Dutch cinema is perhaps best known internationally for the psychological thriller, with George Sluizer's The Vanishing (1988) standing as one of the genre's most unsettling achievements. The Netherlands has also produced a strong documentary tradition alongside distinctive art-house work that has earned consistent attention at European festivals. See what Macca made of it all below.
Rating: 4.0★
July 1995. The town of Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia, became the site of the worst mass atrocity on European soil since the Second World War. Over the course of a few days, more than eight thousand Bosniak Muslim men and boys were systematically murdered by Bosnian Serb forces under the
Rating: 3.0★
There is a particular kind of film that seems designed less to entertain than to make you shift uneasily in your seat, and Babygirl (2024) belongs firmly in that category. Written and directed by Halina Reijn, it is an erotic thriller centred on Romy, a high-powered tech CEO whose
Rating: 4.0★
By the mid-1960s, Formula One had grown from a specialist motorsport into a genuinely global spectacle, its calendar sweeping through Monaco, Spa, Monza, and beyond, drawing enormous crowds and an air of glamorous, sometimes fatal, theatre. The 1966 season in particular marked a major technical turning point for the
Rating: 2.0★
Rudolf Buitendach is a South African filmmaker who has worked across commercials, short films, and low-budget features, generally operating in that productive but unglamorous space where resourceful production and modest ambition tend to meet. Where the Road Runs Out, released in 2014 and co-produced through Cotton Tree Productions
Rating: 1.5★
The Dutch Caribbean islands of Curaçao and Aruba sit roughly sixty kilometres off the northern coast of Venezuela, a pair of small, sun-bleached territories with a genuinely complex relationship with the Netherlands stretching back centuries. That geopolitical reality, modest in scale but rich in tension, forms the backdrop for
Rating: 2.5★
There is a long and restless tradition in world cinema of using the horror genre as a vessel for social and political anxieties, particularly around bodies, identity, and the pressures of conformity. From the body-horror provocations of Cronenberg through to the folk-inflected dread of more recent European and
Rating: 3.5★
Andrea Arnold arrived at Fish Tank with one Cannes Palme d'Or short film already to her name (2003's Wasp) and a BAFTA-winning debut feature in Red Road (2006), a picture that marked her out as one of the sharpest observers of contemporary British social life
Genre Drama
★½ — Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You (2001)
Genre Animation
★★½ — A Cat in Paris (2010)
Genre Drama
★★★ — Monos (2019)
Genre Mystery
★½ — A Land Imagined (2018)
Genre Thriller
★★★★ — The Vanishing (1988)
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