Screenplay: Paul Ruven

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Paul Ruven. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


My Best Friend Anne Frank

2021 · Movie · 103 min. · Netherlands

Direction Ben Sombogaart

Cast Aiko Beemsterboer · Josephine Arendsen · Björn Freiberg · Roeland Fernhout

Plot Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.

5.5

645 votes

5.5

645 votes

The Bombing

2012 · Movie · 105 min. · Netherlands

Direction Ate de Jong

Cast Jan Smit · Roos van Erkel · Mike Weerts · Monic Hendrickx

Plot The film is set in May 1940 in and around the city of Rotterdam, where the young bakers assistant (and aspiring amateur boxer) Vincent de Graaf meets the wealthy Eva...

4.7

56 votes

4.7

56 votes

The Emperor's Wife

2003 · Movie · 100 min. · Netherlands

Direction Julien Vrebos

Cast Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Max Beesley · Rosana Pastor · Leticia Dolera

Plot In the land of 1001 nights the law dictates that the Emperor must take a new wife if his current Empress does not bear a son within seven years of...

4.4

79 votes

4.4

79 votes

Spoorloos verdwenen (TV Series)

2006 · Series · 50 min. · Netherlands

Direction Marc Willard · Erik van 't Wout · Hans Scheepmaker · Diederik Van Rooijen

Cast Cas Jansen · Jennifer Hoffman · Michiel Rampaart · Christine van Stralen

Plot Cocky detective Timo de Brauw and computer whiz nerd Kevin de Jong are part of the Dutch national police mission persons team. In each episode, they solve a worrisome disappearance,...

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Angie

1993 · Movie · 93 min. · Netherlands

Direction Martin Lagestee

Cast Annemarie Röttgering · Daniël Boissevain · Hidde Schols · Derek de Lint

Plot Angie has just returned from an orphanage and everyone warns her to stay away from Alex, who leads a life of crime.

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Total Loss

2000 · Movie · 95 min. · Netherlands

Direction Dana Nechushtan

Cast Hans Bakker · Luc Boyer · Tijn Docter · Danny de Kok

Plot A drifter, the doctor who has fallen for him and a third man who has recently lost his father are involved in a fiery auto crash.

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De tranen van Maria Machita

1991 · Movie · 40 min. · Netherlands

Direction Paul Ruven

Cast Ellen Ten Damme · Ali Cifteci · Jacques Herb · Heddy Lester

Plot Maria Machita has to face a great deal of suffering in a very short period. Her father gets killed in an accident, haar mother dies on stage and her Turkish...

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Filmpje!

1995 · Movie · 104 min. · Netherlands

Direction Paul Ruven

Cast Paul de Leeuw · Rijk de Gooyer · Olga Zuiderhoek · Tom Jansen

Plot Bob and Annie separate. After the court case Annie gives Bob two airline tickets for a tropical island to save their relationship. However, Bob takes someone else with him on...

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Lost in Amsterdam

1989 · Movie · 110 min. · Netherlands

Direction Pim de la Parra · Paul Ruven

Cast Kenneth Herdigein · Sabine van den Eynden · Ira Goldwasser · Manouk van der Meulen

Plot After twenty-five years of operating in New York, American private investigator Scotty has started a little agency in Amsterdam, United Detectives. One day Scotty hears from his girlfriend Bonnie's car...

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Alaska

1989 · Movie · 45 min. · Netherlands

Direction Mike van Diem

Cast Willem Nijholt · Maeve van der Steen · Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh

Plot A slaughterhouse worker appears to be romantically involved with his boss's wife. They plan to leave the country together, but at the airport she waits for him in vain. Slowly...

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Van geluk gesproken

1987 · Movie · 100 min. · Netherlands

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