207 Films & TV Shows Set In Netherlands
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Too Fat Too Furious
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsBennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a quiche bakery, a suicidal manic-depressive woman and a Yugoslavian who keeps blowing things up unintended. They need to get 300000 Euro to get Bennies father a new liver.
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Winky's Horse
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsThere is only one thing Winky wants: a horse, a real horse to ride. But horses are expensive. Fortunately it is the season of Sinterklaas; Winky just asks Sinterklaas for a horse. Than everything will work out alright. Or will it?
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Helicopter String Quartet
๐ณ๐ฑ 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 quartetโs 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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Woensdag
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 2000sEight young people are challenged to survive a night in the dark woods where, according to a local legend, a sadistic killer wanders around. The live TV-show is well-prepared, with actors imposing as killers and fake ambushes all over the forest, but the silly game becomes deadly serious when the first contestant dies for real.
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Ocean's Twelve
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 2000sTwelve is the new eleven. โ Danny Ocean reunites with his old flame and the rest of his merry band of thieves in carrying out three huge heists in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam โ but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.
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The Bourne Supremacy
New York ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2000sThey should have left him alone. โ When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
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De Dominee
๐ณ๐ฑ 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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EuroTrip
England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands Ohio ๐ธ๐ฐ Slovakia ๐ป๐ฆ Holy See The 2000sNo actual Europeans were harmed in the making of this film. โ When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.
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Simon
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsWhen Camiel, a gay dentist, and Simon, a carefree cafรฉ owner, collide in a traffic accident their lives become intrinsically entangled. When they bump into each other 14 years later, Simon is severely ill. Camiel experiences at close range how Simon and those around him come to terms with his illness. The strength and humour that Simon shows during this time leave a lasting impression on Camiel.
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Hush Hush Baby
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsAbdullah 'Ap' Bentarek is happy that, unlike his Uncle Yusuf who stayed in the ancestral Moroccan mountain village, his father Ali moved to the Netherlands โ even though it does mean that heโll have to deal with lousy friends and unrealistic expectations at the employment office. A light-hearted portrait of the immigrant experience and the ubiquitous intolerance of the unfamiliar in Dutch society.
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In Orange
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsAn 11 year old talented soccer player, Remco, has one big dream: to be selected for the national team under 12 years. His father Erik coaches him and everything seems to work out fine, until Erik suddenly dies. Remco and mother Sylvia are shocked. Remco keeps working to fulfil his dream, being helped by his friends Anne and Winston.
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 17th CenturyDiscover the mystery behind the legend. โ This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
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Godforsaken!
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsRock Hard and In Your Face โ Two small town Dutch boys whose socially unnatural friendship is so close, they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality, sliding into violent crime.
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Phileine Says Sorry
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsGorgeous Dutch youngster Max has two passions, acting and girls. The first becomes his brilliant career, which takes off so well he gets invited to a prestigious New York theatre course for a year. But since he met fickle bitch Phileine in an Utrecht park, his flirting life is cut short while she cruelly plays with his feelings rather then his horny body. After refusing to follow him, she turns up uninvited later and still acts jealous and possessive. Grief follows for everyone, working up to a convoluted finale.
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Twin Sisters
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฉ๐ช 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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Peter Bell
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsPeter is a cheerful -- but not very obedient -- boy from a very ordinary family in pre-war Rotterdam. His many pranks amuse some and cause a lot of trouble to others, even making the front pages of the big city newspapers. His growing popularity brings him many new friends, but also some very powerful enemies.
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Oysters at Nam Kee's
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsYoung Dutch dropout, Berry, falls in love with slightly older nightclub dancer and ex-nude model Thera and gives up his social live with his dodgy comrades and fine family to make a three-stop 'world tour' together. Suddenly Thera ODs terribly, leaving Berry alone with his obsessive but unanswered love which drives him crazy.
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The Invisible Circus
California ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ต๐น Portugal ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sA story of friendship, freedom and fate that could only happen in the Sixties. โ 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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Miss Minoes
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlandsalways listen to your felines โ A cat who turns into a young woman helps a journalist protect their town from a factory boss with an evil plan.
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Costa!
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsThe story about a wild week at the Spanish coast. Romance at the beach, competition on the dance floor. Salty water, sweet kisses...
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The Audrey Hepburn Story
New York England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sExperience the loves, tragedies and triumphs of a beloved screen legend. โ 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
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1950sNederlandse voetbalfilm
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Buena Vista Social Club
๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands New York The 1990sIn Havana, music isn't a pastime, it's a way of life. โ 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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Do Not Disturb
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsWhen you can't scream you can only run... โ Combining a family vacation with business, Walter Richmond takes his wife and their 10-year-old, mute daughter, Melissa , to the Netherlands -- where Melissa inadvertently witnesses a murder. Unable to tell anyone what she's seen, the frightened girl vanishes in an attempt to elude the killers. Meanwhile, her parents try desperately to piece together the puzzle leading to Melissa's disappearance.
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Rembrandt
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 17th CenturyThis French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist. Soon after establishing his career as a painter in Amsterdam, he marries the radiant Saskia. As he makes a name for himself, he can soon afford to buy a large house by teaching wealthy aristocrats how to paint. However, the couple's happiness is short-lived; Saskia dies soon after bearing their son, Titus. Crushed, van Rijn seeks comfort first in the arms of his maid Geertje and then with his second wife, Hendrickje, who gives birth to a daughter. In spite of his genius, van Rijn's determinedly eccentric behavior alienates the very members of the elite who were paying his bills. At one point, the artist's home and belongings, including many of his paintings, are seized and sold for humiliatingly low prices in a rigged auction.
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