Paul Verhoeven

Director

About

Born in 1939 in Ams­ter­dam, he entered the Roy­al Navy, where he learned film­mak­ing. His first fea­tures had great suc­cess in his home­land, and he moved to the US, where he direct­ed many block­busters such as Total Recall(1990) or Basic Instinct(1992). He final­ly went back to Europe to shot Black Book(2006), then Elle(2016). His work com­bines sex, vio­lence and reli­gion, as he con­sid­ers them as “the three main ele­ments on Earth”.

2021 Benedet­ta2015 Elle2006 Black Book2000 Hol­low Man1997 Star­ship Troop­ers1995 Show­girls1992 Basic Instinct1990 Total Recall 1987Robo­Cop 1985Flesh+Blood 1983The Fourth Man 1980Spet­ters 1978Sol­dier of Orange 1975Katie Tip­pel 1974Turk­ish Delight 1971Diary of a Hooker

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