Paul Verhoeven

Paul Verhoeven

Paul Verhoeven (born July 18, 1938) is a Dutch film director, screenwriter, and producer who has made movies in both the Netherlands and the United States. Explicitly violent and/or sexual content and social satire are trademarks of both his drama and science fiction films. He is best known for directing the American feature films RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990), Basic Instinct (1992), Starship Troopers (1997), and Hollow Man (2000). Turkish Delight (1973) received the award for Best Dutch Film of the Century at the Netherlands Film Festival. His films altogether received a total of nine Academy Award nominations, mainly for editing and effects. Both RoboCop and Total Recall won an Academy Special Achievement Award. In contrast, his film Showgirls (1995) was poorly received and won seven Golden Raspberry Awards, but has become a cult film over time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Verhoeven, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

  • Title: Paul Verhoeven
  • Popularity: 6.531
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1938-07-18
  • Place of Birth: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
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  • Also Known As: 保罗·范霍文, 폴 버호벤, 폴 베호벤, 파울 페르후번, Паул Вергувен, Паул Верхувен
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Paul Verhoeven Movies

  • 2004
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    The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

    The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

    7 2004 HD

    Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

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  • 2019
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    In Search of the Last Action Heroes

    In Search of the Last Action Heroes

    6.8 2019 HD

    The most comprehensive retrospective of the '80s action film genre ever made.

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  • 1987
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    RoboCop

    RoboCop

    7.327 1987 HD

    In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police...

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  • 2005
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    That's It!

    That's It!

    1 2005 HD

    In 1980 film writer Ruud den Drijver goes head to head with two notorious Dutch film directors, Paul Verhoeven and Wim Verstappen, passionate film...

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  • 1999
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    Kurosawa: The Last Emperor

    Kurosawa: The Last Emperor

    5.5 1999 HD

    A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.

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  • 1990
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    Pictures of Europe

    Pictures of Europe

    1 1990 HD

    What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences...

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  • 2010
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    Parradox

    Parradox

    5 2010 HD

    "Pim is more consummate," actress Willeke van Ammelrooy concluded upon seeing Pim de la Parra again in Suriname, at the presentation of the restored...

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  • 1996
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    Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood

    Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood

    5.2 1996 HD

    Very insightful BBC documentary about Paul Verhoeven, tracking his career up to Showgirls. The programme focuses on talks with Verhoeven, but also...

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  • 2004
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    Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

    Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

    6.9 2004 HD

    A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the...

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  • 2014
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    Hollywood Banker

    Hollywood Banker

    6.8 2014 HD

    How Frans Afman, a banker from the Netherlands, developed a new system for film financing, revolutionized independent filmmaking in Hollywood, but...

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  • 1969
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    Rond Floris

    Rond Floris

    10 1969 HD

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  • 1970
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    Goddess: The Fall and Rise of Showgirls

    Goddess: The Fall and Rise of Showgirls

    1 1970 HD

    A look at the production and enduring popularity of a modern trash classic from those bad boys behind 1992's Basic Instinct, the infamous...

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  • 2016
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    Verhoeven Versus Verhoeven

    Verhoeven Versus Verhoeven

    6.9 2016 HD

    A look at the life and provocative film work of controversial Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven.

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  • 2002
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    Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers'

    Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers'

    8 2002 HD

    A behind-the-scenes look at director Paul Verhoeven's imaginative re-telling of Robert Heinlein's classic science fiction novel.

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  • 1955
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    Gottes Utopia

    Gottes Utopia

    1 1955 HD

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  • 2019
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    You Don't Nomi

    You Don't Nomi

    6 2019 HD

    Released in 1995, Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls was met by critics and audiences with near universal derision. You Don't Nomi traces the film's...

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  • 1984
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    De droomproducenten

    De droomproducenten

    1 1984 HD

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

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  • 2001
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    Flesh + Steel: The Making of 'RoboCop'

    Flesh + Steel: The Making of 'RoboCop'

    7 2001 HD

    A look behind the scenes at the making of this science fiction classic about a policeman killed in the line of duty, only to be reborn as a half-man,...

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  • 2022
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    In Search of Tomorrow

    In Search of Tomorrow

    6.4 2022 HD

    A nostalgic journey through ’80s Sci-Fi-films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artist who made them and by those who...

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  • 2019
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    Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters

    Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters

    7.4 2019 HD

    An in-depth, sad, and beautiful documentary about the stop motion and VFX artist Phil Tippett, a man who changed the landscape of visual effects in...

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  • 2003
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    Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

    Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

    5.2 2003 HD

    Directed by Kevin Burns, this documentary from Playboy Home Video examines the oftentimes tense relationship between sex, women, and popular...

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  • 1993
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    Hollywood by Bike

    Hollywood by Bike

    1 1993 HD

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

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  • 2020
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    Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story

    Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story

    6.2 2020 HD

    Chronicles the lives of women who perform the stunts in some of Hollywood’s biggest action sequences — from the early days of silent...

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  • 2020
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    Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood

    Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood

    6 2020 HD

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  • 2020
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    Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone

    Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone

    4.3 2020 HD

    A documentary about the Paul Verhoeven's cult classic Basic Instinct.

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  • 2001
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    Imagining 'Total Recall'

    Imagining 'Total Recall'

    6 2001 HD

    Making of documentary featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Paul Verhoeven.

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  • 1992
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    Basic Instinct

    Basic Instinct

    6.919 1992 HD

    Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had...

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  • 1997
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    Starship Troopers

    Starship Troopers

    7.073 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    Soldier of Orange

    Soldier of Orange

    7.1 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    Soldier of Orange

    Soldier of Orange

    7.1 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 1990
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    Total Recall

    Total Recall

    7.305 1990 HD

    Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory...

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  • 1995
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    Showgirls

    Showgirls

    5.6 1995 HD

    Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer...

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  • 1973
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    Turkish Delight

    Turkish Delight

    6.9 1973 HD

    Eric, a gifted sculptor, has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.

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  • 1987
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    RoboCop

    RoboCop

    7.327 1987 HD

    In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police...

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  • 2006
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    Black Book

    Black Book

    7.5 2006 HD

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

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  • 2006
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    Black Book

    Black Book

    7.5 2006 HD

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

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  • 2000
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    Hollow Man

    Hollow Man

    5.944 2000 HD

    Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine...

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  • 1985
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    Flesh + Blood

    Flesh + Blood

    6.6 1985 HD

    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...

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  • 1985
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    Flesh + Blood

    Flesh + Blood

    6.6 1985 HD

    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...

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  • 1980
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    Spetters

    Spetters

    6.5 1980 HD

    Three amateur dirt-bike racers each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, sells French fries and hotdogs at the races. Everyone is...

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  • 1983
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    The 4th Man

    The 4th Man

    6.7 1983 HD

    A man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.

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  • 1975
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    Katie Tippel

    Katie Tippel

    6.6 1975 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    Business Is Business

    Business Is Business

    5.7 1971 HD

    The story of two prostitutes working in the Amsterdam Red Light district, and the many strange and unusual men they meet through their work.

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  • 2012
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    Tricked

    Tricked

    5.8 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 1960
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    One Lizard Too Many

    One Lizard Too Many

    5 1960 HD

    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.

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  • 2013
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    Lotgenoten

    Lotgenoten

    6.2 2013 HD

    When womanizer Remco Albrecht celebrates his 65st birthday he has to deal with people from his past whom he would rather ignore.

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  • 1970
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    Sans Compter

    Sans Compter

    1 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Sans Compter

    Sans Compter

    1 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1981
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    All Things Pass

    All Things Pass

    6.8 1981 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    The Wrestler

    The Wrestler

    4.5 1971 HD

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

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  • 1971
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    The Wrestler

    The Wrestler

    4.5 1971 HD

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

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  • 1968
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    Portrait of Anton Adriaan Mussert

    Portrait of Anton Adriaan Mussert

    1 1968 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    Let's Have a Party

    Let's Have a Party

    5.5 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    The Royal Dutch Marine Corps

    The Royal Dutch Marine Corps

    6 1965 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    The Hitchhikers

    The Hitchhikers

    5.7 1962 HD

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

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  • 1961
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    Nothing Special

    Nothing Special

    5.5 1961 HD

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

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  • 2005
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    Le court des grands

    Le court des grands

    8 2005 HD

    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...

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  • 2016
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    Elle

    Elle

    6.7 2016 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Young Sinner

    Young Sinner

    1 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Young Sinner

    Young Sinner

    1 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    Tricked

    Tricked

    5.8 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    Benedetta

    Benedetta

    6.6 2021 HD

    A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to...

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  • 2009
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    Something Unknown Is Doing We Don't Know What

    Something Unknown Is Doing We Don't Know What

    8.3 2009 HD

    Is it possible to look into the future? Does mind over matter really exist? What is true about psychic healing? Is remote viewing real? Where is the...

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  • 2021
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    Benedetta

    Benedetta

    6.6 2021 HD

    A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to...

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  • 1968
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    The Lonely Dorymen

    The Lonely Dorymen

    7 1968 HD

    For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to...

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  • 1959
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    Cups of Coffee

    Cups of Coffee

    1 1959 HD

    Filmic exercise by Verhoeven

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  • 1959
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    The Kiss

    The Kiss

    1 1959 HD

    Filmic exercise by Paul Verhoeven.

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  • 1970
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    RoboCop Returns

    RoboCop Returns

    1 1970 HD

    Set in crime-ridden Detroit. Centers around the cyborg as he is forced to come back to the city and save it from the brink of anarchy.

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  • 1988
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    Zomergasten

    Zomergasten

    1 1988 HD

    This VPRO's ‘summer classic’ is based on an equally simple and refreshing idea that originated in 1988: When during the summer most of...

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  • 2005
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    De Wereld Draait Door

    De Wereld Draait Door

    5.6 2005 HD

    Talk show hosted by Matthijs van Nieuwkerk containing a mixture of news, information, television bloopers and general entertainment.

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  • 2023
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    RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop

    RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop

    8.6 2023 HD

    An in-depth look into the ground breaking franchise and features new interviews with cast and crew.

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  • 2004
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    Leçon de Cinéma

    Leçon de Cinéma

    7 2004 HD

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  • 2014
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    The Real History of Science Fiction

    The Real History of Science Fiction

    6.8 2014 HD

    The series heads to the very frontiers of space and science to produce the definitive television history of science fiction, told through its impact...

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  • 2004
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    Kulturplatz

    Kulturplatz

    6 2004 HD

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  • 1992
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    Morgenmagazin

    Morgenmagazin

    6 1992 HD

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  • 1970
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    Morgenmagazin

    Morgenmagazin

    6.1 1970 HD

    A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody...

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  • 1970
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    Morgenmagazin

    Morgenmagazin

    7.7 1970 HD

    A Dutch television series about an exiled knight and his Indian friend. Together they try to get his birthright papers back from an evil Lord. During...

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  • 1970
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    Morgenmagazin

    Morgenmagazin

    6.5 1970 HD

    Based on the true story of a group of students from Leiden, The Netherlands, this miniseries explores their experiences, different paths, and roles...

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  • 1970
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    Morgenmagazin

    Morgenmagazin

    7.7 1970 HD

    A Dutch television series about an exiled knight and his Indian friend. Together they try to get his birthright papers back from an evil Lord. During...

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  • 1970
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    Morgenmagazin

    Morgenmagazin

    1 1970 HD

    Het gestolen kasteel is an episode in the 1969 Dutch television action series Floris, written by Gerard Soeteman starring Rutger Hauer and Jos...

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  • 1970
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    Morgenmagazin

    Morgenmagazin

    1 1970 HD

    De koperen hond is an episode in the 1969 Dutch television action series Floris, written by Gerard Soeteman starring Rutger Hauer and Jos Bergman and...

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