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- Rick, who runs a pinball arcade, lets a room to Penny, a young teacher and karate fan. Penny gets to know Lilly, a singer who has just been hired with her friend Ed to act in a film. But Lilly soon discovers that the movie they are involved in is nothing else but a dirty one. In disgust, she runs away from the set. Shortly afterward, the owner of the film studio is found murdered.
- A Dutch television series that is about an exiled knight and his Indian friend. Together they try to get his birth right papers back from an evil Lord. During their quest, they get help from a noble man who offers them a place in his castle.
- A young painter takes up French lessons with an elder lady to ensure he'll get a grant for a French arts institute. That way he meets Anna, a beautiful married woman nursing the lady's old father, and falls in love with her.
- In this film version of the Dutch-language classic ('heimat'-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy from Lier who after recovering from a life-threatening disease changes his life completely and his name to the self-invented Pallieter (the Dutch language has adopted this as a noun for a "bon vivant"). He moves in with Charlote, a naive, caring relative in the country, where he starts frolicking, no longer caring for image, career or possessions, but concentrates on enjoying life -such as a draftee relative's Brueghelian wedding- and finds love with Marieke. A dark story-line however is when projected work on the river in the name of economical progress threatens the rural landscape they have fallen in love with.
- Set on the isolated island of Terschelling in the Netherlands at the end of the 19th century, Sil Droeviger, a farmer in Oosterend, supplements his income for his family when one day he rescues a girl from a sunken Swedish dinghy.
- Georges, a workman in his forties, get unexpected released from jail after being imprisoned for two years for having passed a sexual relation with his daughter. Once arrived home, he encountered himself in a difficult situation: Meanwhile him being in imprisoned, his wife started a love affair with his best friend, and more, she has gotten a child from him. Georges is prepared to forgive his wife, as a compensation for the crime committed with their daughter, and under the condition that she comes back to live with him. In this complex and emotional loaded situation, Georges and his wife are trying to find back peace of mind and to go on with their lives.
- De Cock & Vledder investigate the robbery of an armored truck which leads to several murders.
- Patients in a mental hospital are sent to live in a house in town as part of a social experiment. To the surprise of some and the delight of others, two other women move in.
- 15 year old Sara, a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands during the German occupation slowly begins to realize the danger she and her family are in. When her parents are forced to move to a ghetto in Amsterdam, she decides to follow them rather than live with her brother and his girlfriend. She also keeps in touch with Greet, a girlfriend she met while in hospital, despite the fact that Greet's father is collaborating with the Germans.
- Doctor Vlimmen, the nearest Dutch equivalent to All Creatures Great and Small, is about the competent veterinarian of that name in the Dutch countryside, whose modern methods, liberal opinions and private life are considered scandalous by many of the conservative-Christian peasants. His socially more acceptable colleague Dr. Treeborg, who cares less for the animals and their rather poor owners, is thus more likely to be appointed at the public slaughterhouse and thus made untouchable, and both vets prepare legal action against each-other, thus involving Vlimmens only friend, a lawyer with whom he regularly visits Antwerp.
- The gnomes Pinkeltje and Pinkelotje are visiting Dick Laan, the writer of the books about them. In a meanwhile, two assistents of professor Ludwig von Cleve found where the other Pinkels live and kidnapped some important Pinkels. Professor Ludwig von Cleve puts them in a doll house to expreiment on them. Dick Laan, Pinkeltje and Pinkelotje made up a tricky plan to rescue the captured Pinkels.
- Johnny Kraaykamp is released from jail. His pal Rijk de Gooyer comes up with a plan to rent themselves out as handymen, especially since Johnny is able to fix anything with just one slap of his hands. After getting a loan and a phone-number from auntie Toetje (who runs a thinly disguised brothel in Amsterdam) the pair of them set to work. Things get complicated when a developer named Koster wants to buy out Toetje in order to build a parking garage just as the 'Geen Paniek' business is starting to boom.
- Four inmates are ordered to enter an annual four day walking tournament. When they get over their initial annoyment, each one of them finds a way to take advantage of their time out of jail.
- Erik is avoiding the Nazi occupants and staying out of the hands of the Germans--in Elly's arms instead.
- A behind the scenes look at the production of the television series 'Floris', filmed in the summer and autumn of 1968
- Hein Slotter, unpopular director of a pram factory, reluctantly agrees to celebrate his 25th anniversary. His only wish is that his successor and mentor, Slieps, gives a speech. Unfortunately Slieps is quite senile and only occasionally has a bright moment. Meanwhile, the party committee learns of a rumor concerning Slotter's younger days and plans to embarrass him during this festive occasion.
- Crippled as a young girl, Sabine vows to become a nun if cured. But when it turns out the original diagnosis was faulty and she regains the use of her legs, she decides to marry instead. Wreaked with guild when her first child is stillborn, Sabine enters a monastery where her sister Gertrude also resides. But after her sister dies of an illness, Sabine leaves the nuns behind and travels to India seeking peace.
- Professional gambler Rufus convinces an ex-girlfriend to help him pull one over on a corrupt casino owner.
- Documentary about Queen Juliana of The Netherlands in honor of her 70st birthday. A very short interview with the queen is part of the film.
- Paul Verhoeven, a Dutch filmmaker for whom sex, violence and religion are "the three most important elements on Earth", likes to press where it hurts. Born in 1938, he grew up in The Hague under the German occupation, in the fury of bombings and summary executions. Inspired by comics and the New Wave, atheist but passionate about the historical figure of Jesus, Paul Verhoeven lets his darker side and his complexity shine through his characters, and pushes them to transgression. In Hollywood, he is pampered and has had a string of successes ("Robocop", "Total Recall", "Basic Instinct") without giving up his obsessions. Michael Douglas and Isabelle Huppert, the heroine of his latest feature film, "Elle", confide in us.
- Dedicated Dutch graphic designer Piet Schreuders visits Los Angeles to investigate all kinds of typeface as used in title-credits for movies and TV-series, letters on billboards, shop-windows or street-signs, the banner-headlines of The Los Angeles Times, and climbs finally to the giant letters of the HOLLYWOOD-sign. In the meantime he discovers, to his great satisfaction, the location and stairs where Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shot their movie 'The Musicbox', by combining street-signs, partially shown on still-pictures of this movie: "...MONTE" and "...ENDOME", which turn out to be found on the streetcorner of Del Monte and Vendome in Culver City. This documentary is bluntly intercut with commercials, a phenomenon not yet known in the Netherlands in 1979.
- Barend van Hackfort infiltrates Oldensteijn's kitchen and puts a sleeping potion in the soup for Wolter's birthday. Floris and Sindala are the only two left awake and Sindala deduces the cure can only be prepared by using mandrake juice.
- Van Rossum is after the last will and testament of Gravin Ada van Couwenberg's uncle. Together with her lady in waiting Viola, Ada dresses up as men to bring the will to court. Unfortunately they walk right into the clutches of Lange Pier and his men.
- Floris has allowed Roland to win the healing goblet so he may find out why a man from Gelre has entered the tournament. However, Roland is immediately ambushed and robbed of his prize by his rival Govert. Floris and Sindala decide to help Roland win the hand of his beloved Isabella.
- Three spies from Gelre dressed as invalids team up with a self proclaimed miracle doctor to discredit Sindala, who has also set up shop as the local healer.
- Roland and Govert are both vying for Isabella's hand in marriage. Her father vows that the man who can cure her mysterious illness can claim her as his bride. When they learn that a goblet with healing powers is to be the main prize at a tournament held by Wolter van Oldensteijn, both Roland and Govert disguise themselves as Bourgondiers in order to enter.
- After braving the Crystal tunnel, Pipo and Plom are welcomed by Queen Frigite of Poolland by claiming to be clowns instead of regular humans. Per tries to escape from Frigite's underlings, but they are on skis and he is not.
- Luckily Pipo's sister Plom happens to be conducting the singing trees. She joins their trek to the ice palace of Queen Frigite. Pipo freezes up because of the cold, but Per & Plom manage to thaw him out at the last supply shop up North.
- During a break in their performance, Pipo and Mammaloe are surprised to find Per Pleksen performing a weight lifting act on their stage. Per appears to be lost, so Pipo takes it upon himself to bring him home.
- Pipo travels into underground Troll territory bearing gifts. He soon learns that Per's habit of chopping down trees caused the queen Troll Knakke to suffer terrible headaches. Eventually she left her underground home to take shelter in the ice palace up North. Pipo and Per decide to bring her back home. Despite being warned by a seasoned hiker, Pipo and Per are enchanted by an entire forest full of singing trees.
- Per's father explains that the earthquakes are caused by the Trolls who live underground. Pipo vows to visits the trolls to find out why they are angry at Per. Mammaloe is not allowed to accompany him because Trolls happen to be very fond of human females.
- Per Pleksen, Pipo and Plom are thrown into the deep freeze. They manage to keep themselves warm by making merriment. Afterwards they are allowed to escort Queen Knakke home. but Per must also vow to stop felling trees.
- The three of them board a ship for Noordland, Scandinavia, where Per meets a neighbor from his village, Arne Christiaanse. The people of Per Pleksen's little village are none to glad to see him return. In fact, they attempt to throw him off a bridge and into a waterfall because he is supposed to bring bad luck and earthquakes.