Yorick van Wageningen
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Yorick van Wageningen (born 16 April 1964 in Baarn) is a Dutch actor. After acting in several Dutch plays, movies, and television series, van Wageningen was asked to come to Hollywood to appear in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. Due to problems with his visa, he was unable to work on that movie in the United States. However, he has been acting in American movies ever since. His breakthrough hit was with his role in The Chronicles of Riddick, which earned him much praise by lead actor Vin Diesel. He has starred opposite Amanda Burton, Vin Diesel, Angelina Jolie, Judi Dench, Colin Farrell, Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer and Clive Owen. After he went to the United States he did not appear in any Dutch film until his return in 2008, starring in Oorlogswinter (Winter in Wartime), based on a famous Dutch children's book about World War II. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yorick van Wageningen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Birthday: April 16, 1964
Age: 61 years old
Gender: Male
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Overview: The first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon Utah, and as a writer in Belgium during the rise of fascism. Packed with stylistic flourishes, it's a dense, comic study of 20th century history, revolving around the contents of one man's suitcases. The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world—92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project by Peter Greenaway includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Genres: War Drama History Adventure Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-24
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A Life in Suitcases
Overview: Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-20
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The Chronicles of Riddick
Overview: After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, reluctant hero will emerge as humanity's champion - and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-11
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Beyond Borders
Overview: Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-23
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Deserter
Overview: Unlikely friends in a melting pot of confusion. Simon Murray fights for the French Foreign Legion. Pascal Dupont fights for himself. War torn men question honour, hope, morality...because you can desert everything...except yourself.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-30
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Winter in Wartime
Overview: During World War II in the freezing winter of 1944-45 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to the dismay of his father, who, as mayor, works to prevent escalations in the village.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-11-17
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Angie
Overview: Angie has just returned from an orphanage and everyone warns her to stay away from Alex, who leads a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1993-10-14
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Me and Morrison
Overview: A bittersweet tale of a love affair between two people whose lives seem to have lost all direction. The female lead, Milla, is drifting aimlessly through life until she meets Aki. They fall in love - but happiness in a relationship shadowed by crime and drugs is not necessarily a given. The movie is based on the novel Minä ja Morrison by first-time author Kata Kärkkäinen
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2001-12-28
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The Resurrection of a Bastard
Overview: A criminal from Amsterdam barely surviving a liquidation. An old Frisian farmer bent on revenge. An illegal immigrant with uncertain prospects. Eventually, they meet under an ancient oak tree. Beyond the last town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-02-20
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The New World
Overview: A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-25
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Overview: Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-14
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The Way
Overview: When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-10
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Last Summer
Overview: A yacht lies at anchor in a bay off the Sicilian coast. Naomi, a young Japanese woman, has four days to leave her son with a lasting memory of her before she loses custody of him forever. In this hostile environment, Naomi faces the difficulty of approaching Ken under the controlling glare of the crew. When Naomi's hopes seem lost Ken starts to take an interest in her. Timeless days magnify the weight of their last goodbye.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-30
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47 Ronin
Overview: Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Genres: Drama Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-06
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Making of Oorlogswinter
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the production of Martin Koolhoven's film, Oorlogswinter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-11-30
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Blackhat
Overview: Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant was just the beginning.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-13
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Storm - Letter of Fire
Overview: The film is set in 1521 Antwerp, in a Europe ravaged by religious wars, and during the early years of the Reformation. It tells the story of the twelve year old, Falko Voeten – a printer’s son. When Falko’s father, Klaas Voeten, a printer of forbidden literature, is caught by the Inquisition for printing a letter written by Maarten Luther; Falko is unwittingly propelled into helping his father and into searching for the letter. Threatened by the Inquisition but aided by Marieke, a Catholic orphan girl from the underground sewers, Falko is faced with a race against time if he is to save his father from being executed for heresy.
Genres: Adventure Family History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2017-01-19
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
Overview: The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp continues telling the picaresque adventures through the world of multi-disciplinary artist and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. This movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival as a separate title located between the first and the second part of Peter Greenanway's Tulse Luper Trilogy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-31
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Papillon
Overview: Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-07
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Broker
Overview: A solitary organ broker attempts to break free from his life of deadly crime by rescuing a young woman from the ruthless syndicate he does business with.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-13
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Escape Room
Overview: Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-03
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Promise of Pisa
Overview: A promising young Dutch-Moroccan trumpet player sets out to succeed at a posh Amsterdam music conservatory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-10-10
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Soul Assassin
Overview: A security agent at an investment bank uncovers espionage that is linked to his girlfriend's murder. He vows to seek revenge on those responsible.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-23
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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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Frenchman's Creek
Overview: Seeking to escape the stifling London court society, the beautiful headstrong Lady Dona St. Columb flees to her family estate on the Cornish coast. Her new freedom swiftly brings her into contact with the dashingly handsome French privateer Jean Aubrey who sweeps her off her feet and into a world of adventure on the high seas very different from her dull and boring life at court with her husband Sir Harry. Together with Jean Aubrey and her enigmatic servant William, Lady Dona conceives a daring plan to steal a ship right from under the noses of the English authorities. The theft enrages the authorities who make every effort to trap the French Pirate. However, as the noose begins to tighten around the lovers, Lady Dona is faced with the dilemma of duty and children with Sir Harry or freedom and excitement with Jean Aubrey
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-19
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Hokwerda's Child
Overview: Lin, a long-distance swimmer, is training for a cross-channel swim when she encounters Henri, a deep-sea welder, who, like her, thrives on danger. Drawing each other deep into an intense love affair, they forget that lovers too can drown.
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-10-24
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