Porgy Franssen
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Biography: Porgy Franssen is a Dutch actor and director born as Karel Henricus Martinus Maria Franssen in Eindhoven on 4 February 1957.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Birthday: February 04, 1957
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Gender: Male
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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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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Overview: 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 includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Genres: War Drama History Adventure Comedy Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-09
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Waiter
Overview: Edgar works as a waiter in 'Het Westen', a restaurant. He is married and has a lover. His neighbors terrorize him with loud music and garbage. One day after he is mistreated by some customers he is sick of it all and goes to talk to his creator, the scenario writer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-09-28
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(R)Evolutie
Overview: The year is 2040. Large parts of the Netherlands have been flooded and millions of people have sought refuge in Limburg; the last refuge where everyone hopes for a new life as they knew it. But nothing is left to chance in this sanctuary. Doctor Frank (Bruno Vanden Broecke), the gene doctor, helps you find the ideal child with the best genes and brains. And Alecto (Angela Schijf), an all-controlling, self-learning artificial intelligence, is always helpful in all decisions. From lunch to love, it's best to leave your affairs to Alecto. This new world offers the perfect relationship with a partner exactly as we dream of him or her, and even the sex is better in virtual rooms. But how do you find your own way when everything is based on data, coincidence no longer exists and the role of humans seems to be becoming less and less important?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-27
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Fuchsia the Mini-Witch
Overview: Great adventures can hatch from the smallest eggs. Fucsia wants to learn to do magic just like her father, and so is pleased as punch when she is allowed to go to witches' school. There, Fucsia learns to make wind and conjures with the clouds. But her magic often has unexpected results, however, as she is sometimes that little bit too ambitious.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-10-06
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Morlang
Overview: Inspired by true events, a chilling psychological drama. A couple's secret pact takes an unexpected, sinister turn.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-22
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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 Baby and the Cargo Bike
Overview: A social comedy about troubled relations between mothers and sons. Every day, rag-and-bone man Willem Slootkant takes his cargo bike to go out and look for usable waste in other people's garbage. One day, to his surprise, he finds a baby. Slootkant takes the baby to his mother, who happens to desperately want a grandchild from her unmarried son. They both assume that the child was a junkie's, but when Child Protection is alerted, it turns out the baby has very decent parents. The baby's older brother, meanwhile, feels neglected because of all the panic over the little one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
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170 Hz
Overview: Nick and Evy are in love. Knowing that Nick is deaf, Evy’s parents do not consent to their relationship. They run away and move into an abandoned submarine, hidden from judgmental eyes. Their runaway love brings them new opportunities and new hardships...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-04-30
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Verzet
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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Nina Satana
Overview: Nina Satana, a fifteen-year-old gothic girl, falls in love with Momo, the new Moroccan boy in her class.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2011-09-25
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Matterhorn
Overview: A lonely widower finds himself facing both his devout Calvinist village community and his own deepest regrets when he takes a deranged vagrant into his home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-24
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The long aftermath of a short announcement
Overview: A short – apparently innocent – announcement turns the lives of a couple of employees at a wellness centre down. An absurd tragicomedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2015-09-27
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Gewoon Hans
Overview: The father of the seventeen-year-old Katinka is a huge fan of the Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen. The small house of the Vermeulen family breathes him: the TV blares Hans Teeuwen shows all day long, there are posters everywhere and numerous CDs and DVDs swing through the room. The Teeuwen Excess leads to fears and delusions in Katinka. She gets nightmares in which Hans Teeuwen reveals himself to her: she hears his voice regularly and she thinks she sees him appear now and then. Katinka tells her psychiatrist about her nightmare that Hans Teeuwen rapes her teddy bear while calling out her name. The psychiatrist advises her to meet Teeuwen in real life, because in this way she may be able to adjust the image she has created herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2009-12-30
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A Real Vermeer
Overview: Young and talented Han van Meegeren is a rebel in the early 1920's Amsterdam art-scene. Because he paints in the style of his idols Rembrandt and Vermeer, critics find his work old-fashioned and they call him a copycat. Just to prove a point, he produces a fake Vermeer and tries to pass it off as a real one. It works. Instead of revealing the truth and thereby embarrassing the art world, he continues to make money off of his many forgeries. Soon he is caught in a web of lies and deceit, and his life spins out of control. Then one day, high ranking Nazi Hermann Göring knocks on his door, looking for a Vermeer for his private collection...
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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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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The Swap
Overview: When successful banker Thomas attends his father’s funeral, he meets his left-wing activist brother Arne again after many years. He makes an effort to get close to Arne and invites him to a prestigious conference on sustainable banking, but Arne uses the conference to make a political statement that has fatal consequences. Thomas finds himself fighting for his own career and for Arne’s life, but especially to regain his brother’s respect.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2017-04-26
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The Body Collector
Overview: The mini-series is based on the true story of journalist Hans Knoop, who attempts to find the truth behind the then not yet prosecuted war criminal Pieter Menten. In the seventies, the case caused uproar in the media and in the political landscape in The Netherlands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-11-04
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The Moving True Story of a Woman Ahead of Her Time
Overview: Frisian-spoken costume drama about the turbulent marriage between a writer and a socialist politician.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fy
Release Date: 2001-09-05
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Schnitzel Paradise
Overview: Schnitzel Paradise is a Dutch film about a young Moroccan man working in the kitchen of popular Dutch restaurant.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-09-08
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The Cave
Overview: Psychological thriller. Geography teacher smuggles a case of heroin for a friend.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-09-27
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Soof
Overview: Soof is reaching 40 and has everything she ever wanted: three children, a small catering business, a sweet husband Kasper and a lovely home. Until she starts asking herself: 'is this all there is'?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-12-12
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Little Blond Death
Overview: The poet Valentijn Boecke meets his former teacher Mieke. They have a short relation. After a while Mieke appears to be pregnant. Valentijn is through with Mieke and leaves her...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1993-03-11
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Filmpje!
Overview: Bob and Annie separate. After the court case Annie gives Bob two airline tickets for a tropical island to save their relationship. However, Bob takes someone else with him on holiday: Carmen, the daughter of Mafioso Don Gorgonzola. Annie lags behind in Holland, where she falls in love again with other men.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1995-05-06
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Fien
Overview: Four-part musical about the life of Dutch actress Fien de la Mar, chronicling her earliest days on stage with her father, her glory days as a stage and movie star and the building her own theatre, up until the tragic end of her life.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-10-13
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Seeing Through
Overview: Pieter Le Roy is in his thirties and still lives with his old mother. He doesn't work and kills time spying on his fellow man - actually, he's spying on them; he comes to a head when he is caught by a making out couple in the park as a voyeur. His life as a peeping Tom gets in more trouble when teacher Rappange comes to live with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-16
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Monk
Overview: A teenage hypochondriac and his equally peculiar mother, father and adolescent sister set out on a tumultuous road trip from Amsterdam to Spain when a family member falls severely ill.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2017-04-06
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Han de Wit
Overview: Has is a strange kid: at school he's a nice student but at home he's dominating his parents... .
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1990-02-16
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