Maria Peters

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Maria Peters

Born March 30, 1958 · Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles (age 68)

Maria Peters is a Dutch film director and screenwriter and one of the founders of Shooting Star Filmcompany, along with her husband Dave Schram.

Known For

PreyPrey · 2016
Prey
★ 5.62016
MovieHorrorThriller
A zoo veterinarian gets caught up in a grisly adventure as she finds herself leading the city-wide hunt for a monstrous lion terrorizing the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.
The ConductorThe Conductor · 2018
The Conductor
★ 7.62018
MovieDramaHistory
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.
Sonny BoySonny Boy · 2011
Sonny Boy
★ 6.52011
MovieDramaRomance
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.
De nietsnutDe nietsnut · 1994
De nietsnut
★ 9.01994
MovieDramaTV Movie
For all his life Frank Goudvis has tried not to follow in the footsteps of his father. When his father is mysteriously murdered, Frank loses his alibi for his cherished passivity and decides to travel to the crime scene.
Enough!Enough! · 2016
Enough!
★ 6.72016
MovieDrama
When a boy is framed after an act of senseless violence by his friends, they turn against him for trying to tell the truth.
Brylcream BoulevardBrylcream Boulevard · 1995
Brylcream Boulevard
★ 9.01995
MovieDramaComedy
In this sequel to Blueberry Hill, the boys of the Catholic metal working-class, who are now all working, decide to take revenge on the hated former principal Verbiest, after the sanctimonious 'pillar of society' assaulted one of their girls.
Kapitein Rob en het Geheim van Professor LupardiKapitein Rob en het Geheim van Professor Lupardi · 2007
Kapitein Rob en het Geheim van Professor Lupardi
★ 5.72007
MovieAdventureDrama
Professor Lupardi developed a weather machine with which he can change the climate and destroy the world. Can Captain Rob stop him?
TransitTransit · 1992
Transit
★ 9.01992
MovieDrama
Four illegal Brazilian musicians come to try their luck in dynamic Amsterdam... It will be a survival of the fittest.

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Little CrumbLittle Crumb · 1999
Little Crumb
★ 6.31999
MovieDramaFamily
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.

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