Frans Bromet Movies

Care in the Netherlands is deeply embedded in our social system. However, care has become unaffordable; something must change to curb costs. The...

If it were up to Matthieu Smakman (52), a living community would rise in rural Purmer in the foreseeable future, where residents would be entirely...

Happiness and sadness, joy and sorrow at the campsite. Secret letters, hysteria, bullying, hippie romanticism, betrayal and fading love.

Dutch men commit suicide twice as often as women. Why is that? Filmmaker Frans Bromet investigates, together with journalist Nathan Vos, what is...

You are Jewish when your mother is too. But when a Jewish mother is absent, it is still possible to become Jewish, namely through the phenomenon of...

Well to do business man Pierre falls for the unpredictable and free spirited Toni. They begin a relationship, despite the fact that she's living with...

Joep is a piano tuner, and not the best in his profession. His fiancee ends their relationship and Joep wants to end his life. Then he meets Dorien....

The actual life and the fiction created by a successful pulp author begin to blend together.

A documentary can be that simple and effective. Three grandfathers and three grandmothers tell their grandchildren about their experiences during the...

A man becomes an extremist after a military official disrespects his country.

In the late 1970s, filmmaker Frans Bromet worked on a film about Holocaust survivor and painter Sieg Maandag. The film was intended to answer the...

Frans Bromet ends up in the Reade rehabilitation clinic in Amsterdam after a brain haemorrhage. He soon picks up his camera and films his roommates...

To vent his own fears of divorce, Bromet follows a divorced 36-year-old woman, Hiske, a mother of two and working as an educational psychologist,...

Grandpa Koos (89) is a widower and still lives independently, but he is becoming lonely and his health is deteriorating. He does not want to spend...

A group of Amsterdam schoolchildren travel through the Netherlands in a wildly painted van. The aim of their journey is to preach rebellion against...

Playwright and director Nils Wijn brings his relationship issues to the stage. In his play "The Whore, the Virgin, and the Dying Man," he has his...

In 1988, Frans Bromet made the documentary 'A Step Back' for the VPRO. He wonders what it would mean if the economy were to shrink and whether we...

An iconoclastic first film from the headstrong teenagers of the 1,2,3 Group, who took turns to write, direct, and star in a series of irreverent...

Documentary filmmaker Silvia Bromet is fascinated by the woman who, despite the setbacks in her life, keeps standing tall time and again. What lies...

The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the...