Manouk van der Meulen

Acting

Manouk van der Meulen

Born 1961-04-02 · Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Acting credits

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

Kill Mode poster
5.1

It is the year 2027, eight years after the first outbreak of The Sickness, a highly contagious, adaptive and lethal virus. The world is now run by a pharmaceutical corporation called The Company, which distributes a treatment for the virus but charges a high price for it, putting the majority of people in a state of poverty and dependence.

Kill Mode

2020

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

Shadow Man poster
10.0

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

Shadow Man

1988

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

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

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

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

Dagboek van een zwakke yogi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dagboek van een zwakke yogi

2026

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

Kingdom poster
7.0

Yorkshire-shot fantasy about talking dragons.

Kingdom

2001

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

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

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

State Of Mind poster
7.0

A couple falls into the clutches of a female psychopath.

State Of Mind

1992

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

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

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

How to Survive Hollywood poster
NR

A struggling actress gets one last shot at her Hollywood dream - with just one hour to turn an unreleased Dutch movie into a $100 million sequel to "Babygirl."

How to Survive Hollywood

2026

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

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

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

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