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Tag Archives: Paul Verhoeven
Flesh+Blood (1985) Paul Verhoeven, Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who decides Read More »
Elle (2016) Paul Verhoeven, Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny
Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company Read More »
The 4th Man AKA De vierde man (1983) Paul Verhoeven, Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman
The morbid Catholic writer Gerard Reve who is bisexual, alcoholic and has frequent visions of death Read More »
Turkish Delight (1973) Paul Verhoeven, Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Tonny Huurdeman, Drama, Romance, Erotic
Erik Vonk is a carefree artist and ladies man until he meets Olga, a beautiful young woman with an equal passion for sexual adventure. Read More »
Showgirls (1995) Paul Verhoeven, Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Drama, Erotic
A young drifter, named Nomi, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls. Read More »
Soldaat van Oranje / Soldier of Orange (1977) Paul Verhoeven, Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Susan Penhaligon, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Soldier of Orange (Dutch: Soldaat van Oranje) is a 1977 Dutch film directed by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer, starring Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé. The film is set during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, and shows how individual students have different roles in the war. The story is based on the book Soldaat van Oranje by Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, who lived the story himself.
The film received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980. The film is considered to be one of the two best Dutch films made in the 20th century.
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Starship Troopers (1997) Paul Verhoeven, Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Action, Sci-Fi
From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga, with its sweeping galactic views, to the desolate terrain of planet Klendathu, teeming with shrieking, fire-spitting, brain-sucking special effects creatures, acclaimed director Paul Verhoeven crafts a dazzling epic based on Robert A. Heinlein’s classic sci-fi adventure about the courageous soldiers who travel to the distant and desolate Klendathu system for the ultimate showdown between the species.
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Zwartboek / Black Book (2006) Paul Verhoeven, Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Drama, Thriller, War
Israel 1956. Rachel, a Jew, rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz where she is working as a teacher. It brings back memories of her experiences in The Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. September 1944. Rachel is in trouble when her hiding place is bombed by allied troops. She gets in contact with a man from the resistance and joins a group of Jews who are to be smuggled across the Biesbosch by boat to the freed South Netherlands. Germans from a patrol boat murder them all however. Only Rachel is able to escape. She is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers. When Kuipers’ son is captured after trying to smuggle weapons, he asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze. Soon she will find out the attack in the Biesbosch wasn’t a coincidence.
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