Dirk Roofthooft
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Antwerp, Belgium
Birthday: January 01, 1959
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Dark Diamond
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Genres: Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2004-02-14
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Accomplices
Overview: Philippe works as a Judge at the criminal court. He has a complicated relationship with his son Hugues. One night Hugues commits a deadly hit and run while driving home drunk. To protect his only son, Philippe chooses to cover up the evidences.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-04-20
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Don't Cry Germaine
Overview: After the dead of the eldest daughter, Germaine and Gilles and their children leave for a holiday in the mountains to restore their bond. However, the killer of their daughter also resides in those mountains and Gilles wants revenge.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-08-30
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WILL
Overview: Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2023-09-27
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The Sugar Bowl
Overview: A short look into the life of a loving girl with an abusive mother and a father who stands by during his wife's frequent fits of violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1997-11-03
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Skunk
Overview: The story of Liam, a neglected teenager who lives in a family where alcohol, violence and sex play the main role. He grows up to be a confused youngster which ends in a very aggressive act to break with his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-03-13
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Those Who Work
Overview: Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he’s on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to deal with a crisis situation, Frank makes a brutal decision and gets fired. Profoundly shaken, betrayed by a system to which he gave his all, he has to progressively question himself to save the one connection that still matters to him: the bond he’s managed to maintain with his youngest daughter, Mathilde.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-04
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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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Any Way the Wind Blows
Overview: Antwerp, early June. On a sweltering Friday, eight people dream of a different life. There is wind and music, police and paranoia, gossip and arguing. There's an ancient virus, a lost Frisbee, a dead horse, and, wandering the city, an enigmatic phenomenon called Windman who feels everyone's pain but can't seem to help himself. In the evening a party awaits them...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-17
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Magonia
Overview: A sea faring father, a man living on the edge of mental sanity, periodically sees his young son. During the visits, the father tells the boy stories, exotic as well as close to home, about Magonia. This is a mythical place where clouds represent impossible dreams and unfulfilled desires. But the characters in this imaginary place all curiously resemble people now living near the father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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Rosie
Overview: In a juvenile lockup, a new ward answers questions: she's Rosie, 13, no parents, a sister Irene, a brother Michel. In flashbacks we find out what happened. She lives with Irene, who's 27, whom Rosie knows is in fact her mother, but that's their secret. Irene's brother Michel, unemployed, a compulsive gambler, comes to stay with them. Around then, Irene meets Bernard; they come to care for each other. This leaves Rosie without attention, so she puts all her adolescent hopes and romantic fantasies into a relationship with Jimi, a good looking kid she sees on a bus. Is it adventures with Jimi that land her in juvie? Once she's there, why doesn't he answer her letters?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1998-11-18
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Vanitas
Overview: Sarah Grégoire is a young and enthusiastic art restorer who discovers that famous paintings are being replaced by replicas.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-09-12
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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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The Prime Minister
Overview: The Belgian PM is abducted and he finds his wife and children taken hostage. If he wants to see them again – alive – he has to kill the person he is meeting later that day. And that person is no less than... the president of the United States.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-03-02
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The Storm
Overview: A fictional story within the historical context of the disastrous flood that engulfed the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland in 1953. When their farmhouse is destroyed by the flood, teenage mother Julia gets separated from her baby boy, whom she kept hidden in a box. She is saved from drowning by a young air force lieutenant, who agrees to go help looking for Julia's little son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2009-09-17
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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Overview: The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-17
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The Memory of a Killer
Overview: Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. Since Ledda starts showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, it's getting more and more difficult to complete his contracts. When he has to murder a 12-year old call-girl, he refuses and becomes a target himself. While Vincke and Verstuyft are chasing him and counting the corpses, Ledda is taking care of his employers.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-10-15
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Hombres complicados
Overview: A businessman gets in serious financial troubles. When his mother dies, he thinks he's saved, but she only leaves 50.000 francs (1.500 USD). His brother Bruno, a customs officer, wants to use the money for her funeral, but our businessman prefers to use it to shake off his attackers. He promises them they will get through customs without problems with a certain package... Now his only problem is to convince Bruno...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-13
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Het paradijs
Overview: Tragicomic gangster drama about a young man who robs a gas station and takes the place of the attendant during one night, with the intention to take off to paradise with the money.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Heer & Meester: De Film
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Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-01-22
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Bastaard
Overview: Two years after the tragic loss of his older brother, 17-year-old Daan unwillingly goes along when his grieving family decides to give shelter to a homeless teenager called Radja. But as Daan witnesses how this stranger's presence deeply affects his mother, he starts to unravel Radja's mysterious past.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-10-02
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Cheese
Overview: Frans Laarmans temporarily abandons his job as an office worker to become a salesman for a big cheese company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The End of the Journey
Overview: A 40-year-old mother struggles to deal with the anxiety of growing older after her eldest daughter moves out and the youngest distances herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Cruise Control
Overview: Life does not go well the last couple of years for film director Serge Gabriëls. Since the day he chose his career above the woman of his life, things kept going downhill. When a bailiff was sent to declare his production company bankrupt, he lost all hope and perspective. Fortunately at that crucial moment he received the one phone call he has been waiting for his whole life. Out of the blue, Serge is offered the opportunity to realize the dream of his lifetime: to shoot a real love story.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2020-08-05
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Suite 16
Overview: After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris finds himself trapped inside. With nowhere to go and the cops closing in on the hotel fast, he wanders into "Suite 16" in a fit of despair. Inside, a handicapped and wheelchair bound Glover is held captive for the evening once discovered by Chris. However, things change the next day when Glover informs Chris that the woman he slept with is now dead; and that he surely will be sought out for her murder. Lonely and bored, Glover offers to shelter Chris for awhile while the cuts and bruises from the previous nights escapades have time to heal.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-24
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The Warriors of Beauty
Overview: The film is a labyrinth with multiple entrances, where an unlikely Ariane in wedding gown guides and misleads the viewer in a strange world marked by metamorphosis, multiple personalities, conflicting drives, parody, ritual, surreality.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-17
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The Stowaway
Overview: Orazbaz, who lives in Uzbek, longs to leave his tiny fishing village. He becomes a stowaway on a ship thinking that he will end up in Manhattan. Instead he ends up in Rotterdam and is taken in by a lonely woman, but he is eventually betrayed by her jealous husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Overview: The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-12
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Loft
Overview: Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-10-21
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Zillion
Overview: It's 1997. Frank Verstraeten, a computer genius with a nose for business, a fascination for nightlife and an unhealthy urge to prove himself, only wants one thing: his own disco that not only outperforms the competition but simply humiliates it. The futuristic mega discotheque Zillion is a fact and Frank turns from computer dealer to the pivotal figure of the Antwerp nightlife. He parades with the most beautiful women in Belgium and forges an alliance with Dennis Black Magic, the porn king who provides the spicy extras. Unfortunately, beautiful songs don't last long either.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-10-26
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