Erik de Bruyn (Director)

Baantjer

Baantjer 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.

Release Date1995-10-06

Charactersd Richard de Koning

Episode Count1

Vote Count22

Gooische Vrouwen

Gooische Vrouwen is a Dutch comedy-drama series, created by Linda de Mol for her brother John de Mol's TV network Tien in 2005. However, after the show's second season, Tien went bankrupt and Gooische Vrouwen was transferred to RTL4, where it ran for three more seasons until its finale in 2009. After its 42-episode run the show was followed by a theatrically released feature film in 2011. The show chronicles the everyday lives of four female friends living in het Gooi. Gooische Vrouwen has since been sold to Germany, Belgium, France and Serbia.

Release Date2005-10-30

Charactersd Frank

Episode Count2

Vote Count13

12 steden, 13 ongelukken

Release Date1990-03-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScenario Writer

Charactersd Ruud Mulder

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Elixer

Isabelle Rombauts is unexpectedly appointed CEO of the family business Rombauts Pharma, an important player on the international pharmaceutical market. She soon encounters the consequences of serious mismanagement by her father and brother. And she is faced with a devilish dilemma: should she follow her own conscience? Or the interests of her influential family?

Release Date2025-03-05

Charactersd Merien

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

J. Kessels

J. Kessels is the story of the bizarre road trip taken by a French literary pulp writer with his favourite character J. Kessels. The journey takes them from Tilburg to the Hamburg Reeperbahn in Kessels' old American 'Kamikaze' clunker as they seek out cheating dealer. When they get there they find a corpse in the trunk of the Kamikaze: easy to find, but how do you get rid of it?

Release Date2015-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count20

Under the Palms

This film was shot entirely in Rotterdam and shows the German couple David (Helmut Berger) and Tanya (Sheri Hagen) who are kept by Ludwig (Udo Kier), David's half-brother. Ludwig has some dubious business to do and so he is staying in the port for a while. David and Tanya have followed him and are staying in a hotel. They pass the time committing robberies. When David finds a photo of an attractive young man among the booty of a robbery, his life is turned upside down. He will have to close the door on a suffocating past.

Release Date1999-09-22

Charactersd Non-verbal creep

Vote Count1

How to Survive a Broken Heart

D.C. has been abandoned by his girlfriend Nola, wants to go to Hollywood and participates in 'chicken races' out of desperation and lack of money; a perilous event in which one travels a certain distance on the road by car without stopping.

Release Date1991-04-05

Charactersd DC

Vote Count1

Mates

October 1997. Paul Winters (35) is deputy public prosecutor in Arnhem and is working on his first major case: an investigation in to the allegations of a Bosnian girl that she was raped by three soldiers in the Dutch UN contingent and whose brother is alleged to have been killed by them. Winters suspects that the girl is telling the truth, but he can't prove it and the case is adjourned. Then one of the men gives a revealing statement that throws a different light on the case. Winters argues in favour of reopening the case, but faces opposition from an unexpected quarter.

Release Date1999-02-01

Charactersd Walter

Vote Count1

Smeris

Release Date2014-03-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count10

Godforsaken True Killers

Release Date2011-05-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

Floodland

When a heavily traumatised girl of African origin is found wandering around the polders of the border region between Flanders and the Netherlands, Tara, a Dutch police inspector from Rotterdam, and Bert, a psychiatrist from Antwerp, begin to investigate.

Release Date2019-03-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count8

Hope

The Hope Affair is the story of the fascinating affair between an impassioned woman in the midst of an attack on a conservative male bastion and an éminence grise from that same men’s world. An affair that pitches head against heart. An affair that completely spins out of control. And that can be quite funny.

Release Date2016-04-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

3doc: Racoon Blue days, song days

A documentary about the Dutch band Racoon and their search for a perfect song.

Release Date2015-03-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Poems from the Sea

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 Zeeland. It would offer an opportunity to investigate the limits of the medium film and, just like poetry, not to focus on the story but to tackle universal and grander themes through mood and form. In the end, eight short films were realized, by eight different filmmakers. The films are connected by intermezzi, aerial shots of the Zeeland coasts. Poems of the Sea is a stirring and surprising portrayal of Zeeland. Filled with desires and passion.

Release Date2005-09-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Dream of a Shadow

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

The Witness

The witness walks through the corridors of a courthouse, a floating camera following her. In a pale flashback, she is sternly interrogated by two policemen. In her flashbacks during the examination, we see the events, which seem realistic, but repeatedly turn out to be as changeable and unreliable as the human memory. At a great pace, the three narrative threads take turns, while the witness grows more and more anxious.

Release Date2006-09-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Swingtij (Blue Notes & Higher Grounds)

Release Date2025-04-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The President

A political comedy about an illegal Moroccan who makes it to President of the Netherlands. As we follow his unlikely rise and self-sought fall, Joes learns that it's easy to win the support of the people, but to rule them is a whole other story.

Release Date2011-09-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Nadine

A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and extreme actions.

Release Date2007-10-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Het hart van Hadiah Tromp

The quirky Dutch-Jamaican Hadiah Tromp (21) is the daughter of Navy officer Tromp, who believes his daughter is a perfect fit for the Navy. But Hadiah doesn't like her Navy training. She prefers to stay at home and listen to her collection of old Ska records. When her boyfriend cheats on her, she decides to finish her Navy training. But Hadiah has difficulties feeling at home in the disciplined and closed environment of the naval frigate and she has constant collusions with the handsome but stern Sergeant Major Paul Borremans. Can the impulsive Hadiah stand tall in the Navy world full of rules? Or is she forced to leave the ship early?

Release Date2018-02-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Wild Mussels

A group of friends in their early twenties re-consider their boring lives in a sleepy fishing village in the Netherlands.

Release Date2000-09-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

Pink Ulysses

A homoerotic exploration of the Odyssey mixing black and white, color, and old film clips.

Release Date1990-02-13

Vote Count7

De laatste dagen van het atelier Frans van de Staak

The importance of the Atelier as a meeting and working-place for independent or beginning filmmakers is highlighted in Last days of Studio Frans van de Staak a necrology of his films by Kees Hin (2002), which focuses mainly on Van de Staak's non-naturalistic style of directing actors.

Release Date2002-05-23