
Adrian Brine
Actor · 1936 – 2016 · London, England
Movies23
Movie5.2MysteryDramaIn the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
Mysteries
1978 · 12 votes
Movie7.1HistoryDramaAfter defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Waterloo
1970 · 234 votes
Movie5.8DramaIn a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Movie6.5DramaThrillerJournalist Stella discovers the secrets of the Lotte de Heus Verolmen, the widow of the Dutch nazi-collaborator party NSB-frontman Ewald de Heus Verolmen.
Movie4.4DramaRomanceWhen a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationship with the girl.
Movie6.0ThrillerCrimeA woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend.
Barocco
1976 · 24 votes
Movie7.5ThrillerDramaIt's 1956. Truck driver Loe Wolf wants to emigrate to America, but he doesn't have the money to take this step in life. When his boss entrusts him with a certain amount of money, he takes a gamble.
MovieTV MovieMartha overhears Bernard and John talking about blackmail. Jacob has come up with a plan that includes a mysterious key. Brothers Bobby and Arnold, eternal rivals, both fancy Martha, but also have a soft spot for Leonie. The latter gets tasked to learn more about Jacob's plan. A dead man is discovered lying in Bernard's office late at night by somebody else searching the premises. When the main conspirators all gather at the Zevenhuis villa, John declines to cooperate...
Martha
1974
Movie5.7DramaRomanceThe delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.
Movie6.3DramaThe tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
Vincent & Theo
1990 · 70 votes
Movie6.7CrimeDramaDuring the second world war law student Hannie Schaft is a member of the Dutch resistance movement.
Movie5.0DramaThrillerProstitute Dolly co-finances the purchase of a Vermeer painting with art expert Eddy Cremer. When they find out the painting is fake, she returns to the red light district, where conditions have worsened over time.
Blonde Dolly
1987 · 6 votes
Movie7.5DramaHistoryAdaptation of the Shakespeare play.
The Winter's Tale
1962 · 2 votes
Movie6.0DramaActionJohn Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for his failures. However, once there he stumbles upon a chemical weapons outrage that points to a sinister political-industrial conspiracy.
The Commissioner
1998 · 11 votes
Movie6.5DramaA Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in Hong Kong.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
1995 · 8 votes
Movie6.2DramaHistoryAn idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is cohvinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people he is in charge of, but circumstances soon make him realize just how out of touch he really is, and it doesn't take long for things to go from bad to worse.
Max Havelaar: of, De koffieveilingen der Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappij
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
1976 · 19 votes
Movie7.0AdventureComedyVictim of a shipwreck, a British man is stranded on a deserted island where he manages to survive through ingenuity.
Vendredi ou la vie sauvage
1983 · 1 votes
Movie4.0DramaThrillerLily works as a checkout girl at the local supermarket. She becomes pregnant, but before the child is born, the black father is attacked by skinheads and killed. Following his death, she flees to the city, where she soon finds herself under the wings of a pimp, Ted. Escaping Ted, she commences a one-woman spree of thefts, culminating in running from the police and the press. In the end, Lily must make a choice between freedom, and her baby.
Movie5.3ThrillerDramaIn this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.
Movie5.0DramaThrillerCult icon Klaus Kinski features in this dark and intriguing existential thriller. He plays the mysterious "Swiss Man" - ruthless industrialist Nicolas Ulrich - who is obsessed with a search for the elixir of life. He tricks a young American scientist into joining him on his demonic quest. A quest that ends in suicide, death and madness. The story takes place in the atmospheric European city of Amsterdam. Its winding alleys and ancient canals trap the characters in a labyrinthine maze as they find themselves manipulated like figures on a giant chess board.
Lifespan
1975 · 12 votes
Movie6.5DramaHistoryOn the turn of the 20th century, in Netherlands, three socialist activists and brothers are imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit. The prosecutor tries to get to the truth, but their comrades and others betray them.
Movie6.0ComedyRomanceComedy inspired by the true story of Dennis P, who became Holland's biggest diamond thief, when he walked away with the entire 20 million euros stock of an international diamond trader, using a microwave oven as a swagbag.
Dennis P.
2007 · 15 votes
MovieFantasySet in an imaginary country where the trombone orchestra is the heart of power and photographs have a natural size that limits the number of trombone players that can appear on their official picture.
Series5
TV7.0CrimeBaantjer is a Dutch television programme which was broadcast by RTL 4 from 6 October 1995 until 1 December 2006 for a total of 123 episodes in 12 seasons. It stars Piet Römer as Jurriaan 'Jurre' de Cock, a police detective, and Victor Reinier as Dick Vledder, his helper. The series is based on the novels of writer A. C. Baantjer. In 1999, RTL 4 broadcast the television film Baantjer, de film: De Cock en de wraak zonder einde because of the tenth anniversary of the network.
Baantjer
1995 · 22 votes
TV5.3DramaWar & PoliticsA linking together of Shakespeare's history plays — Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, and Richard III — chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the 86 years between Richard II and Richard III.
An Age of Kings
1960 · 4 votes
TV7.5DramaMysteryA television series about a charming, voluntary private detective who chases criminals and in the process tries to find himself.
Heer & Meester
2014 · 4 votes
TV8.5DramaMysteryDutch psychological thriller. The story is set in the fictional North Holland (Netherlands) resort of Boedzand. It is April 28. The Aslan family is busy preparing a large party at the Lido, the beach pavilion that they operate. Father Osman is celebrating his 50th birthday. During the evening party, daughter Yasmin disappears. Yasmin's disappearance and the question of where she is and what happened to her has been the common thread throughout the series. The village of Boedzand is completely upside down: all sorts of people are suspected of being involved, relationships are at stake and sooner or later the deepest secrets of the characters are revealed. What happened to Yasmin? Description above is a translated excerpt from Wikipedia (nl), the free encyclopedia, licensed by CC BY-SA. Contributors list on Wikipedia (nl) Vuurzee.
Vuurzee
2005 · 4 votes
TV7.5DramaAfter the CEO of a milkfactory dies a violent death, his three daughters Roos, Floor and Frédérique take over the company.
Meiden van de Wit
2002 · 2 votes