Derek de Lint Movies
A Dutch lead actor, Derek DeLint first appeared onscreen in the '80s. ~ All Movie Guide- 2002
In the conclusion of a two-part story, Sydney (Jennifer Garner), her father, Jack (Victor Garber), and her mother, Irina (Lena Olin), are still in Pakistan, still searching for the code that will enable a group of rebels to activate half a dozen nuclear warheads. Despite Irina's protestations of good intentions, Syd and Jack still doubt her sincerity. Sure enough, Irina reverts to type by handing her family over to her villainous former ally Gerard Cuvee (Derek de Lint) -- but is this betrayal all that it appears to be? And back in the U.S., Sloane (Ron Rifkin) is blackmailed by an unknown party regarding his role in the attempted assassination of his wife, Emily. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2002
Despite having lived relatively close to one another their entire lives, twins Tom and Thomas (both played by Aaron Johnson) have never met, though they are well aware of each other's existence. Coming together as people sometimes do in dire circumstances, Thomas finally runs into Tom as the latter is on the run from some malevolent child smugglers. As the kidnappers mistake Thomas for Tom and attempt to smuggle him out of the country via airplane, the original target must take matters into his own hands if he is ever to see his brother again and bring the family together. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sean Bean, Aaron Johnson, (more)
- 1996
Sara is an imaginative little girl who lives with her mother and her grandfather. Though happy enough, she dreams of reuniting her mother with her seldom-seen father, a national chess champion. When one of her school chums introduces her to the world of chess, she begins to spin an elaborate scenario involving the Queen. Tired of the laziness of her King, the Queen decides to vigorously attack her rivals. With elements to please both children and adults, this Dutch comedy drama follows the exploits of Sara and her Queen as they work to bring her estranged parents back together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1996
Filmed on location in Holland, the made-for-cable The Little Riders is set during the wartime Nazi occupation of that country. Living with her Dutch grandparents in the village of Kirkendam, American-born Joanne Hunter (Noley Thornton) is a helpless bystander in the real-life drama being played out between the locals and German occupational officer Captain Kessel (Malcolm McDowell). Grimly determined to break down any and all resistance to the Nazis, Kessel is prepared to destroy the villagers' most cherished possession: He intends to dismantle the six lead statues--or "little riders"--which revolve hourly on Kirkendam's 300-year-old clock tower, and melt them down for bullets. Intensifying the situation is the growing relationship between Joanne and Lt. Braun (Benedick Blythe), a conscience-stricken German officer billeted in her grandparents' home. Paul Scofieldheads the cast as the clock's caretaker, who also happens to be the head of the resistance movement--not to mention Joanne's grandfather. The Little Riders debuted March 24, 1996, over the Disney Channel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Scofield, Noley Thornton, (more)
- 1995
This European drama is adapted from Simone de Beauvioir's novel of the same name. It is set in post WW II France and tells the story of renowned theatrical actress, Regina, a temperamental diva who feels a great hole in her life until she goes on a provincial tour and meets an enigmatic stranger who is too busy looking inward to notice the world around him. Regina becomes obsessed with this man, and learns that he is an amnesiac. She follows him, and eventually they hesitantly begin an affair. Much of the story centers around their resulting conversations about love, life and death. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1994
A former Wall Street broker takes on a new career in this made-for-television movie. Jack Scalia stars as Connie Harper, a Wall Street star who gets sent to jail for fraud. While in prison, he becomes known for helping others when all else fails. Upon his release, a friend in the jail asks him to protect his sister who is in danger, and Connie embarks on a new career as a bodyguard. ~ Bernadette McCallion, All Movie Guide
- 1993
Robin Wirkus (Debrah Farentino) is upset by the terms of her late husband's will, which will provide for Kelly (David Caruso) so long as he keeps an eye on Robin. Elsewhere, the discovery of the "wrong" corpse leads to a murder conspiracy involving a hotelier and a concierge. And Sipowicz's (Dennis Franz) teenaged son, Andy Jr. (Michael DeLuise), faces a drug charge. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1993
If Angie (Annemarie Rottgering) has been in trouble with the law, it's no big deal to her, since everyone she knows has been in similar straits at one time or another. She has just gotten out of a juvenile offenders home, and is trying to settle in with her mother and her mother's new boyfriend, but when he tries to rape her, she heads for the home of her older brother Alex (Daniel Boissevain). He has been earning his living by stealing cars. While there, Angie makes friends with a waiter (Hidde Schols) who has some serious markers out with the mob for his gambling. Angie, her brother and her new boyfriend commit a robbery and then must go on the run from both the police and the mob. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Annemarie Rottgering, Daniel Boissevain, (more)
- 1993
This romantic mystery is based on a novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford and chronicles a journalist's investigation of his bride-to-be's disappearance. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Donna Mills, Stephen Collins, (more)
- 1990
In this drama a woman suffers terribly after she finally admits having an affair with her married doctor. Her husband does not accept the news gracefully and trouble ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1989
The "endless game" is espionage, which goes on and on despite government upheavals and changing international attitudes. Albert Finney plays a retired secret agent called back to active duty. Finney is entrusted with the task of finding out why his fellow retirees are being killed off. One of the victims is a woman who'd once been Finney's lover. Anthony Quayle makes his final screen appearance in this made-for-cable suspenser. Endless Game was written and directed by Bryan Forbes--surprisingly, his first foray into the spy-film genre. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1988
Originally shown on television in two parts, the second of which takes place after WWII. Surviving escapee Major John Dodge (Christopher Reeve) is sent back to Germany by Winston Churchill to capture the Gestapo officer who ordered the machine-gunning of 50 of the captured escapees, in direct defiance of the Geneva convention. Donald Pleasance, one of the "good guys" in the original, plays the Nazi villain in the new version. Filmed in Yugoslavia, Great Escape II: The Untold Story was originally telecast November 6 and 7, 1988. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1988
In this enigmatic drama, Inni Wintrop (Derek de Lint) has led a directionless life for many years. Orphaned at an early age, but with plenty of money up until the stock market crash of 1987, he has done a little bit of everything. He has no strong desires, and is not a very warm-hearted man. He strikes up an acquaintance with Phillip Taads (Thom Hoffman), the son of someone who was kind to him in his youth. The son has all the ambition he lacks, but it is focused on the acquisition of antique pottery and an obsessive desire to rid himself of all attachments. He is a perverse kind of Zen student. The interaction between these men helps each of them shed some light on their lives, but does not, apparently, bring about any major transformations. This film is based on the popular novel Rituelen by Cees Nooteboom. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Derek de Lint, Thom Hoffman, (more)
- 1986
The Dutch-filmed Assault was based on a novel by Harry Mulisch. Presented in a non-linear, flashback/flashword fashion, the film tells the story of a physician whose family was killed by the Nazis during World War II. This came about after the family's neighbors dragged the body of a dead collaborator to their doorstep. The doctor spends his entire adult life trying to find out why his neighbors had betrayed his family. At various isolated moments of political upheaval in Europe, the doctor comes closer and closer to the truth. During a 1984 anti-missile rally, the mystery is solved--and the answer is more complex than anyone back in 1945 had imagined. The hero's "growth" is thus placed in the context of the international turmoil of the four decades following the war. Marc van Uchelen plays the main character as a 12-year-old, while Derek de Lint portrays the adult physician. In a nicely underplayed symbolic touch, Monique van de Ven is cast in a dual role, playing de Lint's wife in the "present" scenes, and an older woman who is murdered by the Nazis because she shelters young van Uchelen in the flashback sequences. The Assault was the "best foreign film" Academy Award winner of 1987. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Derek de Lint, Monique Van de Ven, (more)
- 1984
Not a French revolution epic as might be assumed, Bastille is a modern social drama filmed in Holland. Derek de Lint plays the grown-up child of Dutch Holocaust victims. Throughout the first half of the film, he denies his past even while seeking out the facts behind his parents' demise. His indecision gives way to obsession: before the film has drawn to a close, he has convinced himself that he is capable of going back in time and changing history. Director Rudolph Van den Berg sometimes seems as confused as his Bastille protagonist. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Derek de Lint, Geert de Jong, (more)
- 1983
In this academic study of the psyche gone wrong, a married woman develops panic attacks and subsequently suffers from depression, leaving her husband for another man who shares her psychological afflictions. The two of them are soon engaged in an unhealthy relationship that ends when the woman falls to her death from a balcony. Now her husband is trying to find out if it was a murder or suicide. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Faber, Carla Hardy, (more)
- 1982
Set in the Netherlands between 1856 and 1888, this story centers on the gradual coming-of-age of Hedwig (Renée Soutendijk), the daughter of a wealthy family who has been "protected" from ever knowing about sex, a forbidden topic. At 16, Hewig marries a man who cannot stand the idea of sex, seeing all aspects related to it as sinful and demeaning. Given the fact that Helwig is as sensual as most young women her age, she eventually meets an accomplished, attractive pianist and falls in love -- leaving her sterile life with her inflexible husband and taking on a new life as the mistress of the pianist. Soon she is pregnant, and while the pianist is away on a concert tour, she has their child. Her happiness is short-lived because the little baby becomes ill and dies. At this point, Hedwig is living in Paris and the death of her child robs her of the stability she had known until now, and she ends up in a hospital for treatment of her mental and emotional collapse. Although cured of her emotional breakdown, she comes out of the hospital addicted to heroin -- a habit she is forced to sustain through prostitution. Finally, she is able to end the addiction with the help of a nun, and then she returns to the Netherlands to start looking for a new beginning. Based on a Frederik van Eeden novel that was published in 1900 and was far-sighted for its time, attacking the repressive behavior of the religiously "upright," this film still sees Hedwig as morally flawed, her lover as another "free-living" artist, and farmers as somewhat backward. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Renée Soutendijk, Derek de Lint, (more)
- 1980
This psychological drama about the hopeless decline of a minor artist-craftsman (Derek De Lint) involves explicit sexual scenes and sexual language, nudity, and violence. As a boy, the young artist was emotionally brutalized by his father, and after he reaches adulthood, it becomes increasingly difficult for him to overcome his problems. He strikes up an intimate liaison with a Jewish woman at work, yet his confusion does not allow him to have a normal relationship. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Derek de Lint, Cristel Braak, (more)
Former film critic André Téchiné directed and co-wrote this offbeat crime drama. Samson (Gérard Depardieu) is a down-on-his-luck boxer who manages to win a fortune thanks to a fixed fight. However, while Samson and his girlfriend Laure (Isabelle Adjani) are trying to get away with the money, he is killed by a gunman who looks just like Samson (and is also played by Depardieu). Laure is crushed, but in time she finds herself attracted to Samson's murderous double; he is also drawn to her, and they eventually become lovers. The supporting cast includes Marie-France Pisier and Jean-Claude Brialy. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, (more)
Filmmaker Paul Verhoeven returned to the Netherlands after more than twenty years of success in Hollywood to direct this epic-scale war drama based on a true story. Rachel Steinn (Carice van Houten) is a beautiful Jewish woman living in German-occupied Holland during late 1944. Her family members - who have been falsely promised safe passage to Belgium (their names recorded in the 'black book' of the title) are instead robbed and slaughtered by the Germans on a premeditated basis; Rachel herself manages to escape by diving into the water and swimming away. She narrowly avoids capture, then joins the local resistance movement. With her hair dyed blonde, Rachel can easily pass for Aryan, and when the leader of the Dutch resistance movement learns his son has been captured by Axis forces, Rachel is asked to use her feminine charms to persuade a German commander to arrange for the boy's release. Rachel soon finds herself caught up in a dangerous double life as she becomes a sexual plaything for the Nazis while attempting to bring down their evil empire as a spy. Zwartboek was written by Verhoeven and Gerard Soeteman, who collaborated on the 1977 international success Soldier of Orange. Zwartboek received its world premier at the 2006 Venice Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, (more)
