The Paradise Suite

Oct 29, 2015

1h 58m

★ 6.4

Overview

The lives of six people, who seem to have nothing more in common than their faraway homelands, become inextricably linked in Amsterdam, the city they have chosen as their new home.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

GötaFilm

PRPL

Bastide Films

The Paradise Suite Trailers

Cast

Jenya

Anjela Nedyalkova

Ivica

Boris Isaković

Seka

Jasna Đuričić

Yaya

Issaka Sawadogo

Lukas

Erik Adelöw

Stig

Magnus Krepper

Maarten

Raymond Thiry

Antoinette

Sigrid ten Napel

Julia Lindh Åberg

Eva Röse

Ana

Victoria Koblenko

Nanda

Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing

Zina

Alena Džebo

Two estranged brothers are brought together when they have opposite roles in a racist beating: while Georgi who's recently joined a neo-nazi group participates in the violence, Hristo witnesses and rescues a Turkish family. Only by reuniting will the two brothers be able to assess what they really want from life.

7.7

Sandakan No. 8

Nov 2, 1974

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

6.3

The White Masai

Sep 14, 2005

A girl, Carola, whose vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a Masai. Carola decides to leave her boyfriend to stay with her lover. There, she has to adapt to the Masai's way of life and get used to their food which includes milk mixed with blood. She also has to face her husband's attitude towards women and what he expects from a wife. Nonetheless, Carola is welcomed warmly into the tribe she has chosen to join.

7.7

Alice in the Cities

May 17, 1974

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.

3.9

Amsterdam

May 10, 2009

A rich American couple, a family of Dutch criminals, a French gay couple, a working class family from Germany and an illegal Moroccan youth and his kid brother, are all in Amsterdam, each with their own story. Different reasons make their paths intertwine, leading to a dramatic climax that changes their lives for ever.

4.0

Sweet Trap

Sep 3, 1963

An office worker who dreams of a peaceful happiness with her boyfriend is forced into prostitution by yakuza.

7.3

Arthur & Claire

Feb 16, 2018

The chance meeting of two people at the darkest moments of their lives leads to a bright new beginning : Arthur (around 50) and Claire (around 30) pull each other from the abyss – by trying to save the other they see the worth of their own life.

6.0

De Dominee

Sep 2, 2004

Amsterdam, 1970s. A wealthy grammar school student Klaas and his friend start trafficking hash and become entangled in the brutal criminal scene.

8.4

Unwanted

Sep 14, 2017

A lonely boy, who lives in Amsterdam with his refugee mother from Kosovo, keeps getting into trouble while yearning for her acceptance. But the traumas caused by the war, which his mother hides away from him, turn his world upside down.

4.0

Hope Lost

Feb 1, 2015

A Romanian girl dreams of living the glamorous life she sees in Italian soap operas.

7.0

Cyclo

Sep 27, 1995

Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.

4.9

Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade

Apr 20, 1978

Emanuelle returns to Kenya, trying to get an interview with a foreign gangster who's taken refuge in the African countryside while still operating an international criminal network.

6.4

Katie Tippel

Mar 6, 1975

In the late 19th-century, the Tippel family moves to rural Stavoren in search of greener pastures. However, their dreams are quickly shattered, as teenage Katie is terrorized by a male-dominated society who only see her as an object. Her situation worsens when, following her father's sacking and her elder sister's descent into alcoholism, her mother decides that, rather than starving, Katie becomes a prostitute.

3.9

Lottery

Mar 14, 2018

Two Iranian teenagers in love want to get married, travel to the US to get a green card and live there, but their parents object. With not enough money saved, they pin their hopes on winning the state lottery to fund their trip, but tragedy derails their plans.

6.9

Dunya & Desie

Apr 17, 2008

Dunya and Desie are two 18 year old best friends from Amsterdam North. Dunya is Moroccan and Desie is Dutch. On Dunya's Birthday she is told that her marriage has been arranged with a distant cousin in Morocco. Dunya and her family will travel to Morocco to meet him. After Desie discovers that she is pregnant she joins Dunya in Morocco in a search for Desies father.

5.9

Ferry 2

Dec 19, 2024

After losing his drug empire, Ferry Bouman has found a measure of peace away from Brabant's criminal underworld — until his past catches up to him.

6.3

The Discovery of Heaven

Oct 1, 2001

Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may be conceived.

10.0

Tango Bar

Mar 7, 2024

A young woman travels abroad trying to realize her dream of being a model, but there she is deceived and subjected to prostitution at the Cabaret Tango Bar, where she experiences the horrors as a victim of a sex trafficking network.