Josée Ruiter

Acting

Josée Ruiter

Born 1947-01-01 · Alkmaar, Netherlands

Acting credits

Flanagan poster
5.1

Paul Flanagan is released from jail after serving for 8 years. He only has two things on his mind. First: to retrieve the money from the robbery he was convicted for. Secondly: to get revenge on his partners in crime (his half-brother Paul and his ex-lover Cathy), who got away Scot free and never once visited him in jail.

Flanagan

1975

Max poster
6.3

Max sells trophies, but is much more interested in dancing than in selling

Max

1994

Medea poster
7.0

Frans Zwartjes' adaptation of Euripides' tragedy, originally produced for stage by the actresses Josée Ruiter and Çanci Geraerdts.

Medea

1982

Going Home poster
5.7

Johan Ten Berghe joins the Dutch army when the Dutch East Indies unilaterally declare independence as Indonesia. He initiates his naive driver Twan in life in the East, having grown up there as son of colonial official Hendrik, now missing. Their adventures intertwine with Johan's childhood memories, especially concerning his native best friend, Oeroeg, who joined the rebellion, as well as their nanny and later de facto stepmother. Conflicting loyalties become tangible in extreme situations

Going Home

1993

Mortal Sin poster
5.0

Psychodrama. Black and white images of a mining area under the influence of a highly orthodox Catholicism in the 1930s are interspersed with color images of a protest action to save a small church.

Mortal Sin

1978

No artwork available
7.0

The point of departure for this film is the 1981 composition De Tijd by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. Van der Keuken leaves the music undisturbed as an autonomous soundtrack and has the images engage in a sort of battle with it. These images are associations, fragments of events, scenes and situations. The film is preceded by a text by Bert Schierbeek.

Time

1984

Lucifer poster
7.0

Afraid that man will in time become a threat to the inhabitants of heaven, governor angel Lucifer leads a rebellion against God. Registration of Joost van den Vondel's classic stage play, performed by the Publiekstheater.

Lucifer

1981

The Rising Sun poster
NR

The small business of the De Sterke family is threatened when their ever-expanding neighbour, department store 'The Rising Sun', starts taking away their customers.

The Rising Sun

1978

The Silent Pacific poster
9.0

Unrelenting pessimism dominates this slow-paced, dark film, the debut feature from director Digna Sinke dedicated to an archetypal born loser named Marian (Josee Ruiter). Marian is a journalist who has been working in Latin America and who arrives home just after her father dies to find out that the man she had married for purely political reasons might be deported because the authorities found out he was not living with her. Meanwhile, Marian is upset that her mother and sister are keeping her mentally handicapped brother in an institution, and she goes there to get him released into her custody -- a mistake it turns out. He is actually worse off with her, and vice-versa. On top of everything, Marian cannot break away from the depression she feels over a tragic incident that happened while she was in Latin America -- and anything she does is colored by that moment from the past. These burdens become almost too much to bear, both for Marian and the viewers.

The Silent Pacific

1984

The Five Are Marching In poster
4.7

Four inmates are ordered to enter an annual four day walking tournament. When they get over their initial annoyment, each one of them finds a way to take advantage of their time out of jail.

The Five Are Marching In

1974

Het Beest poster
3.0

When he finds out that his company has expropriated his own mother, a successful young manager gets deeply upset. Money and power now have a different meaning. He needs to struggle against his own self and stake everything in order to reorganize true values in his life. His career is at stake. When his mother dies in the pension she's been put, his point of limit is reached. He feels responsible and takes revenge through terrorist actions. The beast explodes.

Het Beest

1982

The Romantic Agony poster
7.0

The vagrant Noel is immortal and doomed to roam the world from the Stone Age to the present day.

The Romantic Agony

1973

Anna, Child of the Daffodils poster
5.5

The story of a young woman with mental problems told in a non-chronological fashion.

Anna, Child of the Daffodils

1975

Esther, voorgoed op reis poster
8.0

TV movie based on the clearing of the Jewish psychiatric hospital "Het Apeldoornse Bosch" on 23 January 1943.

Esther, voorgoed op reis

1975

No artwork available
7.0

A rich couple. He is obsessed with gadgets, she is a housewife growing more depressed and alcoholic by the day. Commercials on television form a cynic commentary on their lives. The neighborhood becomes the playground of youth gangs. A Ballardian commentary on and funny nightmare vision of modern life.

Video & Julia

1979

The Butterfly Lifts the Cat Up poster
4.6

David Storm learned 10 years ago that he has MS. For this reason and without telling her he leaves his girlfriend, Linda. Now he lives alone and only his brother, Anton, has much contact with him.

The Butterfly Lifts the Cat Up

1994