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.

Герард — популярный писатель, алкоголик и гомосексуалист, сочиняющий противоречивые романы, в которых вымысел тесно переплетен с реальностью. Но когда его начинает соблазнять сексуальная вдова Кристин, Герард погружается в кошмарную пучину богохульства, кровопролития и бисексуальных желаний.

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.

Жизни Эрика Лансхофа и пяти его ближайших друзей идут разными путями, когда немецкая армия вторгается в Нидерланды в 1940 году: борьба и сопротивление, страх и покорность, сотрудничество и государственная измена.

В основе фильма лежит автобиографическая история Китти Ниил Дофф, которая за это произведение была выдвинута на Нобелевскую и Гонкуровскую премии. Чтобы заработать деньги для своей семьи, деревенская девушка стала в Амстердаме заниматься проституцией. Обладая сильным характером, она пробивается в избранные слои общества.

Ничто не предвещало того, что встреча Эрика и Ольги продлится дольше нескольких часов. Эротическое приключение на заднем сидении автомобиля становится началом безграничной роковой любви, натуралистичные появления которой лицемерно отвергаются общественной моралью.

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.

В тихую, Богом забытую немецкую деревушку приезжает автобус. Из него выходит группа турецких гастарбайтеров и одутловатый, неуклюжий увалень Абрам, которого играет сам автор пьесы. При встрече с ним не здоровается родная мать, и по деревне постепенно расползаются слухи, что парень сидел в тюрьме, причем посадили его якобы за то, что в нынешнем продвинутом мире именуется бисексуальностью. Абрам никому ничего доказывать не собирается, он с железной выдержкой выносит все издевательства и провокации. Впрочем, местный народец своего не упустит. Единственный на всю деревню комбайн поломался, и появление механика Абрама решает все проблемы.

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.

Мария убивает своего возлюбленного его же пистолетом, когда он пытается избить её. Вместо того, чтобы сообщить о случившемся в полицию, Мария нанимает двух мужчин, которые помогают ей спрятать тело, - и в обоих влюбляется.

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.