Rob Houwer

Als Je Verliefd Wordt (2012)

Botero Born in Medellin (2008)

To mark the artist Fernando Botero's 75th birthday, Peter Schamoni made a documentary film about his moving life. Fernando Botero is immediately recognizable by his colourful and exuberant works. Schamoni convinces us that, behind the cliché of the naïve ...

The Rage of the Whole World (2006)

In Raging of the whole world are the turbulent early years of Alexander Goudveyl central. The story of Alexander's childhood is also the history of an era, the fifties and sixties, and a never solved murder case. Murder goes back to an authentic incident: ...

Majestät brauchen Sonne (1999)

A documentary about Germany's last emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II. ...

The Merman (1996)

Tony is really handsome, but he smells. A scientist gives him a potion that should get rid of his fishy smell. Unfortunately, there are some serious side effects. ...

Little Blond Death (1993)

The poet Valentijn Boecke meets his former teacher Mieke. They have a short relation. After a while Mieke appears to be pregnant. Valentijn is through with Mieke and leaves her... ...

The Generous Lover (1990)

A comedy based on two novels by Marjan Berk about a smooth-talking artist with love problems. He is in love but is pursued by former lovers. ...

Count Your Blessings (1987)

Alternating comedy and drama this portrait of different families on three floors in an Amsterdam building where the stairs symbolizes the suffering of known urban living alongside each other. Upstairs live two students, including the failed and unemployed ...

The Bitter Herb (1985)

This film is about the Jewish girl Sara and the ruin of her family during World War II. Her parents have to live in the Jewish ghetto in Amsterdam, but later they are arrested and deported. Sara decides to flee with her brother and his girlfriend to Palest ...

Burning Love (1983)

A young painter takes up French lessons with an elder lady to ensure he'll get a grant for a French arts institute. That way he meets Anna, a beautiful married woman nursing the lady's old father, and falls in love with her. ...

The 4th Man (1983)

A writer whose lover is a woman widowed three times begins to suspect she may be responsible for her husbands' deaths. ...

The Dragon That Wasn't (Or Was He?) (1983)

Oliver B. Bumble finds an egg that, it turns out, has a cute little dragon in it. However, this dragon grows huge each time it gets excited or upset. As this causes a lot of problems, Bumble has to face a difficult dilemma. ...

High Heels, Real Love (1981)

A bored company owner decides to find out what it is like to be one of his workers. During his "transformation" he falls in love with a cafeteria worker. When his alter ego "The Boss" makes an inappropriate comment to his would-be girlfriend, the worker ch ...

The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl (1980)

The Robber Mathias Kneißl became a legend in Bavaria. The film is based on the historical criminal case and describes the last year of the rebel and folk hero. At the age of 23, he is released from prison, where he has served an unreasonably harsh six-ye ...

Fatal Error (1979)

Detectives Grijpstra and De Gier are sent to investigate the case of a man who apparently hanged himself in a center for oriental meditation. It is ruled as suicide and the case seems to be closed, but the same night there is an attempted break in. The inv ...

Soldier of Orange (1977)

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. ...

Katie Tippel (1975)

In the late 19th-century, the Tippel family moves to rural Stavoren in search of greener pastures. However, their dreams are quickly shattered, as teenage Katie is terrorized by a male-dominated society who only see her as an object. Her situation worsens ...

Turkish Delight (1973)

Gifted but hot-headed sculptor Eric has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga. ...

Business Is Business (1971)

Dutch prostitutes Greta and Nel cruise the Amsterdam red light district, seeking clients to involve in their elaborately staged fetish fantasies, be it disciplinarian headmistresses, surgeons cutting open a willing patient, or even dressing up as chickens, ...

In Trouble (1971)

This movie chronicles several pregnant women on their quest to have an abortion. Some got pregnant by accident, others were raped. Sure to offend anti-abortionists, pro-lifers, feminists and chauvinists alike. The portions of the movie that deal with Europ ...

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 ...

Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969)

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard. ...

Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel (1969)

In medieval times, a horse merchant is forced by a noble to leave part of his stock as payment for crossing his land. Upon returning, he finds his horses near death, and when the noble refuses to compensate him, the merchant fights unsuccessfully against t ...

Little Vampire (1968)

In a german suburb a babysitter is too busy with her own teenage business and leaves a boy with his little sister alone. Then the girl is missing. The only way the family and society are able to deal with the horror is to ignore it and hide the truth in th ...

Carrot and Stick (1968)

Dressman turns bank robber to afford the lifestyle he wants. ...

Professor Columbus (1968)

An old librarian, Professor Columbus, wants to go to the sea once in his lifetime. So he buys a big ship and takes a boat trip across the North Sea to London, accompanied by a bunch of stoned hippies, and chased by the police. ...

Angel Baby (1968)

A girl travels from her hometown in upper Bavaria to Munich in order to lose her virginity. ...

Tattoo (1967)

A well-off couple adopt a 16-year-old boy from an orphanage in West Berlin, but their attempts to help him assimilate into his new surroundings fail. The repressive tolerance of the well-educated adoptive parents is just too much for the mischievous young ...

Degree of Murder (1967)

After accidentally killing her ex-lover during a fight, Marie enlists the help of a stranger and his friend to dispose of the body while becoming intimate with both men. ...

Galaxy (1967)

In a future world devoid of men, three young women order two men to come to them and ask them which of them they would prefer. ...

Romy: Anatomy of a Face (1967)

Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream "Unterhaltungskino" ("entertainment cinema") and her second one as acknowledged European arthouse actress. ...

Der Zirkus kommt (1966)

The color film accompanies the Circus Barum from the billposting and the arrival at the station to the erection of the tent, the feeding and care of the animals, the rehearsal work of the artists and the first performance. ...

Car Race (1965)

Short film about car racing. ...

24 Bilder (1965)

Anmeldung (1964)

An elderly lady joins an old peoples' home, but while filling in the form is lost in memories of the past. ...

Hütet eure Töchter! (1964)

A film consisting of seven episodes directed by young West German filmmakers, some of whom were signatories of the famous Oberhausen Manifesto. The film focuses on the sometimes highly dramatic fates of young girls. ...

Madeleine, Madeleine (1963)

Confusion results when a young man walking through a park joins in a game of tennis. ...

Ferien (1962)

A rich man's daughter seduces migrant workers. ...

Hollywood by Bike (1993)

Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others. ...

De droomproducenten (1984)

Documentary exploring why Belgian television doesn't invest more money in Belgian cinema as is the case in e.g. the netherlands. ...

Die Erben von Papas Kino (1968)

Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema. ...

Neuer Deutscher Film Report (1967)

Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966. ...