Dutch Crime Films
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1. Leak (2000)
105 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced ... See full summary »
Director: Jean van de Velde | Stars: Cas Jansen, Ricky Koole, Thomas Acda, Victor Löw
Votes: 2,997
2. TBS (2008)
88 min | Crime, Thriller
A man convicted of killing his own father and sister escapes from a criminal hospital to track down his mother and prove his innocence.
Director: Pieter Kuijpers | Stars: Theo Maassen, Lisa Smit, Bob Schwarze, Ria Marks
Votes: 3,450
3. Godforsaken (2003)
83 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two small-town Dutch boys have such a close socially unnatural friendship that they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality, sliding into violent crime.
Director: Pieter Kuijpers | Stars: Egbert Jan Weeber, Tygo Gernandt, Angela Schijf, Mads Wittermans
Votes: 4,977
4. Black Widow (2019)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Drawn out of hiding in Canada, a Dutch former drug baroness returns to Amsterdam to face unfinished business and once and for all save her family from her life of crime.
Director: Diederik Van Rooijen | Stars: Monic Hendrickx, Niels Gomperts, Sigrid ten Napel, Stijn Taverne
Votes: 1,969
5. Honeyz (2007)
75 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two girlfriends let themselves be locked in a department store for the sake of a school paper, but they look quite differently at this exciting undertaking. One takes everything seriously. The other wants to turn the night into a party.
Director: Tom Six | Stars: Monique van der Werff, Anna Speller, Peter Beense, Adriaan Alsema
Votes: 188
6. De Boskampi's (2015)
102 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Rik Boskamp is dreaming of a different life where he's not constantly bullied in and one in which his father is not a total loser.
Directors: Arne Toonen, Arent Jack | Stars: Thor Braun, Henry van Loon, Meral Polat, René van 't Hof
Votes: 1,125
7. Black Out (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After ruthless gangsters wrongfully accuse him of stealing from them, a retired criminal has 24 hours to creep back into his past life and retrieve a bag of coke before his fiancée is killed.
Director: Arne Toonen | Stars: Raymond Thiry, Kim van Kooten, Bas Keijzer, Renée Fokker
Votes: 2,159
8. Stuk! (2014)
113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Elizabeth, a voluptuous, shy and unpopular girl, is the object of ridicule at school by the cool in-crowd. Her life spirals downward after the death of her only friend, her grandmother. But... See full summary »
Director: Steven de Jong | Stars: Amin Ait Bihi, Mees Bink, Sanneke Bos, Yolanthe Cabau
Votes: 259
9. The Hero (2016)
TV-14 | 96 min | Crime, Drama, History
Sara Silverstein suddenly finds herself involved in various violent attacks. She realizes she needs to unravel her father's past to stop this threat.
Director: Menno Meyjes | Stars: Fedja van Huêt, Monic Hendrickx, Daan Schuurmans, Susan Visser
Votes: 605
10. Accused (2014)
97 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A young assistant DA puts a serial killing nurse behind bars, only to discover evidence that may prove her innocence.
Director: Paula van der Oest | Stars: Sallie Harmsen, Marwan Kenzari, Barry Atsma, Fedja van Huêt
Votes: 4,253
11. Character (1997)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs.
Director: Mike van Diem | Stars: Pavlik Jansen op de Haar, Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huêt, Betty Schuurman
Votes: 11,308 | Gross: $0.71M
12. Bon Bini Holland 2 (2018)
89 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Robertico is living in Curacao with Noella Maduro. While he is preparing to ask her to marry him, something happens to Ken Maduro, Noella's dad. Things go wrong, and Noelle tells Robertico ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Karthaus | Stars: Steef de Bot, Liliana de Vries, Jandino Asporaat, Phi Nguyen
Votes: 655
13. De dominee (2004)
110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In the world of the drugs business - where it's is all about money - friendship and loyalty is most important. That is what becomes the demise of gangster Klaas Bruinsma.
Director: Gerrard Verhage | Stars: Peter Paul Muller, Chantal Janzen, Frank Lammers, Marcel Musters
Votes: 3,397
14. Clean Hands (2015)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A drug lord's wife faces a crisis of loyalty when her husband's cutthroat dealings compel her to flee with their young children.
Director: Tjebbo Penning | Stars: Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Thekla Reuten, Bente Fokkens, Nino den Brave
Votes: 1,724
15. Vet hard (2005)
88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Oliehoek | Stars: Jack Wouterse, Kürt Rogiers, Bracha van Doesburgh, Jaak Van Assche
Votes: 3,571
16. Loft (I) (2010)
108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment to carry on affairs.
Director: Antoinette Beumer | Stars: Fedja van Huêt, Barry Atsma, Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Gijs Naber
Votes: 6,439
17. The Gang of Oss (2011)
112 min | Crime, Drama, History
Netherlands, 1938. In a small town in the province of North Brabant called Oss, Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town. The harder she tries, the more she is involved.
Director: André van Duren | Stars: Sylvia Hoeks, Matthias Schoenaerts, Frank Lammers, Daan Schuurmans
Votes: 3,038
18. The Heineken Kidnapping (2011)
Not Rated | 127 min | Crime, History, Thriller
A bold, amateur kidnapping goes wildly awry in this fictionalized account of beer magnate Alfred Heineken's 1983 abduction, which would go on to become one of The Netherlands' most infamous crimes.
Director: Maarten Treurniet | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Gijs Naber, Teun Kuilboer
Votes: 5,974
19. Baantjer het begin (2019)
TV-MA | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A mild-mannered police detective freshly stationed in tumultuous 1980 Amsterdam enters a race against time when he encounters a violent plot against the Dutch royal family.
Director: Arne Toonen | Stars: Waldemar Torenstra, Tygo Gernandt, Lisa Smit, Peter Bolhuis
Votes: 1,579
20. Wolf (I) (2013)
Unrated | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A promising kickboxer struggles to resist the temptations of a life of crime.
Director: Jim Taihuttu | Stars: Marwan Kenzari, Chems Eddine Amar, Steef Cuijpers, Raymond Thiry
Votes: 3,962
21. Off Screen (2005)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
March 11th, 2002. John Voerman takes the head of security and 17 others hostage in Amsterdam biggest skyscraper. John demands to speak with the Philips head of Sound&Vision. His goal is to ... See full summary »
Director: Pieter Kuijpers | Stars: Jeroen Krabbé, Jan Decleir, Astrid Joosten, Theu Boermans
Votes: 1,280
22. Amazones (2004)
100 min | Action, Crime, Comedy
Four women from the North of Dutch town Breda are sick of their poor life. Lot is divorced and has two little kids; her friend Sam has a busy family life and an unemployed husband; Reneetje... See full summary »
Director: Esmé Lammers | Stars: Monique van de Ven, Monic Hendrickx, Georgina Verbaan, Susan Visser
Votes: 744
23. Stille nacht (2004)
82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Laura Fischer has a session with a psychologist. The session begins with the young woman telling that after two years of successive rapes of female students riding bicycles in the woods ... See full summary »
Director: Ineke Houtman | Stars: Josefien Hendriks, Liesbeth Kamerling, Victoria Koblenko, Caro Lenssen
Votes: 862
24. Cool! (2004)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Five friends take their hours with petty crimes. Are persuaded by a tough gangster and his seductive girlfriend to rob a bank. When they are caught, they are condemned to spend a year and a half in Glen Mills, an experimental reformatory.
Director: Theo van Gogh | Stars: Fouad Mourigh, Farhane El Hamchaoui, Jones Kruijne, Remco Alberts
Votes: 497
25. Gangsterboys (2010)
82 min | Comedy, Crime
Mahmut, the son of a poor Turkish greengrocer in the Netherlands, dreams of escaping his retail fate by becoming a rapper. But things change radically when he and his best friend Apo find ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Ruven | Stars: Jack Wouterse, Georgina Verbaan, Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, John Jones
Votes: 632
26. Eddy & Coby (2014)
50 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
An adulterous wife, a mercenary personal trainer and a paralyzed mafia boss with a chainsaw: three mentally deranged characters, one chaotic mess.
Director: Jeroen Annokkee | Stars: Cynthia Abma, Roger Carvalho, Nanette Edens, Lisa Groothof
Votes: 92
27. The Glorious Works of G.F. Zwaen (2015)
111 min | Crime, Thriller
In the late 90's Amsterdam-based writer Gerard F. Zwaen becomes entangled in a plot involving a drugs trafficker, a dodgy tax inspector and an internal affairs agent..
Director: Max Porcelijn | Stars: Peter van de Witte, Ton Kas, Michiel Romeyn, Anniek Pheifer
Votes: 356
28. Murder Story (1989)
PG | 89 min | Crime, Thriller
Tony Zonis wants to write the next great suspense thriller, so he decides to study the work of master crime writer, Willard Hope. Together, they pick through newspaper stories, looking for ... See full summary »
Directors: Eddie Arno, Markus Innocenti | Stars: Christopher Lee, Bruce Boa, Alexis Denisof, Stacia Burton
Votes: 192
29. Fighting Fish (2004)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Fighting Fish is the first martial arts film produced and set in the Netherlands, about a young Chinese man from Hong-Kong, who travels to the west when he hears that his brother was killed... See full summary »
Director: Jamel Aattache | Stars: Kim Ho Kim, Chantal Janzen, Jennifer de Jong, Ron Smoorenburg
Votes: 342
30. Plan C (2012)
95 min | Comedy, Crime
Detective Ronald Plasmeyer's plan to repay a gambling debt falls apart when he enlists two men to do the work.
Director: Max Porcelijn | Stars: Ruben van der Meer, René van 't Hof, Ton Kas, Kees Hulst
Votes: 1,498
31. Loos (1989)
90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A lawyer must defend a nightclub owner accused of committing a crime-of-passion.
Director: Theo van Gogh | Stars: Tom Jansen, Renée Fokker, Marie Kooyman, Leen Jongewaard
Votes: 184
32. Infiltrant (2014)
86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Sam was born in the Netherlands as the son of a Moroccan father and Dutch mother. After his father abandoned him and his mother, he throws himself fully to his career as a police officer. ... See full summary »
Director: Shariff Korver | Stars: Nasrdin Dchar, Walid Benmbarek, Rachid El Ghazaoui, Simone Milsdochter
Votes: 392
33. Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers (1994)
60 min | Crime, Drama
An unsettling work that does not pretend to analyze nor to understand the serial killers. The film is not a work of fiction with dramatic plot developments.
Director: Aryan Kaganof | Stars: Rodney Beddal, Mark Bellamy, Aryan Kaganof, Gylan Kain
Votes: 77
34. Siberia (1998)
Unrated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Goof and Hugo are flatmates in Amsterdam who have made a tidy sum from having sex with tourists, then robbing them. Their goal is to spend the money together on a world trip and their scam ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Jan Westdijk | Stars: Roeland Fernhout, Hugo Metsers, Vlatka Simac, Nicole Eggert
Votes: 959
35. Son of Mine (2015)
102 min | Crime, Drama
In the impoverished southern Dutch province of Limburg, the bond between a former mine worker and his only son is put to the test as the latter takes it upon himself to pay his father's debts to a local gangster.
Director: Remy van Heugten | Stars: Johan Leysen, Vincent van der Valk, Ali Ben Horsting, Nico de Vries
Votes: 869
36. The Cave (2001)
90 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Psychological thriller. Geography teacher smuggles a case of heroin for a friend.
Director: Martin Koolhoven | Stars: Fedja van Huêt, Kim Huffman, Marcel Hensema, Jeroen Willems
Votes: 690
37. Joyride (I) (2005)
87 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Three girls steal a car and head up for a model contest. It's a holiday to die for, until someone does...
Director: Frank Herrebout | Stars: Georgina Verbaan, Peggy Vrijens, Dorien Haan, Tygo Gernandt
Votes: 604
38. Dennis P. (2007)
93 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
Nothing is more difficult than stealing a heart.
Director: Pieter Kuijpers | Stars: Edo Brunner, Nadja Hüpscher, Willeke van Ammelrooy, John Leddy
Votes: 782
39. As If I'm Crazy (2016)
95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A successful young artist faces his demons as he finds himself committed to a criminal hospital for a drug-induced crime he can't remember committing.
Director: Frank Lammers | Stars: Matteo van der Grijn, Fedja van Huêt, Sanne Langelaar, Monic Hendrickx
Votes: 227
40. Nachtrit (2006)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Dennis is a taxi driver trying to start out his own company. One day, he gets the opportunity to buy a scarce and expensive but lucrative license.
Director: Dana Nechushtan | Stars: Frank Lammers, Fedja van Huêt, Peggy Jane de Schepper, Mohammed Chaara
Votes: 1,568
41. Quiz (2012)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A famous game show host is being harassed in a restaurant by a strange man who claims to have kidnapped his wife and daughter. A morbid game ensues in which the game show host turns out to be the contestant.
Director: Dick Maas | Stars: Barry Atsma, Pierre Bokma, Susan Radder, Hanna Verboom
Votes: 1,925
42. Wilde harten (1989)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Jindra Markus | Stars: Alexandra van Marken, Han Oldigs, Herbert Flack, Wim van Rooij
Votes: 31
43. The Book of Mikey (2015)
65 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Book of Mikey is the first feature film by Brazilian director Bruno Ramos made by the team of professionals called Algo Films. It was shot in the Netherlands and UK and took 2,5 years to be released.
Director: Bruno Ramos | Stars: Micah Bailey, Evrim Akyigit, Terrence Sinclair, Iris Wester
Votes: 9
44. Discipline (2010)
54 min | Crime, Drama, Family
A young boy is having real trouble on school because of his behavior and his bad results. Ultimatly he decides to join a group from which he heard of a friend. The group tells him that ... See full summary »
Director: Roelof Breukink | Stars: David Heemstra, Frits Hendriks, Jannie Hof, Jelmer Janmaat
45. Somberman's aktie (1999)
94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A 35 year old man, once a famous poet under the pen name Punk Somberman, hasn't written anything since his last work - also the title of this film. He suddenly loses his job, suffers a ... See full summary »
Director: Casper Verbrugge | Stars: Mohammed Azaay, Niek Barendsen, Krijn ter Braak, Eddie Brugman
Votes: 117
48. De langste reis (1996 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama
A family man has his career sidetracked by the betrayal of his business partner. Seeking justice, he kidnaps his 'opponent'. As the day passes, it becomes clear that only one of them will survive this struggle for power.
Director: Pieter Verhoeff | Stars: Eric van der Donk, Han Kerckhoffs, Johan Leysen, Mads Wittermans
Votes: 34
49. Sunny Juliette (2018)
100 min | Adventure, Crime
In the spring of 1979, a banker has been abducted. A group of anonymous criminals have requested a ransom in return for his release. But shortly after the sum is paid, both the banker and ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew van der Ven | Stars: Marcelle Arriëns, Merle van der Steen, Andrew Vandaele, Justin van Dijk
Votes: 17
50. Dilemma (1990)
97 min | Crime
A husband and wife with very different worldviews oppose each other.
Director: Freddy Coppens | Stars: Alexandra Vandernoot, Johan Leysen, Ynte Gilis, Thom Hoffman
Votes: 34
51. De pijnbank (1998)
102 min | Crime, Drama
Peter works at a small bank that went through a merger process. New management want to get rid of him, but Peter will not give in without a fight. He blackmails management, who make office life difficult for him.
Director: Theo van Gogh | Stars: Eric van Sauers, Paul de Leeuw, Roeland Fernhout, Ted Schipper
Votes: 130
52. Kicks (2007)
112 min | Crime, Drama
A shooting accident in which a dutch police officer shoots a young Moroccan rapper creates polarization about the issue of racism among citizens of a multicultural society.
Director: Albert Ter Heerdt | Stars: Mohammed Chaara, Marcel Musters, Mimoun Ouled Radi, Hadewych Minis
Votes: 456
53. Bella Bettien (2002)
102 min | Drama, Crime
The gripping true story of a Dutch girl who made an amazing career in the international narcotics world.
Director: Hans Pos | Stars: Thekla Reuten, Kim van Kooten, Daniël Boissevain, Dimme Treurniet
Votes: 310
54. Losers (2017)
Crime
When Juul unexpectedly witnesses a homicide she and her 11 housemates need to do all they can to stay out of the hands of the murderers and find out who the victim was, only problem though; they all have a special need, ability or anxiety.
Director: Dick van den Heuvel | Stars: Zoë Dee de Heer, Zoë Harding, Kayleigh Marcus, Roos Peursum
55. M.A.N. Met Andere Normen (2009)
Crime
Director: Robert Matser | Stars: Peter Faber, Isa Hoes, Medina Schuurman
Votes: 17
56. Angie (1993)
93 min | Crime, Thriller
Angie has just returned from an orphanage and everyone warns her to stay away from Alex, who leads a life of crime.
Director: Martin Lagestee | Stars: Annemarie Röttgering, Daniël Boissevain, Hidde Schols, Derek de Lint
Votes: 109
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