Movies: Edwin Brienen

A woman is trapped in her own nightmare, in which she is raped by a masked stranger and then locked up in the castle of a degenerate family who want to torture her. The horrible nightmare leaves the young woman with no way out, and she begins to go m...

The film tells the story of six mental cases, trying to get rid of society's norms and values by kidnapping Gerard van Dongen, a well-known TV host. During an improvised TV show, the terrorists confront this Van Dongen with their darkest thoughts and...

Eva auditions for a role in an obscure art-house film. An anonymous, masked director creates an intimidating atmosphere. He dominates and humiliates Eva, forcing her into prostitution. She sleeps with a Jewish film producer named Josh. When he refuse...

A psych-drama-thriller combo that tackles shady politicians, leaked documents and a lack of enthusiasm for religion....

Follows two couples through the heat of summer for 24 hours. What began as a peaceful summer afternoon ends with violent excesses in one hell of a night....

Raina embarks on an affair with the tortured Nick. The compulsion towards excessive behaviour forms the nexus of their relationship. Isabelle is bound up in a lifeless marriage. The two women meet in a church. Their physical contact begins as a cares...

Ulli is a lonely soul. He doesn't have many friends. He spends his days at work, as a programmer in an office. At the weekend, he reads a lot or watches TV....

Revision, a drama/horror film written and directed by Edwin Brienen, is set in a futuristic world, where terrorist attacks rule daily life, forced chip implantation is commonplace and government control is routinely exerted through manipulation of th...

Claire, Romy, Magali, Loete, and Jim are typical Brienen’s characters: their excessive lifestyle rhythmed by sex and drugs puts them in the margins of society, refusing to believe in love or any kind of happiness. Lacking a better alternative, they ...

Last Performance, the fifth feature film from award-winning European director Edwin Brienen, is set in the tumultuous New York theater world. Julia, a European actress who relocated to New York to try and make the big time, stars in an avant-garde th...

Circus clown Jonathan loses his job and meets the desperate hooker Olga, trapped in an aggressive environment. The pair spend the night together in a hotel room, where they look back melancholically on their lives, as well as on the changes in Europe...

Twenty-three-year-old Lena lands a lead in Sartre’s “No Exit” while endlessly seeking love. Her call‐girl friend Becky convinces her to try prostitution, plunging Lena into a bizarre free‐love world of surreal encounters. Complicating matters, she fa...

A short film that shows a cruising excursion between two men, and turns the act of exploration and interconnection into a choreography of lust, rejection and intimacy....

Gonneke returns to her parental home after years, only to find out she has been replaced by a new daughter, Cindy. A clown offers unexpected help....

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