Mads Wittermans

Acting

Mads Wittermans

Born

1977-01-22 (49)

Place of birth

Drachten, Friesland, Netherlands

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Mads Wittermans is a Dutch actor. He is the son of fellow actor Joop Wittermans.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 10 titles

Nova Zembla poster
5.5

Gerrit de Veer, a novice writer on a 16th-century Dutch merchant vessel, chronicles the daring mission to discover a trade route across the North Pole to Asia. But the heroic journey turns into tragedy when the ship gets stuck in the relentless, penetrating ice. The men are forced to spend the winter on the frozen, arctic wasteland of Nova Zembla, fighting polar bears, hunger and lethal temperatures. Their chances of making it until the following spring are virtually zero.

Nova Zembla

2011

The Resistance Banker poster
6.7

In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.

The Resistance Banker

2018

Nena poster
5.9

The film tells the story of sixteen-year-old Nena, who is confronted with the suicide attempt of her handicapped father. At the same time she falls head over heels in love for the first time in her life with Carlo, whose father has just outed himself. Away from prying eyes of the adults - who struggle with failed marriages, blossoming love and insufferable physical decline - they push the boundaries of their friendship, love and sexuality. But while discovering her own lust for life, Nena realizes that her father's existence is becoming more and more unbearable.

Nena

2014

No artwork available
NR

The remarkable friendship of a lifelong prisoner and 10 year old girl.

Vrij

2014

Alpha poster
NR

Alpha shows the tense relationship between a son and his mother. Chiel is unable to associate with the religion of his mother and is resisting actively. Vera loses control over her adolescent teenager. Then, one evening, the pastor comes by to solve the conflict.

Alpha

2019

Haven poster
NR

A father who's lost faith in his son completely, gives him one last chance to kick drugs for good.

Haven

2018

Remember to check out poster
6.0

Short journey by tram in a big city where an older woman and a hasty man are bound together by circumstances. He is not pleased with it. Or is he?

Remember to check out

2016

Cop vs. Killer poster
6.3

Enigmatic Dutch crime lord Mirko is always a step ahead of the national police team. When Mirko's gang are forced to kill Russian mob baron Jegor's cousin Oleg, the cops hope their time has come. Both sides resort to dirty tricks, testing loyalties and using the antagonists' daughters and independent pimp Aziz for blackmail, which makes several bloody victims.

Cop vs. Killer

2012

No artwork available
NR

Jos wakes up in a homeless shelter in Groningen (North of the Netherlands). It's a place to stay for the night. At 10am the street life starts over again. Come rain or shine. It doesn't matter if you're ill or don't feel like leaving. At 10pm people are welcome again. For Jos, this is a day like many other, or isn't it?

Heroin

2013

Polyp poster
NR

Back at the fun fair where he grew up, Djarno (15) is confronted with a painful decision his father made. How can you say goodbye to your childhood when you desperately want to hang on to it?

Polyp

2018

2000s · 7 titles

Phileine Says Sorry poster
5.4

Gorgeous Dutch youngster Max has two passions, acting and girls. The first becomes his brilliant career, which takes off so well he gets invited to a prestigious New York theatre course for a year. But since he met fickle bitch Phileine in an Utrecht park, his flirting life is cut short while she cruelly plays with his feelings rather then his horny body. After refusing to follow him, she turns up uninvited later and still acts jealous and possessive. Grief follows for everyone, working up to a convoluted finale.

Phileine Says Sorry

2003

De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe poster
6.2

Hajo wants nothing more than to join captain Bontekoe’s crew. His mother, who lost her husband at sea, does everything she can to keep him ashore, but the call of the sea is too strong. Together with Padde and Rolf, he sets sail for the East.

De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe

2007

Godforsaken! poster
6.2

Two small town Dutch boys whose socially unnatural friendship is so close, they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality, sliding into violent crime.

Godforsaken!

2003

The Skippers of the Cameleon poster
6.3

Two young boy twins receive a boat of their own by a stroke of luck. It turns out to be very fast and they use their boat to help out their friends.

The Skippers of the Cameleon

2003

Dead End poster
5.6

A group of young people head off on a vacation. When the car breaks down they're forced to find help. In the woods they find a house and some angry dogs which were by their car too. They decide to enter the house and that's where all the madness begins.

Dead End

2006

Uitgesloten poster
5.8

Uitgesloten is set in 1983. Jonathan is 18 and, just like his best friend Coen, he has grown up in the Jehovah's Witnesses. In this world with its strict rules, Jonathan and Coen however have their own ideas. Both have girlfriends, Marjan and Annemiek, who live in a very different world: the girls study at art school and mix with squatters. The boys do not tell their girlfriends about their background and they anxiously keep Marjan and Annemiek hidden from their own community. The friends lead a double life: they ring doorbells to distribute the Ontwaakt! and play in a band for the Jehovah's Witnesses, while they also visit ska concerts and squatters' bars and become increasingly caught up in the worldly life of Marjan and Annemiek.

Uitgesloten

2001

Whitefish poster
NR

Whitefish is a thriller set in a closed Dutch fisherman's village community. Hans, a religious fisherman and his rebellious brother Stijn try to save their necessitous fishing boat. Their difficult relationship seems to put success in the way, until one day they catch a huge amount of drugs in their nets. Stijn badly wants to get rid of it, but Hans hesitates. Maybe their prayers are heard and this is the chance to get out of trouble? Or is Stijn's fear well grounded and is the real misery now only to begin..?

Whitefish

2009

Series credits

Flikken Maastricht poster
7.0

Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.

Flikken Maastricht

2007

Flikken Maastricht poster
7.0

Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.

Flikken Maastricht

2007

Mocro Maffia poster
7.9

Best friends Romano, Potlood and De Paus rise in the rank of the criminal world. Before they know it, they run Amsterdam's entire coke market. Because of jealousy, their relation becomes complicated and ends up hostile.

Mocro Maffia

2018

Flikken Rotterdam poster
7.3

Flikken Rotterdam takes place in Rotterdam, and is after Flikken Maastricht the second Dutch spin-off of the Flemish show Flikken.

Flikken Rotterdam

2016

No artwork available
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

12 steden, 13 ongelukken

1990

Moordvrouw poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Moordvrouw

2012

Penoza poster
7.8

Carmen, the daughter of a notorious Amsterdam drug lord, reluctantly takes charge of the family's smuggling business in order to clear her husband's debts.

Penoza

2010

Keyzer & De Boer Advocaten poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Keyzer & De Boer Advocaten

2005

Godforsaken True Killers poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Godforsaken True Killers

2011

Fort Alpha poster
8.0

While the original 1996 series was set in a secondary school, the new version shifts the story to a vocational college: Fort Alpha. When the renowned, provincial Fort Alpha merges with the urban MBO Oostland, two vastly different worlds collide. This divide quickly ignites a fierce conflict, putting friendships, relationships, and the future of Fort Alpha and its students at stake.

Fort Alpha

2026

Spoorloos verdwenen poster
8.0

A special team searches for missing persons.

Spoorloos verdwenen

2006

Anoniem poster
7.2

History teacher Jurre and public prosecutor Sarah each battle the criminal world in their own way. Although the two have been married for years, they keep their double life a secret from each other in order to protect each other and their family. The situation is getting more and more dangerous and their children are no longer safe either.

Anoniem

2023

Suga poster
6.2

After his daughter's tragic death, Suga, the leader of a notorious motorcycle club, struggles to hold his fractured family and gang together. As rival crews and a relentless prosecutor close in, his world shatters when his own brotherhood betrays him. Now, he faces an impossible choice: reclaim his lost power or protect his grieving family.

Suga

2025

High Flyers poster
6.7

Follow three friends through their many years of intensive training to become fighter pilots with the Royal Netherlands Air Force and as they graduate and carry out a dangerous mission in the Middle East.

High Flyers

2020

Sphinx poster
6.6

Early one morning, 14-year-old Minke Moorman is kidnapped. Three years later she reappears out of nowhere, completely feral and with a mysterious wing tattoo on her back. After her return, the entire family comes under pressure. Minke has been changed by her traumatic experience and, without anyone knowing, she is still being played by her captor from the shadows.

Sphinx

2024

Judas poster
8.0

Astrid Holleeder works towards the moment when she definitively betrays her brother to Justice. Flashbacks make it clear what childhood she and her brother have wrestled themselves with and how painful, but necessary, her betrayal is.

Judas

2019

No artwork available
6.0

Floor Faber (27) lives with her cat in the center of Amsterdam. She has a boring job at an insurance company, but one day she'll have a successful career. And find true love, as she would make a great mom, some time later. But first she has to find out what to do with her life, and that is not as easy as it seems.

Floor Faber

2009

Fort Alpha poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

Fort Alpha

1996

De Fractie poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

De Fractie

2015

Badgast poster
4.7

Vince and his daughter Zoë travel to Terschelling for a father-daughter vacation. But he's come to the Dutch island with a sinister mission. Vince is carrying secrets and keeps it a secret from his 15-year-old daughter that he actually has other obligations on the island. Obligations that soon prove questionable and even very dangerous. Zoë then seeks out her own adventures with the local children, which she, in turn, keeps hidden from her father. The more father and daughter try to connect by keeping up appearances, the more they drift apart. When chaos and danger reach a peak, they need each other not only to save their bond but also, quite literally, each other's lives. Vince and Zoë turn out to be more alike than they thought. On vacation, you really get to know each other... above and below the water.

Badgast

2025

Thirteen in the War poster
7.5

In this 13-part history series, presenter Lisa Wade takes us back to World War II. From the occupation to the liberation, from the persecution of Jews to the NSB (Dutch Nazi Party), from the bombing of Rotterdam to the war in the Dutch East Indies.

Thirteen in the War

2009

De 12 Van Schouwendam poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

De 12 Van Schouwendam

2019

Tonnano poster
7.0

After Ashraf's death and Samira's conviction, Tonnano finds himself surrounded by enemies in Amsterdam. With the birth of his son, Tonnano decides to change course. He wants to build an honest life where Amani, the mother of his baby, and her family live: the Achterhoek region. However, his arrival causes unrest within the notorious Eysinck drug family, who have ruled the region for years. When Badr, Amani's uncle, turns out to be in debt to this family, jeopardizing Tonnano's new life, he becomes enraged. Tonnano takes on the notorious family. Who will become the new boss of the Achterhoek region?

Tonnano

2025

Project Orpheus poster
5.5

A group of five top medicine students is admitted to a prestigious program. They'll be working for a renowned professor who turns out to have a secret agenda. The students soon discover a extremely dangerous experiment called Project Orpheus

Project Orpheus

2016

Kijkbuiskinderen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kijkbuiskinderen

2014