Known for Directing
Ate de Jong is a Dutch film director. He has directed Dutch, German, British and American movies and tv shows.
Born
January 1, 1953 (age 73)
Birthplace
Aardenburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
Filmography
50 films, 1 show


Heart Strings
2025 · 1h 52m · NL
Willing to do anything for money and fame, Lucky and Billie fake their love and eventually become a real couple, willing to sacrifice their dreams of success for real love and real life music.


Love Is Thicker Than Water
2017 · 1h 45m · UK
Vida and Arthur come from vastly different backgrounds. Sensitive and touching, sometimes quirky and tragic, always uncompromisingly truthful, a fresh look how conflicting family ties challenge love in a modern day Romeo and Juliet tale.


Deadly Virtues: Love. Honour. Obey.
2014 · 1h 27m · NL
A home invasion irrevocably changes the lives of all involved in ways neither victims nor perpetrator could have imagined


Het Bombardement
2012 · 1h 40m · BE
A thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the centre of Rotterdam is bombed and the young lovers lose sight of each other.


Ek Lief Jou
2011 · ZA
A heartwarming South African romantic comedy starring Kurt Darren, Ilse de Vis, Christina Storm and Andre Frauenstein.


Poems from the Sea
2005 · 1h 22m · NL
During the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2002, Leo Hannewijk (festival director Film by the Sea) approached filmmaker and producer Digna Sinke with the idea of asking several film makers to make short films based on poems about the province of Zeeland. It would offer an opportunity to investigate the limits of the medium film and, just like poetry, not to focus on the story but to tackle universal and grander themes through mood and form. In the end, eight short films were realized, by eight different filmmakers. The films are connected by intermezzi, aerial shots of the Zeeland coasts. Poems of the Sea is a stirring and surprising portrayal of Zeeland. Filled with desires and passion.


Fogbound
2002 · 1h 37m · NL
Three friends get stuck in fog on the way to a holiday. They tell each other stories and confront each other with hidden secrets.
Wenn der Präsident 2x klingelt
Wenn der Präsident 2x klingelt
1997 · 1h 33m · DE
A master painter from Berlin is offered the opportunity to be one of the first to shake hands with the US President and his wife during their upcoming visit. He jumps at the chance, but first has to get his hopelessly dysfunctional family together.
Wenn ich nicht mehr lebe
Wenn ich nicht mehr lebe
1996 · DE


All Men Are Mortal
1995 · 1h 33m
Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress.


Tödliche Lüge
1993 · 1h 35m · DE
TV superstar Claudia Fischer basks in the fame she has earned with her erotic “Domino Show.” On her show, she mercilessly exposes her contestants' most intimate feelings. However, she has wisely kept her own life lie hidden from the public until now. This proves to be her undoing when a psychopathic killer takes her daughter hostage to expose Claudia’s secret on live television…


Highway to Hell
1991 · 1h 34m · US
Charlie and Rachel run away from home to get married in Las Vegas. But they get attacked by a zombie who takes Rachel with him to hell, where she will become one of Satan's brides.


Drop Dead Fred
1991 · 1h 39m · UK
An unhappy housewife gets a lift from the return of her imaginary childhood friend, Drop Dead Fred.


Shadow of Victory
1986 · 1h 43m · NL
During World War II, two members of the Dutch resistance share the same goal but use very different methods to reach it.


Burning Love
1983 · 1h 39m · NL
A young painter takes up French lessons with an elder lady to ensure he’ll get a grant for a French arts institute. That way he meets Anna, a beautiful married woman nursing the lady’s old father, and falls in love with her.


A Flight of Rainbirds
1981 · 1h 32m · NL
Maarten, a milquetoast bachelor living with his terminally ill mother, is haunted by a nightmare in which God tells him to lose his virginity or die within the week.
Familiar Faces, Mixed Feelings
Familiar Faces, Mixed Feelings
1980 · 1h 34m · NL


The Inheritance
1978 · 1h 32m · NL
An ageing GP tries to convince his son in law to take over his practice. Monique van de Ven plays the doctor's daughter, who is torn apart by love of her husband and solidarity with her father.


Blind Spot
1977 · 1h 41m · NL
Danielle and Marc fall in love. Two months later they move in together. Two years later their relation reaches a crisis when Danielle gets pregnant. Did she plan for it or not? Is she going to tell Marc or not? Is she going to keep it or not? Will the relationship survive?


Every Day's a Holiday
1976 · 1h 35m · NL
The failed poet Wessel Franken trades his career in poetry for a career as director of a publicity agency.