6 Films & TV Shows Set In Netherlands During The 1990s

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  I am Zlatan

  🇪🇸 Spain 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇳🇱 Netherlands England The 1990s The 2000s The 2010s The 2020s

  Coming-of-age story depicting Zlatan Ibrahimovic's upbringing in a rough Swedish suburb. Born to Balkan immigrants, football was Zlatan's release in a tough environment where his remarkable talent and self-reliance catapulted him against all odds to the top of international football playing for clubs like Ajax Amsterdam, Juventus, Inter, Milan, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United.

  Released in 2022 • 100 minutes
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  Weekender

  🇳🇱 Netherlands England The 1990s

  Two friends at rave parties in illegal warehouses around Manchester en Ibiza in the early 90's. — 1990. The rave scene has arrived from Ibiza and warehouse parties are exploding across the UK bringing phenomenal wealth to the organisers. In Manchester, best mates Matt and Dylan are in their early 20's and long to be more than just punters. As the government moves to outlaw the scene, it's now or never and they quickly rise through the ranks to join the promoting elite. They are taken on a wild journey from the exclusive VIP rooms of London clubs to the outrageous parties in Ibiza super-villas and the hedonism of Amsterdam. It's everything they dreamed of and more. But as their success continues to grow, they attract a more dark and sinister world. Matt and Dylan start to drift apart as they are forced to question the dreams they set out to achieve and their once solid friendship.

  Released in 2011 • 90 minutes
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  Holy Rollers

  New York 🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1990s

  In 1998, 1 million ecstasy pills were smuggled into the USA by a group of Hasidic Jews. — Inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.

  Released in 2010 • 89 minutes
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  Helicopter String Quartet

  🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1990s

  One morning, the late Karlheinz Stockhausen awoke from a dream that told him to take to the sky. Stockhausen envisioned four helicopters swirling in the clouds, with each of a quartet’s members tucked inside his own chopper, communicating through headsets, stringing away in sync to the rotor-blade motors. He immediately set forth to make that dream a reality. In 1995, Dutch film director Scheffer followed Stockhausen in the days leading up to the premiere performance of his Helicopter String Quartet in Amsterdam. The resulting film offers a rare glimpse of Stockhausen as he patiently dictates every agonizingly detailed measure to the Arditti Quartet.

  Released in 2005 • 81 minutes
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  Buena Vista Social Club

  🇨🇺 Cuba 🇳🇱 Netherlands New York The 1990s

  In Havana, music isn't a pastime, it's a way of life. — In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders capturing not only the music -- but also the musicians' life stories.

  Released in 1999 • 105 minutes
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  An Impossible Job

  England 🇳🇴 Norway 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇮🇹 Italy 🇵🇱 Poland The 1990s

  Do I Not Like That — A fly-on-the-wall documentary following England manager Graham Taylor and the team through the 18 months leading to the failure to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup

  Released in 1994 • 77 minutes