Dora van der Groen
Also Known As: Дора ван дер Грун
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium
Adult: No
Birthday: March 10, 1927
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 08, 2015
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Antonia's Line
Overview: After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1995-09-21
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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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Pauline & Paulette
Overview: Pauline is a 'little girl of 66 years old'. She is mentally retarded and been cared after by her sister Martha. When Martha dies, her two younger sisters, Paulette and Cecile have to make a decision on the best place for Pauline to be looked after. Neither of them is ready to take care of her. Paulette has a shop to look after and Cecile has her Albert. But according to Martha's last will, her fortune will only be divided in three equal parts if one of the sisters looks after Pauline. If they decide to take her to an institution, Pauline will be the only heir.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-06-27
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De Vlaschaard
Overview: In a part of Flanders where flax is the main crop, farmer Vermeulen rules his estate like an 'old school' patriarch, stern and authoritarian, nobody else's word is ever taken seriously, just scolded fools, he rather risks being wrong then considering any advice. His marriage is based on a grim understanding: the wife Barbele accepts his heartless manner with everyone, even their studious, smart, healthy, studly son and heir Louis, but his two silly sisters are spoiled with a pointless fancy nunnery boarding school education fit for the upper classes. Farm-life is hard enough, laboring without machines or reliable weather, but this year the stubborn master made it even worse by picking the riskier, badly drained field and sowing later then his neighbors, even when luck turns he'll fetch a lower price for it. Poor practically perfect Louis is granted neither praise, respect nor any pleasure, however hard and well he slaves, obedient like the hired farmhands although well-read. Even ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1983-07-01
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Chronicle of a Passion
Overview: After World War I, widower Renier has returned to his estate Horlebecq. His sole diversion is his correspondence with the Parisian Rolande, who he met during the war. Even though his family is pressuring him into marrying his sister-in-law Emily, Renier stays obsessed with Rolande and even visits her in Paris. She manages to persuade him to invest large sums of money into the "Academie de Beauté" in Paris. His reckless investments and breaking off his engagement with Emily leads to unbearable tensions at Horlebecq...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Seagulls Die in the Harbour
Overview: A pessimistic urban drama, with a musical score by Jack Sels and Max Damasse, charts in strongly expressionistically lit black-and-white images the wanderings of a tormented man through the cosmopolitan port city of Antwerp. The only people to show him understanding are an orphan and two disillusioned women.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1955-10-14
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Malpertuis
Overview: Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridden Cassavius. He manages to keep them, as well as his nephew and niece, prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As Jan, the nephew, unravels the mystery, he discovers that he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than he was led to believe.
Genres: Drama Horror Fantasy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1971-01-02
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Mariken
Overview: A family film, based on a well-known Dutch story from the Middle Ages. Mariken tells the compelling and poetic story of spirited young girl named Mariken. The orphan Mariken lives in a secluded forest with an eccentric old hermit. One day, she decides to leave her surroundings and sets off for town to buy a new goat. On her adventurous journey into the 'real' world, she finds out about the good and bad sides of people.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2000-12-07
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Dr. Pulder Sows Poppies
Overview: A small town doctor gets a visit from a former study-friend. He doesn't know this former surgeon has become a junkie that wants to steal his morphine.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-10-09
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The Archives
Overview: Journalist Stella discovers the secrets of the Lotte de Heus Verolmen, the widow of the Dutch nazi-collaborator party NSB-frontman Ewald de Heus Verolmen.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-06-28
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
Overview: In this erotic drama, Marcel (Ralph Michael) fantasizes about being with his daughter-in-law Simone (Beatie Edney) after the death of his wife. The woman pretends to be surprised over his attention but does nothing to discourage his advances. He promises to build her a swimming pool in order to further his fantasies. The story is taken from the novel by Junichiro Tamizaki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-18
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Things Past
Overview: Based on three stories by R.J. Peskens.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Deadly Trap
Overview: An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-06-09
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Monsieur Hawarden
Overview: A woman disguises herself as a man to avoid prosecution for murdering her lover fifteen years ago. She is the last living member of a wealthy Vienna family, and has spent the years after the murder traveling Europe with her female servant. Her travels provide her with an anonymous cloak that allows her freedom of movement but little peace of mind. Nearing middle age, the guilt and weariness of an empty life has her contemplating suicide as the only way out of her dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-01
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The Abyss
Overview: The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe under an assumed name for twenty years. But he remains a non-conformist. He returns to his native Bruges, where he thinks he has been forgotten. In this silent labyrinth where the faces of the past resurface, he rediscovers his identity and thus signs his death warrant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-13
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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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Will o' the Wisp
Overview: A rainy evening in the harbor of Antwerp. A man named Laarmans is on his way home even though he doesn't want to. Three lost Eastern sailors are looking for a woman named Maria Van Dam and ask Laermans to show them the way. He decides to help them find this mysterious woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-15
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The Aardwolf
Overview: A building contractor and his spouse are driven apart by financial worries. Tony is an energetic personality well on in his 30s, presuming upon having everything under control. He's married to Nora, and they have two kids. Tony frequents tough assertiveness training sessions, owing to which he boosts up his self-confidence and considers himself to be the never-failing businessman and the perfect husband. As a result of his excessive investments and his haughty attitude, his company gets under a heavy cloud. When bankruptcy has become inevitable, his problems also affect family life. He starts taking his problems out on his wife who seems to be able to cope with the new situation more easily. She makes him see how vulnerable he really is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-06
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Baas Gansendonck
Overview: Around 1850 Baas Gansendonck who has an inn looks down on the farmers. He wants his daughter Lisa to marry the baron of the village. But she is in love with Karel, the son of a simple brewer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1945-07-01
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Ieder van ons
Overview: Film in cinéma-vérité style exploring the boundery between fiction and reality of actors and the roles they (have to) play.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Blazen tot honderd
Overview: In the course of four seasons we follow the process as Maurits mourns the death of his mother. His intensely sad father, a restorer of paintings, is not able to offer him any solace. Maurits denies his mother's death and withdraws to the flood plains of the river. There he meets Moniek. During their journey of discovery through the plains, their tender friendship turns into love. But Maurits anger and sorrow sometimes turn to extreme emotions and that frightens Moniek. A dead dog takes them over the top and Moniek never wants to see him again.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1998-05-20
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Herman Teirlinck
Overview: A portrait of the belgian writer Herman Teirlinck by Henri Storck.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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Less Dead Than the Others
Overview: Frans Buyens's moving and inventive film is based on his own autobiographical novel, which deals in the most sensitive terms possible with the subject of euthanasia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1992-04-01
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Leonie
Overview: Cyriel has died. Leonie and a few relatives are standing in the hospital room around the bed on which the bodie lies. At Cyriel's death, there won't be no more tears from Leonie, but rather one simple and pleasant memory that expresses Cyriel's unspoken love for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1997-05-04
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Testament
Overview: This documentary tells the story of an 80-year-old woman who has "...nothing else to do but to sit and think."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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What Do We Do With Love?
Overview: Five rather frivolous musicians seize the opportunity to perform on a cruise in the Mediterranean. Alas: they are under contract to engage a female singer - and they fear to fall in love with her, which would endanger their friendship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Fire, Love and Vitamins
Overview: A widower is being courted by 3 women, ... .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Het geluk komt morgen
Overview: Each year Thomas goes an a pilgrimage but he has more difficulty to complete it, but then he is offered a footbath that appears to contain a miracle drug. Wouldn't this make a huge seller during Expo 58 in Brussels... .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Katie Tippel
Overview: In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-03-06
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Havinck
Overview: When his wife Lydia commits suicide, succesful attorney Robert Havinck is freed from his unhappy marriage. Unfortunately, it turns out she took a complete stranger along with her, and a feeling of guilt and curiosity about her motives lead Havinck to team up with his fifteen-year old daughter to explore Lydia's final days.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1987-10-15
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Villa Des Roses
Overview: In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she must choose between her son and her new romance.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2002-02-27
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Rubens, schilder en diplomaat
Overview: This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic success throughout Europe not only made him a fortune allowing him to stock his Antwerp residence ('Rubenshuis' in Dutch) and a castle at Elewijt, in the countryside nearer Brussels, with numerous fashionable treasures, but also became an ennobled diplomat for the Spanish Hapsburg rulers of the Southern Low Countries (now Belgium), who often traveled, for painting commissions and/or diplomatic missions, to and worked in Italy, France, Spain, all Catholic powers, as well as protestant England and the United Provinces (mainly Holland), also allowing him to meet other prominent contemporaries such as artists. It further covers his marriages to Isabella Brandt and Hélène Fourment.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-02
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S.
Overview: It's about a girl, S., who is dangling between Brussels and New York, boys and girls, love and hate, life and death. She has a mother, a father, a boyfriend and a girlfriend, but none of them are any good to her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-21
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