Bobby Boermans
Directing
Biography
Bobby Boermans is a Dutch director and producer of films & television series. He directed the critically acclaimed high-end crime TV series The Golden Hour (2022) about the first 48 hours after a terrorist attack. The series landed on the top 10 in Netflix on 20 countries, and hit the number one in Germany, France, Belgium and The Netherlands. He directed the cultural game-changer hit TV series Mocro Maffia (2018-2023), a crime series about rivaling gangs in Amsterdam, which resulted in six seasons and won the Dutch Academy Award for Best Drama-series and gained several spin-offs. He also directed the intense F16 fighter series High Flyers (2020) for which he collaborated with the Royal Dutch Air Force and the popular multi-season drama series The Neighbors (2014-2019), Which sold to Channel 4 and became the first Dutch scripted series on Amazon Prime. Earlier in his career, Bobby made his directorial debut with the horror feature Claustrophobia. The following year, he released the thriller App (2012), the first movie in the world to use a second screen in theaters. In 2014 he directed the drama film Roffa for which he was nominated for the Prix Europa, and the theatre musical production Sky (2016). His latest feature, the war film Invasion for which he collaborated with the Royal Dutch Navy and shot entirely in the Caribbean, was released theatrically in 2024.
Known For
Best friends Romano, Potlood and De Paus rise in the rank of the criminal world. Before they know it, they run Amsterdam's entire coke market. Because of jealousy, their relation becomes complicated and ends up hostile.
Mocro Maffia
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Het gouden uur
Follow three friends through their many years of intensive training to become fighter pilots with the Royal Netherlands Air Force and as they graduate and carry out a dangerous mission in the Middle East.
High Flyers
When a gunman enters an Apple Store in the heart of Amsterdam, the police face a delicate challenge to resolve the standoff.
iHostage
When neighboring country Veragua suddenly attacks Curaçao and Aruba, the Dutch government is taken completely by surprise. The conflict escalates rapidly. Three young Navy recruits must figure out what is the right thing to do.
Invasion
A young psychology student is drawn into the dark and fearful world of a diabolic and mysterious App that starts to terrorize her, distributing compromising photographs, videos and text messages about herself and delves deeper and deeper into her personal life, flawlessly exposing all of her deepest secrets.
App
When Eva opens her eyes a young girl finds herself chained terrified for being abused. Her fears become reality in a way no one could ever imagine.
Claustrofobia
When the Germans invade the Netherlands in 1940, Leiden student Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema and his friends have a carefree student life. The boys, then around 23 years old, realize out of the blue that nothing is the same anymore. Friendship and love are no longer self-evident. The war turns everything upside down, all relationships are on edge. Everyone has to make their own choices…: Are you going to fight for Freedom, People, Fatherland? Do you bury your head in the sand and continue studying? Or do you deliberately choose the enemy?
Soldier of Orange: The Musical
When popular college kid Max sees his finals at risk, he calls in the help of his long lost and nerdy friend Ruben. Together with the comedic help of "chick-magnet" and Marroccon street hustler Youseff, they decide to throw the biggest exams-party ever dreamt possible, while getting to know themselves and each other in a thorough manner.
Wasted
A Dutch family on their last full day of their camping holiday in France. On the moment that nobody wants to join father Aad on the traditional hiking tour, everybody experiences their own adventure.
Au Cigogne!
Ten minutes into the future a drug is invented called "GOD". This drug allows its user to actually commune with God. There is one drawback however... the user will die. This hasn't stopped thousands of people from taking it.
Onion Underwater
A comedy about three woman working at a boring holiday resort and their criminal employer.
Hallo Bungalow
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Roffa
Ambulance crew Frits and Mimo are on their way to a crime scene on New Year's Eve. When people in the neighborhood start taking matters in their own hands, driven by fear, misunderstanding and hatred, the tension rises and fate takes a twisted turn...