Arnold Heslenfeld Movies

Set in 1983, this Dutch crime thriller from director Maarten Treurniet dramatizes events surrounding the notorious kidnapping of beer mogul Alfred Heineken (here played by Rutger Hauer). When several hotheaded criminals with a serious grudge against the wealthy entrepreneur decide to abduct him with a demand for 35 million Dutch guilders, a vicious power struggle ensues, followed by Heineken's revenge against the perpetrators. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

The naked body of a murdered little girl is found in a forest surrounding a small Eastern European town. It's the third case in a row, and local police detective Victor Marek (Richard E. Grant) is on the killer's trail, but his superior, Novak (James Laurenson), needs to solve the crime quickly in order to boost his political career. So he arrests some suspicious hippie who later hangs himself in a prison cell. Though Marek is ordered to close the case, he continues to work on it on his own. He rents an old gas station and a house in the area where the murders took place. Working from a drawing done by one of the murdered girls he tries to find the clues for the identity of the killer. Marek becomes so obsessed with his quest that when he meets Milena (Lynsey Baxter), a single young woman with a little daughter (Perdita Weeks), he does not hesitate to use the child as the bait for the criminal. Though the film plot bears a strong resemblance to Sean Penn's movie The Pledge, it is actually a remake of the 1958 German film It Happened in Broad Daylight, scripted by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, who later reworked his original screenplay into the novel The Pledge. ~ Yuri German, Rovi

This softcore erotic drama features a happily married woman who is offered unexpected sexual gratification by the man (Huub Stapel) who buys her recently deceased mother's house. They are not in love, and Emilia (José Way) has no intention of leaving her husband and child, but the thrill of making love in the back seat of cars, in restaurant washrooms and similarly indiscreet places is almost too much to resist. The two have other games they play which add spice to their couplings, until the man suggests changes which would spoil their hitherto untroubled relationship. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

When Jan (Cas Enklaar) visits his father (Geert de Jong) on his deathbed, he tries to reconcile for years of mutual animosity. Flashbacks are used to tell the story of the family's struggles beginning in the 1930s and through World War II until the 1960s. The family is trapped in a love-hate cycle that belies the Protestant religious foundation that serves as faith. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi