Monique van de Ven Movies

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

According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give...

On the eve of her forty-fifth birthday Doris Doorenbos ends up like a divorced woman with two children at a dead end.

Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others.

A California metal sculptor becomes a suspect after someone kills his gallery-owner lover.

It's 1956. Truck driver Loe Wolf wants to emigrate to America, but he doesn't have the money to take this step in life. When his boss entrusts him...

This melodramatic film follows Eline Vere, as she attempts to break free from the confines of her narrow existence in The Hague through three...

A husband and wife, both of whom are career-oriented, agree never to step on the other's ambitions. Unfortunately, both become too ambitious for...

A Dutch pilot with a real passion for flying risks everything to keep his plane in the air.

The film is about a successful artist Vincent, whose marriage to Linda falls apart due to his success. This is partly because Vincent starts a...

A young painter takes up French lessons with an elder lady to ensure he’ll get a grant for a French arts institute. That way he meets Anna, a...

An elderly actress arrives at her holiday home in Bretagne to prepare for a new film. She brings with her numerous scrapbooks and countless film...

Four women are sick of being poor. They decide to rob a bank. They are surprised how easily they get away with it and start to commit more robberies....

A veterinarian lives together with his sister and her son in a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. He has to cope with gossip and...

An ageing GP tries to convince his son in law to take over his practice. Monique van de Ven plays the doctor's daughter, who is torn apart by love of...

Seven socio-economically successful women around the age of fifty come together in France for their annual multi-day bike ride.

The film is set in a signalman's house during the German occupation. When it turns out that the mother has committed adultery with a German, things...

Tomasz , a young Polish refugee wanders through Antwerp, looking for the woman who helped him to get his mother through the Iron Curtain. During his...

Two women decide to exchange lives after getting into contact through a newspaper ad.

Thirty years ago Sylvia Kristel became world-famous with 'Emmanuelle'. This erotic film was the starting point of a curious career, during which...