Michael Verhoeven

Welcome to Hartmanns (2016)

The Hartmann family is turned upside down when mother Angelika decides to take in the refugee Diallo, against her husband's will. Amidst the typical chaos of our time, hope remains that the family finds its stability, confidence and peace again - just like ...

Lucky Child (2014)

A man who has lost his wife and daughter finds a baby in a garbage. He decides to save her. ...

Let's go! (2014)

Munich, 1968: 21-year-old Laura, who has emigrated to the USA with her husband Gabriel, returns to her old home in Munich. Laura's father has been killed in a traffic accident a few days earlier. Her younger sister Friede is in a coma. Overwhelmed by the p ...

The Second Execution of Romell Broom (2012)

On September 15, 2009, the State of Ohio tried to execute Romell Broom and failed. Ohio claims it has a right to try again. This film explores the legal and moral questions surrounding this unique case. ...

Human Failure (2008)

Using first-hand accounts, award-winning filmmaker Michael Verhoeven goes on a search to unearth evidence documenting one of the greatest robberies in human history. ...

The Unknown Soldier (2006)

In the wake of World War II, most Germans have been raised with the mistaken belief that the Holocaust had been planned and executed by just a tiny minority of Nazis, namely, the Gestapo and the SS. The sad truth, however, is that Hitler's philosophy of et ...

Die kleine Schwester - Die Weiße Rose: Ein Vermächtnis (2002)

Documentary by Michael Verhoeven. ...

Enthüllung einer Ehe (2000)

Jana is faced with a mystery: Why is her partner Roman behaving so strangely? At first she thinks she has a mistress. When she spies on her, the far more painful truth comes to light. Roman has been leading a double life for years. She feels like a woman t ...

Zimmer mit Frühstück (2000)

In her mid-fifties , Elisabeth Hallstein found her marriage in tatters overnight : her husband Klaus left her with the family fortune. Elisabeth, spoiled by luxury , has money problems for the first time . After a moment of shock, she comes up with an idea ...

Tabori - Theater ist Leben (1999)

My Mother's Courage (1995)

The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it. ...

Ignaz Semmelweis - Arzt der Frauen (1994)

Vienna 1847: numerous women die of puerperal fever. The Hungarian gynecologist Ignaz Semmelweis finally makes an epoch-making discovery; the treating doctors bring death to the pregnant woman through poor hygiene. ...

An Unholy Love (1993)

Georg and Eva have to keep their love secret: Georg is a catholic priest in Bavaria, Germany, obliged to celibacy. They suffer under the situation, but can't stay away from each other. ...

Schlaraffenland (1990)

Film by Michael Verhoeven. ...

The Nasty Girl (1990)

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her. ...

Das Mädchen und die Stadt (1990)

Documentary film. ...

Gegen die Regel (1987)

The tranquil family life of a police officer is disrupted when a colleague on duty goes berserk and expects him to make a false statement. A question of conscience? But how does one live with a guilty conscience if one violates the unwritten laws of the po ...

Stinkwut (1986)

Killing Cars (1986)

In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the target of killers. After Ralph Korda has given his patented worldcar t ...

Blitz (1985)

In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance and international villainy, the inventors of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells become the target of killers. ...

Dear Melanie (1983)

A drama directed by Michael Verhoeven. ...

Die Spider Murphy Gang (1983)

Günther, Michael, Barny and Franz, real Munich boys, want to make their own music: Rock 'n' Roll Bavarian-style. Will they go under or make it to the top? ...

The White Rose (1982)

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly di ...

Die Ursache (1980)

Am Südhang (1980)

Sonntagskinder (1980)

The character and intellectual development of a 14-year-old girl from a middle-class German family at the outbreak of war, who observes closely in her small town the changes that National Socialism and war bring about in her circle of friends and acquainta ...

Verführungen (1979)

An older man wants to be friends with a young couple. ...

1982: Gutenbach (1978)

After many years away, development aid worker Peter Kessel returns to his home town of Gutenbach in 1982. He is astonished to discover that a lot has changed there. Cashless payments are used everywhere and facilities such as screen journals and video tele ...

Das Männerquartett (1978)

Scrounged Meals (1977)

Homeless Alfred would like to spend his life on Mallorca. A destination far away. But one day he meets the policeman Erwin. ...

MitGift (1976)

Edgar Burgman, after collaborating to assassinate the elder senator husband of Alice Young, the wife remarried. The woman, after a short period, doubts of love Edgar and convinces more and more that, having married out of interest, now wants to eliminate t ...

Die Herausforderung (1975)

Ein unheimlich starker Abgang (1973)

Young Sonja is accused of murdering her boyfriend Manfred. The film reveals her background, which remains hidden in court: the half-orphan girl becomes pregnant by Manfred, has an abortion and is sent to a reformatory for it. Manfred gets her pregnant agai ...

He Who Loves in a Glass House (1971)

Igor has a good job as an advertising manager, a nice house, his wife Hanna, and a mistress. He has invited Christine, the mistress, over to his house while his wife is away. ...

o.k. (1970)

A five-man US fireteam dig in at the Bon Song Valley (represented by the Bavarian forest) to await the end of the Easter truce with the Vietnamese. A Vietnamese girl passes by and the team rape and kill her. One refuses to take part and escapes to report t ...

The Bed Student, or What Do I Do With the Girls? (1970)

Christof Müller continues as a prospective student with the train from Augsburg to Munich. Already when Enrolling he is intercepted by the artist life "sports fan", who introduced him to so many university internals. Along with "Justus von Liebig," he run ...

Tables (1969)

In the run-up to the so-called "Vietnam talks" in Paris in 1969, there were serious disputes about protocol details, including the shape of the table at which the negotiations were to take place. In his first short film, Michael Verhoeven assembles images ...

Hoppe Hoppe Reiter Engelchen macht weiter (1968)

Gustl has married the beautiful Helene. They have a harmonious marriage, the love games are daring, and the Kamasutra is always lying next to the bed. But Gustl still has one wish: to celebrate a real orgy. He suspects that his younger colleagues are alway ...

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (2022)

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn't exist. ...

René Deltgen – Der sanfte Rebell (2008)

Von Sex bis Simmel (2005)

A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder. ...

Michael Verhoeven über Die Weiße Rose (2004)

Die Verhoevens (2003)

The history of a family, in the film business now for three generations, behind and in front of the camera. The film is not only a foray through the history of this remarkable family, but also through the history of German film and contemporary history as ...

Brasilianische Protokolle 2 (1992)

Documentary film about a slum community on the outskirts of Recife, a major city in northeastern Brazil. A portrait of life in extreme poverty and lawlessness: men without work, hopeless women, hungry and sick children. ...

o.k. (1970)

A five-man US fireteam dig in at the Bon Song Valley (represented by the Bavarian forest) to await the end of the Easter truce with the Vietnamese. A Vietnamese girl passes by and the team rape and kill her. One refuses to take part and escapes to report t ...

Was Ihr wollt (1968)

Duke Orsino's unhappy love for Countess Olivia and the fate of the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated by a shipwreck, based on Shakespeare's play, ...

Onkel Filser - Allerneueste Lausbubengeschichten (1966)

Lausbubengeschichten (1964)

Wachet und singet (1964)

Jack and Jenny (1963)

Saleswoman Jenny is crazy about the painter Jack. But Jack does not want to marry, even though he loves Jenny passionately. So Jenny looks elsewhere to find the right man. She marries twice, but always ends up back with Jack and gives herself to him with ...

The House in Montevideo (1963)

A respectable professor inherits a house and money in Montevideo from his wild sister, on the condition that he himself behaves in a disreputable way. ...

Der Geisterzug (1963)

Ein Buch mit Kapiteln (1962)

Mit 17 weint man nicht (1960)

Horst, the 18-year-old son of a factory owner, and 17-year-old Karin dream up their future together in the most beautiful colors. Newly married, however, they don't float on cloud nine as they had hoped, but sink into the dreary everyday life of marriage. ...

The Judge and the Sinner (1960)

A drama directed by Paul Verhoeven. ...

…und noch frech dazu! (1960)

Blooming Dreams (1959)

Der Mann im Manne (1959)

Admiral Bobby (1955)

Marianne of My Youth (1955)

A new teenage student arrives at a prestige boarding school in Bavaria, having not only the ability to play the guitar and sing, but also to charm animals and detect ghosts. Quickly becoming part of a secretive club of five other students, he is inadverten ...

The Flying Classroom (1954)

The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students' essays and e ...