Best Dutch Films (Beste Nederlandse films)
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- DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsBernard-Pierre DonnadieuGene BervoetsJohanna ter SteegeRex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsRutger HauerJennifer Jason LeighTom BurlinsonIn medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors - commoners.
- DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsGuy PearceDakota FanningEmilia JonesFrom the moment the new Reverend climbs the pulpit, Liz knows that she and her family are in great danger.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsRutger HauerJeroen KrabbéSusan PenhaligonDuring World War II, Dutch students join the resistance movement against the German occupation of the Netherlands.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsFrans StellingTon de KoffLucie SingelingIn the final year of his life, Rembrandt painted a series of self-portraits that show him in a dark, lonely state of mind. Stelling has painstakingly recreated the pathetic end of a genius with an authenticity that allows viewers to infer their own conclusions about the relationship between Rembrandt's life and art.
- DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsFedja van HuêtKim HuffmanMarcel HensemaPsychological thriller. Geography teacher smuggles a case of heroin for a friend.
- DirectorRobert Jan WestdijkStarsKim van KootenRomijn ConenHugo MetsersMartijn is obsessed with his younger sister Daantje and visits her to make a documentary about her. He manages to invade Daantje's life with his video camera, but soon unresolved issues from a distant past come to the surface.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsJeroen KrabbéRenée SoutendijkThom HoffmanA man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.
- DirectorRudolf van den BergStarsMonique van de VenEsmée de la BretonièreKenneth HerdigeinAccording to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give birth to something evil to unleash horror and destruction upon human kind. Ugly septuplet brothers reproduced within the framework of mysterious genetic experiments terrorize a young innocent girl who seems to be chosen for the sinister predestination.
- DirectorDick MaasStarsHuub StapelMonique van de VenSerge-Henri ValckeA hard-boiled police detective sets out to capture a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the canals of Amsterdam.
- DirectorBen SombogaartStarsEllen VogelGudrun OkrasThekla ReutenTwin sisters Lotte and Anne grow up very differently after their parents death. Now adults, they want to reunite but World War II and their growing socioeconomic differences complicate things.
- DirectorMike van DiemStarsPavlik Jansen op de HaarJan DecleirFedja van HuêtJacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsCarice van HoutenSebastian KochThom HoffmanIn the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
- DirectorFons RademakersStarsDerek de LintMarc van UchelenMonique van de VenA Dutch doctor, haunted by grueling childhood memories of World War II, struggles to find peace as he spends his life looking for answers about the tragic night that shaped him.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsRené GroothofVeerle DobbelaereRené van 't HofLate 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War. Flanders, 1568: Italian minstrel Campanelli tells he followed a Dutchman, the robber of a golden chalice, but failed to prevent him being taken -after banging a country-girl- by the men of a rigid farmer Netelneck, who has him tied-up inside a huge shit-container. After Campanelli frees him, the gold stays inside, and the Dutchman is killed, but the minstrel turns to offer the paying audience a happier version. Seven years later, he scares the Dutchman's posthumous son into bringing him food and convinces the kid he can fly, like his dad, who is on a grand ship, but fails to drag the gold out and is blinded and chased by Netelneck. Fourteen years later, the minstrel returns and tricks Netelneck into diving after the gold himself so he can drawn the bastard, then sets the 'little Dutchman' on the road to find his father, who proves a mere thief living in a beached shipwreck. Both join a brigand band, but it ends up arrested by the Spaniards and imprisoned under the authority of Netelneck's son, who has him thrown in an oubliette forced to scoop water, but Lotte, his only lover ever, notices something she gave him and believes her son, now she's Netelneck junior's wife, is the little Dutchman's...
- DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsFedja van HuêtCarice van HoutenTheo MaassenA photographer returns to his parental home because his mother is seriously ill. The confrontation with his past leads to panic in a surreal, stylised psychological drama.
- DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsMarc van UchelenViviane de MuynckA burglar gets caught on a farm by an older woman. The religious woman, who's body is covered with ulceration, believes he is there for a reason.
- DirectorJean van de VeldeStarsCas JansenRicky KooleThomas AcdaBased on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend turned gangster. The childhood friend turns informant. But his revelations are hardly the most important "leaks" in the story. In fact, the new relationship between old friends goes all wrong, and the young policeman becomes increasingly involved in a deadly web of lies, crimes, treason, and revenge, all seemingly out of control.
- DirectorDick MaasStarsHuub StapelWilleke van AmmelrooyJosine van DalsumA lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.
- DirectorFrank van GelovenEdwin VisserStarsMartijn OversteegenRutger WeemhoffGerry VerhoevenAfter the death of his wife, Mark falls deep in a big depression. He loses interest in living until he knows a beautiful woman which he starts dating. One night, while Mark is looking for the bathroom in her house he discovers a strange dark basement. He will soon discover a terrible fact between his death wife and his new girl.
- DirectorHarrie GeelenBjørn Frank JensenBert KroonStarsFred BenaventeTrudy LibosanLuc LutzBumble the Bear (Olivier Bommel) finds an egg that, it turns out, has a cute little dragon in it. However, this dinosaur grows huge every time it is upset. As this causes a lot of problems, Ollie Bommel has to face a difficult dilemma.
- DirectorFons RademakersStarsLex SchoorelNan LosVan DoudeThe fainthearted cigar trader Ducker keeps himself quiet during World War II. That changes when parachutist Dorbeck lands in his backyard. It turns out the parachutist bears a remarkable resemblance to Ducker. Ducker follows Dorbeck blindly, becomes involved in the Dutch resistance and soon starts killing people. When he escapes through German lines to the freed South Netherlands, no one has ever heard of Dorbeck.
- DirectorPieter VerhoeffStarsYannick van de VeldeQuinten SchramRüdiger VoglerThe medieval quest of sixteen-year old Tiuri, who risks his future as a Knight to fulfill a promise, and in so doing discovers adventure, honor, valor and love.
- DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsMartijn LakemeierJamie Campbell BowerYorick van WageningenIn German-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.
- DirectorVivian PietersStarsMaayke BoutenErik de VriesJohan Leysen18-year old Valerie and her mother Trudy live together in rural Oostdijk, a quiet little village near Amsterdam. When Trudy comes home one night, she gets run over by a car. She dies, and her autopsy reveals that she has never borne a child. Soon after, more strange facts turn up. While Poilice Inspector Mellema hunts down the car driver, Valerie searches for her biological parents--and searches lead to the same sad truth.
- DirectorDorna X. van RouveroyStarsGeorge KennedyKoen WautersNada van NieA famous surgeon gets into a coma after a car accident. Seven years later, he wakes up as a mutilated monster and starts a massacre.
- DirectorBen SombogaartStarsJohnny FlynnStephanie LeonidasEmily WatsonAfter using his mother's newly built time machine, Dolf gets stuck in the year 1212. He ends up in a children's crusade where he confronts his new friends with modern techniques. However, the Crusade turns out to be even trickier than he first imagined.
- DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsCarice van HoutenRoeland FernhoutLinda van DyckA weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsGeorge BruensHenk DouzeBob KarsElckerlyc is a man without scruples living in Medieval times. He lives a life of crime and hardly knows the difference between right and wrong. He is a purebred Misanthrope. Until one day he falls in love with a poor lonely girl who lives under a bridge. When she seems to like Elckerlyc as well his life seems to take a turn. However, his happiness is short lived, because the next morning, the girl is strangled by the local village idiot (the Fool). This drives Elckerlyc to madness and he avenges his loss on everyone he comes across. First he marries a Burgundian Duchess to become Duke, then he buys a magician who gives him a magic instrument which holds the power of life and death.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsEric BaisSander BaisKees BakkerA sparkling film and surprising look into the middle ages by means of the story of Mariken, whose beauty is used by the devilish comedian Moenen to put people up against each other.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsMonique van de VenRutger HauerTonny HuurdemanAn aimless young artist learns to face his responsibilities when a former lover develops a terminal illness.
- DirectorHugo ClausStarsFrank AendenboomTheu BoermansJan DecleirA tale centered on the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the Flemish rank and file won a major victory over the glorious French knights.