In Goldfinger, one of four cities (along with Zurich, Caracas, and Hong Kong) in which Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) has stashed the 20 million in pounds sterling worth of gold he has been smuggling out of Great Britain, according to Colonel Smithers (Richard Vernon) of the Bank of England.

Amsterdam is also where James Bond (Sean Connery) visits the apartment of diamond smuggler Tiffany Case (Jill St. John), masquerading as her fellow courier Peter Franks (Joe Robinson), in Diamonds Are Forever.