Truus te Selle

A biography of Isabelle de Charrière and her friendship with Benjamin Constant.

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.

Tessel is determined to give her boyfriend the day of his life by marrying him. But the closer the big moment gets, the more Tessel starts to doubt everything: her dress, her boyfriend, her ex and most of all herself. In the end only one thing is clear: this will be a day to remember.

A modern fairytale about ordinary feelings and extraordinary events. Aafke and Thalia are both 30 years old when they meet each other in a shoe shop. They both return there after having accidentally left the shop with each other’s new shoes. They spontaneously decide to trade lives with each other for 24 hours. Both are frustrated with their own lives and looking for the greener grass on the other side of the fence - only to arrive at the conclusion that the grass is always greener until you see it from close by…

In the near future, a man wants to pick up his daughter from school. From the doorkeeper onwards, he is asked about his date of birth, his job, the situation at home. 'Regulations, sir. We can't just let anybody in.' In the strange office block, he is sent from one staff member to the next; all answers are entered on a touch screen. The man reacts with growing irritation - he only wants to collect his kid.

A cocksure, road-raging family man finds himself pursued and terrorized by the vengeful van driver he chooses to tailgate.

Aletta Jacobs, Het Hoogste Streven

Lily works as a checkout girl at the local supermarket. She becomes pregnant, but before the child is born, the black father is attacked by skinheads and killed. Following his death, she flees to the city, where she soon finds herself under the wings of a pimp, Ted. Escaping Ted, she commences a one-woman spree of thefts, culminating in running from the police and the press. In the end, Lily must make a choice between freedom, and her baby.

A popular prime minister candidate and a well-known thriller book writer face each other in court after she accuses him of sexual abuse just before the election.

Seven socio-economically successful women around the age of fifty come together in France for their annual multi-day bike ride.

A woman and her two young children struggle for answers and shared closure after their husband and father, a professional cave diver, doesn't return from an expedition.

Ernst, a man in his thirties has lost his memory after an accident. His parents see this situation as another chance to raise Ernst into a perfect son, and enlist the help of a psychiatrist, a priest and an ideal daughter-in-law to be.

An unlikely friendship blossoms between Elsa, a preppy, idle, spoiled blond who calls herself Gino, and Nina, a wannabe anarchist who plots with three others to blow up an arms factory. Nina is often sour and tempestuous, but with Gino she's spontaneous and funny. Yet the friendship often founders, as the feckless Gino spoils Nina's frequent and demanding plans. They decide to rob Gino's rich uncle to pay for bombs and creature comforts, they sneak into a stranger's house, they steal a painting belonging to one of Gino's boyfriends, bombs fail to explode, and Gino costs Nina the trust of her anarchist pals. Then comes the crocodile test, the ultimate for any friendship.

Verborgen Gebreken follows the story of five young people at real estate agency Apollo in Amsterdam. The real estate world is modern, exciting and all about the money.

Flikken Rotterdam takes place in Rotterdam, and is after Flikken Maastricht the second Dutch spin-off of the Flemish show Flikken.

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.

Black Snow is a Dutch television series that was broadcast in 1996 by the NCRV. Eva Bender (Tamar van den Dop) works as an au pair in France . When she has her friend Tessa (Ariane Schluter) as a guest, she is also visited by her parents (Tom Jansen and Truus te Selle) who are clearly worried about something. They don't want to tell Eva what happened yet and a day later they have an accident in which her mother dies and her father falls into a coma. After this, Eva goes looking for her parents' secrets.