Dirk Roofthooft
Birthday: Born in 1959-01-01 in Antwerp, Belgium
Deathday: Alive
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De Bende van Jan de Lichte
Character: Jean-Joseph Coffijn
Charismatic highwayman Jan de Lichte leads the oppressed and downtrodden in a revolt against the corrupt aristocracy of 18th-century Belgium....
De Partizanen
Character: de Sjoester
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Clan
Character: Jean-Claude "De Kloot" Delcorps
A visually stunning, delicious blend of crime thriller and black comedy from Belgium featuring five sisters, one evil dead husband and two nosy life insurance salesmen. Desperate Housewives on acid....
Zone Stad
Character: Abused husband
Zone Stad is a Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Antwerp. In the series, police officers solve various crimes, which are shown as realistically as possible....
De Infiltrant
Character: Freddy Bernaerts
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Moeder, waarom leven wij?
Character:
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Het verdriet van België
Character: Nonkel Florent
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Heer & Meester
Character: Reinhard Boden
A television series about a charming, voluntary private detective who chases criminals and in the process tries to find himself....
Terug naar Oosterdonk
Character: Pietje de Leugenaar
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Zuidflank
Character: Willem Deweerdt
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De Ronde
Character: Boudewijn De Bock
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Chaussée d'Amour
Character: Ludo Beets
When her marriage fails Sylvia is forced to move with her children into a brothel on the Chaussée d'Amour. Out of financial necessity she decides to exploit the bar. Meanwhile a detective tries to solve an old murder case....
Ferry: de serie
Character: Mick de Boer
Desperate for funds, Ferry Bouman stumbles upon a golden opportunity when a high-profile bust leaves a vacant position among Brabant's top dealers....
Movie Credits
The Dark Diamond
Character: Lambik
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Accomplices
Character: Georges
Philippe works as a Judge at the criminal court. He has a complicated relationship with his son Hugues. One night Hugues commits a deadly hit and run while driving home drunk. To protect his only son, Philippe chooses to cover up the evidences....
WILL
Character: Felix Verschaffel
Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II....
Skunk
Character: Jos
The story of Liam, a neglected teenager who lives in a family where alcohol, violence and sex play the main role. He grows up to be a confused youngster which ends in a very aggressive act to break with his past....
Those Who Work
Character: Pavel
Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he’s on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to deal with a crisis situation, Frank makes a brutal decision and gets fired. Profoundly shaken, betrayed by a system to which he gave his all, he has to progressively question himself to save the one connection that still matters to him: the bond he’s ma...
The Wedding Party
Character: Roger Janssen
In rural Westphalia, Franz Berger struggles to keep his inn open. On this day, a bluff, overbearing bully, Hermann Walzer, has booked the dining room for a wedding banquet for his son Mark. There's bad blood between Berger and Walzer, so when the first course, shrimp cocktail, is off, Hermann storms out with the wedding party vowing not to pay. Franz locks the loo door, taking prisoners of the bride and Hermann's wife while he also locks the estate's outer gates, leaving Hermann and the rest out...
Any Way the Wind Blows
Character: Firmin
Antwerp, at the beginning of June. On a sunny Friday, eight people dream of having a different life. There's wind and music, police and paranoia, gossip and fighting. There's an old virus, an astrayed frisbee, a dead horse, and a mysterious person called Windman. In the evening there's a party …...
Magonia
Character: Father
A sea faring father, a man living on the edge of mental sanity, periodically sees his young son. During the visits, the father tells the boy stories, exotic as well as close to home, about Magonia. This is a mythical place where clouds represent impossible dreams and unfulfilled desires. But the characters in this imaginary place all curiously resemble people now living near the father....
Rosie
Character: Bernard Vermarcke
In a juvenile lockup, a new ward answers questions: she's Rosie, 13, no parents, a sister Irene, a brother Michel. In flashbacks we find out what happened. She lives with Irene, who's 27, whom Rosie knows is in fact her mother, but that's their secret. Irene's brother Michel, unemployed, a compulsive gambler, comes to stay with them. Around then, Irene meets Bernard; they come to care for each other. This leaves Rosie without attention, so she puts all her adolescent hopes and romantic fantasies...
Olivetti 82
Character: Bernard
A man with bloody hands is arrested as prime suspect in a murder case. He does not understand why and refuses to cooperate. Bernard Van de Wiele, the suspect, is a writer. One of the police inspectors comes up with the idea to give him a typewriter: an Olivetti 82. The interrogators hope that this way he will agree to share his story. Bernard begins his memoir: a long search for love and protection. Little by little the truth comes to light....
The Prime Minister
Character: Chief
The Belgian PM is abducted and he finds his wife and children taken hostage. If he wants to see them again – alive – he has to kill the person he is meeting later that day. And that person is no less than... the president of the United States....
The Storm
Character: Julia's father
A fictional story within the historical context of the disastrous flood that engulfed the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland in 1953. When their farmhouse is destroyed by the flood, teenage mother Julia gets separated from her baby boy, whom she kept hidden in a box. She is saved from drowning by a young air force lieutenant, who agrees to go help looking for Julia's little son....
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Character: Father Conrardy
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers....
The Memory of a Killer
Character: Vader Cuypers
Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. Since Ledda starts showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, it's getting more and more difficult to complete his contracts. When he has to murder a 12-year old call-girl, he refuses and becomes a target himself. While Vincke and Verstuyft are chasing him and c...
Heer & Meester: De Film
Character: Reinhard Boden
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Bastaard
Character: Paul Coussement
Two years after the tragic loss of his older brother, 17-year-old Daan unwillingly goes along when his grieving family decides to give shelter to a homeless teenager called Radja. But as Daan witnesses how this stranger's presence deeply affects his mother, he starts to unravel Radja's mysterious past....
Cheese
Character: Boorman
Frans Laarmans temporarily abandons his job as an office worker to become a salesman for a big cheese company....
The End of the Journey
Character: Youth playing foosball in the pub
A 40-year-old mother struggles to deal with the anxiety of growing older after her eldest daughter moves out and the youngest distances herself....
Cruise Control
Character: Bob Kets
Life does not go well the last couple of years for film director Serge Gabriëls. Since the day he chose his career above the woman of his life, things kept going downhill. When a bailiff was sent to declare his production company bankrupt, he lost all hope and perspective. Fortunately at that crucial moment he received the one phone call he has been waiting for his whole life. Out of the blue, Serge is offered the opportunity to realize the dream of his lifetime: to shoot a real love story....
Suite 16
Character: Marc
After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris finds himself trapped inside. With nowhere to go and the cops closing in on the hotel fast, he wanders into "Suite 16" in a fit of despair. Inside, a handicapped and wheelchair bound Glover is held captive for the evening once discovered by Chris. However, things change the next day when Glover informs Chris that the woman he slept with is now dead; and that he surely will be sought out for her murder...
The Warriors of Beauty
Character:
The film is a labyrinth with multiple entrances, where an unlikely Ariane in wedding gown guides and misleads the viewer in a strange world marked by metamorphosis, multiple personalities, conflicting drives, parody, ritual, surreality....
The Stowaway
Character: Zeeman
Orazbaz, who lives in Uzbek, longs to leave his tiny fishing village. He becomes a stowaway on a ship thinking that he will end up in Manhattan. Instead he ends up in Rotterdam and is taken in by a lonely woman, but he is eventually betrayed by her jealous husband....
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Character: Pa Holleeder
The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid....
Loft
Character: Mannelijke ondervrager
Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder....
Zillion
Character: Herman Goossens
It's 1997. Frank Verstraeten, a computer genius with a nose for business, a fascination for nightlife and an unhealthy urge to prove himself, only wants one thing: his own disco that not only outperforms the competition but simply humiliates it. The futuristic mega discotheque Zillion is a fact and Frank turns from computer dealer to the pivotal figure of the Antwerp nightlife. He parades with the most beautiful women in Belgium and forges an alliance with Dennis Black Magic, the porn king who p...