Willeke van Ammelrooy

Overview

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Acting
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Birthday
Apr 05, 1944 (81 years old)

Willeke van Ammelrooy

Known For

The Magnet Man
1h 29m
Movie 2024

The Magnet Man

In the splendidly decorated barbaric world of Antwerp, an ordinary lonely Lucien has an inhuman capability to stick metal objects to his body. An introverted Buster Keaton-like man of a few words is a hapless artist, clown, freak, and musician with a wounded heart and a quiet violin. His vocation is to entertain the common people despite his burning pain and guilt for the inevitable loss of an estranged father.

The Dick Maas Method
1h 37m
Movie 2020

The Dick Maas Method

Documentary on the Dutch filmmaker Dick Maas.

In the Palace
0h 22m
Movie 2018

In the Palace

When the elderly burlesque dancer Elvira wishes to see her deceased husband Jean one last time, it is the devil who comes to pick her up.

Life Is Wonderful
1h 34m
Movie 2018

Life Is Wonderful

Life Is Wonderful is a feel-good movie about love and longing. Best friends Mees and Boelie are spending a beautiful spring day in Amsterdam's Vondelpark. It seems like just a normal day, until they meet the young and attractive Panda. While the heat rises in the park, it's nowhere to be found between the long-married couple Etta and Ernst-Jan. Ernst-Jan suspects Etta of cheating and has his own ideas of how to catch her in the act. We also meet Rosa and Kees, old lovers whose paths cross after decades of not seeing each other. On this spring day in Amsterdam, their love starts blooming again.

Marco: De weg terug
1h 25m
Movie 2014

Marco: De weg terug

Everybody knew Marco Bakker as Holland’s most cherished operetta prince. Until that one moment in 1997. Everything changed. How do you keep going? In this intimate portrait, we get to know a completely different side of Bakker. For example, it turns out the singer has mastered not only the ‘light frivolous pieces’, but also the demanding classics, and together with his partner Willeke van Ammelrooij, he is forced to swap their fairy-tale castle for a humble terraced house in his native village Beverwijk.

Loving Ibiza: Series
0h 45m
TV Show 2013

Loving Ibiza: Series

Dutch ex-pats and tourists -- including a single dad and his kids, a famous DJ and a heartbroken waitress -- work, play and fall in love on Ibiza.

Loving Ibiza
1h 57m
Movie 2013

Loving Ibiza

Kevin is a young footballer who recently made a multimillion deal by transferring to FC Barcelona. He hardly realizes what is happening to him. Too young, too rich, too beautiful. His girlfriend Elza knows how Kevin should spend his millions. She is eagerly anticipating her birthday where Kevin will ask her the most important question of all. Kevin's grandmother Karla observes it all from the sidelines with concern. Fortunately there is the down-to-earth event planner Lizzy who shows Kevin the meaning of true love.

Beatrix, Oranje onder vuur
TV Show 2012

Beatrix, Oranje onder vuur

Series about the life and work of Queen Beatrix, offering a meticulous dramatised interpretation of historical events. The series opens in the Royal tour bus, a few minutes before the attack on Queen’s Day 2009, and goes on to show other tough and fine moments in the monarch’s life. Is she really the business manager on the throne that the media often call her? What is she like as a mother and grandmother? How did she cope with her husband’s depressions and illness?

The Hell of '63
1h 40m
Movie 2009

The Hell of '63

When extreme weather suddenly hits the Netherlands in 1963, a 120-mile tour skating event taking place on natural ice forces its contestants to contend with life-threatening race conditions.

Bride Flight
2h 10m
Movie 2008

Bride Flight

A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.

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