Gerard Thoolen Movies

  • 1985
    The Bitter Herb

    The Bitter Herb

    The Bitter Herb

    6.61985HD

    This film is about the Jewish girl Sara and the ruin of her family during World War II. Her parents have to live in the Jewish ghetto in Amsterdam, bu...

    The Bitter Herb
  • 1976
    Toestanden

    Toestanden

    Toestanden

    01976HD

    "Conditions" - The improvisation-based performance was inspired by psychiatrists such as RD Laing (Family and Madness) and J. Foudraine (Who is of woo...

    Toestanden
  • 1991
    How to Survive a Broken Heart

    How to Survive a Broken Heart

    How to Survive a Broken Heart

    01991HD

    D.C. has been abandoned by his girlfriend Nola, wants to go to Hollywood and participates in 'chicken races' out of desperation and lack of money; a p...

    How to Survive a Broken Heart
  • 1987
    Count Your Blessings

    Count Your Blessings

    Count Your Blessings

    4.31987HD

    Alternating comedy and drama this portrait of different families on three floors in an Amsterdam building where the stairs symbolizes the suffering of...

    Count Your Blessings
  • 1991
    Prospero's Books

    Prospero's Books

    Prospero's Books

    6.81991HD

    An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this un...

    Prospero's Books
  • 1992
    De Zondagsjongen

    De Zondagsjongen

    De Zondagsjongen

    01992HD

    De Zondagsjongen
  • 1985
    Fien

    Fien

    Fien

    01985HD

    Four-part musical about the life of Dutch actress Fien de la Mar, chronicling her earliest days on stage with her father, her glory days as a stage an...

    Fien
  • 1975
    Rooie Sien

    Rooie Sien

    Rooie Sien

    4.51975HD

    After her mother -- a prostitute -- is murdered by her father, Sien is raised by her grandparents. Instead of a bourgeois life with grocer's son Gerri...

    Rooie Sien
  • 1992
    Heading for England

    Heading for England

    Heading for England

    01992HD

    A man from the province looks back on his graduation year, some teachers, the parental home and especially his father.

    Heading for England
  • 1992
    De Schoorsteenveger

    De Schoorsteenveger

    De Schoorsteenveger

    01992HD

    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 st...

    De Schoorsteenveger