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Baantjer (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Baantjer is a Dutch television programme which was broadcast by RTL 4 from 6 October 1995 until 1 December 2006 for a total of 123 episodes in 12 seasons. It stars Piet Römer as Jurriaan 'Jurre' de Cock, a police detective, and Victor ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: police detective, police, murder, multiple suspects, police investigation, law enforcement, unfaithfulness, adultery, police officer, forensics, extramarital affair, investigation ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, holland, europe
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Annie MG (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: Netherlands
TV show
Story: A miniserie about famous Dutch childrenbook writer Annie M.G. Smidt
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: world war two, writer's life, strong female presence, family relations, writers, father daughter relationship, interview, love, death, artists and showbiz, biopic, dance ...
Time: 20th century
Place: europe, holland
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Eye Catcher! (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Elizabeth, a voluptuous, shy and unpopular girl, is the object of ridicule at school by the cool in-crowd. Her life spirals downward after the death of her only friend, her grandmother. But she has a crush on a popular boy at school, and a deranged ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: schizophrenic, losing-it hero, bullying, rivalry, teenage life, youth, social misfits, vengeance, physical appearance, obsession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
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Frailer (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer gathers her three dearest friends together to make the most of the time she has left.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: best friend, friends, friendship, strong female presence, terminal illness, siblings relations, unfulfillment, family relations, resistance
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
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Heart Street (2014)
Genre: Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, light ...
Plot: family business, looking for love, opposites attract, family relations, fall in love, small town, buddies, love and romance, computers and web, single parent, disorder, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: amsterdam, holland
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Sonny Boy (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: interracial relations, world war two, forbidden love, unlikely couple, coming of age, family relations, racism, society, love affair, couples, parents and children, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: holland, europe
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Claustrofobia (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 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.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary ...
Plot: quest, captive woman, kidnapped woman, held captive, isolation, bondage, danger, woman in danger, schizophrenia, death, kidnapping, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, amsterdam
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A Question of Silence (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three women, all strangers to each other, meet in a dress boutique. One of the three is approached by the male proprietor as she is shoplifting a garment. When he approaches her the other two join her in beating the man to death. Other female ...
Style: mind bending, rough, realistic, bleak, tense ...
Plot: feminist, feminism, girl power, philosophy, gender, solidarity, sisterhood, murder, profanity, dishonesty, false accusation, society ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: holland
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LelleBelle (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 19-year old Belle practices playing the violin diligently, but is unable to impart her music with a sensitive undertone. Her life changes when she discovers that sexual desire stimulates passion in her music.
Style: sexy, sentimental, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lust, sex, sex with a stranger, coming of age, musician, audition, hand job, self discovery, musician's life, follow your dream, fish out of water, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
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1572: The Battle of Harlem (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, captivating, exciting, realistic, costume drama
Plot: battles, folk hero, danger, heroes, military, escapades, female warrior, medieval, dutch history, revolution, death penalty, women ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages
Place: holland, europe, netherlands
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Blood Brothers (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, bleak
Plot: blackmail, juvenile delinquency, social differences, friendship, family relations, youth, society, dysfunctional family, betrayal, murder, brother brother relationship, class differences ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, holland, netherlands
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Boys (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 78 min.
Story: BOYS tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national relay championships and meets the intriguing and unpredictable Marc. ...
Style: touching, realistic, sentimental, lgbt cinema, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, gay teenager, gay love, gay romance, gay athlete, gay relationship, fall in love, coming of age, lgbt teen, teenage love, gay interest, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: holland
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Diary of a Hooker (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Controversial director Paul Verhoeven made his feature-film debut with this Dutch comedy-drama about two prostitutes working in the Amsterdam Red Light district, and the many strange and unusual men they meet through their work. Also known as Diary ...
Style: erotic, sex comedy, psychological, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, hooker, dominatrix, prostitution, sex scene, female bonding, female protagonist, wedding, domestic violence, role playing, sexual fantasy, lust ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: amsterdam, holland
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Ciske the Rat (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Lovable Amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old Ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the German 1955 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 ...
Style: cult classic, epic, gloomy, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: boy, coming of age, youth, abuse, murder, childhood, loneliness, child abuse, nudity, society, social misfits, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1930s, year 1934
Place: amsterdam, europe, holland
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Vincent & Theo (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
Style: touching, psychological, scenic, sexy, cult classic ...
Plot: painter, art, artist, painting, biopic, genius, obsession, brother brother relationship, poverty, art history, life is a bitch, mentally unstable ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 80s
Place: holland, europe, london, paris france, france
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The Delivery (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Sometimes the easiest jobs get a little complicated
Style: exciting, light, tense, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: on the road, danger, drug dealing, partner, brutality, escapades, woman with a gun, friends, terrorism, unlikely criminals, striptease, betrayal ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, spain, amsterdam, holland, barcelona
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Flodder (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A low-class a-social family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble.
Style: humorous, cult classic, realistic, not serious
Plot: dysfunctional family, neighbor, eccentric family, culture clash, rivalry, gay, milf, light comedy, social worker, family relations, sex scene, blackmail ...
Time: year 1986
Place: netherlands, europe, holland
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Bobby and the Ghost Hunters (2013)
Genre: Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Sanne (Hanna Obbeek) loves stories about ghosts and other mysterious things. Her father Lucas, is a famous ghost hunter. During a holiday Lucas is asked to chase ghosts of the former cruise ship 'Rotterdam'. Sanne is very happy to hear she ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, exciting
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: ghost, ship, heroes, young heroes, family relations, parents and children, teenage life, supernatural, supernatural ability, youth, curses spells and rituals, danger ...
Place: holland
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The Renovation (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: cheating wife, infidelity, renovation, loveless marriage, unhappy wife, family problems, crumbling marriage, manipulation, unfulfillment, surgery, old friend, trap ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
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Reykjavik-Rotterdam (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Iceland, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A former sailor who has served prison sentences for alcohol smuggling fights to keep his family afloat. He is offered pay for a last tour of cargo between Reykjavik and Rotterdam. He agrees, in the hope to get out of debt, but unexpected events ...
Style: suspense, realistic, captivating, tense, neo noir ...
Plot: delivery, down on your luck, smuggling, danger, rivalry, security guard, financial problem, escapades, mafia, ex convict, sailor, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, iceland, rotterdam netherlands, holland
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Kill Zombie! (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The bizarre story takes place in Amsterdam-West, where a virus turns people into bloodthirsty zombies. Although much blood is flowing and many limbs chopped off, there is a lot to laugh at in this bizarre horror comedy.
Style: parody, humorous, captivating, tense, not serious ...
Plot: zombie, zombie attack, living dead, survival, danger, chaos, buddies, supernatural, zombie survival, walking dead, undead, zombie outbreak ...
Time: 21st century
Place: amsterdam, holland, europe
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The Diary of Anne Frank (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: Called the most accurate adaptation of Anne Frank’s moving diary, the film chronicles the Frank family as they flee from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Hiding behind a bookcase in a secret annex with random bombs exploding, Anne faces friction with her ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, historical drama ...
Plot: holocaust, nazism, against humanity, world war two, diary, wartime life, survival, human spirit, confined, life is a bitch, danger, youth ...
Time: 1940s, 1900s, 20th century
Place: holland, europe, netherlands, amsterdam
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The Other (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Chilling and eerie, this supernatural tale of good versus evil coils around twin brothers living with their grandmother in a sleepy rural area during the summer of 1935. After his grandmother encourages Niles to develop what seem to be psychic ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, creepy, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: evil child, creepy child, twins, macabre, coming of age, child, supernatural, psychology, murder, evil twin, creepy kid, danger ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1972
Place: usa, europe, holland, connecticut
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Waiter (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: captivating, touching, semi serious, humorous, slasher ...
Plot: waiter, destiny, dull life, change of luck, midlife crisis, starting over, family relations, dark humor, unsupportive coworkers, lovers, relationship problems, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany, netherlands, holland, amsterdam
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The Gang of Oss (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town of Oss in the 30ties of the 20th century. The harder she tries, the more she is involved.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
Plot: gang, life is a bitch, starting over, down on your luck, redemption, hopes, small town, criminal, violence, murder, sex scene, dutch mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place: europe, holland, netherlands
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Blind (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In late 19th century's Netherlands, an albino woman and a blind man develop an indiscriminate love for one another. Will love be blind?
Style: serious, tense, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: blindness, disability, older woman younger man relationship, albino, love affair, physical appearance, fall in love, master and servant, blind character, bullying, stream of consciousness, blind man ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, holland
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Swamp Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, captivating, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: swamp, superhero, creature, monster, laboratory, rescue, good versus evil, danger, superhuman powers, transformation, chase, villain ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, washington d.c., usa, holland, europe
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Twin Sisters (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Twin Sisters is an epic love story based on the Dutch bestseller by Tessa de Loo that has been read by more than 3.5 million readers in Holland and Germany.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, twins, wartime life, family reunited, family relations, ss officer, life is a bitch, culture clash, orphan, society, human nature, reconciliation ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: germany, europe, holland, netherlands
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Julie Walking Home (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: cheating wife, true love, cancer, infidelity, hopes, betrayal, family relations, human nature, danger, survival, dishonesty, couples ...
Place: poland, nova scotia, holland, europe, canada
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All Stars 2: Old Stars (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: road trip, silly humor, friends, midlife crisis, introspection, buddies, friendship, soccer match, soccer, funeral, nudism, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: barcelona, france, spain, germany, europe ...
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