54 Films & TV Shows Set In Netherlands During The 20th Century
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I am Zlatan
🇪🇸 Spain 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇳🇱 Netherlands England The 1990s The 2000s The 2010s The 2020sComing-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.
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The Forgotten Battle
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1940sNovember 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the Germans, an English glider pilot and a girl from Zeeland connected to the resistance against her will, are forced to make crucial choices that impact both their own freedom and the freedom of others.
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Amsterdam Vice
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1980sA mild-mannered police detective freshly stationed in tumultuous 1980 Amsterdam enters a race against time when he encounters a violent plot against the Dutch royal family.
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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1980sIt was the perfect crime until they got away with it. — The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.
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Rush
New York England 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇪🇸 Spain 🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy 🇩🇪 Germany 🇯🇵 Japan 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970sEveryone's driven by something. — A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
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Het Bombardement
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1940sA thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the centre of Rotterdam is bombed and the young lovers lose sight of each other.
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Sonny Boy
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1930sUnited by love, torn by fate — Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika already has four children with another man. They love each other, but then Rika appears to be pregnant.
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The Gang of Oss
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1930sYou have to know your enemies before you know your friends. — Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town of Oss in the 1930s. The harder she tries, the more she is involved.
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Weekender
🇳🇱 Netherlands England The 1990sTwo 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.
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Holy Rollers
New York 🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1990sIn 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.
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The Last Drop
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1940sWhat better time for a heist than in the fog of war. — Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.
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Black Book
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇮🇱 Israel The 1950s The 1940sTo fight the enemy, she must become one of them. — In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
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Wild Romance
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1970s The 2000sThe start of the career of Herman Brood, who lived his life filled with sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Guided by his manager they aim to take over the USA with his music.
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The Rage of the Whole World
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1950s The 1960sIn 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.
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Munich
New York England 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇫🇷 France 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇱 Israel 🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1970sThe world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. — During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
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Helicopter String Quartet
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1990sOne 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.
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De Dominee
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1970sAmsterdam, 1970s. A wealthy grammar school student Klaas and his friend start trafficking hash and become entangled in the brutal criminal scene.
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Twin Sisters
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1930sTwin Sisters is an epic love story based on the Dutch bestseller by Tessa de Loo that has been read by more than 3.5 million readers in Holland and Germany.
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The Invisible Circus
California 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇩🇪 Germany The 1970sA story of friendship, freedom and fate that could only happen in the Sixties. — After learning that her sister, Faith (Cameron Diaz), has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe (Jordana Brewster), an 18-year-old hippie, decides to uproot from her San Francisco home to travel to Europe. Phoebe hopes to discover and experience the life that led to her sister's death by retracing her footsteps, which eventually leads to Wolf (Christopher Eccleston) -- Faith's boyfriend. However, as Phoebe's journey continues, a series of visions of Faith pushes her mind to the brink.
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The Audrey Hepburn Story
New York England 🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sExperience 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.
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De Zwarte Meteoor
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1950sNederlandse voetbalfilm
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Buena Vista Social Club
🇨🇺 Cuba 🇳🇱 Netherlands New York The 1990sIn 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.
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Suzy Q
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1960sA weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.
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Character
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇩🇪 Germany The 1920s The 1910sJ.W. Katadreuffe is the son of Joba Katadreuffe and A.B. Drevenhaven. Though fully neglected by Joba, Dreverhaven ensures the succesfull career of his son. Mostly unseen, though he sues his son a few times. The son Katadreuffe succeeds, but at great costs.
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