Monique van de Ven Movies

A fairytale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father.

Isabelle is a famous and beloved actress from the Netherlands, who disappears when on Holiday in Belgium. She has been kidnapped by bartender Jeanne...

A husband and wife, both of whom are career-oriented, agree never to step on the other's ambitions. Unfortunately, both become too ambitious for...

Lily works as a checkout girl at the local supermarket. She becomes pregnant, but before the child is born, the black father is attacked by skinheads...

Very insightful BBC documentary about Paul Verhoeven, tracking his career up to Showgirls. The programme focuses on talks with Verhoeven, but also...

An elderly actress arrives at her holiday home in Bretagne to prepare for a new film. She brings with her numerous scrapbooks and countless film...

This melodramatic film follows Eline Vere, as she attempts to break free from the confines of her narrow existence in The Hague through three...

Four women are sick of being poor. They decide to rob a bank. They are surprised how easily they get away with it and start to commit more robberies....

According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give...

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...

On the eve of her forty-fifth birthday Doris Doorenbos ends up like a divorced woman with two children at a dead end.

Two women decide to exchange lives after getting into contact through a newspaper ad.

Thirty years ago Sylvia Kristel became world-famous with 'Emmanuelle'. This erotic film was the starting point of a curious career, during which...

A Dutch pilot with a real passion for flying risks everything to keep his plane in the air.

The film is set in a signalman's house during the German occupation. When it turns out that the mother has committed adultery with a German, things...

After seven months of pregnancy a husband and wife learn that their unborn child won't survive for long.

Seven socio-economically successful women around the age of fifty come together in France for their annual multi-day bike ride.

Tomasz , a young Polish refugee wanders through Antwerp, looking for the woman who helped him to get his mother through the Iron Curtain. During his...

Documentary about the Dutch HorrorMovie 'The Johnsons (1992)" - A horror film where the cream of the crop of the Dutch film world had been working...