Huub Stapel
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1954-12-02
Locus Natus: Tegelen, Limburg, Netherlands
Et ut: Huup Stapel
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in...
release : 1997.02.20popularis : 14.268
Amsterdamned
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for...
release : 1988.02.11popularis : 9.354
Flodder
A low-class antisocial family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble.
release : 1986.12.18popularis : 9.335
Flodder Does Manhattan!
The mayor of Sunny Dale see a chance to get rid of the Flodder family: They send the asocial bunch for an international exchange to New York. There...
release : 1992.06.03popularis : 11.327
De Dominee
Amsterdam, 1970s. A wealthy grammar school student Klaas and his friend start trafficking hash and become entangled in the brutal criminal scene.
release : 2004.09.02popularis : 2.987
Rent-a-Friend
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...
release : 2000.02.03popularis : 2.531
The Lift
A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators...
release : 1983.05.11popularis : 8.338
The Girl with the Red Hair
During the second world war law student Hannie Schaft is a member of the Dutch resistance movement.
release : 1981.09.17popularis : 1.04
Eep!
Viegeltje looks like a girl but has wings instead of arms. Bird watcher Warre finds her under brushwood and takes her home. Warre and his wife Tine...
release : 2010.04.20popularis : 1.463
Saint
A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5.
release : 2010.10.31popularis : 6.016
Smoorverliefd
A frank and funny romantic comedy set in Antwerp, filmed in a quirkily inventive style, Madly in Love has a lot to say about human relationships. It...
release : 2010.12.08popularis : 1.556
Sea of Silence
1969. Nine-year old Caro lives on a pig farm in a small town with her four other siblings and another on the way. She is curious and determined to...
release : 2003.09.26popularis : 0.928
The Indecent Woman
A woman with a steady marriage and a little daughter, goes bezerk and enters a seducing game.
release : 1991.05.26popularis : 6.453
The Good Hope
Young Barend is worried about the safety of the sailing vessel he is on. The owner is an unscrupulous and stingy man who skimps on repairs and Barend...
release : 1986.08.07popularis : 1.682
De nacht van Aalbers
A political thriller about PvdA-frontman Frits Aalbers who gets involved with a mysterious murder in a hotel. To make sure his political career will...
release : 2001.01.01popularis : 1.108
Dying to Go Home
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...
release : 1996.10.18popularis : 1.334
Line of Fire
The story of Dutch commando Marco Kroon, who, after becoming the first recipient of his country's highest military award in over five decades, finds...
release : 2023.09.14popularis : 2.819
Mein Herz in Chile
Laura returns to Chile, after thirty years, to say goodbye to his old and sick mother. In this bitter journey she is accompanied by his daughter...
release : 2008.01.01popularis : 0.546
The Merman
Tony is really handsome, but he smells. A scientist gives him a potion that should get rid of his fishy smell. Unfortunately, there are some serious...
release : 1996.10.10popularis : 2.335
The Cool Lakes of Death
Hedwig, a young wealthy woman growing up in the straight-jacket of bourgeois morality in the Victorian era, descends into madness after years of...
release : 1982.09.30popularis : 1.186
Amsterdamned 2
When the canals of Amsterdam turn blood red again after 37 years, there is only one man who can tame the evil and battle an adversary who seems to...
release : 2025.06.13popularis : 5.474
A Perfect Man
A philandering husband unknowingly falls back in love with his wife over the phone when she pretends to be another woman.
release : 2013.11.01popularis : 3.756
Love is the Word
Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the...
release : 2013.12.19popularis : 4.297
Het kruis van Tegelen
The Tegelse Passion Play, which is performed every five years, is about the last days of suffering of Jesus Christ. This tradition, in which almost...
release : 2022.04.17popularis : 0.37
Das Beste Jahr meines Lebens
Her husband Niklas' loan fraud plunges housewife Laura Vandenberg into disaster. While Niklas is behind bars and the company is being wound up, Laura...
release : 2006.11.10popularis : 1.217
Widows
A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella...
release : 1998.01.22popularis : 1.973
The Directors
In 1984, Ate de Jong, Dick Maas and George Schouten founded The Directors, a band made up of movie directors. Later on, more directors joined and so...
release : 2010.11.07popularis : 1.336
The Other Woman
A German couple travels, shortly after reunification, to the Netherlands. Happiness does not last long. The wife receives a letter from an unknown...
release : 2004.01.14popularis : 0.607
Walhalla
Grocer De Feyter is put out of business by competition from a supermarket run by the Moroccan Saïd. To keep afloat, he does the dirty work for a...
release : 1995.06.08popularis : 1.634
The Dream
On the turn of the 20th century, in Netherlands, three socialist activists and brothers are imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit. The prosecutor...
release : 1985.09.03popularis : 0.424
Johan
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...
release : 2005.10.06popularis : 2.597
Tits
A man finds a phone in the park, while he's walking his dog. When a message comes in from Mohammed, he can't control his curiosity. What follows is a...
release : 2011.05.01popularis : 0.371
Oh Boy!
Slapstick by the director of The Taste of Water also a film within a film. Boy, otherwise known as the shy actor Pim, runs a financially unsuccessful...
release : 1991.05.08popularis : 0.936
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for...
release : 1988.04.17popularis : 5.49
Ome Cor
A down-on-his-luck Rotterdam dock worker struggles to get his financials and family life back on track.
release : 2022.12.13popularis : 2.78
Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller
Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed....
release : 1998.11.26popularis : 2.389
Der Hurenstreik - Eine Liebe auf St. Pauli
Romeo and Juliet on the Kiez with Cupid in the form of the attractive sex worker Elisa: the young artist Nikolaus falls in love with the well-behaved...
release : 1999.02.10popularis : 1.302
De Zevende Hemel
Dutch musical centered around a family restaurant. There's a reunion coming up for which the family is planning a big event. After the reunion...
release : 2016.11.24popularis : 1.7
Sextet
Sextet is a film about love and relationships in Amsterdam. It features an ingeniously interwoven plot of several stories and characters. Together...
release : 2007.09.13popularis : 0.903
Ob ihr wollt oder nicht
The film starts with the main character Laura, a young woman with advanced cancer, entering quite upset the home of her parents and claiming to have...
release : 2009.12.09popularis : 0.7
In the Shadow of the Sandcastle
The ex-cop Robin kills an actor and steals his money and cocaine. And now he is supposed to find the killer together with an interpol inspector. To...
release : 1996.10.20popularis : 2.267
Redbad
In the year of 754 AD, during a time of epic battles and bloodshed, the legend of the pagan warrior king, Rebad, is born, but so is a new weapon...
release : 2018.06.28popularis : 12.042
Godforsaken!
Two small town Dutch boys whose socially unnatural friendship is so close, they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality,...
release : 2003.04.24popularis : 3.736
The Dark House
A woman tries to escape a stalker by moving with her children to her sister's isolated beach house
release : 2009.10.29popularis : 2.033
Het wapen van Geldrop
Three people travel to the small town of Geldrop after a gruesome event has changed their lives.
release : 2008.10.02popularis : 0.126
Maria
A number of residents of a nursing home, along with the nurses, go on holiday for a week. Nurse Erik recalls memories of Paolo at one of the disabled...
release : 1984.06.01popularis : 0.631
The Scorpion
It's 1956. Truck driver Loe Wolf wants to emigrate to America, but he doesn't have the money to take this step in life. When his boss entrusts him...
release : 1984.03.29popularis : 1.477
Op Gepaste Afstand
During the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, two neighbors spend a day wandering the deserted streets of their Dutch city of Tilburg.
release : 2020.05.19popularis : 0.984
Love Is All
A romantic comedy told with a set of interwoven Christmas tales about life, love, forgiveness and caring. A heroic vagrant becomes a TV sensation...
release : 2007.10.10popularis : 3.972
Ferry
Before he built a drug empire, Ferry Bouman returns to his hometown on a revenge mission that finds his loyalty tested — and a love that alters...
release : 2021.05.14popularis : 12.107
The Dick Maas Method
Documentary on the Dutch filmmaker Dick Maas.
release : 2020.10.01popularis : 2.855
Black Rider
A border guard faces a crisis of conscience when he learns that an old comrade is smuggling butter across the border.
release : 1983.02.17popularis : 1.056
Bellicher: Cel
Michael Bellicher wakes up one morning to find out that his identity has been stolen. Soon he learns that the perpetrator is using his stolen ID for...
release : 2012.10.04popularis : 3.62