Paul Verhoeven Movies

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

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

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

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

A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.

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

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

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

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...

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

A look behind the scenes of the production of the television series 'Floris', filmed in the summer and autumn of 1968.

Upon its release in 1995, "Showgirls" was reviled and dismissed as a cinematic disaster. But in the years since, the movie has risen from the ashes to...

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

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

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 redemptiv...

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

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,...

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

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 fi...