Best Dutch series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch shows from Netherlands, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Ares

    Ares 2020

    When her friend suffers a bizarre accident, Rosa realizes the secret student society they've just joined is built on demonic secrets from Dutch history.

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  • Poster for Mocro Maffia

    Mocro Maffia 2018

    Best friends Romano, Potlood and De Paus rise in the rank of the criminal world. Before they know it, they run Amsterdam's entire coke market. Because of jealousy, their relation becomes complicated and ends up hostile.

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  • Poster for Informer

    Informer 2018

    Raza, a young second-generation British-Pakistani man from London is coerced by Gabe, a counterterrorism officer, into informing.

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  • Poster for Penoza

    Penoza 2010

    When her husband, a notorious drug lord, is wound up in the eyes of their youngest son, Carmen makes a drastic decision. Penoza sketches a penetrating picture of the Dutch underworld in which choices regarding family loyalty and money are on the cutting edge to be made. Penoza is told as a family saga with Carmen, a working mother with an exceptional profession at the head.

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  • Poster for The Golden Hour

    The Golden Hour 2022

    Mardik, a Dutch detective of Afghan descent, receives word that his childhood friend Faysal has come to the Netherlands. When a terrorist attack occurs the next day, Mardik suspects Faysal and investigates, with drastic consequences.

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  • Poster for The Mole

    The Mole 1999

    Ten candidates have to complete assignments to earn money. However, one of the group members is the Mole. The Mole's goal is to make the assignments fail and keep the amount of money earned as low as possible. The other candidates do not know who the Mole is and need to unmask them. At the end of every episode, the candidates take a multiple-choice test about the mole's identity. The person who gives the least amount of correct answers is "executed" and must leave. This process continues until only two contestants and the Mole remain. The winner is the person with the most correct answers in the final test and they get all of the money earned in previous stages of the game.

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  • Poster for Van der Valk

    Van der Valk 2020

    Set against the backdrop of the city of Amsterdam, Piet Van der Valk and his team investigate a series of high-profile cases immersed in the worlds of art, politics, addiction, mysticism and the fashion industry.

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  • Poster for Dirty Lines

    Dirty Lines 2022

    The story of Dirty Lines starts in 1987's Amsterdam, at a time when Dutch society was changing rapidly. Psychology student Marly Salomon takes on a side job working for a brand new firm: Teledutch - a company started by two brothers, Frank and Ramon Stigter, who established Europe’s first erotic telephone lines. Frank and Ramon become rich overnight and Marly finds herself immersed in this wild and rapid transformation. The final years of the Cold War sparked a sense of hope and inspired a new generation to celebrate life to its fullest. Amsterdam became the center of that cultural revolution with a radically new form of music: house and a new love drug: XTC. The erotic phone lines offer the opportunity to experience anonymous sex in a new way, changing the morality of its consumers, but also very much the people creating it.

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  • Poster for Cops Maastricht

    Cops Maastricht 2007

    Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.

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  • Poster for The Pink Panther

    The Pink Panther 1993

    He's cool, he's pink, he's animated! The Pink Panther is back for more adventures, and he's brought along a few new friends and some old favorites.

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  • Poster for New Kids

    New Kids 2007

    A show about a group of friends, who, due to their anti-social tendencies, terrorize the population of Maaskantje, Brabant, the Netherlands

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  • Poster for Alfred J. Quack

    Alfred J. Quack 1989

    Alfred J. Kwak is a cartoon television series based on a Dutch theatre show by Herman van Veen and was co-produced by VARA, Telecable Benelux B.V. and TV Tokyo and first shown in 1989. It consists of 52 episodes. The series characters were designed by Harald Siepermann. There are also toys and a comic based on the animated series. The series has been broadcast in many countries and has been dubbed and subtitled in Dutch, French, Japanese, Greek, English, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, Hungarian, Finnish, Serbian, Polish, German, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Chinese, Czech, Korean and Norwegian. In 1991, Herman van Veen won the Goldene Kamera award for the cartoon.

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  • Poster for Nemesis

    Nemesis 2024

    A public prosecutor in The Hague, and a detective at the Dutch Revenue Service FIOD, follow money trails and investigate hit jobs in search of criminals.

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  • Poster for Drag Race Holland

    Drag Race Holland 2020

    In the Dutch version of RuPaul's Drag Race, drag queens compete for the title of Holland's Next Drag Superstar.

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  • Poster for De Luizenmoeder

    De Luizenmoeder 2018

    After a divorce, Hannah decides to get her life back on track.

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  • Poster for Zondag met Lubach

    Zondag met Lubach 2014

    Sunday with Lubach is a satirical television program of the VPRO network that is presented by Arjen Lubach.

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  • Poster for Flodder

    Flodder 1993

    The misadventures of the anti-social Flodder family living in a upscale suburban neighborhood.

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  • Poster for KLEM

    KLEM 2017

    A man who works for the tax authorities ends up becoming friends with a dangerous criminal after their daughters become best friends and he accidentally saves his life

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  • Poster for LOL: Last One Laughing Netherlands

    LOL: Last One Laughing Netherlands 2023

    Amazing comedians and harder laughs! Ten talents have six hours to make the others laugh. Who will be the last one laughing?

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  • Poster for The Swell

    The Swell 2016

    When a big storm arrives that can flood the lower parts of the Netherlands and Belgium, prime minister Hans Kreuger has to make a decision; can we evacuate four million people? Going for the evacuation of civilians, hospitals and prisons will take at least 4 days.

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  • Poster for Freshers

    Freshers 2010

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  • Poster for Sleepers

    Sleepers 2022

    When corrupt agent Martin Oudkerk enters a crime scene, he finds out that a criminal of the old order, but most of all his surrogate father, Henk is one of the victims. A new generation of criminals has entered the stage that plays by its own rules: "If you don't want to cooperate, expect a bullet." They want important information of Martin that can put his life, career but most of all his family in danger. In order to protect everything he has got, he needs to cross lines he never thought he would cross.

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  • Poster for Football Parents

    Football Parents 2025

    When it comes to their children's amateur football careers, this group of parents has no shame, no chill — and a peculiar sense of team spirit.

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  • Poster for ANNE+

    ANNE+ 2018

    The weekend Anne (24) moves into her own place she unexpectedly runs into her ex-girlfriend Lily, and a lot has happened since they broke up four years ago. Over the weekend, Anne reflects on the relationships she has had throughout her student years in Amsterdam.

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  • Poster for I Am Jazz

    I Am Jazz 2015

    Meet Jazz Jennings! Jazz is a transgender teenage girl who has been living as a girl since she was in kindergarten. Parents Jeanette and Greg have spent the years finding doctors to treat their daughter, while fighting the discrimination and misconceptions associated with what it means to be transgender. But, now that Jazz is 14, she is on the brink of the biggest challenge of her life: high school.

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  • Poster for Gooische Vrouwen

    Gooische Vrouwen 2005

    Gooische Vrouwen is a Dutch comedy-drama series, created by Linda de Mol for her brother John de Mol's TV network Tien in 2005. However, after the show's second season, Tien went bankrupt and Gooische Vrouwen was transferred to RTL4, where it ran for three more seasons until its finale in 2009. After its 42-episode run the show was followed by a theatrically released feature film in 2011. The show chronicles the everyday lives of four female friends living in het Gooi. Gooische Vrouwen has since been sold to Germany, Belgium, France and Serbia.

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  • Poster for Divorce

    Divorce 2012

    Three guys, all in their late 30s and early 40s, are going through a divorce. They decide to live together for a while to get through the tough times. As they go through the ups and downs of their shared experience, they start to become really good friends. The show explores the ups and downs of divorce, showing the intense emotions, heated arguments, the weight of loss, the lingering doubts, the responsibilities of parenthood, the financial implications, and the journey of self-discovery while rebuilding their lives.

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  • Poster for Dutch Hope

    Dutch Hope 2014

    Forensic psychiatrist Fokke Augustinus makes an unexpected career change when he inherits his father's mansion in Groningen where he becomes involved with a criminal organization with a marijuana plantation on his father's land.

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  • Poster for Overspel

    Overspel 2011

    After a photographer and a lawyer start a steamy affair, their lives and those around them get entangled in dirty business and family secrets.

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  • Poster for SKAM NL

    SKAM NL 2018

    The story of a group of teenagers in high school in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in their search for friendship, love, their own identity, and overcoming fears.

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  • Poster for Expedition Robinson (NL)

    Expedition Robinson (NL) 2000

    Expedition Robinson is a reality television program in which 16 contestants are put into survival situations, and a voting process eliminates one person each episode until a winner is determined.

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  • Poster for Máxima

    Máxima 2024

    From the moment Máxima Zorreguieta appears at the Dutch crown prince’s side, she finds herself in the spotlight. When Willem-Alexander asks her to marry him, the past catches up with her. Heated discussion erupts about her father’s political career in the Videla regime – a discussion she never faced in her own circles. What allows this Argentine to finally thrive at an old European court? And how can Máxima stay true to herself without giving up her family – or do these things not go together?

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  • Poster for Smeris

    Smeris 2014

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  • Poster for De Lama's

    De Lama's 2004

    An Improvisation Comedy group performing impressive, and overall hilarious impressions, parodies and improvisation comedy, often using random artifacts to act out situations.

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  • Poster for The Crash

    The Crash 2022

    Following the catastrophic crash of a large El Al cargo aircraft into Amsterdam's 'Bijlmer' high-rise district in October 1992, a local young veterinarian and two journalists find themselves drawn into a years-long investigation into the many puzzling questions, about the disaster and its aftermath, the powers that be seem determined to keep unanswered.

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  • Poster for Sphinx

    Sphinx 2024

    Early one morning, 14-year-old Minke Moorman is kidnapped. Three years later she reappears out of nowhere, completely feral and with a mysterious wing tattoo on her back. After her return, the entire family comes under pressure. Minke has been changed by her traumatic experience and, without anyone knowing, she is still being played by her captor from the shadows.

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  • Poster for Baantjer

    Baantjer 1995

    Baantjer is a Dutch television programme which was broadcast by RTL 4 from 6 October 1995 until 1 December 2006 for a total of 123 episodes in 12 seasons. It stars Piet Römer as Jurriaan 'Jurre' de Cock, a police detective, and Victor Reinier as Dick Vledder, his helper. The series is based on the novels of writer A. C. Baantjer. In 1999, RTL 4 broadcast the television film Baantjer, de film: De Cock en de wraak zonder einde because of the tenth anniversary of the network.

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  • Poster for Roosters

    Roosters 2025

    Facing a world that has evolved without them, four friends clumsily try to adapt while keeping their relationships and careers intact.

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  • Poster for Moordvrouw

    Moordvrouw 2012

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  • Poster for Keuringsdienst van Waarde

    Keuringsdienst van Waarde 2003

    "De Keuringsdienst van Waarde" is a consumer television program. The program tries to give insight in the production of food and other consumer products and tries to show where things go wrong or are different from what you might expect. By asking simple questions to aid lines of producers, as naive but persisting consumer, they get sometimes hilarious and/or revealing answers.

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  • Poster for Oogappels

    Oogappels 2019

    Four different families in a medium-sized Dutch city are followed. Their children attend the same high school. The parents all have their own way of raising children. But for all of them it is true that they set the bar very high for themselves and their little ones: life must be perfect above all!

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  • Poster for The 12 from Oldenheim

    The 12 from Oldenheim 2017

    Follow the lives of the inhabitants of Oldenheim, an ancient Dutch village where families have lived for generations. The terror is great when the inhabitants of the village are confronted with a series of mysterious disappearances.

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  • Poster for The Jewish Council

    The Jewish Council 2024

    In 1940s Amsterdam, Jewish Council co-chairman David Cohen and his daughter Virrie have their bond tested as they pursue increasingly opposing ways of safeguarding their community under Nazi rule.

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  • Poster for Black Tulip

    Black Tulip 2015

    Follows two families in the countryside of the Netherlands, who become archenemies after a mysterious accident in the past.

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  • Poster for New Neighbors

    New Neighbors 2014

    Peter and Eva, a nice young couple expecting their first child, buy a house in a suburban village. Before they get to move into their new home, they lose their baby girl. Eva has a hard time coping with her loss. Peter has mixed feelings. The baby wasn’t his to begin with.He’s infertile and hopes the chapter of having children has now come to an end. Then they meet their new neighbors Rebecca and Steve, a carefree outgoing couple, that helps them forget their pain. But are they really who they say they are?

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  • Poster for Dokter Tinus

    Dokter Tinus 2012

    A successful vascular surgeon is suddenly confronted with a blood phobia, making it impossible for him to exercise his job in the hospital. He moves from the capital to the countryside to work as the GP of a village where he only knows his aunt. His predecessor was well liked, so his new community is less than welcoming. The empathic capabilities of the doctor leaves much to be desired, making it even harder for him to win his place in the close-knit community.

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  • Poster for Toon

    Toon 2016

    Reclusive, socially awkward jingle composer Toon must navigate the nightmarish world of show biz after a viral video skyrockets him to fame.

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  • Poster for The Body Collector

    The Body Collector 2016

    The story of Dutch journalist Hans Knoop's 1970s struggle to uncover the truth about World War II war criminal Pieter Menten.

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  • Poster for De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach

    De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach 2022

    Arjen Lubach dives through the issues of the day past inspiring guests to the bottom of the news. Everyone always wants to go from the issues of the day to deepening. Arjen is really looking forward to the issues of the day.

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  • Poster for Safe Harbor

    Safe Harbor 2025

    Tobias, a gifted hacker and his ambitious best friend Marco, intent on cracking into the tech billionaires club. They are plunged headfirst into the chaos of organized crime when they cross paths with the Irish mob.

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  • Poster for Flikken Rotterdam

    Flikken Rotterdam 2016

    Flikken Rotterdam takes place in Rotterdam, and is after Flikken Maastricht the second Dutch spin-off of the Flemish show Flikken.

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  • Poster for De Ring

    De Ring 2024

    Anna accidentally pockets a client's ring. The client, Simon, blackmails her for sex or he'll report the theft, jeopardizing her career. Anna schemes to evade Simon's demands while concealing her mistake.

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  • Poster for Nederland van Boven

    Nederland van Boven 2011

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  • Poster for Het jaar van Fortuyn

    Het jaar van Fortuyn 2022

    A chronicle of the tempestuous campaign trail rivalry between Labour Party leader Ad Melkert and flamboyant newcomer Pim Fortuyn, as they go head-to-head leading up to the Netherlands’ 2002 general elections.

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  • Poster for The Story of The Netherlands

    The Story of The Netherlands 2022

    The Story of the Netherlands tells the story of the country we live in, from the moment the first inhabitants settled there. Never before has our history, and how it has made us who we are today, been made tangible in this way. The project consists of a 10-part television series for NPO 1, with Daan Schuurmans as narrator.

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  • Poster for Dit was het nieuws

    Dit was het nieuws 1996

    Dit was het nieuws is a Dutch television program of RTL4, wherein two teams give a satirical account of the previous week's news. The program has the form of a game show in which two teams, each with a team leader and weekly guest, compete against each other. The scoring is not serious; after the first round, for instance, the score is always 4-4.

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  • Poster for Meisje van Plezier

    Meisje van Plezier 2017

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  • Poster for Heel Holland Bakt

    Heel Holland Bakt 2013

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  • Poster for Anoniem

    Anoniem 2023

    History teacher Jurre and public prosecutor Sarah each battle the criminal world in their own way. Although the two have been married for years, they keep their double life a secret from each other in order to protect each other and their family. The situation is getting more and more dangerous and their children are no longer safe either.

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  • Poster for Turbulent Skies

    Turbulent Skies 2020

    A chronicle of KLM Dutch Royal Airlines founder Albert Plesman and pioneering aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker's symbiotic but tempestuous bond as they struggle to establish the interwar Netherlands' role in global civil aviation.

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  • Poster for Rundfunk

    Rundfunk 2015

    Two friends attending a messed up high school.

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  • Poster for Ex on the Beach: Double Dutch

    Ex on the Beach: Double Dutch 2016

    Eight hot, sexy singles off to paradise for a summer of love ... Or so they think. They party, dating and flirting under sweltering temperatures in a tropical setting. The perfect conditions for budding romances, (a) one-night stand (s) or maybe finding true (holiday) love. When they least expect,there will be unexpected visit from their exes. Some want revenge, others hope to win back their ex. One thing is certain; hiding is pointless. Because nobody knows where and whenever a new ex will arrive.

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  • Poster for That One Word - Feyenoord

    That One Word - Feyenoord 2021

    The Feyenoord Football Club operates inside for the extent of the 2020/21 season due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. But, unique footage from inside the locker room and behind the boardroom walls brings the Club and all key personalities within surprisingly closer to the audience than ever before.

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  • Poster for Judas

    Judas 2019

    Astrid Holleeder works towards the moment when she definitively betrays her brother to Justice. Flashbacks make it clear what childhood she and her brother have wrestled themselves with and how painful, but necessary, her betrayal is.

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  • Poster for Even tot Hier

    Even tot Hier 2019

    Niels van der Laan and Jeroen Woe literally make a performance of the week every week.

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  • Poster for The Spectacular

    The Spectacular 2022

    In the late 1980s, a Dutch anti-terrorism detective sets out to take down an IRA cell ruthlessly targeting English military personnel on leave in the south of the Netherlands.

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