Ellen ten Damme

Paradijs (2024)

When Noah (16) finds his own son Ziggy on the doorstep of his home, he is catapulted into adult life in one fell swoop. When it turns out he cannot combine his former life with being a father, he gets onto his moped after a flaming row with his mother. Car ...

The Surrender (2014)

The Surrender is a romantic erotic film based on the novel The surrender of Floor by Renee Amstel. A critic called the novel: "the Dutch answer to the Fifty Shades of Grey hype". Eva is a pretty young woman. She works in a cafe and her dream is to be a sin ...

Mijn Vader is een Detective: The Battle (2012)

This is the third movie from the "Mijn Vader is een Detective" film series. ...

Mijn Vader is een Detective: De Wet van 3 (2011)

Fourteen-year-old Mara hires Max the detective to track down her missing mother. However, Max's son Sam and his friend Ortwin are very concerned because Max doesn't realize that Mara is a witch. Sam and Ortwin do everything they can to expose Mara. ...

My Dad's a Detective (2009)

Sam and Star had long been friends. Sam's father is a detective and thus learn to know Ortwin. Ortwin's the rare parrot is in fact stolen. Ortwin's father enlists the help of Max, but Max is kidnapped during their quest by a gang of criminals. The kids put ...

Killer Babes (2007)

When three wealthy women hire a hit man to get rid of one of their cheating husbands, everything goes wrong. ...

Ellen ten Damme: As I Was Wondering Where This Mixed-up Little Life of Mine Was Leading To (2007)

Documentary about Dutch artist Ellen ten Damme and her battle against breast cancer at age 38. ...

Suspect (2005)

Teacher Rob Dekoster is a good man, albeit a bit too frivolous and liberal with funds the local arts center's interim director. His wife Nelle, who sometimes abuses drugs, spoils his ingrate teenage stepdaughter Sandy, who is kind only to her sweet, mental ...

Ferienfieber (2004)

Marcel Huber, an amiable family man without much assertiveness, accidentally takes his wife Jasmin and children Nicole and Sämi on vacation to wicked Amsterdam instead of sunny Rome. To make matters worse, their hotel turns out to be a lousy flophouse. Th ...

Mein Bruder ist ein Hund (2004)

With the help of a magic stone, Marietta transforms her little brother Tobias into a little dog - but the situation threatens to get out of control. ...

Seventeen (2004)

A shy seventeen-year-old construction worker tries to hold his own in the macho world of roofers ...

Flo (2004)

This poetic, erotic film devotes a visual hymn of praise to the female body. ...

Interview (2003)

A middle-aged journalist interviews the real-life Dutch star Katja Schuurman, in her own loft. Pierre, the journalist is annoyed at being given such a fluffy assignment, as he is normally a political correspondent. Initially he has no questions for Katja, ...

Atlantic Affairs (2002)

A cinematic journey into the music of Udo Lindenberg. ...

Full Moon Party (2002)

A bunch of graduates go out sailing to visit a secret Full Moon Party. Hans Nijboer also tries to get his brother Ties back home to work in the familie business. Ties has other plans, he wants to become a singer. ...

Do Fish Do It? (2002)

16-year old Jan is absent-mindedly strolling through the streets when he's run over by roller-skating Nina. As fast as she has stormed into his life, however, she rushes off again. Nina is 15 years old and full of crazy ideas. She lives together with her b ...

Forgive Me (2001)

(Vergeef me) - Forgive me is the film adaptation of Cyrus Frisch his controversional play "Jesus/Lover", which was performed by hard-drug addicts and alcoholics. This film with Frisch as Jesus disguised as Jerry Springer is not light on the stomach. But th ...

Ein Teenager flippt aus (2001)

Die Hässliche (2000)

He's handsome and poor, she's rich and plump: can that work in the long run? Miriam meets Kai, a student, in a car accident. The chubby daughter from a good family and the handsome have-not fall in love. Her friends are horrified. Will the two make it anyw ...

Der Himmel kann warten (2000)

The Gas Station (2000)

An acknowledged master of the short sans dialogue, Jos Stelling won a bundle of awards for THE WAITING ROOM at festivals in Holland, Russia, and Switzerland. And if you thought that richly inventive spoof of the leering macho in God?s Little Acre, the crow ...

Conamara (2000)

Maria is a wife and mother in the beautiful, but very remote Connemara region of Ireland. When an old friend from Germany arrives in the place, her life is thrown into turmoil. ...

An Amsterdam Tale (1999)

Benny (Joe Maruzzo) and his girlfriend Alma (Sylvia Kristel) own a nightclub in the red light district of Amsterdam. Everything's going well until Charley (Ellen ten Damme) starts working in the club. ...

Bang, Boom, Bang (1999)

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth. ...

No Trains No Planes (1999)

The film takes place in a small cafe on the forecourt. When Gerard, one of the regular visitors, appears in the cafe to inform him that he is leaving, the usual course of the cafe's life suddenly breaks. ...

Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller (1998)

Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed. But suddenly chaos descends on the film team: A starlet is murdered, the bitchy leading man goes increasing ...

Das Paar des Jahres (1998)

Supersingle (1998)

Die Musterknaben (1997)

Docker and Dretzke are two police officers from Cologne. But the cases here in the precinct don't win them a flower pot at the CID. And so they find themselves at the bottom of the career ladder. When they are assigned by the Düsseldorf State Office of Cr ...

All Stars (1997)

Seven young men who played soccer together since their early youth grow apart and are forced to think about the nature of their friendship. In a comic way and a very Dutch setting, All Stars is about pregnant girlfriends and homosexuality, career plans and ...

Hoerenpreek (1996)

Single play over drie prostituees in een peepshow. ...

Wilder Westerwald (1995)

It Will Never Be Spring (1994)

A female writer bases her newest book on the affair she had with her publisher in this Dutch drama. Lin is the glamorous writer who finds herself pulled out of a canal by two riverboat men. Her story is told in flashback. Her recently published book "Wildg ...

Little Blond Death (1993)

The poet Valentijn Boecke meets his former teacher Mieke. They have a short relation. After a while Mieke appears to be pregnant. Valentijn is through with Mieke and leaves her... ...

The Tears of Maria Machita (1991)

Based on the traditional Dutch smartlap genre (an overly dramatic folk song). Maria Machita has to deal with a lot of heartache in this short musical film; her father dies in an accident, her mother perishes in the theatre, and her sweet Turkish boyfriend ...

Europe - 99euro-films 2 (2003)

Second part of a short film project, where every single short film is only allowed to cost 99 Euros. This time there are not only German filmmakers, but directors from all over Europe involved... ...

Zelfbeklag (1995)

An experimental documentary about self-pity. Inviting a critic to explain what he thinks is bad about a previous work, Cryus Frisch attempts to drown himself in an aquarium. ...