Paul Verhoeven’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Paul Verhoeven has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by RoboCop.
Recurring themes

Matador
1986
Drama · Thriller

Fierce People
2006
Drama · Thriller

The Double
2014
Thriller · Drama

Where the Truth Lies
2005
Drama · Mystery

The Beach
2000
Drama · Adventure

Lady Vengeance
2005
Drama · Thriller

Bringing Out the Dead
1999
Drama

The Salton Sea
2002
Crime · Drama

Total Recall
1990 · Movie · Director
Top 3%Paramount+ · Included

Starship Troopers
1997 · Movie · Director
Top 12%Netflix · Included

Soldier of Orange
1977 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 35%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Flesh + Blood
1985 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 44%Prime Video · Included

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 54%Starz · Included

Benedetta
2021 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 62%Netflix · Included

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy

Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza

Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards

Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It brings back memories of her experiences in the Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. In September 1944, Rachel's hiding place is bombed by Allied troops; she makes contact with a resistance member and joins a group of Jews to be smuggled across the Biesbosch to the freed South Netherlands. Only Rachel escapes a massacre by patrol Germans, and is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers, whose son is captured trying to smuggle weapons. Kuipers asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze, a mission that she will soon learn that the boat attack wasn't a coincidence.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman
A writer whose lover is a woman widowed three times begins to suspect she may be responsible for her husbands' deaths.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Lex van Delden

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who cheated them by kidnapping his son's fiancée. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson

Gifted but hot-headed sculptor Eric has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Tonny Huurdeman

Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.
Dir. Wendy Apple · With Kathy Bates, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphné Patakia
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny
Amateur dirt-bikers Rien and Hans–and their mechanic Eef–each fall in love with Fientje, a young woman who, with her brother Jaap, works a concession stand at the races. Everyone seeks a better life: Fientje wants out of the business and away from Jaap; and Rien and Hans aim to make their marks as pro racers, like their hero, Gerrit Witkamp.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Hans van Tongeren, Renée Soutendijk, Toon Agterberg

Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin
Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon