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.

심리소설로 유명한 네덜란드의 베스트셀러 작가 제랄드 리브는 양성연애자로, 동거하는 애인을 살해하거나 자위적 성충동의 강렬한 환상에 사로잡히곤 한다. 열렬한 카톨릭 신자이기도 한 그는 종교적 보수성과 악마적 일탈성 사이에서 방황하고 있다. 어느날 그는 플러싱이라는 소도시로 강연 여행을 떠난다. 역에서 기차를 기다리던 그는 쾰른행 열차를 타고 있는 한 청년을 보고 강렬한 인상을 받는다. 플러싱 역에 도착한 제럴드는 기차에서 자신의 이름 '제랄드'라고 분명히 쓰여져 있는 관이 내려져 이송되고 있는 것을 본다. 도착부터 불길한 예감에 휩싸인 제랄드는 곧바로 강연회장으로 간다. 강연이 끝난 후 미모의 스폰서 크리스틴의 저택으로 초대 받는 제랄드. 저택에서 한 남자의 사진을 본 그는 사진 속의 남자가 쾰른행 열차를 타고 있던 바로 그 청년이라는 것을 알고 놀라워 한다. 그리고 크리스틴으로부터 세 명의 남편과 사별을 했다는 고백을 듣는다. 제랄드는 자신을 유혹하는 크리스틴에게서 알 수 없는 광기와 미스테리의 기운을 느끼고 자신이 네 번째 남자가 될 지 모른다는 두려움에 빠진다.

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.

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.

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.

젊은 조각가 에릭은 히치 하이킹을 통해 부유한 젊은 여인 올가의 차에 동승한다. 바지 지퍼에 자신의 성기가 끼는 작은 해프닝으로 그들은 교통 사고까지 낸다. 간신히 수습한 그들은 어느새 열렬히 사랑하는 사이로 발전한다. 이들의 사랑은 도가 지나칠 정도로 급속도로 진행되고 결국 결혼하게 된다. 하지만 이들의 사랑을 지지해 주던 올가의 아버지가 세상을 떠나자, 속물인 올가의 어머니가 둘 사이를 방해한다. 어느 날, 에릭은 주문을 받아 모자상을 조각하지만, 정작 작품의 모델이 됐던 올가와 그는 제막식에 참가 금지를 당한다. 화가 난 에릭은 위선적이고 속물스런 중산층의 식탁에 올라가 난동을 피운다. 영원할 것 같았던 그들의 사랑은 불쾌한 그림 한 점으로 깨어지고, 에릭은 올가를 다시 만나기 위해 노력하지만 번번히 헛탕을 친다. 시간이 많이 흐른 후, 에릭은 간신히 그녀를 만난다. 그녀에 대한 그리움과 함께 오해, 질투, 사랑, 미움이 뒤섞인 감정 때문에 폭력적인 환상을 맛본다. 하지만 이미 그녀는 뇌종양에 걸려 있어서 그의 열정에도 불구하고 죽고 마는데...

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.

A four man US fireteam on patrol seizes a passing young Vietnamnese girl and continue to torture, rape and kill her. Only one soldier refuses to take part in it and reports this incident to his superior, who dismisses it as simple wartime incident. As a consequence for his report, the soldier has to fear for his life. Later, the perpetrators are convicted, although subsequent appeals reduce their sentences significantly. The plot takes place in a Bavarian forest and reenacts a real war crime that happened in the Vietnam war. The soldiers wear US uniforms, have authentic names but speak with a pronounced Bavarian accent - a conscious directing decision known as Brechtian distancing effect.

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

It's medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the merchandise as payment for traveling through his land, promising to give it back when the fair is over. When he returns, the horses are almost dead, and the man refuse to respond, so Kohlhass begins to fight unsuccesfuly against the injustice.

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.

When a young woman accidentally kills her ex-lover during a fight, she decides to conceal the body. Unfortunately, however, our anti-hero is less than honorable and becomes involved with not one but both of the men she finds to help her with his disposal at a construction site. And that's just one of the problems this little case of murder and deception starts.

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.