Menno van Beekum
Also Known As: Menno Van Beekum
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Adult: No
Birthday: December 10, 1955
Age: 69 years old
Gender: Male
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A Noble Intention
Overview: 1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States. Committed - or is it pride? - the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2015-12-10
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Hawks
Overview: Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-05
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Mariken
Overview: A family film, based on a well-known Dutch story from the Middle Ages. Mariken tells the compelling and poetic story of spirited young girl named Mariken. The orphan Mariken lives in a secluded forest with an eccentric old hermit. One day, she decides to leave her surroundings and sets off for town to buy a new goat. On her adventurous journey into the 'real' world, she finds out about the good and bad sides of people.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2000-12-07
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The Heineken Kidnapping
Overview: On a cold November day in 1983, beer magnate Alfred Heineken and his chauffeur Ab Doderer are abducted. What follows is the most infamous kidnapping case the Netherlands have ever known.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2011-10-27
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Uitgesloten
Overview: Uitgesloten is set in 1983. Jonathan is 18 and, just like his best friend Coen, he has grown up in the Jehovah's Witnesses. In this world with its strict rules, Jonathan and Coen however have their own ideas. Both have girlfriends, Marjan and Annemiek, who live in a very different world: the girls study at art school and mix with squatters. The boys do not tell their girlfriends about their background and they anxiously keep Marjan and Annemiek hidden from their own community. The friends lead a double life: they ring doorbells to distribute the Ontwaakt! and play in a band for the Jehovah's Witnesses, while they also visit ska concerts and squatters' bars and become increasingly caught up in the worldly life of Marjan and Annemiek.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-03-12
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Boy 7
Overview: When Sam regains consciousness in the middle of a crowded subway, he doesn't know how he got there, where he came from nor his own name. He franticly searches for his identity, using the contents of his backpack. Slowly but surely he realizes his life is in great danger.
Genres: Thriller Action Science Fiction
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-02-19
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Nothing to Lose
Overview: A man convicted of killing his own father and sister escapes from a long-stay criminal hospital to track down his estranged mother, whom he believes can prove his innocence.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-01-31
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Wasted
Overview: When popular college kid Max sees his finals at risk, he calls in the help of his long lost and nerdy friend Ruben. Together with the comedic help of "chick-magnet" and Marroccon street hustler Youseff, they decide to throw the biggest exams-party ever dreamt possible, while getting to know themselves and each other in a thorough manner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-02-04
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Black Book
Overview: In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-09-14
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Riphagen the Untouchable
Overview: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal talents at the service of the Nazi occupiers. But the long battle is about to end and the freedom fighters, who have been persecuted and murdered for years, are abandoning their hideouts to mercilessly hunt down those who have collaborated with the killers.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-09-22
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