Jan van Dommelen Movies

A cabinetmaker finds a document written in Latin in an old desk. Because he cannot decipher it, he asks his lawyer for a translation.

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

The secret from the title is the lost recipe for shiny Delft pottery, that Jan Vogel is desperately trying to rediscover. For his attempts he needs...

Young poacher Hendrik van Norden has seriously wounded a game-keeper, who has not recognized him. There was, however, one witness: captain Van Oort,...

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

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 storyline is about a man without a head that haunts the castle Arco in the 16th century. A man in the present day (1914) goes to the castle to...

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...

During his summer vacation, an artist falls in love with a Dutch girl. He finds a serious rival in one of the local fishermen, and when the...

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

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...

Raymond is a painter who is very successful in his career. One day, he walks into a saloon and his eyes fall on the beautiful Jennie. She poses for...

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...

Kate van Marlen is blissfully happy with her partner, Count Alfred van der Loo. However, he has no serious plans for her and says he will never marry...

A press release and a review describe a scene from the film: a skipper refuses to abandon his burning ship, despite his daughter's pleas. In a...

Boris wins a violin competition, and Countess Montjoie, an admirer, gives him an inherited Stradivarius on the condition that he comes to play for...

The story of Theodoor, a hunchbacked child. He grows up in poor circumstances. His alcoholic father dies as a result of suffocation caused by...

The story revolves around extortion and blackmail, with a notorious con artist making life impossible for everyone else.