André van den Heuvel
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 04, 1927
Deathday: February 09, 2016
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Gender: Male
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The Inheritance
Overview: An ageing GP tries to convince his son in law to take over his practice. Monique van de Ven plays the doctor's daughter, who is torn apart by love of her husband and solidarity with her father.
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1978-12-21
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Sans Rancune
Overview: Dora Leenders is about to give birth. Since she was impregnated during a school reunion, she invites both men whom she had sex with that night to her flat to witness the birth.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1987-03-08
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The Silent Raid
Overview: In 1944 Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, a band of Dutch resistance fighters plot to covertly rescue dozens of compatriots from the local Nazi prison.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1962-12-21
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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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Ik ben Joep Meloen
Overview: Joep is a piano tuner, and not the best in his profession. His fiancee ends their relationship and Joep wants to end his life. Then he meets Dorien. They fall in love, but they must deal with some issues from the past--like an ex-lover and a hitman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-12-17
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Gijsbrecht van Aemstel
Overview: Amsterdam is besieged by an alliance of Kennemers and Waterlanders, prepared to exact heavy vengeance on lord Gysbreght van Aemstel, the last remaining murderer of count Floris V. Filmed performance of Joost van den Vondel's classic play.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1957-01-09
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The Dragon That Wasn't (Or Was He?)
Overview: Oliver B. Bumble finds an egg that, it turns out, has a cute little dragon in it. However, this dragon grows huge each time it gets excited or upset. As this causes a lot of problems, Bumble has to face a difficult dilemma.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1983-02-03
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Amsterdam Affair
Overview: An Englishman in Holland gets involved in a murder case. It looks bad for him, but the wily Inspector Van Der Valk isn't convinced of his guilt.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-09
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Like Two Drops of Water
Overview: The fainthearted cigar trader Ducker keeps himself quiet during World War II. That changes when parachutist Dorbeck lands in his backyard. It turns out the parachutist bears a remarkable resemblance to Ducker. Ducker follows Dorbeck blindly, becomes involved in the Dutch resistance and soon starts killing people. When he escapes through German lines to the freed South Netherlands, no one has ever heard of Dorbeck.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1963-02-21
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My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter
Overview: Based on a true story. A treasure is discovered in the trunk of a car, with far-reaching implications.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1979-04-04
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Fair in the Rain
Overview: After being released from prison a career criminal wants to start a new life. To finance this new life he decides to rob a small-town bank during a funfair. Meanwhile, he's trying to get rid of a women who can tie him to a previous crime.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1962-03-15
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Kunst en Vliegwerk
Overview: Artist Hans Drost and his children have a spectacular hobby: rockets.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1989-03-10
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The Red Swan
Overview: After years living in France, The grandfather of Jakob returns back too his old house. He buys the house and asks his grand-son too help renovate it. When his grandfather falls and get hurt, an older woman decides too look out on Jakob.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1999-10-14
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Louise, One Word of Love
Overview: The young Isabelle escapes from the orphanage and she adopted by two chaps on a caravan. They then meet by chance the posh family of Louise- who runs away with the three adventurers when confronted with the reality of having to marry a Belgian with a large moustache and a bald head. They find a dog. Later Louisa degenerates into a minor moment of sexual hedonism and multiplexing with the two chaps before they are all overwhelmed by the Armageddon that was WWI.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1972-05-03
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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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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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Lifespan
Overview: Cult icon Klaus Kinski features in this dark and intriguing existential thriller. He plays the mysterious "Swiss Man" - ruthless industrialist Nicolas Ulrich - who is obsessed with a search for the elixir of life. He tricks a young American scientist into joining him on his demonic quest. A quest that ends in suicide, death and madness. The story takes place in the atmospheric European city of Amsterdam. Its winding alleys and ancient canals trap the characters in a labyrinthine maze as they find themselves manipulated like figures on a giant chess board.
Genres: Drama Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-05
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All Things Pass
Overview: During World War II in the Netherlands, resistance-leader Arie is shot by the Dutch SS-man Niels. Arie's comrades pledge to avenge his death. 35 years later one of them, Ab, is confronted with Niels again. He decides to round up his old friends to kill him. He finds out though, that they think this is useless or are not capable of doing so anymore. Only the former communist Gerben has not forgotten his pledge and is talked into joining the execution.
Genres: TV Movie War Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-05-03
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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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