12 Best Dutch Movies to Watch

Four old university friends' careers all begin quietly unravelling at the same time.

Directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen · 1h 48m

Three women's lives, tangled around the same man, unfold from a shared 1953 emigration flight to New Zealand.

Directed by Ben Sombogaart · 2h 10m · Rated R

A gang of unemployed small-town friends declares their own micronation, gleefully and violently.

Directed by Steffen Haars & Flip van der Kuil · 1h 24m

A Jewish singer joins the Dutch resistance and infiltrates the Nazi command from the inside.

Directed by Paul Verhoeven · 2h 25m · Rated R

A matriarch builds an unconventional, multi-generational household of women on her own terms.

Directed by Marleen Gorris · 1h 42m · Rated R

A ruthless bailiff's illegitimate son rises through the ranks of the very system built to crush him.

Directed by Mike van Diem · 2h 02m

A bisexual writer becomes convinced his new lover has murdered each of her three previous husbands.

Directed by Paul Verhoeven · 1h 38m · Rated NR

Three motocross-obsessed friends' rivalries and ambitions curdle over one restless summer.

Directed by Paul Verhoeven · 2h 00m

A group of Dutch students take wildly different paths through the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

Directed by Paul Verhoeven · 2h 28m · Rated R

A sculptor's all-consuming, chaotic relationship with a woman survives even her terminal illness.

Directed by Paul Verhoeven · 1h 48m · Rated R

A Dutch-Moroccan teenager's growing radicalisation pulls her away from her family and into an extremist movement.

Directed by Mijke de Jong · 1h 38m

A mute frontier midwife's past catches up with her when a menacing preacher arrives in her new town.

Directed by Martin Koolhoven · 2h 28m · Rated R