Helmert Woudenberg
Biography: Helmert Woudenberg was a Dutch actor, stagedirector and playright. He was one of the founding members of the innovative theatre group Het Werkteater, based in Amsterdam.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 15, 1945
Deathday: November 23, 2023
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Dakota
1974-04-11
Dakota
Overview: A Dutch pilot with a real passion for flying risks everything to keep his plane in the air.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1974-04-11
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Avondrood
1976-11-27
Avondrood
Overview: TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'het Werkteater'. A realistic fairy tale about old people in the no man's land between life and death, set in a retirement home.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1976-11-27
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Hello Fellow Man
1980-01-04
Hello Fellow Man
Overview: TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'Het Werkteater'. Three ladies of high society invite homeless people, homeless people and junks to spend a pleasant evening with them, in order to promote communication and integration.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1980-01-04
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Kattengat 10
1975-04-20
Kattengat 10
Overview: Documentairy about the progressive theatre group 'Het Werkteater' at their home base on Kattengat 10 in Amsterdam.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-04-20
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Het Werkteater 1970-1985
1997-09-08
Het Werkteater 1970-1985
Overview: Documentary about the Dutch theatregroup the Werktheater. The aim of the company was to create socially relevant theater by means of cooperative processes and improvisation. They often played their performances on location, such as in hospitals, prisons, healthcare institutions and schools. In this documentary, those involved are interviewed about this remarkable theater group.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1997-09-08
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In for Treatment
1979-01-11
In for Treatment
Overview: An unsuspecting flower farmer visits the hospital to discuss some test results, only to find himself admitted without explanation for an indefinite period of further examination and observation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1979-01-11
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Polleke
2003-10-11
Polleke
Overview: Love story in a multicultural society
Genres: Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-10-11
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Frank and Eva
1973-08-22
Frank and Eva
Overview: The story of a man who goes out looking for hamburgers, while he has a beautiful steak at home. Frank and Eva can't live together, but can't live without each other either. Frank has sex with every woman he can get, while Eva wants to start a family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1973-08-22
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VD
1972-12-21
VD
Overview: Cornelis van Doorn is the CEO of VD, a meat factory as well as a developer of contraceptives. Cornelis is the patriarch of the Van Doorn family: a decadent bunch of loose morals who only lust for money and power. When the man is thinking about retiring, he has to find the right heir to take over the family business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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Dante vs. Mohammed Ali
2018-09-28
Dante vs. Mohammed Ali
Overview: When Wolf refuses to fight his best friend Alexander during a weekly boxing match, the whole village turns against him. He tries to convince Alexander to join him leaving the village, but his overly romantic message runs into a wall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-09-28
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Paid
2006-09-01
Paid
Overview: Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story between Paula Gireaux , a 28-year-old Parisian call girl working in Amsterdam and a hit man, Michel Angelo (30) whose hearts are touched when a six-year-old Bolivian boy abruptly enters their lives. The boy changes their fate. He gives them reason to reach for their dreams and to start a whole new life together. But, at the moment Paula and Michel decide to escape the underworld, Paula realizes that her hands are tied to a paid deal she has made with a powerful English narcotics baron, Rudi Dancer (55). The enticing offer Paula could not refuse, turns into the demon that stands in the way of her future with Michel. Eventually, Michel and Paula find their way to freedom but not without paying a high price
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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Godforsaken!
2003-04-24
Godforsaken!
Overview: Two small town Dutch boys whose socially unnatural friendship is so close, they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality, sliding into violent crime.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-04-24
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Camping
1978-08-17
Camping
Overview: Happiness and sadness, joy and sorrow at the campsite. Secret letters, hysteria, bullying, hippie romanticism, betrayal and fading love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1978-08-17
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Rigor mortis
1981-09-24
Rigor mortis
Overview: In order to get more customers to their rural inn, Karel and Truus have come up with a stunt. Karel will beat the record for being buried alive. After 124 days the media finally show up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-09-24
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Daniël
1971-10-13
Daniël
Overview: After a year's trip around the world, twenty-year-old Daniël comes home where a surprise awaits him. In his absence, his boring bourgeois parents have become completely captivated by the sexual revolution. In their new trendy clothes and their 'groovy' white interior, they make sexual freedom a mockery. This upsets Daniël so much that he flees again. This time to the 'peaceful, unspoilt countryside'. Disillusionment awaits him there too. Frustrations and sexual obsessions appear to be just as intense there as in the big city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1971-10-13
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Alicia
1974-09-25
Alicia
Overview: 'Alicia' is a Dutch erotic film directed by Wim Verstappen, based on an original screenplay by Wim Verstappen and Charles Gormley. Alicia, a bored hosewife, leaves her husband and children in search of adventure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1974-09-25
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Toestanden
1976-12-22
Toestanden
Overview: "Conditions" - The improvisation-based performance was inspired by psychiatrists such as RD Laing (Family and Madness) and J. Foudraine (Who is of wood). The Werkteater played this performance 'in the den of the lion': in psychiatric institutions for patients and carers. This led to very intensive and adventurous performances in which 'a lot' always happened. Afterwards the discussions sometimes ran high, but even during the performance the audience sometimes mixed themselves in the scenes.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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Quicksand
2004-03-08
Quicksand
Overview: For all Frits, a farmer's son, knows, his mother died when giving birth to him. He and his father make up a strong team. In the literal and figurative sense, because his father not only teaches him to milk the cows and hunt, he is also the coach of his soccer team. The happy tide turns when the boy turns eighteen and is scouted as a promising soccer talent. Suddenly, Frits's future is no longer with his father on the farm, but on the green grass of the Nijmegen soccer club NEC. His son's splendid soccer career may be the crowning glory of the farmer's hard work, but he is afraid he will also lose his only child. Desperate, he reveals the lie with which he raised his son. Frits is bewildered and makes a dramatic decision.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2004-03-08
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Matterhorn
2013-01-24
Matterhorn
Overview: A lonely widower finds himself facing both his devout Calvinist village community and his own deepest regrets when he takes a deranged vagrant into his home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-24
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Mates
1999-02-01
Mates
Overview: October 1997. Paul Winters (35) is deputy public prosecutor in Arnhem and is working on his first major case: an investigation in to the allegations of a Bosnian girl that she was raped by three soldiers in the Dutch UN contingent and whose brother is alleged to have been killed by them. Winters suspects that the girl is telling the truth, but he can't prove it and the case is adjourned. Then one of the men gives a revealing statement that throws a different light on the case. Winters argues in favour of reopening the case, but faces opposition from an unexpected quarter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1999-02-01
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Happy Family
2006-12-14
Happy Family
Overview: Thijs is a ripe-age Dutch tomato grower. His adult daughters plan to have him move in a skyscraper-flat, leaving home and professional life, but he takes his adolescent (half-)Moroccon grandson Omar's advice to refuse and keep living. Thijs even lets the cheerful rascal coach his love-life, which lands him on a blind date with Jacky, an energetic Flemish woman, who won't take no for an answer but turns up at his door-step till he consents, and soon drags him into evening life, preparing for a dance contest. Soon after Omar turns up, listless and lazier then ever, runaway from school and home. The obvious reason for the horny hound's hanging head is a girl: Mergal is foxy, Turkish and as smitten as he, but her burly big brother Erhan will only allow a boy to go steady with her who has proven himself his better on the field in the traditional manly sport of oil-wrestling. Now Thijs...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-12-14
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Amsterdamned
1988-02-11
Amsterdamned
Overview: A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1988-02-11
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A Hot Summer Night
1982-03-11
A Hot Summer Night
Overview: A husband, half of an entertainment duo, the Nellicos, tells his wife, who is the other half of the duo, that he has another woman. But they cannot discuss this as he tells her only just before they are due to perform in front of a large audience. (BFI)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1982-03-11
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Business Is Business
1971-09-10
Business Is Business
Overview: The story of two prostitutes working in the Amsterdam Red Light district, and the many strange and unusual men they meet through their work.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1971-09-10
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Stop!
2003-09-28
Stop!
Overview: Just your ordinary video store around the corner: A woman enters, grabs a videotape and goes to the counter. She pulls a gun and asks for money. "Quick, quick, quick!" The cashier looks anxious and hands over the money. But just when she turns around to walk away, the cashier pulls a shotgun and fires. Is it for real? Apparently not, because someone shouts: Stop! and we suddenly find ourselves on a film set. The director seems to disagree however with the decision to stop shooting. She reflects on the situation. Then, just few moments later, the director is lying in bed. Was the film set real? Was it fiction?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-09-28
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Alle dagen feest
1976-04-14
Alle dagen feest
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1976-04-14
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Blue Movie
1971-07-16
Blue Movie
Overview: 25-year-old Michael has been released from prison after a five-year sentence. He moves into a big apartment block, filled with young women who gladly have sex with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1971-07-16
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The Last Train
1975-09-04
The Last Train
Overview: The film is set in a signalman's house during the German occupation. When it turns out that the mother has committed adultery with a German, things start to go downhill for the father. Germans take over his land, and his children fend for themselves.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-09-04
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Parfait amour
1985-02-27
Parfait amour
Overview: A Czech dissident with memory loss is being manipulated by shady characters to perform an assassination for them.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-02-27
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Mens erger je niet
1975-07-10
Mens erger je niet
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-07-10
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