Dolf de Vries

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

Milo, an isolated 10-year-old boy with 'sensitive skin', lives a life rigidly controlled by his father. Sparked by his first friendship, he runs away from home to attend the school camping trip - but never arrives. He falls into the hands of an ageing criminal couple, with whom he enjoys pure freedom from constraint - until he learns the shocking truth about his skin condition. Filled with doubt about his father's love for him, Milo must try to come to terms with who he really is.

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

After the death of his partner, Adrian experiences a serious existential crisis. He decides to walk to Santiago de Compostela to come to terms with himself and his life. Against Adrian's will, his brother Ludwig joins him on the pilgrimage. And Ernst, who initially has no intention of going, is forced to leave Vienna for a while due to a scandal he caused. At first, it is not a particularly pious pilgrimage, but in the end, they stand on the beach of the Atlantic Ocean in Finisterre, where the world seemed to end for pilgrims of earlier times, enriched by many insights and (self-)discoveries.

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, high-profile Dutch resistance member Gerrit Kleinveld sets out to escape from the maximum-security prison in Amersfoort concentration camp.

A deranged doctor gets in to a car accident and burns beyond recognition. Years later he awakes from his coma and stalks a young male nurse and his girlfriend, killing everyone along the way.

Set in Curacao in the 1940s, Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story tells of the painter Gabriel Goedbloed, who arrives from Holland to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary in a local church. Gabriel is black, originally from Surinam. The colonial Antillian society proves less than tolerant towards him, especially after he chooses as his model a young Black teacher, Ava

This film is about the Jewish girl Sara and the ruin of her family during World War II. Her parents have to live in the Jewish ghetto in Amsterdam, but later they are arrested and deported. Sara decides to flee with her brother and his girlfriend to Palestine. Based on the book by Marga Minco.

A man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.

When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.