Movies by Aart Staartjes

Bloody Marie
Marie Wankelmut, once successful comic artist, lives among the prostitutes in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Nowadays drunken and bold, she gets into one conflict after another. A gruesome sobering event at her neighbors, forces her to take action.

Spaak
Spaak is a movie about a talented track cyclist who is caught up in the world of drugs.
Arie
An elderly man pines away in a nursing home. His family calls on him out of a guilty conscience, but they try to get away from the stuffy atmosphere as soon as possible. The old man obliges them and behaves unresponsive. But as soon as everybody is gone, he smiles contented while softly speaking to his canary Arie. The human form the bird suddenly assumes is the kick-off for an adventure.

Willem Wilmink: Dichter in de Javastraat
A documentary about the life and work of the Dutch poet and lyricist Willem Wilmink (1936-2003).