Bart Klever
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
Adult: No
Birthday: October 22, 1956
Age: 68 years old
Gender: Male
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Berend Botje
Overview: Berend Botje is a tough girl with a lively imagination. She is the youngest member of the mysterious captain family Botje, which also consists of father Berend and grandfather Berend. The Botjes' adventures are so special that no one believes they really happened. But Berend knows better. When the city falls under the spell of an unusual bird egg, she is convinced that it is a Knoetel Egg, which only opens on a hidden island. She decides to make the daring trip to the island herself. Because nothing is impossible for Berend.
Genres: Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-09-29
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Silverstar
Overview: Several years after her win with Whitestar, Megan (Britt Dekker) runs her own equestrian center. When Whitestar's son, the young horse Silverstar, gallops into the woods in a barn fire, he is found by 16-year-old Esmee. The two have a special bond. After the fire, horse dealer Carina offers to help Megan, but can she be trusted? Esmee finds out that strange things are happening, but nobody wants to listen to her. To save Silverstar, she sees no option but to run with the horse. Together, Esmee and Silverstar must survive in nature.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-12-16
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Killer Babes
Overview: When three wealthy women hire a hit man to get rid of one of their cheating husbands, everything goes wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2007-12-20
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The Sea That Thinks
Overview: Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2000-12-20
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Hummelinck Stuurman: Turks Fruit
Overview: Theatre adaptation of Jan Wolkers' novel of the same name from 1969 about an artist, Erik, and a young woman, Olga, who together have a turbulent relationship in Amsterdam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-05-17
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Sweet Dreams
Overview: Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son - the child of his Indonesian housemaid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2023-09-28
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The Finnster
Overview: Finn (15) is an uncomplicated schoolboy until one day, coming home from school, he catches his father Roelof in his moms dress. The man Finn has looked up to his whole life, wants to become a woman. Finn, just discovering his own sexuality, is troubled by this new discovery. A struggle with feelings of shame, love and loyalty follows. Luckily Lizzie, his newfound friend, is there to help him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-09-26
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Godenzoon
Overview: When a baby falls from the sky, a family which is stuck in its ways seems to get a second chance.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-27
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Boy
Overview: Boy ('the helper') tells the story of an invisible member of our society, an illegal Filipino cleaner. He has no name. Moving continuously from one location to the other, he is living between being seen and being invisible, between his life with his boyfriend, an erotic dancer, and his role as financial provider of his family back home. All this changes when his boyfriend auditions for a dance-company and one of his employers commits suicide. A charming photographer shows interest in him. He wants him as a model for a photo series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-29
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The Judgement
Overview: A Dutch TV journalist finds himself challenging the police, courts and media as he attempts to uncover the truth about the controversial 1999 Deventer murder case.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-09-02
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The South
Overview: Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her prosthesis during foreplay, she imprisons him in the laundry plant. As Loe is slowly dying in imprisonment, Martje loses contact with reality and starts imagining having a family with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2004-01-24
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Whitestar
Overview: Megan has a special relationship with discarded jumping horse Whitestar. When it turns out that Whitestar still has special talents, the owner takes him away from Megan for competitions, but has no success. Only when Megan and Whitestar are together again does Whitestar turn out to be a real winner because they bring out the best in each other.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-10-09
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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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The Ninth Hour
Overview: Edward Schneider is asked to sing the St Matthew Passion in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. This is a great opportunity for him to avenge the eternal mockery to which he is subjected. However what no one sees is that the is having trouble with himself. He is not able to come to terms with the music of Bach and sing it credibly. Then there is Schneider's prostitute, Miriam. While she despises her client, she is also financially dependent on him. Miriam is also at a turning point in her life through her battles with her daughter, who does not have much respect for her mother's profession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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A Kiss
Overview: Abdi, a 12-year-old Syrian refugee living in an asylum shelter in the Netherlands, has fallen in love with the 15-year-old Leyli and wants nothing more than to have her be his partner for the summer disco. But Abdi lacks the courage to ask Leyli. After finding out that at the end of the week he and his family will be moved to another asylum shelter, our young hero embarks on an unstoppable journey to win over Leyli's heart and to seal it with an intimate kiss. Knowing that if he loses her, he will regret it for the rest of his life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-29
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Diep
Overview: A story about the 14 year old Heleen who makes the transition of child to adult with pain and effort in the wild 70s. While her parents going to divorce she is exploring the world of sex, drugs and love on her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-11-10
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The Interrogation
Overview: Experienced detective August is given the heavy responsibility of solving a series of murders of young girls. He is convinced that Frank, a mild-mannered biology teacher and key witness in the case, is the real culprit.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-11-06
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Clean Hands
Overview: Sylvia has turned a blind eye for too long to husband Eddie's flourishing drug business. When his dealing takes a (deadly) turn for the worse, however, her need to protect the lives and futures of her young children compel her to flee. But Eddie will stop at nothing to keep his wife inside the ‘family'.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2015-09-10
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Rosalinda
Overview: Jelle lives with his father, an old-fashioned organ grinder. Standing in the street, they earn a living grinding the organ Rosalinda, an honest but tedious existence. Adolescent Jelle's loyalty is put to the test when his gabber-house friends expect him at a big dance party that coincides with shopping night, which is important for his father's income. Jelle is faced with the impossible choice between his dad and his friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-28
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Engel en Broer
Overview: A young boy and his young sister are playing on a rubbish dump, acting out their parents' divorce. For this they use their father's things which their mother brought to the dumping ground out of anger. The girl only wants to use their fathers things, but the boy finds something that he finds much more interesting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2004-09-18
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Red Curtains
Overview: Rode Gordijnen (Red Curtains) is a film about a man who tries to breathe new life into his out of touch relationship with his wife. Both characters seem to have reconciled themselves to their extinguished marriage: they have simply stopped communicating. But along the way their attitude towards each other, and towards their surroundings, changes substantially.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2012-07-19
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In My Time
Overview: When millennial Julia is forced to move back in with her boomer father Piet, the generational conflict is reflected in whether or not to cut down the old tree in front of the house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-04-28
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The Pool
Overview: Two families go camping illegally in a forest, and set up their tents near a beautiful pond, far away from the daily hubbub. However, they soon discover that the pond contains a mysterious force, which will not allow them to leave. Rot and decay strike, and madness follows.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2014-05-01
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ITA Live Encore: Ibsen House
Overview: Based on Ibsen, Simon Stone wrote and directed a grand family saga about the troublesome but inevitable coexistence of different generations under one roof. Maarten Heijmans received the Arlecchino (best male performance in a supporting role) for his portrayal of Sebastiaan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-06-22
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The Windmill Massacre
Overview: Jennifer, an Australian girl on the run from her past, turns up in Amsterdam and, in a desperate attempt to blend in, joins a coach-load of tourists on a tour of Holland's old windmills. When the bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, she and the other tourists are forced to seek shelter in a disused shed beside a sinister windmill where a devil-worshiping miller once ground the bones of locals instead of grain. As members of the group start to disappear, Jennifer learns that they all have something in common – a shared secret that seems to mark them all for doom.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-29
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Olivier etc.
Overview: Olivier calls himself a 'statistical miracle'. He is almost 27 years old but the doctors had predicted that, because of the heart disease he was born with, he would not get much older than 25 years. He doesn't seem to be suffering from the threat of death closing in on him. With unbridled energy, he parties, smokes, drinks and dances until deep into the night, and in the morning wakes up in bed next to girls he doesn't even know. His family and friends alienate from him because of this life style, and the fact that he doesn't have long lasting relationships, doesn't bother him. Olivier lives, day by day. Until new medical technologies make it possible to cure him, and a new future opens up to him. Everybody is happy, but Olivier doesn't know how to deal with the expectations and responsibilities of his new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-11
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Bella Donna's
Overview: After the death of their best friend, three young women decide to complete her bucket list - only to find one particular entry exceptionally challenging: finding true love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2017-09-14
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The Price of Sugar
Overview: A story about two half-sisters life in the eighteenth century Suriname. There is Lynda, a white colonial and slave owner, and her slave Mini-Mini's. While Lynda is slowly embittered by the hard life in the colony, Mini-Mini gets a chance at her own happiness. The question is, if she dares to seize that chance, as this happiness is at the expense of her mistress and half sister?
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-09-26
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Prey
Overview: A zoo veterinarian gets caught up in a grisly adventure as she finds herself leading the city-wide hunt for a monstrous lion terrorizing the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.
Genres: Horror Thriller Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-10-13
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Cop vs. Killer
Overview: Enigmatic Dutch crime lord Mirko is always a step ahead of the national police team. When Mirko's gang are forced to kill Russian mob baron Jegor's cousin Oleg, the cops hope their time has come. Both sides resort to dirty tricks, testing loyalties and using the antagonists' daughters and independent pimp Aziz for blackmail, which makes several bloody victims.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-04-16
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Family
Overview: Mother is dying and invites her family to spend a few days in a chalet in Austria. In the isolation of the snow-covered mountains, old wounds are reopened and the family ties crumble steadily through quarrels and irritations.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-12-13
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Both Ends Burning
Overview: Raina embarks on an affair with the tortured Nick. The compulsion towards excessive behaviour forms the nexus of their relationship. Isabelle is bound up in a lifeless marriage. The two women meet in a church. Their physical contact begins as a caress but ends in a fit of aggression.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2004-10-22
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Neontetra
Overview: An aspiring young musician finds himself taking on the care of his father who suffers from Parkinson's disease.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-01-29
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Oorlogsrust
Overview: Mrs. Boon is taken to a nursing home. She can no longer live by herself and her war memories of the Japanese POW camp increasingly determine her life; she is clearly suffering from a concentration-camp syndrome. The young and largely immigrant nursing home staff does not really see what is the matter or know much about the history Mrs. Boon lives in, which elicits some unadulterated racist statements from her. Things grow worse when the new resident Mrs. Cohen arrives, a Jew who survived Auschwitz. And they are not the only ones in the home with a 'war past'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-09-07
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The Muse
Overview: An introverted young poet struggles with a writer's block and meets a mysterious girl, who reminds him of Monica Vitti.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-30
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En Route
Overview: Lou is a Turkish cellmate on leave, who has started proving his Turkish cellmate to save him from marrying another with his Turkish lover. The leaver enlists the help of his wife who has suddenly entered into a relationship with the responsible probation officer. Equipped with a revolver and telephone, the shaky couple drives through the streets of Amsterdam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-18
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Land of Dreams
Overview: It is 1946. Recently repatriated Paula is trying to feel at home in Friesland after her experiences in a Japanese internment camp. She is taken in by family she has never met before. Her presence is tolerated, but not fully accepted. Suspicion grows among the family when, since her arrival at the potato farm, brown rot is found on one of the potatoes.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-11-16
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Doodgewoon
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-07-05
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Vlam
Overview: The temporarily displaced teenager Olivia wants nothing more than to return to her mother Selma. In crisis center Girla, she discovers just how suffocating their symbiotic bond truly is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2025-03-18
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