Gringuito (1998)
Gringuito tells the story of Ivan, a kid whose family decides to go back to Chile from New York, after at least a decade away. Ivan of course is not quite the Chilean kid his grandparents would like him to be: he sulks, misses the Opera, finds things odd and ugly, acting like a real “little gringo” (hence the title).
La Chimera (2023)
Just out of jail, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and…
Philomena (2013)
A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
Audition (1973)
Zwartjes made many films without dialogue or sound. The music can however be very important. Zwartjes composes it himself, sometimes together with his brother Rudolf and Lodewijk de Boer. Audition…
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)
Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those…
Fail Safe (2000)
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
A Fighter’s Blues (2000)
After a 13-year imprisonment in Hong Kong, a kickboxer challenges the current champion in order to restore his honor.