Lex van Delden

İkinci Dünya Savaşı bitmek üzeredir. Almanlar, Fransa’da yenilmek üzerelerdir ve müttefikler güçler Normandiya çıkartması sonrası Ren Nehri üzerindeki bir köprüyü ele geçirmek için paraşütçü birliklerini sınıra indirirler. Fakat yapılan stratejik bir hata sonucu paraşütçüler köprünün çok uzağına indirilir. Market Garden adı verilen bu operasyon, bir takım yanlış istihbarat ve stratejiler sonucu tam bir felakete dönüşür. Çünkü askerler Alman Ordusu’nun en güçlü olduğu noktalardan birinin tam ortasına düşmüşlerdir. Cornelius Ryan’ın uzun araştırmaları sonucu yazdığı kitabından uyarlanan Richard Attenborough imzalı film, İngiliz FeldMareşal Bernard Montgomery’nin başarısızlıkla sonuçlanan planının müttefik askerlerini ne gibi bir zor durumla karşı karşıya bıraktığını anlatan İkinci Dünya Savaşı’na dair en gerçekçi savaş filmlerinden biri.

4 Haziran 1776. Fransa ve İngiltere neredeyse dünyanın gidişatına yön verir hale gelmiştir. Bu iki ülke arasında, güç elde etme konusunda yıllardır süren açık bir düşmanlık vardır. Amerika, İngiliz İmparatorluğunun aç gözlülüğünün bir ödülüdür adeta... Bağımsızlık bildirgesi henüz verilmiş, İngiliz hükümeti de bu isyanı bastırmak için Long Island da büyük bir deniz donanması hazır etmiştir. New York'lu avcı Tom Dobb, oğlu Ned'in kötü niyetli çavuş Peasy yüzünden zorla İngiliz ordusuna katılması üzerine, istemeyerek de olsa Amerikan başkaldırısına dahil olur.

Viyana... Genç bir Amerikalı kız hap içerek intihar teşebbüsünde bulunur ve hastaneye kaldırılır. Film bundan sonra sürekli geri dönüşlerle intihar girişiminin ardındaki sır perdesini aralamaya çalışıyor. "Hastalıklı bir beynin ürünü sapık bir film" türünden eleştiriler alan Bad Timing, yer yer Hitchcock'un Under Capricorn ve Polanski'nin Chinatown filmlerini hatırlatıyor.

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.

In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.

Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.

Çok yetenekli olmasına rağmen, hak ettiği başarıyı bir türlü yakalayamamış bir ressam olan Harry Donovan, para kazanmak için işin kolayına kaçmış ve ünlü ressamların tablolarının sahtelerini yaparak bu alanda ciddi bir üne kavuşmuştur. Tam da, artık sadece kendi tablolarını yapıp satmak ve başarılı olarak babasının hayalini gerçekleştirmek isteği iyice ağır basarken, ilginç bir teklif gelir. Bir grup sanat eserleri kaçakçısı ondan 500.000 dolar karşılığında Rembrandt’ın gerçekte var olmayan bir tablosunu yapmasını isterler. Kendi özgün eserlerinin, Prado müzesinin duvarlarında asılacağı günün hayalini kuran Harry, bu teklife karşı koyamaz ve işe koyulur. Plana göre, Harry, dönemin karmaşık tekniklerini ve malzemesini kullanarak muhteşem bir tablo yapacak daha sonra da adamlar tabloyu uygun bir yerde keşfetmiş gibi yaparak sanat dünyasına duyuracaklardır.

An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at a French hotel.

British playwright Stephen Poliakoff's comical teleplay investigates Europe's changing social landscape via three strangers who meet on a train. Peter, an English businessman on an overnight trip through Europe, shares a compartment with a beautiful American woman, Lorraine. But Peter's hope for romance is soon dampened by Lorraine's xenophobia and the arrival of a haughty Viennese aristocrat.

Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen works long days in a restaurant, while Lily does the housekeeping, daydreaming of setting up their own business, much to Chen's chagrin. When Chen lets his colleague Fok seduce him down a path of mounting gambling debts, he is recruited as a drug courier for a shadowy Chinese triad. Suddenly he realizes that getting their own enterprise could be their only means of escape.

An investigation of the evidence for Hitler's Final Solution, together with a dramatic reconstruction of key courtroom exchanges in the libel case lost by the historian David Irving, who was accused of being anti-Semitic and a Holocaust denier.

Dutch television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan".

Some believe our futures are pre-ordained...That there is a time to live and a time to die, But what happens when fate makes a mistake?

Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of World War I as a teenager, Indy’s experiences shaped the heroic, whip-cracking archaeologist he would become. At every turn, Indy encounters history in the making, meeting true-life activists, soldiers, writers, artists, and thinkers who helped influence the world we live in today.

The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its continual battle to solve the problems the times, in this case the fictional Eastland of East Anglia.

Starring Paul Shelley in a role reminiscent of his Secret Army character in all but name, this 12-part serial follows a team of secret agents parachuted into occupied Europe during World War II, exploring their recruitment, training, and first mission behind enemy lines.

Dutch psychological thriller. The story is set in the fictional North Holland (Netherlands) resort of Boedzand. It is April 28. The Aslan family is busy preparing a large party at the Lido, the beach pavilion that they operate. Father Osman is celebrating his 50th birthday. During the evening party, daughter Yasmin disappears. Yasmin's disappearance and the question of where she is and what happened to her has been the common thread throughout the series. The village of Boedzand is completely upside down: all sorts of people are suspected of being involved, relationships are at stake and sooner or later the deepest secrets of the characters are revealed. What happened to Yasmin? Description above is a translated excerpt from Wikipedia (nl), the free encyclopedia, licensed by CC BY-SA. Contributors list on Wikipedia (nl) Vuurzee.

The seemingly quiet lives of elderly Ottilie Dercksz and Emile Takma are dominated by remorse for a terrible crime they committed sixty years ago. When a family member arrives from the East Indies, their families are forced to deal with the ghosts of the past.

Landmark tv adaptation of Louis Couperus' "Small Souls" saga, that tells of the gradual disintegration of the once-powerful Van Lowe clan.

In the sweltering Dutch East Indies, the European colonizers are plagued by a hidden force; a combination of tropical magic, Eastern inscrutability and mutual incomprehension. Blind and deaf to the slumbering powers of the East Indian people, resident Van Oudyck, his son, daughter and seductive wife slowly but surely fall prey to this mysterious force...