9 Movies Starring Carice van Houten

Miss Minoes

Miss Minoes

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-12-06

Languages:

Dutch

Countries:

Netherlands

Runtime:

86 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(3397 Reviews)

Director:

Vincent Bal

Cast:

Writer:

Annie M.G. Schmidt (novel)

Tamara Bos (screenplay)

Burny Bos (screenplay)

Vincent Bal (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A cat who turns into a young woman (Minoes) retains some of her feline characteristics and helps a journalist to gather news for the front page of a local newspaper. With the help of Minoes, who can talk to the cats in the small town, he soon discovers that the helpful and popular chairman of the "Club For Friends of Animals" and boss of a nearby factory has evil plans with the village.

Black Book

Black Book

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-05-18

Languages:

Dutch, German, English, Hebrew

Countries:

Netherlands, Germany, UK, Belgium

Runtime:

145 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (56325 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Writer:

Gerard Soeteman

Paul Verhoeven

Fullplot:

Israel 1956. Rachel, a Jew, rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz where she is working as a teacher. It brings back memories of her experiences in The Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. September 1944. Rachel is in trouble when her hiding place is bombed by allied troops. She gets in contact with a man from the resistance and joins a group of Jews who are to be smuggled across the Biesbosch by boat to the freed South Netherlands. Germans from a patrol boat murder them all however. Only Rachel is able to escape. She is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers. When Kuipers' son is captured after trying to smuggle weapons, he asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmfèhrer Ludwig Mèntze. Soon she will find out the attack in the Biesbosch wasn't a coincidence.

Lepel

Lepel

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-02-02

Languages:

Dutch

Countries:

Netherlands, Germany, UK

Runtime:

96 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (440 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Mieke de Jong (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Years ago, Lepel's parents left an hot air balloon world tour. He stays with granny Koppenol, a mean bitch who constantly exploits him for domestic chores, in her buttons shop and even as accomplice in the department store where she steals the buttons from clothes. After she won't even leave him the balloon kind salesman Max gave him, Lepel, now 9, runs away. He meets Max's slightly older daughter Pleun. Schoolmaster Bijts is also looking for him, but only as arithmetics talent for an academic schools contest. Max accidentally finds out the sad truth about Lepel's family.

A Thousand Kisses

A Thousand Kisses

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-03-09

Languages:

English, Dutch

Countries:

Netherlands

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (1002 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Ronald Giphart (novel)

Ruud Schuurman (screenplay)

Edward Stelder (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Rising, rather autobiographical novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's suffering an incurable decease in which she suffers from paraplegia. Her inevitably ensuing death is brought forward with euthanasia. Giph is struggling to handle the situation with his mother. Shortly after his mother has passed he away, he decides to join his fun loving friends on La Palma for a holiday. There Samarinde tells her boyfriend she's expecting his baby.

Black Butterflies

Black Butterflies

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-03-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

Germany, Netherlands, South Africa

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (1581 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

She searched for a home, she searched for love. Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of censorship. With men like Jack Cope and Andre Brink she found much love, but no home. In his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addresses her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.

Dorothy Mills

Dorothy Mills

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-08-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

Ireland, France

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (4123 Reviews)

Director:

Agnès Merlet

Cast:

Writer:

Agnès Merlet

Juliette Sales

Fullplot:

Jane Morton, a psychiatrist from Dublin in deep mourning following the accidental death of her husband and son, is assigned to work on the case of Dorothy Mills, a teenaged girl in a small village who tried to strangle a baby. After miraculously surviving a car accident, Jane discovers a village darkened by strange events and meets a very nervous Dorothy, who swears she never touched the baby. After analyzing the teenager, Jane makes a diagnosis of multiple personality disorder until the day that Dorothy speaks with the voice of David, Jane's dead son.

Stricken

Stricken

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-11-26

Languages:

Dutch

Countries:

Netherlands

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (4146 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Gert Embrechts (screenplay)

Kluun (novel)

Fullplot:

Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even fatherhood and a move to the boring country go well, until Carmen gets breast cancer. Now their lives are turned upside-down, maybe wrecked.

Intruders

Intruders

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-10-07

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA, UK, Spain

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (16571 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Nicolès Casariego (screenplay)

Jaime Marques (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In Madrid, the boy Juan is terrified by the monster Hollowface and his mother is unable to protect him so summons Father Antonio to exorcise the monster from their lives. In London, the construction worker John Farrow is very close to his teenage daughter Mia. One day, Mia is spending the day at her grandparents' house in the countryside with her mother Susanna and she finds a box with the story of Hollowface hidden in a tree. Soon Mia sees the monster Hollowface in the closet of her bedroom and John defends her. When they are attacked for the second time, the security camera that John has installed does not show any intruder. Are Mia and John delusional?

Family Way

Family Way

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-11-22

Languages:

Dutch, English

Countries:

Netherlands

Runtime:

132 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (3068 Reviews)

Director:

Joram Lèrsen

Fullplot:

All the members of the De Roover family have ended up at a point of no return in their lives where crucial choices have to be made. Winnie wants a child. Her husband Rutmer wants to get in touch with his feelings. His brother Charlie doesn't want any responsibilities. Their brother-in-law Dick wants his deceased wife back. Head of the family Arend wants to be happy. Mother Jeannette wants somebody to want her.

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