Rifka Lodeizen
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Birthday: October 16, 1972
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Rent-a-Friend
Overview: Cheated on by his successful girlfriend for lacking ambition and business-mindedness, an artist sets out to get rich quick by starting a one-man company as a friend for hire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2000-02-03
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Stromboli
Overview: Haunted by memories of her broken marriage and a fight with her daughter, a woman joins an intense self-help retreat when her vacation goes awry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-11-03
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Can Go Through Skin
Overview: A brutal assault changes Marieke's life. She leaves her familiar city rhythms for the solitude of a isolated house in the countryside. Her irrational fears on the frozen farm are a constant struggle. As spring's orchestra begins, her curiosity for new things that cover the cold rot of winter pull her out of the suffocating interior of her mind. Slowly she accepts the help of John, her neighbour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2009-01-29
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Flirt
Overview: This movie is about a group of young people struggling with what 'true love' means. Main character is a boy who doesn't want to commit himself to one woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-17
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Simon
Overview: A mild-mannered gay dentist and a womanizing bar owner rekindle their unlikely friendship when, upon meeting by chance after a decade apart, the latter turns out to be severely ill.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2004-09-30
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Escort
Overview: An escort girl gets the opportunity to inherit 6 million euros from a wealthy old and sick man by marrying him. Unfortunately things don't always go as planned.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-05-27
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Under the Naked Sky
Overview: Elvie is an inquisitive young girl, who lives in a caravan with her intellectually disabled mother – a loving but naive woman who has difficulty understanding others. During one long summer Elvie’s life is about to change forever. Growing more mature, she starts to see and understand the world in a way her mother is incapable of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2023-09-21
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The Nobel Prize Winner
Overview: Joachim West is so unsuccessful as a writer that in order to escape his financial trouble, he stages his own disappearance. But only after sending his magnum opus--on which he had worked for the past 10 years--to his publisher. Assuming him dead, she sees the masterpiece as the perfect answer to a predicament: her star author, Fabian Remarque, is struck by writer's block. So she decides to publish Joachim's manuscript under Fabian's name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-06-14
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Babylon
Overview: 5 Stories about love in Amsterdam (the Jordaan)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1998-10-15
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Plan C
Overview: Ronald Plasmeyer (Ruben Van Der Meer) is a small-time Amsterdam detective, struggling with financial problems because of his gambling habit. When the Chinese crime boss Hao threatens Ronald's ex-wife and son to get his money back, Ronald comes up with a plan that will solve all his problems. Ronald enlists two petty criminals (Ton Kas and René Van 't Hof) to rob an illegal poker tournament he's taking part in, providing him with a perfect alibi. Quick, simple and non-violent; the plan is foolproof... until people start getting killed. Soon, Ronald's partners take off with the money, leaving him empty handed. To make matters worse Ronald's colleagues in the police force begin to suspect him of the robbery, setting the stage for a nerve-racking game of cat and mouse. Ronald is all-in... holding the worst hand of his life.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-03-01
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Hemel
Overview: Divided into chapters, the film first chronicles Hemel's many sexual conquests, but then takes on a different tone as it explores her complicated relationship with her father, Gijs. A dapper auctioneer, Gijs has dated a series of younger women since Hemel's mother's death. But when Gijs starts seeing the charming Sophie, for the first time Hemel feels that her special relationship with her father is threatened...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-01-29
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Tony 10
Overview: A family film which tells the unlikely and timeless story of almost ten year old Tony, whose father rises from being a crane driver to Secretary of State. As a result his parents get divorced and Tony does everything he can to bring them back together. He even calls in the help of the queen.
Genres: Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-02-14
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Among Us
Overview: Polish Ewa works as an Au-pair in a small town in Holland. A sensitive girl, she finds it difficult to live up to her host-parents' clichéd expectations. When a rape takes place in town, Ewa believes to suspect the rapist. Having no one to share this knowledge with, it furthers her alienation from the people around her, resulting in her being send back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2011-11-10
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Nadine
Overview: A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and extreme actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2007-10-25
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At Sea
Overview: Edo (42) has been on a solo sailing trip lasting two months. His daughter Maria (8) spends the last 48 hours of the trip, the crossing from Denmark to Harlingen, on board. But then the weather breaks. When Edo battles against the rough sea to save his daughter's life it turns out that he is actually involved in an altogether different fight.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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Heart Street
Overview: Hartenstraat is set in the Nine Streets district of Amsterdam. It is a village in a big town and everyone seems to be looking for love. As the womanizer Bas, seniors Bep and Aart and the couple Rein and Jacob. The only one who is not looking for love is Daan. He lives here with his daughter Saar in Hartenstraat, where he has his own business as a caterer. Then Katje appears in his life. The pretty fashion designer opens a fashion boutique next door to Daan. When her catering unexpectedly cancels just before opening her shop Katje must appeal to Daan. That is asking for trouble since the two opposite each other in everything. Yet Katje also secretly has an eye on her neighbor, especially now that her current relationship with Thomas is not going strong.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2014-03-13
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Taxi 656
Overview: Plasterer Cor has been an introvert all his life. When he is retrained to become a taxi driver, he is forced to crawl out of his shell, but it also put his marriage under a lot of stress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-09-27
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Mama
Overview: How a young family deals with the loss of their mom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-26
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Life is Beautiful
Overview: Erasmus compiled a few thousand Adagia, each exemplifies the classical truths that are our timeless and everyday wisdom. Life is Beautiful shows us just how wondrous life really is, by reflecting, quietly manipulating and exposing every day moments and scenes in 30 short stories.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-01
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Mag ik je aanraken?
Overview: How do Dutch actors in the post-#MeToo era look back at intimate scenes and what do they think about the arrival of the intimacy coordinator? From her experience as an actress and filmmaker, Tamar van den Dop talks to several past and present icons.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2023-09-25
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Bastards and Bridesmaids
Overview: A story about a bunch of 20-somethings in Amsterdam and their love-life, as told from 2 perspectives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1997-04-03
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The 18.10 Train
Overview: Onno (30) applies for a dream job as curator in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. He makes it through to the last round with the arrogant yuppie Alex. The younger and self-assured Alex seems to have a better chance of getting the job and Onno will not tolerate that. A few days before the last interview, he kidnaps his opponent and locks him up in a remote cottage that his girlfriend has just inherited near a railway line. As soon as he gets the job, he releases his victim. Three years later - Onno now lives together and has a son - he is a successful curator at the Rijksmuseum and needs an assistant. While interviewing applicants, he is confronted with Alex, now blind in one eye.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1999-05-05
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Based on the Novel
Overview: The movie stars you see on the screen have once been selected amongst others. The glamor of the premiere is preceded by mug shots, selections, interviews, wining, dining, backstabbing and sex. In the end, everyone gets what they deserve.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1999-05-12
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Tiramisu
Overview: Bookkeeper Jacob newest client is the talented and flamboyant actress Anne. They first meet each other on her houseboat, the morning after the premiere of Anne's new theatrical play. Anne has made a mess of her personal finances and she has a lot of debt. So much so that she may even have to sell her houseboat. Jacob does what he can to help her.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-03-06
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P
Overview: When a Dutch family drives back home from a holiday in Germany and stops at a rest area, it is already clear this is probably their last trip together. But then a marital crisis, the heat, restless hormones and suppressed frustrations unexpectedly interlock.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2014-09-29
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Back and Forth Day
Overview: The sun is shining, but it is not a cheerful day. Eight-year-old Linus sees it all happen. Mummy comes home with her nasty new friend to take away her stuff. Papa is sulking in the garden, while the neighbour peeps over the hedge. Even a pizza is no fun anymore. For a very short while, the familiar feeling of yesteryear is accidentally back, and then it is over. Big tragedy, captured in small details.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-09-28
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Stop!
Overview: Just your ordinary video store around the corner: A woman enters, grabs a videotape and goes to the counter. She pulls a gun and asks for money. "Quick, quick, quick!" The cashier looks anxious and hands over the money. But just when she turns around to walk away, the cashier pulls a shotgun and fires. Is it for real? Apparently not, because someone shouts: Stop! and we suddenly find ourselves on a film set. The director seems to disagree however with the decision to stop shooting. She reflects on the situation. Then, just few moments later, the director is lying in bed. Was the film set real? Was it fiction?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-09-28
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Bite
Overview: A family is on summer vacation. Their adolescent son is a mixture of bored and horny. A yellow jacket wasp joins them in their car and then at their vacation campsite. A sultry young woman is doing laundry outdoors just as a brief, torrential downpour occurs and the wasp allows her to reveal, much to the young man's delight, her special knowledge of how to deal with insect bites.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-09-28
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Mercedes
Overview: Short film based on a short story by Jaap Scholten, in which a pregnancy does not last for nine months, but nine hours. A man and a woman meet each other at a party and decide to proceed to conceive a child. In the nine hours that follow, they pass through all stages of pregnancy, up to and including the childbirth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-09-23
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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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Olivetti 82
Overview: A man with bloody hands is arrested as prime suspect in a murder case. He does not understand why and refuses to cooperate. Bernard Van de Wiele, the suspect, is a writer. One of the police inspectors comes up with the idea to give him a typewriter: an Olivetti 82. The interrogators hope that this way he will agree to share his story. Bernard begins his memoir: a long search for love and protection. Little by little the truth comes to light.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-08-20
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History's Future
Overview: Losing his memory after a mugging, a man known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey - in search not only for his memory but perhaps also for a new identity. MP finds himself confronted by a world in which there are no longer any certainties; an era of crisis on many levels. On his travels from country to country, portrayed via an associative image montage and through a series of strange, illuminating, sometimes comic encounters, MP attempts to gain insight into the complexity of life in the 21st-century West - into what commentators have called an age of 'rolling catastrophe'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-28
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Tonio
Overview: After 21-year-old student Tonio dies in a traffic accident, his novelist parents face sorrow and regret as they suffer the agony of losing their only child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-10-13
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The Fourteenth Chick
Overview: As a young couple find themselves lost in Amsterdam en route to their own engagement dinner, tensions arise at the restaurant where their friends and family are left waiting for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Disappearance
Overview: Set in the remote winter landscape of Norway, Roos visits her mother there yearly, but this time it’s different: she brings bad news. However, old pain and numerous reproaches keep Roos from sharing anything with her mother. Aided by her half-brother and her old flame, the two women reconcile and Roos is able to make her next and inescapable step.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2017-03-02
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Life according to Nino
Overview: Life is good for Nino van Doorn (8). He has a terrific brother Lucas (14), wise father Bruno and an angel of a mother, Marla. When Marla dies, Bruno can't cope with her death. Also the values like order, responsibility, love and care they represented. The two brothers create their own world. But soon the anarchistic world is threatened by the outside world. The two brothers are prepared to fool the system but what happens is that they really become a family again.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2014-10-15
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The Milky Way
Overview: Girl meets boy in deserted planetarium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-14
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Boys
Overview: Two teen track stars discover first love as they train for the biggest relay race of their young lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2014-01-08
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Waiting Room
Overview: Sophie is on a rollercoaster of emotions while she awaits her hospital’s research results. The outcome will tell if the cancer has spread or not. During these uncertain times, Sophie realizes she loves life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2017-09-26
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Messi and Maud
Overview: Maud and Frank are on holiday in Chile. Their relationship is fragile and so is Maud. After many years of trying, it is now time to face the fact that they will never have children. However, Maud is in denial. After a huge fight with Frank she runs off and sets out on a road trip through Chile to get her life back on track.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-04-26
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Lena
Overview: Lena is a lonely, plump adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love. More than a lot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2011-10-12
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Peitruss
Overview: Since she’s started a passionate new relationship with the handsome and mysterious Joakim, life is smiling back at Lara again. Her marriage to detective Toni is but a distant memory. But when he accuses Joakim of having committed a series of unsolved murders in Luxembourg City’s Peitruss Valley, Lara’s world is thrown upside down. While trying to prove his innocence, she starts to wonder how well she really knows the one she loves.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-23
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We Will Never Be Royals
Overview: Abandoned by their parents, two teenage siblings navigate life in youth care.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2015-09-27
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After the Tone
Overview: How do you deal with the fact that someone close to heart has suddenly disappeared without a trace? Can you go on living whilst waiting for his return?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2014-02-27
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Taking Chances
Overview: Kiek is worried as her father works in a war zone. To lengthen the odds of her father getting hurt, she comes up with a strange and unique idea: she needs a dead dog and a dead mouse, because Kiek doesn't know one person who has a dead mouse, a dead dog and a dead father. Surely the odds against that are enormous?
Genres: Drama Family War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2011-10-12
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Villa Des Roses
Overview: In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she must choose between her son and her new romance.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2002-02-27
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Taxandria
Overview: Partly improvised dramatic thriller involving death, madness, love and sickness. Four actors, two actresses, one location. Three brothers, one sister plus husband and one nurse. Grandma is dead. The family is getting together to prepare the funeral and the heritage, but father doesn't show up. It seems everybody has its own reason to be present.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-09-27
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Everyone Belongs to the World
Overview: 13-year-old Arianne is terminally ill. Her best friend Zahra, a refugee from Afghanistan, is about to be deported. Arianne writes to the government minister: ‘I’m dying. Could Zahra stay in Holland instead of me when I’m gone?’ Inspired by a true story.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2025-02-12
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Neshoma
Overview: Neshoma is the Yiddish-Hebrew word for soul or spirit. In Sandra Beerends’ new film, this refers to the soul of pre-war Jewish Amsterdam.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2025-01-02
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