The Dress (Dutch: De jurk) is a 1996 Dutch black comedy drama film written and directed by Alex van Warmerdam.

Conceived under a cloud of frustration and despair by the dressmaker, the dress becomes a wheel of misfortune in an extraordinary sequence of events that envelopes the dress and those fatefully drawn into its universe.

An aloof artist, a schoolgirl, an unfulfilled maid, a borderline train conductor and a broken business executive, all become involuntary players in a macabre game of tag.

[1] David Rooney of Variety magazine said that "Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam, spins an eventful narrative out of the story of an inanimate object in his third feature, The Dress.

Charting the effect the titular garment has on a string of men and women, the director does a mechanically impressive job of sustaining what feels like an exercise in narrative construction".