George Sluizer (born 25 June 1932 in Paris, of Dutch and Norwegian parents), is a Dutch filmmaker whose credits include features as well as documentary films.
He is best known for directing two versions of The Vanishing, a 1988 Dutch-language release, originally titled Spoorloos, and a 1992 American version. Other feature films directed by Sluizer include Utz (1992) for producer John Goldschmidt, Crimetime (1995), and Dark Blood, which was discontinued and ultimately shelved after the death of its lead actor, River Phoenix.
Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site in the desert. Boy is waiting for the end of the world and carves Katchina dolls that supposedly contain ma ...
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An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residen ...
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John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for his failures. However, once there he stumbles upon a chemical weapons outrage that points to a sinister poli ...
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A Portuguese imigrant in Holland dies in an accident and is buried in Amsterdam. But his soul will not rest in peace until his body is carried back to Portugal. ...
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The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing. ...
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The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on. ...
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Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he di ...
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Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he s ...
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Shooting begins on an adult western about a man who claims he was held captive in the desert for 20 years. ...
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Born in Amsterdam in 1943, Paul, a Jewish man, attempts to locate his twin brother (or perhaps his alter ego), who was abducted forty years ago and sent to a Nazi concentration camp. As he searches, he becomes increasingly immersed in the story of his life ...
Watch NowIn 1974, George Sluizer and Fred van Kuijk made Land of the Fathers, a film about two Palestinian families and the new diaspora of Palestinians: a Muslim family from the refugee camp and a catholic family living in a downtown apartment. In 1948, the year t ...
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Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rain ...
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When a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationship with the girl. ...
Watch NowIn 1974, two Dutch filmmakers made a film about two Palestinian families and their desire for recognition. At the end of the civil war in Lebanon, they returned to see if their friends had survived. Most did, but the years of fighting left an indelible mar ...
Watch NowLand of the Fathers is a film about the followers behind the Palestinian guerillas, is a film about two families driven from their rightful territory, is reflective about a situation of political tension, violence and terror, is, nevertheless, a film about ...
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The picture retraces the professional, social and family life of Zeca, a cow-boy from the northeast of Brazil. From the most perfect calm he can fly into a state of the wildest excitement. From his lazy hammock he leaps into the hard saddle, which carries ...
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A little village. Between the loam huts, a new construction: the school. In the classroom, adults make a first attempt at writing. At home,the children help their illiterate parents with their schoolwork. A woman :"Why I am at school? I don't need to read ...
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Against all advice, a destitute Brazilian old man marries a nineteen-year-old girl. Because he can't give her any children, he moves to the interior to make money, so she will at least have a good life. When he returns, he is told she has a three-year-old ...
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Documentary of a 1970 rock concert held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. ...
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An intimate account of a thousand kilometer journey on a river in the Northeast of Brazil on a self-made raft carrying a small household including two children. The raft is the means of transport since time immemorial and the journey to the town of Teresi ...
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For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to Greenland's banks to fish the cold waters for cod. Intrepid men, set off for the Banks on schooners under full sa ...
Watch NowThe polder, main feature of the Dutch landscape, has a disconcerting effect on the traveller who comes across it. In the film a young man begins to explore this world and finds himself steeped in silence and in the vastness of space. He has a feeling of s ...
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Holland is threatened from all sides by water. The film tells about the creation of Holland millions of years ago, the history and methods of land reclamation in the last five centuries. The film sets the everlasting struggle of its inhabitants against th ...
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In the small Dutch village of Lagerheide, two members of the local brass band get into a fight, forcing the band to be split in two. The two hotheads and their followers are doing their utmost to sabotage each other's attempts at becoming the band who will ...
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A secret document, a stolen dress suit, two dimwitted crooks, the love of a man for a woman. It all results in a roller coaster ride for a young insurance agent. ...
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Some doctors say he won't last another day but still he keeps making films. Sluizer Speaks tells the story of George Sluizer, director of such films as The Vanishing and Dark Blood who fully dedicated his life to cinema. Where did his passion for film lead ...
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Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others. ...
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Watch NowBorn in Amsterdam in 1943, Paul, a Jewish man, attempts to locate his twin brother (or perhaps his alter ego), who was abducted forty years ago and sent to a Nazi concentration camp. As he searches, he becomes increasingly immersed in the story of his life ...
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