Alex Van Warmerdam Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Composer (Music Score), Producer, Screenwriter, Play Author

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Waiter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alex Van Warmerdam, Jaap Spijkers, Ariane Schluter, Pierre Bokma, Mark Rietman

Synopsis: A put-upon, middle-aged waiter whose life seems to be dictated by the writings of his best friend begs the author of his colorless autobiography for a new hue in a film writer, star, and director Alex van Warmerdam's absurdist take on fate, creativity, and power. A virtual human punching bag for Read More

2006
Grimm

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Halina Reijn, Jacob Derwig, Carmelo Gómez, Elvira Mínguez, Ulises Dumont

Synopsis: Written and directed by Alex van Warmerdam, Grimm is an absurdist, decidedly black take on the Hansel and Gretel story. Set in modern day Holland, Grimm centers around siblings Marie (Halina Reijn) and Jacob (Jacob Derwig), who were sent to the forest under the pretext of gathering firewood while Read More

2003
Kleine Teun

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Annet Malherbe, Ariane Schluter, Alex Van Warmerdam, Sebastian te Wierk, Tomas te Wierk

Synopsis: For his fourth feature, Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam based this dark Dutch comedy on his own play about power struggles within a menage a trois at an isolated farmhouse where dull-witted farmer Brand (van Warmerdam) lives with his overweight wife Keet (Annet Malherbe), who is unable to Read More

1998
De Jurk

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The action in this dark Dutch comedy centers upon the creation of the title garment and shows the adverse affects it has upon the lives of those involved with making, selling and wearing it. Each stage of the dress's life is punctuated by an excerpt from a nearby person's life which in turn adds Read More

1996
De Noorderlingen

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Victor Löw, Theo van Gogh, Jack Wouterse, Rudolf Lucieer, Alex Van Warmerdam, Annet Malherbe

Synopsis: Alex van Warmerdam's award-winning second feature is set in a remote small Dutch village in the early 1960s. The village is actually just one street of a new town that was never completed, and the behavior of its inhabitants is invariably determined by their unsolved sexual problems, leading to a Read More

1992
Voyeur

Crew: Director

1991
Abel

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alex Van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Olga Zuiderhoek, Annet Malherbe

Synopsis: This satirical Dutch film was the debut of its director-writer-star, Alex Van Warmerdam. Abel is a 31-year old man who still lives with his parents and is petrified of the outside world. His parents try their best to socialize him -- in some very funny scenes -- before his father (Henri Garcin) Read More

1985