Huub Stapel
Also Known As: Huup Stapel
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tegelen, Limburg, Netherlands
Birthday: December 02, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Overview: Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-02-20
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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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Flodder
Overview: A low-class antisocial family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1986-12-18
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Flodder Does Manhattan!
Overview: The mayor of Sunny Dale see a chance to get rid of the Flodder family: They send the asocial bunch for an international exchange to New York. There they get confused with a Russian delegation of medical doctors while the street worker Werner who accompanies them becomes imprisoned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1992-06-03
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De Dominee
Overview: Amsterdam, 1970s. A wealthy grammar school student Klaas and his friend start trafficking hash and become entangled in the brutal criminal scene.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2004-09-02
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Rent-a-Friend
Overview: Cheated on by his successful girlfriend for lacking ambition and business-mindedness, an artist sets out to get rich quick by starting a one-man company as a friend for hire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2000-02-03
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The Lift
Overview: A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1983-05-11
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The Girl with the Red Hair
Overview: During the second world war law student Hannie Schaft is a member of the Dutch resistance movement.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-09-17
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Eep!
Overview: Viegeltje looks like a girl but has wings instead of arms. Bird watcher Warre finds her under brushwood and takes her home. Warre and his wife Tine decide to keep Viegeltje and raise her like an ordinary girl. But Viegeltje isn't an ordinary girl and she flies away. She wants to go to the South with the other birds. It becomes a long and adventurous journey.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-04-20
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Saint
Overview: A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-10-31
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Smoorverliefd
Overview: A frank and funny romantic comedy set in Antwerp, filmed in a quirkily inventive style, Madly in Love has a lot to say about human relationships. It focuses on the four women of the Miller family: teen daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and older half-sister Michelle, as they work their way through the chaos called love. The result is a roller coaster ride of first crushes, lust, affairs, baby fever, and indestructible love. The four women are beautiful, courageous and sensible, but are also sometimes a bit lost. Can their male counterparts handle this dangerous cocktail of determination and female hormones?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-12-08
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Sea of Silence
Overview: 1969. Nine-year old Caro lives on a pig farm in a small town with her four other siblings and another on the way. She is curious and determined to understand the mysteries of the world around her. But her devout catholic father can't explain the new world and her mother is too busy for philosophy so she converses to God. One day at school she is horrified to learn that man will soon set foot on the moon. In her eyes it's not possible that God would allow anyone to get so close to Heaven. Her clowning father agrees and, unable to cope with modern-day progress, hits the bottle. Caro is preparing for her first holy communion to become 'a bride of God' but before that she seals a pact with her father to overcome her fear of swimming in exchange, he will not touch a drop of alcohol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-09-26
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The Indecent Woman
Overview: A woman with a steady marriage and a little daughter, goes bezerk and enters a seducing game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1991-05-26
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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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De nacht van Aalbers
Overview: A political thriller about PvdA-frontman Frits Aalbers who gets involved with a mysterious murder in a hotel. To make sure his political career will not be damaged - an important coalition is at stake - the master politician tries to hide the truth no matter the cost. The ambitious young journalist Barbara van Dalen is trying to get a scoop on the impeding coalition, but accidentally stumbles upon the trail of the murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Dying to Go Home
Overview: A Portuguese imigrant in Holland dies in an accident and is buried in Amsterdam. But his soul will not rest in peace until his body is carried back to Portugal.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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Line of Fire
Overview: The story of Dutch commando Marco Kroon, who, after becoming the first recipient of his country's highest military award in over five decades, finds himself in the crosshairs of the law for alleged drugs and weapons violations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2023-09-14
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Mein Herz in Chile
Overview: Laura returns to Chile, after thirty years, to say goodbye to his old and sick mother. In this bitter journey she is accompanied by his daughter Elizabeth, who still did not know her grandmother. When the old woman meets her granddaughter, she decides to change her will and leave the young Elizabeth as heir of the family mansion. When soon after the grandmother dies, Elizabeth examines the inheritance, and discovers with surprise that the mansion was donated to a foundation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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De Goede Dood
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-02-23
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The Merman
Overview: Tony is really handsome, but he smells. A scientist gives him a potion that should get rid of his fishy smell. Unfortunately, there are some serious side effects.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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The Cool Lakes of Death
Overview: Hedwig, a young wealthy woman growing up in the straight-jacket of bourgeois morality in the Victorian era, descends into madness after years of sexual repression and tragedy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1982-09-30
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Amsterdamned II
Overview: When the canals of Amsterdam turn blood red again after 37 years, there is only one man who can tame the evil and battle an adversary who seems to possess superhuman powers.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2025-12-11
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A Perfect Man
Overview: A philandering husband unknowingly falls back in love with his wife over the phone when she pretends to be another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-01
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Love is the Word
Overview: Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the year 'Grease' hit the big screen.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-12-19
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Het kruis van Tegelen
Overview: The Tegelse Passion Play, which is performed every five years, is about the last days of suffering of Jesus Christ. This tradition, in which almost the entire Limburg village in the Netherlands participates, goes back to 1931. It is also a tradition that is often accompanied by conflicts about texts, innovation and the design of the game. Because the Bible is serious business. In the shadow of the last Passion Plays unfold the passion stories of a few passion players who struggle with contemporary dilemmas such as abuse of power, domestic violence, homosexuality, migrants, equality, but also the suffering of Biblical themes such as betrayal, exclusion and misplaced pride.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-17
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Das Beste Jahr meines Lebens
Overview: Her husband Niklas' loan fraud plunges housewife Laura Vandenberg into disaster. While Niklas is behind bars and the company is being wound up, Laura has to give up her house and move to a dreary high-rise estate with her two children. But with the support of her neighbor Ziggy, Laura soon finds a job in an Italian dive bar. Thanks to her sophisticated cooking skills, which she acquired as a perfectly organized housewife, Laura gets the shop going. Finally, Niklas is released on probation - but then Laura finds out that her husband has not only cheated on the bank.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-11-10
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Auf Herz und Nieren
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-11-17
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Widows
Overview: A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella Muti) are great friends, but at the same time completely different. Molly is a difficult stressed housewife and mother of three children, Elisabeth is the perfect career woman and Maria uses already in their third marriage sex appeal to get ahead in life. But one day it turns out that the three except their friendship still connects another great thing in common: They are all tired of her life as a wife. And so begins the story of a rabenscharzen comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulties to achieve this. The only question is: How are they merely their husbands going on?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-22
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The Directors
Overview: In 1984, Ate de Jong, Dick Maas and George Schouten founded The Directors, a band made up of movie directors. Later on, more directors joined and so did actors, actresses and singers. This documentary follows the band members at home, on the set, at rehearsals and during performances. It’s a story of friendship, opposing characters, growing old and ambitions and illusions. Anecdotes and archive films provide a hilarious flashback on the lives of the film friends. Time has treated them well. Everybody is or has been successful. To rough it all up, they decide to write a song that will be played at one of the band member’s funeral.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-11-07
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The Other Woman
Overview: A German couple travels, shortly after reunification, to the Netherlands. Happiness does not last long. The wife receives a letter from an unknown woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-01-14
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Walhalla
Overview: Grocer De Feyter is put out of business by competition from a supermarket run by the Moroccan Saïd. To keep afloat, he does the dirty work for a right-wing politician. This man is in cahoots with a project developer who wants to build a furniture superstore in the slum area. With the aid of criminals, they manage to bring racial tension in the area to boiling point. Against this background, affection blossoms between the daughter of the grocer and the son of Saïd, a real Romeo and Juliet. Then a group of skinheads decides to put an end to the fragile romance with violence.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1995-06-08
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The Dream
Overview: On the turn of the 20th century, in Netherlands, three socialist activists and brothers are imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit. The prosecutor tries to get to the truth, but their comrades and others betray them.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fy
Release Date: 1985-09-03
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Johan
Overview: Johan Dros is born as eleventh consecutive son of soccer-obsessed pa Rinus, who raises his boys mainly as the small island Texel's team. Johan's rare reprieves from training for a sport he doesn't care for cease when ma dies. After captain brother Johhny sort of steals his local girl-friend Evy, Johan leaves for Amsterdam, where he becomes a hairdresser and would-be singer. Soccer, a vocal TV talent-hunt and Evy will bring them all together again, but also raise unprecedented strife in the Dros family
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-10-06
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Tits
Overview: A man finds a phone in the park, while he's walking his dog. When a message comes in from Mohammed, he can't control his curiosity. What follows is a view on a special happening, from the corner of a café.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2011-05-01
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Oh Boy!
Overview: Slapstick by the director of The Taste of Water also a film within a film. Boy, otherwise known as the shy actor Pim, runs a financially unsuccessful service station somewhere in the desert. His life is severely disrupted when he gets a professional competitor. The film is a homage to the silent film hero Buster Keaton.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1991-05-08
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The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic above the office. The film tells the true story of Gies' struggle to keep the family hidden and safe, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down. Based upon Gies' memoirs and Anne Frank's famous diary.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-17
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Ome Cor
Overview: A down-on-his-luck Rotterdam dock worker struggles to get his financials and family life back on track.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-12-13
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Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller
Overview: Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed. But suddenly chaos descends on the film team: A starlet is murdered, the bitchy leading man goes increasingly crazy, a drunken policeman causes a lot of trouble, and the sex-obsessed producer Egon Lütter doesn't make things any easier.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-11-26
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Auf schmalem Grat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-05-22
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Der Hurenstreik - Eine Liebe auf St. Pauli
Overview: Romeo and Juliet on the Kiez with Cupid in the form of the attractive sex worker Elisa: the young artist Nikolaus falls in love with the well-behaved law student Sandy. He ends up in prison for an extraordinary declaration of love.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-02-10
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De Zevende Hemel
Overview: Dutch musical centered around a family restaurant. There's a reunion coming up for which the family is planning a big event. After the reunion celebration, the parents will hand over the restaurant to their children. Unfortunately, the relationship with one of their sons is very tense. The mother is trying to repair that relationship in time for the reunion.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy Music
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-11-24
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Sextet
Overview: Sextet is a film about love and relationships in Amsterdam. It features an ingeniously interwoven plot of several stories and characters. Together with the feature SIMON (2004) this one is part of Terstall's trilogy about the liberties of the present Dutch society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-13
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Ob ihr wollt oder nicht
Overview: The film starts with the main character Laura, a young woman with advanced cancer, entering quite upset the home of her parents and claiming to have stopped chemo therapy and having left her husband. The worried parents call the other three adult daughters into the house and they arrive one by one. For the first time in 6 years the entire family is united again. The characters are drawn as tensions rise from old conflicts and as the situation sinks in that Laura might be terminally ill. The movie eventually shifts from a lively sometimes comical beginning into the serious theme of dying and does handle this quite tactfully and moving. While the film touches on many areas surrounding death (including religion, graveyard, care, eutanasia) the main focus is on the transformation of the characters that are thrown out of their busy lifes into this situation, eventually accepting it and dealing with it.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-12-09
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In the Shadow of the Sandcastle
Overview: The ex-cop Robin kills an actor and steals his money and cocaine. And now he is supposed to find the killer together with an interpol inspector. To hide his guilt Robin goes on murdering leaving hints that lead to the actress Angel...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-10-20
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Redbad
Overview: In the year of 754 AD, during a time of epic battles and bloodshed, the legend of the pagan warrior king, Rebad, is born, but so is a new weapon against his people: Christianity. Redbad must ultimately unite a Viking army powerful enough to defeat the seemingly invincible Franks.
Genres: Adventure History War Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-06-28
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Hauptsache Leben
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-12-07
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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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Zockerexpreß
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-09-30
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The Dark House
Overview: A woman tries to escape a stalker by moving with her children to her sister's isolated beach house
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-29
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Het wapen van Geldrop
Overview: Three people travel to the small town of Geldrop after a gruesome event has changed their lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-10-02
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Maria
Overview: A number of residents of a nursing home, along with the nurses, go on holiday for a week. Nurse Erik recalls memories of Paolo at one of the disabled ladies, Maria. In flashbacks we get to see the tragic love story of Maria and Paolo, which took place in Italy in the 1920s. After Maria has been raped by one of the black shirts from the circle around the young Mussolini, in which Paolo also resides, Paolo is shot as a deserter when he wants to flee with Maria. In the present of the film the nurse Erik falls in love with a colleague.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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The Scorpion
Overview: It's 1956. Truck driver Loe Wolf wants to emigrate to America, but he doesn't have the money to take this step in life. When his boss entrusts him with a certain amount of money, he takes a gamble.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-03-29
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Der Schutzengel
Overview: Dr. Maria Fender makes few friends at her new workplace with her motto “Rehabilitation instead of incarceration”. At the renowned clinic for the mentally ill, only hard cases such as child molesters and serial killers are detained. When Maria defies the therapy instructions of her boss Dr. Strauss, she is suspended from duty. On her own initiative, she frees butcher Marc from the institution because she believes she can cure him...
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-11-27
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Op Gepaste Afstand
Overview: During the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, two neighbors spend a day wandering the deserted streets of their Dutch city of Tilburg.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2020-05-19
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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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Ferry
Overview: Before he built a drug empire, Ferry Bouman returns to his hometown on a revenge mission that finds his loyalty tested — and a love that alters his life.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-05-13
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The Dick Maas Method
Overview: Documentary on the Dutch filmmaker Dick Maas.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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Black Rider
Overview: A border guard faces a crisis of conscience when he learns that an old comrade is smuggling butter across the border.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1983-02-17
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Bellicher: Cel
Overview: Michael Bellicher wakes up one morning to find out that his identity has been stolen. Soon he learns that the perpetrator is using his stolen ID for all kinds of illegal action. Michael tries to find out who is behind all this, when, to his horror, his credentials show up at the scene of a big terrorist attack. Suddenly he is public enemy number one…
Genres: Action
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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