Cast: Gerard Thoolen

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gerard Thoolen. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Flying Dutchman

1995 · Movie · 140 min. · Netherlands

Direction Jos Stelling

Cast René Groothof · Nino Manfredi · Veerle Dobbelaere · René van't Hof

Synopsis 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. Flanders, 1568: Italian minstrel Campanelli tells...

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De zondagsjongen

1992 · Movie · 95 min. · Netherlands

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Rooie Sien

1975 · Movie · 108 min. · Netherlands

Direction Frans Weisz

Cast Beppie Nooij Jr. · Kees Brusse · Myra Ward · Win Van den Brink

Synopsis Sien is raised by her grandparents after her mother, a singer/prostitute is strangled by her father. She becomes enamored by song and dance man Jan Meier and the two form a successful double act called 'Het Duo Durand'. When her...

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The Mark of the Beast

1980 · Movie · 98 min. · Netherlands

Direction Pieter Verhoeff

Cast Gerard Thoolen · Marja Kok · Peter Faber · Joop Admiraal

Synopsis Feature film about the life of IJje Wiijkstra, who killed four constables when they came to fetch a runaway mother. A historical/period piece about a couple of dim bulbs with out of control hormones and senses of decency. A loner,...

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Het bittere kruid

1985 · Movie · 89 min. · Netherlands

Direction Kees Van Oostrum

Cast Ester Spitz · Gerard Thoolen · Kitty Courbois · Frank Rigter

Synopsis 15 year old Sara, a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands during the German occupation slowly begins to realize the danger she and her family are in. When her parents are forced to move to a ghetto in Amsterdam, she...

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Mijn vader woont in Rio

1989 · Movie · 100 min. · Netherlands

Direction Ben Sombogaart

Cast Wenneke Janssen · Geert De Jong · Theu Boermans · Hans Veerman

Synopsis Lisa's parents are separated. Like the title says, her father (supposedly) lives in Rio de Janeiro. She often gets letters from him and dreams of visiting him in South America one fine day. However, this is all a major cover-up:...

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The Three Best Things in Life

1992 · Movie · 103 min. · Netherlands

Direction Ger Poppelaars

Cast Loes Wouterson · Victor Löw · Jack Wouterse · Pierre Bokma

Synopsis n this melancholic comedy we follow the successful 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.

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Opname

1979 · Movie · 92 min. · Netherlands

Direction Marja Kok · Erik van Zuylen

Cast Helmert Woudenberg · Frank Groothof · Hans Man in 't Veld · Marja Kok

Synopsis An unsuspecting flower farmer visits the hospital to discuss some test results, only to find himself admitted without explanation for an indefinite period of further examination and observation.

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Private Resistance

1985 · Movie · 92 min. · Netherlands

Direction Dimitri Frenkel Frank

Cast Gerard Thoolen · Bruno Ganz · Renée Soutendijk · Kees Hulst

Synopsis The story of a Jewish man, escaped from Berlin in the beginning of WW 2, now an owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. The city is a battlefield between local Nazis and the resistance. The film shows how war...

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The Hes Case

1982 · Movie · 90 min. · Netherlands

Direction Orlow Seunke

Cast Gerard Thoolen · Dorijn Curvers · Joop Admiraal · Hans van Tongeren

Synopsis As a social worker trying to cope with the emotional demands of his caseload, Hes (Gerard Thoolen) is usually as detached and aloof as possible, a frame of mind almost encouraged by the dullness of the bureaucratic life around him...

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Pervola

1985 · Movie · 95 min. · Netherlands

Direction Orlow Seunke

Cast Gerard Thoolen · Bram van der Vlugt · Melle van Essen · Jan-Willem Hees

Synopsis Two estranged brothers, one straight, one gay, return home at the death of their father. Their father's last wish forces them into a pilgramage together to bury the body and perhaps to bury long held grudges.

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De illusionist

1983 · Movie · 90 min. · Netherlands

Direction Jos Stelling

Cast Freek de Jonge · Jim van der Woude · Catrien Wolthuizen · Gerard Thoolen

Synopsis At the center of this extremely visualized narrative are the illusionist and his brother, who is lazy on the basis of either great love, or exorbitant envy of the brother. Having spoiled the sick son in a psychiatric hospital, the...

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The Cold Light of Day

1996 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rudolf van den Berg

Cast Richard E. Grant · Lynsey Baxter · Perdita Weeks · Simon Cadell

Synopsis A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.

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