Alex van Warmerdam

The wife of an illiterate farmer hires a beautiful woman to teach him how to read and write and pushes him to be with her when he expresses interest.

Schneider, a hitman, gets a call from Mertens on the morning of his birthday. He has a last-minute assignment for Schneider who refuses the request because it is his birthday. Mertens insists that it is an important matter. When they meet in Mertens' office, Schneider is told that the target is Ramon Bax, a writer. He lives alone in a secluded place. "It's an easy job. With a little luck you're back home before noon." Schneider accepts the assignment. What was promised to be a simple hit turns out to be more than expected.

After preying on a rich woman’s guilt, a vagrant settles into her designer home where he launches a campaign of psychological terror on her family.

A terminally ill matriarch awaits death in her seaside mansion. Pushed to the brink by her outrageous demands, the servants decide to mutiny.