54 Films & TV Shows Set In Netherlands During The 20th Century
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The Little Riders
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1940sYoung American Joanne Hunter is stranded in the German-occupied Holland with her Dutch grandparents. The German CO, Captain Kessel begins to wage war on the village's morale, and Joanne's house must quarter another German officer, Lt. Braun, who finds himself torn between his duty and distaste of Kessel's methods. When Kessel threatens the lead statues of 16th-century freedom fighters in the town clock, Joanne and her grandparents rally the villagers to save Kirkendam's "little riders".
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Anne Frank Remembered
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1930s The 1940sShe is perhaps Hitler's best known victim, but what was Anne Frank really like? โ Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust. Written by Dawn M. Barclift
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Aletta Jacobs, Het Hoogste Streven
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An Impossible Job
England ๐ณ๐ด Norway ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1990sDo I Not Like That โ 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
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The Northerners
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1960sA 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.
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For a Lost Soldier
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1940sThe story of a romantic relationship between a Canadian soldier and a child set in the Netherlands near the end of WWII. Told in flashback from the present day, the child, now a man, is still seeking his lost soldier.
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Amsterdamned
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1980sThe danger lies just below the surface โ A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.
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Iris
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1980sA female veterinarian moves to the country side to start her own practice. She encounters a lot a skeptical villagers.
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Ciske the Rat
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1930sLovable Amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old Ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the Dutch 1984 title suggests. He is a scamp with a heart of gold. He causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. His mother works in a bar and Ciske helps out often late into the night - his father is at sea and his mother supplements her income with prostitution. Ciske is also a very angry young man and he smoulders with rage at life's injustices.
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An Emissary of No Return
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1900sAn Emissary of No Return retells the story of a real historical event in 1907 known as the Hague Secret Emissary Affair. Korea had been colonized by Japan. In order to protest to the international community, the Korean emperor king Gojong sent three secret emissaries to the talks of the Hague Convention of 1907, to get the great powers to overturn the JapanโKorea Treaty of 1905.
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Avalanche Express
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐บ Russia The 20th CenturyThe Fast Track For All-Star Adventure. โ CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
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Soldier of Orange
England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1940s The 1930sLove first. Fight later โ The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.
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A Bridge Too Far
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1940sOut of the sky comes the screen's most incredible spectacle of men and war! โ Operation Market Garden, September 1944. The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
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Inside Out
England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 20th CenturyTHE STASH: 8 Million Dollars in Hidden Gold. Four Desperate Men Turn Britian Inside Out to Find It! โ Telly Savalas is an American ex-WW II POW who returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with James Mason, the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal (Wolfgang Lukschy) from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.
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Alice in the Cities
New York ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 20th CenturyGerman journalist Philip Winter has a case of writerโs block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected. After returning to Europe, the innocent friendship between Winter and Alice grows as they travel together through various European cities on a quest for Aliceโs grandmother.
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 20th CenturyA group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days.
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The Limbo Line
England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 20th CenturyThe Limbo Line tells a story of Cold War double-crossing with British secret agent Manston trying to break up a group of Russian agents who return defectors to Moscow for brainwashing. When a Russian ballerina defects to Germany, Manston goes after the head of The Limbo Line in an effort to stop the group from kidnapping the defectors. Acting against the orders of his boss, Manston is faced with killing the communist leader of the movement in Germany or allowing the dancer to be turned over for interrogation and reprisals for her political beliefs. Matters are further complicated when Manston finds himself falling for the ballerinaโฆ
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Modesty Blaise
England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sNothing can faze Modesty Blaise, the world's deadliest and most dazzlingly female agent! โ 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.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 20th CenturyBrace yourself for greatness. โ British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
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Dateline Diamonds
England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1960sIn 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."
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The Inspector
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1940sHunted... From London... Amsterdam... The Casbah... To The Beaches Of The Middle East... A Strange Pursuit... And An Even Stranger Liaison! โ At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
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Drei Mann in einem Boot
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 20th CenturyNo overview found.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940sThe true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
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Operation Amsterdam
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1940sOperation Amsterdam is a 1959 adventure film, directed by Michael McCarthy, and featuring Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, and Tony Britton. It is based on a true story as described in the book Adventure in Diamonds, by David E Walker. The action of the story covers a few days in May 1940 when the Germans invaded Holland.
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Ciske the Rat
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1930sโCiske de Ratโ belongs to the Dickensean โlittle manโs hard lifeโ model and tells a deceptively simple story about a boy in modern Netherlands. Persecution, loneliness, adultsโ hostility, fear, mixture of obstinacy and tenderness, and even an imprisonment. Excellent camera movement and delicate portraying of Ciskeโs fragile soul put this film out of merely historical context and ensure its place in the history of great cinema.
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