Christine van Meeteren
Actor
Movies17
Movie6.5ComedyDramaRespected banker Karel Brand is seen as a marketable emblem of probity. When he loses 350,000 guilders, his reputation is tarnished – without the respect attached to it, he loses his job. Brand becomes unemployable, and his creditors suddenly start calling in their debts. His young daughter Willy suffers the same fate.
- Movie
The story of Theodoor, a hunchbacked child. He grows up in poor circumstances. His alcoholic father dies as a result of suffocation caused by alcohol. After this, he spends his days wandering the streets, becomes involved in the fairground life, and is present in a tent where a fire breaks out. Better times then arrive. He becomes a famous violinist and marries the daughter of a wealthy man.
Krates
1913
- Movie5.7
The adventures of two girls from Zeeland in Zandvoort.
- Movie10.0DramaAdventure
A cabinetmaker finds a document written in Latin in an old desk. Because he cannot decipher it, he asks his lawyer for a translation.
De vloek van het testament
1915 · 1 votes
MovieDramaHistoryA collection of short scenes portraying highlights of Dutch history, from the Eighty Years' War to King Willem I's return from exile. This film was made to commemorate the centenary of the Dutch royal family.
Movie8.0CrimeDramaYoung poacher Hendrik van Norden has seriously wounded a game-keeper, who has not recognized him. There was, however, one witness: captain Van Oort, but he promises to keep silent. Five years later Hendrik has become a lighthouse-keeper and is courting Annie. Van Oort is also trying to win Annie's affections, and in his jealousy he decides to remind Hendrik of what he knows about his past...
Movie5.0Short feature film about a colonist who gets caught up in the revolution in Mexico. Back at home, they anxiously wait for news. A Telegram from Mexico is one of the short fictional films that Filmfabriek Hollandia produced before the First World War. The film, directed by Louis H. Chrispijn Sr., tells the story of Willem Vandoorn, a Dutch colonist in Mexico. When the revolution breaks out, the young man decides to go back to his homeland. He sends his parents a telegram announcing his planned return. When his journey is delayed by a rebel attack, his parents - already worried about the many dramatic newspaper articles - fear the worst. These nervous suspicions even lead the blind father to have a vision, in which he sees his son's execution.
- Movie8.0
Kate van Marlen is blissfully happy with her partner, Count Alfred van der Loo. However, he has no serious plans for her and says he will never marry her. The young, spirited cavalry lieutenant Count Ruprecht van Halden thinks differently: for him, Lady Kate is the ideal woman. He courts the young girl and asks for her hand in marriage. Kate makes one last attempt to win Alfred over. During a garden party, she confesses her love to him once again, but Alfred refuses.
Liefdesstrijd
1915 · 1 votes
Movie5.5ComedyDramaWhen his granddaughter is born, debt-ridden Colonel von Zwenken misses out on Aunt Roselaar's allowance of 20,000 guilders. Anxious to keep the money, his son-in-law telegraphs the aunt that a son was born, Frans, and the girl is brought up as a boy. Based on the novel by Anna L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint.
Movie10.0ComedyDutch silent comedy film where a bunch of women cause havoc wherever they go.
- MovieDramaMusic
Boris wins a violin competition, and Countess Montjoie, an admirer, gives him an inherited Stradivarius on the condition that he comes to play for her regularly, as she does not have long to live. During one of those evenings, he meets Elsa, the daughter of the countess's handyman. They fall in love. One day, he leaves his mother to look after the violin, but when a fire breaks out, Boris has to go to extreme lengths to save the countess's violin. Fortunately, he manages to rescue the violin from the raging fire and is able to play a farewell serenade at the countess's deathbed.
Zijn viool
1914
- Movie
Silvia grows up in miserable circumstances. Her father is an incurable drunk who neglects his family. His first daughter was stillborn, the second died at a young age, and the third was only eighteen when she went mad and died.
Silvia Silombra
1913
- Movie8.0Drama
A press release and a review describe a scene from the film: a skipper refuses to abandon his burning ship, despite his daughter's pleas. In a last-ditch attempt to save her father, the daughter jumps into the water and climbs onto the burning ship.
De vrouw Clasina
1915 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Western
Raymond is a painter who is very successful in his career. One day, he walks into a saloon and his eyes fall on the beautiful Jennie. She poses for one of his paintings and later runs off with all his money. When they meet again, they fall head over heels in love and get married. She is forced by Apaches to steal from him again, but Jennie refuses. In revenge, they lock her up and go after Raymond themselves. They attack him and lock him up as a living mummy in a sarcophagus. He is eventually rescued and reunited with Jennie, while the Apaches themselves are locked up.
Liefde waakt
1914 · 1 votes
- MovieDrama
Movie5.0DramaAn orthodox Jewish man refuses to accept the marriage of his daughter to a Christian man.
- Movie9.0
De Zigeunerin
1914 · 1 votes