Jan van Dommelen Movies

Diary fragments tell of the arrival of Belgian refugees across the Dutch border in winter 1915. Reserve lieutenant Berkhage returns from the Belgian...

A poor fisherman's wife sends the remaining family members, her two sons, out to sea on a boat that has seen better days.

When self-made businessman Pancras Duif decides to marry his much younger housekeeper, his entire family protests; eager to protect the family...

Twelve year old 'Boefje' spends most of his time in the alleys, on rooftops and in the harbor of Rotterdam. A local clergyman takes pity on him and...

An orthodox Jewish man refuses to accept the marriage of his daughter to a Christian man.

Renée isn't very happy in her marriage with colonel Brachart and starts a relationship with a young lieutenant.

Married housewife Alda decides to become a singer under the stage name 'La Renzoni', in a duo-act with her father. All goes well, until her husband...

In the prologue, a boat with some shipwrecked persons is drifting at sea. Among them is Baron van Waldheim, who, before he dies of exhaustion,...

Hugo Writley, the son of an American shipping magnate, travels to Holland accompanied by his steward, Longway. On the night of their arrival they go...

When his granddaughter is born, debt-ridden Colonel von Zwenken misses out on Aunt Roselaar's allowance of 20,000 guilders. Anxious to keep the...

The happy life of Sylvia and Pieter is disrupted when Sylvia loses her sight and her sister Lyda falls in love with her husband.

The wealthy De Roquevilles, the family of alcoholic veteran Jean Laurent, and that of farmer Godard; all have to deal with the outbreak of the Great...

An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Vera; or, The Nihilists.

Lona, a young woman who has no memories of her past, has been adopted by the rich industrialist Van Haaften. She is loved by Henri van Rhenen, a...

A collection of short scenes portraying highlights of Dutch history, from the Eighty Years' War to King Willem I's return from exile. This film was...

A captain saves a kidnapped magnate from a nursing home run by foreign agents.