Benelux Film Distributors, also known as Benelux Film Distributors Home Entertainment, BFD and BFDHE, was a joint venture of various independent film distributors founded in 2006. They marketed a wide range of films in cinemas and on home video in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. They distributed films by Lumière (Belgium), Inspire Pictures (Netherlands) and Dutch FilmWorks (Netherlands). The company Video/Film Express (Houten, Netherlands), founded in 1991, were merged with BFD on January 1, 2012. Subsequently, BFD had two offices in Ghent, Belgium and Houten.
Movies distributed by BFD included Oorlogswinter, Crusade in Jeans, The Letter for the King, Stricken, Love Crime, Amazing Grace, Colombiana, De Marathon, The Happy Housewife, and Black Out.
In June 2011, Lumière and Dutch FilmWorks left BFD to start their own theatrical units. The company merged with A-Film Distribution in May 2013 and continued as A-Film Benelux B.V. In September 2015, A-Film Benelux B.V. was declared bankrupt.
List of films Dutch films Release date Title Notes 2000s 4 October 2007 Duska 16 July 2008 The Letter for the King 27 November 2008 Winter in Wartime with Isabella Films, Fu Works, Inspire Pictures and Omroep MAX 29 January 2009 Can Go Through Skin 26 November 2009 Stricken with Eyeworks, Inspire Pictures and RTL Entertainment 2010s 12 April 2010 The Happy Housewife with Eyeworks, Inspire Pictures and RTL Entertainment 24 November 2010 Dik Trom with Eyeworks and Inspire Pictures 25 November 2010 The Dinner Club with Infinity Film & TV Productions 9 December 2010 New Kids Turbo with Eyeworks, Comedy Central and Inspire Pictures 9 June 2011 Rabat with Habbekrats 20 October 2011 Alfie, the Little Werewolf with Bos Bros. Film & TV Productions, Inspire Pictures and AVRO 8 December 2011 New Kids Nitro with Eyeworks, Comedy Central and Inspire Pictures 24 November 2011 Nova Zembla 3 October 2012 The Zigzag Kid with Bos Bros. Film & TV Productions, N279 Entertainment and AVRO 22 March 2012 Quiz with Tom de Mol Productions, Parachute Pictures and AVRO 7 April 2012 Kauwboy with The Film Kitchen and NTR 10 May 2012 Jackie 18 October 2012 De Marathon with Eyeworks, Inspire Pictures and RTL Entertainment 11 April 2013 Daylight with Eyeworks, Inspire Pictures and NCRV
Non-Dutch films 2006
16 Blocks (15/06/06) Ask the Dust (22/06/06) The Celestine Prophecy (20/07/06) Chaos (23/02/06) Cirkeline og Verdens Mindste Superhelt (29/06/06) Dark Horse (13/04/06) The Merchant of Venice (05/01/06) Mongolian Ping Pong (03/08/06) The Nativity Story (07/12/06) Running Scared (30/03/06) Slither (29/06/06) The Page Turner (30/11/06) Tristan & Isolde (20/04/06) The White Masai (23/03/06) The Wicker Man (31/08/06)
2007
1408 (30/08/07) 30 Days of Night (08/11/07) Bobby (18/01/07) Congorama (02/08/07) Copying Beethoven (28/06/07) Employee of the Month (19/04/07) Georgia Rule (13/09/07) The Good Shepherd (15/02/07) Hannibal Rising (08/03/07) Infamous (16/08/07) Knollhart (24/05/07) The Last Legion (02/08/07) Man of the Year (25/01/07) The Messengers (31/05/07) Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (06/12/07) Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (30/08/07) Rescue Dawn (23/08/07) Salvador (29/03/07) White Noise 2: The Light (19/07/07) The Witnesses (12/07/07)
2008
Amazing Grace (16/10/08) The Bank Job (25/09/08) Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (03/04/08) City of Men (30/10/08) Elite Squad (22/05/08) Empties (27/03/08) Fear(s) of the Dark (24/04/08) The Grocer's Son (17/07/08) The Hunting Party (03/04/08) In the Name of the King (07/08/08) I've Loved You So Long (05/06/08) Mark of an Angel (18/12/08) The Mist (07/02/08) Mongol (14/08/08) The Night of the Sunflowers (10/07/08) Sagan (02/10/08) Saw IV (03/01/08) Silk (01/05/08) Superhero Movie (28/08/08)
2009
Cheri (25/06/09) The Cove (03/12/09) Eden Lake (14/05/09) Encounters at the End of the World (11/06/09) Gamer (08/10/09) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (06/08/09) In the Electric Mist (16/07/09) Leaving (22/10/09) Man on Wire (12/03/09) The Reader (02/04/09) Saw V (08/01/09) Saw VI (31/12/09) The September Issue (17/09/09) Sorority Row (22/10/09) Stella (05/03/09) Towelhead (14/05/09) Versailles (01/01/09) Zack and Miri Make a Porno (22/01/09)
2010
The American (18/09/10) Agora (03/06/10) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (11/03/10) The Blonde with Bare Breasts (24/06/10) The Box (04/02/10) Brooklyn's Finest (29/07/10) Daybreakers (25/02/10) Easy Money (07/10/10) Exam (22/07/10) The Expendables (19/08/10) Father of My Children (01/04/10) Five Minutes of Heaven (29/07/10) The Ghost Writer (20/05/10) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (25/03/10) The Girl Who Played with Fire (21/01/10) Greenberg (08/07/10) The Joneses (12/08/10) Love Crime (19/08/10) Oceans (22/04/10) Of Gods and Men (18/11/10) The Road (18/03/10) Sarah's Key (28/10/10) Splice (16/09/10) Tomorrow at Dawn (20/05/10)
2011
Beloved (15/12/11) Colombiana (22/09/11) Conan the Barbarian (08/09/11) The Conspirator (04/08/11) The Disappearance of Alice Creed (20/01/11) Drive Angry (25/02/11) The Experiment (31/03/11) Free Men (17/11/11) Kaboom (28/04/11) Last Night (24/03/11) Lights Out (10/03/11) Margin Call (10/11/11) The Mechanic (17/03/11) The Monk (01/09/11) No et moi (24/02/11) Norwegian Wood (06/01/11) One Day (06/10/11) Rabbit Hole (07/04/11) Saw 3D (06/01/11) The Son of No One (14/07/11) Three (24/03/11) Toast (01/09/11) Tous les soleils (02/06/11) Trust (16/06/11) Twelve (20/01/11) Unforgivable (27/10/11)
2012
Being Flynn (27/09/12) Black Gold (26/01/12) Cloud Atlas (29/11/12) 360 (16/08/12) Ill Manors (30/08/12) Our Children (13/09/12) Moonrise Kingdom (31/05/12)
2013
Hyde Park on Hudson (10/01/13)
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