Nand Buyl
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Antwerpen, Belgium
Birthday: February 12, 1923
Deathday: March 24, 2009
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Only One
Overview: Lucien Knops (Nand Buyl) is a grumpy old man. When his wife passes away, he moves in with his daughter Gerda. It doesn't take long before tensions rise and Lucien moves back into his old house, claiming that his new lover will move in with him. Gerda is worried that she will miss out on her father's inheritance; even more so when an interesting new woman moves in next door to Lucien.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-06-14
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The Wedding Party
Overview: In rural Westphalia, Franz Berger struggles to keep his inn open. On this day, a bluff, overbearing bully, Hermann Walzer, has booked the dining room for a wedding banquet for his son Mark. There's bad blood between Berger and Walzer, so when the first course, shrimp cocktail, is off, Hermann storms out with the wedding party vowing not to pay. Franz locks the loo door, taking prisoners of the bride and Hermann's wife while he also locks the estate's outer gates, leaving Hermann and the rest outside. Walzer, a pheasant hunter, lays siege; shotguns, rifles, grenades, a shovel, and other weapons leave no one safe. Will it take death to bring these men to their senses?
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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Olivetti 82
Overview: A man with bloody hands is arrested as prime suspect in a murder case. He does not understand why and refuses to cooperate. Bernard Van de Wiele, the suspect, is a writer. One of the police inspectors comes up with the idea to give him a typewriter: an Olivetti 82. The interrogators hope that this way he will agree to share his story. Bernard begins his memoir: a long search for love and protection. Little by little the truth comes to light.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-08-20
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When the Sea Rises
Overview: An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him in his plays.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-10-27
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De Ordonnans
Overview: This picture is a mixture of musical, adventure, science fiction and comedy with the popular singer Bobbejaan Schoepen and several famous Flemish actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1962-07-21
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Gabriel
Overview: Is a convent anyplace for a boy? Gabriël is a lad of about eight, probably a foundling, who lives in a convent, the only child among about 20 nuns. Except for Sylvia, a young nun, Gabriël doesn't get on well with others. He thinks of himself as an angel, impatient to grow wings and to fly, impatient with earth's rules. He's been collecting feathers from the many geese on the convent grounds. What happens next seems to horrify everyone except Sylvia, who may be in on Gabriël's secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Music in the Harbour
Overview: Frits and Jef are mates on a ship and have been friends for long. Frits, who is the steward, is also engaged to Jef's sister Marieke. When the two men disembark in Antwerp, their birth town, Frits realizes to his shock that a drug runner has hidden his contraband in his baggage. He informs the police at once and starts his own investigation...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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Janssens versus Peeters
Overview: A popular comedy in which the daughter of baker Peeters is set to get married with the son of innkeeper Janssens but then the parents start to argue and are opposed to the marriage but the couple elopes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Good Luck, Monique!
Overview: Four aspiring young artists live together in the same apartment: Monika wants to be an actress ; Sonny, her sister, studies at the Academy of Fine Arts ; Marina dreams of being a professional dancer ; and Lena hopes to be a singer. One day, Victor and Helena, Monika and Sonny's uncle and aunt, come to visit them unannounced. As they are conservative people, the four friends do their best to hide their free lifestyles from them. On the other hand, the girls realize that it is now or never for them and one by one they end up landing the long hoped-for assignments. But, sentimentally, Monika is not happy. She does not care for her rich fiancé. The one she would like to share her life is a mere garage mechanic...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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Janssens en Peeters dikke vrienden
Overview: Sequel to the hugely popular folk comedy Janssens versus Peeters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Uilenspiegel Still Lives
Overview: A local brass band rehearses for a music competition in Bruges. They are confident that a new march by a young music teacher will get them the first prize. Their chance of winning seems to get an awful lot smaller when a a fight breaks out between the chairman and the music teacher -- urging the latter to sell the march to another band.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Met den helm geboren
Overview: Meldodrama/folk comedy about a lower class guy who falls in love with the daughter of the lord of the castle ... .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Rendez-vous in het paradijs
Overview: Folk comedy about 2 widowers Fien Appel and Camille. Camille would like to marry Fien but she is more concerned with the future of her daughters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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My Husband Wouldn't Do That
Overview: Jan Peeters is happily married and his wife Annie just things he's the best. When all of a sudden 4 women buy him a tie for his birthday she's becoming suspicious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Drie flinke kerels
Overview: Three reporters are being fired by their old fashioned editor after a compromising photo of them appeared in some newspapers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Alleen voor U
Overview: A musical comedy about a rich girl Jenny who falls in love with a a poor but beautiful singing hairdresser's assistant.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Whitey
Overview: The first movie version, from the age of black & white, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main character: a smart but naughty farmhand's son whose eternal mischief, pranks and disobedience drive his elders (especially teachers, family and father's grumpy employer, a rich farmer) and classmates to despair in a time when a boy's punishment was still inevitable, swift and often severe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1934-06-26
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A Nice Case
Overview: A good bourgeois couple have adopted Monneke, a country boy. Maybe they should not have as their peaceful life is turned upside down by the antics of the little rascal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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