Axel is Dutch Surinamese, but after 20 years of living in the Netherlands he has become 100% Dutch. He has married a Dutch girl, Victoria, and has never been back. When his free-spirited mother Gladys summons the family to her guesthouse in Surinam for Christmas and an important announcement, Axel, his wife and her sister Mirna reluctantly make the journey. They have barely arrived when the situation gets completely out of hand, with his brother Virgil winding him up and his daughter Wonnie, who is doing an internship in Paramaribo, admitting that she is pregnant...

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During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessaril...

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...

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After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get marri...

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu...

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

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In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons,...

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