Jan de BontFilmography

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Crew: Director

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie, Noah Taylor

Synopsis: This sequel to the 2001 hit video-game adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider finds Jan de Bont stepping in for director Simon West, helming his first feature since 1999's The Haunting. From a script by first-time scribe Dean Georgaris, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life finds Angelina Jolie Read More

Thoughtcrimes

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: On the night of her prom in 1994, teenager Freya McAllister (Navi Rawat) suddenly begins hearing strange voices. As a result, Freya is diagnosed as schizophrenic and squirreled away in a mental hospital, where she remains for the next eight years. Along comes psychologist Michal Welles (Peter Read More

Equilibrium

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs, Angus MacFadyen, Sean Bean

Synopsis: A man who dares to feel finds his life in danger in this cautionary science fiction drama. In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation known as Libria rises up under the unquestioned leadership of Dupont (Angus MacFadyen). Believing human Read More

Minority Report

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Lois Smith

Synopsis: Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for "Precrime," a Read More

The Haunting

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lili Taylor, Owen Wilson, Bruce Dern

Synopsis: In the 1860's, industrialist Hugh Crain financed the construction of Hill House, a beautiful but forbidding mansion where Crain hoped to house a wife and children. However, Crain died an unexplained death at Hill House, and ever since tales have circulated that the mansion is haunted by evil Read More

SLC Punk

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Matthew Lillard, Michael A. Goorjian, Annabeth Gish, Jennifer Lien, Christopher McDonald, Devon Sawa, Summer Phoenix, Til Schweiger, Adam Pascal

Synopsis: What's it like being the only punk rockers in the biggest Mormon community in the world? Stevo (Matthew Lillard) and Heroin Bob (Michael Goorjian) provide the answer to this and other questions in SLC Punk. Stevo and Bob (whose name is actually an ironic reference to his fear of needles) are two Read More

Speed 2: Cruise Control

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison, Brian McCardie

Synopsis: Indications were that this action sequel was in trouble before production began, when the male lead from the first film, Keanu Reeves, declined a role in the follow-up. Sandra Bullock returns as Annie Porter, an accident-prone ditz who is thrilled when her boyfriend Alex (Jason Patric) presents Read More

Twister

Crew: Director

Actors: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Lois Smith

Synopsis: Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt and Carey Elwes may be billed as the stars of Twister, but the film's real attractions are the cyclones themselves. Best experienced in a theater, the nail-biting, blow-the-audience-out-of-their-seats computer generated graphics, cutting edge sound and other special effects Read More

Speed

Crew: Director

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: If you don't think Speed is the fastest-moving adventure film ever made, we challenge you to find a faster one. Keanu Reeves stars as an LA Bomb Squad specialist whose principal antagonist is elusive bomber-extortionist Dennis Hopper. Seeking vengeance after his latest ransom scheme is thwarted Read More

Lethal Weapon 3

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Stuart Wilson

Synopsis: Superstars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return with director Richard Donner for Lethal Weapon 3, the third in the phenomenally successful action series. In this film, Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is only eight days away from retirement and his partner Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) once again manages Read More

Basic Instinct

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis Arndt

Synopsis: This cold, stylish erotic-thriller grossed over $100 million at the box-office despite vigorous protests at its depiction of gays and women. The shocking opening sequence features a graphic sexual encounter involving a rock-star bound with a white Hermes scarf by an unidentified blond woman. Read More

Shining Through

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Kewpie-doll voiced Melanie Griffith does a sexed-up Nancy Drew turn in David Seltzer's adaptation of Susan Issacs' novel Shining Through. Set during World war II, Griffith plays Linda Voss, a spunky New York girl who applies for a job with international lawyer Ed Leland (Michael Douglas). Ed hires Read More

Flatliners

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: Despite its occasional lapses into silly self-consciousness, Flatliners is one of the most intriguing and well-constructed supernatural thrillers of the 1990s. A group of brilliant medical students decide to literally play with life and death. They put themselves in suspended animation Read More

The Hunt for Red October

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill

Synopsis: The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders Read More

Black Rain

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Shigeru Koyama, Yusaku Matsuda

Synopsis: Under scrutiny by his superiors for allegedly dipping into confiscated drug money, New York vice cop Michael Douglas can expect no sympathy from his ex-wife, who is gouging him for alimony. Douglas gets a chance to redeem himself when he is assigned to escort Japanese mob boss Yusaku Matsuda back Read More

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Cathryn Bradshaw, Robbie Coltrane, Anne Bancroft, Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: Tony award-winning British musical comedy star Robert Lindsay makes his first important American film appearance in Bert Rigby, You're a Fool. Lindsay, of course, plays the title character, a coal miner who dreams of becoming a big showbiz star. Only problem is, there's very little demand for Bert Read More

Die Hard

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov, Reginald VelJohnson

Synopsis: It's Christmas time in L.A., and there's an employee party in progress on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who plan to steal the 600 million Read More

Leonard, Part 6

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bill Cosby, Tom Courtenay, Joe Don Baker, Moses Gunn, Pat Colbert, Gloria Foster

Synopsis: CIA director Snyderburn (Joe Don Baker) talks former agent Leonard (Bill Cosby) into returning to the job in this failed Bond-style spy comedy. Leonard's mission is to stop the evil Medusa (Gloria Foster) from taking over the planet by controlling the behavior of the world's animals. The highlight Read More

Who's That Girl?

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Madonna, Griffin Dunne, Haviland Morris, John McMartin, Robert Swan, Bibi Besch

Synopsis: A year after appearing in the box-office sleeper Shanghai Surprise, pop superstar Madonna starred in the screwball comedy Who's That Girl? She plays Nikki Finn, who is being released from prison after serving a four-year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. Meanwhile, wealthy lawyer Loudon (Griffin Dunne Read More

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Jonathan Pryce, James Belushi, John Wood, Carol Kane, Annie Potts

Synopsis: Penny Marshall in her feature film directing debut, four screenwriters, and a ebullient Whoopi Goldberg join forces to make Jumpin' Jack Flash, a modern espionage comedy. Goldberg plays Terry Doolittle, a computer operator in a large New York City bank who picks up a cry of help on her computer. Read More

Ruthless People

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris

Synopsis: The last film to be co-directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, Ruthless People stars Bette Midler (capitalizing on her comeback performance in Down and Out in Beverly Hills) as Barbara, a spoiled rich woman who is kidnapped by the kindly Ken and Sandy Kessler (Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater Read More

The Clan of the Cave Bear

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Daryl Hannah, Pamela Reed, James Remar, Thomas G. Waites, John Doolittle

Synopsis: Cinematographer Michael Chapman directed this John Sayles adaptation of Jean M. Auel's best-selling ode to Cro-Magnon women. The story begins at the moment in pre-history when the last of the Neanderthal men were becoming extinct and the superior race of Cro-Magnons were starting to supersede Read More

Population: One

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tomata DuPlenty, Sheela Edwards, Jane Gaskill, Gorilla Rose, Mike Doud

Synopsis: With Tomata DuPlenty and Sheela Edwards playing themselves, the storyline of this rock/punk/jazz-filled ghetto blaster of a movie exists in the imagination of DuPlenty, who sees himself as the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust. His mind's eye then traces the history of civilization (different Read More

Flesh + Blood

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Jack Thompson, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: When an attempted political coup in Northern Italy fails, most of the mercenaries hired by the coup leaders disperse. Not so Martin (Rutger Hauer), who intends to rob his duplicitous former employer Arnolfini (Fernando Hillbeck). Martin is able to raise his own army by using a stolen religious Read More

Mischief

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Doug McKeon, Catherine Stewart, Kelly Preston, Chris Nash, D.W. Brown

Synopsis: This entertaining teen comedy is set in the effervescent 1950s and involves the friendship of the introverted, clumsy Jonathan (Doug McKeon) and the nonconformist, extroverted Gene (Chris Nash). Jonathan's main objective is to win over the sexy Marilyn (Kelly Preston), in spite of his shyness Read More

The Jewel of the Nile

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Spiros Focas, Avner Eisenberg

Synopsis: The Jewel of the Nile takes up where Romancing the Stone left off, with romance novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) traveling around the world with her boyfriend, Jack Colton (Michael Douglas). But Joan is becoming bored with Jack and all the romantic attention; as she asks, "How much romance Read More

Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Blake, Doug McKeon, Mariclare Costello, Tony Burton, Ray Buktenica

Synopsis: The career of boxer Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini is the subject of the made-for-TV biopic. Doug McKeon plays Mancini, while Robert Blake co-stars as his father, Lenny Mancini. An excellent pugilist in his own right, Lenny's career is cut short by his wartime service. Son Ray carries on the tradition Read More

American Dreamer

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti, Giancarlo Giannini, Coral Browne, James Staley

Synopsis: In this farcical look at a female detective/mystery story writer, Cathy Palmer (JoBeth Williams) is an ordinary housewife living in Ohio with a condescending husband who is far from ideal. When Cathy wins a writing contest and has the chance to go to Paris and meet the author of the romance novels Read More

Bad Manners

Crew: Cinematographer, Screenwriter

Actors: Martin Mull, Karen Black, Anne de Salvo, Murphy Dunne, Georg Olden

Synopsis: Everyone is a stereotypical extreme in this sometimes mean-spirited black comedy about the vicious staff at an orphanage, the garrulous punk kids who live there, and the pretentious overblown rich couple who adopt one of the orphans -- this is not a happy world. In the Bleeding Heart Orphanage Read More

The Fourth Man

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman, Dolf de Vries

Synopsis: This stylish erotic thriller gained a cult following for its frank treatment of bisexuality, bizarre visuals, and an extremely sexy performance by Renee Soutendijk as a woman who may or may not have killed her three previous husbands. Jeroen Krabbe is terrific as the intended fourth, a broken-down Read More

All the Right Moves

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Charles Cioffi, Paul Carafotes

Synopsis: High school athlete Tom Cruise would do anything to escape the dull provincialism of his home town. Cruise's bullying coach Craig T. Nelson cajoles Cruise into seeking an athletic scholarship to a major university. Inevitably, the boy begins to question his goals in life, and soon his soul is the Read More

Cujo

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Christopher Stone, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Based on a Stephen King novel, Cujo is not as menacing or as frightening as other film adaptations of King's popular stories and especially cannot compare to the 1976 Carrie. Cujo is a happy St. Bernard until he is bitten on the nose by a rabid bat and slowly begins manifesting the symptoms of his Read More

Sadat

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Louis Gossett Jr. was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat in this two-part made-for-TV biopic. With 4 hours at its disposal, Sadat is able to trace its protagonist from his formative years fighting against the British occupiers of his country. The second part of Read More

I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Dianne Wiest, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: Jill Clayburgh plays, as one character calls her, "a pill-popping dingbat" in this film adaptation of television producer Barbara Gordon's autobiographical account of her addiction to prescription drugs. Clayburgh plays Gordon in the film as a successful television documentary filmmaker whose Read More

Roar

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tippi Hedren, Noel Marshall, John Marshall, Melanie Griffith, Jerry Marshall

Synopsis: Wildlife activist and actress Tippi Hedren starred in this comic family adventure written, directed, and costarring her producer husband Noel Marshall and inspired by the surprise success of Born Free (1966). Hedren is Madeleine, a woman who brings her children (including real-life daughter and Read More

Private Lessons

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Ron Foster, Eric Brown, Pamela Jean Bryant, Ed Begley, Jr.

Synopsis: Penned by Dan Greenburg, Private Lessons details the plight of a rich, fifteen-year-old boy (Eric Brown) whose French maid (Sylvia Kristel of the Emmanuelle series) is hired to teach him the finer points of l'amour. A contrived subplot involving a blackmail scheme complicates matters but really Read More

Soldier of Orange

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Peter Faber, Derek de Lint, Eddy Habbema

Synopsis: With this fact-based World War II drama and the equally memorable The Fourth Man (1983), Dutch director Paul Verhoeven gained an international following, eventually translating his reputation into Hollywood fame as the director of bloody science fiction spectacles and prurient sex thrillers. Rutger Hauer Read More

Max Havelaar

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rima Melati

Synopsis: The exploitation of 19th-century Indonesia by Dutch Colonialists provides the basis of this historical drama that centers on a renegade officer who tries to change the rules. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Keetje Tippel

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Monique Van de Ven

Synopsis: This early Paul Verhoeven effort stars Monique van de Ven as a young Dutch hooker in 1881 Amsterdam who struggles to move up the community's social ladder. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Dakota

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kees Brusse

Synopsis: Dakota is about a pilot who owns an airplane of the same name. Dick (Kees Brusse) takes on odd jobs with the plane, many of them illegal. He accomplishes at least one long-distance flying feat, which astonishes his knowledgeable friends, and suffers from the isolation and loneliness of his solo Read More

Family

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Incest is added to rape and swindling as comprising the qualities of the family in this Dutch film. Two brothers and a mute sister take over an abandoned house near a city and try to persuade a finance company officer to give them a loan to buy the house, using the mute sister's sexual favors as Read More

Turkish Delight

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: In Paul Verhoeven's sexual psychodrama Turkish Delight -- an adaptation of Jan Wolkers' best-selling erotic novel -- Rutger Hauer (Soldier of Orange) is Eric, an Amsterdam artist whose paintings and sculptures are all perverse. He spends his days wandering around the city and picking up young Read More

Joao En Het Mes

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ana Maria Miranda

Synopsis: The country of Brazil is the real star in this Dutch-made drama (in Portuguese). It is based on a book by Odylo Costa-Filhos. When Joao (Joffre Soares), a much older man, marries a much younger woman (Ana Maria Miranda), he is asking for trouble if he cannot contain his jealousy. Soon after their Read More

Business is Business

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Controversial director Paul Verhoeven made his feature-film debut with this Dutch comedy-drama about two prostitutes working in the Amsterdam Red Light district, and the many strange and unusual men they meet through their work. Also known as Diary Of A Hooker, Business is Business, and Any Read More

De Blanke Slavin

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Guenther Ungeheuer, Andrea Domburg, Rijk de Gooyer

Synopsis: This is the first full-length feature for director Renee Daalder. Nurses are kidnapped and sold into slavery in North Africa by opportunistic flesh peddlers. Hopelessly alienated from family and friends, the women endure the hardships at the hands of her captors while keeping hope alive they will Read More

Paranoia

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joseph Guilty, Pamela Rose

Synopsis: Arnold Cleever (Joseph Guilty) is a man haunted by his traumatic war experiences in this somber and tragic drama. He returns home to his lover Anna (Pamela Rose) only to become paranoid. Arnold believes he may be a former SS man who is wanted by the police. When his landlord tries to evict him Read More