Jaap Spijkers
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Jaap Spijkers is a Dutch actor know for his work in stage, television and film productions.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Birthday: February 11, 1958
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Gender: Male
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De Zitting
Overview: A popular prime minister candidate and a well-known thriller book writer face each other in court after she accuses him of sexual abuse just before the election.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-10-09
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Sonny Boy
Overview: Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika already has four children with another man. They love each other, but then Rika appears to be pregnant.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2011-01-27
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The Dress
Overview: The story of a summer dress and those who have to do with it, especially the train conductor (played by van Warmerdam, the director). The dress functions as catalyst for the whimsical events, which turns out to be either tragic or hilarious.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1996-03-21
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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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All You Need Is Love
Overview: When popular TV show host Dr. Love goes missing ahead of the annual Christmas special, a zany search for his replacement and holiday romance ensues.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-12-06
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Twin Sisters
Overview: 1920s Germany. Two sisters aged six years, no sooner see their remaining parent buried when they are torn apart. Lotte goes to live with her upper middle class Dutch aunt in Holland, Anna to work as a farm hand on her German uncle's rural farm. The World War II impacts each of their lives and finally in old age they meet again.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2002-12-12
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Little Crumb
Overview: The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb. His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien filled with shame was forced to turn him over to Mrs. Koster soon after he was born. Foster mother Mrs. Koster, who has cared for him since he was a baby, is very poor too, unable to support him by herself and proves to be a cruel taskmaster who insists Crumb bring her money before shell feed him. Somehow he must earn his keep out on the streets and can only go home after he has earned enough money. Crumb becomes an urchin stealing from the streets barrows and the shops to stay alive, sleeping in churches or huddled in doorways. Sometimes he has to run off from the police and he has earned the enmity of the most grownups around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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The Gang of Oss
Overview: Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town of Oss in the 1930s. The harder she tries, the more she is involved.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2011-09-29
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Bluebird
Overview: Merel is a young girl with a lot of talent. She excels at school, is good on the springboard and is careful too. Her severely handicapped brother Kasper gets a lot of attention. Merel also has talent for singing. It is no surprise that she is asked for the school musical. But maybe Merel is a bit too convinced of herself. When people perform solos, she likes to sing along loudly. This doesn't fall on good ground though. People start ignoring her and she is getting bullied. All of the sudden Merel's life isn't that easy anymore, it will be hard to keep herself together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2004-04-10
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Island Guests
Overview: "If only these walls could speak and tell us their stories" Based on the same name novel by Vonne van der Meer, the movie is set on the Dutch island Vlieland, telling the diverse stories of the people visiting cottage Duinroos (Dune rose) over the course of the summer. Against the background of the idyllic nature, the individual stories of the guests develop as their relational perils and personal moments of love, desire, loss and trust show the world as it is. Without knowing, and almost imperceptibly, the visitors' lives intertwine and join into one story.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-10-04
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Taartman
Overview: Pastry chef Ben van Bommel runs a hitherto successful bakery, but lately run into trouble with the tax service. In order to save his business, he succumbs to criminal temptation. So he's persuaded to bake a cake with a valuable 'secret ingredient': smuggled drugs. Nobody could have foreseen the wide ramifications, such as who ends up saving Ben's bacon.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2009-04-12
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Kenau
Overview: While she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter, because her fear and pain are covered by her stubborn closeness.
Genres: Adventure Action History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2014-03-06
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Punk Lawyer
Overview: A young Amsterdam lawyer seems to be doing well, but occasionally he is overwhelmed by an unstoppable need for booze. During one of his delirious episodes, he witnesses the death of a squatter at a police station. Worried about his career, he hesitates to speak out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1996-05-09
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The Purse Snatcher
Overview: Alex is very close to his elderly grandmother partly because his busy parents seem to have little or no time for him. One day he surprises two boys from his school leaving her house and is shocked to find her tied up inside – they have robbed her! Alex is sworn to secrecy as his gran is worried that her daughter will think her incompetent. This secret leads Alex into trouble as the two boys accost him in the street and bully him into becoming a pickpocket ("tasjesdief") for them, mugging old ladies. Alex learns how to deal with this situation in the end.
Genres: Drama Family Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1995-04-06
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The Polish Bride
Overview: Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1998-05-26
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Pink Moon
Overview: A young woman struggles to cope with her elderly father's out-of-the-blue announcement he considers his life complete and will end it by his next birthday.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Wijster
Overview: On 2 December 1975, a journalist is one of many passengers on the slow train that is kidnapped near Wijster by young South Moluccans. After some terrifying moments, he makes contact with the hijackers and starts acting as their go-between. Meanwhile, his wife and daughter, as well as his mistress keep themselves abreast of things through the media. The train hijacking lasts for twelve days and claims a few lives.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-04
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The Happy Housewife
Overview: Lea is an immaculate 30-something wife whose husband’s job in real estate allows her an enviably glossy lifestyle. The word ‘emancipation’ simply isn't in her vocabulary and as long as the money rolls in, all is rosy. So, when Harry Jr. arrives, she is a little traumatized at having to swap canapés for nappies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-04-15
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Ten to Two
Overview: The lessons of a driving instructor are filmed in documentary style from the back seat of the training car. The rear-view mirrors reflect the faces of the people in the front very well. The instructor is never complimentary to his pupils and always makes the same nasty jokes. The camera keeps close to the dour man. But when at the end of the day he knocks down a boy, his frame of mind is turned topsy-turvy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-09-29
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The Marathon
Overview: Four out-of-shape car mechanics decide to participate in the Rotterdam marathon. If they reach the finish in time, they will be able to pay off their debt — if they don't, they will lose their garage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-10-18
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New Kids Turbo
Overview: Five friends from 'Maaskantje' are getting fired because of the economic crisis. They decide that they won't pay for anything anymore.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-12-09
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1,000 Roses
Overview: In a small, unnamed European town the entire population depends upon the local, ailing factory. When American investors arrive, prosperity fever infects the residents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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Cloaca
Overview: Four old college friends in their forties come together in a time of trouble and despair. Old joy relives, but the harsh reality of their problems can't satisfy them and eventually endangers their friendships.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-10-23
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With Great Joy
Overview: By accident, Luc discovers the whereabouts of his brother Ad, who mysteriously disappeared fifteen years before. As it turns out, he is living with Els, secluded from the rest of the world, on a farm. Luc decides to stay a few days, even though he and his wife Mieke are not welcome at first. After a while, Mieke heads home. Also, Luc hears strange sounds coming from a barn at the farm. He decides to investigate the matter. He discovers a secret that Ad and Els have been hiding for years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-02-08
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Saint
Overview: A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-10-31
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Vigour
Overview: A frustrated artist from the city is seeking solace with a recently widowed farmer. To get closer to the farmer, she does her utmost to approximate his departed wife. But her fertile imagination leads her to go too far.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1990-09-21
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The Price of Sugar
Overview: A story about two half-sisters life in the eighteenth century Suriname. There is Lynda, a white colonial and slave owner, and her slave Mini-Mini's. While Lynda is slowly embittered by the hard life in the colony, Mini-Mini gets a chance at her own happiness. The question is, if she dares to seize that chance, as this happiness is at the expense of her mistress and half sister?
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-09-26
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The Resistance Banker
Overview: In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-03-08
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The Dark House
Overview: A woman tries to escape a stalker by moving with her children to her sister's isolated beach house
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-29
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Speakers of the Truth
Overview: Algerian journalist Sahafi is faced with a dilemma. If he returns to Algeria, he's almost certain to be assassinated. If he takes political asylum in the Netherlands, he is treated like a pariah.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-06
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Night Run
Overview: Dennis is a taxi driver trying to start out his own company. One day, he gets the opportunity to buy a scarce and expensive but lucrative license.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-10-12
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Stille Nacht
Overview: After two years of several rapes of female students a group of four girls decide to investigate the crimes by themselves and they prepare a list of possible rapists, leading the group to a tragic consequence.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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L'amant de Maman
Overview: Emma, an African woman, falls in love with Andrew, a white male. She loves him so much that she decides to abandon her husband and their two children... Seven years later, one of her sons recognizes his mother on the streets of Rotterdam. She recognizes him too and she thinks back to the last week before she left her husband and children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Daylight
Overview: Young lawyer Iris discovers that she has an older, autistic half-brother Ray, who is in prison for the atrocious murder of his neighbour and her five-year-old daughter. When she meets Ray he reminds her a lot of her own son Aron, who also is autistic, and she starts to believe that he is innocent.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-04-10
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All Against All
Overview: This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings that radicalise. It shows how fascism was on the rise even a decade before the founding of the NSB, due to a number of anti-democratic initiatives led by a millionaire with a predilection for one-legged women, a market vendor, a cleric, and an artist. Historians, writers and collectors of fascist curios reveal how an initially marginal and fragmented movement grew into a radical populist party.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-11-21
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Close Distance
Overview: The night-time reconstruction of a fatal traffic accident is just another job that the police has to do. “We’re going to take steps tonight.” But what steps does Gerard have to take? He is the one who has lost his lifetime partner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-09-27
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Character
Overview: In pre-WWII Holland, the penniless, illegitimate son of a powerful bailiff sets out to become a lawyer as he spends a lifetime struggling to prove his worth to his relentlessly spiteful father.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1997-04-17
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Zus & Zo
Overview: In this Oscar-nominated comedy, three wacky sisters try to save their inheritance from their supposedly gay brother, who suddenly appears with a fiancé in tow. If he gets married, their father's will stipulates that he gets the family hotel in Portugal. So the sisters put aside their personal differences and set out to stop the wedding at all costs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2002-05-08
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A Thousand Kisses
Overview: Rising, rather autobiographical novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's suffering an incurable decease in which she suffers from paraplegia. Her inevitably ensuing death is brought forward with euthanasia. Giph is struggling to handle the situation with his mother. Shortly after his mother has passed he away, he decides to join his fun loving friends on La Palma for a holiday. There Samarinde tells her boyfriend she's expecting his baby
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-03-09
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The Marathon
Overview: Four out-of-shape car mechanics decide to participate in the Rotterdam marathon. If they reach the finish in time, they will be able to pay off their debt — if they don't, they will lose their garage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-10-18
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Grimm
Overview: One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out of work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle is dead. Marie meets Diego, a wealthy charming Spanish surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his sick, domineering sister, Teresa. To Jacob's astonishment, Marie wants to marry Diego. Even after the wedding has taken place, jealous Jacob tries to get his sister away from Diego. When this doesn't succeed, Jacob starts to provoke his brother-in-law. It soon transpires that no one will go unpunished for this.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-10-08
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Baantjer - de Cock en de moord op de middenstip
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-09-19
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Jackie
Overview: Two Dutch twin sisters travel to the United States, looking for their long-lost mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-05-10
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Jackie & Oopjen
Overview: 12-year-old Jackie has made Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, where her mom works, her second home. While wandering around after hours, Oopjen from Rembrandt's famous painting suddenly comes to life. It seems she is looking for her long lost sister. Jackie is used to solving other people's problems and decides to take Oopjen home, so they can go look for her sister. For the woman from the Golden Age, this modern world, its customs and appliances are a great adventure. And Jackie, who doesn't really have any friends at school, finally gains a true BFF.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2020-10-14
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Your Mother Should Know
Overview: A young photographer moves back in with his mother and has to adjust to his old hometown. Things get more challenging when she appoints him as her dating coach in order to spend more time together.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-04-26
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The East
Overview: A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad.
Genres: War Drama Thriller History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-08-13
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De zaak Shell
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2020-10-29
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Goudappels
Overview: All parents, children and grandparents of ‘Oogappels’ end the year in style in the New Year’s Eve special ‘Goudappels’. Everyone is preparing for a festive evening. Although New Year’s Eve also makes some people a bit despondent. They all experience the midnight hour in their own way. Time to get everything together and make some New Year’s resolutions. What has the past year brought? And what does the coming year have in store? Will New Year’s Eve go as expected for everyone?
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-12-26
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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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