Paul Verhoeven
Nascimento : 1938-07-18, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
História
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.
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Himself
An immersive 4+ hour journey into the making of the seminal sci-fi movie RoboCop (1987).
With over 60 cast/crew interviews including: Peter Weller, Paul Verhoeven, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Ray Wise, Ed Neumeier, Michael Miner, Phil Tippett, Jon Davison and many more. Complete with exclusive behind the scenes materials, ROBODOC is a unique, comprehensive and fully explorative scene-by-scene retrospective.
Self - Interviewee
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 were inspired to turn their visions into reality.
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No final do século 17, com a peste devastando as terras, Benedetta Carlini ingressou no convento em Pescia, Toscana, como noviça. Capaz de fazer milagres desde tenra idade, o impacto de Benedetta na vida da comunidade é imediato e significativo.
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No final do século 17, com a peste devastando as terras, Benedetta Carlini ingressou no convento em Pescia, Toscana, como noviça. Capaz de fazer milagres desde tenra idade, o impacto de Benedetta na vida da comunidade é imediato e significativo.
Self
A documentary about the Paul Verhoeven's cult classic Basic Instinct.
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Chronicles the lives of women who perform the stunts in some of Hollywood’s biggest action sequences — from the early days of silent movies to today’s blockbusters.
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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 film.
Himself (archive footage)
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 redemptive journey from notorious flop to cult classic, and maybe even masterpiece.
Self - Filmmaker
A look at the life and provocative film work of controversial Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven.
Director
Michèle é a executiva-chefe de uma empresa de videogames, a qual administra do mesmo jeito que administra sua vida amorosa e sentimental: com mão de ferro, organizando tudo de maneira precisa e ordenada. Sua rotina é quebrada quando ela é atacada por um desconhecido, dentro de sua própria casa. No entanto, ela decide não deixar que isso a abale. O problema é que o agressor misterioso ainda não desistiu dela.
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How Frans Afman, a banker from the Netherlands, developed a new system for film financing, revolutionized independent filmmaking in Hollywood, but could not prevent it all from crashing down, when ambition of others turned into greed.
Writer
When womanizer Remco Albrecht celebrates his 65st birthday he has to deal with people from his past whom he would rather ignore.
Writer
Um filme de Paul Verhoeven com Peter Blok, Robert de Hoog : Os colegas de trabalho de Remco (Peter Blok) armam para o empresário durante sua festa de aniversário de 50 anos, organizado pela própria esposa, ao expor no jantar a ex-amante grávida de Remco. Para completar, a amante atual (Gaite Jansen) ...
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Um filme de Paul Verhoeven com Peter Blok, Robert de Hoog : Os colegas de trabalho de Remco (Peter Blok) armam para o empresário durante sua festa de aniversário de 50 anos, organizado pela própria esposa, ao expor no jantar a ex-amante grávida de Remco. Para completar, a amante atual (Gaite Jansen) ...
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"Pim is more consummate," actress Willeke van Ammelrooy concluded upon seeing Pim de la Parra again in Suriname, at the presentation of the restored version of his film Wan Pipel. This marked the end of her disagreement with the director, which arose during the making of this film, some 35 years ago now. The charming director doesn't seem like the kind of man you can stay angry with for long. Wan Pipel turned out to be a watershed in the career of this headstrong filmmaker, who shook up the Dutch film world in the late 1960s. Although he went on to fight back with his so-called "minimal movies," he would never again get the opportunities his talent and inventiveness deserved. In Parradox In-Soo Radstake provides a personal portrait of De la Parra, now 70 years of age, who after many adventures in the Netherlands has returned to his native Suriname. He discusses the major themes of his life and work, which for a long time coexisted: too many women, too little money, too much ego.
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Rachel Rosenthal é uma cantora judia que, durante uma tentativa de fuga, perde toda sua família em um ataque alemão. Ela se apaixona pelo oficial alemão que ela deveria espionar e quando suspeitam de um traidor dentro da resistência, ela é forçada a escolher o lado onde a sua lealdade está.
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Rachel Rosenthal é uma cantora judia que, durante uma tentativa de fuga, perde toda sua família em um ataque alemão. Ela se apaixona pelo oficial alemão que ela deveria espionar e quando suspeitam de um traidor dentro da resistência, ela é forçada a escolher o lado onde a sua lealdade está.
Himself
In 1980 film writer Ruud den Drijver goes head to head with two notorious Dutch film directors, Paul Verhoeven and Wim Verstappen, passionate film makers, competitors and colleagues in a free for all heated discussion ranging (among other subjects) from oral sex to the art of motion pictures. 25 years later the confrontation is continued during the Cannes Film Festival. In the meantime Wim Verstappen has died a year earlier and Paul Verhoeven has returned from a brilliant career in the States. Paul is still very outspoken. He talks freely about the present-day neo-conservative policies of America, and about the situation in Hollywood and his work. THAT'S IT!!(English title)(1980-2005) is a retrospective view on the careers of two driven film directors and is a hilarious time document larded with passionate statements.
Director
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'avant dernier" (1981)
- Lars von Trier "Nocturne" (1980)
- Terry Gilliam "Storytime" (1968)
- Paul Verhoeven "A Lizzard Too Much" (1960)
- Roman Polanski "Le gros et le maigre" (1960)
- Jane Campion "Peel" (1982)
- Stephen Frears "The Burning" (1967)
Self
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 LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.
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Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.
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Directed by Kevin Burns, this documentary from Playboy Home Video examines the oftentimes tense relationship between sex, women, and popular Hollywood culture. With a particular focus given to Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Jean Harlow, and Sharon Stone, Sex at 24 Frames Per Second studies the role of female sexuality in film throughout the years. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
Himself
A behind-the-scenes look at director Paul Verhoeven's imaginative re-telling of Robert Heinlein's classic science fiction novel.
Himself
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, half-machine supercop. Includes interviews with star Peter Weller and director Paul Verhoeven, who give their views on the efforts that went into making the film.
Self
Making of documentary featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Paul Verhoeven.
Director
Em um laboratório militar ultrassecreto, um grupo de cientistas descobre a fórmula da invisibilidade. Ansioso por analisar os efeitos em um ser humano, o líder da equipe, Sebastian Craine, testa em si mesmo. Entretanto, a equipe ainda não tinha descoberto o antídoto para a fórmula e precisa encontrar algo que impeça o cada vez mais rápido processo de invisibilidade pelo qual passa o corpo de Craine. Aos poucos a intoxicação o afeta e ele comece a acreditar que seus colegas são uma ameaça.
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A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.
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Em um futuro distante, a Terra está em guerra contra uma raça de insetos gigantes alienígenas. Pouco se sabe sobre eles, exceto que têm a intenção de eliminar toda forma de vida humana. Mas houve um tempo, antes da guerra, em que a Infantaria Móvel viajava para planetas distantes a fim de combater os insetos, inimigos implacáveis, com apenas uma missão: garantir a sobrevivência de sua espécie a qualquer custo.
Himself
Very insightful BBC documentary about Paul Verhoeven, tracking his career up to Showgirls. The programme focuses on talks with Verhoeven, but also includes interviews with many of the people who worked with him, both from the US and Holland, and even his wife. Also has a lot of behind the scenes footage from the set of Showgirls. Verhoeven is very open about the way he works, the themes in his movies and his life. He also interprets his own work in a very frank and intelligent way and, as always, is a gas.
Director
Uma jovem mulher, decidida a fugir de seu tumultuado passado, vai para Las Vegas com o objetivo de tornar-se dançarina, mas logo tem toda a sua bagagem roubada. No entanto, ela faz amizade com uma costureira, que trabalha no showbiz, e as duas passam a dividir um modesto local. Para sobreviver, começa a trabalhar como stripper em uma casa noturna de reputação duvidosa e, em virtude do seu belo rosto e de um corpo escultural, também atrai clientes, que desejam fazer com ela a "dança do colo", na qual ela pode fazer tudo com um homem mas ele não pode tocá-la. Com o tempo, ela passa a ser corista no show de um grande cassino, mas surge uma rivalidade indisfarçável entre ela e a estrela do show. Até que, quando ela começa a se envolver com o responsável pelos espetáculos, fica claro que o cassino é pequeno demais para ela e sua rival.
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Ao investigar um assassinato, o detetive Nick Curran se vê diante de um mistério: a principal suspeita é a namorada da vítima. Catherine Tramell, uma escritora de sucesso, descreve em seu último livro uma cena exatamente igual à do crime. A situação se complica porque Nick se vê envolvido com a insinuante escritora, numa trama de intrigas e sexo que pode acabar com a sua carreira e mesmo com a sua vida.
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No ano de 2084, o operário Doug Quaid recorre a um implante de memória para poder simular uma viagem a Marte. Mas algo sai errado e ele começa a se lembrar de quem realmente era e de fatos que, até então, desconhecia. Agora, Quaid quer vingança contra aqueles que o enganaram.
Dancer at Disco (uncredited)
Policial é morto em combate e transformado por cientistas da empresa que dirige a força policial em um ciborgue ultrassofisticado a fim de ser usado na luta contra o crime na cidade de Detroit. Porém, apesar de ter sua memória apagada, lembranças o assombram e o levam a buscar vingança.
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Policial é morto em combate e transformado por cientistas da empresa que dirige a força policial em um ciborgue ultrassofisticado a fim de ser usado na luta contra o crime na cidade de Detroit. Porém, apesar de ter sua memória apagada, lembranças o assombram e o levam a buscar vingança.
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No ano de 1501, a peste negra s espalha pela população. Um grupo de mercenários comandados por Martin (Rutger Hauer) luta ao lado do nobre Arnolfini, que quer recuperar seu costelo. Os mercenários deveriam recebe ruma boa quantia, mas acabm sendo passados para trás pelo nobre. Em busca de vingança, eles sequestram Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a noiva do filho de Arnolfini, e invadem o castelo.
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No ano de 1501, a peste negra s espalha pela população. Um grupo de mercenários comandados por Martin (Rutger Hauer) luta ao lado do nobre Arnolfini, que quer recuperar seu costelo. Os mercenários deveriam recebe ruma boa quantia, mas acabm sendo passados para trás pelo nobre. Em busca de vingança, eles sequestram Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a noiva do filho de Arnolfini, e invadem o castelo.
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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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Gerard Reve, um escritor bissexual e alcoólatra, acaba se envolvendo com Christine, uma loira sedutora, e se apaixona pelo namorado dela. Aos poucos, ele começa a ter visões e pesadelos, e passa a desconfiar que Christine, viúva três vezes, assassinou seus ex-maridos. Quem será o próximo?
Director
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 doing so anymore. Only the former communist Gerben has not forgotten his pledge and is talked into joining the execution.
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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 looking for a better life: she wants out of the business and away from her brother; and the motocross racers want to make their marks as professionals in their sport.
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As vidas de Erik Lanshof e cinco de seus amigos mais próximos tomam caminhos diferentes quando o exército alemão invade a Holanda em 1940: luta e resistência, medo e resignação, colaboração e alta traição.
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As vidas de Erik Lanshof e cinco de seus amigos mais próximos tomam caminhos diferentes quando o exército alemão invade a Holanda em 1940: luta e resistência, medo e resignação, colaboração e alta traição.
Director
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.
Director
O encontro casual de Olga e Eric acaba se tornando uma paixão incontrolável, que os atira contra todas as convenções sociais.
Director
The story of two prostitutes working in the Amsterdam Red Light district, and the many strange and unusual men they meet through their work.
Writer
A worried father tries to end the relationship that his son Andries has with the wife of a wrestler.
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A worried father tries to end the relationship that his son Andries has with the wife of a wrestler.
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Sound Effects
For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to Greenland’s banks to fish the cold waters for cod. Intrepid men, set off for the Banks on schooners under full sail, then adrift in a flat-bottomed dory, they bait the hundred of hooks of their long-line, oblivious to fog, rain and Arctic wind, they labour 18 hours a day and haul up cod by the score.
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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.
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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.
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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 cycle.
Director
A road movie about three guys (two hitchhikers, one driver) and one woman.
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A man is thinking about his relationship with his girlfriend, while checking out a gorgeous woman in a bar.
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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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Filmic exercise by Paul Verhoeven.
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Filmic exercise by Verhoeven
Marino
Self
Paul Verhoeven and Virginie Efira talk about Benedetta and how the film came to be.
Writer
A young staffer who works for a powerful Senator is drawn into a web of international intrigue and danger.
Director
A young staffer who works for a powerful Senator is drawn into a web of international intrigue and danger.
Screenplay
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.
