Gijs Scholten van Aschat
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Doorn, Utrecht, Netherlands
Birthday: September 16, 1959
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Broken Mirrors
Overview: Diane and Dora are two prostitutes who begin to rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile, in another part of town, a murderer is at large.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-09-27
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Loonies
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2002-10-10
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Father's Affair
Overview: Armin is in crisis. One fateful day he discovers he is infertile and has been throughout his life. From this he discovers his first wife, Monika, was unfaithful before she died. How else could she have the child that Armin always thought was his? His paranoia drives him to find the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-12-11
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April, May and June
Overview: To inform each personally about her impending death, Mies summons her three daughters home. The three half-sisters April, May and June, each of whom has a different father, start to question their lives: "Where are we at in life? What do we still have in common? What will happen to our autistic brother Jan?"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-12-19
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De Zwarte Meteoor
Overview: Nederlandse voetbalfilm
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-14
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Evenings
Overview: Frits Egters can't quite get a hold of himself. An intelligent and sensitive young man, repulsion and desillusion turned him cynical. According to Frits there should be more to life - he just doesn't know where to find it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1989-12-08
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Marker Wadden
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-05-30
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Leak
Overview: Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend turned gangster. The childhood friend turns informant. But his revelations are hardly the most important "leaks" in the story. In fact, the new relationship between old friends goes all wrong, and the young policeman becomes increasingly involved in a deadly web of lies, crimes, treason, and revenge, all seemingly out of control.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2000-07-15
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Tirza
Overview: Jörgen's world is crumbling. Forced into early retirement and harassed by his ex-wife, the only part of his life which makes sense - his beloved daughter Tirza - is shattered when she disappears on holiday in Namibia. After weeks of terrifying uncertainty, Jörgen goes searching for her, but the heat, his drinking and bad memories combine to unhinge him. His only ally is a child prostitute called Kaisa. Together they journey into the wilderness on Tirza's trail to discover her fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-09-30
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Manslaughter
Overview: Doodslag (Dutch for "Manslaughter") is the story of Max, a paramedic who is repeatedly hindered in performing his duties by loutish behaviour. As his ambulance hurries towards a complicated childbirth, some youths prevent Max from reaching the distressed woman in labour. Spurred on by the emergency and the incendiary words of a TV pundit, he reaches a boiling point and forcefully hits one of the men obstructing his ambulance. Max's strike has far-reaching, unintended consequences.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-01-12
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Nederland onder water
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-04-02
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The Province
Overview: Frank de Roover returns to the village of his birth, Portland. There he reconnects with his childhood friends Peter and Koos, as well as the girl all three of them fell in love with, Lili.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1991-09-19
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The Three Best Things in Life
Overview: In this melancholic comedy we follow the successful young violinist Sacha as she travels by train from Paris to Amsterdam and three days later when she returns, bereft of many illusions yet purified within.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1992-12-02
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The Gambler
Overview: Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him to complete the novel reality and fiction become blurred; in this feverish atmosphere of excess Dostoyevsky's characters come to life as he struggles to complete his work.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-30
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Met donker thuis
Overview: When the Dutch peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan is nearly over, soldier Diederick dies in the arms of his 21-year-old platoon mate Johnny. Johnny comes home as coffin bearer and after the ceremony at the Eindhoven Airbase, he is being welcomed home in the bar of his parents who treat him as a hero. Johnny undergoes the welcome party passively. He doesn't feel comfortable or at home. The next day he drives with a loaded gift to Aerdenhout. The gift is a DVD containing a movie that Diederick had made for his twin sister's birthday, Fleur. He rings the bell at the ancestral home of Diederick. The loss of Diederick has put the family relations on edge. Because of his gift, Johnny is sucked into the unpredictable family struggling with their pain. Johnny sees it as his duty to help them, but he doesn't know how. To be able to come home, he must first allow himself to experience his own grief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-25
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The Pool
Overview: Two families go camping illegally in a forest, and set up their tents near a beautiful pond, far away from the daily hubbub. However, they soon discover that the pond contains a mysterious force, which will not allow them to leave. Rot and decay strike, and madness follows.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2014-05-01
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Zadelpijn
Overview: Seven socio-economically successful women around the age of fifty come together in France for their annual multi-day bike ride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2007-04-15
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Invasion
Overview: When neighboring country Veragua suddenly attacks Curaçao and Aruba, the Dutch government is taken completely by surprise. The conflict escalates rapidly. Three young Navy recruits must figure out what is the right thing to do.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-04-11
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Sea of Time
Overview: Two former lovers find themselves struggling for shared closure as one of them prepares to stage a play about the unspeakable tragedy that tore them apart decades ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-09-21
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Grutto! De reis van onze nationale vogel
Overview: The stately wader and national bird tells the story of how to survive on its journey around the world on its way to its breeding grounds in the Netherlands.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-07-07
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De Avondboot
Overview: A group of holidaymakers descends on the West Frision Island Vlieland, where each of them is confronted with relational problems. Loneliness, surfacing secrets or a crisis; everyone gets their share.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2007-02-05
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Dummy
Overview: A dark evening. A father drives home with his daughter on the back seat. A head-on collision. A man awakes in a large empty room, where the father appears to want something from him. That night, victim and inflictor reconstruct the biggest mistake of their lives.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-26
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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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Trauma Porn Club
Overview: Nova is an aspiring artist who can’t seem to get her career off the ground. She feels the reason is her lack of life experience. While it may seem like there is no quick fix for a problem like this, the dark fetish app Sano offers just that. With a few taps, users can gain traumatic experiences, including torture.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-01-29
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ITA Live: Kings of War
Overview: In Kings of War, director Ivo van Hove focuses on political leadership. The original texts were retranslated by Rob Klinkenberg and then thoroughly adapted: the Hundred Years' War between England and France, and the Rose Wars between the houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne, which are emphatically present as a historical context in the original pieces, were referred to the background in the adaptation in order to accommodate a varied portrait of successive kings. As leaders in times of political instability and war, they show remarkable affinities with world leaders today.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-01-22
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Piece of My Heart
Overview: In 1970s Amsterdam, two promising young dancers have their friendship put to the test when they are both hired by the same highly demanding and competitive royal ballet company.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-12-01
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Stricken
Overview: Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even fatherhood and a move to the boring country go well, until Carmen gets breast cancer. Now their lives are turned upside-down, maybe wrecked
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2009-11-26
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Babyphoned
Overview: A mother is struggling with her baby monitor.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-09-23
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Housemaid #2
Overview: When 52-year-old Nora plays her supporting role for the umpteenth performance and again undergoes the toxic behaviour of the theatre company and the bullying of the male lead actor, she decides to take matters into her own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-09-25
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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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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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The Letter for the King
Overview: Young Tiuri has to pass the final test before before being knighted by king Dagonaut. He has to pass a night in the chapel, what is suddenly disturbed by a strangers request of help. With his decision to help the stranger, Tiuri abandons his given task and starts into an adventure, that will shape the destiny of Dagonaut. On his journey he learns about the true meaning of love, friendship, courage and loyalty.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-07-16
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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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The Fury
Overview: Albert has always looked up to his aunt Tiny: this beautiful woman from Brabant can make any man’s heart skip a beat. Through Albert’s eyes Tiny’s life seems quite exciting. But why is she so furious at everyone and everything? It takes him half a lifetime to discover that his beloved aunt’s existence is a lot more complex than he had ever thought.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-03-24
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Erwt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1997-07-07
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Alpha.
Overview: After his mother passes away, Rein moves to a small village in the Alps to be immersed in nature, meditate and work as a snowboard teacher. His quiet bubble bursts when his extroverted father Gijs comes to visit. But it isn’t long before Rein has had enough.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2025-02-13
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Schitterend
Overview: 'Schitterend' tells the story of six women in different age phases, who all struggle in their own way with self-image, beauty and expectations from society.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-12-12
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Thirst
Overview: Peter is a young journalist who lives and works in Amsterdam, a city with quite a high density of cafés. Peter has a dynamic personality, perhaps a bit too dynamic for himself and his surroundings. He is unaware of the impact his behavior and drinking habits have on others. This leads to conflicts, even with his loyal girlfriend Nanny and his best friend Harry. Will Peter ultimately choose love and friendship or his addiction?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1988-03-10
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Kill Switch
Overview: A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-01
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Masterclass
Overview: An actor tempts fate when he convinces a legendary, but loose-cannon, theater director out of retirement to give a masterclass at a drama school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-10-12
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War Machine
Overview: A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley McChrystal.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-26
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National Theatre Live: Obsession
Overview: Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Hanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-11
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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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The Conductor
Overview: United States, 1926: Dutch 24-year-old Willy Wolters has immigrated to the American continent with her parents as a child. She dreams of becoming a conductor, but this is an ambition that no one takes seriously. Unbeknownst to her, she'll also become Antonia Brico.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-10-25
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Doris
Overview: On the eve of her forty-fifth birthday Doris Doorenbos (Tjitske Reidinga) ends up like a divorced woman with two children at a dead end.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-09-20
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In Limbo
Overview: Acquitted of a fatal on-duty incident but tormented by its harrowing personal repercussions, a police officer and impending father struggles to piece his uprooted life back together while sent on leave to a holiday resort in Greece.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-09-30
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The Skippers of the Cameleon
Overview: Two young boy twins receive a boat of their own by a stroke of luck. It turns out to be very fast and they use their boat to help out their friends.
Genres: Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-06-25
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Afterlife
Overview: Hiernamaals tells the story of Sam, a hyperintelligent and hardworking 14-year-old girl who leads a happy life with her father and her two brothers in the south of the Netherlands. She is a good student, very strict with herself and she is always on time. She also takes care of her two younger brothers; since her mother Vera died, she’s felt responsible for the family and now she takes care of the household with her father. One morning — rushing to school to help her math teacher print exams — she is struck by a large truck and she dies. In the hereafter she finds her mother waiting for her. It's a strange feeling of both happiness and sadness. She discovers that there is a way back to life, but will she succeed in taking her mother with her?
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-10-17
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The Bay of Silence
Overview: Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of their son's suspected murder, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to another unsolved crime.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-20
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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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Journey Through the Night
Overview: A man is travelling on a long haul express train journey from Amsterdam to Paris. He shares his sleeper compartment with another man who he engages in conversation. He learns that the man is a cannibal who intends to kill and eat him. The man is unsure of where his life is going and begins to be swayed by the cannibal's assertions that being eaten would give his life meaning and purpose. However, how long can the man stall for, with questions on the finer points of eating someone?
Genres: Drama Horror Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Skippers of the Cameleon 2
Overview: The twinbrothers Sietse and Hielke Klinkhamer want to raise money for their ill friend, Marieke.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-06-29
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Nocturne
Overview: On the very eve of shooting his debut film, a harried young director struggles to balance fiction and reality as he spends one fever dream of a night searching for the inspiration that eludes him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-05-09
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The Shining Armour
Overview: After losing sight of each other for 25 years, the paths of three childhood friends cross paths. It concerns successful conductor Victor Slingeland, successful writer Sander Vastenhout and general practitioner Bert Duprez. Slingeland enjoys a reputation as a womanizer. This intrigues Vastenhout who, as is often the case with authors, is without inspiration. Vastenhout sees the unraveling of Slingeland's complex personality as possible new material for a novel. With the help of Dr. Duprez, Vastenhout tries to find out about Slingeland's secret by imitating his behavior and thus challenging him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1998-10-23
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Roman Tragedies
Overview: In Roman tragedies, Ivo van Hove and Jan Versweyveld have created a unique arena in which Shakespeare speaks about our time more than ever and the political game in all its facets.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-02-14
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XTC Just Don't Do It
Overview: Melissa is a 15-year-old girl who loves to dance. Her parents think she is taking classes in classical ballet, but once at the dance school she devotes herself to the hip-hop dance classes. Melissa is good friends with Jordi and he is very happy for Melissa when she is asked to dance in the music video of the famous rapper Brainpower. But because of bad influences, her life becomes a nightmare. Until her real friends decide to get her out of there.
Genres: Family Drama Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-10-04
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Belle van Zuylen - Madame de Charrière
Overview: A biography of Isabelle de Charrière and her friendship with Benjamin Constant.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1993-09-16
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Jack (A Journey to Fulfillment)
Overview: As the everlasting renovation of his house spirals out of control, an angst-ridden fifty-something man struggles to keep his grip on reality and all he holds dear.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2015-06-30
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Shiny New World
Overview: Fifty-year-old Barry is a special kind of cleaner: he cleans crime scenes where demons have wreaked havoc. While making a corporate film about his work, a normal working day for Barry gets out of hand in a bloody way.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-08-19
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Ome Cor
Overview: A down-on-his-luck Rotterdam dock worker struggles to get his financials and family life back on track.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-12-13
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