6 Films & TV Shows Set In Netherlands During The 1960s

• The Rage of the Whole World

  🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1950s The 1960s

  In Raging of the whole world are the turbulent early years of Alexander Goudveyl central. The story of Alexander's childhood is also the history of an era, the fifties and sixties, and a never solved murder case. Murder goes back to an authentic incident: in 1956, right before Christmas, a policeman was shot in broad daylight in Maassluis during a large-scale evangelistic campaign. The film also plays a failed escape attempt with a herring trawler involved in the turbulent days of May 1940.

  Released in 2006 • 115 minutes
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  The Audrey Hepburn Story

  New York England 🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s

  Experience the loves, tragedies and triumphs of a beloved screen legend. — The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in the U.S. where she succeeds in making it big as a movie actress, in such movies as Breakfast at Tiffany's.

  Released in 2000 • 133 minutes
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  Suzy Q

  🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1960s

  A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.

  Released in 1999 • 82 minutes
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  The Northerners

  🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1960s

  A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.

  Released in 1992 • 108 minutes
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  Modesty Blaise

  England 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇮🇹 Italy The 1960s

  Nothing can faze Modesty Blaise, the world's deadliest and most dazzlingly female agent! — Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.

  Released in 1966 • 119 minutes
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  Dateline Diamonds

  England 🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1960s

  In this swinging romp through 1960s London, the frenzied manager of mod-rockers the Small Faces (made up of Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane) gets into trouble when he agrees to use the band to smuggle diamonds out of the country. Songs include the Small Faces' "I've Got Mine," "It's Too Late," "Come On Children" and "Don't Stop What You're Doing" and The Chantelles' "I Think of You" and "Please Don't Kiss Me."

  Released in 1965 • 73 minutes