Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
A Noble Intention
TITLE DETAILS

A Noble Intention

2015-12-10 · 115 min · ★ 6.5

Drama

1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States. Committed - or is it pride? - the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Joram Lürsen
Production companies
Topkapi Films, Mythberg Films, Menuet, VPRO
Countries
Belgium, Netherlands
Status
Released

Top Cast

Gijs Scholten van AschatGijs Scholten van AschatVedder
Jacob DerwigJacob DerwigAnijs
Rifka LodeizenRifka LodeizenMartha
Zeb TroostwijkKlein Pet
Juda GoslingaJuda GoslingaBennemin
Elisabeth HesemansMother Bennemin
Joosje DukJoosje DukJohanna Bennemin
Sander van AmsterdamSander van AmsterdamLubber
Houk van WarmerdamSieger
Thomas CammaertThomas CammaertEbert
Leon VoorbergLeon VoorbergHenkenhaf
John LeddyJohn LeddyMr. Carstens
Tobias KerslootTobias KerslootTheo Vedder
Peter BlankensteinPeter BlankensteinJ.A. Schuurman
Vilma SzécsiVilma SzécsiMrs. Carstens
René van Zinnicq BergmannRené van Zinnicq BergmannDoctor Amshoff
Anne-May de Lijserwoman in train
Herman EgbersHerman Egbersplatform manager
Hubert FerminHubert FerminMayor Mr. Pottinga
Ditha van der Lindenmidwife

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Rental

Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube

Purchase

Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube

View authorized watch options on TMDb

Recommendations

Lizzie
★ 6.2
Lizzie2018Drama

Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family, Lizzie finds a sympathetic, kindred spirit, and a secret intimacy soon blossoms into a wicked plan.

Admiral
★ 6.4
Admiral2015Drama

When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michael de Ruyter, can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet.

Fanny Lye Deliver'd
★ 6.3
Fanny Lye Deliver'd2019Drama

On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young couple Thomas and Rebecca who claim to have been robbed and need a place to stay. But are these strangers really who they say they are?

The Last Vermeer
★ 6.5
The Last Vermeer2019Drama

A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.

Mammal
★ 6.3
Mammal2016Drama

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.

Hungry Hearts
★ 6.5
Hungry Hearts2015Drama

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

Crimes of Passion
★ 6.3
Crimes of Passion1984Drama

Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.

I Walk the Line
★ 5.9
I Walk the Line1970Drama

Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage seductress Alma, who is the daughter of local criminal and moonshiner Carl McCain. Henry's moral character comes further into question when he is tempted to conceal Carl's crimes in order to prolong his relationship with Alma.

Stuart: A Life Backwards
★ 7.4
Stuart: A Life Backwards2007Drama

Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.

Pimp
★ 6.2
Pimp2018Drama

An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.

Gangs of New York
★ 7.3
Gangs of New York2002Drama

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.

Cheaters
★ 6.3
Cheaters2000Drama

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

I Smile Back
★ 6.1
I Smile Back2015Drama

Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness and its crumbling effect on those she loves.

Jesse Stone: Sea Change
★ 7.0
Jesse Stone: Sea Change2007Drama

Police Chief Jesse Stone's relationship with his ex-wife worsens, and he fears he's relapsing into alcoholism. To get his mind off his problems, Jesse begins working on the unsolved murder of a bank teller shot during a robbery. Also, his investigation of an alleged rape draws him into conflict with the town council — which hopes to preserve Paradise's reputation as an ideal seaside resort.

The War Zone
★ 6.8
The War Zone1999Drama

An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.

Trafficked
★ 6.6
Trafficked2017Drama

In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to reclaim their freedom.

No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers
★ 6.7
No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers1990Drama

Two feuding brothers of differing political views, one a policeman, the other a martial artist, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent who was brutally murdered by the mafia.

Payback
★ 6.8
Payback1999Drama

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.

Don't Make Me Go
★ 6.9
Don't Make Me Go2022Drama

A terminally ill man and his teenage daughter embark on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion. While there, he secretly hopes she can reunite with the mother who left them long ago.

The Killer Inside Me
★ 5.8
The Killer Inside Me2010Drama

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.

Similar titles

Wrath of Man
★ 7.6
Wrath of Man2021Drama

A cold and mysterious new security guard for a Los Angeles cash truck company surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksman's ultimate motive becomes clear as he takes dramatic and irrevocable steps to settle a score.

Lise and Laura
★ 9.0
Lise and Laura1982Drama

Laura lives in a Hotel in Britanny and meets there an old man. Laura looks like his wife Lise, who's killed by the Gestapo...

The Elephant Man
★ 8.0
The Elephant Man1980Drama

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.

Part-Time Divorce
★ 5.7
Part-Time Divorce1986Drama

While heading to Spain to spend their honeymoon there, Siniša and Svetlana find themselves at Montenegrin coast due to mistake made by travel agency. They get back disappointed to Belgrade, where new problems expect them: Svetlana applied for an apartment, but divorced mothers with children are those who have advantage. Svetlana and Siniša decide to divorce for a part-time period so they could trick the housing board and get an apartment.

Un Dia
★ 10.0
Un Dia2023Drama

Natalia, the owner of a restaurant on the island of Aruba, struggles to keep her business afloat while dealing with the daily struggles of the hospitality industry on a tropical paradise.

Holy Lola
★ 5.8
Holy Lola2004Drama

The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their difficult and transformative adventure, they must contend with obstructive authorities and the jealousies and mistrust of a small community of would-be adoptive parents.

Mr. Holland's Opus
★ 7.0
Mr. Holland's Opus1995Drama

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.

Could This Be Love?
★ 6.2
Could This Be Love?2007Drama

Lucas, a wealthy, 43 year-old divorced businessman, is irresistibly attracted to Elsa, a 38 year old renowned sculptor from whom he has commissioned a piece to decorate the reception at his office.

Madame Bovary
★ 6.2
Madame Bovary1991Drama

In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
★ 7.2
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World2003Drama

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.

Scaffolding
★ 5.6
Scaffolding2017Drama

17-year-old Asher is split between his charismatic teacher and his brash father, who wants him to take over his scaffolding business.

The Silent Landscape
★ 5.1
The Silent Landscape2003Drama

Hamid is an Iranian teenage boy whose sexuality brings him into conflict with his family's Muslim beliefs.

Mary Reilly
★ 5.8
Mary Reilly1996Drama

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

Not So Long Ago
★ 8.0
Not So Long Ago1925Drama

Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win the love she reads about in the romance novels she devours -- finds one prospect in an earnest denizen of the Bowery, and another in an elegant young aristocrat. Focusing on the bygone era's fashions, the novelty of the bicycle-built-for-two, and an inventor's quest for the horseless carriage, the film gently stirs the audiences' nostalgia for simpler times.

The Tree of Life
★ 6.7
The Tree of Life2011Drama

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

Milk Money
★ 6.5
Milk Money1994Drama

Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster named Waltzer is after her, and V realizes the suburbs are the perfect place to hide. But things get a lot more complicated when V falls in love with Tom, a single father who is unaware of her real profession.

The River Wild
★ 6.5
The River Wild1994Drama

Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.

Toubab Bi
★ 6.0
Toubab Bi1992Drama

Soriba Samb is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking in Paris. Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by the five-year old son of a friend who he believes to be still living in Paris. On arrival he struggles to find the boy’s father. In addition to coping with his new internship, Soriba has to also spend time tracking down the boy’s father ‘Issa’.

Dodger Special: Coronation
★ 10.0
Dodger Special: Coronation2023Drama

Dodger and the gang return to London to pull off their biggest mission yet: to rob the Crown Jewels ahead of the Queen's Coronation.

Fitzcarraldo
★ 7.6
Fitzcarraldo1982Drama

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.