René Groothof
Also Known As: not available
Biography: René Groothof is a Dutch actor. He is the brother of fellow actor Frank Groothof.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
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Hello Fellow Man
Overview: TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'Het Werkteater'. Three ladies of high society invite homeless people, homeless people and junks to spend a pleasant evening with them, in order to promote communication and integration.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1980-01-04
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Het Werkteater 1970-1985
Overview: Documentary about the Dutch theatregroup the Werktheater. The aim of the company was to create socially relevant theater by means of cooperative processes and improvisation. They often played their performances on location, such as in hospitals, prisons, healthcare institutions and schools. In this documentary, those involved are interviewed about this remarkable theater group.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1997-09-08
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Bosch en Lucht
Overview: Video registration of the German version of the performance 'Bosch en Lucht' by the Dutch theatre group 'het Werkteater'. 'Bosch en Lucht' was a performance about mentally handicapped children.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-07-19
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The Hes Case
Overview: Hes, an uptight and disaffected social worker reaching retirement, discovers a young woman, Anna, in the closet of an acquaintance who has committed suicide. Realizing that she has been kept in the apartment all her life, he moves in and helps her comes to terms with the complexities of the real world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1982-09-23
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The Resurrection of a Bastard
Overview: A criminal from Amsterdam barely surviving a liquidation. An old Frisian farmer bent on revenge. An illegal immigrant with uncertain prospects. Eventually, they meet under an ancient oak tree. Beyond the last town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-02-20
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Alex in Amsterdam
Overview: The somewhat naïve teenager Alex Meulenaers leaves his hometown, to go study economics in Amsterdam. He is the first of his family to leave Limburg. However, faith has something else in store for him. The movie shows us how Alex sees Amsterdam: sometimes threathening, sometimes absurd and always with wonder.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-26
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A Hot Summer Night
Overview: A husband, half of an entertainment duo, the Nellicos, tells his wife, who is the other half of the duo, that he has another woman. But they cannot discuss this as he tells her only just before they are due to perform in front of a large audience. (BFI)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1982-03-11
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Hallo Bungalow
Overview: A comedy about three woman working at a boring holiday resort and their criminal employer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2015-12-03
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Hotel de Grote L
Overview: Kos (13) is going through the most bizarre period in his life. His mother died a few years ago and his dad is having a heart attack. While Kos’ father is in the hospital, it looks like the hotel he is running will be a big mess. But Kos and his three sisters do not intend to let that happen. After the siblings find out that father is deep in financial problems, the hotel is threatened with closure. The children however come up with a solution: someone has to win the local beauty pageant, with a hefty cash prize attached.
Genres: Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2017-04-19
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Craving
Overview: Coco has no idea what to do with her life until she discovers her mother is terminally ill. She wholeheartedly embraces this new purpose in life and moves in with her mother to take care of her, ignoring their distant relationship, as well as her mother's desire to die alone.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-03-15
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The Flying Dutchman
Overview: Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1995-05-11
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Theo en Thea en de ontmaskering van het tenenkaasimperium
Overview: Theo and Thea want to make a movie of Snow White, but Gerard Joling, who should play prince, cries off. Someone suggests to ask opera singer Marco Bakker. First he doesn't want to, but when Theo and Thea dress up like jazz singers Bea and Ans, he decides to join in. Marco even falls in love with the dressed-up Theo. Written by Clausule
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1989-12-13
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Gebroed
Overview: Television recording of the theatre play 'Gebroed' by the Werkteater from 1983. The play, written and performed by Frank and René Groothof, is about their childhood together, their relationship to each other and to their parents, their conflicts, but also their shared love for theater and music.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Dying to Go Home
Overview: A Portuguese imigrant in Holland dies in an accident and is buried in Amsterdam. But his soul will not rest in peace until his body is carried back to Portugal.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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Fidgety Bram
Overview: Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up in the class of the strict teacher Mr. Fish. The straightfoward Mr. Fish doesn’t care about the inside world of the constantly moving around and unconcentrated little boy and does whatever it takes to make Bram do things the ‘right’ way.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-06-27
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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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