Rob Houwer

Tony is really handsome, but he smells. A scientist gives him a potion that should get rid of his fishy smell. Unfortunately, there are some serious side effects.

Tony is really handsome, but he smells. A scientist gives him a potion that should get rid of his fishy smell. Unfortunately, there are some serious side effects.

The poet Valentijn Boecke meets his former teacher Mieke. They have a short relation. After a while Mieke appears to be pregnant. Valentijn is through with Mieke and leaves her...

The poet Valentijn Boecke meets his former teacher Mieke. They have a short relation. After a while Mieke appears to be pregnant. Valentijn is through with Mieke and leaves her...

Alternating comedy and drama this portrait of different families on three floors in an Amsterdam building where the stairs symbolizes the suffering of known urban living alongside each other. Upstairs live two students, including the failed and unemployed singer Karin with Harrie and Wouter down with his demented mother.

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

A young painter takes up French lessons with an elder lady to ensure he’ll get a grant for a French arts institute. That way he meets Anna, a beautiful married woman nursing the lady’s old father, and falls in love with her.

Un escritor alcohólico comienza a tener visiones que parecen anunciarle un peligro inminente. Un día tiene una aventura con una mujer que ha asistido a la presentación de uno de sus libros y, desde entonces, las visiones se intensifican.

Oliver B. Bumble finds an egg that, it turns out, has a cute little dragon in it. However, this dragon grows huge each time it gets excited or upset. As this causes a lot of problems, Bumble has to face a difficult dilemma.

A bored company owner decides to find out what it is like to be one of his workers. During his "transformation" he falls in love with a cafeteria worker. When his alter ego "The Boss" makes an inappropriate comment to his would-be girlfriend, the worker challenges his "Boss" to a Duel.

Detectives Grijpstra and De Gier are sent to investigate the case of a man who apparently hanged himself in a center for oriental meditation. It is ruled as suicide and the case seems to be closed, but the same night there is an attempted break in. The investigation hits a dead end and everyone involved is a suspect. Based on the book "The Corpse in the Haarlemmer Houttuinen” by Jan-Willem van de Wetering.

Las vidas de Erik Lanshof y cinco de sus amigos más cercanos toman rumbos diferentes cuando el ejército alemán invade los Países Bajos en 1940: lucha y resistencia, miedo y resignación, colaboración y alta traición.

Finales del siglo XIX. Katty, huyendo de la pobreza, abandona su pueblo y se traslada a Ámsterdam, donde ejerce la prostitución para mejorar el nivel de vida de su familia. En la capital conocerá el poder de corrupción del dinero y el sórdido mundo de la explotación sexual.

Un escultor holandés (Rutger Hauer) mantiene un tormentoso y erótico romance con una hermosa muchacha. En otro tiempo, el artista era un libertino que coleccionaba en un álbum sus conquistas amorosas como si fueran trofeos.

This movie chronicles several pregnant women on their quest to have an abortion. Some got pregnant by accident, others were raped. Sure to offend anti-abortionists, pro-lifers, feminists and chauvinists alike. The portions of the movie that deal with European folk remedies to pregnancy are especially interesting.

This movie chronicles several pregnant women on their quest to have an abortion. Some got pregnant by accident, others were raped. Sure to offend anti-abortionists, pro-lifers, feminists and chauvinists alike. The portions of the movie that deal with European folk remedies to pregnancy are especially interesting.

Cuatro soldados estadounidenses secuestran, violan y asesinan a una niña vietnamita, y sus actos son vistos por otro soldado.

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.

Época Medieval. Kohlhaas comercia con caballos. Al ir a la feria local para vender sus caballos, se ve obligado por un noble a que le deje parte de la mercancía como medio de pago para viajar por su territorio, con la promesa de devolverlo cuando la feria se haya terminado. Cuando regresa, los caballos están casi muertos, y el hombre no responde, por lo Kohlhass comienza a luchar infructuosamente contra la injusticia.

A strange case baffles the police and the citizens of a German small town. A two-year old girl has disappeared. There are suspects, innocents, guilty ones and a web of lies. It's saturday afternoon, and Achim's parents are invited for a topping-out ceremony. The neighbour's daughter, Monika (Renate Roland), is the babysitter for Achim (Sascha Urchs) and his little sister Kathrin, but Monika doesn't take the job too serious. She'd rather go for a ride with her boyfriend. Through a unforeseen row of circumstances, Achim becomes the murderer of his sister, and hides the body in a wrecked car on the scrapyard. When the parents return home, a frantic search for the little child begins. Only the father (Sieghardt Rupp) seems to know the truth…

Dressman turns bank robber to afford the lifestyle he wants

Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema.

An old librarian, Professor Columbus, wants to go to the sea once in his lifetime. So he buys a big ship and takes a boat trip across the North Sea to London, accompanied by a bunch of stoned hippies, and chased by the police. (IMDb)

A well-off couple adopt a 16-year-old boy from an orphanage in West Berlin, but their attempts to help him assimilate into his new surroundings fail. The repressive tolerance of the well-educated adoptive parents is just too much for the mischievous young boy: he shoots the father.

Durante una discusión, la mujer mata accidentalmente a su pareja. Temerosa de las consecuencias por lo que acaba de hacer, decide esconder el cadáver en un lugar donde espera que nunca sea descubierto. Le ayudan dos desconocidos sin muchos escrúpulos, que acabarán intimando con la joven.

In a future world devoid of men, three young women order two men to come to them and ask them which of them they would prefer.

Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream "Unterhaltungskino" ("entertainment cinema") and her second one as acknowledged European arthouse actress.

Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966.

Short film about car racing.

Short by Rob Houwer. Silver Bear winner 1964.

Short by Rob Houwer. Silver Bear winner 1964.

Short by Rob Houwer. Silver Bear winner 1964.

Confusion results when a young man walking through a park joins in a game of tennis.

A rich man's daughter seduces migrant workers.

A rich man's daughter seduces migrant workers.