Monique van de Ven Movies

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...

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

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

Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call girl. But one day she finds her former...

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

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

Photographer Bob loses his girlfriend. A year later he meets Kathleen. Is she in love? Or does she use him for her dark dealings with the mafia?

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...

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

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

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...

An ageing GP tries to convince his son in law to take over his practice. Monique van de Ven plays the doctor's daughter, who is torn apart by love of...

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...

A veterinarian lives together with his sister and her son in a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. He has to cope with gossip and...

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

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

The tropical plant Divina Gloria comes to fruition once every hundred years. For the duration of only one night she shows her exuberant beauty. Then...

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...

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