207 Films & TV Shows Set In Netherlands
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The House of the Seven Hawks
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsSUSPENSE...THAT EXPLODES INTO THRILLING ACTION! โ A ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.
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The Flying Dutchman
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsBiopic about the early years of pioneering aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker. After a fight with his teacher, headstrong Anthony Fokker refuses to return to his old school in Haarlem. Instead, he goes to a technical college in Mainz where he talks his teachers into including airplane design in the curriculum. Fokker soon starts building a prototype of his 'Spider' plane.
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Lust for Life
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ซ๐ท France The 1890s The 1880sHe had a lust for life. Sometimes he was brutal, sometimes delicate โ always he lived with insatiable passion! โ 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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The House of Intrigue
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsA radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city.
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Zar und Zimmermann
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 17th CenturyIn the Dutch town of Saardam, Tsar Peter the Great has disguised himself in order to learn the art of ship-building. Another Russian named Peter also works at the wharf, causing a comical case of mistaken identities. Emissaries sent from France and England have difficulty locating the man they are looking for, and the lovely Marie is courted by both Peters. An adaptation of Albert Lortzing's eponymous comic opera (1837).
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Mr. Arkadin
๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico ๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฒ๐ฆ MoroccoDiscovering the past can be murder... โ Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
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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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Betrayed
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsM-G-M filmed the mystery of the year in Holland! โ Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry bombshell Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always Rings Twice") team-up in this intriguing WWII drama. Suspected of being a Nazi spy, Dutch-resistance member Turner is given a last chance mission to redeem herself. Gable is an American colonel who falls in love with her. Co-starring Victor Mature ("My Darling Clementine") and Oscar-nominee Louis Calhern ("The Asphalt Jungle").
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The Divorcรฉe
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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ซ๐ท FranceA Non-Stop Suspense Thriller โ A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress.
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The Exile
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 17th CenturyIn 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
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The Silver Fleet
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsJaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
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The Night Invader
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsDick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses occasionally as an American journalist and a Gestapo officer. He meets and falls in love with a Dutch woman who professes solidarity with the British, but matters become complicated and dangerous when it transpires that the woman's brother is in possession of the documents Dick Marlow needs, and is far less kindly disposed towards the British than his sister โ or is she?
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
๐ณ๐ด Norway ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐จ๐ฟ Czechia ๐ต๐ฑ PolandGee it's great to be together at last on another fellows honeymoon! โ A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1940s1942's first blast of screen dynamite โ During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Behind these sombre words hid tales of death, destruction and derring-do. This is the story of one such bomber crew who were shot down and the brave Dutch patriots who helped them home.
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Tulips Shall Grow
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsIn this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), a young Dutch couple find their idyllic countryside being overrun by unfeeling, unthinking mechanical men and machines that lay waste to everything in their path. In 1997 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
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Rembrandt
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 17th CenturyAlready a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. But upon completion of the picture, the men of the guild feel duped, because they don't consider themselves flatteringly depicted in the painting. They therefore decline to pay for the work. During this dispute, the painter finds out his wife is close to death. He finds himself terribly lonely after her passing and suffers from depression until he decides once more to marry.
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G.P.U.
๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940s The 1930sOlga, a Russian refugee from Bolshevik terror, has joined the Soviet secret police to find the man responsible for killing her parents. Meanwhile, a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the communists.
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Foreign Correspondent
England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1930sThe thrill spectacle of the year! โ The European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Johnny Jones, an American crime reporter dispatched by his New York publisher to put a fresh spin on the drowsy dispatches emanating from overseas, has a nose for a good storyโwhich promptly leads him to the crime of fascism and Nazi Germany's designs on European conquest. In attempting to learn more about a seemingly noble peace effort, Jones walks into the middle of an assassination, uncovers a spy ring andโnot entirely coincidentallyโfalls in love.
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Pygmalion
๐ณ๐ฑ NetherlandsProf. Henry Higgens takes a wager on turning a low class flower seller named Liesje Doeluttel into a presentably lady. Adaptation of Bernard Shaw's play.
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Rembrandt
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 17th CenturyHe knew all women! Their lives...Loves...Their souls! โ This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he's unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.
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Capt. Grant's Family
Scotland England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand ๐ฆ๐ท Argentina ๐ฆ๐บ 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 Fountain
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1910sSet during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.
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William of Orange
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 16th CenturyThe first 'official' Dutch sound film was presented as a historic document on the history of the Netherlands, highlighting the importance of prince William of Orange's role during the Eighty Years war. His story is told in a series of short episodes, spanning his sudden rise to prince of Orange in 1844 to his murder by Balthasar Gerards in 1584.
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