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  • Starship Troopers
  • Starship Troopers review by from ERITH
    Rated - 5 stars 5 October 2004
    ...Another excellent Paul Verhoeven movie. Some people just dont get his methord of direction. If you like robocop then you will love this film. Its all big loud and funny (in a...  
  • Total Recall
  • Total Recall review by A customer from London, UK
    Rated - 3 stars Interesting ideas, adequate execution 6 March 2004
    ...l of his 1980s films, except that ot set in the future, both on earth and Mars. Paul Verhoeven is a rather simplistic and crass director, and does not really bring out the fu...  
  • Robocop Trilogy
  • Robocop Trilogy review by imran from London
    Rated - 5 stars 5 Stars for Robocop NOT the others! 1 August 2004
    ...ocop 2 fails to recreate the impact of the first probably due to there being no Paul Verhoeven in the director's chair but is still fairly watchable. The drug addicted rival ...  

Paul Verhoeven - filmography


  • The Black Book on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Carice van Houten,  Sebastian Koch,  Thom Hoffman
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set during the end of WWII, Black Book is the story of Rachel Stein (van Houten) who is separated from her family and forced into hiding. Trying to flee to Allied territory, she is briefly reunited with her family, until they are murdered by the Nazis. Suspecting they have been double crossed, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 32,745 members
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  • Hollow Man on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Elisabeth Shue,  Josh Brolin
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Paul Verhoeven's appropriately shallow Hollow Man, Kevin Bacon plays a bad-boy egotistical scientist who heads up a double-secret government team experimenting with turning life-forms invisible. How do we know he's a bad boy? Because he (a) wears a leather overcoat, (b) compares himself to God, (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 9,826 members
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  • Basic Instinct on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Sharon Stone,  Michael Douglas,  Jeanne Tripplehorn
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This steamy thriller to end all steamy thrillers stars Michael Douglas as Nick, a boozy San Francisco police detective who finds himself drawn to the prime suspect in a murder case--manipulative, sexually uninhibited novelist Catherine Trammell (Sharon Stone). Catherine's latest book features a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 10,392 members
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  • Total Recall on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Sharon Stone,  Michael Ironside
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Arnold Schwarzenegger is perfectly cast as Quaid, a 2084 construction worker haunted by dreams of Mars in this crowd-pleasing science fiction spectacle. Against the wishes of his sexy blonde wife (Sharon Stone), Quaid goes to Rekall, a company that implants artificial memories, so he can remember ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 25,832 members
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  • The Fourth Man on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Jeroen Krabbe,  Renee Soutendijk,  Thom Hoffman
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Paul Verhoeven (BASIC INSTINCT, STARSHIP TROOPERS) won international acclaim for this sexy, gory film noir. Christine (Renee Soutendijk) is a three time widow with a mysterious past and a new lover, Herman (Thom Hoffman). Enter Gerard Reve (Jeroen Krabbe), the bisexual writer of several ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 708 members
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  • Soldier Of Orange on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Rutger Hauer,  Jeroen Krabbe,  Peter Faber
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A gripping World War II tale about the Nazi invasion of Holland and its effects upon six wealthy, boisterous college students, SOLDIER OF ORANGE brought director Paul Verhoeven international acclaim. The film focuses on two of the friends, Erik and Gus. Erik escapes to England, and (against his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,806 member
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  • Turkish Delight on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Rutger Hauer,  Monique Van De Ven,  Piet Roemer
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The most popular film in Dutch history, TURKISH DELIGHT stars Rutger Hauer as Erik Vonk, a free spirited sculptor who enters into a passionate affair with the beautiful Olga (van de Ven), whose thirst for sexual experimentation matches his own. As their romance progresses, the two decide to marry, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,144 member
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Paul Verhoeven facts

5 most recent films

Black Book, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
The Black Book - 3.5 stars
Hollow Man - 3.0 stars
Hollow Man - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Starship Troopers - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Total Recall - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Starship Troopers - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Black Book, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Robocop - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Total Recall - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Hitchhiker - Vol.1 - 2.5 stars
Business Is Business - 2.0 stars
Showgirls - 2.0 stars
Katie Tippel - 2.5 stars
Spetters - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sharon Stone - 8 times - show films
Ronny Cox - 7 times - show films
Michael Ironside - 7 times - show films
Robert Picardo - 5 times - show films
Rachel Ticotin - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Irvin Kershner - 1 times - show films
Fred Dekker - 1 times - show films