Leo Alkemade

Merel, a single midwife, is done with men, but her biological clock is ticking inexorably. And yes, she gets pregnant. However, the whole family suddenly seems pregnant. Her 60-plus father Piet has just become a father again with his young partner and her 23-year-old niece Eva is also expecting. Annet, Merel's older sister, who suffers from the empty nest syndrome, has a husband Theo who only wants to travel because he thinks is too young to become a grandfather.

Daan wants to impress his crush, Layla. He promises to come up with the most epic gift ever for her birthday party. What seems simple turns into a chaotic quest, filled with bizarre situations and unexpected encounters.

When Maarten learns that his father, Hans, is terminally ill, he decides to take him on one last road trip to the Champagne region.

After the death of their best friend, three young women decide to complete her bucket list - only to find one particular entry exceptionally challenging: finding true love.

Two modern women and their free-spirited mother struggle to balance their private, professional and family lives.

When the filming of the romantic reality show "Expeditie Cupido" on a tropical island is ravaged by a hurricane, the horny contestants and complaining crew members must work together to truly survive. As the hurricane rages over them and life onstage and behind the scenes intertwines, everyone's true colors come to the fore. Because what really happens when the cameras stop rolling?

Hartenstraat is set in the Nine Streets district of Amsterdam. It is a village in a big town and everyone seems to be looking for love. As the womanizer Bas, seniors Bep and Aart and the couple Rein and Jacob. The only one who is not looking for love is Daan. He lives here with his daughter Saar in Hartenstraat, where he has his own business as a caterer. Then Katje appears in his life. The pretty fashion designer opens a fashion boutique next door to Daan. When her catering unexpectedly cancels just before opening her shop Katje must appeal to Daan. That is asking for trouble since the two opposite each other in everything. Yet Katje also secretly has an eye on her neighbor, especially now that her current relationship with Thomas is not going strong.

"Man-maker" Anne doesn't do relationships, but projects: every six months, she picks up a man and grooms him into a desirable specimen. Once she's successful, she breaks up with him and starts another project. That goes well, until she starts developing feelings for her new project partner.

Three women struggle, cursing, laughing and telling each other the truth. Each with their own phase of motherhood and its effect on their lives.

Brothers Tom and Niek are running the family's costume rental store. Former soap star Tom doesn't take his job and his relationships very seriously. Niek on the other hand, is a workaholic, which recently led to a separation from his wife Karin. When the brothers are preparing for the busy holiday season, attractive Julia walks through the door with an offer they can't refuse: participating in a bold ad campaign that will rock Dutch holiday traditions to their core. Soon enough, Tom and Niek find themselves in a whirlwind of family issues, national cultural matters and love, after which neither of them will ever be the same.

A well-to-do white family struck by overnight financial ruin struggle to find their place in the urban, multicultural working-class neighborhood they are forced to move into.

Dating in 2024, an impossible task... The optimistic Roos has the answer for dating in this time; never endlessly swiping on apps that lead to disappointing dates, but a date with your ideal counterpart carefully matched by a human matchmaker! Roos starts her company ‘Blind Date’ with good spirits and matches 4 singles after an extensive questionnaire. Clumsy dog groomer Jenny has given up hope after numerous dramatic dates. Bob analyzes his dates just like the figures in his financial job. Aldo can’t score points with his cheesy pickup lines and Eefje is overprotected by her worried father. Roos organizes the perfect date night for these 4 undatables with the help of her skeptical office colleague Geurt. Does the “perfect date” guarantee a match made in heaven, or do opposites attract after all?

'Casanova's' is a film about the insecure and timid journalist Bas (Jim Bakkum) who has to go undercover to unmask a mysterious dating coach. This dating coach has written a bestseller and now comes with a second book and workshop that he claims can transform incompetent men into real casanovas within three days.

Axel is Dutch Surinamese, but after 20 years of living in the Netherlands he has become 100% Dutch. He has married a Dutch girl, Victoria, and has never been back. When his free-spirited mother Gladys summons the family to her guesthouse in Surinam for Christmas and an important announcement, Axel, his wife and her sister Mirna reluctantly make the journey. They have barely arrived when the situation gets completely out of hand, with his brother Virgil winding him up and his daughter Wonnie, who is doing an internship in Paramaribo, admitting that she is pregnant...

Abdullah 'Ap' Bentarek is happy that, unlike his Uncle Yusuf who stayed in the ancestral Moroccan mountain village, his father Ali moved to the Netherlands – even though it does mean that he’ll have to deal with lousy friends and unrealistic expectations at the employment office. A light-hearted portrait of the immigrant experience and the ubiquitous intolerance of the unfamiliar in Dutch society.

Four friends who are nearly turning 30 need to work together in order to fulfill their dreams.

This adventurous feature film is a sequel to Paul Verhoeven's legendary youth series from 1969. In this modern film version - the Middle Ages are more imaginative and larded with anachronistic jokes - the story revolves around Floris (grandson of Rutger Hauer's character from the series), a peace-loving bloke whose father despises him because he refuses to carry on the family tradition of stout-hearted knights defending freedom: Floris is an actor. To prove to his father that he can still be a hero, he helps him search for a missing sacred relic with special powers. This is the last hope for the Duke of Burgundy, his father's boss, to eliminate the mean Duchess of Gelre. Along with his oriental girlfriend Pi, Floris goes through some perilous moments when he enters into battle with the duchess and her stooges Van Rossum jr., Kleine Pier jr. and Sergeant jr..

The Van Kampen family is in for another big surprise. They have just settled in nicely among their new friends, when they receive the news that the Hollandwijk is threatened with demolition. To make matters worse, Erik's father, the oppertatta, comes to live with them and everything the Tatta's have built up is thrown completely out of balance.

The Gringo family just wants to enjoy a cozy vacation at home, but their plans collapse when their apartment building undergoes renovations. They're forced to temporarily relocate to the strange and infamous German District. While the rest of the family worries about having to adjust all over again, Erik secretly hatches a plan to still go on a sunny holiday. But his scheme backfires, landing him in a chaotic quarrel - and a hefty fine. To pay it off, he must work at a bustling bazaar full of quirky characters who keep finding new tricks to make him stay longer. The Gringo's will have to pull out all the stops, forge unlikely friendships, and come up with one outrageous master plan to break free - and finally enjoy their well-deserved trip to the sun.

Sinterklaas and the Clubpieten have a busy year ahead: never before have so many shoes been put out. But the villain Kornee wants to ruin the Sinterklaas celebrations. Due to a mistake, he never received a gift from Sinterklaas when he was a child. To get his revenge, he has created Moepies, a new kind of cuddly toy. Kornee orders the funny Moepies to steal the presents from the children's shoes. When one morning not only the presents but also all the shoes are gone, the Petes are blamed. Sinterklaas doesn't understand what's going on. Will everything be okay in time?

Festival favorite Huub Smit (New Kids Nitro; New Kids Turbo; Bros Before Hos) stars as a Dutch cop raised on far too many American action films in this outrageous action comedy.

Stage registration of the sixth show by the Dutch comedy duo Alkemade & Bloemen, 'Je moet niet alles geloven wat Gemma zegt' ('Don't believe everything Gemma says'). The show consists of absurd and unpredictable scenes about aliens, frustrated doctors and obsessive neighbors.

During the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, two neighbors spend a day wandering the deserted streets of their Dutch city of Tilburg.

A woman and her three adult daughters set out to complete their deceased husband and father's last wish: to run a full marathon.

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 successful vascular surgeon is suddenly confronted with a blood phobia, making it impossible for him to exercise his job in the hospital. He moves from the capital to the countryside to work as the GP of a village where he only knows his aunt. His predecessor was well liked, so his new community is less than welcoming. The empathic capabilities of the doctor leaves much to be desired, making it even harder for him to win his place in the close-knit community.

Razor-sharp, humorous sketch show starring Ronald Goedemondt, Bas Hoeflaak, Leo Alkemade and Jochen Otten. Four friends, a hundred different faces. Sluipschutters, they're everywhere.

Eight celebrities couples venture on the perilous mud roads along deep chasms and ravines, extreme mountain passes and terrifying jungle routes in The Most Dangerous Roads.

Tropenjaren is a comedy about the whirlwind of new parenthood and a former life that’s gone for good. When Jelle and his wife Rosa welcome their first child, a new chapter unfolds. The young parents strive to do their best for their daughter Stella while also trying to keep their work lives and relationship as lively and ambitious as ever. Nights out and parties, however, quickly give way to diapers and babysitters. In short, the couple is gearing up for the tropenjaren—the intense early years of parenting.

Follow the hilarious Van Kampen family in their daily adventures. Erik struggles with his Tatta identity as he desperately tries to get out of debt. Laura looks for a job to support the family, Daan clumsily pursues love and Jessica finds her footing at her first job. And Richard? He argues with everyone, but remains irresistible.

Margôt Ros and Maike Meijer play 40 different characters working in office tower Toren C, an office hell of eight flours, filled with a plethora of ridiculous situations.