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- A fishmonger wins a lottery and travels to high society from the barge, in this stage play.
- The devil, surrounded by flames, leaves hell and goes to earth where, in human form, his aim is to make people unhappy and cause evil to triumph over good. Disguised as a gardener, a plumber and a gentleman, he roams through Amsterdam in search of prey. He meets Thérèse, talented but poor, whose uprightness and purity hinder him. He sees a rich banker, Van Rijn, and his protégé and good friend, a young painter. Bringing these three people together and destroying them will be the devil's task.
- Zeemansvrouwen tells the story of Mooie Leen (beautiful Leen), who is pregnant from Lau. When Lau has to go to jail, she decides to marry Willem to give her unborn child a father. Willem agrees and all goes well, until Lau is released from jail. He is determined to get Mooie Leen back and the trouble begins.
- Dutch-language version of Paramount on Parade (1930) produced and released by Paramount Pictures.
- Driven by poverty and honor fisherwoman Kniertje sends the last of her kin to sea. Her two sons will work on the Op hoop van zegen, of which some people in town doubt it is seaworthy.
- Dries, Manus and Ton are returning from conscription service. 'Aunt' Piet tries to break Dries' relationship with Greet, so her son Leendert can take her.
- The first movie version, from the age of black&white, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main character: a smart but naughty farmhand's son whose eternal mischief, pranks and disobedience drive his elders (especially teachers, family and father's grumpy employer, a rich farmer) and classmates to despair in a time when a boy's punishment was still inevitable, swift and often severe.
- Three students are each courting a young woman. They decide to share a flat above the nosy (and noise resisting) Mr. Smallebroek, and have great fun teasing their rival for the girls affection, Piet Janssen.
- A greengrocer's shady dealings with a well-to-do margarine smuggler require that she interferes with her daughter's romance with a sailor.
- 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.
- When grocers's son Daantje Pieters is drafted, he falls for a girl in a blue hat he spots aboard the train to the garrison. At the barracks in The Hague, crafty conman Toontje takes Daantje under his wing (not to mention his grocery supplies). Toontje decides to help Daan look for his dream girl, Betsy, but draws the line at them planning an engagement, for such things are not for soldiers.
- The story of William of Orange is told in a series of short episodes, spanning his sudden rise to prince of Orange in 1544, his role during the Eighty Years War to his murder by Balthasar Gerards in 1584.
- A dancer is shot dead on stage. The inspector tries to unravel the mystery by interrogating several suspects.
- Based on the novel "Spionage in het veldleger" (lit.trans. Espionage in the Field Army) by Mr A. Roothaert. A First World War farce about the mobilization of the Dutch Army. Diary fragments tell of the arrival of Belgian refugees across the Dutch border in winter 1915. Reserve lieutenant Berkhage return from a summons to the Belgian border with a refugee child. Named "Big" by the company he is soon the regimental darling.
- Willy, the son of baron Van Hergershuizen, finds himself disinherited after he marries an untitled girl. When his father sabotages Willy's job applications, his wife decides to apply for the job of the baron's housekeeper.
- When bank messenger Brand realizes that 50,000 pounds sterling have gone missing in Amsterdam, it is a catastrophe for him. Imagine his surprise, then, when he is suddenly re-hired as the bank's director.
- Set in a Sumatran plantation, the film focuses on a Dutch newlywed trying adjust to the rough lives in the jungle.
- Simultaneously filmed Dutch version of a German film about a baker, who manages to take over a factory that makes products used in baking.
- A record of a Franco-Belgian expedition to the remote island in the 1930s.
- There is trouble brewing in the Jordaan when Ant wants to divorce Thijs and their daughter Mientje is dating a posh boy called Herman. Meanwhile Ant's parents are about to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary, but their youngest daughter Fien is more interested in pursuing a handsome cabaret singer.
- Prof. Henry Higgins takes a wager on turning a low-class flower seller named Liesje Doeluttel into a presentable lady.
- Drummel is an accountant who gets acquainted with the Amsterdam nightlife. He and his secretary Mary are suspected for having committed theft.
- An industrialist benefactor offers a young couple three wishes.He wants to be an inventor, she a singer, but things don't turn out exactly as they would have liked.
- Frits and Jef are mates on a ship and have been friends for long. Frits, who is the steward, is also engaged to Jef's sister Marieke. When the two men disembark in Antwerp, their birth town, Frits realizes to his shock that a drug runner has hidden his contraband in his baggage. He informs the police at once and starts his own investigation...
- Performing military service, Karel Maes decides to goes over the wall with a group of friends to participate in a cycling race. Karel, Strop and Gust are given a lift by Hans Drogelever, a Dutch soccer supporter on his way to Brussels. A young woman, whose car has broken down, joins them. It is a double triumph for Karel since not only does he win the race but he gets the girl as well.
- Sentenced to 20 years after killing a colleague for revealing that his wife was unfaithful, a man escapes hoping to kill the woman as well.He learns she was true to him and now has a little girl, who thinks the father is dead.