Movies: Vara

A romantic comedy told with a set of interwoven Christmas tales about life, love, forgiveness and caring. A heroic vagrant becomes a TV sensation Santa Claws, while a prince takes a menial job at a department store to woo his sweetheart....

On a cold November day in 1983, beer magnate Alfred Heineken and his chauffeur Ab Doderer are abducted. What follows is the most infamous kidnapping case the Netherlands have ever known....

On his birthday, a hitman reluctantly takes on the easy task of killing a writer, only to find the job a lot more difficult than expected....

An eccentric multimillionaire signs an agreement to have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman who has signed up for the same arrangement. Trouble ensues when the couple falls in love and wishes to get out of the contract....

In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps....

Armin is in crisis. One fateful day he discovers he is infertile and has been throughout his life. From this he discovers his first wife, Monika, was unfaithful before she died. How else could she have the child that Armin always thought was his? His...

Fragments from a stand-up comedy set by the Dutch comedian Nico van der Knaap, recorded live in Toomler in January 2008....

All the members of the De Roover family have ended up at a point of no return in their lives where crucial choices have to be made. Winnie wants a child. Her husband Rutmer wants to get in touch with his feelings. His brother Charlie doesn't want any...

An Italian car salesman wants to impress the woman of his dreams, but he gets entangled in his own web of lies....

The suffocating love between between a father and a son who, as modern outlaws, struggle to survive in the depleted and neglected southern Dutch province of Limburg....

Dutch presenter Astrid Joosten travels the world to find out why Anne Frank's written words in her diary still inspires hope and regardless of own circumstances, works for unity and peace....

Stage registration of the second comedy special by the Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim. This performance takes place in a dream, a dream in which Micha Wertheim shares all kinds of confessions, for example about how he manages to cope with the knowledg...

Registration of the theatre program by the Dutch comedian Brigitte Kaandorp....

A stand-up comedy set by the Dutch comedian Murth Mossel, recorded live in Toomler in January 2007....

Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pasolini's life chronologically - family roots, hiding during World War II, teaching, moving to Rome, being arrested and acquitted many times,...

Registration of the theatre program by the Dutch comedian Youp van 't Hek....

Registration of the theatreprogram by the Dutch comedian Lenette van Dongen. Armed with the complete DVD box of dogwhisperer Cesar Milan and all Martin Gaus-books, Van Dongen starts raising a young puppy. What this world needs is a calm, confident le...

Television registration of the theatreprogram of the Dutch singers and cabaret artists Jenny Arean and (swami) George Groot. Recorded in De Kleine Komedie in Amsterdam....

Registration of the first solo theatre program by the Dutch comedian Paulien Cornelisse....

After her father's death, Anna Peterson and her family move from Australia to her father's ancestral home in New Zealand....