Best Dutch Movies

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Stella, a journalist, discovers the secrets of Lotte de Heus Verolmen, the widow of Ewald de Heus Verolmen, the head of the Dutch Nazi Party (NSB).

Onno Staling kidnapped Alex Bickers to ensure he won't get the prestiguous job at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Onno desperately wants. Now, three years later, they meet again.

The relationship between Detective Eva and her colleague Floris comes under heavy pressure. Floris is in prison for stealing four million euros of government money and Eva is trying to forget him.

Romantic crime comedy about a robbery at an art fair.

One hour before the State Opening of Parliament, something very unusual happens. The Prime Minister appears and demands an adjustment to the Queen's speech. The speech concerns aid to Africa. Even with all the pressure around the State Opening, Beatrix goes back in time, and remembers her banishment to Canada, the visit to the victims of the Flood disaster and the turbulence suffered by her parents at Palace Soestdijk during the Hofman case.

A man convicted of killing his own father and sister escapes from a criminal hospital to track down his mother and prove his innocence.

A lonesome ambulance driver turns both his life and society upside down after one night he violently loses his temper with the hoodlum youths who hinder him in performing his duties.

Burglar and master safe-cracker Glimmie is asked to find a young woman called Fanny by her rich stepfather Van Borsen. However, Glimmie remains suspicious of the man and decides that Fanny has to be protected by him and his pal De Bonk. He is soon proved correct and winds up a scapegoat in Van Borsen's scheme. After his release from prison, Glimmie plans his revenge with some help from a young cleaning girl called Slofje.

After his wife Marjan has died in a car crash, Philip de Wit becomes a total wreck. Only after months does he return to a more or less normal life and even then he only works in his wife's bookstore. A year later Eileen walks in the store, a girl from Northern Ireland with her baby in her arms. When Philip sees her, he's dumbfounded, for she's the spitting image of his dead wife. Obsessed with her, he goes and tries to find her again, but he soon finds out that he's not the only one who's looking for Eileen.

"Eileen" is loosely based on the story of Tanja Nijmeijer, the student who joined the FARC to fight for the poor and oppressed population at the bottom of Colombian society. Eileen grows up in Groningen in a harmonious family. She is a happy, socially engaged young woman who studies Spanish and is active in the squatting movement. She receives the opportunity to become an intern in Bogota, Colombia. Even though she stays in an decent environment, she is also exposed to the atrocious living conditions in the slums. On her return to the Netherlands, Eileen has changed. She finds her friends from the squatting movement spoiled and egocentric. They have no interest for the really relevant, political problems, like the ones she was confronted with in Latin America. Against the wishes of her family she goes back to Colombia, because she finds she has to be there in order to do something about the injustice that prevails. In Bogota, she comes in contact with the FARC through a Colombian student she met in Groningen. She is tested and in the end conscripted into the resistance movement. Her initial enthusiasm and faith in the cause are put under pressure when she becomes involved in actions that are unacceptable in her opinion. However, slowly her values shift. She radicalizes and becomes on of the most dedicated fighters. She also turns into an international symbol of the FARC, an important weapon in the PR strategy of the guerrilla movement. But is this really what is looking for? And is her family just going to put up with it?

In the world of the drugs business - where it's is all about money - friendship and loyalty is most important. That is what becomes the demise of gangster Klaas Bruinsma.

A Dutch TV journalist finds himself challenging the police, courts and media as he attempts to uncover the truth about the controversial Deventer murder case.

More than 30 years after the dramatic ending of a train hijack five people involved meet each other on a television show. Starting point is the death of the only female hijacker: Noor. One by one the five enter the studio. Each with their own expectations or hidden agenda.

Raised in a home broken by wartime trauma, the frustrated teenage son of a Dutch Holocaust survivor starts down a path of further tragedy when he finds belonging in a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads.

The haunting search to discover why fifteen-year old Jessie was murdered by her closest friends.

A mild-mannered gay dentist and a hedonist womanizer rekindle their unlikely friendship when the latter's terminal cancer drives them back together after a decade apart.

After signing an agreement with a company that offers to end their lives when they least expect it, a dejected millionaire and a disheartened young woman fall in love and must find a way to get out of their binding contracts.

Jacob 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.

Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the year 'Grease' hit the big screen.

A 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.

Upon learning she has an autistic brother she is convinced is unjustly behind bars for a brutal murder, a lawyer sets out to prove her sibling's innocence - only to uncover even more life-changing secrets in the process.

When Karen and her family move to a posh suburban neighborhood, she soon befriends a mysterious dinner club.

On his tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marco Kroon heroically leads his men through firefights and is awarded the highest decoration in the Netherlands: the Military Order of William. However, in the years that follow, Kroon is discredited. He struggles with traumas he cannot share even with Mirjam, the love of his life and everyone has an opinion about him, in the media and in the street. Kroon finds himself swept up in an emotional rollercoaster. As he tries to exonerate himself, he may face his toughest mission yet.