Rutger Hauer’s Typical Vibe
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Rutger Hauer has 38 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Blade Runner.
Recurring themes

Revenge of the Ninja
1983
Action · Crime

Kickboxer
1989
Action · Thriller

Get the Gringo
2012
Action · Thriller

The King of the Kickboxers
1990
Action · Crime

A Company Man
2012
Drama · Action

Class of 1984
1982
Action · Crime

The Awakener
2018
Thriller · Action

Playing God
1997
Drama · Action

Batman Begins
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Max · Included

Ladyhawke
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 20%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Escape from Sobibor
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Prime Video · Included

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

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

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 37%Max · Included

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.
Dir. Thomas Jahn · With Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, Thierry van Werveke

Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
Dir. Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller · With Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen

On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking that a good conversation will help him not to fall asleep. He will have enough time to deeply regret such an unmeditated decision.
Dir. Robert Harmon · With Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer

The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
Dir. Jack Gold · With Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
Dir. George Clooney · With Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney

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

as President of the World State Federation
Max · Included
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
Dir. Jacques Audiard · With John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal

A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
Dir. Phillip Noyce · With Rutger Hauer, Terry O'Quinn, Brandon Call

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

When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.
Dir. Bruce Malmuth · With Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, Rutger Hauer

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

When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michael de Ruyter, can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet.
Dir. Roel Reiné · With Frank Lammers, Sanne Langelaar, Rutger Hauer

A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.
Dir. Ernest R. Dickerson · With Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton

Virginia and Tony, a father and daughter living in Manhattan, find themselves in a parallel universe where Snow White, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood are struggling to maintain order. Their kingdoms have been fragmented by trolls, giants and goblins.
With Kimberly Williams-Paisley, John Larroquette, Scott Cohen

Nick Randall is a Los Angeles-based bounty hunter and an ex-CIA operative who is asked by a former co-worker to help track down terrorist Malak Al Rahim. However, Malak Al Rahim is also looking for Randall, forcing a showdown on the waterfront.
Dir. Gary Sherman · With Rutger Hauer, Gene Simmons, Eli Danker

In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.
Dir. Tony Maylam · With Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Michael J. Pollard

Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a lady. Now joined by a talented newcomer, Kidda, an ambitious young peasant girl, he and his team find they have one last chance for glory.
Dir. David Webb Peoples · With Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Vincent D'Onofrio

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

An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.
Dir. Brian Smrz · With Ethan Hawke, Xu Qing, Paul Anderson

What would it be like to step inside a great work of art, have it come alive around you, and even observe the artist as he sketches the very reality you are experiencing? From Lech Majewski, one of Poland's most acclaimed filmmakers, The Mill and the Cross is a cinematic re-staging of Pieter Bruegel's masterpiece "Procession to Calvary," presented alongside the story of its creation.
Dir. Lech Majewski · With Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling, Michael York

A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.
Dir. Lewis Teague · With Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
Dir. Christopher Menaul · With Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson, Peter Vaughan

After losing the love of his life to a cruel Philistine prince, a young Hebrew with Supernatural strength defends his people, sacrificing everything to avenge his love, his people, and his God.
Dir. Bruce Macdonald · With Taylor James, Jackson Rathbone, Billy Zane
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson
Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader. But all that changes when a strange man informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires.
Dir. Fran Rubel Kuzui · With Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens
Long ago in the Iron Age, a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations, the village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as sacrifice to a mythical beast - the Minotaur, that dwells beneath a great palace. Theo, haunted by the loss of his love in an earlier sacrifice is convinced that the beast isn't real and that his girl still lives as a slave within the palace.
Dir. Jonathan English · With Tom Hardy, Michelle Van Der Water, Tony Todd
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