Dutch entry for the past Academy Awards and way better than winner The Lives of Others. A Jewish girl joins the Dutch Resistance and infiltrates the Nazis. Lots of twists and turns and double-crossing characters that keep you entertained plus daring rescue missions and full-frontal nudity too!

Extremely well done. Does an excellent job of dipicting the complexities of human character.

A drama about a Jewish woman in the resistance during the Nazi occupation of Holland, by the director of Showgirls. Almost nothing but sex and lurid melodrama from start to finish, but I appreciated the fact that this is the only movie about jews on the run from Nazis that isn't afraid to be irreverent. For example, some of the Nazis are good people, and some of the persecuted turn out to be bloodthirsty and evil (the plot, in fact, turns on the heroine being in danger from her own countrymen). And because it is so deliberately kitschy, you can enjoy it as a war thriller without feeling guilty, though I got lost in all the double crossing. The lead is very sexy and her slutty friend is even sexier. I want to see it again with friends.

One of the best i have seen this year

"Black Book" isn't a masterpiece, but it's easily Paul Verhoeven's best film, and it's a well-told story. Entertaining and thought provoking, and maybe just a tad too long.