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RoboCop

(1987)

Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their unteste...

Runtime:

102 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, 柯特伍德·史密斯, Miguel Ferrer

7.6

90%

67

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Total Recall

(1990)

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company who manufacture memories. Something goes wrong during his memory implant turning Doug's life upside down and even to question what is reality and what isn't.

Runtime:

113 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Rachel Ticotin, Ronny Cox

7.5

82%

57

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Starship Troopers

(1997)

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".

Runtime:

129 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Casper Van Dien, Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Denise Richards

7.2

66%

51

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Black Book

(2006)

Drama, Thriller, War

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Runtime:

145 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus

7.7

76%

71

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Basic Instinct

(1992)

Mystery, Thriller

A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

Runtime:

127 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis Arndt

7.0

55%

41

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Elle

(2016)

Drama, Thriller

When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.

Runtime:

130 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Isabelle Huppert, Anne Consigny, Christian Berkel, Virginie Efira, Laurent Lafitte

7.2

91%

89

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Hollow Man

(2000)

Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Cocky researcher, Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible and he's so confident he's found the right formula that he tests it on himself and soon begins to vanish. The only problem is – no-one can determine how to make him visible again. Caine's predicament eventually drives him mad, with terrifying r...

Runtime:

112 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Elisabeth Shue, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens

5.8

27%

24

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Soldier of Orange

(1977)

Drama, Thriller, War

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.

Runtime:

148 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Susan Penhaligon, Edward Fox, Lex van Delden

7.7

91%

N/A

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Flesh + Blood

(1985)

Adventure, Drama

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.

Runtime:

126 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Jack Thompson, Fernando Hilbeck

6.7

86%

56

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Turkish Delight

(1973)

Drama, Romance

Eric, a gifted sculptor has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young girl, Olga. The story follows the arc of their relationship and his interaction with her family.

Runtime:

108 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Tonny Huurdeman, Wim van den Brink, Hans Boskamp

7.1

86%

N/A

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The 4th Man

(1983)

Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

An alcoholic writer begins having visions apparently warning him of impending danger. After he delivers a lecture, he begins an affair with a woman from the audience. The visions intensify, however, and begin to threaten his relationship with the woman, since it may be her the visions are warning against.

Runtime:

102 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman, Dolf de Vries, Geert de Jong

7.3

100%

N/A

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Showgirls

(1995)

Drama

A young drifter named Nomi arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become a top showgirl.

Runtime:

131 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Bobbie Phillips

4.9

22%

16

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Spetters

(1980)

Drama, Romance

A Dutch film, post-Saturday Night Fever, which follows the lives of three young men who are amateur dirt-bike motorcycle racers. They each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, sells French fries and hot dogs at the races. Everyone is looking for a better life. She wants out of the business and away from her brother. T...

Runtime:

120 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Hans van Tongeren, Renée Soutendijk, Toon Agterberg, Maarten Spanjer, Marianne Boyer

6.6

78%

N/A

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Katie Tippel

(1975)

Drama, Romance

In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.

Runtime:

102 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Andrea Domburg, Hannah de Leeuwe, Jan Blaaser

6.7

N/A

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Business is Business

(1971)

Comedy

Controversial director Paul Verhoeven made his feature-film debut with this Dutch comedy-drama about two prostitutes working in the Amsterdam Red Light district, and the many strange and unusual men they meet through their work. Also known as Diary Of A Hooker, Business is Business, and Any Special Way, Wat Zien Ik? was based on the sh...

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Ronnie Bierman, Sylvia de Leur, Jules Hamel, Piet Römer

5.8

N/A

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Tricked

(2012)

Comedy, Drama

During his 50th birthday party thrown by his wife, Remco's life takes a turn for the worse. His business partners are scheming behind his back to sell him and his former mistress shows up pregnant.

Runtime:

55 min

6.2

46%

50

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All Things Pass

(1979)

Drama, TV Movie, War

During World War II in the Netherlands, resistance-leader Arie is shot by the Dutch SS-man Niels. Arie's comrades pledge to avenge his death. 35 years later one of them, Ab, is confronted with Niels again. He decides to round up his old friends to kill him. He finds out though, that they think this is useless or are not capable of doin...

Runtime:

65 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

7.7

N/A

Portrait of Anton Adriaan Mussert

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Portrait of Anton Adriaan Mussert

(1968)

Documentary

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.

Runtime:

50 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

7.1

N/A

The Wrestler

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The Wrestler

(1970)

Comedy, Drama

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

Runtime:

20 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Jon Bluming, Bernard Droog, Peter Faber, Marielle Fiolet

6.9

N/A

The Royal Dutch Marine Corps

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The Royal Dutch Marine Corps

(1965)

Documentary

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

Runtime:

23 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

7.0

N/A

Let's Have a Party

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Let's Have a Party

(1963)

Romance

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 Wachter in Simon Vestdijk's novel Back to Ina Damman, one of the parts in the Anton Wachter...

Runtime:

28 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Yvonne Blei-Weissmann, Diek de Brauw, Pieter Jelle Bouman, Wim Noordhoek, Marian Bruning

6.5

N/A

One Lizard Too Many

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One Lizard Too Many

(1960)

Drama

A woman, married with an artist, starts a relationship with one of her students, who has already got a mistress of his own. The two rivals meet.

Runtime:

35 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Erik Bree, P.A. Harteveld, Marijke Jones, Hermine Menalda, Hans Schneider

5.7

N/A

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Nothing Special

(1961)

Drama

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

Runtime:

9 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Marina Schaper, Jan van Mastrigt

6.7

N/A

The Hitchhikers

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The Hitchhikers

(1962)

Drama

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

Runtime:

16 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Jan van Mastrigt, Jaap van Donselaar, Maarten Schutte, Geerda Walma van der Molen

6.8

N/A

Bedaure, falsch verbunden

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Bedaure, falsch verbunden

(1962)

Crime

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Ingrid Andree, Harald Leipnitz, Joachim Brennecke, Konrad Georg, Siegfried Lowitz

8.4

N/A

Kleider machen Leute

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Kleider machen Leute

(1963)

Drama

Runtime:

92 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Hanns Lothar, Monika Peitsch, Georg Lehn, Heini Göbel, Hans Jürgen Diedrich

7.9

N/A

Froher Herbst des Lebens

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Froher Herbst des Lebens

(1961)

Comedy

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Vera Tschechowa, Lis Verhoeven, Luise Ullrich, Karl Schönböck, Tilli Breidenbach

8.5

N/A

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Last Scene

(1986)

Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Ambitious first-time film director is having trouble eliciting a good and believable performance out of his lovely, but inexperienced lead actress. He decides to use unorthodox methods to coax more credible and effective acting for the crucial final scene of the horror movie they're working on together.

Runtime:

29 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Peter Coyote, LaGena Hart

N/A

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Le court des grands

(2005)

A program of short films from some of the cinema's greatest diectors. Curated by Emir Kusturica and Stephen Frears. - George Lucas "1.42.08 to Qualify" (1966) - Ridley Scott "A Boy and a Bicycle" (1965) - Robert Zemeckis "The Lift" (1972) - Tony Scott "One of the Missing" (1969) - Emir Kusturica "Guernica" (1978) - Luc Besson "L'...

Runtime:

194 min

Director:

George Lucas, Jane Campion, Ridley Scott, Stephen Frears, Tony Scott, Roman Polanski, Paul Verhoeven, Lars von Trier, Robert Zemeckis, Luc Besson, Emir Kusturica, Terry Gilliam

N/A

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