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  • Starship Troopers
  • Starship Troopers review by from ERITH
    Rated - 5.0 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...   Read customer review
  • Total Recall
  • Total Recall review by OriginalGooner from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars An enjoyable couple of hours. 13 July 2008
    ...ing to kill him because of what he now knows. A good sci-fi B-movie directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring the ever irrepressible Schwarzenegger in the kind of sci-fi action...   Read customer review
  • Robocop Trilogy
  • Robocop Trilogy review by imran from London
    Rated - 5.0 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 ...   Read customer review

Paul Verhoeven - filmography


  • The Black Book - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Carice van Houten,  Sebastian Koch,  Thom Hoffman
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 2,549 members
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  • The Black Book on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Carice van Houten,  Sebastian Koch,  Thom Hoffman
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 39,470 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 11,341 members
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  • Hollow Man - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Elisabeth Shue,  Josh Brolin
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A team of scientists is assigned to a secret government research project to experiment with the possibility of invisibility. When they find that one of their formulas works on animals, Dr. Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) violates the rules of the project and tries it on himself. It works: he becomes ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,604 member
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  • Starship Troopers on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Casper Van Dien,  Denise Richards,  Dina Meyer
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Some time in the future, a group of friends joins Earth's military forces after high school graduation to battle the insectoid Klendathu. One fights for the chance to be a renowned pilot (Denise Richards), one for revenge (Casper Van Dien), and one for the love of a good man (Dina Meyer), but ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 22,105 members
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  • Showgirls on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Elizabeth Berkley,  Kyle MacLachlan,  Gina Gershon
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Glitz, glamour and blind, naked ambition collide in this tale of a young exotic dancer clawing her way to stardom in glitter city, Las Vegas. Nomi Malone has left her name and her past behind to become a big splash in the all-stops-out dance extravaganzas of the Vegas stage. Along the way, she's ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 4,858 members
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  • Basic Instinct on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Sharon Stone,  Michael Douglas,  Jeanne Tripplehorn
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This cold, stylish erotic-thriller grossed over $100 million at the box-office despite vigorous protests at its depiction of gays and women. The shocking opening sequence features a graphic sexual encounter involving a rock-star bound with a white Hermes scarf by an unidentified blond woman. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 12,050 members
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  • Basic Instinct - HD (1992)
    Starring: Dennis Arndt,  Jeanne Tripplehorn,  Michael Douglas
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 359 members
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  • Total Recall on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Sharon Stone,  Michael Ironside
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Paul Verhoeven's wild sci-fi action movie Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a 21st-century construction worker who discovers that his entire memory of the past derives from a memory chip implanted in his brain. Schwarzenegger learns that he's actually a secret agent who had become a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 30,211 members
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  • Total Recall - HD (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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 503 members
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  • Robocop - Blu-ray (1987)
    Starring: Peter Weller,  Nancy Allen,  Ronny Cox
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Peter Weller stars in this urban sci-fi Western as Murphy, a good cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine. An ambitious executive at OCP, the corporation running the futuristic city of Detroit, fuses Murphy's torso with bulletproof steel ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 2,831 members
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  • Robocop Trilogy (3 discs) on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Peter Weller,  Nancy Allen,  Ronny Cox
    Director: Paul Verhoeven,  Irvin Kershner,  Fred Dekker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This collection features ROBOCOP and its two sequels. In Paul Verhoeven's original urban sci-fi Western, Peter Weller stars as Murphy, a good Detroit cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine--RoboCop. His former partner (Nancy Allen) tries ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 9,861 members
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  • Flesh and Blood on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Rutger Hauer,  Rutger Hauer,  Jennifer Jason Leigh
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    The year is 1520. Martin (RUTGER HAUER) leads a band of wretched mercenaries, betrayed by their leader Arnolfini. Steven (TOM BURLINSON) is Arnolfini's idealistic son, forced to marry Agnes (JENNIFER JASON LEIGH), a woman he has never met. Their lives cross when, disguised as a band of pilgrims, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,188 member
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  • The Fourth Man on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Jeroen Krabbe,  Renee Soutendijk,  Thom Hoffman
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 877 members
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  • Soldier Of Orange on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Rutger Hauer,  Rutger Hauer,  Jeroen Krabbe
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,319 members
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  • Katie Tippel on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Monique Van De Ven,  Fons Rademakers,  Rutger Hauer
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Paul Verhoeven directed this film, a moving period drama, before he relocated to Hollywood. A true story set in 19th century Holland, Keetje Tippel is a young girl born into poverty whose mother takes her to work in a brothel. As men use her, so too, Katie decides, she can use them to obtain the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 434 members
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  • Turkish Delight (1973)
    Starring: Rutger Hauer,  Rutger Hauer,  Monique Van De Ven
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 1,320 member
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  • Business Is Business on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Albert Mol,  Piet Roemer,  Andre Van Der Heuvel
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven first major feature, BUSINESS IS BUSINESS, is a casual look into the lurid lives of two Amsterdam prostitutes, Greta and Nell. Greta is the proverbial hooker with a heart of gold, and Nell is her buxom partner, and together the two turn tricks and perform kinky stunts ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 350 members
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  • Hitchhiker - Vol.1 (2 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Page Fletcher,  Gary Busey,  Kirstie Alley
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    HBO's classic series THE HITCHHIKER is a graphic thrill ride that presents everyday life as a terrifying, dangerous game of chance. Starring Page Fletcher as the title character and featuring a revolving cast of familiar faces (including Willem Dafoe, Gary Busey, and Kirstie Alley), the show’s ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 32 members
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Paul Verhoeven facts

5 most recent films

The Black Book - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Black Book - 3.5 stars
Hollow Man - 3.0 stars
Hollow Man - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Starship Troopers - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Total Recall - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Robocop - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Black Book - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Starship Troopers - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Total Recall - HD - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

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

Most frequent co-stars

Ronny Cox - 12 times - show films
Sharon Stone - 10 times - show films
Rutger Hauer - 8 times - show films
Rutger Hauer - 8 times - show films
Dan O'Herlihy - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Irvin Kershner - 5 times - show films
Fred Dekker - 5 times - show films
The Rose and the Sword - 2 times - show films