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Dutch-Language Films
Top 500 Dutch-language films from a catalog of 661, ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Country↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Bob | 2,002 | Frank Jan Kat | Drama | 8.7 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Film about an unemployed, socially handicapped bachelor who lives in a very small world. For his birthday, his mother gives him a young dog. The touching pup brings about a pleasant change in his lonely life. But the growing up of the small dog forces him to make a radical choice. |
| Young Hearts | 2,024 | Anthony Schatteman | Drama, Romance | 8.4 | 222 | Dutch | Belgium | 14-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets his new neighbour of the same age, Alexander, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality. |
| Epica - ΩMEGA ALIVE | 2,021 | Jens de Vos | Music | 8.4 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | The worldwide streaming event brought to life by 75 artists and crew members, a show that became the biggest concert event in the band's 19-year-long history. |
| Within Temptation & The Metropole Orchestra: Black Symphony | 2,008 | Hans Pannecoucke | Music | 8.2 | 19 | Dutch | Netherlands | Their most ambitious staging to date, Black Symphony is capturing a unique concert at Rotterdam's Ahoy Arena on February 7, 2008. Sold out months in advance, Within Temptation performed to 10,000 fans with the 60-piece Metropole Orchestra and a 20-voice classical choir, as well as on-stage stilt performers, costume changes, and an array of stunning pyrotechnic and lighting effects. Special guests include Keith Caputo (ex-Life Of Agony), Anneke van Giersbergen (The Gathering), and George Oosthoek (Orphanage) |
| De nacht van Aalbers | 2,001 | Theo van Gogh | Thriller | 8.2 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | A political thriller about PvdA-frontman Frits Aalbers who gets involved with a mysterious murder in a hotel. To make sure his political career will not be damaged - an important coalition is at stake - the master politician tries to hide the truth no matter the cost. The ambitious young journalist Barbara van Dalen is trying to get a scoop on the impeding coalition, but accidentally stumbles upon the trail of the murder. |
| Cool Kids Don't Cry | 2,012 | Dennis Bots | Family, Romance, Drama | 7.9 | 281 | Dutch | Netherlands | Adaptation of one of Benelux most famous children's novels. Tough prime school girl Akkie loves soccer and can be a real bully. Love is the only thing she's scared of. When Akkie is diagnosed with Leukemia, she has to fight for her life. On the verge of going to high school, Akkie has to allow love to enter her life, and thus gain courage to accept the inevitable. |
| Jochem Myjer: De Rust Zelve | 2,010 | Unknown | Comedy | 7.9 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | The show is mainly about his various friends in Leiden and the people who share this city with him. He talks about his neighbors Halfzeven, Halfacht, and Halfnegen, jumps around to waltz music, does impressions of Dutch celebrities while standing on the vibrating belt, and is joined on either side by holograms of himself dancing along with him. |
| Mother Dao, the Turtlelike | 1,995 | Vincent Monnikendam | History, Documentary | 7.9 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | In a span of ninety minutes the film aims to show how the Netherlands administered its colony as a colonial enterprise and what the relations were like at the time. The usual commentary has been omitted and in its place poems and songs in Bahasa Indonesia have been included in a digital sound composition. In Mother Dao the Turtlelike, the viewer sees how the colonial machinery in the 1920s was implanted in a world so different from Western Europe. |
| Close to Vermeer | 2,023 | Suzanne Raes | Documentary, History | 7.8 | 13 | Dutch | Netherlands | In the year before he retires, Gregor Weber, a globally renowned Vermeer expert and flamboyant curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, works on his big dream: the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. Together with Weber, a number of enthusiasts and experts go in search of what truly makes a Vermeer a Vermeer. |
| The Broken Circle Breakdown | 2,012 | Felix van Groeningen | Drama | 7.7 | 1,114 | Dutch | Belgium | The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians. |
| Boys | 2,014 | Mischa Kamp | Drama, Romance, TV Movie | 7.7 | 724 | Dutch | Netherlands | Two teen track stars discover first love as they train for the biggest relay race of their young lives. |
| April, May and June | 2,019 | Will Koopman | Drama | 7.7 | 31 | Dutch | Netherlands | To inform each personally about her impending death, Mies summons her three daughters home. The three half-sisters April, May and June, each of whom has a different father, start to question their lives: "Where are we at in life? What do we still have in common? What will happen to our autistic brother Jan?" |
| Our Girls | 2,025 | Mike van Diem | Drama | 7.7 | 22 | Dutch | Belgium | A near-fatal accident involving their teen daughters upends the lives of two families as they consider how far they're willing to go to save their child. |
| The Conductor | 2,018 | Maria Peters | Drama, History | 7.6 | 161 | Dutch | Belgium | United States, 1926: Dutch 24-year-old Willy Wolters has immigrated to the American continent with her parents as a child. She dreams of becoming a conductor, but this is an ambition that no one takes seriously. Unbeknownst to her, she'll also become Antonia Brico. |
| Glass | 1,958 | Bert Haanstra | Documentary | 7.6 | 39 | Dutch | Netherlands | This short documentary, shot in the glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam, demonstrates how glass blowers do their work. But thanks to the superbly edited ballet of working hands and the sequence of mechanical motions of the engines, is it especially a cinematic tour de force. That the industry can’t do without man’s involvement is shown in the scene where we hear the voice of Haanstra himself counting the bottles on the conveyor belt, until one bottle breaks… |
| King of Katoren | 2,012 | Ben Sombogaart | Family, Adventure | 7.6 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | The seventeen year old Stach is faced with five impossible assignments he has to complete in order to become king. Things do not go as easily as the boisterous Stach had expected, especially when he is confronted with matters of life and death. |
| The Marriage Escape | 2,020 | Johan Nijenhuis | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 | 49 | Dutch | Netherlands | Jan has been married to Gedda for 35 years. Gedda loves Jan so much that she smothers him: before he can grab a glass from the table, she has already given him one. She picks out his clothing, his friends, his vacations and all their other activities. In an attempt to get some space Jan concocts a strange plan that literally transforms his marriage into a locked ward. Their daughter finds herself in a similar predicament with her exacting and jealous boyfriend. |
| A Beautiful Imperfection | 2,024 | Michiel van Erp | Drama | 7.5 | 20 | Dutch | Belgium | Lucia, Giacomo Casanova’s only great love, leaves Italy for Amsterdam after her face has been disfigured by smallpox. Sixteen years later, they meet again when she has reinvented herself as a veiled courtesan. Without revealing her true identity or showing her face, Lucia and Giacomo become lovers once again. Will Lucia dare to reveal herself and turn her weakness into her strength so that she can be truly free in the eyes of her great love? |
| Thunderdome Never Dies | 2,019 | Ted Alkemade | Documentary | 7.5 | 11 | Dutch | Unknown | The world's most influential Dutch rave makes its legendary comeback. In the 1990s, Thunderdome initiated a total revolution in the nightlife and became the founder of the Netherlands largest cultural export product: dance music. Thunderdome returned in 2017 after five years of silence. Will Thunderdome manage to reinvent itself for a new generation of ravers. Go on a trip down memory lane and look forward to the future with the pioneers of the past and the new faces of today. |
| Het Huis Anubis: The Revenge Of Arghus | 2,009 | Dennis Bots | Adventure, Mystery, Family | 7.5 | 10 | Dutch | Belgium | To celebrate Appie's birthday, the Anubis residents rent an old haunted house. However, strange things start to happen when the friends disappear one at a time. |
| Hans Teeuwen: Dat dan weer wel | 2,002 | Unknown | Comedy | 7.5 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Mind you is the fourth theater of the Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen. He performed the show in 2001. The last show was filmed in 2002 and aired on television, the same year that the show on CD and DVD published. It's Teeuwen's most famous and most frequently quoted show. He takes everything on the heel, including racism, blacks, world religions, AIDS patients, women, Jostiband and the Queen of the Netherlands. |
| Black Book | 2,006 | Paul Verhoeven | Drama, Thriller, War | 7.4 | 1,225 | Dutch | Belgium | Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It brings back memories of her experiences in the Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. In September 1944, Rachel's hiding place is bombed by Allied troops; she makes contact with a resistance member and joins a group of Jews to be smuggled across the Biesbosch to the freed South Netherlands. Only Rachel escapes a massacre by patrol Germans, and is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers, whose son is captured trying to smuggle weapons. Kuipers asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze, a mission that she will soon learn that the boat attack wasn't a coincidence. |
| The Vanishing | 1,988 | George Sluizer | Thriller, Mystery | 7.4 | 776 | Dutch | Netherlands | Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he suddenly begins receiving letters from her abductor. |
| Character | 1,997 | Mike van Diem | History, Drama | 7.4 | 111 | Dutch | Belgium | In pre-WWII Holland, the penniless, illegitimate son of a powerful bailiff sets out to become a lawyer as he spends a lifetime struggling to prove his worth to his relentlessly spiteful father. |
| Rain | 1,929 | Mannus Franken | Documentary | 7.4 | 78 | Dutch | Netherlands | A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower. |
| De film van Dylan Haegens | 2,018 | Dylan Haegens | Family, Comedy, Adventure, Science Fiction | 7.4 | 20 | Dutch | Netherlands | Dylan is very successful at running his own lunchroom and YouTube channel. Then IJsbrand comes into his life and copies everything he does. Dylan decides to get to the bottom of this and puts fame and friendship at risk. |
| K3: Animal Hotel | 2,014 | Bart van Leemputten | Family, Comedy, Adventure | 7.4 | 15 | Dutch | Belgium | Kristel has booked a luxurious weekend in a beauty farm. That same weekend, Josje and Karen secretly decide to help Bas in his animal hotel. But when their GPSs are accidentally switched, the three girls arrive at the wrong destination. This causes a lot of hilarious and crazy misunderstandings! But when the animal hotel turns out to be in danger, the girls of K3 must join forces to save it.. |
| F.C. De Kampioenen 4: Viva Boma! | 2,019 | Jan Verheyen | Comedy | 7.4 | 12 | Dutch | Belgium | Ronaldinho is being groomed by Boma and Goedele to become the new CEO of Boma Meat Industry NV. But his heart lies more with soccer—and with Niki, his new flame. While the Champions prepare a promotional stunt to launch the 'Viva Boma' sausage during the Aalst Carnival, eternal enemies Fernand and DDT see their chance to eliminate the Champions for good. |
| Jochem Myjer: Adéhadé | 2,003 | Joep Krijnen | Comedy | 7.4 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | Destressing? Do that at home, will you! In 'Adéhadé', everything goes in overdrive, with many Dutch celebrity impressions. |
| Regret! | 2,013 | Dave Schram | Drama | 7.3 | 118 | Dutch | Netherlands | A David's classmate, Jochem, is harassed by three bullies, but nobody does anything at school, not even David, who feels guilty for not pointing out the culprits. |
| Don't Shoot | 2,018 | Stijn Coninx | Drama, History | 7.3 | 40 | Dutch | Belgium | In one fell swoop, nine-year old David Van de Steen lost his mother, his father and his sister in an attack by the Brabant Killers in Aalst. His grandfather, Albert, has the well-nigh impossible task of giving David a new perspective on life, a future. |
| The Dragon That Wasn't (Or Was He?) | 1,983 | Harrie Geelen | Animation | 7.3 | 26 | Dutch | Netherlands | Oliver B. Bumble finds an egg that, it turns out, has a cute little dragon in it. However, this dragon grows huge each time it gets excited or upset. As this causes a lot of problems, Bumble has to face a difficult dilemma. |
| Holy Rosita | 2,024 | Wannes Destoop | Drama | 7.3 | 12 | Dutch | Belgium | Rosita is a cheerful woman with an eager desire to have children. Those around her think it is irresponsible because she can barely take care of herself. When Rosita does become pregnant, she decides to keep it a secret. |
| Girl | 2,018 | Lukas Dhont | Drama | 7.2 | 754 | Dutch | Belgium | A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria. |
| North Sea Texas | 2,011 | Bavo Defurne | Drama, Romance | 7.2 | 242 | Dutch | Belgium | A teen boy living in a small town on the Belgian coast finds his ordinary life take an unexpected turn when a handsome traveler blows through town. |
| The Misfortunates | 2,009 | Felix van Groeningen | Drama, Comedy | 7.2 | 212 | Dutch | Belgium | 13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny? |
| The Marathon | 2,012 | Diederick Koopal | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 | 88 | Dutch | Netherlands | Four out-of-shape car mechanics decide to participate in the Rotterdam marathon. If they reach the finish in time, they will be able to pay off their debt — if they don't, they will lose their garage. |
| My Extraordinary Summer with Tess | 2,019 | Steven Wouterlood | Drama | 7.2 | 61 | Dutch | Netherlands | As the youngest of the family, Sam is haunted by the notion that someday he could become the last remaining survivor, all alone. On a family vacation at the beach, he meets the unconventional Tess, who carries her own secrets around with her and shows him how the present moment can win out over memories and anxiety about what’s yet to come. |
| Simon | 2,004 | Eddy Terstall | Drama, Comedy | 7.2 | 55 | Dutch | Netherlands | A mild-mannered gay dentist and a womanizing bar owner rekindle their unlikely friendship when, upon meeting by chance after a decade apart, the latter turns out to be severely ill. |
| Single Street | 2,019 | Frank Krom | Comedy, Romance | 7.2 | 46 | Dutch | Netherlands | Cardiac surgeon Monqiue has centered her life around her work. When extraverted gay artist Max moves in next door they develop a friendship which makes her realise there is more to life than work. |
| The Bloody Olive | 1,997 | Vincent Bal | Comedy, Crime | 7.2 | 26 | Dutch | Belgium | A murder-à-trois in every conceivable way. |
| Fanfare | 1,958 | Bert Haanstra | Comedy, Music, Drama | 7.2 | 17 | Dutch | Netherlands | In the small Dutch village of Lagerheide, two members of the local brass band get into a fight, forcing the band to be split in two. The two hotheads and their followers are doing their utmost to sabotage each other’s attempts at becoming the band who will represent the village at the upcoming brass band competition. |
| Sum of Histories | 2,015 | Lukas Bossuyt | Drama, Romance, Science Fiction | 7.2 | 15 | Dutch | Belgium | A scientist makes a discovery that allows him to send emails back in time, but meddling with his past may not give him the future he wants. |
| Vele hemels boven de zevende | 2,017 | Jan Matthys | Drama | 7.2 | 14 | Dutch | Belgium | Five people fight themselves more than each other, in this existence that's so beautiful and incredibly hard at the same time. |
| Brugklas - de tijd van m'n leven | 2,019 | Raymond Grimbergen | Family, Drama, Romance | 7.2 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Nola is badly screwed when a video is distributed at school showing her being dumped by her boyfriend Jesse. Her grief and jealousy get her into even more trouble: she is no longer allowed to attend camp. Popular Fenna takes advantage of this, as she wants to win over handsome Jesse. When Nola is at her wit's end and wants to avoid this, she gets help from an unexpected source. Boy, a rebellious boy from second grade, comes to the rescue. Together they set out to stop Fenna and win Jesse back... But is this still what Nola wants? |
| The Forgotten Battle | 2,021 | Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. | Action, War, Adventure, History, Drama | 7.1 | 747 | Dutch | Netherlands | During WWII's crucial Battle of the Scheldt, the lives of a glider pilot, a Nazi soldier and a reluctant Resistance recruit tragically intersect. |
| Bullhead | 2,011 | Michaël R. Roskam | Crime, Drama | 7.1 | 379 | Dutch | Belgium | A young cattle farmer is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader. |
| Just Friends | 2,019 | Annemarie van de Mond | Romance, Drama, Comedy | 7.1 | 92 | Dutch | Netherlands | Joris is trying to come to terms with his broken family relationships on the 10th anniversary of his father’s death when he meets the free-spirited, Yad. Also dealing with family issues, Yad has returned home to The Netherlands after living on his own. Joris and Yad spark an instant connection and decide they want to be more than “just friends,” but fear their families could threaten their relationship. |
| Panda Bear in Africa | 2,024 | Karsten Kiilerich | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7.1 | 76 | Dutch | Denmark | A young adventurous panda travels from China to Africa to rescue his best friend, Jielong the Dragon, who has been kidnapped. On his journey, he discovers a strange amazing new world of mountains, deserts and jungles. |
| Priest Daens | 1,992 | Stijn Coninx | Drama, History | 7.1 | 64 | Dutch | Belgium | In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards. |
| Oink | 2,022 | Mascha Halberstad | Animation, Family, Comedy | 7.1 | 46 | Dutch | Belgium | A young girl sets out to prove to her disapproving mother she can house-train the endearing but unruly little piglet she gets as a birthday gift from her estranged oddball grandfather. |
| The New Wilderness | 2,013 | Ruben Smit | Documentary | 7.1 | 29 | Dutch | Netherlands | At the heart of one of the most densely populated areas of Europe, in a country where every square meter of land has been meticulously shaped by man, lie the Oostvaardersplassen – a unique experiment in letting nature run its course. In just 40 years, 6,000 hectares of newly formed polder has been transformed into one of Europe’s most dynamic and productive wetlands – home to some of Europe’s rarest birds such as the magnificent white tailed eagle, which hadn’t been seen in the Netherlands since the Middle Ages. |
| I'm Not a Robot | 2,025 | Victoria Warmerdam | Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction | 7.1 | 27 | Dutch | Belgium | A music producer spirals into an existential crisis after repeatedly failing a CAPTCHA test-leading her to question whether she might actually be a robot. |
| Sea of Time | 2,022 | Theu Boermans | Drama | 7.1 | 27 | Dutch | Malta | Two former lovers find themselves struggling for shared closure as one of them prepares to stage a play about the unspeakable tragedy that tore them apart decades ago. |
| Het Huis Anubis: The Path Of 7 Sins | 2,008 | Dennis Bots | Adventure, Mystery, Family | 7.1 | 18 | Dutch | Belgium | A group of teenagers are on a school trip to Croatia, but when the bus flat-tires they have to stay in an abandoned village. There the group of friends get sent to another dimension in a medieval time zone, they must now walk the path of 7 sins to save themselves and return home. |
| 100% Coco New York | 2,019 | Ruud Schuurman | Comedy, Family | 7.1 | 17 | Dutch | Netherlands | Youth movie about the fashion loving Coco, who wins a trip to New York. |
| Mocro Mafia: Meltem | 2,021 | Mustafa Duygulu | Crime, Action | 7.1 | 15 | Dutch | Netherlands | A Turkish-Dutch credit card fraudster sets out to pay off her broke father’s gambling debt. |
| Lover of Loser | 2,009 | Dave Schram | Drama, Family, Romance | 7.1 | 14 | Dutch | Netherlands | When teen Eva falls for a stranger who then helps abduct her, it's up to her mild-mannered sweetheart, Mees, to find and rescue her. |
| Soldier of Orange | 1,977 | Paul Verhoeven | Drama, Thriller, War | 7 | 167 | Dutch | Belgium | 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. |
| Home | 2,016 | Fien Troch | Drama | 7 | 42 | Dutch | Belgium | After 17-year-old Kevin is released from prison for violent behavior he goes to live with his aunt and her family including Sammy, his cousin. While apprenticing as a plumber he starts to integrate with Sammy’s group of friends who are still in high school. Like all teenagers they just want to party and ignore any responsibilities, but one of them is hiding a problem at home that will put the entire group in jeopardy. |
| The Little Gangster | 2,015 | Arne Toonen | Comedy, Crime, Adventure, Family | 7 | 34 | Dutch | Netherlands | Rik and his dad Paul are bullied by the kids in their neighbourhood. Rik wishes his dad would be tougher. Inspired by a mafia movie he saw on TV, Rik fantasizes about being the son of a mafia boss. Everybody would show him respect. So when his dad is promoted and they move to a new town, Rik decides to tell everybody his dad really is a Mafia boss - but what happens when his lies turn against him? |
| Tanghi Argentini | 2,006 | Guy Thys | N/A | 7 | 18 | Dutch | Belgium | An office clerk with a hankering to tango enlists the support of a workplace colleague as he prepares for a date. It's Christmas time and the concept of giving assumes fairy tale proportions in this beguiling modern story. |
| The Big Slime Movie | 2,020 | Hans Somers | Family, Adventure | 7 | 15 | Dutch | Netherlands | Indy and Olivia are crazy about making slime, but they run into trouble when a big toy factory boss starts an anti-slime campaign to increase his own toy sales. |
| Fidgety Bram | 2,012 | Anna van der Heide | Comedy, Family | 7 | 15 | Dutch | Netherlands | Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up in the class of the strict teacher Mr. Fish. The straightfoward Mr. Fish doesn’t care about the inside world of the constantly moving around and unconcentrated little boy and does whatever it takes to make Bram do things the ‘right’ way. |
| Loonies | 2,002 | Bobby Eerhart | Comedy, Family | 7 | 13 | Dutch | Netherlands | The Loenatiks have to move. The old Zonnedael clinic has so many defects that the patients have to leave. Dr. Bomhoff has a good alternative: Binne... |
| On Top of the Whale | 1,982 | Raúl Ruiz | Fantasy | 7 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything. |
| Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil | 2,015 | Pieter van Huystee | Documentary | 7 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | In 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum in the Dutch city of Den Bosch held a special exhibition devoted to the work of Hieronymus Bosch, who died 500 years ago. This late-medieval artist lived his entire life in the city, causing uproar with his fantastical and utterly unique paintings in which hell and the devil always played a prominent role. |
| André Hazes: She Believes in Me | 2,000 | John Appel | Documentary | 7 | 11 | Dutch | Spain | Portrait of the popular Dutch singer André Hazes. |
| Hidden in the Spotlight | 2,020 | Jelle Nesna | Drama | 7 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | After the sudden death of her older sister, a successful singer-songwriter finds herself facing their family's darkest memories as she fights to win custody over her adolescent niece from the girl's lawful but long-absent father. |
| The Monster of Nix | 2,011 | Rosto | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | 7 | 10 | Dutch | France | Life is good in the idyllic fairytale village of Nix... until an all-devouring monster appears. Young Willy has to fight it. Alone. |
| Everyman | 1,963 | Bert Haanstra | Documentary | 7 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Bert Haanstra paints a portrait of The Netherlands and the Dutch, in his own unparalleled manner. Partly with the aid of a hidden camera he observes people in the most diverse situations. He shows the unusual in the usual and the usual in the unusual. The harsh years of the post war era of reconstruction have passed and for most people life is better than before. |
| Loft | 2,008 | Erik Van Looy | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.9 | 429 | Dutch | Belgium | Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder. |
| Ben X | 2,007 | Nic Balthazar | Drama | 6.9 | 322 | Dutch | Belgium | Harassed by bullies because of his mild autism, teen Ben finds refuge in an online computer game, which leads him to his virtual dream girl, Scarlite. Together, the odd couple seeks revenge against Ben's tormentors. |
| The Treatment | 2,014 | Hans Herbots | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 | 215 | Dutch | Belgium | Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all - looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure in harassing Nick. Then, when a disturbing case comes to light involving a missing nine-year-old, Nick heads a massive search which turns into a relentless manhunt. |
| Antonia's Line | 1,995 | Marleen Gorris | Drama, Comedy | 6.9 | 140 | Dutch | Netherlands | After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women. |
| Marina | 2,013 | Stijn Coninx | Romance, Drama, Music | 6.9 | 92 | Dutch | Belgium | The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers. |
| Zillion | 2,022 | Robin Pront | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 6.9 | 70 | Dutch | Belgium | It's 1997. Frank Verstraeten, a computer genius with a nose for business, a fascination for nightlife and an unhealthy urge to prove himself, only wants one thing: his own disco that not only outperforms the competition but simply humiliates it. The futuristic mega discotheque Zillion is a fact and Frank turns from computer dealer to the pivotal figure of the Antwerp nightlife. He parades with the most beautiful women in Belgium and forges an alliance with Dennis Black Magic, the porn king who provides the spicy extras. Unfortunately, beautiful songs don't last long either. |
| The Northerners | 1,992 | Alex van Warmerdam | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 | 59 | Dutch | Netherlands | A 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. |
| Süskind | 2,012 | Rudolf van den Berg | Drama, War | 6.9 | 47 | Dutch | Belgium | In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps. |
| M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity | 2,018 | Robin Lutz | Documentary, History | 6.9 | 26 | Dutch | Netherlands | A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken from his diary, his correspondence and the texts of his lectures. |
| Dunya & Desie | 2,008 | Dana Nechushtan | Drama | 6.9 | 22 | Dutch | Morocco | Dunya and Desie are two 18 year old best friends from Amsterdam North. Dunya is Moroccan and Desie is Dutch. On Dunya's Birthday she is told that her marriage has been arranged with a distant cousin in Morocco. Dunya and her family will travel to Morocco to meet him. After Desie discovers that she is pregnant she joins Dunya in Morocco in a search for Desies father. |
| Long Live the Queen | 1,995 | Esmé Lammers | Adventure, Drama, Family | 6.9 | 20 | Dutch | Netherlands | A fairytale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father. |
| Pink Moon | 2,022 | Floor van der Meulen | Drama, Comedy | 6.9 | 18 | Dutch | Netherlands | A young woman struggles to cope with her elderly father's out-of-the-blue announcement he considers his life complete and will end it by his next birthday. |
| No Such Thing as Housewives | 2,017 | Aniëlle Webster | Comedy | 6.9 | 18 | Dutch | Netherlands | Two modern women and their free-spirited mother struggle to balance their private, professional and family lives. |
| Zoo | 1,961 | Bert Haanstra | Documentary | 6.9 | 17 | Dutch | Netherlands | A perfect, fast and hilarious montage. Using images from Artis (Amsterdam Zoo), Bert Haanstra shows that a couple of similarities can be discovered between human and animal. Particularly the manner in which human and ape are confronted with each other, is significant. The images speak for themselves, human voices or commentary is absent. The ironic music of Pim Jacobs does add an extra dimension to the whole. With regards to human and animal Haanstra limits himself for the time being to this short film, recorded with a hidden camera. Later on, in several big films, he would return to this subject. |
| So What Is Love | 2,019 | Aniëlle Webster | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 | 16 | Dutch | Netherlands | Cato is given the opportunity to become a partner in a commercial office where there is a need for change. Cato seems to be the right person to teach the grumpy lawyers a bit of morale. |
| Seagulls Die in the Harbour | 1,955 | Ivo Michiels | Drama, Crime | 6.9 | 13 | Dutch | Belgium | A pessimistic urban drama, with a musical score by Jack Sels and Max Damasse, charts in strongly expressionistically lit black-and-white images the wanderings of a tormented man through the cosmopolitan port city of Antwerp. The only people to show him understanding are an orphan and two disillusioned women. |
| Schellebelle 1919 | 2,011 | Johan Heldenbergh | Drama | 6.9 | 12 | Dutch | Belgium | The movie tells the story of the farming family Van de Velde, in the aftermath of the First World War. The farmer and his son, who have fought in t... |
| Sickos | 2,014 | Lodewijk Crijns | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Three teenagers appear to have a lot of fun on the children's oncology department on the fourth floor of a large hospital. Nick and Iwan both lost a leg as a result of bone cancer. For their friend Olivier, an amputation may be the next phase. The fourth of the bunch, Pepijn, is so ill and weak that he often stays in his room. Friendship and a deep desire to live keeps the guys mentally balanced. Their friendship changes when Gina arrives. Sickos is a humorous drama that deals with adolescence and chemotherapy. |
| Overtime | 2,005 | Oury Atlan | Animation | 6.9 | 10 | Dutch | France | Little ragdolls find their maker dead in his studio. Unable to understand what truly happened they try to get on with their daily life beside him. |
| Ferry | 2,021 | Cecilia Verheyden | Crime, Drama, Action | 6.8 | 280 | Dutch | Belgium | Before he built a drug empire, Ferry Bouman returns to his hometown on a revenge mission that finds his loyalty tested — and a love that alters his life. |
| My Best Friend Anne Frank | 2,021 | Ben Sombogaart | History, War, Drama | 6.8 | 267 | Dutch | Netherlands | Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp. |
| Ex Drummer | 2,007 | Koen Mortier | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 | 234 | Dutch | Belgium | Three musicians form a band. But they're not just any musicians: each has a disability that makes them particularly unsuitable for their instrument. The guitarist is deaf, the singer is tone deaf, and the bassist has a stiff arm. They lack a drummer, and to respect the group's uniqueness, they turn to a famous writer who has never played the drums. He accepts, but begins a manipulation that will wreak further havoc on the already largely dysfunctional band. |
| Turkish Delight | 1,973 | Paul Verhoeven | Drama, Romance | 6.8 | 205 | Dutch | Netherlands | Gifted but hot-headed sculptor Eric has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga. |
| Come As You Are | 2,011 | Geoffrey Enthoven | Drama, Comedy | 6.8 | 174 | Dutch | Belgium | Three young guys like wine and women. They tested wine with pleasure, but the second they have never been able to taste. Under the guise of a wine tour, the three plans a trip to Spain to finally have sex. Nothing will stop them. Certainly not the fact that the first guy is blind, the second is in a wheelchair and the third is completely paralyzed. |
| Gangsta | 2,018 | Adil El Arbi | Thriller, Action, Crime | 6.8 | 102 | Dutch | Belgium | Antwerp, Belgium. The lives of four small-time drug dealers spin out of control when they steal a shipment of cocaine, triggering a full out war between an Amsterdam drug lord and a ruthless Colombian cartel. |
| Miss Minoes | 2,001 | Vincent Bal | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 6.8 | 93 | Dutch | Netherlands | A cat who turns into a young woman helps a journalist protect their town from a factory boss with an evil plan. |
| Twin Sisters | 2,002 | Ben Sombogaart | Romance, Drama, History | 6.8 | 81 | Dutch | Luxembourg | 1920s Germany. Two sisters aged six years, no sooner see their remaining parent buried when they are torn apart. Lotte goes to live with her upper middle class Dutch aunt in Holland, Anna to work as a farm hand on her German uncle's rural farm. The World War II impacts each of their lives and finally in old age they meet again. |
| Accused | 2,014 | Paula van der Oest | Drama, Thriller | 6.8 | 79 | Dutch | Sweden | An assistant prosecutor zealously pursues a conviction in the case of a pediatric nurse accused of murdering her patients, but doubt arises when her evidence shows that the infants may have died of natural causes. |
| The Surprise | 2,015 | Mike van Diem | Comedy, Romance | 6.8 | 71 | Dutch | Netherlands | An eccentric multimillionaire signs an agreement to have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman who has signed up for the same arrangement. Trouble ensues when the couple falls in love and wishes to get out of the contract. |
| The Verdict | 2,013 | Jan Verheyen | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 | 54 | Dutch | Belgium | When his wife's murderer is released due to a procedural error, Luc will do everything in his power to stop it from happening... He is going to take justice into his own hands and will then compete with the constitutional state which let him down. |
| The Assault | 1,986 | Fons Rademakers | War, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 | 41 | Dutch | Netherlands | At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing. |
| The Judgement | 2,021 | Sander Burger | Drama, Thriller | 6.8 | 37 | Dutch | Netherlands | A Dutch TV journalist finds himself challenging the police, courts and media as he attempts to uncover the truth about the controversial 1999 Deventer murder case. |
| Blood, Sweat and Tears | 2,015 | Diederick Koopal | Drama | 6.8 | 34 | Dutch | Netherlands | Blood, Sweat and Tears is a story about the life of Andre Hazes, a Dutch popular singer. It shows three crucial phases in the life of Hazes: his youth (in the 1960s), his breakthrough (1980s) and the last year of his life (early 2000s). |
| Skunk | 2,024 | Koen Mortier | Drama | 6.8 | 32 | Dutch | Belgium | The story of Liam, a neglected teenager who lives in a family where alcohol, violence and sex play the main role. He grows up to be a confused youngster which ends in a very aggressive act to break with his past. |
| The Waiting Room | 1,996 | Jos Stelling | Comedy | 6.8 | 24 | Dutch | Netherlands | A large train station, it might be anywhere in a big city. Waiting passengers, some are curiously observing each other, some are too much involved with their own petty problems to pay attention to anything else. Our man, self- assured, practically undresses some of the woman present with his eyes, at least as long as his wife is absent, trying to get them some coffee. A beauty in blue returns his challenging looks, he can hardly believe it's true. Obviously, it is his lucky day today. By the time his wife returns our man has experienced some astonishing things under the watchful eyes of the fellow passengers. And most probably he will be much more reserved next time he sees a beautiful blonde. |
| Prince | 2,015 | Sam de Jong | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 | 21 | Dutch | Netherlands | A troubled teenager attempts to conquer the girl he's in love with, who seems out of reach. He's lured into criminal activities and becomes alienated from family and friends. |
| Pauline & Paulette | 2,001 | Lieven Debrauwer | Drama, Comedy | 6.8 | 20 | Dutch | Belgium | Pauline is a 'little girl of 66 years old'. She is mentally retarded and been cared after by her sister Martha. When Martha dies, her two younger sisters, Paulette and Cecile have to make a decision on the best place for Pauline to be looked after. Neither of them is ready to take care of her. Paulette has a shop to look after and Cecile has her Albert. But according to Martha's last will, her fortune will only be divided in three equal parts if one of the sisters looks after Pauline. If they decide to take her to an institution, Pauline will be the only heir. |
| Furious | 2,011 | Dave Schram | Drama | 6.8 | 18 | Dutch | Netherlands | Sven (15) will be director and has been busy filming. He films his friends, especially those to do free running and put the videos on YouTube. He asks Roosmarijn to work on his first feature film. They may not know that he gets a thrashing at home regularly. He manages his bruises for anyone to hide until he one day so badly that he absconds with his grandmother. Thus he misses his birthday. Roosmarijn thinks he likes her anymore and his friends are angry with him. He decides to once and for all to deal with his father until he discovered why his father beats him. |
| Code 37 | 2,011 | Jakob Verbruggen | Drama | 6.8 | 18 | Dutch | Belgium | A famous writer is violated in a sex-movie-theatre. He had a date with Roos, a young student who works also as a prostitute. Quickly it becomes cle... |
| Village by the River | 1,958 | Fons Rademakers | Drama | 6.8 | 16 | Dutch | Netherlands | An independent-thinking doctor in a rural community with his own ideas of how medicine should be practiced begins to find himself ostracized from the community after one of his patients commits suicide. |
| Sweet Dreams | 2,023 | Ena Sendijarević | Drama | 6.8 | 15 | Dutch | Indonesia | Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son - the child of his Indonesian housemaid. |
| New Earth | 1,933 | Joris Ivens | Documentary | 6.8 | 15 | Dutch | Netherlands | The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people of the Netherlands struggle and succeed in building a breaker, thereby eliminating the wild inland body of water once known as the Zuider Zee (now called Ijsselmeer). |
| 2 Kleine Kleutertjes: Een Dag Om Nooit Te Vergeten | 2,022 | Wip Vernooij | Animation | 6.8 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | Soon Anna (5) and Joey (4) will no longer be the only children in the family, there will be a baby! On the day of the birth they are taken by their uncle to the petting zoo. Here's a little kid that Joey immediately adores and when they escape the petting zoo together, they go on an adventure. Along the way, they all encounter obstacles and learn to join forces and make many new friends. |
| Trio | 2,019 | Ruth Beeckmans | Drama, Comedy | 6.8 | 12 | Dutch | Belgium | Wim, a loner who prefers to stay in and binge watch TV on his birthday, is offered a surprise by his half brother Gert: an hour with Angelique, a sophisticated prostitute. |
| Your Mother Should Know | 2,018 | Jeroen Houben | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 6.8 | 12 | Dutch | Belgium | A young photographer moves back in with his mother and has to adjust to his old hometown. Things get more challenging when she appoints him as her dating coach in order to spend more time together. |
| The Voice of the Water | 1,966 | Bert Haanstra | Documentary | 6.8 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | The Netherlands and water, they are inseparable from one another. Water in its soothing form, as a place of work and pleasure and as a source of threat and misery. Bert Haanstra thought it a great subject for a big cinema documentary and made The Voice of the Water. At the start, while the credits are still running, it is already apparent how remarkable and original he portrays the beauty of the landscape of the Dutch coastline. In the following ninety minutes we see numerous people that live, work and recreate on, by and in the water. Often they are being observed in a gentle humorous way that reminds us of The Human Dutch. Some people prefer to stay far away from all the wetness: the little boy having a swimming lesson, but who doesn’t dare to put his head under water, is forever imprinted on the memory of many of the viewers. |
| The Resistance Banker | 2,018 | Joram Lürsen | War, Drama | 6.7 | 262 | Dutch | Netherlands | In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance. |
| Winter in Wartime | 2,008 | Martin Koolhoven | Drama, History, War | 6.7 | 200 | Dutch | Netherlands | During World War II in the freezing winter of 1944-45 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to the dismay of his father, who, as mayor, works to prevent escalations in the village. |
| The 4th Man | 1,983 | Paul Verhoeven | Thriller, Mystery | 6.7 | 184 | Dutch | Netherlands | Morbid Catholic writer Gerard Reve–bisexual, alcoholic, and experiencing frequent visions of death–is invited to give a lecture at the Vlissingen literature club. While in the Amsterdam railway station, he's attracted to a handsome man who embarks on another train. Gerard meets club treasurer and beautician Christine Halsslag, and engage in a one-night-stand. The next morning, Gerard sees a picture of Christine's boyfriend Herman and recognises him as the man at the train station. He urges her to bring Herman to her house to spend a couple of days together, but with ulterior intentions of seduction. During a night on his own, Gerard finds and watches film reels, discovering that Christine had married each; all of whom died in tragic accidents. Believing Christine is a Black Widow, Gerard begins to question whether Herman or he will be her doomed fourth man. |
| The Memory of a Killer | 2,003 | Erik Van Looy | Crime, Thriller, Action | 6.7 | 153 | Dutch | Belgium | Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. Since Ledda starts showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, it's getting more and more difficult to complete his contracts. When he has to murder a 12-year old call-girl, he refuses and becomes a target himself. While Vincke and Verstuyft are chasing him and counting the corpses, Ledda is taking care of his employers. |
| Penoza: The Final Chapter | 2,019 | Diederik Van Rooijen | Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama | 6.7 | 144 | Dutch | Netherlands | The Black Widow is not dead ... Drug Queen Carmen van Walraven is hiding in Canada and leads an anonymous life there. One evening a colleague is harassed and Carmen helps her. In self-defense, she kills the perpetrator, is arrested and extradited to the Netherlands. While her children are in shock that their mother is still alive, there are also some people who still have to settle something with Carmen. Everyone is again dragged into an emotional rollercoaster. Carmen will now have deal with her past to save her family. |
| For a Lost Soldier | 1,992 | Roeland Kerbosch | Drama | 6.7 | 76 | Dutch | Netherlands | In the occupied Netherlands near the end of WWII, a young teenager, Jeroen Boman (Maarten Smit) is sent to the Dutch countryside to avoid the war in Amsterdam. While living with his adopted family, Jeroen meets and becomes friends with a Canadian soldier named Walt Cook, who is stationed at the same town he is staying at. Joroen and Walt spend a lot of time playing around and eventually a romantic relationship develops between them. The boy’s sexual curiosity leads him to have a sexual experience with Walt, an encounter that is shown with some vague detail but without actually showing any nudity, even though sexual intimacy between the two of them is implied. Overall, the movie handles this difficult subject with an elegant style and feeling, without having the adult-child relationship overwhelm the viewer and thus allowing the movie to be seen as just a wartime relationship between two people that marks an important time in a young boy’s life. |
| Daylight | 2,013 | Diederik Van Rooijen | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | 6.7 | 72 | Dutch | Netherlands | Young lawyer Iris discovers that she has an older, autistic half-brother Ray, who is in prison for the atrocious murder of his neighbour and her five-year-old daughter. When she meets Ray he reminds her a lot of her own son Aron, who also is autistic, and she starts to believe that he is innocent. |
| Wolf | 2,013 | Jim Taihuttu | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 6.7 | 53 | Dutch | Netherlands | A promising kickboxer struggles to resist the temptations of a life of crime. |
| Patrick | 2,019 | Tim Mielants | Drama, Comedy | 6.7 | 49 | Dutch | Belgium | Patrick is the handyman on his father's naturist campsite. The remaining time he dedicates to his hobby, designing and creating wooden furniture. When Patrick loses his campsite hammer, his quest to retrieve it takes him to the farthest corners of the camping grounds. |
| Death of a Shadow | 2,012 | Tom Van Avermaet | Romance, Fantasy | 6.7 | 44 | Dutch | Belgium | Soldier Nathan died during World War I. A strange collector imprisoned his shadow and gave him a new chance: a second life against 10000 captured shadows. It is love that guides him, as his purpose is to meet Sarah again, the woman he fell in love with before he died. But then he discovers that she's already in love with someone else, jealousy clouds his mind and pushes him towards a bitter decision, not without consequences. |
| Strike a Pose | 2,016 | Ester Gould | Documentary | 6.7 | 41 | Dutch | Belgium | In 1990, seven young male dancers joined Madonna on her most controversial world tour. Their journey was captured in Truth or Dare. As a self-proclaimed 'mother' to her six gay dancers plus straight Oliver, Madonna used the film to make a stand on gay rights and freedom of expression. The dancers became paragons of pride, inspiring people all over the world to dare to be who you are. 25 years later, the dancers share their own stories about life during and after the tour. What does it really take to express yourself? |
| Bride Flight | 2,008 | Ben Sombogaart | Drama | 6.7 | 39 | Dutch | Netherlands | A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides. |
| The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short | 1,966 | André Delvaux | Drama | 6.7 | 32 | Dutch | Belgium | Govert Miereveld is a lawyer from a small Flemish town who also teaches in a school for girls. He harbors a secret love for one of his young students, Fran, whom he loses touch with after her graduation. Some time later, Miereveld has to attend an autopsy, and the shock of the experience deeply affects his mental balance. He finds out - or he believes so - that Fran has become a popular singer. He arranges to meet her to finally reveal his feelings. An ambiguous but perhaps tragic denouement follows which might be a figment of the protagonist's disturbed mind. |
| All Stars | 1,997 | Jean van de Velde | Drama, Comedy | 6.7 | 31 | Dutch | Netherlands | Seven young men who played soccer together since their early youth grow apart and are forced to think about the nature of their friendship. In a comic way and a very Dutch setting, All Stars is about pregnant girlfriends and homosexuality, career plans and the power of parents. |
| Hector | 1,987 | Stijn Coninx | Comedy | 6.7 | 27 | Dutch | Belgium | Hector's parents sent him to an orphanage in treatment for smallpox but... they never picked him up. 35 years later, he still lives in the orphanag... |
| When It Melts | 2,023 | Veerle Baetens | Drama | 6.7 | 26 | Dutch | Belgium | Many years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts her past and faces up to her tormentors. |
| About That Life | 2,019 | Shady El-Hamus | Comedy | 6.7 | 19 | Dutch | Netherlands | Determined to live the high life and make their mark, a trio of audacious teenagers sets out on a riotous quest across Amsterdam to get into the city's most exclusive nightclub. |
| Enough! | 2,016 | Tessa Schram | Drama | 6.7 | 19 | Dutch | Netherlands | When a boy is framed after an act of senseless violence by his friends, they turn against him for trying to tell the truth. |
| The Illusionist | 1,983 | Jos Stelling | Comedy | 6.7 | 18 | Dutch | Netherlands | Two brothers end up separated for one of them has mental issues. Meanwhile one of the two follows his dream in becoming a magician. |
| Violet | 2,014 | Bas Devos | Action, Crime, Drama, Family | 6.7 | 17 | Dutch | Netherlands | 15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Now he has to face his family and friends from the BMX riders crew and explain the unexplainable - how he feels about it. |
| The Zigzag Kid | 2,012 | Vincent Bal | Family, Adventure, Drama | 6.7 | 17 | Dutch | Netherlands | Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, takes up with the world's cleverest thief, who unbeknownst to Nono, may hold the bizarre key to his true identity. |
| Romy's Salon | 2,020 | Mischa Kamp | Drama | 6.7 | 15 | Dutch | Netherlands | Romy’s mother has to work a lot. That’s why Romy goes to her grandmother every day after school. Grandma Stine is very busy working in her hairdressing salon, and is very strict. But everything changes when Romy discovers a totally different side to her grandmother. |
| Where Is Winky's Horse? | 2,007 | Mischa Kamp | Family | 6.7 | 15 | Dutch | Netherlands | In the sequel to "Winky's Horse", 8-year old Winky looks after the horse of St Nicholas. Then one day the horse runs away. |
| Kid | 2,012 | Fien Troch | Drama | 6.7 | 12 | Dutch | Germany | A seven-year-old child, his brother Billy and their depressed mother live on a farm. Then something painful happens to the family and the kids are left to live by themselves. |
| Holland: The Living Delta | 2,015 | Mark Verkerk | Documentary | 6.7 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | Enjoy an homage to the stunning scenery, majestic wildlife and ageless forces of nature found throughout Holland's lush and vivid landscapes. |
| Coureur | 2,019 | Kenneth Mercken | Drama | 6.7 | 10 | Dutch | Belgium | Young Felix grows up as an inside spectator at cycling races, a bizarre environment where violence and drugs seem to reign. Following his father's footsteps, Felix discovers that his body is not made for the game. |
| The Ardennes | 2,015 | Robin Pront | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 | 197 | Dutch | Belgium | A brutal home-jacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much has changed. Dave has his life back on track and is trying to help Kenneth however possible, but is witnessing how the highly strung Kenneth tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Sylvie. |
| WILL | 2,023 | Tim Mielants | Drama, War, History | 6.6 | 110 | Dutch | Belgium | Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II. |
| Secrets of War | 2,014 | Dennis Bots | War, Family, Drama, History | 6.6 | 74 | Dutch | Belgium | Tuur and Lambert are best friends. But the war is closing in and is about to change their lives forever. Tuurs dad joined the resistance and even his big brother seems so be part of it. Lamberts family on the other hand choose to obey the Germans. Then a new girls from the city shows up, befriending the boys but telling her secret to only one of them. A choice that separates the boys and ultimately gets her in trouble. |
| Moscow, Belgium | 2,008 | Christophe Van Rompaey | Romance, Drama, Comedy | 6.6 | 64 | Dutch | Belgium | ‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matty, mother of three, bumps her car into a truck on the parking lot of a supermarket. Johnny climbs down from the cabin. He is infuriated by the dent in his front bumper and yells at Matty. Although impressed by the accident, Matty fights back with sharp words. Their discussion turns into a row, and the police have to intervene. Matty goes home, the trunk of her car dancing up and down. Back in her apartment, Matty takes a hot bath to recover from the afternoon’s emotionswhen the phone rings. It’s Johnny, apologizing for his behaviour on the parking lot. Matty tells him to stay out of her life. A dramatic comedy begins about a woman whose soul is full of dents and bruises. |
| The Storm | 2,009 | Ben Sombogaart | Drama | 6.6 | 55 | Dutch | Belgium | A fictional story within the historical context of the disastrous flood that engulfed the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland in 1953. When their farmhouse is destroyed by the flood, teenage mother Julia gets separated from her baby boy, whom she kept hidden in a box. She is saved from drowning by a young air force lieutenant, who agrees to go help looking for Julia's little son. |
| S&M Judge | 2,009 | Erik Lamens | Drama | 6.6 | 49 | Dutch | Belgium | In 1997, the Belgian public was in shock when judge Koen A. was convicted for the S&M relationship with his wife. Although their life was destroyed by the verdict, Koen and his wife Magda remain together today. The film is a story about dark sexuality and true love, told from the lover's unique point of view |
| Jackie | 2,012 | Antoinette Beumer | Drama | 6.6 | 47 | Dutch | Netherlands | Two Dutch twin sisters travel to the United States, looking for their long-lost mother. |
| Nothing to Lose | 2,008 | Pieter Kuijpers | Thriller, Crime | 6.6 | 36 | Dutch | Belgium | A man convicted of killing his own father and sister escapes from a long-stay criminal hospital to track down his estranged mother, whom he believes can prove his innocence. |
| Soof 2 | 2,016 | Esmé Lammers | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 | 32 | Dutch | Netherlands | After her marriage comes undone, Soof has to re-invent herself and get her tumultuous life back on track. |
| Manslaughter | 2,012 | Pieter Kuijpers | Thriller, Drama | 6.6 | 27 | Dutch | Netherlands | Doodslag (Dutch for "Manslaughter") is the story of Max, a paramedic who is repeatedly hindered in performing his duties by loutish behaviour. As his ambulance hurries towards a complicated childbirth, some youths prevent Max from reaching the distressed woman in labour. Spurred on by the emergency and the incendiary words of a TV pundit, he reaches a boiling point and forcefully hits one of the men obstructing his ambulance. Max's strike has far-reaching, unintended consequences. |
| Winky's Horse | 2,005 | Mischa Kamp | Family | 6.6 | 26 | Dutch | Netherlands | There 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? |
| Little Blond Death | 1,993 | Jean van de Velde | Drama | 6.6 | 23 | Dutch | Netherlands | The poet Valentijn Boecke meets his former teacher Mieke. They have a short relation. After a while Mieke appears to be pregnant. Valentijn is thro... |
| Time of My Life | 2,012 | Nic Balthazar | Drama | 6.6 | 20 | Dutch | Belgium | Based on a true story, 'Tot altijd' introduces us to a band of friends in the eighties, who spend their days enjoying their youth and turbulent (lo... |
| The Pointsman | 1,986 | Jos Stelling | Drama | 6.6 | 20 | Dutch | Netherlands | A woman gets off a train by mistake and finds herself stranded alone with a peculiar man who doesn't even speak her language. |
| Monkey Business | 2,015 | Johan Nijenhuis | Family | 6.6 | 18 | Dutch | Netherlands | In an orphanage around the year 1900, the principal of an orphanage tries to earn some money by selling the orphans for child labour. The moment we step in the story one of the orphans, Wim, is about to be sold to a brutal man. The man wants Wim to go to the market with a little monkey to pickpocket people. By the time they get to the market, Wim succeeds in escaping with the monkey by hiding in an old canalboat with the help of Jet, a girl who lives at the countryside. When they arrive at the farm where Jet lives, he meets Jets little sister Sien and her friend Ot, two little children who will take care of Wim and the monkey for the next weeks. When the brutal man finally finds out the hiding place of Wim, a true chase follows and Wim is locked up in the orphanage again. But then Jet’s father, a schoolteacher, interferes…. A story for the whole family about the start of the compulsory school attendance in 3D! |
| The Intruder | 2,005 | Frank van Mechelen | Horror, Thriller, Mystery | 6.6 | 17 | Dutch | Belgium | Tom Vansant is an emergency physician from Brussels who is desperately searching for his daughter who ran away from home and is now missing for eighteen months. He meets a girl of whom he thinks that she knows what happened to his daughter but the girl doesn't want to talk about her past. In his search to find out why she doesn't talk about it he ends up in a small village in the Ardennes where no one wants to help him discover what really happened. |
| (Otto) | 2,015 | Joris Oprins | Animation | 6.6 | 16 | Dutch | Netherlands | A little girl accidentally leaves her imaginary baby brother behind at a restaurant — and suddenly, for a nearby childless couple, the definition of "baby" takes on a new and completely unexpected dimension. |
| Brother | 2,016 | Geoffrey Enthoven | Thriller, Drama | 6.6 | 14 | Dutch | Unknown | The extravagantly rich Grace wants to revive a 20-year old love affair. Mark travels to Ireland, together with pushy Ronnie and pretends to be his deceased brother Michel. |
| The Good Hope | 1,986 | Guido Pieters | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 14 | Dutch | Netherlands | Young Barend is worried about the safety of the sailing vessel he is on. The owner is an unscrupulous and stingy man who skimps on repairs and Barend becomes aware of this. Inevitably there is drama and tragedy. The film is set in an early 20th century Dutch fishing village with local period costume and colour. |
| The Girl with the Red Hair | 1,981 | Ben Verbong | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 | 14 | Dutch | Netherlands | During the second world war law student Hannie Schaft is a member of the Dutch resistance movement. |
| An Act of Defiance | 2,017 | Jean van de Velde | Drama | 6.6 | 13 | Dutch | South Africa | Apartheid is rampant in South Africa, 1963. When ten men are arrested on a farm in Rivonia for conspiring to commit sabotage and violent acts against the repressive S. African government, tenacious lawyer Bram Fisher steps up to the challenge as lead counsel. He soon finds that political leader Nelson Mandela is also on trial. Mandela urges his fellow defendants to plead not guilty and shine light on the systemic corruption against the African people. As the outcome of the trial looks bleak, Mandela gives his famous "I'm Prepared to Die" speech, discussing how the ANC's resistance is justified. But will Mandela's impassioned speech save these men's lives? |
| Silverstar | 2,021 | Diede in 't Veld | Family, Drama | 6.6 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | Several years after her win with Whitestar, Megan (Britt Dekker) runs her own equestrian center. When Whitestar's son, the young horse Silverstar, gallops into the woods in a barn fire, he is found by 16-year-old Esmee. The two have a special bond. After the fire, horse dealer Carina offers to help Megan, but can she be trusted? Esmee finds out that strange things are happening, but nobody wants to listen to her. To save Silverstar, she sees no option but to run with the horse. Together, Esmee and Silverstar must survive in nature. |
| K3: Love Cruise | 2,017 | Frederik Sonck | Family, Music | 6.6 | 10 | Dutch | Belgium | K3 is special guest on a cruise ship. They have to perform on the ball, and expectations are high. But during the cruise a lot goes wrong. Especially because of all the sabotage from Elvin the Pearl Elf. Of course Hanne, Klaasje and Marthe will be singing many new songs. |
| Amsterdam Global Village | 1,996 | Johan van der Keuken | Documentary | 6.6 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | "I am far away on a distant journey through my own city", filmmaker Johan van der Keuken says at the end of his four-hour portrait of Amsterdam. The city is presented as a place where people from all corners of the world live, who all exert their cultural influence on the life in the city. With a motor courier as his central figure, the filmmaker introduces the audience to birds of different feathers. We see diverse cultural expressions, like the house scene, the entry of St. Nicholas and a Ghanese mourning ritual. The binding factor in the film is the concept of 'travelling', in other words Amsterdam as a global village. The camera travels through the film in three ways: over land, over water (canals) and through the air. |
| Borgman | 2,013 | Alex van Warmerdam | Thriller, Drama | 6.5 | 346 | Dutch | Netherlands | An enigmatic vagrant cons himself into the home life of an arrogant upper-class family, turning their lives into a psychological nightmare in the process. |
| Riphagen the Untouchable | 2,016 | Pieter Kuijpers | Drama, History, Thriller | 6.5 | 178 | Dutch | Netherlands | Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal talents at the service of the Nazi occupiers. But the long battle is about to end and the freedom fighters, who have been persecuted and murdered for years, are abandoning their hideouts to mercilessly hunt down those who have collaborated with the killers. |
| Forever Rich | 2,021 | Shady El-Hamus | Crime, Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 123 | Dutch | Netherlands | This is the story of Richie and his journey to become the greatest rap-artist in the Netherlands. One evening he is violently mugged by a group of teenagers and loses his most prized possession: an expensive watch. When images of the humiliating robbery go viral, Richie's hard-earned reputation is damaged. |
| Hart Beat | 2,016 | Hans Somers | Family, Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 93 | Dutch | Netherlands | Making music means everything for the shy Zoë. But since her father left, she never played guitar again. When she is hit by the bus from Mik, super... |
| The Claus Family 2 | 2,021 | Ruben Vandenborre | Family, Comedy, Fantasy | 6.5 | 78 | Dutch | Belgium | Jules Claus has embraced Christmas again and is getting ready for the busiest time of the year together with grandpa Noël. Everything seems to go a... |
| Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle | 2,017 | Mike van Diem | Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 59 | Dutch | Canada | After losing his farm during the floods of 1953, a romantic Dutch farmer is tired of getting his socks wet. He cycles to Italy and decides to grow tulips in the sweltering heat of Puglia. |
| Sonny Boy | 2,011 | Maria Peters | Drama, Romance, War | 6.5 | 53 | Dutch | Netherlands | 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. |
| Ciske the Rat | 1,984 | Guido Pieters | Drama | 6.5 | 51 | Dutch | Netherlands | Lovable 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. |
| A Noble Intention | 2,015 | Joram Lürsen | Drama | 6.5 | 46 | Dutch | Belgium | 1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States. Committed - or is it pride? - the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences. |
| Hardcore Never Dies | 2,023 | Jim Taihuttu | Crime, Music, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 | 43 | Dutch | Netherlands | 17-year-old Michael dreams of a future as a pianist, but his music education is not going smoothly. In his search for inspiration, he receives help from an unexpected source: his brother Danny introduces him to the emerging Rotterdam “gabber” music scene. Michael is drawn into a world of hard beats, brotherhood and drugs. When Danny's drug business reaches international proportions, the brothers must fight for their lives. |
| Mister Twister: Class of Fun | 2,012 | Barbara Bredero | Comedy, Family | 6.5 | 43 | Dutch | Netherlands | Casey is a student teacher who gets his very first placement in class 5b. He is not sure how to teach yet, but thankfully the children are more than willing to help him. |
| Harpy | 1,979 | Raoul Servais | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 6.5 | 41 | Dutch | Belgium | An unknowing man rescues a rather aggressive and demanding harpy. |
| Rabat | 2,011 | Jim Taihuttu | Drama | 6.5 | 24 | Dutch | Netherlands | Three friends drive from Holland to Morocco to deliver a taxi to a family friend, but the trip turns out more complicated than expected. |
| Tangier | 2,006 | Frank van Mechelen | Thriller, Drama | 6.5 | 21 | Dutch | Belgium | In August 1996, bus drivers Marcel Van Loock and Wim Moreels are apprehended by the Moroccan Customs for drug trafficking. Inside their bus, hidden behind a false compartment, they have discovered 700 pounds of hashish. Although the owner of the bus company is arrested as well and makes a full confession clearly indicating that both drivers were unaware of the hidden drugs, the Moroccan judge sentences both men to 5 years in the Moroccan prison of Tangiers. Nothing could have prepared the two men for life inside a Moroccan prison. Without food, clothes or medical care, they must learn how to take care of themselves to survive their stay in prison. Corrupt guards, corrupt lawyers and judges, a consul who doesn't care and frequent beatings are only part of the terrible prison. Meanwhile their families at home are left without any information, any help or any hope - finding out that their own government doesn't care for Belgian people in prisons abroad. |
| Gridlock | 2,001 | Dirk Beliën | Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 19 | Dutch | Unknown | On a cold winter evening a young manager gets stuck in traffic on his way home from work. He takes his brand new mobile to call his wife, not knowing that by doing so he is about to cause irreparable damage. |
| Off Screen | 2,005 | Pieter Kuijpers | Fantasy, Crime, Thriller | 6.5 | 18 | Dutch | Belgium | March 11th, 2002. John R. takes the head of security and 17 others hostage in Amsterdam biggest skyscraper. John R. demands to speak with the Philips head of Sound&Vision. His goal is to warn people about a large-scale fraud, aimed at brainwashing consumers by means of widescreen TV sets. In the film, we find out about John's preliminary frustrations, his bizarre encounter with Philips head of Sound&Vision Gerard Wesselinck, their impossible friendship, rivalry and John's armed attempt to force the executive to do penance in public. |
| Sevilla | 2,012 | Bram Schouw | Drama, Adventure | 6.5 | 17 | Dutch | Netherlands | Three youngsters take a road trip to Seville that will change their lives forever. |
| Philips-Radio | 1,931 | Joris Ivens | Documentary | 6.5 | 16 | Dutch | Netherlands | A poetic industrial short that follows a radio from molten glass to finished set: glassblowers shape valves, conveyors and assembly lines build chassis, cabinets, and speakers, engineers test and prototype—ending on a playful stop-motion “dance” of loudspeakers. |
| No. 10 | 2,021 | Alex van Warmerdam | Drama, Comedy, Thriller | 6.5 | 15 | Dutch | Belgium | A stubborn stage actor navigates single fatherhood, a strenuous theatre project, an adulterous love affair, and the confounding dreams awakened by a puzzling street encounter with a mysterious stranger. |
| Snowfever | 2,004 | Pim van Hoeve | Romance, Comedy | 6.5 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | A romantic comedy set around a group of Dutch youngsters in Tirol. |
| North Korea: A Day in the Life | 2,004 | Pieter Fleury | Documentary | 6.5 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | If the cityscapes and patriotic anthems of this film seem a far cry from the bleak landscape of Seoul Train, that's no accident. Dutch filmmaker Pieter Fleury, with the full permission and cooperation of the North Korean government, created this propaganda film that gives us a glimpse of a day in the life of one of the world's most enigmatic societies. A Day in the Life, largely dictated by the North Korean film bureau, follows a typical North Korean family through their daily duties, largely dedicated to the pride in the North Korean nation of comrades and the glory of General Kim Jong Il. The film is meant to extol the success of modern North Korea. But does it? With straight footage and a total absence of narration, viewers may interpret Fleury's film in a slightly different manner than intended |
| Find This Dumb Little Bitch and Throw Her Into a River | 2,017 | Ben Brand | Drama | 6.5 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | Remco (15), his father and his younger sister Lizzy (13) sell illegally imported puppies from their home. In order to be seen and liked by his friends, Remco naively puts a video of his younger sister online, with unthinkable and disastrous consequences. |
| Vox Populi | 2,008 | Eddy Terstall | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | Vox Populi is a black comedy about an experienced politician suffering from a midlife crisis. When he comes into contact with the common-man's logic of his new in-laws, this has a far-reaching effect on both his political and his personal life. |
| Loonies II | 2,014 | Johan Timmers | Family, Comedy | 6.5 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Nursing home Zonnedael has been shut down by director Bomhoff: the psychiatric in-patients Bep Brul, the Major, Fats, Ms. De Haas and Dr. Doolittle are reintroduced into society against their wishes. Nurse Ten Hoeven, who always cared for her patients with love and care, is grieving: her main purpose in life has gone. To make matters worse, she is kidnapped. Of course the patients take action immediately. Under the Major’s guidance they embark on a risky and lunatic venture, to finally discover the incredible truth behind the kidnapping. |
| House of Anubis: The Return of Sibuna | 2,010 | Dennis Bots | TV Movie, Adventure, Mystery | 6.5 | 10 | Dutch | Belgium | Nienke is studying medicine and working at the hospital when Appie is suddenly brought into the emergency room. She discovers that he has been cursed by a Germanic Order. There is only one way to help him and that is to get The Club of the Old Willow back together. It will be a race against time to save Appie, but even more a battle for the old friendship. Can the lure of adventure bring The Club back together? Can the old residents put aside their own differences and disputes? |
| Bluebird | 2,004 | Mijke de Jong | Drama | 6.5 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Merel is a young girl with a lot of talent. She excels at school, is good on the springboard and is careful too. Her severely handicapped brother Kasper gets a lot of attention. Merel also has talent for singing. It is no surprise that she is asked for the school musical. But maybe Merel is a bit too convinced of herself. When people perform solos, she likes to sing along loudly. This doesn't fall on good ground though. People start ignoring her and she is getting bullied. All of the sudden Merel's life isn't that easy anymore, it will be hard to keep herself together. |
| Admiral | 2,015 | Roel Reiné | Adventure, Drama, History | 6.4 | 194 | Dutch | Belgium | When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michael de Ruyter, can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet. |
| Torpedo: U-235 | 2,019 | Sven Huybrechts | Action, War, Adventure | 6.4 | 173 | Dutch | Belgium | World War II: Resistance fighters accept a suicide mission to deliver a stolen Nazi submarine carrying atomic uranium. Hunted by Hitler’s army, the crew must outwit the German Navy to bring the cargo safely to America. |
| Pirates Down the Street II: The Ninjas from Across | 2,022 | Pim van Hoeve | Family, Action, Adventure | 6.4 | 171 | Dutch | Netherlands | The pirates feel right at home in Sandborough, but the atmosphere cools right down when the ninjas come to live in the street. After all, pirates a... |
| Ritual | 2,022 | Hans Herbots | Thriller, Crime | 6.4 | 84 | Dutch | Belgium | The discovery of a chopped-off hand in a Brussels canal forces Belgian police diver Kiki to face deep guilt from the past, her own and her country’s. Based on the book ‘Ritual’ by Mo Hayder. |
| Misfit | 2,017 | Erwin van den Eshof | Comedy | 6.4 | 60 | Dutch | Netherlands | Moving back to her native Netherlands after years of living in the United States, a teenage girl navigates the intricacies of Dutch high school life. |
| Storm: Letter of Fire | 2,017 | Dennis Bots | Adventure, Family, History | 6.4 | 59 | Dutch | Belgium | The film is set in 1521 Antwerp, in a Europe ravaged by religious wars, and during the early years of the Reformation. It tells the story of the twelve year old, Falko Voeten – a printer’s son. When Falko’s father, Klaas Voeten, a printer of forbidden literature, is caught by the Inquisition for printing a letter written by Maarten Luther; Falko is unwittingly propelled into helping his father and into searching for the letter. Threatened by the Inquisition but aided by Marieke, a Catholic orphan girl from the underground sewers, Falko is faced with a race against time if he is to save his father from being executed for heresy. |
| Katie Tippel | 1,975 | Paul Verhoeven | Drama, History | 6.4 | 53 | Dutch | Netherlands | In the late 19th-century, the Tippel family moves to rural Stavoren in search of greener pastures. However, their dreams are quickly shattered, as teenage Katie is terrorized by a male-dominated society who only see her as an object. Her situation worsens when, following her father's sacking and her elder sister's descent into alcoholism, her mother decides that, rather than starving, Katie becomes a prostitute. |
| Dossier K. | 2,009 | Jan Verheyen | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 | 49 | Dutch | Belgium | Vincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division. |
| Crypto Boy | 2,023 | Shady El-Hamus | Drama | 6.4 | 42 | Dutch | Netherlands | Following a dispute with his father, a young man falls prey to cryptocurrency's allure and an entrepreneur's audacious promises of financial freedom. |
| Malpertuis | 1,972 | Harry Kümel | Drama, Horror, Fantasy | 6.4 | 41 | Dutch | Belgium | A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret. |
| Koko Flanel | 1,990 | Stijn Coninx | Comedy, Romance | 6.4 | 33 | Dutch | Belgium | Placide's dad tells him on his deathbed he'll haunt Placide if he doesn't find a wife soon. Placide cautiously agrees, but he only wants to settle for a very beautiful woman. That might be easier said than done, since he is a vagabond. When he accidentally enters a photo shoot, Placide meets Sarah. He falls in love, but she is way out of his reach. |
| Boys Will Be Boys | 2,016 | Johan Nijenhuis | Comedy | 6.4 | 31 | Dutch | Netherlands | Five down-on-their-luck construction workers form a male striptease act. |
| The Club of Ugly Children | 2,019 | Jonathan Elbers | TV Movie, Action, Adventure, Family, Science Fiction | 6.4 | 30 | Dutch | Netherlands | “Keep it clean!” – The new president is serious about that, including looks. When Paul, whose large jug ears are quite apparent on class photo day, and some of the other “ugly” kids are taken on a surprise trip, they realize that the president wants to hide them away. On the run, Paul is helped by Sara, one of the “pretty” kids. They start an underground club to fight against the president. The movement soon turns into a revolution. The kids show the world that even children can rise up – and that you don’t have to be “pretty” to be a hero! |
| The Paradise Suite | 2,015 | Joost van Ginkel | Drama | 6.4 | 28 | Dutch | Netherlands | The lives of six people, who seem to have nothing more in common than their faraway homelands, become inextricably linked in Amsterdam, the city they have chosen as their new home. |
| Finn | 2,013 | Frans Weisz | Family | 6.4 | 19 | Dutch | Netherlands | Nine year old Finn lives with his father in a small town. Together with his best friend Erik he plays football, but he prefers to play music. His dad wants him to play football, just like every other kid his age. Finn does not understand why, but his father doesn't want to talk about it. When Finn meets a mysterious old man, who plays the violin beautifully, he decides to learn how to play the violin as well. The old man teaches him, while Finn's dad thinks he is playing football... Is Finn the only one who sees the magic of music? What does his father hide? |
| My Giraffe | 2,017 | Barbara Bredero | Drama, Family | 6.4 | 17 | Dutch | Belgium | Dikkertje Dap was born on the same day as Raf the giraffe. Dikkertje can often be found at the zoo, because Raf is his best friend. They are inseparable, until Dikkertje goes to school for the first time and finds out giraffes can’t go to school. Dikkertje dearly misses Raf, but also experiences exciting new things. He even makes a new friend: Yous. Raf misses Dikkertje too. So Dikkertje devises a plan to bring the giraffe to school and introduce his two friends to each other. |
| Memory Lane | 2,024 | Jelle de Jonge | Drama, Comedy | 6.4 | 16 | Dutch | Belgium | Jaap and Maartje have been together almost 50 years. Grumpy old Jaap is no longer terribly interested in doing much, but Maartje, despite her occasional confusion, is still keen to embrace everything life has to offer. When the couple receive a letter from an old holiday friend, Maartje manages to convince her reluctant husband to visit him in Southern Europe. After many years, the pair get into their old car to embark once more on a journey through a completely changed Europe - bickering all the way, but also uncovering one memory after another. During their trip, Jaap reaches the painful conclusion that his wife is showing increasing signs of dementia. Realising that everything is about to change, they rediscover just what it is they love about each other. |
| The Chapel | 2,023 | Dominique Deruddere | Drama, Thriller, Music | 6.4 | 16 | Dutch | Belgium | Twenty three year old virtuoso pianist Jennifer Rogiers has been living with a terrible secret most of her life. When she enters the world famous Queen Elisabeth competition the memory of a traumatic childhood experience surfaces again. |
| K3: Rascals | 2,012 | Bart van Leemputten | Family, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure, Music | 6.4 | 15 | Dutch | Belgium | Karen, Kristel and Josje are going insane, because their three nieces are staying with them for the weekend, but they turned out to be brats without any manners. In the cloud world where the angels live, there is a 'Rascal' department where Chief Angel Manuel makes 'Rascal Angels' of children who behave like brats on earth. The children who become 'Rascal Angels' must be good for 24 hours on earth and are not allowed to violate the Angel Book. If they do make a mistake, they are punished in a very special way. Chief Angel Manuel orders his new, but very clumsy assistant Tuur to pick up the three nieces of K3, but accidentally makes a mistake and takes Karen, Kristel and Josje with him. The start of a magical adventure.. |
| A Kiss at Midnight | 2,008 | Bradford May | Romance, Family, TV Movie | 6.4 | 12 | Dutch | Unknown | They say the cobbler's children go barefoot, but must the matchmaker's children go motherless? After their widower father moves to a new town and sets up a computerized matchmaking business, two girls set out to find a stepmother. They create a dating application in the company computer for him. Then they cull through all new women applicants to hand pick the perfect woman for him and force the computer to match them. They don't know the woman they picked is the proprietor of the old-fashioned matchmaking service in town who is planning to prove the computer matching is incompetent. |
| Flemish Heaven | 2,016 | Peter Monsaert | Drama | 6.4 | 11 | Dutch | Belgium | A look at the lives of three generations of women. Monique and her daughter Sylvie run a brothel on the border of West Flanders and France. Eline, Sylvie's six-year-old daughter, is fascinated by the mysterious workplace of her mother and grandmother, but she is never allowed inside. A dramatic event turns their lives upside down and the family ties are put under pressure. |
| Toen was geluk heel gewoon: De film | 2,014 | Ineke Houtman | Comedy | 6.4 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | The Dutch football team has just released the heroic World Cup final lost to archrival West Germany. The whole country is in mourning and Jaap Kooijman throws out of sheer frustration the brand new TV out the window. This event is the prelude to an equally comical , exciting and touching family film. |
| Klem | 2,023 | Frank Ketelaar | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 6.4 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Marius and Kitty have been living in Italy for some time now, where they managed to get their hands on a vineyard in Tuscany. Marius has improved his life, so Hugo leaves in good spirits to drop off his daughter Suus with best friend Chrissie for a long-awaited reunion. But something is wrong with the purchase of the vineyard. |
| Yummy | 2,019 | Lars Damoiseaux | Horror, Comedy | 6.3 | 342 | Dutch | Belgium | A young couple travels to a shabby Eastern European hospital for plastic surgery. The young woman wants a breast reduction. Her mother comes along for yet another face-lift. Wandering through an abandoned ward the boyfriend stumbles upon a young woman, gagged and strapped to an operating table; she is the result of an experimental rejuvenation treatment. He frees her, but does not realize he just caused the outbreak of a virus that will change doctors, patients and his mother-in-law into bloodthirsty zombies. |
| New Kids Turbo | 2,010 | Steffen Haars | Action, Comedy | 6.3 | 326 | Dutch | Netherlands | Five friends from 'Maaskantje' are getting fired because of the economic crisis. They decide that they won't pay for anything anymore. |
| Obsession | 2,015 | Antoinette Beumer | Romance, Thriller | 6.3 | 227 | Dutch | Netherlands | Simone inherits a dilapidated farmhouse in France and makes her way there with her husband Eric and their two children. Her dream is to turn the house into a bed and breakfast but as the hectic pace of the rebuilding gets underway, she gets caught up in the romance and chaos of it all. Losing sight of her goals, she must find her way back to the dreams and ambitions which brought her there in the first place. |
| Redbad | 2,018 | Roel Reiné | Adventure, History, War, Drama | 6.3 | 215 | Dutch | Netherlands | In the year of 754 AD, during a time of epic battles and bloodshed, the legend of the pagan warrior king, Rebad, is born, but so is a new weapon against his people: Christianity. Redbad must ultimately unite a Viking army powerful enough to defeat the seemingly invincible Franks. |
| Just Say Yes | 2,021 | Appie Boudellah | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 | 209 | Dutch | Netherlands | Incurable romantic Lotte finds her life upended when her plans for a picture-perfect wedding unravel -- just as her self-absorbed sister gets engaged. |
| Amsterdamned | 1,988 | Dick Maas | Action, Horror, Thriller | 6.3 | 197 | Dutch | Netherlands | 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. |
| Flodder | 1,986 | Dick Maas | Comedy | 6.3 | 149 | Dutch | Netherlands | A low-class antisocial family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble. |
| Spetters | 1,980 | Paul Verhoeven | Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 117 | Dutch | Netherlands | Amateur dirt-bikers Rien and Hans–and their mechanic Eef–each fall in love with Fientje, a young woman who, with her brother Jaap, works a concession stand at the races. Everyone seeks a better life: Fientje wants out of the business and away from Jaap; and Rien and Hans aim to make their marks as pro racers, like their hero, Gerrit Witkamp. |
| Love Is All | 2,007 | Joram Lürsen | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 | 83 | Dutch | Netherlands | A romantic comedy told with a set of interwoven Christmas tales about life, love, forgiveness and caring. A heroic vagrant becomes a TV sensation Santa Claws, while a prince takes a menial job at a department store to woo his sweetheart. |
| Abel | 1,986 | Alex van Warmerdam | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 | 40 | Dutch | Netherlands | An extremely weird comedy revolving around the life of 31- year-old Abel, who has never left home (literally). After failing with doctors and psychiatrists, Abel's father Victor brings home Christine, a friend, in an attempt to teach Abel basic social skills. But Victor's wife Duif accuses him of having an affair, and in the ensuing row Abel is thrown out into the street. But help is at hand when he runs into kind-hearted stripper Zus - whose show Victor is obsessed with… |
| Silk Road | 2,017 | Mark de Cloe | Thriller, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 37 | Dutch | Netherlands | A psychological thriller inspired by the life of Michael S., a small-town boy from Holland, who becomes the world's most wanted cybercriminal. |
| The Skippers of the Cameleon | 2,003 | Steven de Jong | Family | 6.3 | 37 | Dutch | Netherlands | Two young boy twins receive a boat of their own by a stroke of luck. It turns out to be very fast and they use their boat to help out their friends. |
| Anna & Bella | 1,984 | Børge Ring | Animation | 6.3 | 34 | Dutch | Netherlands | Two sisters look back on their life together. |
| Heart Street | 2,014 | Sanne Vogel | Romance, Comedy | 6.3 | 31 | Dutch | Netherlands | Hartenstraat is set in the Nine Streets district of Amsterdam. It is a village in a big town and everyone seems to be looking for love. As the womanizer Bas, seniors Bep and Aart and the couple Rein and Jacob. The only one who is not looking for love is Daan. He lives here with his daughter Saar in Hartenstraat, where he has his own business as a caterer. Then Katje appears in his life. The pretty fashion designer opens a fashion boutique next door to Daan. When her catering unexpectedly cancels just before opening her shop Katje must appeal to Daan. That is asking for trouble since the two opposite each other in everything. Yet Katje also secretly has an eye on her neighbor, especially now that her current relationship with Thomas is not going strong. |
| 100% Coco | 2,017 | Tessa Schram | Family, Comedy | 6.3 | 29 | Dutch | France | 13 year old Coco loves fashion and has her own unique style. She dreams of becoming a famous fashion icon. But on her first day of school she is made fun of and everyone calls her 'Coco the Clown'. Devastated, she decides to leave her vintage dresses, panther boots and striped socks at home and to dress herself more unnoticeable. Her anonymously kept fashion vlog as Style Tiger is a huge hit however. Is there still a chance that she will become a style icon? And does Bruno, that quirky boy she knows from school and secretly likes, finally notice her? Slowly Coco learns that she just has to be 100% herself! |
| Yes Nurse! No Nurse! | 2,002 | Pieter Kramer | Comedy, Music | 6.3 | 24 | Dutch | Netherlands | In the guest-house of sister Klivia, the inhabitants are very cheerful and good-hearted persons whose open communal lifestyle is contrasted with the life of somewhat nasty and complaining neighbour Mr Boordevool. Boordevool has spent ages looking for reasons to shut the guest-house. One day a girl from the guest-house meets a nice young guy Gerrit. Sister Klivia lets Gerrit stay regardless of him being a thief. Will that give a chance to the insinuations of the neighbour? |
| Mister Twister on Stage | 2,014 | Barbara Bredero | Comedy, Family | 6.3 | 22 | Dutch | Netherlands | The big end-of-term play is approaching. Tobias is somewhat anxious, but with Mees Kees at the helm, everything should be just fine. The class look... |
| The Bridge | 1,928 | Joris Ivens | Documentary | 6.3 | 22 | Dutch | Netherlands | The Hefbrug may not be a remarkably beautiful bridge, but through a mix of close-ups, long shots, bird’s eye views and low angles, Joris Ivens conveys a sense of the bridge’s structure, its intricate mechanisms and ways of operating, the way it fits into the overall transport infrastructure and therefore the immense importance of this bridge for the whole city of Rotterdam. |
| Project Gio | 2,019 | Bas van Teylingen | Comedy | 6.3 | 21 | Dutch | Netherlands | When Youtuber Gio's parents go on holiday, a party in their brand new home gets completely out of control and half the house burns down. Gio has two weeks to repair the house while he continues to upload videos as if nothing is wrong. |
| Turn It Around | 2,017 | Niels Bourgonje | Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 19 | Dutch | Netherlands | When the fifteen year old Bram meets Florian at a house party, he immediately falls for him. There's only one problem: nobody knows Bram is gay. |
| City Paradise | 2,004 | Gaëlle Denis | Adventure, Animation | 6.3 | 19 | Dutch | United Kingdom | A young Japanese woman moves to a new city where she doesn't speak the language. Intimidated by her new home, she seeks out common bonds with people who share her love of diving, but ultimately jumps into a unexpected dream-like experience that opens her eyes to a whole new world. |
| The Secret Letter | 2,010 | Simone van Dusseldorp | Drama, Family | 6.3 | 17 | Dutch | Netherlands | Eleven-year-old Eva is upset by the many rows between her parents and decides to run away. She wants to hide at her best friends Jackie and Thomas’ house, but circumstances bring her to her mysterious neighbour’s garden. She finds a secret letter there, which tells her the man is a king pin in a criminal organisation. And he is not exactly happy with Eva’s unannounced visit. To convince her of the importance of secrecy, he reveals that Eva’s dad is also involved in his illegal affairs. Eva hesitates: is her father who he claims to be? From that moment on, the enterprising girl does her utmost to exonerate her father from being involved. A period dawns in which Eva discovers that grownups also lead their own lives. She wants to ask questions, but at the same time she is afraid of the answers. |
| Mocro Mafia: Tatta | 2,023 | Joeri Holsheimer | Action, Crime | 6.3 | 16 | Dutch | Netherlands | The film, a spin-off of the Mocro Maffia series, is about the character Tatta, played by Robert de Hoog. |
| Like Two Drops of Water | 1,963 | Fons Rademakers | Drama, War | 6.3 | 15 | Dutch | Netherlands | The fainthearted cigar trader Ducker keeps himself quiet during World War II. That changes when parachutist Dorbeck lands in his backyard. It turns out the parachutist bears a remarkable resemblance to Ducker. Ducker follows Dorbeck blindly, becomes involved in the Dutch resistance and soon starts killing people. When he escapes through German lines to the freed South Netherlands, no one has ever heard of Dorbeck. |
| Rafaël | 2,018 | Ben Sombogaart | Drama | 6.3 | 14 | Dutch | Belgium | A romantic drama about a Tunisian man and a Dutch woman who get separated from each other. |
| Café Derby | 2,015 | Lenny Van Wesemael | Drama | 6.3 | 13 | Dutch | Belgium | 1985. Georges is a born market vendor. As a driven salesman he sells anything, anytime, to anyone. When he hears that the Pope is coming to Belgium... |
| Confetti Harvest | 2,014 | Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab | Drama | 6.3 | 13 | Dutch | Belgium | The young Katelijne grows up in a strict Protestant peasant family. As the only girl between six brothers, she is hardly involved in farm work and is excluded from daily conversations. Hereby she lets her imagination run free by surrendering to Biblical stories, gossip and even fairy tales, although she is not allowed to read them. During her brother's wedding, however, she overwhelms her family with literature, saying goodbye to her childhood. |
| Bennie Brat | 2,011 | Johan Nijenhuis | Family | 6.3 | 13 | Dutch | Netherlands | Fisherman’s son Benjamin - Bennie - Stout is a boy with a heart of gold who always gets himself into trouble. His St. Nicholas wish list includes a pedal car, just like the one the sneaky mayor’s son Roderick has. These are the depression years in the 1930s and because the haul falls short, his father stays in Spain a little longer to earn some extra money. Bennie now only has one wish left: that his father will come home. If need be, he will go and get him from Spain himself. He catches Roderick erasing his name from the Bad Children list in St. Nicholas’ Great Book when an idea occurs to him. He quickly adds his name to the list, which lands him a place in St. Nicholas’ bag. But the saint does not understand that Bennie doesn’t mind going to Spain. |
| The Magicians | 2,010 | Joram Lürsen | Family, Comedy, Fantasy | 6.3 | 13 | Dutch | Netherlands | Little Ben, a great admirer of an illusionist, dreams of making magic, and convinces her father to have his own show. The downside is that the pare... |
| Loft | 2,010 | Antoinette Beumer | Thriller | 6.2 | 103 | Dutch | Netherlands | Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment. In this loft they meet their mistresses and conquests. Everything seems perfect, until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. The group of friends begin to suspect each other and it soon becomes clear that they know far less about each other than they had initially thought. |
| Anne+: The Film | 2,021 | Valerie Bisscheroux | Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 68 | Dutch | Netherlands | Just before Anne is moving from Amsterdam to live with her great love Sara in Montreal, her publisher criticizes the manuscript for her first novel. What exactly is the story she's trying to tell? Does she even have something to say at all? Anne is forced to search for what she wants in life, because it is not only the main character in her novel who seems to be a little lost. |
| The Gang of Oss | 2,011 | André van Duren | Drama, Crime | 6.2 | 48 | Dutch | Netherlands | 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. |
| Life as It Should Be | 2,020 | Ruud Schuurman | Drama, Comedy | 6.2 | 30 | Dutch | Netherlands | Immediately after the birth of their first child, Iris' friend Pieter confesses that he never wanted this child, has been having an affair for a year and will soon be leaving for Africa with his new love. |
| F.C. De Kampioenen: Kampioen zijn blijft plezant | 2,013 | Eric Wirix | Comedy | 6.2 | 30 | Dutch | Unknown | De Kampioenen travel to France to play a friendly soccer match against the team of one of Boma's business partners. What had to become a nice holiday, ends up totally different than De Kampioenen expected. |
| It's All So Quiet | 2,013 | Nanouk Leopold | Drama | 6.2 | 30 | Dutch | Netherlands | The story of a farmer who realizes that his life has been influenced to an unhealthy extent by his aging father. |
| How to Avoid Everything | 2,014 | Michiel ten Horn | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 6.2 | 29 | Dutch | Netherlands | A 30-something slacker finds his carefree life turned upside down when he falls for his sister's teenage babysitter. |
| Mister Twister Goes Camping | 2,013 | Barbara Bredero | Comedy, Family | 6.2 | 29 | Dutch | Netherlands | Class 6b is going camping, led by Mees Kees and Principal Dreus. But after Dreus strains her back all responsibility suddenly rests on the shoulders of Kees. When things go wrong, he begins to doubt himself. But he soon learns that it is not about making mistakes, but about how to solve them. |
| XTC Just Don't Do It | 2,006 | Maria Peters | Family, Drama, Crime | 6.2 | 27 | Dutch | Netherlands | Melissa is a 15-year-old girl who loves to dance. Her parents think she is taking classes in classical ballet, but once at the dance school she devotes herself to the hip-hop dance classes. Melissa is good friends with Jordi and he is very happy for Melissa when she is asked to dance in the music video of the famous rapper Brainpower. But because of bad influences, her life becomes a nightmare. Until her real friends decide to get her out of there. |
| Oxygen | 2,010 | Hans Van Nuffel | Drama | 6.2 | 26 | Dutch | Belgium | Two young man share an incurable illness. Is their love for the women in their lives strong enough to conquer their fear of dying? |
| The Fury | 2,016 | André van Duren | Drama | 6.2 | 25 | Dutch | Netherlands | Albert has always looked up to his aunt Tiny: this beautiful woman from Brabant can make any man’s heart skip a beat. Through Albert’s eyes Tiny’s life seems quite exciting. But why is she so furious at everyone and everything? It takes him half a lifetime to discover that his beloved aunt’s existence is a lot more complex than he had ever thought. |
| Little Crumb | 1,999 | Maria Peters | Drama | 6.2 | 25 | Dutch | Netherlands | The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb. His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien filled with shame was forced to turn him over to Mrs. Koster soon after he was born. Foster mother Mrs. Koster, who has cared for him since he was a baby, is very poor too, unable to support him by herself and proves to be a cruel taskmaster who insists Crumb bring her money before shell feed him. Somehow he must earn his keep out on the streets and can only go home after he has earned enough money. Crumb becomes an urchin stealing from the streets barrows and the shops to stay alive, sleeping in churches or huddled in doorways. Sometimes he has to run off from the police and he has earned the enmity of the most grownups around him. |
| Mirror of Holland | 1,950 | Bert Haanstra | Documentary | 6.2 | 24 | Dutch | Netherlands | In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwards put the images ‘up right’ again in the film. By doing this, we see the ‘usual’ waterfront, but transformed by the rippling of the water. In this way Mirror of Holland became a modern looking experimental film. However this did not devalue the Dutch sentiment regarding waterfronts that are so trusted to so many. |
| Offline | 2,012 | Peter Monsaert | Drama | 6.2 | 20 | Dutch | Belgium | A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything. |
| With Friends Like These | 2,007 | Felix van Groeningen | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 20 | Dutch | Belgium | When Black Kelly gets back from New York, she discovers that more has changed than just her hair color while she's been away. Frederic found himsel... |
| The Penknife | 1,992 | Ben Sombogaart | Family, Comedy, Adventure, Drama | 6.2 | 19 | Dutch | Netherlands | Accidentally still in possession of his best friend's pocket knife after they move all the way to a different city, a young boy sets out to return it. |
| Cloaca | 2,003 | Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 18 | Dutch | Netherlands | Four old college friends in their forties come together in a time of trouble and despair. Old joy relives, but the harsh reality of their problems can't satisfy them and eventually endangers their friendships. |
| Adios Amigos | 2,016 | Albert Jan van Rees | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 17 | Dutch | Netherlands | Three young guys with disabilities want to go on a party holiday in Salou, just as their friends do. Only their parents block this idea. But then a caretaker, found on the internet, makes the dream possible. Adios Amigos is a remake of the Belgium movie Hasta La Vista. |
| Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company | 1,976 | Fons Rademakers | Drama, History | 6.2 | 17 | Dutch | Indonesia | An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is cohvinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people he is in charge of, but circumstances soon make him realize just how out of touch he really is, and it doesn't take long for things to go from bad to worse. |
| Heresy | 2,024 | Didier Konings | Drama, Horror, Mystery, TV Movie | 6.2 | 15 | Dutch | Netherlands | In a medieval Dutch village, a young woman is caught between her faith, fanatic townsfolk and the dark forces lurking in the woods. |
| Crimi Clowns: De Movie | 2,013 | Luk Wyns | Drama, Comedy, Crime | 6.2 | 14 | Dutch | Belgium | Not so long ago, Ronny Tersago and his gang where at the top of the Flemish showbiz as Clown Norry and Co.. Their heyday are over. Nowadays they are working overtime at night as burglars. Ronny's son Wesley was kicked out of the Amsterdam film school, filming their passionate performances and crimes, their nocturnal excesses and turbulent private life. It seemed it was going downhillwith for the gang when suddenly they hit hte jackpot. And then the problems really start.. |
| Snuf De Hond In Oorlogstijd | 2,008 | Steven de Jong | Family, Adventure, War | 6.2 | 14 | Dutch | Netherlands | Adolescent Tom lost his parents and home in the Nazi bombing of Rotterdam. The orphan is taken in on uncle Tjerp's Friesian farm. Old farmhand Bauk... |
| Easter Eggs | 2,021 | Nicolas Keppens | Animation | 6.2 | 12 | Dutch | Belgium | The Chinese restaurant is empty. The cage full of exotic birds is wide open. Two friends, Jason and Kevin, see this as an opportunity to catch and sell them. But catching these animals isn’t as simple as it seems. |
| Cleo | 2,019 | Eva Cools | Drama | 6.2 | 12 | Dutch | Belgium | Six months after a car accident that cost her her parents, Cleo is finally starting to feel the same way before. She lives with her seven-year-old brother Bruno at her grandmother's house and is ready to return to her favorite activity – drinking parties with friends at Club No. 7. When she gets into a fight in a bar, she is given a helping hand by the reclusive Leos. Despite the ten-year age difference, they become friends, and Cleo naively hopes that there will be something more between them. |
| Allez, Eddy | 2,012 | Gert Embrechts | Comedy, Drama, Family | 6.2 | 12 | Dutch | Belgium | When the village’s first supermarket opens its doors in 1975, Freddy’s isolated life is turned upside down. To celebrate its opening, the supermarket organises a bicycle race of which the winner will get to meet Eddy Merckx. Freddy’s father, a fervent opponent of the supermarket, wants nothing to do with the race. Freddy enters secretly. |
| Hartenstrijd | 2,016 | Janice Pierre | Comedy, Romance, TV Movie | 6.2 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | After being disappointed in love for the umpteenth time, motorcycle rider Tina is full. From now on she will no longer commit to a man and only date sex. For the emotional part she has her best friend Fleurtje, the most intimidating kindergarten teacher in the Netherlands. |
| Assepoester: Een Modern Sprookje | 2,014 | Will Koopman | Fantasy, Drama, Family | 6.2 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | Dutch modern re-telling of the famous fairytale Cinderella. |
| Line of Fire | 2,023 | Roel Reiné | Drama | 6.2 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | The story of Dutch commando Marco Kroon, who, after becoming the first recipient of his country's highest military award in over five decades, finds himself in the crosshairs of the law for alleged drugs and weapons violations. |
| Snuf de Hond en de Jacht op de Vliegende Volckert | 2,008 | Steven de Jong | Adventure, Family | 6.2 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Bouke tells Tom and Mirjam about the legend of "Flying Volckert" who used to harass everyone in the village in the past. Together with their dog Snuf, Tom and Mirjam decide to investigate the story. Near the swamp they encounter gamekeeper Grevendonk who's caught in a bear trap and swears it was Flying Volckert. When inexplicable things start happening in the village, the village people decide to take matters into their own hands and together with the local police they start looking in the swamp. |
| Bonkers | 2,005 | Martin Koolhoven | Drama, Family, Comedy | 6.2 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Bonnie, a nine-year-old single child, is part of a family of three living in the Netherlands. They have a love of elephants, passed on by Bonnie's grandfather's grandfather who worked on a game reserve in Africa, and Bonnie feels that she instinctively does things like an elephant as a result. Her single mother, Lis, is bi-polar and at times spends days on end without even getting out of bed. Then there are other times when she will manically do wild acts, such as impromptu dancing in public. As a result, Bonnie's sturdy and stable grandmother must hold the family together by doing all the cooking, etc. After her grandmother is killed by a car, Bonnie becomes the most responsible family member and struggles with preparing meals and getting her reluctant mother to take her medication. She also must dodge Jorien, a social worker who is attempting to place her in a foster home. |
| Tailgate | 2,019 | Lodewijk Crijns | Thriller, Horror | 6.1 | 253 | Dutch | Belgium | A cocksure, road-raging family man finds himself pursued and terrorized by the vengeful van driver he chooses to tailgate. |
| New Kids Nitro | 2,011 | Steffen Haars | Action, Comedy | 6.1 | 203 | Dutch | Netherlands | Gerrie, Richard, Rikkert, Robbie and Barry from Maaskantje are in a big fight with the village of Schijndel. When a zombie kills someone from Brabant, things get out of hand. |
| Bros Before Hos | 2,013 | Steffen Haars | Comedy | 6.1 | 117 | Dutch | Netherlands | Because of a bad marriage of their parents, two brothers Jules and Max made a pact never to get into a relationship with a woman. Therefore, they live a party-life in which they sleep with a different girl every day. However this changes when Jules starts to date Anna and Max falls in love with her. Can their bromance overcome this love triangle. |
| Captain Nova | 2,021 | Maurice Trouwborst | Adventure, Family, Science Fiction | 6.1 | 106 | Dutch | Netherlands | A fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes her seriously. |
| Schneider vs. Bax | 2,015 | Alex van Warmerdam | Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 | 89 | Dutch | Belgium | On his birthday, a hitman reluctantly takes on the easy task of killing a writer, only to find the job a lot more difficult than expected. |
| The Heineken Kidnapping | 2,011 | Maarten Treurniet | Thriller, Crime, Drama | 6.1 | 67 | Dutch | Netherlands | On a cold November day in 1983, beer magnate Alfred Heineken and his chauffeur Ab Doderer are abducted. What follows is the most infamous kidnapping case the Netherlands have ever known. |
| Kauwboy | 2,012 | Boudewijn Koole | Drama, Family | 6.1 | 54 | Dutch | Netherlands | A lively young boy befriends and attempts to raise an abandoned baby jackdaw unbeknownst to his choleric and disapproving father. |
| Family Way | 2,012 | Joram Lürsen | Comedy, Romance | 6.1 | 50 | Dutch | Netherlands | All the members of the De Roover family have ended up at a point of no return in their lives where crucial choices have to be made. Winnie wants a child. Her husband Rutmer wants to get in touch with his feelings. His brother Charlie doesn't want any responsibilities. Their brother-in-law Dick wants his deceased wife back. Head of the family Arend wants to be happy. Mother Jeannette wants somebody to want her. Written by Topkapi Films |
| Waiter | 2,006 | Alex van Warmerdam | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 46 | Dutch | Netherlands | Edgar works as a waiter in 'Het Westen', a restaurant. He is married and has a lover. His neighbors terrorize him with loud music and garbage. One day after he is mistreated by some customers he is sick of it all and goes to talk to his creator, the scenario writer. |
| Godforsaken! | 2,003 | Pieter Kuijpers | Thriller, Drama, Crime | 6.1 | 39 | Dutch | Netherlands | 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. |
| A Question of Silence | 1,982 | Marleen Gorris | Drama, Crime | 6.1 | 39 | Dutch | Netherlands | When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why. |
| The Price of Sugar | 2,013 | Jean van de Velde | Drama, History | 6.1 | 34 | Dutch | South Africa | A story about two half-sisters life in the eighteenth century Suriname. There is Lynda, a white colonial and slave owner, and her slave Mini-Mini's. While Lynda is slowly embittered by the hard life in the colony, Mini-Mini gets a chance at her own happiness. The question is, if she dares to seize that chance, as this happiness is at the expense of her mistress and half sister? |
| Amsterdam Vice | 2,019 | Arne Toonen | Crime, Action, Thriller, Drama | 6.1 | 33 | Dutch | Netherlands | A 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. |
| Kenau | 2,014 | Maarten Treurniet | Adventure, Action, History | 6.1 | 30 | Dutch | Netherlands | While she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter, because her fear and pain are covered by her stubborn closeness. |
| Image | 2,014 | Adil El Arbi | Thriller, Drama | 6.1 | 28 | Dutch | Belgium | Eva Hendrickx is an ambitious young journalist working on the team of television legend Herman Verbeeck. She's determined to bring a story about th... |
| Interview | 2,003 | Theo van Gogh | Drama | 6.1 | 28 | Dutch | Netherlands | A middle-aged journalist interviews the real-life Dutch star Katja Schuurman, in her own loft. Pierre, the journalist is annoyed at being given such a fluffy assignment, as he is normally a political correspondent. Initially he has no questions for Katja, but soon they are coaxing their darkest secrets out of each other. |
| Leak | 2,000 | Jean van de Velde | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 | 23 | Dutch | Netherlands | Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend turned gangster. The childhood friend turns informant. But his revelations are hardly the most important "leaks" in the story. In fact, the new relationship between old friends goes all wrong, and the young policeman becomes increasingly involved in a deadly web of lies, crimes, treason, and revenge, all seemingly out of control. |
| The Dress | 1,996 | Alex van Warmerdam | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 23 | Dutch | Netherlands | The story of a summer dress and those who have to do with it, especially the train conductor (played by van Warmerdam, the director). The dress functions as catalyst for the whimsical events, which turns out to be either tragic or hilarious. |
| Frits and Freddy | 2,010 | Guy Goossens | Comedy | 6.1 | 22 | Dutch | Belgium | Frits and Freddy Frateur are brothers who, after a confrontation with the white collar criminal Carlo Mus, kidnap his wife, Gina. The situation for the brothers goes from bad to worse as more and more people get involved, and all want a share of the ransom money. |
| Fight Girl | 2,018 | Johan Timmers | Drama | 6.1 | 21 | Dutch | Belgium | Twelve-year-old Bo is a talented but hot-tempered kick boxer. However, Bo is distracted by her fighting parents who are in the middle of a divorce. Bo needs to learn how to control her emotions and at the same time accept the fact she can't control everything. |
| 22nd of May | 2,010 | Koen Mortier | Fantasy, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 | 21 | Dutch | Belgium | Sam wakes up, gets ready and goes to do his daily job. And then the unexpected happens. A bomb explodes in the center of the shopping mall where he works. He drags himself towards the entrance to save the victims. One by one he pulls them out, until something terrible takes place. In complete hysteria he runs off till he falls down from exhaustion. A woman's voice makes him raise his head. She's one of the victims he saved. She wants to know why the suicide bomber did it. This encounter projects him back in history and even in a surreal world. Thereafter he runs into everyone he saved and feels that their defeat shows many parallels with his own. Even his confrontation with the wrongdoer isn't that straightforward as he thought it would be and confronts him with the fact that guilt and innocence can be pretty much alike. |
| The Tatta's | 2,022 | Jamel Aattache | Comedy | 6.1 | 19 | Dutch | Netherlands | A well-to-do white family struck by overnight financial ruin struggle to find their place in the urban, multicultural working-class neighborhood they are forced to move into. |
| Steve + Sky | 2,004 | Felix van Groeningen | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 6.1 | 18 | Dutch | Belgium | A story about two struggling people who are trying to find their own place in the world. He is a small-time crook recently released from prison and she is a prostitute craving some love and affection. They find each other in an obscure part of Gent. Jean-Claude is responsible for their meeting ; he is also an ex-inmate who has just traded the low-life crime scene for life as a pimp. Will their love survive? |
| Little Tony | 1,998 | Alex van Warmerdam | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 17 | Dutch | Netherlands | Married to an illiterate Dutch farmer, Keet yearns for a child. She sets matters on course by arranging for a smart city girl, Lena, to live in and teach the slow-witted Brand. She encourages the developing affair between them, accepting secondary status in the household when Lena has a child. But her plans to eliminate the competition demand decisive action from Brand. |
| The Lion of Flanders | 1,985 | Hugo Claus | History, Drama, War | 6.1 | 17 | Dutch | Belgium | A tale centered on the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the Flemish rank and file won a major victory over the glorious French knights. |
| The Sea That Thinks | 2,000 | Gert de Graaff | Comedy, Documentary | 6.1 | 16 | Dutch | Netherlands | Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along. |
| Sirene | 1,968 | Raoul Servais | Fantasy, Animation, Drama, Comedy | 6.1 | 15 | Dutch | Belgium | Monsterlike cranes reign over an inhospitable harbour as prehistorical reptiles. The only human being they accept is a lonesome fisherman. He is to witness a strange encounter between a ship's mate and a mermaid. Imagination or reality? |
| Wild Amsterdam | 2,018 | Mark Verkerk | Documentary | 6.1 | 14 | Dutch | Netherlands | The city from the unique perspective of the many wild animals and plants that inhabit it. Seen through the eyes of the adventurous urban cat, Abatutu. |
| Long Weekend | 2,005 | Hans Herbots | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 14 | Dutch | Belgium | Businessman Christian Vandenheuvel planned to spend the long weekend with his young mistress, Lisa. Instead, they're take hostage by Jos Diels and Nick, two of the 46 laborers who lost their job recently when Christian had his family film bankrupted. Each victim fails to escape, even the fire alarm doesn't get them freed. After Jos realizes the mistress is his only daughter, and Nick falls in love with Lisa, the masked men's mood evolves as they progress to truth time, when the police arrives. |
| Brothers | 2,017 | Bram Schouw | Drama | 6.1 | 13 | Dutch | Netherlands | When Alexander suddenly leaves on a road trip to France, Lukas decides to join him as he’s been trailing his charismatic brother for his entire life. But during this journey he discovers that he finally has to go his own way, not knowing this decision would be so all-encompassing. |
| Evenings | 1,989 | Rudolf van den Berg | Drama | 6.1 | 13 | Dutch | Netherlands | Frits Egters can't quite get a hold of himself. An intelligent and sensitive young man, repulsion and desillusion turned him cynical. According to Frits there should be more to life - he just doesn't know where to find it. |
| To Play or to Die | 1,990 | Frank Krom | Drama | 6.1 | 13 | Dutch | Netherlands | In this short motion picture, schoolboy Kees is intelligent, introvert and sensitive, but gets ridiculed verbally and physically at an all-boys school by mindlessly cocky class mates and even insensitive teachers, especially in gym, where his physical weakness is mercilessly abused to make him a defenceless laughing stock in front of his smirking peers. His awakening sexual interest goes to boys, and in particular to Charel, a beautiful athletic classmate who probably feels an undetermined interest but would never risk admitting (possibly not even to himself) having any gay or bi appreciation, least of all for a 'sissy', and thus remains unresponsive to shy Kees' overtures. When the hunk finally comes over to Kees' place while his parents are away, a desperate disappointment with a tragical twist is in the making… |
| Misfit 2 | 2,019 | Erwin van den Eshof | Comedy | 6.1 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | A talented singer and her singer-songwriter boyfriend get the chance to represent their school in the biggest music competition for students in which the grand prize is a record deal. But instead of fighting for a bright future together, they end up having to compete against one another. |
| The Chosen One | 2,006 | Theu Boermans | Drama | 6.1 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | The two brothers Van der Laan, of strict religion, have been running Holland's most successful software company for 10 years when suddenly their financial manager leaves the firm. The lives of the brothers and their families get turned upside down when they hire a young hot shot financial specialist, in order to pursue their goal to bring the company to the NASDAQ. |
| Puberty: Sexual Education For Boys and Girls | 1,991 | Ronald Deronge | Documentary | 6.1 | 12 | Dutch | Unknown | This sex education movie explore themes of body development, sexual hygiene, masturbation, menstruation, puberty, sex and giving birth. |
| Escapade | 2,014 | Gijs Blom | Drama | 6.1 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | Two boys with a troubled home situation decide to run away to Berlin. |
| Brasserie Romance | 2,012 | Joël Vanhoebrouck | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 11 | Dutch | Belgium | Manager Pascaline and chef Angelo have been, for several years, striving toward earning the coveted "chef's hat" in the Gault Millau restaurant guide. Tonight is Valentine's Day: one of the busiest nights of the year. Angelo provides an appropriate menu and Pascaline lovingly sets the tables. As always, Pascaline has everything under control. Her customers expect a lot tonight. For every couple that has won a table they expect to get love on their plate. Hopefully nothing goes wrong. |
| Jackie & Oopjen | 2,020 | Annemarie van de Mond | Comedy, Fantasy, Family | 6.1 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | 12-year-old Jackie has made Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, where her mom works, her second home. While wandering around after hours, Oopjen from Rembrandt's famous painting suddenly comes to life. It seems she is looking for her long lost sister. Jackie is used to solving other people's problems and decides to take Oopjen home, so they can go look for her sister. For the woman from the Golden Age, this modern world, its customs and appliances are a great adventure. And Jackie, who doesn't really have any friends at school, finally gains a true BFF. |
| The Arrival of Joachim Stiller | 1,976 | Harry Kümel | Mystery | 6.1 | 10 | Dutch | Belgium | The film tells the story of Freek Groenevelt and Simone Marijnissen whose lives are taken over by Joachim Stiller. |
| Moloch | 2,022 | Nico van den Brink | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6 | 174 | Dutch | Netherlands | Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient. |
| The Claus Family | 2,020 | Matthias Temmermans | Family, Fantasy | 6 | 144 | Dutch | Belgium | When his grandfather suddenly falls ill, holiday-hating Jules learns of his family's magical legacy and realizes he's the only hope to save Christmas. |
| Belgica | 2,016 | Felix van Groeningen | Drama | 6 | 131 | Dutch | France | The story of two brothers who, even though they have absolutely nothing in common, open a bar together that quickly becomes a regular hangout for nighthawks. Despite the success, they must soon face up to the difficulties inherent in running a family business. Their brotherhood turns into rivalry, through no fault of their own. |
| Soof | 2,013 | Antoinette Beumer | Comedy, Romance | 6 | 70 | Dutch | Netherlands | Soof is reaching 40 and has everything she ever wanted: three children, a small catering business, a sweet husband Kasper and a lovely home. Until she starts asking herself: 'is this all there is'? |
| Vicious | 2,019 | Dennis Bots | Thriller, Horror | 6 | 65 | Dutch | Belgium | A girls weekend in a remote cottage in the Ardennes. Relationships are put into focus - do the four girls know everything about each other? The filming of the 'best youth book' of 2012 written by Mel Wallis de Vries. |
| Control | 2,017 | Jan Verheyen | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 6 | 55 | Dutch | Belgium | The once unconditional friendship between police officers Vincke and Verstuyft hits a very rough patch when they come up against a series of grueso... |
| Viper's Nest | 2,011 | Will Koopman | Drama | 6 | 50 | Dutch | Netherlands | Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, where life always seems to run smoothly, but dark clouds are gathering on the horizon. A flight seems the only way out… |
| Little Sister | 1,995 | Robert Jan Westdijk | Drama, Mystery | 6 | 47 | Dutch | Netherlands | After several years without contact, Martijn visits his sister Daantje, who just started to live on her own in Amsterdam. He tells her he is going to make a documentary from her life, and enters her home life with a video camera. |
| The Last Days of Emma Blank | 2,009 | Alex van Warmerdam | Comedy, Drama | 6 | 35 | Dutch | Netherlands | In a large country home, the owner Emma Blank is very ill and is cared for by her household staff: Haneveld the head housekeeper, Bella the cook, G... |
| Crazy Love | 1,987 | Dominique Deruddere | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6 | 33 | Dutch | Belgium | Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other on the mouth. His father is a hero who kidnapped his mother and married her on a lonely mountain peak... Later on, he'll do the same. But Harry has a lot to learn. He learns about 'being hot' and 'fucking' and about what you have to do when you're alone and 'feel the itch'. He also learns that there are handsome men and ugly ones, that love can be unfair. That one can find comfort in drinking... but above all he learns that man is capable of anything - absolutely anything! - to get his fair share of love. |
| De Dominee | 2,004 | Gerrard Verhage | Drama, Crime | 6 | 32 | Dutch | Netherlands | Amsterdam, 1970s. A wealthy grammar school student Klaas and his friend start trafficking hash and become entangled in the brutal criminal scene. |
| Painkillers | 2,014 | Tessa Schram | Drama | 6 | 31 | Dutch | Netherlands | Casper has never met his father and lives alone with his mother Marit. He likes to spend his free time playing the piano, so he is thrilled when he is chosen to become a pianist in a youth orchestra – and especially when he makes friends with Anouk. She knows what Casper is going through when he learns that his mother is seriously ill: Marit has cancer. Scared of what might happen to her, Casper and his best friend Pim decide to find his father. |
| Julie Keeps Quiet | 2,024 | Leonardo Van Dijl | Drama | 6 | 30 | Dutch | Belgium | As the star player at an elite tennis academy, Julie’s life revolves around the game she loves. When her coach falls under investigation and is sud... |
| All Stars 2: Old Stars | 2,011 | Jean van de Velde | Comedy, Drama | 6 | 30 | Dutch | Netherlands | In All Stars 2 Old Stars, the unexpected wedding of one of the boys means they treat themselves to an ‘old-fashioned training camp’ in the form of a long weekend in Barcelona. The match between Barcelona and Real Madrid is meant to be the high point of the trip. But of course not everything goes according to plan for the Swift Boys. |
| Plan C | 2,012 | Max Porcelijn | Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6 | 27 | Dutch | Netherlands | Ronald Plasmeyer (Ruben Van Der Meer) is a small-time Amsterdam detective, struggling with financial problems because of his gambling habit. When the Chinese crime boss Hao threatens Ronald's ex-wife and son to get his money back, Ronald comes up with a plan that will solve all his problems. Ronald enlists two petty criminals (Ton Kas and René Van 't Hof) to rob an illegal poker tournament he's taking part in, providing him with a perfect alibi. Quick, simple and non-violent; the plan is foolproof... until people start getting killed. Soon, Ronald's partners take off with the money, leaving him empty handed. To make matters worse Ronald's colleagues in the police force begin to suspect him of the robbery, setting the stage for a nerve-racking game of cat and mouse. Ronald is all-in... holding the worst hand of his life. |
| Doris | 2,018 | Albert Jan van Rees | Comedy, Drama | 6 | 26 | Dutch | Netherlands | On the eve of her forty-fifth birthday Doris Doorenbos ends up like a divorced woman with two children at a dead end. |
| In Orange | 2,004 | Joram Lürsen | Adventure, Drama, Family | 6 | 25 | Dutch | Netherlands | An 11 year old talented soccer player, Remco, has one big dream: to be selected for the national under 12s team. 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. |
| Ja, Ik Wil! | 2,015 | Kees van Nieuwkerk | Comedy, Romance | 6 | 22 | Dutch | Netherlands | Roos is pretty, successful and in her early-thirties. Every time she dreams of marriage, she gets dumped. When she gets invites to weddings from people all around her, she takes her young intern Daan as her date. She puts herself in awkward situations en falls deeply in love with a handsome doctor. They say one marriage leads to the other, but is he the one she'll say "Yes, I do!" to? |
| The Balloonist | 2,025 | Tim Oliehoek | Drama, Romance | 6 | 21 | Dutch | Netherlands | Gaby, a heritage chicken keeper, is turned upside down when an arrogant air balloon pilot crashes on her chicken coop. The crash reveals the roots of a family conflict and forces Gaby to confront the air balloon pilot as well as her past. |
| In My Father's Garden | 2,016 | Ben Sombogaart | Drama | 6 | 21 | Dutch | Belgium | The story of a loving man and father who falls under the influence of an extremely orthodox Protestant sect. He sacrifices everything and everyone to this faith, including his business and the respect of his younger son. However, he never loses the love of his wife. |
| Groenten uit Balen | 2,011 | Frank van Mechelen | Drama, History | 6 | 21 | Dutch | Belgium | The story of the laborer family Debruycker during the turbulent strike by Vieille Montagne in 1971. |
| Alles op Tafel | 2,021 | Will Koopman | Comedy, Drama | 6 | 20 | Dutch | Netherlands | Seven friends meet up for dinner and decide to play a revealing game. During the evening deep personal secrets will surface and threaten their relationships. |
| Gangstas | 2,025 | Bilall Fallah | Action, Thriller, Crime, Comedy | 6 | 18 | Dutch | Belgium | On the streets of Antwerp, Badia, Junes and Volt are trying to tear themselves away from their past, but the underworld is inexorably pulling them back in. Adamo has worked his way up to become one of the most influential figures in the Antwerp drug trade. He becomes ever more entangled in a web of power and danger. His friends have to make a choice: stay loyal to Adamo or choose safety. |
| Ad Fundum | 1,993 | Erik Van Looy | Drama | 6 | 17 | Dutch | Belgium | Sammy Raes, a nice, naive law-freshman from a simple family, dies in a form of hazing known as the 'flying carpet'. The father of the arrogant fraternity president Guy Bogaerts who ordered this reckless procedure abuses his connections to prevent a judicial homicide conviction, while the college authorities prefer to avoid a scandal in the press. However Sammy's freshmen friends Tom Smits and Denn |
| All the Time in the World | 2,011 | Job Gosschalk | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6 | 16 | Dutch | Netherlands | When Molly, the 21 year-old sister of Maarten, departs the family home, she leaves her older brother with empty nest syndrome. But it also opens up new opportunities for him, such as the possibility to explore his love for Arthur, a closet gay. Molly and Maarten wrestle with their personal relationships and also their relationship with one another, but fate nevertheless seems determined to strike them both down. |
| Joy | 2,010 | Mijke de Jong | Drama | 6 | 15 | Dutch | Netherlands | Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the subway. In addition, she is a skilled shoplifter and has never been caught. |
| Crazy About Ya | 2,010 | Jan Verheyen | Romance, Comedy | 6 | 14 | Dutch | Belgium | In Crazy About Ya, different characters meet. Sometimes their stories are closely interwoven, sometimes they just brush past each other. But sooner or later everyone runs into the hero of this story, Saint Jan. As a true sanctus ex machina he makes sure that in the end, they are all a bit crazier about each other again. |
| Heavily in Love! | 2,018 | Jamel Aattache | Comedy, Romance | 6 | 13 | Dutch | Netherlands | The young, successful vet Isa is a little unsure about her body and love. Ruben is the perfect man. Good looking, works with his hands and loves hi... |
| All You Need Is Love | 2,018 | Will Koopman | Comedy, Romance | 6 | 13 | Dutch | Netherlands | When popular TV show host Dr. Love goes missing ahead of the annual Christmas special, a zany search for his replacement and holiday romance ensues. |
| The Last Summer | 2,007 | Joost Wynant | Drama | 6 | 13 | Dutch | Belgium | Four good friends, all seventeen-year old, lose their innocence during their last summer together. Flanders 1996. Rik, Tim, Roel and Bart aimlessly wile away the summer days in a small village where nothing exciting ever happens. When Rik becomes fascinated by the mysterious Sandrine, the boy's friendship comes under increasing pressure. Their reckless behaviour lands the boys in a web of intrigue, which they have a hard time escaping from. |
| Enjoy Poverty | 2,009 | Renzo Martens | Documentary | 6 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | An investigation of the emotional and economic value of Africa's most lucrative export: filmed poverty. Deep in the interiors of the Congo, Dutch artist Renzo Martens single-handedly undertakes an epic journey and launches an emancipatory program that helps the poor become aware of what is their primary capital resource: Poverty. After three years of traveling through the Democratic Republic of the Congo he asks the question: "Who owns poverty? |
| Wildebeest | 2,017 | Nicolas Keppens | Animation, Comedy, Adventure | 6 | 11 | Dutch | Belgium | Going on a safari is a dream for many. For middle-aged couple Linda and Troyer, it turns into a horribly real adventure when they get left behind in the wilderness. |
| In Real Life | 2,008 | Robert Jan Westdijk | Drama | 6 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | In his new film a young director puts his girlfriend through a love test. By doing so he risks his real life relationship with her. |
| In the Heart | 2,015 | Nicole van Kilsdonk | Drama | 6 | 10 | Dutch | Belgium | Masha is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status. |
| Temmink: The Ultimate Fight | 1,998 | Boris Paval Conen | Action, Science Fiction | 6 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Somewhere in the near future, exists The Arena. Here men with an 'agression gene' with which they want to live no longer, are being admitted to ful... |
| iHostage | 2,025 | Bobby Boermans | Thriller, Crime, Drama | 5.9 | 290 | Dutch | Netherlands | When a gunman enters an Apple Store in the heart of Amsterdam, the police face a delicate challenge to resolve the standoff. |
| Faithfully Yours | 2,022 | André van Duren | Mystery, Thriller | 5.9 | 234 | Dutch | Belgium | Using each other as alibis, two friends sneak off to indulge in secret affairs — but their elaborate web of lies unravels when one of them goes missing. |
| Almost Cops | 2,025 | Gonzalo Fernandez Carmona | Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 5.9 | 169 | Dutch | Netherlands | When an overeager community officer and a reckless ex-detective are forced to team up, plenty of chaos ensues on the streets of Rotterdam. |
| Ferry 2 | 2,024 | Wannes Destoop | Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller | 5.9 | 122 | Dutch | Belgium | After losing his drug empire, Ferry Bouman has found a measure of peace away from Brabant's criminal underworld — until his past catches up to him. |
| The Prime Minister | 2,016 | Erik Van Looy | Thriller | 5.9 | 86 | Dutch | Belgium | The Belgian PM is abducted and he finds his wife and children taken hostage. If he wants to see them again – alive – he has to kill the person he is meeting later that day. And that person is no less than... the president of the United States. |
| The East | 2,021 | Jim Taihuttu | War, Drama, Thriller, History | 5.9 | 67 | Dutch | Netherlands | A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad. |
| Stricken | 2,009 | Reinout Oerlemans | Drama | 5.9 | 63 | Dutch | Netherlands | Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even fatherhood and a move to the boring country go well, until Carmen gets breast cancer. Now their lives are turned upside-down, maybe wrecked |
| The Hell of '63 | 2,009 | Steven de Jong | Drama | 5.9 | 49 | Dutch | Netherlands | When extreme weather suddenly hits the Netherlands in 1963, a 120-mile tour skating event taking place on natural ice forces its contestants to contend with life-threatening race conditions. |
| Viper’s Nest 2 | 2,014 | Will Koopman | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 5.9 | 44 | Dutch | Netherlands | When Claire returns from Burkina Faso, she is totally transformed and her girlfriends barely recognize her. Cheryl discovers Martin is cheating on ... |
| The Happy Housewife | 2,010 | Antoinette Beumer | Drama, Romance | 5.9 | 43 | Dutch | Netherlands | Lea is an immaculate 30-something wife whose husband’s job in real estate allows her an enviably glossy lifestyle. The word ‘emancipation’ simply isn't in her vocabulary and as long as the money rolls in, all is rosy. So, when Harry Jr. arrives, she is a little traumatized at having to swap canapés for nappies. |
| Meskina | 2,021 | Daria Bukvic | Comedy, Romance | 5.9 | 39 | Dutch | Netherlands | A thirty-something aspiring children's author, labeled "meskina" (pity case) by her Moroccan-Dutch community for still being career-less and single, sets out to once and for all find professional success and true love. |
| The Blind Spot | 2,017 | Nabil Ben Yadir | Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller | 5.9 | 37 | Dutch | Belgium | Dode Hoek (Blind Spot) is the story of Jan Verbeeck, the uncompromising commissioner of the Antwerp drug squad. Known as Mr. Zero Tolerance, he is hugely popular with the people and the media. The country is thrown into commotion when he announces that he is leaving the police force just before the elections to join the extreme right party, VPV. On his last day as a policeman, he leads an investigation that takes him to Charleroi where a raid on a drug lab sets in motion a series of unforeseeable and fatal events. |
| Clean Hands | 2,015 | Tjebbo Penning | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.9 | 36 | Dutch | Netherlands | Sylvia has turned a blind eye for too long to husband Eddie's flourishing drug business. When his dealing takes a (deadly) turn for the worse, however, her need to protect the lives and futures of her young children compel her to flee. But Eddie will stop at nothing to keep his wife inside the ‘family'. |
| Hush Hush Baby | 2,004 | Albert Ter Heerdt | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 | 27 | Dutch | Netherlands | Abdullah 'Ap' Bentarek is happy that, unlike his Uncle Yusuf who stayed in the ancestral Moroccan mountain village, his father Ali moved to the Netherlands – even though it does mean that he’ll 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. |
| Open Seas | 2,018 | Michiel van Erp | Drama | 5.9 | 24 | Dutch | Netherlands | A coming of age story of three young friends during their student years in Amsterdam. |
| Nena | 2,014 | Saskia Diesing | Drama | 5.9 | 22 | Dutch | Germany | The film tells the story of sixteen-year-old Nena, who is confronted with the suicide attempt of her handicapped father. At the same time she falls head over heels in love for the first time in her life with Carlo, whose father has just outed himself. Away from prying eyes of the adults - who struggle with failed marriages, blossoming love and insufferable physical decline - they push the boundaries of their friendship, love and sexuality. But while discovering her own lust for life, Nena realizes that her father's existence is becoming more and more unbearable. |
| Popoz | 2,015 | Martijn Smits | Comedy, Action | 5.9 | 20 | Dutch | Netherlands | Festival favorite Huub Smit (New Kids Nitro; New Kids Turbo; Bros Before Hos) stars as a Dutch cop raised on far too many American action films in this outrageous action comedy. |
| A Christmoose Story | 2,013 | Lourens Blok | Family, Fantasy | 5.9 | 20 | Dutch | Netherlands | Based on the best-selling novel, A CHRISTMOOSE STORY brings to life the tale of an unlikely friendship between a young boy and a large, talking moose. Young Max has low expectations for his first Christmas after his parents’ divorce, when suddenly a large moose crashes through the roof of his garage. And if that isn’t strange enough, the moose claims to have fallen from Santa’s sleigh! But being friends with a moose isn’t all that simple. Especially since Max’s grumpy neighbor has no interest in hanging stockings for Christmas but would love to hang up a pair of moose antlers, and Santa is out there somewhere looking to get his sleigh back! |
| Mike Says Goodbye! | 2,012 | Maria Peters | Adventure, Family | 5.9 | 20 | Dutch | Netherlands | After bouncing back from leukemia, 10-year-old Mike is ready to leave the hospital, but his mother never arrives to take him home. |
| The Last Knit | 2,005 | Laura Neuvonen | Animation | 5.9 | 19 | Dutch | Finland | When knitting becomes an obsession... |
| Bon Bini Holland 2 | 2,018 | Jon Karthaus | Comedy | 5.9 | 17 | Dutch | Netherlands | Robertico is living in Curacao with Noella Maduro. While he is preparing to ask her to marry him, something happens to Ken Maduro, Noella's dad. Things go wrong, and Noelle tells Robertico she wants a time-out and flies to her dad in The Netherlands. Noella has to take her fathers job in hosting an special auction together with an wealthy young man. When Robertico finds out about this, he also flies to The Netherlands to win over Noella. With the help of his aunt Judeska, the other staff of FC Kip"Radjesh,Noltie & Kofi", and Asian hustler Ping Ping, he hopes he can convince her to marry him. |
| Bellicher: Cel | 2,012 | Peter de Baan | Action | 5.9 | 17 | Dutch | Netherlands | Michael Bellicher wakes up one morning to find out that his identity has been stolen. Soon he learns that the perpetrator is using his stolen ID for all kinds of illegal action. Michael tries to find out who is behind all this, when, to his horror, his credentials show up at the scene of a big terrorist attack. Suddenly he is public enemy number one… |
| Blind | 2,007 | Tamar van den Dop | Drama, Romance | 5.9 | 17 | Dutch | Bulgaria | Ruben is a lone and unbalanced young man who lost his sight in childhood. Marie is an albino woman of temperate look and with a lot of insecurities. She has a beautiful voice and, along with Ruben, shares a mutual love for books and tales. Ruben's mother hires her as a reader to read her son books orally. While they live in a mansion, between these two lonely souls sparks love, but will love still be blind if the man recovers from his blindness? |
| De Scheepsjongens Van Bontekoe | 2,007 | Steven de Jong | Adventure, History | 5.9 | 17 | Dutch | Netherlands | A ripping adventure yarn about teenage boys who join the crew of a ship of the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century. After a dramatic shipwreck and escape from an attack by natives, they must make their way to safety by themselves. |
| Tonio | 2,016 | Paula van der Oest | Drama | 5.9 | 16 | Dutch | Netherlands | After 21-year-old student Tonio dies in a traffic accident, his novelist parents face sorrow and regret as they suffer the agony of losing their only child. |
| Timboektoe | 2,007 | Dave Schram | Romance, Family | 5.9 | 16 | Dutch | Netherlands | Isa and her older brother Kars' parents change course and start a campsite in France. Isa and Kars feel like they are moving to Timbuktu and losing everything. Fortunately, they don't complain for long, because they soon make new friends. But while new friendships blossom, Camping Timbuktu runs into trouble. Not far from them, another campsite has opened, and its unsympathetic owner tries to damage Camping Timbuktu in every way possible. It even looks like the campsite will have to close... Will Isa and Kars manage to keep Timbuktu open? |
| Kamp Holland | 2,016 | Boris Paval Conen | Drama, War | 5.9 | 15 | Dutch | Netherlands | In the confused melee that follows a roadside bomb attack on their convoy in Afghanistan, a Dutch soldier opens fire on a suspect Afghan, only to find that this killing unleashes a chain of dramatic events that will cast a long shadow over the lives of all initial survivors. |
| The Polish Bride | 1,998 | Karim Traïdia | Drama, Romance | 5.9 | 15 | Dutch | Netherlands | Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her. |
| Dennis P. | 2,007 | Pieter Kuijpers | Comedy | 5.9 | 14 | Dutch | Netherlands | Comedy inspired by the true story of Dennis P, who became Holland's biggest diamond thief, when he walked away with the entire 20 million euros stock of an international diamond trader, using a microwave oven as a swagbag. |
| X-15 | 1,961 | Richard Donner | Action, Drama, History | 5.9 | 14 | Dutch | Unknown | X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them. |
| Cobain | 2,018 | Nanouk Leopold | Drama | 5.9 | 11 | Dutch | Belgium | Fifteen-year-old Cobain tries to get his pregnant mother Mia to quit her self-destructive lifestyle. When she refuses to clean up her act, Cobain takes over. |
| Broken Mirrors | 1,984 | Marleen Gorris | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 5.9 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | Diane and Dora are two prostitutes who begin to rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile, in another part of town, a murderer is at large. |
| The Lift | 1,983 | Dick Maas | Horror, Thriller, Comedy | 5.8 | 190 | Dutch | Netherlands | A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building. |
| Happy Ending | 2,023 | Joosje Duk | Romance, Comedy | 5.8 | 87 | Dutch | Netherlands | A young woman quietly unsatisfied in the bedroom by her boyfriend puts their relationship to the test when she proposes to open up their sex life to a third person. |
| Fashion Chicks | 2,015 | Jonathan Elbers | Comedy | 5.8 | 73 | Dutch | Netherlands | A nerdy girl creates an alter-ego to launch a successful fashion blog. |
| Swingers | 2,002 | Stephan Brenninkmeijer | Romance, Drama | 5.8 | 68 | Dutch | Netherlands | Despite Diana's insecure nature, she and her husband Julian agree with the idea to sexually experiment with another couple. They put out an ad on the net to which the well experienced Alex and Timo react. We follow Diana and Julian as they prepare for the arrival of Alex and Timo, who they have invited to their home for the weekend. Diana is nervous. As soon as she is confronted with the self-confident and ravishingly sexy Alex, her insecurity increases even more. Timo seems disinterested, a sharp contrast to the boyish excitement of Julian. But as night falls and their sexual exploration begins, we notice Timo may not be as casual as he initially seemed and Diana on the other hand contains hidden strength. And so we realize there's more to 'Swingers' than just sex. Swingers: could your relationship stand the test? |
| Crusade in Jeans | 2,006 | Ben Sombogaart | Adventure, Fantasy, History | 5.8 | 65 | Dutch | Netherlands | Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the danger is not coming from outside the crusade, but from within. |
| Ron Goossens, Low Budget Stuntman | 2,017 | Steffen Haars | Action, Comedy | 5.8 | 57 | Dutch | Netherlands | Alcoholic and low budget stuntman Ron Goossens has to get The Netherlands' most successful actrice between the sheets in order to save his own marriage. Will he succeed? A new outrageous comedy from the writers/directors of New Kids Turbo, New Kids Nitro and Bros Before Hos. |
| Labyrinthus | 2,014 | Douglas Boswell | Family, Adventure | 5.8 | 51 | Dutch | Belgium | Frikke, a 14-year-old boy, discovers a sinister computer game that uses real children from his neighbourhood as players. In a race against time Frikke must find the evil creator of this horrible game. |
| Black Out | 2,012 | Arne Toonen | Crime, Action, Comedy | 5.8 | 40 | Dutch | Netherlands | After ruthless gangsters wrongfully accuse him of stealing from them, a retired criminal has 24 hours to creep back into his past life and retrieve a bag of coke before his fiancée is killed. |
| The Wonder Weeks | 2,023 | Appie Boudellah | Comedy, Drama | 5.8 | 38 | Dutch | Netherlands | Three modern couples juggle relationships and demanding careers while navigating the unpredictable terrain of parenthood. |
| Suzy Q | 1,999 | Martin Koolhoven | Drama | 5.8 | 36 | Dutch | Netherlands | A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it. |
| Sword of D'Artagnan | 2,015 | Dennis Bots | Family, Adventure | 5.8 | 31 | Dutch | Netherlands | When her grandfather has a car accident, Isabel (11) takes on his search for the sword that has been promised to her ancestor centuries ago by the world famous musketeer D’Artagnan. Assisted by her nephew Rik (12) and friend Jules (13), she will need just as much bravery, loyalty and perseverance as the illustrious musketeer to find his lost sword, to save her grandfather and to reunite her family. |
| The Letter for the King | 2,008 | Pieter Verhoeff | Family, Adventure | 5.8 | 27 | Dutch | Germany | Young Tiuri has to pass the final test before before being knighted by king Dagonaut. He has to pass a night in the chapel, what is suddenly disturbed by a strangers request of help. With his decision to help the stranger, Tiuri abandons his given task and starts into an adventure, that will shape the destiny of Dagonaut. On his journey he learns about the true meaning of love, friendship, courage and loyalty. |
| F.C. De Kampioenen 2: Jubilee General | 2,015 | Jan Verheyen | Comedy | 5.8 | 24 | Dutch | Belgium | De Kampioenen are about to celebrate their 25th anniversary and want their long-lost original trainer to join them. Meanwhile, an old enemy is released from prison and enters a quest for revenge. |
| Magic Mountains | 2,020 | Urszula Antoniak | Thriller, Mystery | 5.8 | 23 | Dutch | Netherlands | Hannah travels through the Polish mountains with her ex-boyfriend Lex. During their journey the young woman finds out that Lex has prepared the perfect crime, with Hannah as his victim. |
| The Skippers of the Cameleon 2 | 2,005 | Steven de Jong | Adventure, Family, Comedy | 5.8 | 23 | Dutch | Netherlands | The twinbrothers Sietse and Hielke Klinkhamer want to raise money for their ill friend, Marieke. |
| Love is the Word | 2,013 | Pieter Kuijpers | Drama, Romance | 5.8 | 22 | Dutch | Belgium | Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the year 'Grease' hit the big screen. |
| Kiss Me Softly | 2,012 | Anthony Schatteman | Comedy, Drama | 5.8 | 22 | Dutch | Belgium | 17 year old Jasper lives in a very grey, small town. In his family, he cannot be himself. Jasper's dad is a singer, named Lukkie Luk. All the attention in the family goes to his career. Jasper searches a way to handle this and is faced with the typical questions in the life of an adolescent. Questions that will not be answered when he stays in his own routine. |
| Tench | 2,020 | Patrice Toye | Drama | 5.8 | 19 | Dutch | Belgium | Jonathan, a kind-hearted young man, is released from prison due to lack of evidence. He returns to his mother who lives in a small house by the dunes. Jonathan wants to forget the past and is determined to become a different and better person. But even though he strictly adheres to the rules, his good intentions are soon put to the test when a young woman moves in next to him with her small daughter. |
| Zurich | 2,015 | Sacha Polak | Drama | 5.8 | 19 | Dutch | Belgium | Zurich is a musical roadmovie about Nina, who discovers after the death of her great love, truckdriver Boris, he led a double life. Struggling with her feelings she comes to an almost unforgivable deed, and flees. She submerges into the truckers scene – not capable to express herself, except by singing. |
| Pluk and His Tow Truck | 2,004 | Ben Sombogaart | Family, Fantasy | 5.8 | 18 | Dutch | Netherlands | Pluk has a great red crane truck, but no home. Like every little boy, he needs a place to live. So it fits well that a tower room is available in t... |
| Waterboys | 2,016 | Robert Jan Westdijk | Drama, Comedy, Music | 5.8 | 17 | Dutch | United Kingdom | Both newly single, a Dutch crime author and his cellist son attempt to rekindle their feeble bond as the latter joins the former on a publicity trip to Scotland. |
| Breath | 2,007 | Margien Rogaar | Drama | 5.8 | 16 | Dutch | Netherlands | A 12-year-old boy who is yet to feel the first trembles of love. He is shy when a girl calls him for a bike ride and then at the beach it becomes clear that he is a bit embarrassed of his body, as he struggles behind a towel to change into his swimming suit. |
| Brussels by Night | 1,983 | Marc Didden | Drama | 5.8 | 16 | Dutch | Belgium | This is the story of a man who travels to Brussels, and meets some people with whom he spends a few days. When they all go on a day trip to the "slanting plane" of Ronquieres, all sorts of bottled up frustrations flare up. |
| Arrêt Pipi | 2,015 | Maarten Groen | Horror | 5.8 | 15 | Dutch | Belgium | Sarah and Bram’s roadtrip takes a horrifying turn when they stop for a bathroom break in the dark woods of Wallonia. |
| Red Flags | 2,025 | Lodewijk van Lelyveld | Drama, Romance | 5.8 | 14 | Dutch | Netherlands | A young woman Sam who has her eye on the mysterious Fender. When she sees him, she immediately knows that he could cause trouble, but he is too charming to let go. Sam feels his attraction, but also that something is not right about him. |
| My Dad Is a Sausage | 2,021 | Anouk Fortunier | Family, Comedy | 5.8 | 14 | Dutch | Belgium | A father leaves his unhappy job at a bank to pursue an acting career. |
| Dummie the Mummy and the Tomb of Achnetoet | 2,017 | Pim van Hoeve | Family | 5.8 | 14 | Dutch | Netherlands | Dummie has homesickness. He wants to go back to Egypt to seek the grave of his parents so that he can say goodbye to them. Klaas sees that trip is not going to be easy. He finds flying to Egypt scary, it costs way too much money and Dummie has no passport. But if Dummie's painting by Miss Friek is sold for a large amount and he can organise a passport, then can Klaas, Goos, Dummie and Miss Friek leave for Egypt. But is the Tomb of Achnetoet still available after four thousand years? With a plan by Master Drab, Dummie and Goos are investigating. But the search is full of dangers and the best friends walk into a trap. Can Klaas save them on time or keep Dummie and Goos captive forever? |
| Two Queens and One Consort | 1,981 | Otto Jongerius | Drama | 5.8 | 14 | Dutch | Netherlands | At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta. |
| Kiddo | 2,024 | Zara Dwinger | Drama | 5.8 | 13 | Dutch | Netherlands | Lying on a bunk bed in a children's home, eleven-year-old Lu talks with dreamy eyes about her mother, Karina, who claims to be a famous Hollywood actress who smells of oranges, talks to the stars and does her own stunts. |
| W. Witse: de film | 2,014 | Frank van Mechelen | Mystery, Crime, Thriller | 5.8 | 13 | Dutch | Belgium | Witse returns to his hometown to find his niece's murderer. It doesn't take long before Witse gets in trouble with local police authorities. While conducting his investigation, old family issues are starting to surface. |
| Dirty Mind | 2,009 | Pieter Van Hees | Comedy, Drama | 5.8 | 13 | Dutch | Belgium | Shy loser Diego wakes up after an accident and has been transformed into Tony T. a smooth-talking no-holds-barred stuntman. Suffering from a case of Frontal Syndrome he's the perfect case-study for young neurologist Jaana. Everyone hopes that Diego will soon recover, except for Diego himself. |
| Voor Elkaar Gemaakt | 2,017 | Martijn Heijne | Romance, Comedy | 5.8 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | After a bizarre one night stand leaves him infertile, a careless bachelor sets out to connect with the television presenter who, as the result of the anonymous sperm donation he once made, happens to be pregnant with his child. |
| Lotgenoten | 2,013 | Stephan Brenninkmeijer | Drama | 5.8 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | When womanizer Remco Albrecht celebrates his 65st birthday he has to deal with people from his past whom he would rather ignore. |
| Wasted! | 1,996 | Aryan Kaganof | Crime, Drama | 5.8 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | Twentysomething innocents Jacqui and Martijn move to Amsterdam and immerse themselves in the intense and drug-laden underground club scene. Life turns out to be far more complicated, difficult, and dangerous than they bargained for. Their relationship is tested - repeatedly. |
| The Mercator Trail | 2,022 | Douglas Boswell | Adventure, Family | 5.8 | 11 | Dutch | Belgium | When the digital-mad Benjamin turns 18, he inherits a box of ancient artefacts from his missing father. He gives an antique book to Slien, a girl he has his eye on, and unintentionally sets off a chain reaction. An old man called Zeppos is also very interested in the book, which once belonged to the cartographer Mercator. Using the secret messages in Mercator's book, the trio uncover a mystery, while having to stay one step ahead of a shadowy rival. |
| Rookie | 2,021 | Lieven Van Baelen | Drama | 5.8 | 11 | Dutch | Belgium | Nicky, a young ambitious and confident pure blooded motorcyclist. He always puts his life on the line while racing, not for the money but for kicks, respect and fame. When he gets into an accident, his world crumbles apart, not sure whether he’ll ever be able to race again. He has trouble accepting this new life and turns to his sister-in-law Vero and her son Charlie to start over. But the adrenaline junkie inside him rears his ugly head and Nicky tries relive his dream by coaching his nephew Charlie. It quickly becomes clear though, that they’re not cut from the same cloth. |
| Frogs & Toads | 2,009 | Simone van Dusseldorp | Adventure, Drama, Family | 5.8 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | Six year old Max has an important mission: find some frogspawn for his older brother. Together with his neighbour girlfriend Jesse he makes an adventurous and touching journey along fields, farms, animals and a forest which eventually leads to his grandma's home. There he's welcomed by his grandma, her pancakes and the desired frogspawn . On his overwhelming journey through nature he's accompanied by cheerful childrens songs. |
| Rembrandt fecit 1669 | 1,977 | Jos Stelling | Drama | 5.8 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | In the final year of his life, Rembrandt painted a series of self-portraits that show him in a dark, lonely state of mind. Stelling has painstakingly recreated the pathetic end of a genius with an authenticity that allows viewers to infer their own conclusions about the relationship between Rembrandt's life and art. |
| The Takeover | 2,022 | Annemarie van de Mond | Action, Crime, Thriller | 5.7 | 197 | Dutch | Netherlands | Self-proclaimed ethical hacker Mel Bandison's life is turned upside down when she stops a data breach on a high-tech self-driving bus that also happens to shut down an international criminal network. She then becomes a target and is framed with a deepfake video that “shows” that she murders someone. |
| Prey | 2,016 | Dick Maas | Horror, Thriller, Comedy | 5.7 | 135 | Dutch | Netherlands | A zoo veterinarian gets caught up in a grisly adventure as she finds herself leading the city-wide hunt for a monstrous lion terrorizing the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. |
| Flodder 3 | 1,995 | Dick Maas | Comedy | 5.7 | 67 | Dutch | Netherlands | Back from their trip abroad, the family must meet the people of the neighborhood while preparing for the 25th anniversary of Zonnedael. Ma falls in love with a bum that is not exactly what he seems to be. |
| The Claus Family 3 | 2,022 | Ruben Vandenborre | Family, Comedy, Fantasy | 5.7 | 53 | Dutch | Belgium | When the delivery of presents goes wrong and Grandpa Noël gets in trouble, siblings Jules and Noor must work together to save Christmas. |
| Too Fat Too Furious | 2,005 | Tim Oliehoek | Drama, Comedy, Crime | 5.7 | 43 | Dutch | Netherlands | Bennie, 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. |
| Grimm | 2,003 | Alex van Warmerdam | Drama, Comedy, Adventure | 5.7 | 38 | Dutch | Netherlands | One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out of work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle is dead. Marie meets Diego, a wealthy charming Spanish surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his sick, domineering sister, Teresa. To Jacob's astonishment, Marie wants to marry Diego. Even after the wedding has taken place, jealous Jacob tries to get his sister away from Diego. When this doesn't succeed, Jacob starts to provoke his brother-in-law. It soon transpires that no one will go unpunished for this. |
| Darlings! | 1,984 | Ruud van Hemert | Comedy, Thriller | 5.7 | 37 | Dutch | Netherlands | A peaceful family-life is suddenly disturbed when the children enter puberty. The children take over the house and disrupt the lives of their parents. |
| Schnitzel Paradise | 2,005 | Martin Koolhoven | Romance, Comedy | 5.7 | 34 | Dutch | Netherlands | Schnitzel Paradise is a Dutch film about a young Moroccan man working in the kitchen of popular Dutch restaurant. |
| The Flying Liftboy | 1,998 | Ben Sombogaart | Adventure | 5.7 | 33 | Dutch | Netherlands | Pupil Abel is the victim of Laura's nasty prank, yet gets accidentally blamed and overreacts. His ma withdraws him from school and gets him a job as lift-boy. But its' a special lift: when he pushes the forbidden green button, it takes him, Laura, Jozias Tump and Maria Klaterhoen to Manhattan. There he's mistaken by a rich woman who looks like his mother for her long missing son Johnny. When a police helicopter comes to tow the lift cabin, the Dutchmen get back in. It takes them to a Latin American country, Perugona. The new revolutionary leader realizes presidents live about one year, so he gives the job to Mr. Tump, who saved his life. The news coverage attracts Abel's and Johnny's family, in time for an even weirder finale. |
| The Aroma of Tea | 2,006 | Michael Dudok de Wit | Animation | 5.7 | 30 | Dutch | Netherlands | The Aroma of Tea is a 2006 Dutch animated short film made by Michaël Dudok de Wit. It shows how a small sphere travels in a determined and rhythmical manner through landscapes, emerging at the end into a larger sphere of white light. Both the graphic brushstroke and the music, with its haunting rhythms, are strikingly simple and direct. The theme of the film, a quest followed by a union, is as old as time and recognizable despite its limitless variations. |
| Pirates Down the Street | 2,020 | Pim van Hoeve | Family, Action, Adventure | 5.7 | 28 | Dutch | Netherlands | When a pirate family's arrival shakes up a coastal town, the kids next door offer to help them blend in and fight a bitter rival. |
| Quiz | 2,012 | Dick Maas | Drama, Thriller | 5.7 | 23 | Dutch | Netherlands | A famous game show host is being harassed in a restaurant by a strange man who claims to have kidnapped his wife and daughter. A morbid game ensues in which the game show host turns out to be the contestant. |
| Het Geheugenspel | 2,023 | Jan Verheyen | Thriller | 5.7 | 22 | Dutch | Belgium | The body of Nathalie, who disappeared 25 years ago, is found on the Deridder family estate. The event reveals a long-hidden crime, and when secrets are brought forth, the present is overshadowed by the past. |
| Father's Affair | 2,003 | Maarten Treurniet | Drama | 5.7 | 22 | Dutch | Netherlands | Armin is in crisis. One fateful day he discovers he is infertile and has been throughout his life. From this he discovers his first wife, Monika, was unfaithful before she died. How else could she have the child that Armin always thought was his? His paranoia drives him to find the truth. |
| F.C. De Kampioenen 3: Kampioenen Forever | 2,017 | Jan Verheyen | Comedy | 5.7 | 20 | Dutch | Belgium | DDT is back in business and cunningly manages to become the owner of F.C. De Kampioenen. Boma is immediately sidelined and our Champions are replac... |
| Cargo | 2,017 | Gilles Coulier | Drama | 5.7 | 16 | Dutch | Belgium | 'Cargo' brings the raw story of three brothers who own a family business in the fishery and are trying to save it from destruction. The passion for their profession but also for their loved ones, however, drives them to desperate actions. |
| High Heels, Real Love | 1,981 | Dimitri Frenkel Frank | Comedy | 5.7 | 15 | Dutch | Unknown | A bored company owner decides to find out what it is like to be one of his workers. During his "transformation" he falls in love with a cafeteria worker. When his alter ego "The Boss" makes an inappropriate comment to his would-be girlfriend, the worker challenges his "Boss" to a Duel. |
| Fatal Error | 1,979 | Wim Verstappen | Comedy, Thriller, Crime | 5.7 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | Detectives Grijpstra and De Gier are sent to investigate the case of a man who apparently hanged himself in a center for oriental meditation. It is ruled as suicide and the case seems to be closed, but the same night there is an attempted break in. The investigation hits a dead end and everyone involved is a suspect. Based on the book "The Corpse in the Haarlemmer Houttuinen” by Jan-Willem van de Wetering. |
| Flodder Does Manhattan! | 1,992 | Dick Maas | Comedy | 5.6 | 94 | Dutch | Netherlands | The mayor of Sunny Dale see a chance to get rid of the Flodder family: They send the asocial bunch for an international exchange to New York. There they get confused with a Russian delegation of medical doctors while the street worker Werner who accompanies them becomes imprisoned. |
| Tricked | 2,012 | Paul Verhoeven | Comedy, Drama | 5.6 | 65 | Dutch | Netherlands | During his 50th birthday party thrown by his wife, Remco's life takes a turn for the worse. His business partners are scheming behind his back to sell him and his former mistress shows up pregnant. |
| The Columnist | 2,019 | Ivo van Aart | Comedy, Horror, TV Movie | 5.6 | 58 | Dutch | Netherlands | An opinion columnist and author, subjected to constant misogynistic abuse on social media, snaps and goes on a killing spree against her online abusers. |
| Left Bank | 2,008 | Pieter Van Hees | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 5.6 | 50 | Dutch | Belgium | When Marie moves into her boyfriend's apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery about the fate of the previous tenant. |
| Hazard | 2,022 | Jonas Govaerts | Action, Comedy | 5.6 | 41 | Dutch | Belgium | Noah loves his girlfriend Lea and their daughter Zita dearly, just about as much as his extremely pimped car with vanity plate “H4Z4RD”. When his cousin offers him a seemingly simple job as a driver, it soon turns into an unlikely and nerve-racking race through Antwerp, which can only result in the end of Noah, his family or the car… |
| Business Is Business | 1,971 | Paul Verhoeven | Comedy, Drama | 5.6 | 39 | Dutch | Netherlands | Dutch prostitutes Greta and Nel cruise the Amsterdam red light district, seeking clients to involve in their elaborately staged fetish fantasies, be it disciplinarian headmistresses, surgeons cutting open a willing patient, or even dressing up as chickens, the duo show their expertise in role-playing again and again and again. In reality, Nel is trapped in an abusive marriage and Greta is forever in the middle of their confrontations but her life takes a positive upturn when she becomes involved with a client. |
| Claustrofobia | 2,011 | Bobby Boermans | Thriller | 5.6 | 35 | Dutch | Netherlands | When Eva opens her eyes a young girl finds herself chained terrified for being abused. Her fears become reality in a way no one could ever imagine. |
| Meat Kills | 2,025 | Martijn Smits | Horror | 5.6 | 29 | Dutch | Netherlands | Mirthe, a member of the 'Animal Army', secretly films a pig farm's horrors, freeing its children but facing a bloody battle between Nasha's vengeance and the farmer's fury. |
| Reckless | 2,014 | Joram Lürsen | Thriller | 5.6 | 28 | Dutch | Netherlands | This stylish, sexually charged thriller revolves around two men who kidnap a woman and chain her to a bed as they await the ransom money. As the clock ticks, the woman discovers that she may have a relationship with one of the kidnappers that she never expected...and that the two men may have a relationship with each other that no one could have expected. |
| Safety First - The Movie | 2,015 | Tim van Aelst | Comedy | 5.6 | 27 | Dutch | Unknown | Based on an insanely popular sitcom in Belgium about four incompetent security guards, Safety First: The Movie builds on this premise and ratchets up the crazy. In the film, the four security guards are going to work at the world-famous dance festival Tomorrowland. While there, Luc discovers that Dirk has feelings for... a man. But no one believes him (Ingrid promised Dirk she would keep his secret many years ago and Smos is busy trying to launch his own dance hit). Luc, however, is determined to prove that Dirk is gay. Let the madness begin! |
| Ventoux | 2,015 | Nicole van Kilsdonk | Drama | 5.6 | 27 | Dutch | Netherlands | A group of friends reunite after 30 years to climb the Mont Ventoux again. Memories to a happy youth but also new discoveries from the past. One person is not present at the reunion. Why is that? What happened? |
| Help! I’ve Shrunk the Family | 2,014 | Tim Oliehoek | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 5.6 | 27 | Dutch | Netherlands | Nine-year-old Johannes Blom gets blown away when he discovers a little man in the kitchen cupboard, hidden behind the peanut butter jar. He’s even more astonished when he realizes that this little man, ‘Wiplala’, has magical powers. When Wiplala accidentally transforms the Blom family to little people, the adventure begins. Will they ever go back to normal-sized people? |
| Kristen | 2,015 | Mark Weistra | Thriller, Horror | 5.6 | 25 | Dutch | Netherlands | On New Year’s Day, Kristen’s boyfriend Ivan drops her off at her father’s cafe to clean up after the night before. Then a mysterious figure starts ... |
| J. Kessels | 2,015 | Erik de Bruyn | Comedy, Drama | 5.6 | 20 | Dutch | Netherlands | J. Kessels is the story of the bizarre road trip taken by a French literary pulp writer with his favourite character J. Kessels. The journey takes them from Tilburg to the Hamburg Reeperbahn in Kessels' old American 'Kamikaze' clunker as they seek out cheating dealer. When they get there they find a corpse in the trunk of the Kamikaze: easy to find, but how do you get rid of it? |
| The Resurrection of a Bastard | 2,013 | Guido van Driel | Drama | 5.6 | 17 | Dutch | Belgium | A criminal from Amsterdam barely surviving a liquidation. An old Frisian farmer bent on revenge. An illegal immigrant with uncertain prospects. Eventually, they meet under an ancient oak tree. Beyond the last town. |
| Night Run | 2,006 | Dana Nechushtan | Drama, Thriller | 5.6 | 17 | Dutch | Netherlands | Dennis is a taxi driver trying to start out his own company. One day, he gets the opportunity to buy a scarce and expensive but lucrative license. |
| The Johnsons | 1,992 | Rudolf van den Berg | Adventure, Horror | 5.6 | 13 | Dutch | Netherlands | According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give birth to something evil to unleash horror and destruction upon human kind. Ugly septuplet brothers reproduced within the framework of mysterious genetic experiments terrorize a young innocent girl who seems to be chosen for the sinister predestination. |
| The Deflowering of Eva van End | 2,012 | Michiel ten Horn | Drama | 5.6 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | The ugly duckling of a fraught middle-class household has her life turned upside-down by the arrival of a handsome German exchange student, in this caustic, absurdist satire of petit-bourgeois family life from Dutch director Michiel ten Horn. (TIFF) |
| Frits and Franky | 2,013 | Mark Punt | Comedy | 5.6 | 11 | Dutch | Belgium | Frits & Franky find a lot of money in a car that crashes into the water. They don't know what to do with it. |
| Stille Nacht | 2,004 | Ineke Houtman | Thriller | 5.6 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | After two years of several rapes of female students a group of four girls decide to investigate the crimes by themselves and they prepare a list of possible rapists, leading the group to a tragic consequence. |
| Happy Family | 2,006 | Martin Koolhoven | Comedy, Romance | 5.6 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Thijs is a ripe-age Dutch tomato grower. His adult daughters plan to have him move in a skyscraper-flat, leaving home and professional life, but he... |
| Night Trip | 1,982 | Nick van den Boezem | Drama | 5.6 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | 12-year-old Thomas takes rowing lessons and grows rather fond of his teacher. He idolizes his trainer – and when the boy discovers that the person he felt such a love for lied to him in order to sleep with his mother – his heart is broken. It's hard for him to understand why his trainer would prefer to be intimate with his mother than to be with him. |
| Cub | 2,014 | Jonas Govaerts | Adventure, Horror | 5.5 | 244 | Dutch | Belgium | Over-imaginative 12 year-old Sam heads off to the woods to summer scout camp with his pack convinced that he will encounter a monster... |
| Boy 7 | 2,016 | Lourens Blok | Thriller, Action, Science Fiction | 5.5 | 68 | Dutch | Belgium | When Sam regains consciousness in the middle of a crowded subway, he doesn't know how he got there, where he came from nor his own name. He franticly searches for his identity, using the contents of his backpack. Slowly but surely he realizes his life is in great danger. |
| Bon Bini Holland | 2,015 | Jelle de Jonge | Comedy | 5.5 | 43 | Dutch | Netherlands | Robertico is forced to pay 200.000 gulden in damages due to a dodgy dealing. He pretends to be a business man to obtain an investment from the rich Ken Maduro. Until he falls in love with Ken's daughter. |
| Taped | 2,012 | Diederik Van Rooijen | Mystery, Thriller, Drama | 5.5 | 42 | Dutch | Netherlands | Johan and Saar make a final attempt to save their marriage by going on vacation to Buenos Aires. In keeping a promise to their daughter they will make a video of their activities there. When they accidentally witness (and videotape) a brutal murder they will have to run to stay alive. |
| Black Butterflies | 2,011 | Paula van der Oest | Drama, Romance | 5.5 | 36 | Dutch | Germany | Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addressed her as one of the finest poets of South Africa. |
| Dik Trom | 2,010 | Arne Toonen | Family | 5.5 | 32 | Dutch | Netherlands | Fat adolescent Dik Trom enjoys growing up in a hedonistic town devoted to food and fun. When a restaurant chain offers his father the life-long-dreamed opportunity to run his own, the Trom family moves. Their new home town Dunhoven is however inhabited by health freaks who prefer only fitness to dietary sobriety. |
| Costa! | 2,001 | Johan Nijenhuis | Romance, Comedy | 5.5 | 31 | Dutch | Netherlands | The story about a wild week at the Spanish coast. Romance at the beach, competition on the dance floor. Salty water, sweet kisses... |
| Dusk | 2,010 | Hanro Smitsman | Drama | 5.5 | 28 | Dutch | Netherlands | After a group of teenagers discover one of their friends lying dead on a river bank on one of the hottest days of summer, a story of jealousy, insecurity and peer pressure gradually unfolds. Group leader Caesar is able to magnify - out of all proportion - the small grievances that each of Jessie's friends bear towards her and transforms them into a general and pervasive hatred that leads ultimately to her horrible, senseless killing. |
| Killer Babes | 2,007 | Dick Maas | Comedy | 5.5 | 28 | Dutch | Netherlands | When three wealthy women hire a hit man to get rid of one of their cheating husbands, everything goes wrong. |
| Peter Bell | 2,002 | Maria Peters | Family, Comedy | 5.5 | 26 | Dutch | Germany | Peter 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. |
| The Renovation | 2,012 | Will Koopman | Thriller | 5.5 | 24 | Dutch | Netherlands | Tessa opens her luxurious clinic with a big party. She is smart, beautiful, savvy, and happily married with an intelligent adolescent son. But appearances are deceptive. In reality, her marriage is falling apart, her house renovation is a disaster and the finances of her clinic are a mess. Desperate, she accepts the helping hand of a friend from the past who has turned up suddenly, but in doing so, opens herself up to an ordeal of terror and blackmail. |
| The Silent Army | 2,008 | Jean van de Velde | Drama, Thriller | 5.5 | 23 | Dutch | Netherlands | Eduard Zuiderwijk (Marco Borsato) runs a restaurant in Africa. When his wife (Ricky Koole) suddenly dies, he is left to take care of his son Thomas (Siebe Schoneveld) on his own. When his son's best friend Abu (Andrew Kintu) is abducted by a rebel leader to be trained as a child soldier, Eduard goes in pursuit to save the boy and regain his son's respect. |
| A Thousand Kisses | 2,006 | Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen | Drama, Romance, Comedy | 5.5 | 21 | Dutch | Netherlands | Rising, rather autobiographical novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's suffering an incurable decease in which she suffers from paraplegia. Her inevitably ensuing death is brought forward with euthanasia. Giph is struggling to handle the situation with his mother. Shortly after his mother has passed he away, he decides to join his fun loving friends on La Palma for a holiday. There Samarinde tells her boyfriend she's expecting his baby |
| 06/05 | 2,004 | Theo van Gogh | Drama, Thriller | 5.5 | 21 | Dutch | Netherlands | A fictional version of the events that led to the assassination of the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn on May 6, 2002. The movie is based upon the book "The sixth of May" by Tomas Ross. |
| Summer Heat | 2,008 | Monique van de Ven | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.5 | 20 | Dutch | Netherlands | Photographer Bob loses his girlfriend. A year later he meets Kathleen. Is she in love? Or does she use him for her dark dealings with the mafia? |
| Alfie, the Little Werewolf | 2,011 | Joram Lürsen | Family | 5.5 | 18 | Dutch | Netherlands | On the night of his seventh birthday, sweet Alfie suddenly changes into a white fluffy werewolf. He doesn’t understand why. Alfie struggles with himself, because the wolf at night is capable of doing things that the shy boy would not during the day. Who is Alfie ? Will he be able to accept the way he really is ? A quirky and smart film that will delight you about a young boy who suddenly develops fullmoon issues. |
| Luke and Lucy: The Texas Rangers | 2,009 | Wim Bien | Animation | 5.5 | 16 | Dutch | Belgium | Dark City, Texas. A terrible bandit named Jim Parasite runs an illegal whiskey distillery. Parasite wants to become the biggest and has therefore developed a magical powder that can shrink anyone. The local Texas Rangers, led by the brave Ranger Tom, try to stop Parasijt, but are lured into a trap. Tom and his Rangers are shrunk and put into whiskey bottles. In an escape attempt, the bottle containing Ranger Tom ends up in a crate that is shipped to Belgium and thus ends up in the hands of Lambik, who is given a crate of whiskey by Theofiel Boomerang. Suske, Wiske, Aunt Sidonia, Lambik, Jerom, and Professor Barabas hear the story and decide to help Ranger Tom. Barabas will try to enlarge Ranger Tom again, and the rest travel to Dark City to stop Jim Parasijt. |
| Stronghold | 1,985 | Bobby Eerhart | Crime | 5.5 | 15 | Dutch | Netherlands | An isolated farmhouse is chosen as a hide-out by criminals Jim and Charlie after an armed robbery. The Deleye family are forced to accept the situation under Jim's brutal domination. |
| Dead End | 2,006 | Erwin van den Eshof | Thriller, Horror | 5.5 | 14 | Dutch | Netherlands | A group of young people head off on a vacation. When the car breaks down they're forced to find help. In the woods they find a house and some angry dogs which were by their car too. They decide to enter the house and that's where all the madness begins. |
| Brasserie Valentine | 2,016 | Sanne Vogel | Romance | 5.5 | 13 | Dutch | Netherlands | Thirty-something Valentine runs a renowned restaurant and her stylish dining room is fully booked for Valentine's Day. Chef cook Angelo prepares th... |
| Pentimento | 1,979 | Frans Zwartjes | Drama, Horror | 5.5 | 12 | Dutch | Netherlands | In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another. "Pentimento" is an art-historical term for a hidden image underneath the actual image giving an indication of how the latter evolved to its current state. |
| Men from Mars | 2,018 | Hans Somers | Comedy | 5.5 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | Dutch comedy about three school friends that return to The Marsman College for a reunion of their middle school. Their lives have changed completely after 25 years, but 40 is the new 20 and every man should become more handsome with age... or not? Where Edwin is still a woman's magnet his friends have all their different problems. Marks has been swapped for a younger guy bu his wife and family man Peter is struggling with his manhood since a can't read anymore without putting on his reading glasses. How do these guy's handle these changes? Grabbing a beer, not much talking, pad on the back and drinking away you hangover with even more alcohol? Or do things go different when you pass the age of 40? |
| Wastelands | 2,013 | Marco van Bergen | Drama | 5.5 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | Marc is in love with Olaf and dreams about a relationship with him. When they go camping together and his dream seems to become reality, he discovers something that smashes his dream completely. |
| The Debut | 1,977 | Nouchka van Brakel | Drama, Romance | 5.5 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl. |
| The Knife | 1,961 | Fons Rademakers | Drama | 5.5 | 11 | Dutch | Netherlands | A boy is resentful of his mother's budding romance with the best friend of her late husband, and is torn and confused about his emerging feelings for Toni, a young girl in his neighborhood. His fascination with an antique Oriental knife leads him to steal it and he uses it to try to impress Toni while at the same time trying to break up his mother's relationhip. |
| Blood Brothers | 2,008 | Arno Dierickx | Thriller | 5.5 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Two wealthy young brothers living on a plush estate give refuge to a petty criminal who is on the run from the police. Neither the boys' parents or their staff know about the fugitive's presence, which leads them open to exploitation. Sure enough, they soon discover the fugitive has no intention of leaving. |
| The Cave | 2,001 | Martin Koolhoven | Crime, Thriller | 5.5 | 10 | Dutch | Belgium | Psychological thriller. Geography teacher smuggles a case of heroin for a friend. |
| A Flight of Rainbirds | 1,981 | Ate de Jong | Drama, Comedy | 5.5 | 10 | Dutch | Netherlands | Maarten, a milquetoast bachelor living with his terminally ill mother, is haunted by a nightmare in which God tells him to lose his virginity or die within the week. |
| Q & Q | 1,978 | Bram van Erkel | Family, Crime, Thriller, Comedy | 5.5 | 10 | Dutch | Unknown | While the residents of Runichem are busy preparing for the approaching centenary, an art theft takes place in a villa. The same evening, an officer is shot at an alcohol check. When Wilbur tries to call home from the community center that night, the phone interferes and he hears a fragment of a conversation related to criminal activities. Wilbur and his friend Aristides decide to investigate this mysterious case, with the help of Akkie, daughter of inspector Swaan, and grandfather Quarles. This film is based on the second season of the Dutch tv series 'Q & Q'. |
| We | 2,018 | Rene Eller | Drama | 5.4 | 110 | Dutch | Belgium | During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between right and wrong. As innocence is crushed in depraved games and sexual exploitation, the teenagers soon turn into ruthless predators. |
| Nova Zembla | 2,011 | Reinout Oerlemans | History, Drama | 5.4 | 75 | Dutch | Netherlands | Gerrit de Veer, a novice writer on a 16th-century Dutch merchant vessel, chronicles the daring mission to discover a trade route across the North Pole to Asia. But the heroic journey turns into tragedy when the ship gets stuck in the relentless, penetrating ice. The men are forced to spend the winter on the frozen, arctic wasteland of Nova Zembla, fighting polar bears, hunger and lethal temperatures. Their chances of making it until the following spring are virtually zero. |
| Two Eyes Staring | 2,010 | Elbert van Strien | Horror | 5.4 | 59 | Dutch | Netherlands | Nine-year-old Lisa discovers her sinister new friend is the ghost of the dead twin of Lisa's mother. Then Lisa's father also begins to suspect his wife of hiding a terrible secret, resulting in deadly consequences… |
| Men in the City | 2,013 | Mark de Cloe | Comedy, Romance | 5.4 | 38 | Dutch | Netherlands | Following the love lives of different types of men in Amsterdam. |
| The Dinner | 2,013 | Menno Meyjes | Drama, Thriller | 5.4 | 37 | Dutch | Netherlands | Two brothers and their wives have dinner in a fancy restaurant to discuss their teenage children's misdeeds. An excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills. |
| Everybody's Famous! | 2,000 | Dominique Deruddere | Comedy, Drama, Music | 5.4 | 35 | Dutch | Belgium | Jean is a family man and factory worker who dreams of becoming a songwriter. Pinning his hopes on his teenage daughter, Marva, he takes her to singing contests in which the awkward and overweight girl struggles to belt out a tune. When Jean is suddenly fired because of cut backs, he is ashamed and even more desperate to have his daughter succeed. In a chance meeting Jean kidnaps the most famous pop star in the country and holds her hostage demanding to be heard by the music industry. Catching the attention of the media and the eyes of the nation, Jean and Marva realize that the show must go on until everyone is famous. |
| Beautiful Men | 2,023 | Nicolas Keppens | Animation, Drama | 5.4 | 25 | Dutch | Belgium | Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair. |
| Love Over Distance | 2,017 | Jelle de Jonge | Comedy, Romance | 5.4 | 21 | Dutch | Netherlands | A successful, city-based construction manager finds herself reconsidering her cosmopolitan life choices when her employer relocates her to a folksy seaside town. |
| Homies | 2,015 | Jon Karthaus | Comedy | 5.4 | 21 | Dutch | Netherlands | Just when Timo is trying to win back his ex-girlfriend by convincing her with his new and improved life, he and his friends are caught up in a drugs conflict. To stay alive, four ordinary guys need to sell 22 kilos of drugs within a week. |
| Disappearance | 2,017 | Boudewijn Koole | Drama | 5.4 | 18 | Dutch | Netherlands | Set in the remote winter landscape of Norway, Roos visits her mother there yearly, but this time it’s different: she brings bad news. However, old pain and numerous reproaches keep Roos from sharing anything with her mother. Aided by her half-brother and her old flame, the two women reconcile and Roos is able to make her next and inescapable step. |
| Lena | 2,011 | Christophe Van Rompaey | Drama | 5.4 | 18 | Dutch | Netherlands | Lena is a lonely, plump adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love. More than a lot. |
| Holly | 2,023 | Fien Troch | Drama | 5.4 | 17 | Dutch | Belgium | After Holly seems to have predicted a deadly school fire, all eyes are on her. Her teacher invites her to volunteer in the grieving community. Holly gives peace, warmth, and hope. Soon people start demanding more and more of her. |
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