Kitty Courbois
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Kitty Courbois is a Dutch actress. Besides on television and in movies, she also stars in theatre plays.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Adult: No
Deathday: March 11, 2017
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Vrijdag
Overview: Hugo Claus rewrote and directed Friday as the cinematic version of his original 1969 play of the same name. Just as in the play, the story begins with the theme of incest, as the father Georges (Frank Aendenboom) returns from serving his jail sentence for that crime. Unlike the earlier play, however, the film does not emphasize that aspect of the story. When Georges gets home he finds out that his wife Jeanne (Kitty Courbois) has had an illegitimate child by a younger man, Erik (Herbert Flack), and now both of them must somehow try to return to a normal life, given their only too obvious lapses in moral judgment. As the husband and wife try hard to accommodate each other's failings and start to get to know each other again, Erik comes back into the picture. Now the three of them must resolve the deep-seated conflicts that brought them to this emotionally-wrought juncture of love and betrayal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-03-07
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Twice a Woman
Overview: When a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationship with the girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1979-05-23
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Seventh Heaven
Overview: Seventh Heaven or De Zevende Hemel is a 1993 Dutch romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1993-01-04
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Flesh + Blood
Overview: A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-30
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Spetters
Overview: Three amateur dirt-bike racers each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, sells French fries and hotdogs at the races. Everyone is looking for a better life: she wants out of the business and away from her brother; and the motocross racers want to make their marks as professionals in their sport.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1980-02-28
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Belle van Zuylen - Madame de Charrière
Overview: A biography of Isabelle de Charrière and her friendship with Benjamin Constant.
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1993-09-16
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Toneelgroep Amsterdam: Los Zand
Overview: Television registration of the play of the same name that Annie M.G. Schmidt wrote for Toneelgroep Amsterdam. In a side room of a congress building, mother, son and daughter await the arrival of father, who will be honored for his services in the pharmaceutical industry. But father is delayed; the meantime is filled with conversations. The mother turns out to be having a lesbian affair. The play was poorly received.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1989-12-27
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Two Queens and One Consort
Overview: At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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The Good Hope
Overview: Young Barend is worried about the safety of the sailing vessel he is on. The owner is an unscrupulous and stingy man who skimps on repairs and Barend becomes aware of this. Inevitably there is drama and tragedy. The film is set in an early 20th century Dutch fishing village with local period costume and colour.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1986-08-07
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The Debut
Overview: The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1977-05-18
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Het Mysterie van de Sardine
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-04-07
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Scratches in the Table
Overview: When Madelief's grandmother dies, her mother takes her to the funeral. She then visits her grandfather, but quickly gets bored, until Mischa tells her how much fun a rural summer can be. She investigates her grandmother's "summer house", made curious by the lock on the door. Madelief didn't remember her grandmother, but from her snooping in the summer house she learns a lot about her. Written by Steve Schonberger
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-15
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Gangster Girl
Overview: A successful young writer is in search of his true destiny. Is it the life with his wife and typewriter in Amsterdam or the offers to go to the dreamworld of the Italian film city Cinecittà which is luring him? Trying to find this out he goes into retreat in the house of a befriended gay couple in the south of France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1966-10-13
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Tulip Time
Overview: Italian singing trio, Trio Lescano, three sisters singing in the close harmony style of the Andrews Sisters, rise to great popularity before World War II, but are detained in 1943 by Italian authorities since they are Jewish.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-29
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Monte Carlo
Overview: A young traveler picks up and elderly woman on his way from Holland to Monte Carlo.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-10-18
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Volk en vaderliefde
Overview: Otanes is certain that Smerdis, King of Persia is an impostor. He gathers together a group of people to stage a coup, only to face the question of which one of them will be worthy to take the thrown.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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Never Too Old
Overview: When Marius retires, his son drops his father in a home for the elderly. Marius has too much energy to accept the rules of the institute's management. Marius and other oldies lock horns with management.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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Ballast
Overview: Between the rural green meadows and pink cakes guests gather for a romantic wedding. Master of ceremonies Ellen tries to make this an unforgettable day, but gets entangled in the monkeyshine of her half sister, the infidelity of her husband, the first love of her daughter, the antics of her mother and the ropes of a hot airballoon. Will they find that only their fear stands in the way of their happiness? Who will throw the ballast overboard and take off?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-29
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Kinkerstraat
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-09-24
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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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Polonaise
Overview: Nico and Leo are getting married. Their entire family and both their exes are in attendance. Some of these are performing musical numbers on stage. But memories of the war and the fact that Leo's mother died in a concentration camp keeps coming to the forefront.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1989-10-05
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Wanted: Man
Overview: When Bas puts up the note Wanted: Man on the notice board of the local supermarket for his single mother, she does not know about it. The self-willed Bas tries to find a solution for the separation between him and his mother, who no longer knows how to cope with Bas' superstitious compulsions. And both are hydrophobic. But by the end of the summer, the harmony between these two heart-warming characters has been restored.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-03-02
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Broken Red
Overview: What happens if you take the law into your own hands, start correcting the legal system on your own initiative? Hans Croiset, André van den Heuvel, Bram van der Vlugt and Kitty Courbois in their roles of aged resistance heroes do not think this is such a bad idea; in fact, it is what they already did during World War II. Back then, they formed a sworn resistance gang. The occasion for their renewed fighting spirit is the brutal robbery and murder of Marjan, one of the members of their former group. Past and present start blending. In a controlled tempo, alert to detail and acting, a story unravels that focuses on Hans Croiset in the role of Simon, a retired teacher of Dutch. He makes contact with the underworld, meeting the Slavic Goran, who starts feeling sympathy for the old man. Eventually, fate lies in Simon's hands.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-03-02
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Making Waves
Overview: Making Waves is the story of Cella (Jacqueline Blom) and her 71-year-old mother Johanna (Kitty Courbois). Life smiles upon Cella. Happily divorced, having two children and a successful job as a presenter at a local station, for which she interviews people every morning who take the ferry across the IJ river. In her enthusiasm, Cella resembles her mother, once a celebrated violinist, but the similarity also causes friction between the two women. Just when Cella meets a new love, her father's sudden death puts her life on a different track. Johanna increasingly muddles past and present and brings back fragments of memories that point to a painful secret she carries on her back. Cella tries to dig up the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2004-03-08
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Achttien
Overview: Koen is a fatherless, eighteen year old boy who wants to free himself from the suffocating relationship with his mother. He struggels with the balance between independency and love. When he meets Colet, he tries to keep his distance, but she is both anarchistic and audacious. She does not understand the fact that Koen does not have the slightest curiosity about his unknown father. It is because of her that he begins the search for his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-11
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Confessions of Loving Couples
Overview: Author Frank's debut novel is successful, but he needs the proceeds to pay off a debt and his girlfriend Mascha ends their relationship. He meets another woman, but he and Mascha also seem to make amends. These amorous vicissitudes give him inspiration for a new book, which will deal with eroticism in the Netherlands.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1967-02-16
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The Hero
Overview: After Sara Silverstein suddenly finds herself involved in a series of violent attacks she realizes she needs to unravel her father’s past in order to neutralize this threat.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-09-29
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Andy... Andy Silly Andy
Overview: Thanks to his actions during a farm fire, the young and naive Dreas is appointed to the local fire department, which awakens various ambitions in him. He constructs primitive watchtowers everywhere and achieves some successes, partly due to the activities of an arsonist. He is then allowed to attend a course at the fire academy in Maastricht. Back in his village, he fails during a fire at the local bakery, where everything goes wrong. Dismissed from his position, he finds new employment as a market vendor with a fire extinguisher he invented.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1964-12-21
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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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Anna, Child of the Daffodils
Overview: The story of a young woman with mental problems told in a non-chronological fashion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-02-27
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The Bitter Herb
Overview: This film is about the Jewish girl Sara and the ruin of her family during World War II. Her parents have to live in the Jewish ghetto in Amsterdam, but later they are arrested and deported. Sara decides to flee with her brother and his girlfriend to Palestine. Based on the book by Marga Minco.
Genres: History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-04-25
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Qui Vive
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2002-02-14
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Heart Street
Overview: Hartenstraat is set in the Nine Streets district of Amsterdam. It is a village in a big town and everyone seems to be looking for love. As the womanizer Bas, seniors Bep and Aart and the couple Rein and Jacob. The only one who is not looking for love is Daan. He lives here with his daughter Saar in Hartenstraat, where he has his own business as a caterer. Then Katje appears in his life. The pretty fashion designer opens a fashion boutique next door to Daan. When her catering unexpectedly cancels just before opening her shop Katje must appeal to Daan. That is asking for trouble since the two opposite each other in everything. Yet Katje also secretly has an eye on her neighbor, especially now that her current relationship with Thomas is not going strong.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2014-03-13
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Last Call
Overview: Old entertainer gets a last chance to play a serious role.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1995-02-16
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Precious
Overview: A 17 year old girl runs away form home and finds shelter with a 50 year old man with a psychiatric past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-24
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Love Is All
Overview: A romantic comedy told with a set of interwoven Christmas tales about life, love, forgiveness and caring. A heroic vagrant becomes a TV sensation Santa Claws, while a prince takes a menial job at a department store to woo his sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2007-10-10
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Fien
Overview: Four-part musical about the life of Dutch actress Fien de la Mar, chronicling her earliest days on stage with her father, her glory days as a stage and movie star and the building her own theatre, up until the tragic end of her life.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-10-13
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Fidgety Bram
Overview: Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up in the class of the strict teacher Mr. Fish. The straightfoward Mr. Fish doesn’t care about the inside world of the constantly moving around and unconcentrated little boy and does whatever it takes to make Bram do things the ‘right’ way.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-06-27
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Fake
Overview: An intelligent woman keeps falling for the wrong guy. With her latest lover David and a kilo of cocaine in her purse she barely escaped an arrest. Back in Holland she starts a B&B. Her first guest is the attractive Aziz, who wants to steal an old Moroccan mosaic at the International Art Fair.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-05-08
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Happy End
Overview: Na 'Leedvermaak' uit 1989 en 'Qui vive' uit 2001 is de trilogie nu compleet met 'Happy end'. Frans Weisz regisseerde, Judith Herzberg schreef. Een familiegeschiedenis waarin 3 generaties van een joodse familie elk op hun eigen manier worstelen...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2009-10-01
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Aah... Tamara
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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