8 Films & TV Shows Set In Netherlands During The 19th Century
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Loving Vincent
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 19th CenturyThe film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who travelled from all across the world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent’s brilliant paintings are his passionate and ill-fated life and mysterious death.
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Eline Vere
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1880sEscaping the pervasive bourgeois stodginess of the time. — This melodramatic film follows Eline Vere, as she attempts to break free from the confines of her narrow existence in The Hague through three tumultuous and ultimately disastrous courtships. Adaptation of Louis Couperus' novel Eline Vere.
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The Cool Lakes of Death
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 19th CenturyTragic story of a wealthy woman whose sexual desires change her into a prostitute, working the streets of Paris during the 1880s.
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Katie Tippel
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1880sIn the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.
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Lust for Life
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇫🇷 France The 1890s The 1880sHe had a lust for life. Sometimes he was brutal, sometimes delicate – always he lived with insatiable passion! — An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.
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Capt. Grant's Family
Scotland England 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇳🇿 New Zealand 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇦🇺 Australia Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean The 1860sThe son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter adventures in Patagonia, Australia, and New Zealand... Based on Jules Verne novel.
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The Netherlands and Orange
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 1810s The 18th Century The 17th Century The 16th CenturyA collection of short scenes portraying highlights of Dutch history, from the Eighty Years' War to King Willem I's return from exile. This film was made to commemorate the centenary of the Dutch royal family.
