01 Four old university friends' careers all begin quietly unraveling around the same time.
12 Best Dutch Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 13, 2026
Netherlands Drama thought provokingintense
Paul Verhoeven’s brash, provocative early Dutch films built his reputation long before Hollywood, and Dutch cinema since has kept a similar willingness to push past politeness that a lot of European film shies away from.
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02 Three women's lives, tangled around the same man, unfold from a shared 1953 emigration flight to New Zealand.
03 A gang of unemployed small-town friends declares their own micronation, gleefully and violently.
04 A Jewish singer infiltrates Nazi headquarters as a resistance spy in the war's final year.
05 A matriarch builds an unconventional, multi-generational household of women on her own terms.
06 A ruthless bailiff's illegitimate son rises through the ranks of the very system built to crush him.
07 A bisexual writer becomes convinced his new lover has murdered each of her three previous husbands.
08 Three motocross-obsessed friends' rivalries and ambitions curdle over one restless summer.
09 A group of Dutch students take wildly different paths through the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
10 A sculptor's all-consuming, chaotic relationship with a woman survives even her terminal illness.
11 A Dutch-Moroccan teenager's growing radicalization pulls her away from her family and into an extremist marriage abroad.
12 A mute frontier midwife's past catches up with her when a menacing preacher arrives in her new town.
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