Dutch film history

This database contains information about film in the Netherlands, and is gradually being expanded. At this moment, you can find information about early films (from ca. 1900-1930) and about experimental films.

Note: Many records provide information about a film, but do not show the film itself (due to copyright restrictions, or because the film has been lost over the course of time). Click here to see a list of films that can actually be viewed.

 

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    De club van de Zwarte Panter

    Children’s film in which a group of boys headed by the Black Panther battle it out with a gang of smugglers.

    De club van de Zwarte Panter tells the story of a group of boys and their leader Jan, a.k.a. the Black Panther. They are fighting...

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    Drie jongens en een hond

    Children’s film about a disabled boy whose faithful dog is stolen.

    Jantje is an orphan who lives with his grandfather. His only real friend is Nero, his dog. One day Nero is stolen by a vagrant who wants to sell him. The dog attacks him...

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    Het dwaallicht

    This film is a reasonably accurate adaptation of Willem Elsschot's last work, a 40-page melancholic novella written in 1948.

    Buyens, who had known the writer personally, had already toyed with the idea of filming the book, but...

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    Help, de dokter verzuipt

    The bestseller on which this comedy was based provided director Nikolai van der Heyde with plenty of picturesque atmosphere as the basis of a sparkling village adventure, set in the late 1920s.

    Everyday life proceeds in its lazy rhythm...

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    Mariken van Nieumeghen

    Mariken van Nieumeghen tells the story of a young girl who, at a time when the plague was raging through the Southern Netherlands, falls under the spell of the Devil for a period of seven years.

    This colourful spectacle is often...

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    Overload

    'Overload' is a term from the computer world indicating that a computer is unable to process any further data. The film Overload tries to realise a similar process with its audience. 'I intend Overload to be provocative and...

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    Pallieter

    Pallieter lives together with his girlfriend in a stifling occult atmosphere which drives her to suicide. From this moment on, Pallieter becomes an acolyte of nature, renouncing everything connected with his past and embracing life with a...

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    Paradijs der jeugd

    Dutch children’s film promoting a healthy lifestyle for Arnhem schoolchildren.

    The film tells the story of Kees Brul, a street urchin in Arnhem who is in danger of going astray. The reason is that he’s lacking a healthy living environment...

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    Les plus belles escroqueries du monde

    Four-part film project with short films by Claude Chabrol, Ugo Gregoretti, Hiromichi Horikawa and Roman Polanski. Each episode plays in a different city: Amsterdam, Paris, Naples and Tokyo. The theme that runs through each of the films is...

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    Rooie Sien

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