Waldemar Torenstra (Acting)

Shaolin Heroes

The new Videoland Original Shaolin Heroes takes adventure reality to a new level. Ten well-known participants will follow the ancient path of the Shaolin Warrior Monks. They travel to Asia where they are taught during a nine-day training by authentic Shaolin masters. An unprecedentedly beautiful world, where original Kung Fu and martial arts assignments are combined with authentic lifestyle and meaning elements from the Shaolin philosophy. Both tough physical assignments and meditation exercises and everything laced with life wisdom and philosophy.

Release Date:2025-03-12

Character:Self

Episode Count:6

Roosters

Facing a world that has evolved without them, four friends clumsily try to adapt while keeping their relationships and careers intact.

Release Date:2025-02-28

Episode Count:6

Hein

Release Date:2024-11-10

Character:Donny de Jonge

Episode Count:1

Der Amsterdam-Krimi: Blutige Diamanten

Release Date:2024-04-25

Character:Hermann van Blomen

Mag ik je aanraken?

How do Dutch actors in the post-#MeToo era look back at intimate scenes and what do they think about the arrival of the intimacy coordinator? From her experience as an actress and filmmaker, Tamar van den Dop talks to several past and present icons.

Release Date:2023-09-25

Line of Fire

The story of Dutch commando Marco Kroon, who, after becoming the first recipient of his country's highest military award in over five decades, finds himself in the crosshairs of the law for alleged drugs and weapons violations.

Release Date:2023-09-14

Character:Marco Kroon

Vote Count:8

Five Live

Release Date:2022-10-02

Character:Roderik van Zuylen

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:2

Zwanger & Co

Merel, a single midwife, is done with men, but her biological clock is ticking inexorably. And yes, she gets pregnant. However, the whole family suddenly seems pregnant. Her 60-plus father Piet has just become a father again with his young partner and her 23-year-old niece Eva is also expecting. Annet, Merel's older sister, who suffers from the empty nest syndrome, has a husband Theo who only wants to travel because he thinks is too young to become a grandfather.

Release Date:2022-07-07

Character:Luuk

Vote Count:6

Het Herriehofje

Release Date:2022-04-18

Character:Jim

Episode Count:10

Alles op Tafel

Seven friends meet up for dinner and decide to play a revealing game. During the evening deep personal secrets will surface and threaten their relationships.

Release Date:2021-11-04

Character:Thomas

Vote Count:16

Adem in, Adem uit

Release Date:2021-09-21

Character:Sven

Episode Count:10

Make Up Your Mind

Release Date:2021-05-15

Character:Tipsy Summers

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Ondersteboven van Afrika

Waldemar Torenstra makes a road trip from Cape Town to Cairo in 'Upside Down by Africa'. He rides a motorcycle through Africa in search of stories that have not been told before with historical facts and the current situation.

Release Date:2020-10-18

Episode Count:8

Amsterdam Vice

It is the time of major social changes, squatter riots and demonstrations. The idealistic young detective Jurre de Cock is just starting at station Warmoesstraat. His partner, the purebred Amsterdammer Tonnie Montijn, shows him around the city. But then the duo comes across a criminal conspiracy, which appears to be part of a bigger plan. De Cock is also assigned a new partner: Andy Ruiter, transferred from the Bijlmer.

Release Date:2019-12-30

Character:Jurre de Cock

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:5

Single Street

Cardiac surgeon Monqiue has centered her life around her work. When extraverted gay artist Max moves in next door they develop a friendship which makes her realise there is more to life than work.

Release Date:2019-05-09

Character:Max

Vote Count:42

Baantjer: The Beginning

A mild-mannered police detective freshly stationed in tumultuous 1980 Amsterdam enters a race against time when he encounters a violent plot against the Dutch royal family.

Release Date:2019-04-18

Character:Jurre de Cock

Vote Count:29

All You Need Is Love

When popular TV show host Dr. Love goes missing ahead of the annual Christmas special, a zany search for his replacement and holiday romance ensues.

Release Date:2018-12-06

Character:Gerco

Vote Count:12

No Such Thing as Housewives

Two modern women and their free-spirited mother struggle to balance their private, professional and family lives.

Release Date:2017-12-21

Character:Thijs

Vote Count:16

Gek van geluk

Single mum Lena is struggling with her job: she's a writer of love songs, but because of the lack of romance in her life, she's not inspired anymore. Her friend Valerie thinks she has the perfect solution: she hires a jobless actor to seduce Lena.

Release Date:2017-12-07

Character:Paul

Vote Count:11

Meisje van Plezier

Release Date:2017-09-10

Character:Daan

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:9

The Swap

When successful banker Thomas attends his father’s funeral, he meets his left-wing activist brother Arne again after many years. He makes an effort to get close to Arne and invites him to a prestigious conference on sustainable banking, but Arne uses the conference to make a political statement that has fatal consequences. Thomas finds himself fighting for his own career and for Arne’s life, but especially to regain his brother’s respect.

Release Date:2017-04-26

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Character:

Vote Count:1

Suspects

Suspects is about the team Criminal Intelligence of the Amsterdam police. They have to deal with eight modern crime cases that are difficult to solve. The team hooks up in each case in order to complete it successfully.

Release Date:2017-03-12

Character:Willem Keijzer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Ron Goossens, Low Budget Stuntman

Alcoholic and low budget stuntman Ron Goossens has to get The Netherlands' most successful actrice between the sheets in order to save his own marriage. Will he succeed? A new outrageous comedy from the writers/directors of New Kids Turbo, New Kids Nitro and Bros Before Hos.

Release Date:2017-01-26

Character:Waldemar Torenstra

Vote Count:53

Het Perfecte Plaatje

Release Date:2016-10-31

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:2

Vechtershart

Release Date:2015-11-22

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Character:Nick Roest

Episode Count:[ 18 ]

Vote Count:3

Icehorse

Jonny, a deadbeat groomer, follows a young woman through the streets of Amsterdam to find out if she is the girl he accidentally killed in a recurring dream, a hallucination or, worse, a memory.

Release Date:2014-06-18

Vote Count:2

Leve boerenliefde

A farmer lost his wife and is anything but looking for a new romance. But when a popular TV dating show plans to film a new episode on his farm, he is lured into becoming a participant in the show to save his farm.

Release Date:2013-05-14

Character:Hendrik Helder

Vote Count:14

Divorce

The series is about three men aged between 35 and 45 who are in the middle of a divorce. They decide to temporarily live together. They share joys and sorrows, and a deeply rooted friendship grows. The story revolves around everything that a divorce entails: the strong emotions, the quarrels, the mourning, the doubts, the children, finances, rediscovering yourself, starting again, dealing with your ex and dating on your fortieth. But the series is also about a typical male friendship. Men who need but a few words to understand each other, who give each other space to be sad and who back each other up when they are vulnerable. But also men who are not afraid to tell each other the brutal truth.

Release Date:2012-12-16

Character:Joris Hulskamp

Episode Count:49

Vote Count:7

Maestro

Release Date:2012-11-08

Character:Kandidaat

Episode Count:8

Balance

Friends Henderson and Morris are climbing a mountain, connected by a rope. They take an easy passage, but a loss of oversight leads to Henderson's fall. Morris cannot prevent falling too. Seconds later he finds himself hanging above an abyss, realizing the balance is unstable.

Release Date:2012-06-01

Character:Morris

Allez, Eddy!

When the village’s first supermarket opens its doors in 1975, Freddy’s isolated life is turned upside down. To celebrate its opening, the supermarket organises a bicycle race of which the winner will get to meet Eddy Merckx. Freddy’s father, a fervent opponent of the supermarket, wants nothing to do with the race. Freddy enters secretly.

Release Date:2012-03-28

Character:Eddy Merckx

Vote Count:11

Lijn 32

Release Date:2012-01-14

Character:Hein van Vlijmen

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:4

Mixed Up

Mixed up is a drama series about the editorial staff of women's magazine ZIJ, in which the battle between the men and women on the editorial staff can get quite fierce.

Release Date:2011-11-14

Character:David Vogel

Episode Count:9

My Grandpa the Bankrobber

In order to find her father in Surinam Grace is forced to take some desperate measures. Grace is the only black child of an all-white family, desperate to find out everything about her Surinam father. Grandpa can help her, but his memory gets worse every day since the death of his wife. When the family decide to put Grandpa into a retirement home, he and Grace decide to use his savings to travel to Surinam - but the family has blocked access to his bank account. But their dreams can come true if they rob the bank

Release Date:2011-02-10

Character:Teun

Vote Count:5

The Happy Housewife

Lea is an immaculate 30-something wife whose husband’s job in real estate allows her an enviably glossy lifestyle. The word ‘emancipation’ simply isn't in her vocabulary and as long as the money rolls in, all is rosy. So, when Harry Jr. arrives, she is a little traumatized at having to swap canapés for nappies.

Release Date:2010-04-15

Character:Harry Meijer

Vote Count:41

Drop Dead!

What begins as an exciting parachute jumping adventure takes a nightmarish turn, when the instructor shows signs of suicidal behavior.

Release Date:2009-09-28

Character:Mike

Vote Count:2

Life is Beautiful

Erasmus compiled a few thousand Adagia, each exemplifies the classical truths that are our timeless and everyday wisdom. Life is Beautiful shows us just how wondrous life really is, by reflecting, quietly manipulating and exposing every day moments and scenes in 30 short stories.

Release Date:2009-06-01

Vote Count:2

Bride Flight

A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.

Release Date:2008-10-15

Character:Frank

Vote Count:38

Summer Heat

Photographer Bob loses his girlfriend. A year later he meets Kathleen. Is she in love? Or does she use him for her dark dealings with the mafia?

Release Date:2008-03-20

Character:Bob

Vote Count:18

Tiramisu

Bookkeeper Jacob newest client is the talented and flamboyant actress Anne. They first meet each other on her houseboat, the morning after the premiere of Anne's new theatrical play. Anne has made a mess of her personal finances and she has a lot of debt. So much so that she may even have to sell her houseboat. Jacob does what he can to help her.

Release Date:2008-03-06

Character:Nick

Vote Count:4

Diep

A story about the 14 year old Heleen who makes the transition of child to adult with pain and effort in the wild 70s. While her parents going to divorce she is exploring the world of sex, drugs and love on her own.

Release Date:2005-11-10

Character:Bakker Jan

Vote Count:4

Johan

Johan Dros is born as eleventh consecutive son of soccer-obsessed pa Rinus, who raises his boys mainly as the small island Texel's team. Johan's rare reprieves from training for a sport he doesn't care for cease when ma dies. After captain brother Johhny sort of steals his local girl-friend Evy, Johan leaves for Amsterdam, where he becomes a hairdresser and would-be singer. Soccer, a vocal TV talent-hunt and Evy will bring them all together again, but also raise unprecedented strife in the Dros family

Release Date:2005-10-06

Character:Sjaak Dros

Vote Count:8

Lieve Lust

Lieve Lust is a relationship comedy. The series revolves around the lives of six people in their thirties in Amsterdam.

Release Date:2005-08-16

Character:Andy

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:1

Broken Red

What happens if you take the law into your own hands, start correcting the legal system on your own initiative? Hans Croiset, André van den Heuvel, Bram van der Vlugt and Kitty Courbois in their roles of aged resistance heroes do not think this is such a bad idea; in fact, it is what they already did during World War II. Back then, they formed a sworn resistance gang. The occasion for their renewed fighting spirit is the brutal robbery and murder of Marjan, one of the members of their former group. Past and present start blending. In a controlled tempo, alert to detail and acting, a story unravels that focuses on Hans Croiset in the role of Simon, a retired teacher of Dutch. He makes contact with the underworld, meeting the Slavic Goran, who starts feeling sympathy for the old man. Eventually, fate lies in Simon's hands.

Release Date:2005-03-02

Character:Jonge Simon

Ibbeltje

Ibbeltje is a funny, curious and enterprising girl who is not afraid of anything. She lives with her mother, father and talking cats in a sleepy town. When her mother climbed on a day in fear of a dog in a tree, Ibbeltje discovers that she used to be a cat. She wants to know everything about. Ibbeltje's father works at an umbrella factory and ever had a magical umbrella of a witch. Ibbeltje find the umbrella, but the director of the umbrella factory will have the umbrella for himself to be very important.

Release Date:2004-11-01

Character:Loodgieter

Vote Count:1

Profs

Short film about a soccer player's wife, who begins to feel remorse for the revenge, especially planned by her fellow-footballer's wives, on her adulterous husband. Eventually, she adopts the right, i.e. professional, attitude and saves herself from her distressing situation.

Release Date:2004-09-29

Grijpstra & de Gier

Release Date:2004-03-19

Character:Rinus de Gier

Episode Count:10

Yes Nurse! No Nurse!

In the guest-house of sister Klivia, the inhabitants are very cheerful and good-hearted persons whose open communal lifestyle is contrasted with the life of somewhat nasty and complaining neighbour Mr Boordevool. Boordevool has spent ages looking for reasons to shut the guest-house. One day a girl from the guest-house meets a nice young guy Gerrit. Sister Klivia lets Gerrit stay regardless of him being a thief. Will that give a chance to the insinuations of the neighbour?

Release Date:2002-09-06

Character:Gerrit

Vote Count:22

Luifel & Luifel

Release Date:2001-02-19

Episode Count:1

Jesus Is a Palestinian

Natasha goes to Limburg to collect her brother Ramses, who has joined a sect, so he can consent to cutting their father's life support.

Release Date:1999-04-17

Character:Roy

Vote Count:4

Dit Was Het Nieuws

Dit was het nieuws is a Dutch television program of RTL4, wherein two teams give a satirical account of the previous week's news. The program has the form of a game show in which two teams, each with a team leader and weekly guest, compete against each other. The scoring is not serious; after the first round, for instance, the score is always 4-4.

Release Date:1996-05-17

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden

Goede tijden, slechte tijden, also known as GTST, is the longest-running Dutch soap opera, revolving around the lives of the families Alberts, Sanders, De Jong, Van Houten and Bouwhuis. It all takes place in the fictional town of Meerdijk.

Release Date:1990-10-01

Character:Harry van Lennep

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:17