Monique van de Ven Movies

A California metal sculptor becomes a suspect after someone kills his gallery-owner lover.

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...

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

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

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...

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?

The film is about a successful artist Vincent, whose marriage to Linda falls apart due to his success. This is partly because Vincent starts a...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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