Movies: Aaf Bouber

  • 1953
    Sterren Stralen Overal

    Sterren Stralen Overal (1953)

    Sterren Stralen Overal

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    Worried about the ‘declining morals’ of 1950s Amsterdam, taxi driver Piet Amstel decides to emigrate to Australia. The government drive to build atomic shelters and the incessant Dutch rain only strengthen his purpose, as Amstel figures sunny Austral...

    Sterren Stralen Overal
  • 1940
    Somewhere in the Netherlands

    Somewhere in the Netherlands (1940)

    Somewhere in the Netherlands

    5.51940HD

    Mobilization on the brink of the Second World War divides a husband and wife. When lawyer Frans van Loon is called up to join the mine clearance service he doesn't want to worry his wife and keeps it from her. His secretiveness leads her to believe h...

    Somewhere in the Netherlands
  • 1934
    The Good Hope

    The Good Hope (1934)

    The Good Hope

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    Fisherman’s widow Kniertje urges her two younger sons to set sail on the ‘Op hoop van zegen’, a heavily insured floating wreck which duly goes down in a storm. Kniertje is left behind, alone and lonely. Based on Herman Heijermans’ socialist-inspire...

    The Good Hope
  • 1935
    Het leven is niet zoo kwaad

    Het leven is niet zoo kwaad (1935)

    Het leven is niet zoo kwaad

    01935HD

    When shaving cream seller Lou Helm is spotted by Anita Mara of the Odeon Revue, who thinks he was born to be a music hall star, he eagerly signs a contract and leaves his girlfriend Annie. His star career, however, does not turn out the way he planne...

    Het leven is niet zoo kwaad
  • 1934
    Bleeke Bet

    Bleeke Bet (1934)

    Bleeke Bet

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    In 1930s Amsterdam, greengrocer Bet is involved in illicit affairs with businessman Van Santen. To tighten bonds even further, Bet arranges a marriage between her handsome daughter Jans and the businessman's wacky son Hannes. Jans, however, is in lov...

    Bleeke Bet
  • 1915
    The Wreck in the North Sea

    The Wreck in the North Sea (1915)

    The Wreck in the North Sea

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    Het wrak in de Noordzee ('The North Sea Wreck') is a fisherman's drama about the romance between the daughter of a Scheveningen captain and a young fisherman. Their love is threatened when another fisherman sinks the boat of his rival, and blackmails...

    The Wreck in the North Sea
  • 1938
    Daddy Long Legs

    Daddy Long Legs (1938)

    Daddy Long Legs

    01938HD

    Judy Aalders grows up in an orphanage. Albert Woudenberg happens to be present when Judy confronts the trustees of the orphanage and is expelled. He decides to send her to university and Judy, who has only ever seen his shadowy long legs, refers to h...

    Daddy Long Legs
  • 1934
    The Tars

    The Tars (1934)

    The Tars

    6.31934HD

    After serving in the Royal Navy, Manus, Toon and Dries return to Amsterdam working-class quarter 'the Jordaan'. Back home, they find out things have changed while they were gone; Manus's girl Jans has been unfaithful to him, Toon's father now rejects...

    The Tars
  • 1938
    De laatste dagen van een eiland

    De laatste dagen van een eiland (1938)

    De laatste dagen van een eiland

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    De laatste dagen van een eiland
  • 1939
    Tomorrow It Will Be Better

    Tomorrow It Will Be Better (1939)

    Tomorrow It Will Be Better

    6.51939HD

    Still coming to terms with the death of her mother, Willy Verhulst loses her father as well -- just as she is about to sit her final exams. She manages to pass, and as she is trying to find a job she remembers a young man she met in the hospital. The...

    Tomorrow It Will Be Better
  • 1935
    Sugar Lady

    Sugar Lady (1935)

    Sugar Lady

    71935HD

    Dirk van der Kooy returns to the Dutch East Indies for a five year stint as the administrator of a sugar factory. His second wife Betje, however, unexpectedly decides to join him. Once there, she finds out that Dirk has a daughter from an earlier mar...

    Sugar Lady
  • 1938
    Forty Years

    Forty Years (1938)

    Forty Years

    01938HD

    This government commissioned film -- made on the occasion of the forty year anniversary of queen Wilhelmina's reign -- chronicles the lives of two Dutch families from 1898 to 1938 against the backdrop of the social and political events of the times....

    Forty Years
  • 1931
    Waar een Wil is, is een Weg!

    Waar een Wil is, is een Weg! (1931)

    Waar een Wil is, is een Weg!

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    Waar een Wil is, is een Weg!
  • 1916
    Genius Against Violence

    Genius Against Violence (1916)

    Genius Against Violence

    51916HD

    Van Duylen, representative of a diamond syndicate, brings to Amsterdam the Koh-I-Noor II , the largest diamond ever found. In one of the city's oldest diamond-cutting establishments it is cleft and the nine small stones are polished. Escorted by dete...

    Genius Against Violence
  • 1924
    The Dutch Circus

    The Dutch Circus (1924)

    The Dutch Circus

    61924HD

    After years of touring abroad with his "Cirque Hollandais", Hendrik van Dalen returns to Holland, hoping that his brother will lend him financial support. Since the death of his wife, things have gone from bad to worse with Hendrik, who drowns his so...

    The Dutch Circus
  • 1936
    Oranje Hein

    Oranje Hein (1936)

    Oranje Hein

    01936HD

    Mientje comes from an ordinary working class family. Her father's alcoholism threatens to put an end to her engagement to Herman, her well to do fiancée. When her parents divorce, Mientje comes into conflict with her future mother-in-law. A grim but ...

    Oranje Hein
  • 1936
    Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood

    Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood (1936)

    Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood

    71936HD

    Merijntje Gijzen is a small boy growing up in Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands. One day, out on one of his walks, he meets infamous poacher 'De Kruik,' and the two become friends. De Kruik is in love with Janekee but she is more interested in...

    Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood