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Films from the country "pays-bas", sorted by rating
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Twin Sisters (2002)
, 2h17Directed by Ben Sombogaart
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl, Ellen Vogel, Thekla Reuten, Betty Schuurman, Barbara Auer
The film tells the story of twin German sisters Lotte (Thekla Reuten) and Anna (Nadja Uhl) who are separated when they are six. After the death of their parents, they are "divided" between quarreling distant relatives, one being raised in the Netherlands and the other in Germany. Lotte grows up in a loving middle-class intellectual family in Amsterdam, and Anna is raised in virtual servitude by a poor Catholic peasant family in a backward area .
, 1h24Origin Pays-bas
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Feminist films, Films about magic and magicians, Films about dragons, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jack Angel
One stormy night, a servant dog named Yost is reading that storms are caused by dragons. Starting to believe it to be true, he wakes up his employer, a bear named Oliver. When Oliver tries to convince Yost that dragons do not exist. Yost tries to convince Oliver otherwise by showing him a book he'd been reading during the storm. Oliver takes the book and reads a dragon-calling spell from it and the wind blows the curtains in their faces, and Oliver does not notice a dragon walking by the window. After the storm dies down, they see dragon tracks on the ground, and Yost goes searching for more evidence, Visiting Oliver's next door neighbor Kit Cat. He tells Kit Cat about what had happened with her determining that if she were a dragon after having laid an egg, she'd leave on the back path behind the gardens. In the middle of the forest, Yost insisted they look around to find something to convince Oliver that dragons are real and find a spherical object. Not knowing what it is, they take it back to Oliver, who assumes that it is a beach ball.
Abel (1986)
, 1h40Directed by Alex van Warmerdam
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Comedy
Actors Alex van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Annet Malherbe, Olga Zuiderhoek, Loes Luca, Josse De Pauw
Abel is a 31-year-old boy who still lives at his parents home. He hasn't been out for over 10 years, much to the chagrin of his father Victor. On the other hand, he gets spoiled by his mother Duif. He spends most of his days spying on the neighbours, setting up his parents against each other and fruitlessly trying to cut flies in two with an enormous pair of scissors.
The Eye Above the Well (1988)
, 1h30Directed by Johan van der Keuken
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Documentary
À travers le portrait d'une famille d'artiste du Kerala, Johan van der Keuken filme diverses situations d'apprentissage dans une école de danse, de chant, d'arts martiaux mais aussi au théâtre ou à l'école védique. Le cinéaste observe comment, dans cette communauté rurale, le savoir passe d'une génération à l'autre dans le respect des traditions. Parallèlement, nous suivons le parcours d'un petit préteur sur gage et la circulation de l'argent dans le village. Dans ces séquences, Johan van der Keuken filme le quotidien des artisans et des ouvriers au travail.
The Northerners (1992)
, 1h48Directed by Alex van Warmerdam
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Annet Malherbe, Jack Wouterse, Rudolf Lucieer, Loes Wouterson, Alex van Warmerdam, Victor Löw
Chronique tragique et comique de la vie des habitants d'une petite ville nouvelle aux Pays-Bas en 1960.
Left Luggage (1998)
, 1h40Directed by Jeroen Krabbé
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Laura Fraser, Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé, Chaim Topol, Marianne Sägebrecht, Maximilian Schell
While escaping from Nazis during World War II, a Jewish man buries two suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, an obsessive compulsion. He keeps checking old maps and keeps digging, trying to find what he lost. His daughter Chaya is a beautiful modern girl looking for a part-time job. She finds a place as a nanny in the strictly observant hassidic family with many children, although her secular manners clearly fly in the face of their beliefs. One of the reasons she is accepted is that mother of the family is absolutely overburdened by the household, so Chaya stays despite the resistance of the father, who is normally an indisputable authority in the family.
The 4th Man (1983)
, 1h42Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror, Crime, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman, Hans Veerman
Gerard Reve (Jeroen Krabbé), an alcoholic, bisexual novelist, leaves Amsterdam to deliver a lecture at the Vlissingen Literary Society. There, he becomes sexually involved with its attractive treasurer, Christine Halslag (Renée Soutendijk), who is alternately described as a witch, black widow, Delilah and the Devil. The Virgin Mary appears to him in visions to show that he is targeted as her fourth victim. Mary says, "Anyone given a warning must listen to it." Gerard listens and his life is spared. He passes on the warning to Herman, Christine's other lover, who ignores it, thinking that Gerard is trying to scare him off so that he can have Christine for himself. The movie ends with Herman's death, Christine's selection of a fifth victim and Gerard's future uncertain.
The Paradise Suite (2015)
, 1h58Directed by Joost van Ginkel
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama
Actors Anjela Nedyalkova, Boris Isaković, Jasna Đuričić, Magnus Krepper, Eva Röse, Sigrid ten Napel
histoire de six personnes de trouver l'autre et, parfois avec un seul coup d'œil, influencer la vie des autres de manière irréversible. Pour la belle jeune bulgare Jenya, ...
Blind (2007)
, 1h38Directed 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?
The Pointsman (1986)
, 1h36Directed by Jos Stelling
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama
Actors John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Josse De Pauw
A French woman gets off a train by mistake at a remote location. She tries to ask the pointsman for help, but the two do not understand each other's languages. She waits for another train to arrive, but it never happens.
Turkish Delight (1973)
, 1h52Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Rutger Hauer, Monique van de Ven, David Rappaport, Bert André, Joost Prinsen
Eric, a sculptor, wakes up recalling a disturbing dream followed by frantically picking up random women from the streets and taking them back to his studio for sex. However, he is clearly distressed about something, and it turns out that this is the aftermath of his breakup with Olga. The movie then recounts his relationship with Olga.
The Polish Bride (1998)
, 1h29Directed by Karim Traïdia
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Monic Hendrickx
Jackdaw Boy (2012)
, 1h21Directed by Boudewijn Koole
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama
Actors Cahit Ölmez, Susan Radder, Ricky Koole
Jojo, petit garçon de 8 ans environ, a perdu sa mère, et son père traverse une dépression à la suite du décès de sa femme. Jojo continue à la faire vivre dans le quotidien, en lui parlant au téléphone et en fêtant son anniversaire. Il est beaucoup livré à lui-même alors que le père s'accroche à son travail. Jojo fait la rencontre d'un petit choucas tombé de son nid, qui va l'aider à remplir sa solitude, malgré l'interdiction de son père.