# The best Dutch films of all time

The Dutch films that score highest with audiences and critics and come up most often in lists by Filmtotaal, Ziggo and others: from Verhoeven classics to Oscar winners.

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- Feb 9, 2024 · seasonfinale_little
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## Top 18

1. **Turkish Delight** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Paul Verhoeven, 1973. Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven, from Jan Wolkers; over 3.3 million admissions and a Golden Calf for best Dutch film of the century in 1999.
2. **Character** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mike van Diem, 1997. Father and son in 1920s Rotterdam, from F. Bordewijk; Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
3. **Black Book** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Paul Verhoeven, 2006. Carice van Houten as a Jewish woman in hiding who joins the Resistance.
4. **The Vanishing** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — George Sluizer, 1988. A woman disappears at a petrol station; one of the most terrifying endings in film history.
5. **Soldier of Orange** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Paul Verhoeven, 1977. Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema in the Resistance; the international breakthrough for Hauer and Krabbé.
6. **The Assault** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fons Rademakers, 1986. A 1945 assassination haunts a boy all his life, from Harry Mulisch; Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
7. **Katie Tippel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Paul Verhoeven, 1975. Monique van de Ven as a poor girl in 19th-century Amsterdam, from Neel Doff.
8. **Flodder** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Dick Maas, 1986. An antisocial family in a posh suburb; one of the biggest Dutch box-office hits.
9. **Fanfare** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bert Haanstra, 1958. Two rival brass bands in Giethoorn.
10. **Ciske the Rat** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Wolfgang Staudte, 1955. A neglected Amsterdam boy, from Piet Bakker.
11. **The Girl with the Red Hair** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ben Verbong, 1981. Renée Soutendijk as Resistance heroine Hannie Schaft.
12. **The Fourth Man** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Paul Verhoeven, 1983. Jeroen Krabbé as a writer and a femme fatale who has outlived three husbands.
13. **Zus & Zo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Paula van der Oest, 2001. Three sisters and a hotel in Portugal; Oscar-nominated.
14. **Love Is All** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Joram Lürsen, 2007. A romantic comedy around Sinterklaas; an audience favourite.
15. **Borgman** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alex van Warmerdam, 2013. A drifter insinuates himself into a wealthy family; the first Dutch film in competition at Cannes in 38 years.
16. **The Northerners** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alex van Warmerdam, 1992. An absurdist tragicomedy in a half-finished new housing estate.
17. **Kauwboy** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Boudewijn Koole, 2012. A boy and a jackdaw; Best First Feature at the Berlinale.
18. **Winter in Wartime** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Martin Koolhoven, 2008. A boy helps an English pilot in the occupied winter of 1944–45.
19. **Antonia's Line** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Marleen Gorris, 1995. Four generations of women in a village; Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

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