John van Dreelen
Also Known As: John vanDreelen
Biography: John van Dreelen (born Jacques Theodore van Drielen Gimberg; 5 May 1922 – 4 September 1992) was a Dutch actor, who frequently performed on television from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Birthday: May 05, 1922
Deathday: September 04, 1992
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Topaz
Overview: Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Von Ryan's Express
Overview: Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Genres: War Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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In Hamburg sind die Nächte lang
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-02-24
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Zwei Herzen voller Seligkeit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-03-22
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The Formula
Overview: While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War II. This revelation has the potential to end the established global oil industry, making the formula a very valuable and dangerous piece of information. Eventually, Caine must contend with oil tycoon Adam Steiffel, who clearly has his own agenda regarding the formula.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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Rufus
Overview: Professional gambler Rufus convinces an ex-girlfriend to help him pull one over on a corrupt casino owner.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-05-07
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Madame X
Overview: A woman married to a wealthy socialite, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had been romantically pursuing her, and is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak with the aid of alcohol and unsavory men, eventually returning to the city of her downfall, where she murders a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Amazingly, she is represented at her murder trial by her now adult son, who is a public defender. Hoping to continue to protect her son, she refuses to give her real name and is known to the court as the defendant, "Madame X."
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-03
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My Dog, the Thief
Overview: As ratings for Jack Crandall's lifeless airborne traffic reports plummet, a super-size St. Bernard on the lam stows away in his chopper. Crandall's new co-pilot helps send ratings sky-high, but the canine's chronic kleptomania generates girl trouble, jewel thievery, and loads of laughs.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-21
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Covenant
Overview: A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group named The Judges bands together to try to stop them.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-05
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Looking for Eileen
Overview: After his wife Marjan has died in a car crash, Philip de Wit becomes a total wreck. Only after months does he return to a more or less normal life and even then he only works in his wife's bookstore. A year later Eileen walks in the store, a girl from Northern Ireland with her baby in her arms. When Philip sees her, he's dumbfounded, for she's the spitting image of his dead wife. Obsessed with her, he goes and tries to find her again, but he soon finds out that he's not the only one who's looking for Eileen.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-24
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Daddy-Long-Legs
Overview: Dutch television adaptation of the English theatre musical 'Love from Judy' by Eric Maschwitz and Hugh Martin, based on the novel 'Daddy-Long-Legs' by Jean Webster. Jerusha Abbott, a girl growing up in the orphanage, is called to the headmistress where she hears that one of the orphanage's wealthiest regents has taken notice of her fate and wants her to study to be a writer. One condition is that Jerusha has to write him a short letter once a month, stating what progress she is making.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1964-11-14
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See How They Run
Overview: Three children are stalked by hired killers after they unknowingly take evidence pointing to the existence of a corrupt international cartel, which has just murdered their father.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-07
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Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
Overview: Art dealer Thormann asks for the hand of his beautiful secretary Nora, but Nora loves Captain Hans Westhoff. But while Westhoff is hiding in Italy to avoid jail time, his heroic death is reported in his homeland.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-12-18
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Evita Peron
Overview: Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-23
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Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears
Overview: In this wacky comedy, teen-aged Tony (Bentley C. Mitchum) has never known who is father is. Together with his best buddies Peter and Susan, he tracks down the clues he has as well as he can.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-08-17
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The Great Wallendas
Overview: Drama based on the legendary circus family, its spectacular but tragic career, and its unique aerial act that includes the seven-member pyramid that led to the 1962 accident in which two of the troupe were killed and another permanently paralyzed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-12
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Odyssey of Love
Overview: Paul has a full-time lover, an older English woman whose common sense and down-to-earth qualities more than compensate for her relative lack of passion. After all, he is surrounded by women clamoring for time with him in bed. So are all the other men in the story. When one of his sons dies suddenly during an operation, Paul is devastated and cannot make out what has gone wrong in his life. None of his current crop of friends has any insight to offer. Some of these questions become clearer when his sister, with whom he is almost unnaturally close, comes to visit.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1987-08-27
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Ein Mädchen aus Paris
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-11-23
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Moselfahrt aus Liebeskummer
Overview: Thomas offers Dorette a trip to Moselle that she rejects saying it's short notice, but when Thomas shows at her apartment the next day he finds she's not slept on her bed. He leaves for Dorette alone, and there he meets Angela.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-11-12
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Nightshade
Overview: A man wants to buy a house in Lower Saxony and meets a mysterious woman.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-07-01
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Die Ente klingelt um halb acht
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-09-13
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Beyond the Time Barrier
Overview: In 1960, a pilot testing an experimental rocket powered aircraft accidentally flies into the future and finds himself in a sealed city whose people suspect he is a spy from outside their walls, but who want to keep him to procreate with the ruler's daughter because the majority of the inhabitants are sterile.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-08
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13 Ghosts
Overview: Reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune, but along with the property they have also inherited the occultist's collection of 13 ghosts.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-18
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Born to Fight
Overview: Vietnam War veteran Sam Wood is a survivor of a vicious prison camp where he was brutally and painfully tortured before finally managing to escape. Then he returns to rescue his friends.
Genres: Action Thriller War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-07-17
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The Money Pit
Overview: After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-26
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Too Hot to Handle
Overview: Gorgeous blonde assassin Samantha Fox accepts a contract to liquidate a quintet of gangsters in the Philippines. Problems ensue when she falls in love with the Manila detective investigating the killings.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-18
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The Flying Fontaines
Overview: Director George Sherman's 1959 circus drama stars Michael Callan as a cocky aerialist causing romantic problems under the Big Top.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Full House
Overview: Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Overview: A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-09
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Diamantenparty
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-06-10
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The Enemy General
Overview: OSS agent, working with the French underground, ambushes Nazi convoy with high-ranking general, who escapes. Later they take him from a Nazi prison and smuggle him to England.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-18
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Swan Song
Overview: Sun Valley provides the backdrop to this story of a downhill ski racer who seeks to make a comeback after being branded a loser and the ski bunny who helps him regain his self-respect.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-08
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The Clone Master
Overview: In order to test the validity of his experiments on cloning, a scientist makes clones of himself, but it causes problems that he didn't foresee.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-14
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The Ultimate Impostor
Overview: A series pilot about a secret agent who is armed with skills learned by a computer-brain link-up -- lasting only 72 hours at a time -- and is sent to rescue a Russian submarine commander, a defector who has been kidnapped by an agent for another nation.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-12
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The Leech Woman
Overview: An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-01
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Beggarman, Thief
Overview: In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-26
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Schiff ohne Hafen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-04-28
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The Wizard of Baghdad
Overview: A genie turned mortal after his many failures is sent to Baghdad. As his last chance to prove himself he must help a prince and princess fulfill a prophecy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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Operation Las Vegas
Overview: Richard Harrison fights mobsters, terrorists, and ninjas in this no-budget flick.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-27
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Monte Carlo Baby
Overview: When a measles epidemic forces the temporary closing of a child care center, the son of a film star and her estranged husband, a concert pianist, is mistakenly delivered to a touring musician.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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The Big Game
Overview: Two soldiers of fortune are hired by an inventor to protect him and his invention, a radar-like machine that is capable of controlling armies and forcing them to fight.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-02
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Monsignores große Stunde
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-06-15
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Laura
Overview: The detective investigating Laura Hunt's murder finds himself becoming obsessed with the dead woman only to find out she's actually still alive.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-07-25
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Staatsbegräbnis
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-06-14
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Becoming Colette
Overview: French writer recalls her start as the country wife of a Paris publisher who called her erotic work his own.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-17
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The Last Act
Overview: Albin Skoda embodies a frantic Adolf Hitler in his last days, scrambling to keep the Third Reich alive as morale within the bunker wanes and Berlin is encircled by enemy troops. Based on Michael A. Musmanno's book Ten Days to Die, Oscar Werner costars as fictional Nazi Hauptmann Wüst, a disillusioned middleman.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-04-13
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Mascara
Overview: A respected police commissioner has a reputation as a opera lover, but by night he also enjoys plunging into the transvestite scene. In addition, he harbors a longing for his very own sister. When he learns that his wife has been murdered, he tries to implicate the set designer who has designs on his sister.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1987-05-07
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Lost Horizon
Overview: While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-14
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Gigi
Overview: Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she's not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita's old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and following his affairs from afar. But when Gaston throws off his latest mistress, it looks as if Gigi just might be ready to begin her destined career.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-10-05
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But Not in Vain
Overview: Farmer Jan Alting, who has disowned his son for collaborating with the nazis, provides shelter for a Jewish couple, a wanted communist and a rebel aristocrat. When his son returns, Jan is faced with the stark moral choice of failing those to whom he has given refuge, or conspiring with them to kill his own son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1948-12-23
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The Legend of Two Gypsy Dogs
Overview: Two carefree dogs in Hungary come to the attention of an old fisherman. Later they free a hawk from a cage, and he joins them. They have adventures with a flood, a wild boar, and a cheetah.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-01
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