Theo Van de Sande Filmography

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dermot Mulroney, Gretchen Mol, Emily Watson, Hope Nausbaum, Emma Colbert

Synopsis: Durmot Mulroney, Gretchen Mol, and two-time Oscar nominee Emily Watson star in director Mick Jackson's feature adaptation of author Kim Edwards' New York Times best-seller concerning a physician whose painful decision to abandon one of his newborn twins has further reaching repercussions than he Read More

Steal a Pencil for Me

Crew: Cinematographer, Producer

Actors: Jack Polak, Ina Soep, Ellen Ten Damme, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: A man, his wife, and the women he has fallen deeply in love with experience jealousy and heartbreak while housed together in the same barrack of a World War II-era concentration camp in Oscar-nominated director Michele Ohayon (Cowboy Del Amore)'s unflinching look at love in a land ravaged by war. Read More

Cowboy del Amor

Crew: Cinematographer, Co-producer

Synopsis: One man turns marriage into a multinational business proposition in this documentary. Ivan Thompson, who spent much of his life working ranches in New Mexico, calls himself "the Cowboy Cupid" and earns a living playing matchmaker, though his clientele is rather unusual -- he finds Mexican brides Read More

Yours, Mine & Ours

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo, Rip Torn, Linda Hunt, Jerry O'Connell, David Koechner

Synopsis: Two big families merge into one super-sized brood in this comedy. Frank Beardsley (Dennis Quaid) is a naval officer who has been raising eight children on his own after the death of his wife, and while he loves his kids, he rules his household with military precision. Frank has been alone just Read More

Beauty Shop

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Andie MacDowell, Alicia Silverstone, Mena Suvari, Paige Hurd, Queen Latifah

Synopsis: While the men of Barbershop and Barbershop 2 have plenty to mouth off about, they may have met their match in the female staff and clientele of a nearby beauty shop. Directed by Bille Woodruff, Beauty Shop revolves around these women led by Gina (Queen Latifah), who opened Beauty Shop to give all Read More

Little Black Book

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Brittany Murphy, Holly Hunter, Kathy Bates, Ron Livingston, Julianne Nicholson

Synopsis: Directed by Nick Hurran, Little Black Book follows Stacy (Brittany Murphy), an associate producer of a popular daytime talk show starring Kippie Kann (Kathy Bates), as she tries to figure out the root of her boyfriend's (Ron Livingston) commitment-phobic nature. Rather than continue to fruitlessly Read More

Out of Time

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, Dean Cain, John Billingsley

Synopsis: Director Carl Franklin and actor Denzel Washington team up again (following 1995's Devil in a Blue Dress) for the crime thriller Out of Time. Washington stars as Matt Lee Whitlock, the well-respected chief of police in a quiet Florida community. While in the process of getting a divorce from Read More

DysFunKtional Family

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Comedian Eddie Griffin delivers a set of his outrageous standup comedy and introduces his fans to the family who helped inspire his work in this documentary. In DysFunKtional Family, Griffin talks about race, sex, cats, dogs, slavery, terrorism, Michael Jackson, and several of the more eccentric Read More

High Crimes

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, James Caviezel, Amanda Peet, Tom Bower

Synopsis: Defense attorney Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) seems to have the perfect life. She has a high profile job at a big firm, a beautiful home outside San Francisco, and a husband, Tom (James Caviezel of The Thin Red Line), who loves her. Claire's biggest problem appears to be that she wants to have a Read More

Double Take

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Orlando Jones, Eddie Griffin, Edward Herrmann, Gary Grubbs, Shawn Elliott

Synopsis: A man trying to run away from trouble finds it follows him in unexpected ways in this action-packed vehicle for comic actors Eddie Griffin and Orlando Jones. Daryl Chase (Jones) is a successful investment banker who handles international accounts for a major New York firm. Chase discovers to his Read More

Little Nicky

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Rhys Ifans, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr.

Synopsis: The youngest child of the family often has the most problems -- so why should things be different for the Prince of Darkness and his offspring? Satan (Harvey Keitel) is considering retirement, and is pondering which of his sons should take over the family business -- ambitious Adrian (Rhys Ifans) Read More

Big Daddy

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Josh Mostel, Leslie Mann

Synopsis: Prospective parents everywhere, meet the world's least likely paternal role model: Adam Sandler! In Big Daddy, Sandler plays 30-year-old bachelor Sonny Koufax, a carefree slob who has never much taken to adult responsibilities; he works one day a week as a tollbooth collector, and spends the Read More

Cruel Intentions

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair, Louise Fletcher, Swoosie Kurtz, Christine Baranski

Synopsis: In an adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) are step-brother and step-sister living in Manhattan. With their absent parents travelling in Europe, the wealthy pair have the family penthouse Read More

Tuesdays With Morrie

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria, Wendy Moniz, Caroline Aaron, Bonnie Bartlett

Synopsis: Detroit Free Press sports columnist Mitch Albom (Hank Azaria) has found success and popularity in his occupation, but emotionally and spiritually he is bankrupt. While watching television one night, he comes across an episode of the news showNightline and learns that his former university Read More

Blade

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal Logue

Synopsis: British director Stephen Norrington helmed this David S. Goyer adaptation of the Marvel Comics character created in 1973 by scripter Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan. In the Tomb of Dracula comic book origin, just before Blade's mother gave birth to Blade, she was bitten by a vampire, which made Read More

Colors Straight Up

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This documentary offers an inside look at Colors United, a performing-arts workshop set up as an after-school activity for at-risk teens at Jordan High School in the tough Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts. As the students rehearse a musical theater piece (a musical update of Romeo and Juliet Read More

Volcano

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle, Jacqueline Kim

Synopsis: Disaster visits jaded L.A. in the form of an underground volcano, not the big earthquake all the citizens expect. Shot on the largest set ever constructed in the U.S., in nearby Torrance, California, Volcano is a big-budget, special-effects-laden disaster movie with a standard plot. Tommy Lee Jones Read More

Bushwhacked

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Daniel Stern, Jon Polito, Brad Sullivan, Ann Dowd, Anthony Heald

Synopsis: Poor Max Grabelski doesn't have any luck at all. What little he had runs out when local racketeers set the bungling delivery man up to take the fall for their money-laundering schemes. Sure enough, when the government agents arrive, he is found holding a package filled with loot. Not only that Read More

Les Hirondelles ne Meurent pas a Jerusalem

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are sensitively explored in the Tunisian-French drama. Richard, a French TV journalist has been assigned to do a political story in Jerusalem the night before Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat sign their peace accord. Richard is glad to go as it gives Read More

Exit to Eden

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dana Delany, Paul Mercurio, Rosie O'Donnell, Dan Aykroyd, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: This sexy farce stars Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell as Fred Lavery and Sheila Kingston, a pair of cynical detectives investigating the disappearance of a key witness in a diamond-smuggling case. The case leads them to a Club Med-styled S&M resort where dog collars and cat o' nine tails abound; Read More

Tales of Erotica

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Arliss Howard, Cynda Williams, Kathleen Wilhoite, John Toles-Bey, Mira Sorvino

Synopsis: This German film consists of six separate vignettes each created by a different international director, each challenged to create brief erotic scenarios. The first, named "Wet," was directed by Bob Rafelson and involves an encounter between a bathroom fixtures salesman and a customer who comes Read More

It Was a Wonderful Life

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jodie Foster

Synopsis: For the six women profiled in the documentary It Was A Wonderful Life, the emphasis is on the word was. They all went from a comfortable middle-class existence to dire poverty and homelessness when the support of their husbands was withdrawn by divorce or abandonment. Nonetheless, as a group, they Read More

Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Hillary Wolf, David Strathairn, Margaret Whitton, Griffin Dunne, Patricia Kalember

Synopsis: Joan Micklin Silver tries her mighty best to wring something substantial out of Frank Mugavero's banal sit-com screenplay concerning the effect of divorce on the divorced parents' off-spring. Hillary Wolf stars as Laura Chartoff, a lonely thirteen-year-old girl who is the victim of multiple Read More

Wayne's World

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Lara Flynn Boyle, Brian Doyle-Murray

Synopsis: Based on the Saturday Night Live sketch of the same name, Wayne's World is a wacky, irreverent pop-culture comedy about the adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey). From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World" Read More

Body Parts

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Brad Dourif, Zakes Mokae

Synopsis: When prison psychiatrist Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) loses an arm in a car accident, he receives a revolutionary new transplant from an unknown donor, who is later discovered to have been a recently-executed psycho-killer. During his recovery, Bill is tormented by violent nightmares and aggressive Read More

Once Around

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Danny Aiello, Laura San Giacomo, Gena Rowlands

Synopsis: Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom made his American movie debut with this romantic comedy, starring Holly Hunter as Renata Bella, an aimless Bostonian thirtysomething who attends a seminar for aspiring condo salespersons. Here she meets hotshot salesman Sam Sharpe (Richard Dreyfuss), who Read More

Eyes of an Angel

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeffrey DeMunn, John Travolta, Ellie Raab, Tito Larriva

Synopsis: Both enemies and a very special friend follow a young girl and her father in flight from ruthless criminals in this drama. Bobby Allen (John Travolta) is a small-time crook working as a bagman for the mob in Chicago. When circumstances force Bobby to turn against his brother-in-law -- a Read More

The First Power

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober, Mykelti Williamson, Elizabeth Arlen

Synopsis: This lackluster attempt at blending equal parts action movie and supernatural thriller ends up sacrificing the merits of both genres. The plot finds baby-faced homicide detective Logan (Lou Diamond Phillips) on the trail of "Pentagram Killer" Patrick Channing (Jeff Kober), negligibly assisted by Read More

Miracle Mile

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar, Lou Hancock, Mykelti Williamson

Synopsis: Miracle Mile starts conventionally enough, with bashful musician Anthony Edwards going ga-ga over waitress Mare Winningham. After a pleasant if somewhat quirky day together, Edwards and Winningham plan a tete-a-tete at the all-night restaurant where the girl works. While preparing to call her on a Read More

Rooftops

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jason Gedrick, Troy Beyer, Eddie Velez, Alexis Cruz, Tisha Campbell

Synopsis: Set in the Manhattan street milieu that served him well in West Side Story, Robert Wise’s Rooftops tells the story of T, a quiet, soft-spoken teen-ager who has left his broken home and is living in a makeshift shelter in an old water tower on top of an abandoned tenement building. There are other Read More

Der Madonna Mann

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Renée Soutendijk, Heinrich Schweiger, Peter Kraus

Synopsis: Martin (Marius Muller Westernhagen) is an Australian tourist forced to land in Hamburg in this routine thriller. He is mistaken for a notorious hitman and is pursued by the authorities. With help from the darling Dutch woman Juliane (Renee Soutendjik), the two are chased through the city by the Read More

Crossing Delancey

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Amy Irving, Reizl Bozyk, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbé, Sylvia Miles

Synopsis: Can an independent, contemporary woman find happiness with a guy who sells pickles? Isabelle Grossman (Amy Irving) is an attractive, intelligent Jewish woman in her early 30s. She has a good job and a nice apartment on the Upper West Side, and she values her independence; she often visits her Read More

Charlotte

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Birgit Doll, Derek Jacobi, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Max Croiset, Brigitte Horney

Synopsis: In a true story beginning in the year before the outbreak of WW II in France, Charlotte (Birgit Doll), a young woman sent to the safety of her grandfathers in the south of France by her Jewish family in Germany, starts to paint pictures that recall some of the terrors she has already known in Read More

De Wisselwachter

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jim Van Der Woude, Stephane Excoffier, Josse de Pauw, John Kraaykamp, Tom van Dort

Synopsis: Accidentally stepping off a train at some God-forsaken whistle stop, a worldly, elegantly dressed Frenchwoman (Stéphane Excoffier) finds shelter in the cabin of a lonely Dutch pointsman (Jim van der Woude), whose life consists mainly of his work, daily housekeeping, and sleep. Using gestures Read More

Zoeken naar Eileen

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Thom Hoffman, Lysette Anthony, Kenneth Herdigein, Hans Kemna, John van Dreelen

Synopsis: This romantic thriller is set in Amsterdam and centers upon a happily married, financially comfortable young couple whose lives are destroyed when the wife is killed in a car crash en route to London. The distraught husband falls into a deep well of despair. One year later, his depression is Read More

De Aanslag

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Derek de Lint, Monique Van de Ven, John Kraaykamp, Huub van der Lubbe, Marc van Uchelen

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Mama Is Boos!

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Faber, Geert de Jong, Sanne van der Nooirt, Alexander Mouissie, Rijk de Gooyer

Synopsis: A well-wrought sequel to the popular Schatjes, Mama Is Boos! draws on the same styles and themes that inspired the success of the earlier comedy. The all-out war between the parents and their children in Schatjes has become an all-out war declared by Danny Gisberts (Geert de Jong) against her Read More

Het Bittere Kruid

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gerard Thoolen, Kitty Courbois

Synopsis: This unfortunate interpretation of the life of a Jewish girl in Holland -- who escapes being sent to German death camps in 1942 while the rest of her family is deported -- is loosely based on the autobiographical novel by Marga Minco. The author sued to insert a disclaimer before the title that a Read More

De Ijssalon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gerard Thoolen, Bruno Ganz, Renée Soutendijk, Carol Van Herwijnen, Kees Hulst

Synopsis: Set in 1941 in Amsterdam, this is a story of humanity -- specifically, Otto (Gerard Thoolen) the Jewish owner of an ice-cream shop, his best friend Gustav (Bruno Ganz), and his friend Trudi (Renee Soutendijk) -- facing the dangers of an escalating war and the specter of fascism. The outgoing Read More

Stranger At Home

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Both sides of the explosive Palestinian-Israeli conflict are presented in this excellent documentary on the Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata who returns to Jerusalem after 18 years of living in the U.S. The artist goes back for the opening of an exhibition of his silkscreens, and he is filled Read More

De Schorpioen

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Tuinman, Monique Van de Ven, Adrian Brine, Henk van Ulsen, Rima Melati

Synopsis: In this well-executed political thriller, some covert operations are going on that accidentally involve a Dutch trucker who realizes that an identity switch has led to murder. Loe Wolff (Peter Tuinman), a divorced father whose ex-family lives in New York, drives a truck in a dead-end job and sees Read More

Schatjes!

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Akkemay, Peter Faber, Geert de Jong, Frank Schaafsma

Synopsis: In one action-filled segment after another, this spoof of Hollywood exaggeration, rebellious teenagers, military machos, and domineering parents mimics some well-known characters and scenes from American movies, and pits a family's brood of kids against the Dutch army. In the constant battle with Read More

De Illusionist

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Freek de Jonge, Jim Van Der Woude, Catrien Wolthuyzen, Gerard Thoolen

Synopsis: Without a word of dialogue from beginning to end, The Illusionist relies on entrancing photography, a tour-de-force performance by its lead actors, and effective action scenes to keep audiences fascinated by the story of an older brother who is a magician, trying to save his younger brother (Jim Read More

Giovanni

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Truus Te Selle

Synopsis: This is a unique, if not eccentric film in which the co-star is a piece of architecture, a hotel room to be exact. Into a room in a hotel, the camera follows Diane, a fashion photographer in Rome looking for a certain Giovanni. And then when Diane leaves the room for the world at large, the camera Read More

Van de Koele Meren des Doods

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Renée Soutendijk, Derek de Lint, Peter Faber

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Golven

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Aat Ceelen, Michel van Rooij, Truus Te Selle

Synopsis: This is a story of the relationships between six people preparing for a good-bye dinner for their common friend Percival (Gerardjan Rijnders), and as the actors prepare for their roles by getting into costumes and character, the story -- or lack of it -- begins. Voiceovers narrate the thoughts of Read More

Het Meisje Met Het Rode Haar

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Renée Soutendijk, Peter Tuinman, Loes Luca, Johan Leysen, Robert Delhez

Synopsis: Made for theatrical release by a Dutch TV production firm, this stars Renee Soutendijk in the title role. The Girl is a Dutch wartime resistance leader, who is killed before the film proper gets under way. Through the reminiscences of her best friend, we are given every detail of the Girl's life Read More

De Witte Van Sichem

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This insightful, excellent drama is based on a popular novel from the 1930s and is the second cinematic version of the story of young Whitey (Eric Clerckx). Whitey and his family live in poverty in Flanders, working for a wealthy farmer. Whitey's main passion is reading, although he has no Read More

Mijn Vriend

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Faber, Andre van den Heuvel, Pleuni Touw

Synopsis: A famous trial which took place in Ghent is the subject of this courtroom drama, which exposes the activities of an unabashed villain. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Kasper in De Onderwereld

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this mysterious film, based on a novel by Hubert Lampo which explores the legends of Orpheus in the underworld, Kasper is a man who is not quite right in the head. Once a concert pianist, for many years he has been a recluse. He leaves his retreat to look for a woman he used to love. However Read More

Doctor Vlimmen

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Faber, Roger Van Hool, Chris Lomme

Synopsis: This story is about an outspoken older veterinarian who is disliked by his community for that very reason, as well as for his tendency to campaign local farmers to use new methods. After his wife left him, he is accused by a local girl of having made her pregnant, she is readily believed, and he Read More

De Plaats van de Vreemdeling

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this routine documentary on Judaism and Israel, the mix of perspectives given on the Jewish nation and its function in relation to the international Jewish community does not provide much clarity. Exactly what defines a Jew and a citizen of Israel, and what rights each has in Israel -- and many Read More

Soleil Des Hyenes

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Helene Catzaras

Synopsis: After a German company builds a resort on the beach of a traditional Tunisian fishing village, all the men leave their boats for construction jobs. For a while, they are more prosperous than before, but soon the jobs end, and they have neither their old boats nor any real place in the new Read More

Het Debuut

Crew: Cinematographer

Zwaarmoedige Verhalen Voor Bij de Centrale Verwarming

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This anthology film includes four stories filmed by four different directors. The first chronicles the amatory conquest of a bank manager by one of his female clerks. The second examines the life of an independent old man who does not want to be "improved." The third depicts the relationship Read More

Dakota

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kees Brusse

Synopsis: Dakota is about a pilot who owns an airplane of the same name. Dick (Kees Brusse) takes on odd jobs with the plane, many of them illegal. He accomplishes at least one long-distance flying feat, which astonishes his knowledgeable friends, and suffers from the isolation and loneliness of his solo Read More

Naakt over de Schutting

Crew: Cinematographer