Amsterdam (2009)

Despite what your friends may have told you, there's more to Amsterdam than the red-light district and Northern Lights. For a portrait of the city beyond its more salacious tourist attractions, check out the 2009 ensemble film Amsterdam, which tells the intertwining stories of a Dutch family of criminals, a rich American couple, a French gay couple, a working-class German family and a Moroccan youth and his brother all trying to make it in the Venice of the North. But by far the most attractive aspect of this city tour are Marie Vinck's Dutch dumplings as she rinses them off in the shower. (Amster)dam, girl!