Movies: Paul Verhoeven

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A look at the production and enduring popularity of a modern trash classic from those bad boys behind 1992's Basic Instinct, the infamous screenwriter Joe Eszterhas and the envelope pushing director Paul Verhoeven. In 1995, their next film collaborat...

A worried father tries to end the relationship that his son Andries has with the wife of a wrestler....

A road movie about three guys (two hitchhikers, one driver) and one woman....

Filmic exercise by Paul Verhoeven....

Making of documentary featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Paul Verhoeven....

In 1980 film writer Ruud den Drijver goes head to head with two notorious Dutch film directors, Paul Verhoeven and Wim Verstappen, passionate film makers, competitors and colleagues in a free for all heated discussion ranging (among other subjects) f...

Very insightful BBC documentary about Paul Verhoeven, tracking his career up to Showgirls. The programme focuses on talks with Verhoeven, but also includes interviews with many of the people who worked with him, both from the US and Holland, and eve...

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What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between American independent and Hollywood movies and films from European directors. Featuring luminary ic...

Nathan, a journalist is fascinated by Gaby, his mother-in-law, a poet. The latter lives in the same vast estate property as Nathan and his wife. One day a promoter tries to buy parts of the land to build an amusement park and comes up against Gaby's ...

For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to Greenland’s banks to fish the cold waters for cod. Intrepid men, set off for the Banks on schooners under f...

Filmic exercise by Verhoeven...

An erotic political thriller, set in Washington D.C. and will revolve around a young staffer who works for a powerful Senator, is drawn into a web of international intrigue and danger....

Documentary exploring why Belgian television doesn't invest more money in Belgian cinema as is the case in e.g. the netherlands....

Documentary about the leader of the fascist party in The Netherlands, from 1931 till 1945. This architect called Anton Mussert was shot in 1946 after having been convicted for high treason and aiding the enemy....

A man is thinking about his relationship with his girlfriend, while checking out a gorgeous woman in a bar....

Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others....

Het korps Mariniers is a documentary about the Royal Dutch Marine Corps, which Paul Verhoeven made while being assigned to the Marine Film Service as a documentary filmmaker....

Short film about the blossoming affection of an upper-class schoolboy for a girl from a different class. The film, shot by Verhoeven at the same school he attended in The Hague, is loosely based on the description of the unrequited love of Anton Wach...