Matthijs van Heijningen Movies

England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to...

The failed poet Wessel Franken trades his career in poetry for a career as director of a publicity agency.

Two women decide to exchange lives after getting into contact through a newspaper ad.

When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out...

Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress.

Maarten, a milquetoast bachelor living with his terminally ill mother, is haunted by a nightmare in which God tells him to lose his virginity or die...

The Detour is about a young woman travelling through Europe in search of herself and the truth of life. It is based on meetings between goatherd...

A young Amsterdam lawyer seems to be doing well, but occasionally he is overwhelmed by an unstoppable need for booze. During one of his delirious...

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...

Lovable Amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old Ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the Dutch 1984 title suggests. He is a scamp with a heart...

Two friends meet again in the autumn of their lives. They have not seen each other for years, but soon find their renewed friendship put to the test...

When Eva no longer finds satisfaction in her relationship with Hans, her phobias reappear. Through Hans' former colleague Jack she learns to deal...

A devoted yet stressed out housewife takes a holiday to relax, and falls in love with another woman: a guitar-playing hippie who lives in a commune.

This melodramatic film follows Eline Vere, as she attempts to break free from the confines of her narrow existence in The Hague through three...

Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town of Oss in the 1930s. The harder she tries, the more she is involved.

Diane and Dora are two prostitutes who begin to rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile, in another part of town, a murderer is at large.

A series of four stories written by the Dutch writer Heere Heeresma, interpreted by four different directors. A confirmed bachelor bumps into his...

Lieve Jongens explores the sexual fantasies of a middle-aged writer and the handsome young men who dominate his life. Wolf, a successful writer of...

A woman as an object of poetic observation seen through the eager eye of the camera. Cinematic means are used to reflect the moods of women.

The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.