Best Dutch fantasy movies

2nd War Hats (1986)

Somewhere in a bombed city: transvestite heads show beautiful ladies hats. We see the latest fashion and hear cheerful music while the war continues.

The Lift (1983)

A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.

Drifter (2008)

Four characters wake in a desert, disoriented and lost with no clue where they are or how they got there.

Midnight (2020)

A teen tries to solve the mystery behind a series of murders that recently happened in his neighborhood, but he meets with a terrible fate when he does.

The Seven Mirrors (2022)

After losing both his parents Ralph struggles with a depression. A year later he decides to slowly reduce his medicines with the help of his psychiatrist, although Ralph doesn't always follow his advice. On a rainy day Ralph has one of his usual appointments with the psychiatrist. As unusual as it is, this time the psychiatrist felt compelled to tell Ralph a dramatic story, inspired by a mysterious painting on the wall.

Jours de mes années (1959)

Madonna's Pig (2011)

Traveling salesman Tony Roozen and his newest gadget, Porky (a robotic pig) end up stranded in the tiny hamlet of Madonna where deep and lasting political conflicts have disrupted village life. Tony can t wait to leave this godforsaken place but the young village teacher Maria Glorie needs his help. Who knows, maybe Porky can lend a hand?

Life In One Day (2009)

Benny Wult grows up in a world where each human life lasts only a few days and everything happens only once. Sexual intercourse can be done only once after which the genitals are useless. The same goes for drunkenness. Get drunk again, you die. Woman are also only pregnant once. Clothes are worn only 1 time and children literally grow out of their clothes. Only eating repeats itself, but each person eats only three times and each meal is different.

Rotterdam, I Love You (0)

Several love stories set in one of the most interesting new cities in the world, Rotterdam.

Dolfje Weerwolfje musical! (2016)

The Tears of Maria Machita (1991)

Based on the traditional Dutch smartlap genre (an overly dramatic folk song). Maria Machita has to deal with a lot of heartache in this short musical film; her father dies in an accident, her mother perishes in the theatre, and her sweet Turkish boyfriend is leaving the country. Awarded with a Gouden Kalf for Best Short Film, the Prijs van de Stad Utrecht and the Pathé Tuschinski Award. (from http://www.filmfestival.nl/publiek/films/de-tranen-van-maria-machita)

I Am the Only (2014)

This short movie takes us through beautiful landscapes and oppressive spaces. A dream sequence that leads to liberation, on the border between imagination and reality. We travel with a boy who matures. He dreams, he dances, he is the conductor. The only.

Red (2013)

It's been twenty years since the horrible events that happened to Little Red Riding Hood, but she still fears that the past may come back to haunt her.

When Forever Dies (2020)

An archival fiction feature about the eternal battle of the sexes, in which two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows fight to keep their love alive as they gradually fall in hate. Their names are Forever Man and Forever Woman. They are embodied by actors and actresses from long-gone eras, but also by cartoon characters and puppet animations. Together they narrate the story of the euphoric ups and tragic downs of human existence. When Forever Dies, a virtuoso collage of film fragments from the Eye Filmmuseum archive, is an epic ode to largely unseen cinema anchored in the polarizing world of today.

Wings of Fame (1990)

A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as a result of an accident. Next, they both find themselves in after-life, where souls of all famous people are gathered.

I Can Fly (2017)

The 22-year-old Lisa is approached on the street by the 23-year-old Sven, after a flirt and a joke, Sven asks Lisa the question: Do you believe that I can fly?

The Curse of Lughus (2021)

In The Curse of Lughus an ancient poltergeist escapes. He enters the statue of the jam advertising character Flipje in Tiel and from then on, all the wishes expressed on the market square come true. When Romy and her brother argue, Ryan suddenly disappears. Is the statue involved somehow?Director Sjoerd de Bont will be present for a q&a.

Pinkeltje (1978)

The gnomes Pinkeltje and Pinkelotje are visiting Dick Laan, the writer of the books about them. In a meanwhile, two assistents of professor Ludwig von Cleve found where the other Pinkels live and kidnapped some important Pinkels. Professor Ludwig von Cleve puts them in a doll house to expreiment on them. Dick Laan, Pinkeltje and Pinkelotje made up a tricky plan to rescue the captured Pinkels.

The Flying Dutchman (1995)

Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.

On Top of the Whale (1982)

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.

Mariken van Nieumeghen (1974)

A sparkling film and surprising look into the middle ages by means of the story of Mariken, whose beauty is used by the devilish comedian Moenen to put people up against each other.

Love Fail Repeat (2025)

On sunny Curaçao, the sarcastic Emy (Carré Albers) works at a five-star hotel for the rich and famous. Her life takes an unexpected turn when the charming movie star Nathan Levi (Twan Kuyper) visits the hotel.

Nation for Two (2012)

A mix of land art, performance and stop-motion, Nation for Two is a surreal visual essay on the idea that “love knows neither nationality nor borders”. Inspired by the authors' own biographies, the film follows a man and a woman tunneling their way towards each other, from one end of the planet to the other, to be together, passing through forests, deserts, urban spaces or war zones. (bieff.ro)

Jackie & Oopjen (2020)

12-year-old Jackie has made Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, where her mom works, her second home. While wandering around after hours, Oopjen from Rembrandt's famous painting suddenly comes to life. It seems she is looking for her long lost sister. Jackie is used to solving other people's problems and decides to take Oopjen home, so they can go look for her sister. For the woman from the Golden Age, this modern world, its customs and appliances are a great adventure. And Jackie, who doesn't really have any friends at school, finally gains a true BFF.

Silent City (2012)

A young Dutch woman, Rosa, comes to Japan to learn the art of preparing fish from Master Hon, the best fish-chef in the world. Against her expectation Rosa has to work in the cleaning-kitchen, together with other unpaid novices. Here begins her lonely journey through the alien and hierarchic world of the famous fish restaurant.

The Writer (1988)

A medieval writer attracts the attention of Death itself while he writes his stories. Soon Death enters a tale he is creating and attempts to kill his main protagonist.

The Impossible Rondo (2022)

The Impossible Rondo

Chalk (2001)

A short directed by Diederik Van Rooijen.

Bitter Lake (2011)

After more than a decade of peace the proud and noble kingdom of Valanor is suddenly torn apart by a terrible civil war. After 12 years, when the dust settles and resources start to dwindle, the starving people of Valanor cry out for peace, forcing the leaders of Tier, Sinnah, Daneth and Osgard to lay down their arms and meet each other at the negotiation table. As each province prepares an envoy to find a diplomatic solution at the Kingdom's only neutral ground, an ancient and dark organization plots its return. Unbeknownst to the leaders of the four warring provinces this old enemy will stop at nothing to crush any hope of lasting peace. Can the four envoys put their old hatreds aside and forge a bond of trust? Or will those that crave the blood and terror of war get their way? Whatever the outcome, the fate of Valanor will be decided... at Bitter Lake.

Antipoden (2001)