Dirk Roofthooft

Dirk Roofthooft

Born: January 1, 1959
in Antwerp, Belgium

Movies for Dirk Roofthooft...

Skunk
Title: Skunk
Character: Jos
Released: March 13, 2024
Type: Movie
Liam has a terrible childhood, is neglected and abused. He grows up being an adolescent with dark thoughts and actions. As a defence mechanism he shits himself. Because of his home situation, the Social Service places him in a closed institution, away from his parents, where he meets the supervisor Paulien. She seems to influence him positively. When Liam is raped in the institution, he no longer sees a way out and reckons his past in a sinister manner.
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Title: Ferry: The Series
Character: Mick de Boer
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: TV
Desperate for funds, Ferry Bouman stumbles upon a golden opportunity when a high-profile bust leaves a vacant position among Brabant's top dealers.
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WILL
Title: WILL
Character: Felix Verschaffel
Released: September 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II.
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Zillion
Title: Zillion
Character: Herman Goossens
Released: December 15, 2022
Type: Movie
It's 1997. Frank Verstraeten, a computer genius with a nose for business, a fascination for nightlife and an unhealthy urge to prove himself, only wants one thing: his own disco that not only outperforms the competition but simply humiliates it. The futuristic mega discotheque Zillion is a fact and Frank turns from computer dealer to the pivotal figure of the Antwerp nightlife. He parades with the most beautiful women in Belgium and forges an alliance with Dennis Black Magic, the porn king who provides the spicy extras. Unfortunately, beautiful songs don't last long either.
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Cruise Control
Title: Cruise Control
Character: Bob Kets
Released: August 5, 2020
Type: Movie
Life does not go well the last couple of years for film director Serge Gabriëls. Since the day he chose his career above the woman of his life, things kept going downhill. When a bailiff was sent to declare his production company bankrupt, he lost all hope and perspective. Fortunately at that crucial moment he received the one phone call he has been waiting for his whole life. Out of the blue, Serge is offered the opportunity to realize the dream of his lifetime: to shoot a real love story.
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Title: Thieves of the Wood
Character: Jean-Joseph Coffijn
Released: January 2, 2020
Type: TV
Charismatic highwayman Jan de Lichte leads the oppressed and downtrodden in a revolt against the corrupt aristocracy of 18th-century Belgium.
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Bastaard
Title: Bastaard
Character: Paul Coussement
Released: October 2, 2019
Type: Movie
Two years after the tragic loss of his older brother, 17-year-old Daan unwillingly goes along when his grieving family decides to give shelter to a homeless teenager called Radja. But as Daan witnesses how this stranger's presence deeply affects his mother, he starts to unravel Radja's mysterious past.
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Heer & Meester: De Film
Title: Heer & Meester: De Film
Character: Reinhard Boden
Released: January 22, 2019
Type: Movie
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Those Who Work
Title: Those Who Work
Character: Pavel
Released: October 4, 2018
Type: Movie
Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he’s on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to deal with a crisis situation, Frank makes a brutal decision and gets fired. Profoundly shaken, betrayed by a system to which he gave his all, he has to progressively question himself to save the one connection that still matters to him: the bond he’s managed to maintain with his youngest daughter, Mathilde.
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Title: De Infiltrant
Character: Freddy Bernaerts
Released: February 5, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: Sylvia's Cats
Character: Ludo Beets
Released: May 10, 2016
Type: TV
When her marriage fails Sylvia is forced to move with her children into a brothel on the Chaussée d'Amour. Out of financial necessity she decides to exploit the bar. Meanwhile a detective tries to solve an old murder case.
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Accomplices
Title: Accomplices
Character: Georges
Released: April 20, 2016
Type: Movie
Philippe works as a Judge at the criminal court. He has a complicated relationship with his son Hugues. One night Hugues commits a deadly hit and run while driving home drunk. To protect his only son, Philippe chooses to cover up the evidences.
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The Prime Minister
Title: The Prime Minister
Character: Chief
Released: March 2, 2016
Type: Movie
The Belgian PM is abducted and he finds his wife and children taken hostage. If he wants to see them again – alive – he has to kill the person he is meeting later that day. And that person is no less than... the president of the United States.
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Vanitas
Title: Vanitas
Character: Bruno Grégoire
Released: September 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Sarah Grégoire is a young and enthusiastic art restorer who discovers that famous paintings are being replaced by replicas.
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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Title: Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Character: Pa Holleeder
Released: March 12, 2015
Type: Movie
The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.
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Title: Heer & Meester
Character: Reinhard Boden
Released: January 11, 2014
Type: TV
A television series about a charming, voluntary private detective who chases criminals and in the process tries to find himself.
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Title: Southside
Character: Willem Deweerdt
Released: September 2, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: The Out-Laws
Character: Jean-Claude "De Kloot" Delcorps
Released: September 3, 2012
Type: TV
A visually stunning, delicious blend of crime thriller and black comedy from Belgium featuring five sisters, one evil dead husband and two nosy life insurance salesmen. Desperate Housewives on acid.
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Title: The Tour
Character: Boudewijn De Bock
Released: February 13, 2011
Type: TV
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The Storm
Title: The Storm
Character: Julia's father
Released: September 17, 2009
Type: Movie
A fictional story within the historical context of the disastrous flood that engulfed the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland in 1953. When their farmhouse is destroyed by the flood, teenage mother Julia gets separated from her baby boy, whom she kept hidden in a box. She is saved from drowning by a young air force lieutenant, who agrees to go help looking for Julia's little son.
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Loft
Title: Loft
Character: Mannelijke ondervrager
Released: October 21, 2008
Type: Movie
Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.
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The Wedding Party
Title: The Wedding Party
Character: Roger Janssen
Released: April 21, 2005
Type: Movie
In rural Westphalia, Franz Berger struggles to keep his inn open. On this day, a bluff, overbearing bully, Hermann Walzer, has booked the dining room for a wedding banquet for his son Mark. There's bad blood between Berger and Walzer, so when the first course, shrimp cocktail, is off, Hermann storms out with the wedding party vowing not to pay. Franz locks the loo door, taking prisoners of the bride and Hermann's wife while he also locks the estate's outer gates, leaving Hermann and the rest outside. Walzer, a pheasant hunter, lays siege; shotguns, rifles, grenades, a shovel, and other weapons leave no one safe. Will it take death to bring these men to their senses?
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The Dark Diamond
Title: The Dark Diamond
Character: Lambik
Released: February 14, 2004
Type: Movie
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Title: Zone Stad
Character: Abused husband
Released: December 13, 2003
Type: TV
Zone Stad is a Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Antwerp. In the series, police officers solve various crimes, which are shown as realistically as possible.
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The Memory of a Killer
Title: The Memory of a Killer
Character: Vader Cuypers
Released: October 15, 2003
Type: Movie
Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. Since Ledda starts showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, it's getting more and more difficult to complete his contracts. When he has to murder a 12-year old call-girl, he refuses and becomes a target himself. While Vincke and Verstuyft are chasing him and counting the corpses, Ledda is taking care of his employers.
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The Warriors of Beauty
Title: The Warriors of Beauty
Released: May 17, 2003
Type: Movie
The film is a labyrinth with multiple entrances, where an unlikely Ariane in wedding gown guides and misleads the viewer in a strange world marked by metamorphosis, multiple personalities, conflicting drives, parody, ritual, surreality.
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Any Way the Wind Blows
Title: Any Way the Wind Blows
Character: Firmin
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Antwerp, at the beginning of June. On a sunny Friday, eight people dream of having a different life. There's wind and music, police and paranoia, gossip and fighting. There's an old virus, an astrayed frisbee, a dead horse, and a mysterious person called Windman. In the evening there's a party …
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Magonia
Title: Magonia
Character: Father
Released: October 25, 2001
Type: Movie
A sea faring father, a man living on the edge of mental sanity, periodically sees his young son. During the visits, the father tells the boy stories, exotic as well as close to home, about Magonia. This is a mythical place where clouds represent impossible dreams and unfulfilled desires. But the characters in this imaginary place all curiously resemble people now living near the father.
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Olivetti 82
Title: Olivetti 82
Character: Bernard
Released: August 20, 2001
Type: Movie
A man with bloody hands is arrested as prime suspect in a murder case. He does not understand why and refuses to cooperate. Bernard Van de Wiele, the suspect, is a writer. One of the police inspectors comes up with the idea to give him a typewriter: an Olivetti 82. The interrogators hope that this way he will agree to share his story. Bernard begins his memoir: a long search for love and protection. Little by little the truth comes to light.
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Don't Cry Germaine
Title: Don't Cry Germaine
Released: August 30, 2000
Type: Movie
After the dead of the eldest daughter, Germaine and Gilles and their children leave for a holiday in the mountains to restore their bond. However, the killer of their daughter also resides in those mountains and Gilles wants revenge.
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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Title: Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Character: Father Conrardy
Released: March 17, 1999
Type: Movie
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
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Cheese
Title: Cheese
Character: Boorman
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Frans Laarmans temporarily abandons his job as an office worker to become a salesman for a big cheese company.
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Rosie
Title: Rosie
Character: Bernard Vermarcke
Released: November 18, 1998
Type: Movie
In a juvenile lockup, a new ward answers questions: she's Rosie, 13, no parents, a sister Irene, a brother Michel. In flashbacks we find out what happened. She lives with Irene, who's 27, whom Rosie knows is in fact her mother, but that's their secret. Irene's brother Michel, unemployed, a compulsive gambler, comes to stay with them. Around then, Irene meets Bernard; they come to care for each other. This leaves Rosie without attention, so she puts all her adolescent hopes and romantic fantasies into a relationship with Jimi, a good looking kid she sees on a bus. Is it adventures with Jimi that land her in juvie? Once she's there, why doesn't he answer her letters?
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Hombres complicados
Title: Hombres complicados
Character: Roger DeClerq
Released: August 13, 1998
Type: Movie
A businessman gets in serious financial troubles. When his mother dies, he thinks he's saved, but she only leaves 50.000 francs (1.500 USD). His brother Bruno, a customs officer, wants to use the money for her funeral, but our businessman prefers to use it to shake off his attackers. He promises them they will get through customs without problems with a certain package... Now his only problem is to convince Bruno...
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Het paradijs
Title: Het paradijs
Character: Bob
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Tragicomic gangster drama about a young man who robs a gas station and takes the place of the attendant during one night, with the intention to take off to paradise with the money.
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The Sugar Bowl
Title: The Sugar Bowl
Character: Vader (Father)
Released: November 3, 1997
Type: Movie
A short look into the life of a loving girl with an abusive mother and a father who stands by during his wife's frequent fits of violence.
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Title: Terug naar Oosterdonk
Character: Pietje de Leugenaar
Released: October 18, 1997
Type: TV
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The Stowaway
Title: The Stowaway
Character: Zeeman
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Orazbaz, who lives in Uzbek, longs to leave his tiny fishing village. He becomes a stowaway on a ship thinking that he will end up in Manhattan. Instead he ends up in Rotterdam and is taken in by a lonely woman, but he is eventually betrayed by her jealous husband.
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Title: Het verdriet van België
Character: Nonkel Florent
Released: December 21, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: De Partizanen
Character: de Sjoester
Released: May 1, 1995
Type: TV
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Suite 16
Title: Suite 16
Character: Marc
Released: November 24, 1994
Type: Movie
After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris finds himself trapped inside. With nowhere to go and the cops closing in on the hotel fast, he wanders into "Suite 16" in a fit of despair. Inside, a handicapped and wheelchair bound Glover is held captive for the evening once discovered by Chris. However, things change the next day when Glover informs Chris that the woman he slept with is now dead; and that he surely will be sought out for her murder. Lonely and bored, Glover offers to shelter Chris for awhile while the cuts and bruises from the previous nights escapades have time to heal.
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Title: Moeder, waarom leven wij?
Released: September 24, 1993
Type: TV
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The End of the Journey
Title: The End of the Journey
Character: Youth playing foosball in the pub
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A 40-year-old mother struggles to deal with the anxiety of growing older after her eldest daughter moves out and the youngest distances herself.