Monique van de Ven

Monique van de Ven

Born: July 28, 1952
in Zeeland, North Brabant, Netherlands
Monica Maria Theresia "Monique" van de Ven is a Dutch stage and screen actress and director. She made her film debut in "Turkish Delight" (1973).

Movies for Monique van de Ven...

The Dick Maas Method
Title: The Dick Maas Method
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Documentary on the Dutch filmmaker Dick Maas.
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Doris
Title: Doris
Character: Leonie
Released: September 20, 2018
Type: Movie
On the eve of her forty-fifth birthday Doris Doorenbos (Tjitske Reidinga) ends up like a divorced woman with two children at a dead end.
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Xangadix Lives!
Title: Xangadix Lives!
Released: November 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Documentary about the Dutch HorrorMovie 'The Johnsons (1992)" - A horror film where the cream of the crop of the Dutch film world had been working on. It was one of the biggest films of the year, won prizes at international film festivals, was released worldwide and even managed to acquire a cult status in the US. But few people know the history of the film and that it is actually a miracle that it has ever been made.
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Title: Thailand: Earth's Tropical Paradise
Character: Self - Dutch Narrator
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: TV
Go beyond Thailand's beaches to discover a sacred kingdom of awe-inspiring beauty. This series takes in the towering limestone cliffs, the paddy fields, the hidden temples and the teeming city of Bangkok, before visiting the forests of the north where ancient tribes practice time-honoured traditions and tigers still stalk the forests. Thailand: Earth’s Tropical Paradise reveals a land that is worlds away from the familiar tourist trails.
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De Overkant
Title: De Overkant
Character: Moeder Freek (voice)
Released: September 12, 2015
Type: Movie
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Daylight
Title: Daylight
Character: Ageeth Boelens
Released: April 10, 2013
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Iris discovers that she has an older, autistic half-brother Ray, who is in prison for the atrocious murder of his neighbour and her five-year-old daughter. When she meets Ray he reminds her a lot of her own son Aron, who also is autistic, and she starts to believe that he is innocent.
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Title: Dokter Deen
Character: Maria Deen
Released: January 30, 2012
Type: TV
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Isabelle
Title: Isabelle
Character: Moeder van Isabelle
Released: September 22, 2011
Type: Movie
Isabelle is a famous and beloved actress from the Netherlands, who disappears when on Holiday in Belgium. She has been kidnapped by bartender Jeanne Bitor, an artist with a disfigured face. Jeanne is very bitter about her 'ugly' appearance, and she is obsessed with the process of dying and deterioration of animals and humans. Therefore, she abducts Isabelle and starves her to death, while painting her in different phases of the process.
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Title: Thank God it's Friday
Released: November 23, 2007
Type: TV
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Zadelpijn
Title: Zadelpijn
Character: An
Released: April 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Seven socio-economically successful women around the age of fifty come together in France for their annual multi-day bike ride.
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Sylvia Kristel: Nu
Title: Sylvia Kristel: Nu
Character: Self
Released: February 24, 2007
Type: Movie
Thirty years ago Sylvia Kristel became world-famous with 'Emmanuelle'. This erotic film was the starting point of a curious career, during which Sylvia acted in more than 50 international film productions, including a short-lived career in Hollywood. A turbulent life followed, in which alcohol and drug addictions formed a recurring theme. Penniless, she now lives in a small two-room apartment in Amsterdam. Last year La Kristel took control of her life: her autobiography Nue was published in France and has already been sold to several countries.
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Divina Gloria
Title: Divina Gloria
Released: September 24, 2006
Type: Movie
The tropical plant Divina Gloria comes to fruition once every hundred years. For the duration of only one night she shows her exuberant beauty. Then she dies. In this bittersweet comedy we follow a number of people in the Hortus Botanicus, who witness this short-lived bloom. During the night, they become more and more entranced by this sultry miracle, with an ecstatic outcome.
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Title: Pauw & Witteman
Released: September 4, 2006
Type: TV
Pauw & Witteman is a Dutch late-night talk show, hosted by Jeroen Pauw en Paul Witteman. It is generally focused on current affairs and politics. It is broadcast every weekday at 11 pm on Nederland 1. It is produced by Dutch public broadcasters NPS and VARA. During summer Pauw & Witteman are replaced by Knevel & Van de Brink, a talk show hosted by Andries Knevel and Thijs van den Brink, produced by the dutch evangelical broadcasting company, the EO.
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Title: Beroemde Ouders
Released: June 8, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: De Wereld Draait Door
Released: October 10, 2005
Type: TV
Talk show hosted by Matthijs van Nieuwkerk containing a mixture of news, information, television bloopers and general entertainment.
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Amazones
Title: Amazones
Character: Kers
Released: December 9, 2004
Type: Movie
Four women are sick of being poor. They decide to rob a bank. They are surprised how easily they get away with it and start to commit more robberies. When the net finally closes around them they decide to make one last big hit.
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Title: Spangen
Released: January 12, 1999
Type: TV
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Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
Title: Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
Character: Herself
Released: January 8, 1996
Type: Movie
Very insightful BBC documentary about Paul Verhoeven, tracking his career up to Showgirls. The programme focuses on talks with Verhoeven, but also includes interviews with many of the people who worked with him, both from the US and Holland, and even his wife. Also has a lot of behind the scenes footage from the set of Showgirls. Verhoeven is very open about the way he works, the themes in his movies and his life. He also interprets his own work in a very frank and intelligent way and, as always, is a gas.
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Long Live the Queen
Title: Long Live the Queen
Character: White Queen
Released: November 15, 1995
Type: Movie
A fairytale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father.
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Title: Iris
Character: Iris
Released: September 28, 1992
Type: TV
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The Johnsons
Title: The Johnsons
Character: Victoria Lucas
Released: February 14, 1992
Type: Movie
According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give birth to something evil to unleash horror and destruction upon human kind. Ugly septuplet brothers reproduced within the framework of mysterious genetic experiments terrorize a young innocent girl who seems to be chosen for the sinister predestination.
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Eline Vere
Title: Eline Vere
Character: Betsy van Raat
Released: March 1, 1991
Type: Movie
This melodramatic film follows Eline Vere, as she attempts to break free from the confines of her narrow existence in The Hague through three tumultuous and ultimately disastrous courtships. Adaptation of Louis Couperus' novel Eline Vere.
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Romeo
Title: Romeo
Character: Anne Herden
Released: April 13, 1990
Type: Movie
After seven months of pregnancy a husband and wife learn that their unborn child won't survive for long.
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Paint It Black
Title: Paint It Black
Character: Kyla Leif
Released: March 28, 1990
Type: Movie
A California metal sculptor becomes a suspect after someone kills his gallery-owner lover.
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Lily Was Here
Title: Lily Was Here
Character: Vroedvrouw Conny
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: Movie
Lily works as a checkout girl at the local supermarket. She becomes pregnant, but before the child is born, the black father is attacked by skinheads and killed. Following his death, she flees to the city, where she soon finds herself under the wings of a pimp, Ted. Escaping Ted, she commences a one-woman spree of thefts, culminating in running from the police and the press. In the end, Lily must make a choice between freedom, and her baby.
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Amsterdamned
Title: Amsterdamned
Character: Laura
Released: February 11, 1988
Type: Movie
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.
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Een Maand Later
Title: Een Maand Later
Character: Monika
Released: September 17, 1987
Type: Movie
Two women decide to exchange lives after getting into contact through a newspaper ad.
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Iris
Title: Iris
Character: Iris
Released: March 26, 1987
Type: Movie
A female veterinarian moves to the country side to start her own practice. She encounters a lot a skeptical villagers.
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Tonight's the Night
Title: Tonight's the Night
Character: Donna
Released: February 2, 1987
Type: Movie
The game of love starts in a typical blues bar. The hot and magic rhythm of the blues makes even the shiest man throw away his fears and participate in the erotic of the night.
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The Assault
Title: The Assault
Character: Saskia de Graaff
Released: February 6, 1986
Type: Movie
At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.
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The Scorpion
Title: The Scorpion
Character: Anna
Released: March 29, 1984
Type: Movie
It's 1956. Truck driver Loe Wolf wants to emigrate to America, but he doesn't have the money to take this step in life. When his boss entrusts him with a certain amount of money, he takes a gamble.
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Burning Love
Title: Burning Love
Character: Anna
Released: September 15, 1983
Type: Movie
A young painter takes up French lessons with an elder lady to ensure he’ll get a grant for a French arts institute. That way he meets Anna, a beautiful married woman nursing the lady’s old father, and falls in love with her.
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Title: Wizards and Warriors
Released: February 26, 1983
Type: TV
A sword-and-sorcery adventure series done tongue-in-cheek. It's set in a mythical kingdom where good Prince Erik Greystone helps the kindly king fight the forces of evil.
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Dixie: Changing Habits
Title: Dixie: Changing Habits
Character: Sherry Bouvais
Released: February 16, 1983
Type: Movie
Dixie is caught operating a whorehouse, and is sentenced to 90 days house arrest in a convent! Can Dixie bend to the ways of the convent nuns to avoid jail?
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Title: Voyagers!
Released: October 3, 1982
Type: TV
Voyagers! is an American science fiction time travel-based television series that aired on NBC during the 1982–1983 season. The series stars Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce.
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Title: Remington Steele
Character: Mary Howell Dannon
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: TV
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.
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Breach of Contract
Title: Breach of Contract
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A husband and wife, both of whom are career-oriented, agree never to step on the other's ambitions. Unfortunately, both become too ambitious for their own good, and, true to the film's title, their verbal "contract" is shattered.
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High Heels, Real Love
Title: High Heels, Real Love
Character: Jenny Vreugdehil
Released: October 29, 1981
Type: Movie
A bored company owner decides to find out what it is like to be one of his workers. During his "transformation" he falls in love with a cafeteria worker. When his alter ego "The Boss" makes an inappropriate comment to his would-be girlfriend, the worker challenges his "Boss" to a Duel.
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Uit elkaar
Title: Uit elkaar
Character: Linda
Released: August 16, 1979
Type: Movie
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A Woman Like Eve
Title: A Woman Like Eve
Character: Eve
Released: January 25, 1979
Type: Movie
A devoted yet stressed out housewife takes a holiday to relax, and falls in love with another woman: a guitar-playing hippie who lives in a commune.
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Dag Dokter
Title: Dag Dokter
Character: Ingrid Sanders
Released: December 21, 1978
Type: Movie
An ageing GP tries to convince his son in law to take over his practice. Monique van de Ven plays the doctor's daughter, who is torn apart by love of her husband and solidarity with her father.
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Stunt Rock
Title: Stunt Rock
Character: Monique van de Ven
Released: June 30, 1978
Type: Movie
Australian stuntman Grant Page goes to Los Angeles to work on a television series. He uses his spare time to lend his expertise to rock band Sorcery. Page helps the band develop pyrotechnic magic tricks for their shows, and also recounts to his own exploits as a stuntman and daredevil as well as various stunts by other greats.
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Doctor Vlimmen
Title: Doctor Vlimmen
Character: Leonieke
Released: February 23, 1977
Type: Movie
A veterinarian lives together with his sister and her son in a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. He has to cope with gossip and distrust from the villagers.
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Title: Sil de strandjutter
Released: October 16, 1976
Type: TV
The story takes place on Terschelling, which is closed off from the rest of the Netherlands at the end of the 19th century. Sil Droeviger, a farmer in Oosterend, supplements his income for his family, consisting of his wife Jaakje and sons Jelle and Wietse, with beachcombing. One day a strong storm arises and Sil rescues a girl from a sunken Swedish dinghy, while the mother drowns. Sil takes the girl home and raises her as his own daughter. He calls her Lobke, just like their daughter who died shortly after birth.
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Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr
Title: Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr
Character: Anita Drögemöller
Released: September 8, 1976
Type: Movie
Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call girl. But one day she finds her former pimp dead in her apartment with a broken neck. Chief Inspector Langensiepen takes up the investigation and discovers an impenetrable web of sex, lies, raison d'état and murder.
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Title: Starsky & Hutch
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: TV
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
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Katie Tippel
Title: Katie Tippel
Character: Keetje Tippel
Released: March 6, 1975
Type: Movie
In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.
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Verloren maandag
Title: Verloren maandag
Character: Linda
Released: May 23, 1974
Type: Movie
Tomasz , a young Polish refugee wanders through Antwerp, looking for the woman who helped him to get his mother through the Iron Curtain. During his search he meets alcoholics, vagrants and other outcasts of the society.
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Dakota
Title: Dakota
Character: Claudia
Released: April 11, 1974
Type: Movie
A Dutch pilot with a real passion for flying risks everything to keep his DC3/Dakota plane in the air. Excellent attention to detail and the beautiful backdrop of the Caribbean make this seldom seen much loved Dutch classic well worth watching.
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Turkish Delight
Title: Turkish Delight
Character: Olga Stapels
Released: February 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Eric, a gifted sculptor, has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.