Amsterdam has been a setting in Dutch and foreign films. The following is a list of films set in Amsterdam. The list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The lists are sorted by the year the film was released.
Dutch cinema
1930s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
- Sint (2010), by Dick Maas
- Süskind (film) (2012), by Rudolf van den Berg
- De wederopstanding van een klootzak (2013), by Guido van Driel
- The Dinner (2013 film) (2013), by Menno Meyjes
- Kidnapping Freddy Heineken (2015), by Daniel Alfredson
- Michiel de Ruyter (film) (2015), by Roel Reiné
- Layla M. (2016), by Mijke de Jong
- Prey (2016), by Dick Maas
- Riphagen: The Untouchable (2016), by Pieter Kuijpers
- My Foolish Heart (2018 film) (2018), by Rolf van Eijk
- Amsterdam Vice (2019), by Arne Toonen
2020s
Foreign films set entirely or partially in Amsterdam
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
- ' (1960), by Rudolf Jugert
- Girl in the Window (1961), by Luciano Emmer
- The Inspector (1962 film) (1962), by Philip Dunne
- The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964), by Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Ugo Gregoretti, Hiromichi Horikawa, Roman Polanski
- Dateline Diamonds (1965), by Jeremy Summers
- Modesty Blaise (1966 film) (1966, by Joseph Losey
- Secret Agent Super Dragon (1966), by Giorgio Ferroni
- Amsterdam Affair (1968), by Gerry O'Hara
- The Limbo Line (1968), by Samuel Gallu
- The Magnificent Tony Carrera (1968), by José Antonio de la Loma
- If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), by Mel Stuart
1970s
- The Fifth Day of Peace (1970), by Giuliano Montaldo
- Puppet on a Chain (film) (1970), by Geoffrey Reeve, Don Sharp
- Diamonds Are Forever (film) (1971), by Guy Hamilton
- Commuter Husbands (1972), by Derek Ford
- I due gattoni a nove code... e mezza ad Amsterdam (1972), by Osvaldo Civirani
- The Little Ark (1972), by James B. Clark
- Alice in the Cities (1974), by Wim Wenders
- Sensations (film) (1975), by Lasse Braun
- Inside Out (1975 film) (1975), by Peter Duffell
- The Uranium Conspiracy (1978), by Gianfranco Baldanello, Menahem Golan
- Avalanche Express (1979), by Mark Robson
1980s
1990s
2000s
- The Discovery of Heaven (film) (2001), by Jeroen Krabbé
- The Invisible Circus (film) (2001), by Adam Brooks
- Bad Boys II (2003), by Michael Bay
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) (2003), by Peter Webber
- Headrush (2003), Shimmy Marcus
- EuroTrip (2004), by Jeff Schaffer
- Ocean's Twelve (2004), by Steven Soderbergh
- Layer Cake (2004), by Matthew Vaughn
- The Best Two Years (2004), by Scott S. Anderson
- ' (2005), by Mike Bigelow
- Hostel (2005 film) (2005), by Eli Roth
- Five Fingers (2006 film) (2006), by Laurence Malkin
- Nightwatching (2007), by Peter Greenaway
- Body of Lies (film) (2008), by Ridley Scott
- Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008), by Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
- Nothing Personal (2009 film) (2009), by Urszula Antoniak
2010s
- Bonded by Blood (2010), by Sacha Bennett
- Holy Rollers (film) (2010), by Kevin Asch
- Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy (2011), by Rob Heydon
- Amsterdam Heavy (2011), by Michael Wright
- Weekender (film) (2011), by Karl Golden
- St George's Day (film) (2012), by Frank Harper
- 10,000 Hours (film) (2013), by Joyce Bernal
- A Perfect Man (2013 film) (2013), by Kees Van Oostrum
- The Counselor (2013), by Ridley Scott
- The Fault in Our Stars (film) (2014), by Josh Boone
- Queen (2013 film) (2014), by Vikas Bahl
- Gangsterdam (2017), by Romain Lévy
- The Dinner (2017 film) (2017), by Oren Moverman
- The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017), by Patrick Hughes
- ' (2018), by Clint Eastwood
- The Hows of Us (2018), by Cathy Garcia-Molina
- The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018), by Susanna Fogel
- Domino (2019 film) (2019), by Brian De Palma
- The Goldfinch (film) (2019), by John Crowley
2020s
See also
Notes
1.Commuter Husbands (1972), by Derek Ford. This is a collection of 6 stories. The 5th story takes place in Amsterdam.
2.Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) (2003), by Peter Webber. This film is mostly shot in Delft, but some scenes are in Amsterdam such as Dam Square.
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