Jan de Bont

Jan de Bont

Jan de Bont (Dutch: [ˈjɑn də ˈbɔnt]; born October 22, 1943) is a Dutch retired cinematographer, director and film producer. He is best known for directing the films Speed (1994) and Twister (1996). As a director of photography, de Bont also worked on numerous blockbusters and genre films, including Roar, Cujo, Flesh and Blood, Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, Lethal Weapon 3, and Basic Instinct.

  • Title: Jan de Bont
  • Popularity: 5.208
  • Known For: Camera
  • Birthday: 1943-10-22
  • Place of Birth: Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
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  • Also Known As: Jan De Bont, Jan DeBont, Jan Debont
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Jan de Bont Movies

  • 2007
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    Dog Days: The Making of 'Cujo'

    Dog Days: The Making of 'Cujo'

    5 2007 HD

    Documentary about the making of the 1983 thriller "Cujo"

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  • 2003
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    Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'The Hunt for Red October'

    Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'The Hunt for Red October'

    5.4 2003 HD

    This program features the standard mix of movie clips, production materials, and interviews. Cast and crew start at the beginning and discussed the...

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  • 2016
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    Ken San

    Ken San

    6 2016 HD

    KEN SAN pieces together the puzzle of the life and legacy of Japan's mythical acting icon, Ken Takakura. Collaborators, friends and family tell...

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  • 2006
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    Black Rain: Making The Film

    Black Rain: Making The Film

    6 2006 HD

    A documentary on the making of the film, Black Rain, which actually encompasses 4 parts, Production, Filming, The Script and Cast, Post-Production

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  • 1992
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    The Ditvoorst Domains

    The Ditvoorst Domains

    4 1992 HD

    Documentary about the Dutch film director Adriaan Ditvoorst.

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  • 1992
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    Lethal Weapon 3

    Lethal Weapon 3

    6.698 1992 HD

    Archetypal buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh are back for another round of high-stakes action, this time setting their collective sights on bringing down...

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  • 2020
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    Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone

    Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone

    4.3 2020 HD

    A documentary about the Paul Verhoeven's cult classic Basic Instinct.

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  • 1965
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    1, 2, 3, Rhapsody

    1, 2, 3, Rhapsody

    1 1965 HD

    An iconoclastic first film from the headstrong teenagers of the 1,2,3 Group, who took turns to write, direct, and star in a series of irreverent...

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  • 2002
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    Minority Report

    Minority Report

    7.4 2002 HD

    John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the...

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  • 1992
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    Basic Instinct

    Basic Instinct

    6.92 1992 HD

    Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had...

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  • 1988
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    Die Hard

    Die Hard

    7.8 1988 HD

    NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the...

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  • 1997
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    Speed 2: Cruise Control

    Speed 2: Cruise Control

    4.597 1997 HD

    A disgruntled former employee hijacks the Seabourn Legend cruise liner. Set on a fixed course, without any means of communication and at the mercy of...

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  • 1994
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    Speed

    Speed

    7.141 1994 HD

    Jack Traven, an LAPD cop on SWAT detail, and veteran SWAT officer Harry Temple thwart an extortionist-bomber's scheme for a $3 million ransom....

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  • 1996
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    Twister

    Twister

    6.5 1996 HD

    An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a...

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  • 1990
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    The Hunt for Red October

    The Hunt for Red October

    7.383 1990 HD

    A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The...

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  • 1985
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    The Jewel of the Nile

    The Jewel of the Nile

    6.2 1985 HD

    Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary...

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  • 1989
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    Black Rain

    Black Rain

    6.586 1989 HD

    Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to...

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  • 1992
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    Lethal Weapon 3

    Lethal Weapon 3

    6.698 1992 HD

    Archetypal buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh are back for another round of high-stakes action, this time setting their collective sights on bringing down...

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  • 2003
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    Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

    Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

    5.748 2003 HD

    Off the coast of the volcanic island of Santorini, the intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft makes the unexpected discovery of a pulsating golden orb...

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  • 1983
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    Cujo

    Cujo

    6.1 1983 HD

    A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

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  • 1981
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    Roar

    Roar

    5.935 1981 HD

    Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.

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  • 1973
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    Turkish Delight

    Turkish Delight

    6.9 1973 HD

    Eric, a gifted sculptor, has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.

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  • 1999
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    The Haunting

    The Haunting

    5.5 1999 HD

    Dr. David Marrow invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate...

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  • 1999
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    The Haunting

    The Haunting

    5.5 1999 HD

    Dr. David Marrow invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate...

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  • 1986
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    Ruthless People

    Ruthless People

    6.607 1986 HD

    A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation—without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.

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  • 1985
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    Flesh + Blood

    Flesh + Blood

    6.6 1985 HD

    A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague...

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  • 1965
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    1, 2, 3, Rhapsody

    1, 2, 3, Rhapsody

    1 1965 HD

    An iconoclastic first film from the headstrong teenagers of the 1,2,3 Group, who took turns to write, direct, and star in a series of irreverent...

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  • 1966
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    Body and Soul

    Body and Soul

    1 1966 HD

    Short film, shot in twenty hours, about a bodybuilder who is stunned to discover he no longer has his body under control. He wonders whether all the...

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  • 2012
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    The Paperboy

    The Paperboy

    5.541 2012 HD

    As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger...

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  • 1976
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    She

    She

    1 1976 HD

    A woman as an object of poetic observation seen through the eager eye of the camera. Cinematic means are used to reflect the moods of women.

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  • 1969
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    The White Slave

    The White Slave

    2 1969 HD

    A man visits his girlfriend in Amsterdam after the war. He soon finds himself, for inexplicable reasons, in a country house where two women as 'white...

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  • 1985
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    Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story

    Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story

    4 1985 HD

    The film details the life of Ray Mancini, a World Boxing Association world lightweight champion boxer from 1982 to 1984, Hollywood actor and a member...

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  • 2002
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    Equilibrium

    Equilibrium

    7.045 2002 HD

    In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A...

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  • 1981
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    Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

    Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

    6.7 1981 HD

    Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy...

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  • 1976
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    Max Havelaar

    Max Havelaar

    6 1976 HD

    An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is cohvinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually...

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  • 1990
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    Parker Kane

    Parker Kane

    5.6 1990 HD

    Parker Kane is a former Police Detective turned Private Investigator. When close friend Joey is murdered, leaving behind a briefcase full of money,...

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  • 1969
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    Carna

    Carna

    5.8 1969 HD

    Although it was actually an impersonal commissioned film, the director's style is clearly recognizable. Once again he manages to make something that...

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  • 2012
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    There Is No Plane to Zagreb

    There Is No Plane to Zagreb

    1 2012 HD

    A retrospective of events in director Louis van Gasteren’s life from 1964 to 1969, filmed by him in that period and reflected on from his...

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  • 1982
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    I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

    I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

    6 1982 HD

    An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.

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  • 1984
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    Bad Manners

    Bad Manners

    5.7 1984 HD

    Four teens on the run from an orphanage spring a fellow orphan recently adopted by a rich family, then trash the whole house.

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  • 1971
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    Business Is Business

    Business Is Business

    5.7 1971 HD

    The story of two prostitutes working in the Amsterdam Red Light district, and the many strange and unusual men they meet through their work.

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  • 1997
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    Speed 2: Cruise Control

    Speed 2: Cruise Control

    4.597 1997 HD

    A disgruntled former employee hijacks the Seabourn Legend cruise liner. Set on a fixed course, without any means of communication and at the mercy of...

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  • 1997
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    Speed 2: Cruise Control

    Speed 2: Cruise Control

    4.597 1997 HD

    A disgruntled former employee hijacks the Seabourn Legend cruise liner. Set on a fixed course, without any means of communication and at the mercy of...

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  • 1983
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    The 4th Man

    The 4th Man

    6.7 1983 HD

    A man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.

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  • 1969
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    De baby in de boom

    De baby in de boom

    1 1969 HD

    Short film, in which three boys want to go swimming on a Sunday afternoon, but one of the three has to look after his baby sister. They decide to...

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  • 1967
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    Sabotage

    Sabotage

    1 1967 HD

    Short film about four boys who clash with the custodian of a construction site, because the growing number of buildings impedes on their playground....

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  • 1990
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    Flatliners

    Flatliners

    6.5 1990 HD

    Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death,...

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  • 1981
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    Private Lessons

    Private Lessons

    5.784 1981 HD

    Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who develops a crush on Nicole Mallow, the new 30-something, French housekeeper and...

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  • 1987
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    Who's That Girl

    Who's That Girl

    5.5 1987 HD

    An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female...

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  • 1971
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    The Wrestler

    The Wrestler

    4.5 1971 HD

    A worried father tries to end the relationship that his son Andries has with the wife of a wrestler.

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  • 1986
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    The Clan of the Cave Bear

    The Clan of the Cave Bear

    5.2 1986 HD

    Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would...

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  • 1973
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    The Family

    The Family

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1967
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    Paranoia

    Paranoia

    5 1967 HD

    A man is under the illusion he is a wanted war criminal.

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  • 1983
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    All the Right Moves

    All the Right Moves

    5.8 1983 HD

    Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football...

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  • 1971
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    Blue Movie

    Blue Movie

    4.9 1971 HD

    25-year-old Michael has been released from prison after a five-year sentence. He moves into a big apartment block, filled with young women who gladly...

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  • 1985
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    Madonna: The Virgin Tour — Live

    Madonna: The Virgin Tour — Live

    7.4 1985 HD

    Madonna: The Virgin Tour — Live contains the concert footage from The Virgin Tour, filmed at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan on May 25, 1985....

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  • 1970
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    Een winterliefde

    Een winterliefde

    1 1970 HD

    Short film from 1970.

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  • 1992
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    Shining Through

    Shining Through

    6.523 1992 HD

    Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World...

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  • 2003
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    Thoughtcrimes

    Thoughtcrimes

    6.4 2003 HD

    Freya McAllister suddenly starts hearing voices in her head on the night of her High School Prom. One night Dr Michael Welles arrives telling Freya...

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  • 1982
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    Breach of Contract

    Breach of Contract

    1 1982 HD

    A husband and wife, both of whom are career-oriented, agree never to step on the other's ambitions. Unfortunately, both become too ambitious for...

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  • 1975
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    Katie Tippel

    Katie Tippel

    6.6 1975 HD

    In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless...

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  • 1981
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    Roar

    Roar

    5.935 1981 HD

    Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.

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  • 1981
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    Roar

    Roar

    5.935 1981 HD

    Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.

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  • 1969
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    Begrijpt u nu waarom ik huil?

    Begrijpt u nu waarom ik huil?

    1 1969 HD

    The work of Leiden professor Bastiaans on dealing with the trauma of war victims attracts the attention of filmmaker Louis van Gasteren. He decides...

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  • 1975
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    The Last Train

    The Last Train

    1 1975 HD

    The film is set in a signalman's house during the German occupation. When it turns out that the mother has committed adultery with a German, things...

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  • 1972
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    João and the Knife

    João and the Knife

    1 1972 HD

    Against all advice, a destitute Brazilian old man marries a nineteen-year-old girl. Because he can’t give her any children, he moves to the...

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  • 1965
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    That Way to Madra

    That Way to Madra

    1 1965 HD

    A conscript is given leave to visit his wife who has been admitted to hospital after a road accident. Dutch student film in the vein of the French...

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  • 1973
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    De blinde fotograaf

    De blinde fotograaf

    5.8 1973 HD

    A journalist has to interview a blind photographer.

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  • 1970
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    Joop Strikes Again...

    Joop Strikes Again...

    1 1970 HD

    Joop is sleeping in the apartment of his friend Bernard. He is waken up by a woman who is looking for Bernard. Later they babysit the neighbor's...

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  • 1987
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    Leonard Part 6

    Leonard Part 6

    2.9 1987 HD

    After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his...

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  • 1998
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    SLC Punk

    SLC Punk

    7.1 1998 HD

    Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.

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  • 1992
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    HBO First Look

    HBO First Look

    4.9 1992 HD

    HBO First Look is an American television show on HBO that chronicles up and coming movies. It first started in 1992 with a documentary on A League of...

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  • 1970
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    HBO First Look

    HBO First Look

    7.957 1970 HD

    Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in...

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  • 1970
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    HBO First Look

    HBO First Look

    1 1970 HD

    Past in time, when The Sons of Liberty, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere and John Hancock risked everything to shape a defining moment in American history,...

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