Tom Jansen Movies

An ego-maniacal, manipulative, man uses a young gigolo to enact the fantasies he is too sick to perform in this thriller set in a hotel penthouse on the French Riviera. Chris is the young Dutch gigolo who preys on wealthy older women at the hotel. Glover the wealthy, wheelchair bound gent who lives in the hotel's top floor suite. Chris, thinking he killed his last customer while haggling for money, bursts into Glover's suite to hide. The old man not only lets Chris stay in the spare room, he also wines, dines, and supplies a series of beautiful call girls to the young man. It is only later that Chris discovers that his "benefactor" is video-taping his sexploits. Appalled, Chris wants to leave. Glover makes him a new offer: he will pay Chris an incredible amount of money to find a beautiful woman and kill her. Chris agrees and chooses Helen, who works in a perfumery. Helen is lucky, figures it out, and thwarts Chris, but when she must deal with Glover, her luck runs out. As the credits roll, the song "Sweet Sixteen" is played. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

This atmospheric melodrama/thriller tells the odd story of a modern-day Lorelei, a woman who lures others to their doom. In the story, the similarly named Laura Ley (Hilde van Mieghem) is a single mother who works as a chambermaid and has a very unusual hobby. When she is off work and her son has been put to bed, she dresses up in evening gowns and has highly suggestive conversations by CB radio with truck drivers and others far into the night. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In this depressing melodrama, Iris (Monique van de Ven) runs away to the big city on her 18th birthday. She moves in with a successful architect and is content to keep house for a while, but she soon grows restless and decides to become a veterinarian. With an inheritance she purchases an existing clinic in a jerkwater town. Iris is leered at by the men and scorned by the women of the backwoods region. Practical jokes and malicious gossip eventually lead to violence. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Based on true events but at the same time a fictional account, this compelling, fast-paced wartime drama of two heroic resistance fighters in Holland deserves attention. Peter van Dijk (Jeroen Krabbe) is an accomplished artist who is thrown into the leadership of the resistance movement out of a series of tragic events. He leads military raids against the Germans and is at the top of their "Most Wanted" list. David Blumberg (Edwin de Vries) hits upon an imaginative and daring plot to save as many Jews as he can from the Nazi death camps. He invents a fake General von Spiegel who sends him lists of Jews who should be sent to Switzerland, provided they can come up with enough jewels or whatever to front the cost. The Gestapo buys this ploy, and hundreds of Jews are saved as a result (a true historical fact). Blumberg and van Dijk's stories become intertwined and expanded, filling in context and entertaining subsidiary characters as they go along. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide