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Films from the country "pays-bas", sorted by revenue

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American Girls
Directed by Maurits Binger
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Lola Cornero, Adelqui Migliar, Annie Bos, Jan van Dommelen, Paula de Waart

Beppie, Lola et Margie, sœurs et filles d'un millionnaire, font un voyage en Europe.
Major Frans
Directed by Maurits Binger
Origin Pays-bas
Actors Annie Bos, Lily Bouwmeester, Willem van der Veer, Louis Chrispijn sr., Paula de Waart, Christine van Meeteren

Wealthy John von Zwenken (Louis H. Chrispijn) lives with his daughter and son-in-law in a castle named De Werve. One day, he returns from hunting and is informed that a new child has been welcomed in the family. Disappointed and ashamed that the child is a girl, John introduces her to his friends and staff as a boy. Shortly after the delivery, the mother dies and the baby is left in John's hands. Twelve years later, young Frans (Lily Bouwmeester) lives an unusual life, having been raised as a boy by John and sgt. Rolf (Willem Hunsche). Her nanny's (Paula de Waart) attempts to teach her how to be a girl have been unsuccessful.
The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach, 6minutes
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Comedy

A bather (played by Willy Mullens) who is lounging in a beach chair is surprised by a sudden onset of water. He quickly pulls his pants off to keep them dry. A policeman is not appreciative and trouble grows, witnessed by a growing crowd. The bather tries to escape by disguising himself as a woman, and flees across the village but is eventually caught by the collar. A crowd of people and a musical band accompany his arrest.
Tears of Steel, 12minutes
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Science fiction, Animation, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Political films, Dystopian films, Robot films
Actors Derek de Lint

The short science fiction film is about a group of warriors and scientists who gather at the “Oude Kerk” in a future Amsterdam to stage a crucial event from the past in a desperate attempt to rescue the world from destructive robots.
Sintel
Sintel (2010)
, 14minutes
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about dragons
Actors Halina Reijn, Thom Hoffman

A woman, Sintel, is attacked while traveling through a wintery mountainside. After defeating her attacker and taking his spear, she finds refuge in a shaman's hut. He asks her why she's travelling, and she confesses she's looking for a dragon, leading into a flashback. Sintel was a homeless loner, looking for food when she discovered an injured baby dragon. She nursed him back to health and named him Scales, the two quickly formed an emotional bond. One day while Scales was flying he was captured by an adult dragon. Determined to get him back, Sintel began the long and dangerous journey that led her to the shaman's hut.
The Storm
The Storm (2009)
, 1h36
Directed by Uwe Boll, Ben Sombogaart
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes La fin du monde, Météorologie, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films
Actors Sylvia Hoeks, Luke Perry, Lauren Holly, Katja Herbers, Barry Atsma, Monic Hendrickx

A terrible storm causes hundreds of dikes to break in Zeeland, resulting in the North Sea flood of 1953. Julia, a single mother living with her parents, is caught in the middle of the catastrophic flood. She is rescued from drowning and taken to safety by her neighbour Aldo, who is a member of the armed forces. However, her baby is left in a wooden box in the attic of Julia's parental home. Together Julia and Aldo return to the disaster area to look for the baby. When they finally find the box, it is empty, and they conclude that someone must have taken the child. The child ended up with a woman who recently lost her own baby in a car accident. Julia met her but because the woman did not want to lose the baby, she hid him for Julia. Eighteen years later, Julia meets her son and the woman again and she finds out what has happened.
Enjoy Poverty, 1h30
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentaire sur une personnalité

For two years, Renzo Martens travels with his camera through the poorest and most violent areas of the Congolese interior. In these regions, where poverty is the highest export product, Martens start an emancipation program in which he encourages local communities to monetize their poverty. The local photographers, who are showing proudly their pictures of marriages and births, are encouraged to face their lenses on the most cruel and shocking situations. Renzo Martens explains carefully how they should shoot the jutting ribs of a malnourished child to make the picture attractive to sell to Western newspapers. When hope is flickering in the eyes of the Congolese photographers, it all comes down when they notice they will never obtain a press card to enter closed war zones. In this respect, Martens can only acknowledge the hopeless situation and organizes a party in the jungle to indulge their poverty.
The Letter for the King
Directed by Pieter Verhoeff
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Adventure
Actors Yannick van de Velde, Johan Leysen, Daan Schuurmans, Quinten Schram, Victor Reinier, Derek de Lint

Tiuri est un jeune apprenti chevalier. Pour le devenir, il doit encore passer une épreuve. Au cours de celle-ci, un inconnu lui demande de remettre une lettre à un chevalier en pleine forêt. Quand Tiuri trouve le destinataire, celui-ci, gravement blessé, lui demande de remettre lui-même la lettre au Roi car le sort du Royaume est en jeu. Tiuri va se lancer dans l'aventure et faire face à d'innombrables adversaires…
Big Buck Bunny, 9minutes
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Comedy, Animation
Actors Frank Welker, Liam Neeson

The plot follows a day of the life of Big Buck Bunny when he meets three bullying rodents, Frank (the leader of the rodents), Rinky and Gamera. The rodents amuse themselves by harassing helpless creatures of the forest by throwing fruits, nuts and rocks at them.
Blind
Blind (2007)
, 1h38
Directed by Tamar van den Dop
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Halina Reijn, Jan Decleir, Amaryllis Uitterlinden, Betty Schuurman

Ruben (Joren Seldeslachts) is a lone and unbalanced young man who lost his sight in childhood. Marie (Halina Reijn) 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?
Paid
Paid (2006)
, 1h31
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Anne Charrier, Murilo Benício, Tom Conti, Guy Marchand, Corbin Bernsen, Marie-France Pisier

Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story between Paula Gireaux, a 28-year-old Parisian call girl working in Amsterdam and a hit man, Michel Angelo (30) whose hearts are touched when a six-year-old Bolivian boy abruptly enters their lives. The boy changes their fate. He gives them reason to reach for their dreams and to start a whole new life together.
Elephants Dream, 10minutes
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Animation
Actors Tygo Gernandt, Ian McShane, Ricky Gervais

Elephants Dream est une courte histoire mettant en scène deux personnages, Emo et Proog, dans un monde modelé par les pensées des deux personnages. Proog, l'aîné, est émerveillé par ce monde et ses mystères ; Emo, de son côté, est lassé de son environnement.
The Dress
The Dress (1996)
, 1h43
Directed by Alex van Warmerdam
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Henri Garcin, Ingeborg Elzevier, Peter Blok, Jacob Derwig, Rudolf Lucieer, Rijk de Gooyer

Une robe, de sa conception à sa destruction, sera le catalyseur de divers événements de par les femmes successives qui la porteront, et des hommes qui croiseront leurs propriétaires.