in 1963. Portrait from 1964 of the editors of the film magazine Skoop, founded...

Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up...

In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb...

Directed by Jenneke Boeijink

On March 6, 2002, Pim Fortuyn, as leader of Leefbaar Rotterdam, achieved a resounding victory in the municipal elections in the city on the Maas....

On 12 May 1978, Kate made her debut on Dutch television in a program that has gotten to be known as “De Efteling Special”. The amusement...

A rich Frisian farmer has been murdered in Amsterdam and police duo Grijpstra & De Gier are sent to investigate. Adjutant Grijpstra has problems at...

Television adaptation of Frank Groothofs theatre program 'Idomeneo'. In this youth theatre production (a playful adaptation of Mozart's opera),...

In the occupied Netherlands near the end of WWII, a young teenager, Jeroen Boman (Maarten Smit) is sent to the Dutch countryside to avoid the war in...

Dark City, Texas. A terrible bandit named Jim Parasite runs an illegal whiskey distillery. Parasite wants to become the biggest and has therefore...

A documentary on Heinz Hermann Polzer, better known under his pseudonym Drs. P. Polzer was a Swiss singer-songwriter, poet, and prose writer in the...

This documentary explores the life and life of Harry Bannink, an important Dutch composer for theatre and television.

Short documentary about the making of and the worldwide reactions to The Secret Annex, Anne Frank's diary in book form.

Dutch composer Louis Andriessen collaborates with director Peter Greenaway on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the...

A chance meeting between Nicolai and Nina, a friend from the past, makes Nicolai return to an abandoned hotel in which, many years ago, he...

Television adaptation of the theater performance of the same name by the Dutch Ruut Weissman and George Groot. The Dutch cabaret artists Jenny Arean,...