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From its numerous coffee shops where drugs are openly available, to its world-famous Red Light District where prostitutes display themselves in shop windows, Amsterdam is a city where almost anything goes in broad daylight. And yet, this serene city of canals has its dark side as well. In fifteen tales of greed, jealousy and revenge, some of the finest Dutch crime writers-including literary award-winners and international bestsellers-explore the seamy...
2) Angerichtet
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Der preisgekrönte Bestseller aus den Niederlanden erzählt ein Familiendrama, das um die Fragen kreist: Wie weit darf Elternliebe gehen? Was darf man tun, um seine Kinder zu beschützen? Ein Roman, der ins Herz schneidet.
Zwei Ehepaare - zwei Brüder und ihre Frauen - haben sich zum Essen in einem Spitzenrestaurant verabredet. Sie sprechen über Filme und Urlaubspläne und vermeiden zunächst das eigentliche Thema: die Zukunft ihrer Söhne Michel...
3) Odessa Star
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Fred Moorman ist Ende vierzig und träumt von einem schwarzen Jeep Cherokee und einem neuen, interessanteren Freundeskreis. Sein Leben ödet ihn an. Die Zeiten, als sein inzwischen vierzehnjähriger Sohn noch zu ihm aufschaute, sind lange vorbei und seine Frau denkt laut darüber nach, wie das Leben ohne ihn aussähe. Da trifft Fred Max G. wieder, den er schon in der Schule bewunderte. Max hat alles, was Fred nicht hat: Durchsetzungsvermögen, schöne...
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Dem Allgemeinarzt Marc Schlosser ist ein Kunstfehler unterlaufen, an dessen Folgen der berühmte Schauspieler Ralph Meier verstorben ist. Schlosser muss sich vor der Ärztekammer rechtfertigen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass er den Schauspieler gut kannte. Vielleicht zu gut. Mit scharfem Witz und genialer Beobachtungsgabe legt Herman Koch gesellschaftliche und familiäre Risse bloß: Ein hoch spannendes, meisterlich konstruiertes Familiendrama über...
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An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives -- all over the course of one meal.
It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse -- the banality of work,...
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It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meier's extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife Judith, her mother, and film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the large group settles in for days of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations...
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"When Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, sees his wife toss her head back with laughter while chatting to one of his aldermen at a New Year's reception, he immediately suspects the worst. Despite their long and happy marriage, Robert is convinced that Sylvia is cheating on him--with the respectable alderman who is dedicated to the environment, no less. The man who wants to spoil the capital's skyline with wind turbines. The New Year's reception...
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Hogarth
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[2016]
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"Once a celebrated writer, M had his greatest success with a suspense novel based on a real-life disappearance. It told the story of a history teacher who went missing one winter after having a brief affair with a beautiful student of his. The teacher was never found. Upon publication, M's novel was a runaway bestseller, one that marked his international breakthrough. That was years ago, and now M's career is fading. But not when it comes to his bizarre,...
9) The dinner
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Lions Gate Entertainment
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[2017]
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It is a dark psychological thriller about a fierce showdown between two couples during the course of an ornately prepared meal at a fancy restaurant. When Stan Lohman, a popular congressman running for governor, invites his troubled younger brother Paul and his wife Claire to join him and his wife Katelyn for dinner at one of the town's most fashionable restaurants, the stage is set for a tense night.
10) The Dinner
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Menno Meyjes (The Color Purple) brings us a film based upon the New York Times, Best Selling Novel by Herman Koch. Serge knows something, otherwise he would not have made reservations in this fancy restaurant. Babette knows something too, otherwise she wouldn't be crying. Hopefully they won't tell Claire, because she doesn't know anything. And Paul...Paul knows everything. They all avoid the subject they actually should be talking about, their children....