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Little Crumb
1999 film by Maria Peters
Away
2025 film
Swingers
2002 film by Stephan Brenninkmeijer
Simon
2004 film directed by Eddy Terstall
Someone Else's Happiness
2005 film by Fien Troch
Little Sister
1995 film by Robert Jan Westdijk
Like Two Drops of Water
1963 film by Fons Rademakers
Sea of Silence
2003 film by Stijn Coninx
The Sea That Thinks
2000 film by Gert de Graaff
170 Hz
2011 film by Joost van Ginkel
Storm
2009 film by Hans-Christian Schmid
Heysel 85
2026 Belgian film by Teodora Ana Mihai
Dokter Pulder zaait papavers
1975 film by Bert Haanstra
Exit: una storia personale
2010 film by Massimiliano Amato
The Silent Army
2008 film by Jean van de Velde
Salvation
2026 film by Emin Alper
The Dinner
2013 drama film by Menno Meyjes
The Hyena’s Sun
1977 film by Ridha Behi
The Little Blonde Death
1993 film by Jean van de Velde
Fox and Hare Save the Forest
2024 animated film
A House in Jerusalem
2023 film directed by Muayad Alayan
Tirza
Tirza is a 2010 Dutch drama film written and directed by Rudolf van den Berg, based on the Dutch bestseller of the same name by Arnon Grunberg. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it didn't make the final shortlist.
Eami
EAMI is a 2022 drama film written, co-produced and directed by Paz Encina. It was screened in the 51st International Film Festival Rotterdam and won the Tiger Award.
Kenau
Kenau is a 2014 Dutch / Hungarian / Belgian action film directed by Maarten Treurniet. The film is inspired by the legendary story of Kenau who led an army of women in the siege of Haarlem by the Spaniards in 1573 during the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain.
Buladó
Buladó is a 2020 Curaçaoan drama film directed by Eché Janga. The film premiered at Netherlands Film Festival on the 2 October 2020. The film won the Golden Calf for Best Feature Film award. It was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The story, laced with magic realism, follows headstrong 11-year-old girl Kenza who is determined to find her own path into adulthood, as she mourns her mom. She is torn between her agnostic father Ouira and her spiritual grandfather Weljo.
Mariken van Nieumeghen
1974 film by Jos Stelling
Love Is a Fat Woman
1987 film by Alejandro Agresti
Hemel
2012 film
Sweet Dreams
Satirical Dutch-Indonesian film directed by Ena Sendijarević.
Rembrandt fecit 1669
1977 Dutch film directed by Jos Stelling
Prejudice
2015 film by Antoine Cuypers
Ordinary People
2009 film by Vladimir Perišić
When It Melts
2023 film directed by Veerle Baetens
A Question of Silence
1982 film by Marleen Gorris
Broken Mirrors
1984 film by Marleen Gorris
Take Me Somewhere Nice
2019 film written and directed by Ena Sendijarević
In for Treatment
1979 film by Marja Kok, Erik van Zuylen
R U There
2010 film
Daughter of Rage
2022 drama film by Laura Baumeister de Montis
Eline Vere
1991 film by Harry Kümel
Knielen op een bed violen
2016 film by Ben Sombogaart
Op Hoop van Zegen
1934 film by Louis Saalborn, Alex Benno
A Gangstergirl
1966 film by Frans Weisz
Roze Kate
1912 film by Oscar Tourniaire
Forty Years
1938 film by Edmond T. Gréville
Scratches in the Table
1998 film by Ineke Houtman
Under the Palms
1999 film by Miriam Kruishoop
Tropic of Emerald
1997 film by Orlow Seunke
Nayola
Nayola is a 2022 adult animated drama film directed by José Miguel Ribeiro in his directorial debut. It is based on the play A Caixa Preta by José Eduardo Agualusa & Mia Couto who co-wrote the script with Virgilio Almeida. It tells the story of 3 women from 3 generations who lived through the tragic period of the Angolan civil war. It is a co-production between Portugal, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Baghdad Messi
2023 Belgian film
A Male
2022 film directed by Fabián Hernández
Paradise Drifters
2020 film by Mees Peijnenburg
Menuet
1982 film by Lili Rademakers
Secrets of War
2014 film by Dennis Bots
Dede
2017 film by Mariam Khatchvani
The Dream
1985 film by Pieter Verhoeff
Sweet Desire
2010 film by Mischa Kamp
Mr. K
2024 surreal drama film
Interview
2003 film by Theo van Gogh
Lily Was Here
1989 film by Ben Verbong