Monique van de Ven Movies

Documentary on the Dutch filmmaker Dick Maas.

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

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...

The game of love starts in a typical blues bar. The hot and magic rhythm of the blues makes even the shiest man throw away his fears and participate...

After seven months of pregnancy a husband and wife learn that their unborn child won't survive for long.

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...

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

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...

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...

A fairytale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father.

Photographer Bob loses his girlfriend. A year later he meets Kathleen. Is she in love? Or does she use him for her dark dealings with the mafia?

Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call girl. But one day she finds her former...

A bored company owner decides to find out what it is like to be one of his workers. During his "transformation" he falls in love with a cafeteria...

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...

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...

The tropical plant Divina Gloria comes to fruition once every hundred years. For the duration of only one night she shows her exuberant beauty. Then...

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

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...

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