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Nicole van Kilsdonk

Born December 13, 1965 · Velsen, The Netherlands (age 60)

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Happy PalaceHappy Palace · 2024
Happy Palace
★ 4.52024
MovieDramaComedy
After restaurant owner Chang dies, the whole town of Obdam is in deep mourning for 'their Chinese'. The always loyal Yung Ling (34) is forced to keep the struggling Chinese Indian restaurant Happy Palace running with her brother Lok Man (32), an artist and the most eccentric of the family. Unresolved feelings are getting in the way of cooperation, but their pragmatic mother Suk Wai (56) sees an opportunity to unite the shattered family.
JohanJohan · 2005
Johan
★ 5.42005
MovieDramaRomance
Johan Dros is born as eleventh consecutive son of soccer-obsessed pa Rinus, who raises his boys mainly as the small island Texel's team. Johan's rare reprieves from training for a sport he doesn't care for cease when ma dies. After captain brother Johhny sort of steals his local girl-friend Evy, Johan leaves for Amsterdam, where he becomes a hairdresser and would-be singer. Soccer, a vocal TV talent-hunt and Evy will bring them all together again, but also raise unprecedented strife in the Dros family
Last CallLast Call · 2024
Last Call
★ 5.02024
MovieDrama
When André, Bart and David go to do odd jobs in an old farmhouse, they no longer appear immortal. They alternate leaden seriousness with limp nattering, but that doesn't escape the fact that they are getting older.
OkthanksbyeOkthanksbye · 2023
Okthanksbye
2023
MovieAdventureDrama
An adventurous coming-of-age drama about two young deaf girls who go on an unforgettable road trip together where they not only get to know each other better, but also themselves.
AllerzielenAllerzielen · 2005
Allerzielen
★ 6.52005
MovieDramaComedy
Dutch filmmakers gathered to make this compilation movie, consisting of 17 segments, as a reaction to the status quo in The Netherlands after the assassination of filmmaker Theo van Gogh on november 2, 2004.
OchtendzwemmersOchtendzwemmers · 2001
Ochtendzwemmers
★ 7.02001
MovieDramaComedy
Each morning a group of people meet in the swimming pool to swim. The police suspects it is a criminal organization and interrogate Loes.
How to Survive Myself?How to Survive Myself? · 2008
How to Survive Myself?
★ 4.12008
MovieDramaFamily
Rosa is thirteen. She is sensitive, creative and has a sense of humor. But she is also good at worrying, dissatisfied with her appearance, insecure and shy. Rosa's mother wants to live together with her new boyfriend, so they move to Groningen, where Alexander lives. Rosa hates that. She must leave everything she knows and what is familiar to her behind. including her best friend Esther. She has to go to a new school where she doesn't know anyone, and live in the house of Monkeyass! Basically, she needs a lot of things she doesn't want. How will she survive this?
Man, vrouw, hondjeMan, vrouw, hondje · 1999
Man, vrouw, hondje
★ 9.01999
MovieDrama
When Louise (70) and Max (72) meet, it is love at first sight: they abandon their sleepy lives and travel to the South of France, where they become the terrors of the 'Route du Soleil'. They rip off naïve tourists with their act as a sad old couple: a second youth that goes further than their wildest dreams. Based on a true story.

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PolonaisePolonaise · 2002
Polonaise
★ 7.52002
MovieDramaComedy
In the TV film Polonaise, traffic jams have grown into a phenomenon in which traffic jam call girls, hairdressers and photographers enliven the endless delays. The film follows a number of people in a jam on the A5. The central character is a Pole in an expensive Saab Convertible, who is wanted by the police. A red Panda carries the heavily pregnant Hilde and her cynical sister. Hilde is worried because she has not seen her friend anymore after a quarrel. In an old Saab, a young couple is bickering. She is a `yuppie cunt' who stakes her marriage for a parking licence and is tired of her husband smoking dope. Charlie the music promoter is driving his son's car. He likes traffic jams, because they allow him to settle his deals undisturbed and meet his secret love, the traffic jam call girl Nena. While the characters are confronted with each other and themselves more and more, tension rises to a peak. A radio pirate connects the story lines with his chatter.

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