Paul Verhoeven
Dutch film director (born 1938)
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- July 18, 1938 · Amsterdam
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, television director, film producer
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
2016 · France / Germany / Belgium · thriller
César Best Film winner 2017 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2016 #2 · Film Comment year-end poll 2016 #3
1.883 citations - 2
1987 · United States · action, sci-fi, thriller
Empire 500 (2008) #404 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #23
0.614 citations - 3
2021 · France / Netherlands / Belgium · drama
Film Comment year-end poll 2021 #9 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2021 #10
0.592 citations - 4Black BookZwartboek
2006 · Netherlands / Germany / Belgium · war, thriller, drama
Film Comment year-end poll 2007 #12
0.271 citation - 50.171 citation
- 60.111 citation
- 7
1997 · United States · action, thriller, sci-fi
Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies
0.111 citation
Complete filmography
All 21 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1950This Man Belongs to Me
- 1960A Lizzard Too Much
- 1971Business Is Business
- 1973Turkish Delight
- 1975Katie Tippel
- 1977Soldier of Orange
- 1980Spetters
- 1981All Things Pass
- 1983The Fourth Man
- 1985Flesh and Blood
- 1987RoboCop
- 1990Total Recall
- 1992Basic Instinct
- 1995Showgirls
- 1997Starship Troopers
- 2000Hollow Man
- 2006Black Book
- 2012Tricked
- 2016Elle
- 2021Benedetta
- —Portret van Anton Adriaan Mussert