Manouk van der Meulen

Acting

Manouk van der Meulen

Born

1961-04-02 (65)

Place of birth

Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 6 titles

Rent-a-Friend poster
5.3

Cheated on by his successful girlfriend for lacking ambition and business-mindedness, an artist sets out to get rich quick by starting a one-man company as a friend for hire.

Rent-a-Friend

2000

Paid poster
4.0

Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story between Paula Gireaux , a 28-year-old Parisian call girl working in Amsterdam and a hit man, Michel Angelo (30) whose hearts are touched when a six-year-old Bolivian boy abruptly enters their lives. The boy changes their fate. He gives them reason to reach for their dreams and to start a whole new life together. But, at the moment Paula and Michel decide to escape the underworld, Paula realizes that her hands are tied to a paid deal she has made with a powerful English narcotics baron, Rudi Dancer (55). The enticing offer Paula could not refuse, turns into the demon that stands in the way of her future with Michel. Eventually, Michel and Paula find their way to freedom but not without paying a high price

Paid

2006

Dankert & Dankert: De Swarte Ingel poster
NR

The Dankert brothers are confronted by a client suspected of killing elderly patients in a hospital. It soon becomes apparent that there is another nurse walking around who is acting extremely suspicious. The Dankerts go on a hunt for exculpatory evidence and encounter surprising cases that pose a huge dilemma for them. How far does a lawyer go in professional secrecy before gnawing in his own private life? A conflict between the two brothers is inevitable.

Dankert & Dankert: De Swarte Ingel

2006

Kingdom poster
7.0

Yorkshire-shot fantasy about talking dragons.

Kingdom

2001

Wallander: The African poster
5.3

Kurt Wallander receives a murder case from the Polish police, it turns out that the victim was shot dead on board a train in Sweden. Most of his face is shot away and for Wallander personally the case gets an unexpected turn. His two closest police colleagues are the daughter Linda, newly graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman.

Wallander: The African

2005

R.I.P. poster
6.8

Night has fallen. A thunderstorm approaches. In a lonely house a young woman mourns her deceased husband. In the cemetery across the street the shape of a man rises from a grave...

R.I.P.

2001

1990s · 10 titles

De nietsnut poster
9.0

For all his life Frank Goudvis has tried not to follow in the footsteps of his father. When his father is mysteriously murdered, Frank loses his alibi for his cherished passivity and decides to travel to the crime scene.

De nietsnut

1994

Traces of Smoke poster
10.0

A portrait of a woman and 26 witnesses who appear to be accusing her of something but we'll never know what. We'll never even know who she is and who the witnesses are. A complex experiment about space, voice and speech.

Traces of Smoke

1992

Passengers poster
10.0

A bus driver on a regular route in the 'polder' moves into a new house with his wife. They are the first inhabitants of a new estate. At the same time, a homeless man and an woman movie into the driver's bus.

Passengers

1990

No artwork available
8.0

A chimney sweep’s daredevil antics are meant to keep a young woman from jumping off the roof. But does she really want to jump? Or does he maybe? A street sweeper is watching and passes the hat round for our hero. Or is he part of the act too?

De Schoorsteenveger

1992

Bastards and Bridesmaids poster
4.7

A story about a bunch of 20-somethings in Amsterdam and their love-life, as told from 2 perspectives.

Bastards and Bridesmaids

1997

No artwork available
4.3

A satire about the difficult way films are made in the Netherlands. The focus is on the painstaking way in which aspiring filmmakers, have to see the script in hand, grants and funds available.

The Night of the Wild Donkeys

1990

State Of Mind poster
7.0

A couple falls into the clutches of a female psychopath.

State Of Mind

1992

Walhalla poster
4.0

Grocer De Feyter is put out of business by competition from a supermarket run by the Moroccan Saïd. To keep afloat, he does the dirty work for a right-wing politician. This man is in cahoots with a project developer who wants to build a furniture superstore in the slum area. With the aid of criminals, they manage to bring racial tension in the area to boiling point. Against this background, affection blossoms between the daughter of the grocer and the son of Saïd, a real Romeo and Juliet. Then a group of skinheads decides to put an end to the fragile romance with violence.

Walhalla

1995

Based on the Novel poster
5.7

The movie stars you see on the screen have once been selected amongst others. The glamor of the premiere is preceded by mug shots, selections, interviews, wining, dining, backstabbing and sex. In the end, everyone gets what they deserve.

Based on the Novel

1999

Het Phoenix Mysterie poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Het Phoenix Mysterie

1990

1980s · 7 titles

Shadow Man poster
10.0

The story of a war refugee who's hiding in Amsterdam.

Shadow Man

1988

The Bosom Friend poster
6.0

In 1811, hilarity ensues when a corrupt Dutch colonel mistakes a quack dentist for one of Napoleon's inspectors general.

The Bosom Friend

1982

Max & Laura & Henk & Willie poster
9.0

The romantic pharmacist Max is in a relationship with Willie and also has a platonic relationship with Laura. The artist Henk is the fourth player in this game of quartets. The foursome is comically torn between the urge for independence and the desire for a partner. Jealousy and relationship anxiety cause the relationships to constantly change, resulting in continuous relocations. In between, there is the minor drama involving Bonita: Max has a passion for pigeons. Together with the melancholic pigeon fancier Gisbers, he is the owner of the cock pigeon Bonita, who never wins any prizes...

Max & Laura & Henk & Willie

1989

Sprong naar de liefde poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sprong naar de liefde

1982

Looking for Eileen poster
6.5

After his wife Marjan has died in a car crash, Philip de Wit becomes a total wreck. Only after months does he return to a more or less normal life and even then he only works in his wife's bookstore. A year later Eileen walks in the store, a girl from Northern Ireland with her baby in her arms. When Philip sees her, he's dumbfounded, for she's the spitting image of his dead wife. Obsessed with her, he goes and tries to find her again, but he soon finds out that he's not the only one who's looking for Eileen.

Looking for Eileen

1987

Murder in Ecstasy poster
5.4

De Cock and Vledder investigate the robbery of an armored truck which leads to several murders.

Murder in Ecstasy

1984

Lost in Amsterdam poster
4.0

A tasty, vulgar, low-budget, urban road movie about a satirical drawn art environment with great impromptu renditions and Peter Falk detective pastiche Wingers to lick your thumbs and fingers. The American-Dutch psychiatrist Bold Wasser plays in his role as Detective Scotty all professional actors of the cloth. Long plan sequence shots give the film an almost documentary, authentic appearance.

Lost in Amsterdam

1989

Series credits

A Touch of Frost poster
7.6

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

A Touch of Frost

1992

Wallander poster
6.9

Detective Kurt Wallander solves gruesome complex crimes in the city of Ystad, Sweden.

Wallander

2005

Baantjer poster
6.9

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.

Baantjer

1995

No artwork available
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

12 steden, 13 ongelukken

1990

Vrijland poster
NR

Drama series for children about love, mischief and adventure starring Sietske van der Bijl and Kim Coelewij.

Vrijland

2010

Barend en Van Dorp poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Barend en Van Dorp

1998

Onderweg naar morgen poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Onderweg naar morgen

1994

Vrouwenvleugel poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vrouwenvleugel

1993

The Legacy poster
8.0

Before the old Andreas Heydecoper wants to commit suicide, he calls all his children and grandchildren to his home in Curaçao. He wants to see his family for the last time. When Andreas has died, his children and grandchildren burn him. But they find out that Andreas wasn't loved by everyone... And when they visit the notary to get their part of the heritage, the notary says they can't. Before they will get the heritage, Andreas's will says they have to find the 'Vuurmeisje'.

The Legacy

2004

Spijkerhoek poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Spijkerhoek

1989

West of Liberty poster
6.6

Based on the novel by Thomas Engström, a former Stasi double agent is asked by his old CIA contact to work one more case.

West of Liberty

2019

Rust Roest poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rust Roest

1989

Fashion Planet poster
2.7

No synopsis available yet.

Fashion Planet

2014