Jappe Claes
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Jappe Claes is a Flemish actor, mostly active in the Netherlands. Claes was associated with De Trust and de Theatercompagnie from 1996 to 2009. From 2003 to 2014 he was artistic director and teacher of the directing course of the Amsterdam School of the Arts. From 2011 to 2017 he was one of the regular actors of Het Nationale Toneel.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 22, 1952
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Gender: Male
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Dossier K.
Overview: Vincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2009-12-09
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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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The Verdict
Overview: When his wife's murderer is released due to a procedural error, Luc will do everything in his power to stop it from happening... He is going to take justice into his own hands and will then compete with the constitutional state which let him down.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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She Good Fighter
Overview: Dennis Davids is a young, talented and idealistic lawyer in Antwerp, who takes every case at heart, even the pro-deo clients the court assigns for a meager fee. Needless to say he really goes the extra mile, risking his life and his career as his own private detective, in the case of Sandra Van Rompaey, a female kick-boxer who also proves herself as his lover, but is a miserable client, repeatedly violating her probation terms as well as the law.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1995-12-31
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Storm in mijn hoofd
Overview: The actor Lucas Bron performs the play King Lear by William Shakespeare for the pupils of his son Patja. After the show, Patja has already got home when he is warned that his father's house is on fire. He rushes to the fateful spot. The fire brigade has already arrived and is unable to say whether his father is still in the house. Patja desperately runs into the burning house and finds his father unconscious on the kitchen floor. But Lucas' spirit is in the theatre. In a magic train of thought, just before he dies, Lucas directs and acts, assisted by his son, high points and low from his eventful life in the theatre, but also outside. Theatre and reality become intertwined. It slowly becomes clear that Lucas still has something to tell his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-03-12
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Priest Daens
Overview: In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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Blueberry Hill
Overview: Antwerp in the fifties. Robin de Hert grew up in a Catholic parochial environment; on the one hand there is his authoritarian father and the sadistic secretary of the Catholic boys technical school, on the other hand there are the 'Grieten' and the French teacher with whom Robin is getting a good band through a secret they share. If the secretary finds out about this secret, this has major implications for both the teacher and the students ...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1989-03-16
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Messias
Overview: How a desperate bishop, an Islamic brass polisher and a gang of Vatican cardinals want to use the Messiah, who has just returned, to save themselves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-25
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The Memory of a Killer
Overview: Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. Since Ledda starts showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, it's getting more and more difficult to complete his contracts. When he has to murder a 12-year old call-girl, he refuses and becomes a target himself. While Vincke and Verstuyft are chasing him and counting the corpses, Ledda is taking care of his employers.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-10-15
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Cheese
Overview: Frans Laarmans temporarily abandons his job as an office worker to become a salesman for a big cheese company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Marina
Overview: The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-11-06
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Crazy About Ya
Overview: In Crazy About Ya, different characters meet. Sometimes their stories are closely interwoven, sometimes they just brush past each other. But sooner or later everyone runs into the hero of this story, Saint Jan. As a true sanctus ex machina he makes sure that in the end, they are all a bit crazier about each other again.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-10-20
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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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Dief!
Overview: This is the real story of Frans Van Reeth, a small time crook who spent most of his life in jail. In an hour and a half we learn all about the love of his life, his inmates, his adventures in and out of prison and the way he ends up.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1998-02-02
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