Ate de Jong

Heart Strings (2025)

Willing to do anything for money and fame, Lucky and Billie fake their love and eventually become a real couple, willing to sacrifice their dreams of success for real love and real life music. ...

My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021)

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

Carmilla (2020)

In 19th-century Styria, isolated teen Lara's quiet life is upended by the arrival of mysterious, beautiful Carmilla, a female vampire with whom she develops an intense, homoerotic bond. As Lara's life slowly drains, themes of forbidden desire, identity, an ...

Love Is Thicker Than Water (2017)

Vida and Arthur come from vastly different backgrounds. Sensitive and touching, sometimes quirky and tragic, always uncompromisingly truthful, a fresh look how conflicting family ties challenge love in a modern day Romeo and Juliet tale. ...

Clean Hands (2015)

Sylvia has turned a blind eye for too long to husband Eddie's flourishing drug business. When his dealing takes a (deadly) turn for the worse, however, her need to protect the lives and futures of her young children compel her to flee. But Eddie will stop ...

Deadly Virtues: Love. Honour. Obey. (2014)

A home invasion irrevocably changes the lives of all involved in ways neither victims nor perpetrator could have imagined ...

Littekens (2013)

In her search for her biological father, after a long journey eastbound, Suzanne discovers a shrouded and horrifying part of her own past, that turns her greatest dream into a dark nightmare. ...

The Rotterdam Bombing (2012)

A thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the centre of ...

Ek Lief Jou (2011)

A heartwarming South African romantic comedy starring Kurt Darren, Ilse de Vis, Christina Storm and Andre Frauenstein. ...

The Evocation of Sadness (2010)

Stylised, largely French-spoken homage to Luchino Visconti about a 19th century young noblewoman who is surrounded by people from the moment she awakes. Resigned, she undergoes the morning ritual, in which three servants clothe her and do her hair. During ...

Two Eyes Staring (2010)

Nine-year-old Lisa discovers her sinister new friend is the ghost of the dead twin of Lisa's mother. ...

The Hell of '63 (2009)

When extreme weather suddenly hits the Netherlands in 1963, a 120-mile tour skating event taking place on natural ice forces its contestants to contend with life-threatening race conditions. ...

Poems from the Sea (2005)

During the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2002, Leo Hannewijk (festival director Film by the Sea) approached filmmaker and producer Digna Sinke with the idea of asking several film makers to make short films based on poems about the province of Z ...

Fogbound (2002)

Three friends get stuck in fog on the way to a holiday. They tell each other stories and confront each other with hidden secrets. ...

The Discovery of Heaven (2001)

Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may b ...

Left Luggage (1998)

While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which makes him ...

Wenn der Präsident 2x klingelt (1997)

A master painter from Berlin is offered the opportunity to be one of the first to shake hands with the US President and his wife during their upcoming visit. He jumps at the chance, but first has to get his hopelessly dysfunctional family together. ...

Wenn ich nicht mehr lebe (1996)

All Men Are Mortal (1995)

Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress. ...

Tödliche Lüge (1993)

TV superstar Claudia Fischer basks in the fame she has earned with her erotic "Domino Show." On her show, she mercilessly exposes her contestants' most intimate feelings. However, she has wisely kept her own life lie hidden from the public until now. ...

Highway to Hell (1991)

Charlie and Rachel run away from home to get married in Las Vegas. But they get attacked by a zombie who takes Rachel with him to hell, where she will become one of Satan's brides. ...

Drop Dead Fred (1991)

An unhappy housewife gets a lift from the return of her imaginary childhood friend, Drop Dead Fred. ...

A Month Later (1987)

Two women decide to exchange lives after getting into contact through a newspaper ad. ...

Shadow of Victory (1986)

During World War II, two members of the Dutch resistance share the same goal but use very different methods to reach it. ...

Burning Love (1983)

A young painter takes up French lessons with an elder lady to ensure he'll get a grant for a French arts institute. That way he meets Anna, a beautiful married woman nursing the lady's old father, and falls in love with her. ...

A Flight of Rainbirds (1981)

Maarten, a milquetoast bachelor living with his terminally ill mother, is haunted by a nightmare in which God tells him to lose his virginity or die within the week. ...

Familiar Faces, Mixed Feelings (1980)

The Inheritance (1978)

An ageing GP tries to convince his son in law to take over his practice. Monique van de Ven plays the doctor's daughter, who is torn apart by love of her husband and solidarity with her father. ...

Blind Spot (1977)

Danielle and Marc fall in love. Two months later they move in together. Two years later their relation reaches a crisis when Danielle gets pregnant. Did she plan for it or not? Is she going to tell Marc or not? Is she going to keep it or not? Will the rela ...

Every Day's a Holiday (1976)

The failed poet Wessel Franken trades his career in poetry for a career as director of a publicity agency. ...

Everyman (1975)

A vagabond travels through medieval Holland. ...

Ek Lief Jou (2011)

A heartwarming South African romantic comedy starring Kurt Darren, Ilse de Vis, Christina Storm and Andre Frauenstein. ...

The Directors (2010)

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 did actors, actresses and singers. This documentary follows the band members at home, on the set, at rehear ...

Every Day's a Holiday (1976)

The failed poet Wessel Franken trades his career in poetry for a career as director of a publicity agency. ...