The best Max Croiset’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Max Croiset’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Max Croiset.
Two Queens and One Consort
5.7/10
At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.
Charlotte
6.6/10
In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.
A Dog of Flanders
7.1/10
The love and friendship of a boy and his dog as the boy tries to become an artist like his idol, Peter Paul Reubens.
Havinck
6.1/10
When his wife Lydia commits suicide, succesful attorney Robert Havinck is freed from his unhappy marriage. Unfortunately, it turns out she took a complete stranger along with her, and a feeling of guilt and curiosity about her motives lead Havinck to team up with his fifteen-year old daughter to explore Lydia's final days.
Oranje Hein
5.8/10
Mientje comes from an ordinary working class family. Her father's alcoholism threatens to put an end to her engagement to Herman, her well to do fiancée. When her parents divorce, Mientje comes into conflict with her future mother-in-law. A grim but ultimately hopeful look at marital problems, poverty, lost love and alcoholism in a working class neighbourhood in Amsterdam.
Dead Water
6.4/10
After building a dam, closing off the Zuiderzee from the sea, it effectively turns the former sea into a lake and the fishermen call it "dead water". They desperately attack the dam with spades and even explosives, culminating in tragedy.
Village by the River
6.7/10
An independent-thinking doctor in a rural community with his own ideas of how medicine should be practiced begins to find himself ostracized from the community after one of his patients commits suicide.
But Not in Vain
5.4/10
Farmer Jan Alting, who has disowned his son for collaborating with the nazis, provides shelter for a Jewish couple, a wanted communist and a rebel aristocrat. When his son returns, Jan is faced with the stark moral choice of failing those to whom he has given refuge, or conspiring with them to kill his own son.
Klokslag Twaalf
5.1/10
Once part of a gang, Jean Verdier has left his criminal past behind him. On his wedding day, mere hours before the statute of limitations for his crimes expires, revengeful members of the gang abduct him. The gang leader's daughter -- who's still in love with him -- tries to stall the police until the clock strikes twelve and Verdier can no longer be prosecuted.
Somewhere in the Netherlands
6.4/10
Mobilization on the brink of the Second World War divides a husband and wife. When lawyer Frans van Loon is called up to join the mine clearance service he doesn't want to worry his wife and keeps it from her. His secretiveness leads her to believe he doesn't love her anymore. She subsequently falls for the charms of an actor. When Frans finds out, a violent quarrel ensues.
The Little Ark
5.7/10
This heart-rending family-oriented drama chronicles the adventure of two Dutch children who temporarily lose their father and mother during the great flood of 1953. Fortunately, they and their animals are taken in by a salty old boatman who helps them reunite with their father.
Bygones
6.7/10
A film about the laborious and lengthy process of becoming old; the deterioration, dementia and eventual death of elderly parents. This is seen and experienced through the eyes of their daughter, the writer Inez Dullemen.
