Kitty Courbois

Kitty Courbois

Born: July 13, 1937
Kitty Courbois is a Dutch actress. Besides on television and in movies, she also stars in theatre plays.

Movies for Kitty Courbois...

The Hero
Title: The Hero
Character: Iezebel Silverstein
Released: September 29, 2016
Type: Movie
After Sara Silverstein suddenly finds herself involved in a series of violent attacks she realizes she needs to unravel her father’s past in order to neutralize this threat.
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Fake
Title: Fake
Released: May 8, 2016
Type: Movie
An intelligent woman keeps falling for the wrong guy. With her latest lover David and a kilo of cocaine in her purse she barely escaped an arrest. Back in Holland she starts a B&B. Her first guest is the attractive Aziz, who wants to steal an old Moroccan mosaic at the International Art Fair.
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Heart Street
Title: Heart Street
Character: Bep
Released: March 13, 2014
Type: Movie
Hartenstraat is set in the Nine Streets district of Amsterdam. It is a village in a big town and everyone seems to be looking for love. As the womanizer Bas, seniors Bep and Aart and the couple Rein and Jacob. The only one who is not looking for love is Daan. He lives here with his daughter Saar in Hartenstraat, where he has his own business as a caterer. Then Katje appears in his life. The pretty fashion designer opens a fashion boutique next door to Daan. When her catering unexpectedly cancels just before opening her shop Katje must appeal to Daan. That is asking for trouble since the two opposite each other in everything. Yet Katje also secretly has an eye on her neighbor, especially now that her current relationship with Thomas is not going strong.
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Never Too Old
Title: Never Too Old
Character: Gerda
Released: April 26, 2013
Type: Movie
When Marius retires, his son drops his father in a home for the elderly. Marius has too much energy to accept the rules of the institute's management. Marius and other oldies lock horns with management.
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Ballast
Title: Ballast
Released: September 29, 2012
Type: Movie
Between the rural green meadows and pink cakes guests gather for a romantic wedding. Master of ceremonies Ellen tries to make this an unforgettable day, but gets entangled in the monkeyshine of her half sister, the infidelity of her husband, the first love of her daughter, the antics of her mother and the ropes of a hot airballoon. Will they find that only their fear stands in the way of their happiness? Who will throw the ballast overboard and take off?
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Title: Dokter Tinus
Character: Aunt Jannie
Released: August 29, 2012
Type: TV
A successful vascular surgeon is suddenly confronted with a blood phobia, making it impossible for him to exercise his job in the hospital. He moves from the capital to the countryside to work as the GP of a village where he only knows his aunt. His predecessor was well liked, so his new community is less than welcoming. The empathic capabilities of the doctor leaves much to be desired, making it even harder for him to win his place in the close-knit community.
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Fidgety Bram
Title: Fidgety Bram
Character: Moeder Vis
Released: June 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up in the class of the strict teacher Mr. Fish. The straightfoward Mr. Fish doesn’t care about the inside world of the constantly moving around and unconcentrated little boy and does whatever it takes to make Bram do things the ‘right’ way.
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Love Is All
Title: Love Is All
Character: Actrice op crematie
Released: October 10, 2007
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy told with a set of interwoven Christmas tales about life, love, forgiveness and caring. A heroic vagrant becomes a TV sensation Santa Claws, while a prince takes a menial job at a department store to woo his sweetheart.
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Tulip Time
Title: Tulip Time
Released: September 29, 2007
Type: Movie
Italian singing trio, Trio Lescano, three sisters singing in the close harmony style of the Andrews Sisters, rise to great popularity before World War II, but are detained in 1943 by Italian authorities since they are Jewish.
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Kinkerstraat
Title: Kinkerstraat
Released: September 24, 2006
Type: Movie
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Het Mysterie van de Sardine
Title: Het Mysterie van de Sardine
Character: Victoria Koenen
Released: April 7, 2005
Type: Movie
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Wanted: Man
Title: Wanted: Man
Character: Grandma Bas
Released: March 2, 2005
Type: Movie
When Bas puts up the note Wanted: Man on the notice board of the local supermarket for his single mother, she does not know about it. The self-willed Bas tries to find a solution for the separation between him and his mother, who no longer knows how to cope with Bas' superstitious compulsions. And both are hydrophobic. But by the end of the summer, the harmony between these two heart-warming characters has been restored.
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Broken Red
Title: Broken Red
Character: Rita
Released: March 2, 2005
Type: Movie
What happens if you take the law into your own hands, start correcting the legal system on your own initiative? Hans Croiset, André van den Heuvel, Bram van der Vlugt and Kitty Courbois in their roles of aged resistance heroes do not think this is such a bad idea; in fact, it is what they already did during World War II. Back then, they formed a sworn resistance gang. The occasion for their renewed fighting spirit is the brutal robbery and murder of Marjan, one of the members of their former group. Past and present start blending. In a controlled tempo, alert to detail and acting, a story unravels that focuses on Hans Croiset in the role of Simon, a retired teacher of Dutch. He makes contact with the underworld, meeting the Slavic Goran, who starts feeling sympathy for the old man. Eventually, fate lies in Simon's hands.
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Making Waves
Title: Making Waves
Released: March 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Making Waves is the story of Cella (Jacqueline Blom) and her 71-year-old mother Johanna (Kitty Courbois). Life smiles upon Cella. Happily divorced, having two children and a successful job as a presenter at a local station, for which she interviews people every morning who take the ferry across the IJ river. In her enthusiasm, Cella resembles her mother, once a celebrated violinist, but the similarity also causes friction between the two women. Just when Cella meets a new love, her father's sudden death puts her life on a different track. Johanna increasingly muddles past and present and brings back fragments of memories that point to a painful secret she carries on her back. Cella tries to dig up the truth.
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Achttien
Title: Achttien
Released: March 11, 2002
Type: Movie
Koen is a fatherless, eighteen year old boy who wants to free himself from the suffocating relationship with his mother. He struggels with the balance between independency and love. When he meets Colet, he tries to keep his distance, but she is both anarchistic and audacious. She does not understand the fact that Koen does not have the slightest curiosity about his unknown father. It is because of her that he begins the search for his father.
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Qui Vive
Title: Qui Vive
Character: Ada
Released: February 14, 2002
Type: Movie
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Monte Carlo
Title: Monte Carlo
Character: Weduwe van Tuyl van Serooskerken
Released: October 18, 2001
Type: Movie
A young traveler picks up and elderly woman on his way from Holland to Monte Carlo.
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Scratches in the Table
Title: Scratches in the Table
Character: Oma
Released: October 15, 1998
Type: Movie
When Madelief's grandmother dies, her mother takes her to the funeral. She then visits her grandfather, but quickly gets bored, until Mischa tells her how much fun a rural summer can be. She investigates her grandmother's "summer house", made curious by the lock on the door. Madelief didn't remember her grandmother, but from her snooping in the summer house she learns a lot about her. Written by Steve Schonberger
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Last Call
Title: Last Call
Character: Berta Bouwmeester
Released: February 16, 1995
Type: Movie
Old entertainer gets a last chance to play a serious role.
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Belle van Zuylen - Madame de Charrière
Title: Belle van Zuylen - Madame de Charrière
Character: Mrs. Saurin
Released: September 16, 1993
Type: Movie
A biography of Isabelle de Charrière and her friendship with Benjamin Constant.
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Seventh Heaven
Title: Seventh Heaven
Character: Hotelhoudster
Released: January 4, 1993
Type: Movie
Seventh Heaven or De Zevende Hemel is a 1993 Dutch romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld.
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Precious
Title: Precious
Released: February 24, 1991
Type: Movie
A 17 year old girl runs away form home and finds shelter with a 50 year old man with a psychiatric past.
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Toneelgroep Amsterdam: Los Zand
Title: Toneelgroep Amsterdam: Los Zand
Character: Saar
Released: December 27, 1989
Type: Movie
Television registration of the play of the same name that Annie M.G. Schmidt wrote for Toneelgroep Amsterdam. In a side room of a congress building, mother, son and daughter await the arrival of father, who will be honored for his services in the pharmaceutical industry. But father is delayed; the meantime is filled with conversations. The mother turns out to be having a lesbian affair. The play was poorly received.
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Polonaise
Title: Polonaise
Character: Ada
Released: October 5, 1989
Type: Movie
Nico and Leo are getting married. Their entire family and both their exes are in attendance. Some of these are performing musical numbers on stage. But memories of the war and the fact that Leo's mother died in a concentration camp keeps coming to the forefront.
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Title: Spijkerhoek
Character: Rosina Chaiavelli
Released: January 4, 1989
Type: TV
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The Good Hope
Title: The Good Hope
Character: Kniertje
Released: August 7, 1986
Type: Movie
Young Barend is worried about the safety of the sailing vessel he is on. The owner is an unscrupulous and stingy man who skimps on repairs and Barend becomes aware of this. Inevitably there is drama and tragedy. The film is set in an early 20th century Dutch fishing village with local period costume and colour.
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Fien
Title: Fien
Released: October 13, 1985
Type: Movie
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 and movie star and the building her own theatre, up until the tragic end of her life.
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Flesh + Blood
Title: Flesh + Blood
Character: Anna
Released: August 30, 1985
Type: Movie
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
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The Bitter Herb
Title: The Bitter Herb
Character: Moeder Meijer
Released: April 25, 1985
Type: Movie
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, but later they are arrested and deported. Sara decides to flee with her brother and his girlfriend to Palestine. Based on the book by Marga Minco.
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Two Queens and One Consort
Title: Two Queens and One Consort
Character: Moeder
Released: October 1, 1981
Type: Movie
At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.
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Vrijdag
Title: Vrijdag
Character: Jeanne
Released: March 7, 1981
Type: Movie
Hugo Claus rewrote and directed Friday as the cinematic version of his original 1969 play of the same name. Just as in the play, the story begins with the theme of incest, as the father Georges (Frank Aendenboom) returns from serving his jail sentence for that crime. Unlike the earlier play, however, the film does not emphasize that aspect of the story. When Georges gets home he finds out that his wife Jeanne (Kitty Courbois) has had an illegitimate child by a younger man, Erik (Herbert Flack), and now both of them must somehow try to return to a normal life, given their only too obvious lapses in moral judgment. As the husband and wife try hard to accommodate each other's failings and start to get to know each other again, Erik comes back into the picture. Now the three of them must resolve the deep-seated conflicts that brought them to this emotionally-wrought juncture of love and betrayal.
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Spetters
Title: Spetters
Character: Doctor
Released: February 28, 1980
Type: Movie
Three amateur dirt-bike racers each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, sells French fries and hotdogs at the races. Everyone is looking for a better life: she wants out of the business and away from her brother; and the motocross racers want to make their marks as professionals in their sport.
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Twice a Woman
Title: Twice a Woman
Character: Sylvia's mother
Released: May 23, 1979
Type: Movie
When a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationship with the girl.
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The Debut
Title: The Debut
Character: Carolien's moeder
Released: May 18, 1977
Type: Movie
The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.
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Volk en vaderliefde
Title: Volk en vaderliefde
Character: Artystone
Released: March 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Otanes is certain that Smerdis, King of Persia is an impostor. He gathers together a group of people to stage a coup, only to face the question of which one of them will be worthy to take the thrown.
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Anna, Child of the Daffodils
Title: Anna, Child of the Daffodils
Released: February 27, 1975
Type: Movie
The story of a young woman with mental problems told in a non-chronological fashion.
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Title: Een mens van goede wil
Character: Rosa
Released: December 30, 1973
Type: TV
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VD
Title: VD
Character: Rooie Mien
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Cornelis van Doorn is the CEO of VD, a meat factory as well as a developer of contraceptives. Cornelis is the patriarch of the Van Doorn family: a decadent bunch of loose morals who only lust for money and power. When the man is thinking about retiring, he has to find the right heir to take over the family business.
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Confessions of Loving Couples
Title: Confessions of Loving Couples
Released: February 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Author Frank's debut novel is successful, but he needs the proceeds to pay off a debt and his girlfriend Mascha ends their relationship. He meets another woman, but he and Mascha also seem to make amends. These amorous vicissitudes give him inspiration for a new book, which will deal with eroticism in the Netherlands.
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Gangster Girl
Title: Gangster Girl
Character: Gangster girl
Released: October 13, 1966
Type: Movie
A successful young writer is in search of his true destiny. Is it the life with his wife and typewriter in Amsterdam or the offers to go to the dreamworld of the Italian film city Cinecittà which is luring him? Trying to find this out he goes into retreat in the house of a befriended gay couple in the south of France.