Dutch Cinema
A list of all the films I have seen that were in Dutch or Flemish, not necessarily from Holland tho. As always, recommendations are welcome.
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- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsMonique van de VenRutger HauerTonny HuurdemanAn aimless young artist learns to face his responsibilities when a former lover develops a terminal illness.
- DirectorDick MaasStarsNelly FrijdaHuub StapelRené van 't HofA rather a-social family, gets a chance to live in an upper-class neighborhood. As they are not accepted by the snobs living there, they get in all sorts of trouble.
- 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.
- DirectorDick MaasStarsHuub StapelNelly FrijdaRené van 't HofThe mayor of Zonnedael sees a chance to get rid of the Flodder family and sends them for an international exchange to New York.
- DirectorDick MaasMartin LagesteeStarsNelly FrijdaCoen van Vrijberghe de ConinghStefan de WalleBack from their trip abroad, the family must meet the people of the neighborhood while preparing for the 25th anniversary of Zonnedael.
- DirectorRuud van HemertStarsAntonie KamerlingAngela SchijfBeau van Erven DorensReza explodes into the boring life of writer Eric, she's unpredictable and intense. After she moves in with him, jealousy and fits of bizarre self-destruction become part of her quixotic moods.
- DirectorPollo de PimentelStarsEgbert Jan WeeberKatja SchuurmanJohnny de MolA young dropout falls in love with a nightclub dancer...
- DirectorJoram LürsenStarsYannick van de VeldeThomas AcdaWendy van DijkAn 11 year old talented soccerplayer, Remco, has one big dream: to be selected for the national team under 12 years. His father Erik coaches him and everything seems to work out fine, until Erik suddenly dies. Remco and mother Sylvia are shocked. Remco keeps working to fulfil his dream, being helped by his friends Anne and Winston.
- DirectorErik Van LooyStarsKoen De BouwFilip PeetersMatthias SchoenaertsFive close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.
- DirectorAntoinette BeumerStarsFedja van HuêtBarry AtsmaJeroen van KoningsbruggeFive best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment to carry on affairs.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMischa KampStarsAnna RaadsveldBenja BruijningCharlie Chan Dagelet19-year old Belle practices playing the violin diligently, but is unable to impart her music with a sensitive undertone. Her life changes when she discovers that sexual desire stimulates passion in her music.
- DirectorHilde Van MieghemStarsKevin JanssensKoen De BouwHuub StapelA frank and funny romantic comedy set in Antwerp, filmed in a quirkily inventive style, Madly in Love has a lot to say about human relationships. It focuses on the four women of the Miller family: teen daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and older half-sister Michelle, as they work their way through the chaos called love. The result is a roller coaster ride of first crushes, lust, affairs, baby fever, and indestructible love. The four women are beautiful, courageous and sensible, but are also sometimes a bit lost. Can their male counterparts handle this dangerous cocktail of determination and female hormones?
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsHans van TongerenRenée SoutendijkToon AgterbergSeveral Dutch teenagers realize the cruel difference between dreams and reality.
- DirectorHans Van NuffelStarsStef AertsWouter HendrickxMarie VinckTwo young men share an incurable illness. Is their love for the women in their lives strong enough to conquer their fear of dying?
- DirectorEddy TerstallStarsSteve AernoutsMarlies BarkGene BervoetsFeature film about love and relationships in Amsterdam, consisting of an ingeniously interwoven plot of several stories and characters. Together with the feature SIMON (2004) this one is part of Terstall's trilogy about the liberties of the present Dutch society.
- DirectorAntoinette BeumerStarsCarice van HoutenJelka van HoutenHolly HunterDutch twin sisters travel to America to look for their long-lost mother.
- DirectorMaarten TreurnietStarsRutger HauerReinout Scholten van AschatGijs NaberA bold, amateur kidnapping goes wildly awry in this fictionalized account of beer magnate Alfred Heineken's 1983 abduction, which would go on to become one of The Netherlands' most infamous crimes.
- DirectorAntoinette BeumerStarsCarice van HoutenMarcel HensemaWaldemar TorenstraAfter giving birth to her first child, a happily-married woman sees her picture-perfect life spiral out of control.
- DirectorDick MaasStarsBarry AtsmaPierre BokmaSusan RadderA famous game show host is being harassed in a restaurant by a strange man who claims to have kidnapped his wife and daughter. A morbid game ensues in which the game show host turns out to be the contestant.
- DirectorSacha PolakStarsHannah HoekstraHans DageletMark RietmanA promiscuous young woman struggles with her emotions when the one man she cares deeply about, her equally restless father, finally finds true love.
- DirectorAlbert Ter HeerdtStarsMimoun OaïssaMehdia Doui-IssiSalah Eddine BenmoussaAbdullah 'Ap' Bentarek is happy that his father Ali moved to the Netherlands, but the boy has lousy friends who are his partners in crime, and unrealistic expectations at the employment office.
- DirectorReinout OerlemansStarsCarice van HoutenBarry AtsmaAnna DrijverA serial adulterer faces his demons when his loving wife falls severely ill.
- DirectorReinout OerlemansStarsRobert de HoogVictor ReinierJan DecleirA Dutch exploration team sets sail to find the North East passage to the Indies. The weather had other ideas for them.
- DirectorEddy TerstallStarsCees GeelMarcel HensemaRifka LodeizenA 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.
- DirectorMonique van de VenStarsSophie HilbrandWaldemar TorenstraJeroen Willems14 months after loosing his partner while making a UNICEF documentary in Afghanistan, Dutch photographer Bob Griffioen's benefactor Federico Federici has landed him a National Geographic assignment on the Wadden island Texel. Shooting wildlife there, Bob meets hedonistic waitress-student Kathleen, who practices nudism on the beach. Alas, her boss and sugar-daddy 'the Mummy' is involved in major drug trade. Both lovers are soon dragged into it, without knowing if they even can trust each-other.
- DirectorJoram LürsenStarsMichiel RomeynThomas AcdaAnneke BlokThe bumpy love lives of four Amsterdam couples intersect during the days leading up to Dutch national holiday Sinterklaas.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsMonique van de VenRutger HauerAndrea DomburgThe young girl Keetje moves to Amsterdam in 1881 with her impoverished family, and is led into prostitution in order to survive. In the process she sees the corrupting influence of money.
- DirectorFelix van GroeningenStarsVeerle BaetensJohan HeldenberghNell CattrysseElise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He's a romantic atheist, she's a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsRutger HauerJeroen KrabbéSusan PenhaligonDuring World War II, Dutch students join the resistance movement against the German occupation of the Netherlands.
- DirectorRudolf van den BergStarsJeroen SpitzenbergerKarl MarkovicsNyncke BeekhuyzenDuring WWII, a member of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam finds a way to spare children from deportation to the death camps.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsRonnie BiermanSylvia de LeurPiet RömerIn Amsterdam, two prostitutes make a choice between love and work.
- DirectorJoram LürsenStarsChantal JanzenGijs NaberAlex KlaasenTwo brothers get caught up in a bitter battle for honor when they attempt to save their ailing publishing company by having an uncultured but attractive woman pose as the author of an unknown talent's literary masterpiece.
- DirectorSteven WouterloodStarsSonny Coops van UtterenJosephine ArendsenJulian RasOn a family vacation at the beach, Sam meets Tess, who carries her own secrets around with her and shows him how the present moment can win out over memories and anxiety about what's yet to come.
- 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.