Rutger Hauer Filmography

Moving McAllister

Actors: Ben Gourley, Mila Kunis, Jon Heder, Rutger Hauer, Hubbel Palmer

Synopsis: An ambitious young intern at a prestigious Miami law firm finds his dreams of passing the bar and becoming a real lawyer thrown into question when he hastily agrees to help one of the firm's partners move -- only to discover that the attorney's new home is in Los Angeles. Rick Robinson (Ben Gourley Read More

Tonight at Noon

Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lauren Ambrose

Mentor

Actors: Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: A young writer's friendship with a famous author turns sour when he falls for the wrong woman in this independent drama. Sanford Pollard (Rutger Hauer) is a once-famous and successful novelist whose career is in a bit of a slump. Pollard has used his still-impressive literary reputation to land a Read More

Tempesta

Actors: Scot Williams, Natalia Verbeke, Paul Guilfoyle, Rutger Hauer, Malcolm McDowell

Synopsis: A man who appraises art for a living investigates a band of talented but ruthless criminals in this international thriller. Patrick Donovan (Scot Williams) is an American art historian who travels to Venice at the request of Allart Van Beunigen (Rutger Hauer), the curator of one of the city's most Read More

Batman Begins

Actors: Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: The origins of the Caped Crusader of Gotham City are finally brought to the big screen in this new adaptation of the perennially popular comic-book series. The young Bruce Wayne (Gus Lewis) leads a privileged life as the son of wealthy, philanthropist parents, both of whom stress their commitment Read More

Sin City

Actors: Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel, Powers Boothe, Rosario Dawson

Synopsis: The Eisner Award-winning comic series Sin City comes to life in this live-action feature adaptation from director Robert Rodriguez and creator Frank Miller. Interweaving multiple storylines from the series' history, this violent crime noir paints the picture of the ultimate town without pity Read More

Minotaur

Actors: Tom Hardy, Tony Todd, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Jonathan English's action-adventure film Minotaur concerns a young man who sets out to slay the title creature after the man's love was sacrificed to the half-man, half-bull. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Mirror Wars: Reflection One

Actors: Armand Assante, Malcolm McDowell, Rutger Hauer, Olga Yakovtseva, Alexander Efimov

Synopsis: The action film Mirror Wars concerns a super powerful secret fighter jet developed by the Russian government that is stolen by a group threatening to use it for their nefarious purposes. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

The Poseidon Adventure

Synopsis: A luxury liner has capsized in the middle of the ocean, and it's up to the few remaining survivors to navigate through the treacherous, upside-down maze of terror and make their way to safety in the made-for-television remake of the 1972 disaster film. A terrorist has boarded the luxury liner Read More

Salem's Lot

Actors: Rob Lowe, Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, Samantha Mathis, Rutger Hauer, James Cromwell

Synopsis: In this TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel, a journalist with traumatic memories of his haunted childhood returns to find his hometown being infiltrated by vampires. As a boy in Jerusalem's Lot, ME, Ben Mears (Rob Lowe) took a dare and broke into a local mansion called the Marsten House. Read More

Wes Craven Presents Dracula III: Legacy

Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Jason London, Roy Scheider, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: In this direct-to-video sequel to Dracula 2000, iconic vampire Dracula (Rutger Hauer) has once again escaped the clutches of Luke (Jason London) and Father Ufizzi (Jason Scott Lee), a pair of traveling vampire hunters. Luke and Ufizzi discover the undying bloodsucker has made his way back to his Read More

Alias: Phase One

Synopsis: Originally telecast right after Super Bowl XXXVII, "Phase One" was the most controversial and talked-about episode of Alias' second season -- and not only because of the notorious segment in which star Jennifer Garner appears clad only in a skimpy bra and panties. With Sloane (Ron Rifkin) having Read More

Smallville: Exile

Synopsis: The two-part season-three opener of Smallville picks up three months after the cataclysmic events that brought season two to a close. Feeling responsible for the series of disasters that culminated in the death of his adoptive mother Martha's (Annette O'Toole) unborn baby, troubled teenager Clark Read More

Smallville: Phoenix

Actors: John Glover

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Smallville's two-part season-three opener, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) has tracked down his adopted son, Clark (Tom Welling), to Metropolis, where, under the influence of the dread red kryptonite, the rebellious Clark has fallen in with criminal boss Morgan Edge (Rutger Hauer Read More

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? Read More

I Banchieri Di Dio

Actors: Omero Antonutti, Pamela Villoresi, Rutger Hauer, Giancarlo Giannini, Alessandro Gassman

Synopsis: Directed by Giuseppe Ferrara, the political thriller I Banchieri Di Dio (God's Bankers) is based on the true-crime saga of the corrupted Banco Ambrosiano and the unsolved murder of bank president Roberto Calvi in 1982. Co-written by Ferrara and Armenia Balducci, the complex story involves the Read More

Crusade of Vengeance

Actors: Joanna Pacula, Arnold Vosloo, Rutger Hauer, Molly Culver, John Vernon

Synopsis: A beautiful female warrior returns from fighting in the Crusades only to discover that her young son has been abducted by a vengeful ex-Lord in director Byron W. Thompson's violent medieval adventure. The year is 1190 A.D. and the valiant Elizabeth of Cooke (Joanna Pacula) has just returned from Read More

Scorcher

Synopsis: Take a deep breath. Renegade soldier Col. Ryan Beckett (Mark Dacascos) is called in by the President of the United States (Rutger Hauer) to save the planet from imminent destruction after Chinese nuclear testing accidentally loosens the subterranean plates and exposes the Earth's core, which Read More

Killer Buzz

Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, Rutger Hauer, Craig Sheffer, David Naughton, Jason Brooks

Synopsis: While covering a story in a remote Brazilian rainforest, television journalist Ann Bauer (Gabrielle Anwar) stumbles all too literally on greedy Dr. North's (David Naughton) secret experiment: Raise genetically mutated bees and sell their venom's healing properties as medicine. But the bees contain Read More

Simon Magus

Actors: Noah Taylor, Embeth Davidtz, Stuart Townsend, Ian Holm, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Director of award-winning short films Ben Hopkins embarked on this ambitious feature project with Robert Jones, the producer of The Usual Suspects. The screenplay is inspired by Central European folklore, spaghetti Westerns and industrial history. But the film, which runs like a fable, has its Read More

The 10th Kingdom

Actors: Kimberly Payne Williams, John Larroquette, Scott Cohen, Daniel Lapaine, Dianne Wiest

Synopsis: This ten-hour mini-series extravaganza originally aired on February 26, 2000 on NBC, and concerns the fate of a janitor, Tony (John Larroquette), and his lovely daughter Virginia (Kimberly Williams), who mysteriously find themselves in a land where fairies, trolls, and elves live. Their attempts Read More

Partners In Crime

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Paulina Porizkova

Synopsis: In this action drama, Rutger Hauer plays Gene Reardon, a detective working in a small town who is put on the case when a major kidnapping erupts. The FBI is brought in, and Reardon finds himself working under a top federal agent, Wallis Longsworth (Paulina Porizkova) -- who used to be his wife. Read More

Wilder

Synopsis: Rodney Gibbons directs blaxploitation legend Pam Grier in the suspense film Wilder. Grier plays a cop named Della Wilder who loves to spend part of her day aggravating any abusing husbands or boyfriends who cross her path. She and her partner begin investigating the murder of a woman who was Read More

Lying In Wait

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Virginia Madsen, Vanessa Dorman, Shannon Whirry

Synopsis: An innocent man discovers things are not always what they seem as he's led into a web of murder and revenge in this sexy thriller. Babee Gordon (Thomas Newton) is a quiet, introverted bachelor who one day discovers he has new next-door neighbors, Keith and Vera Miller (Rutger Hauer and Virginia Read More

New World Disorder

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Andrew McCarthy, Tara Fitzgerald

Synopsis: In this high-tech thriller, David Marx (Rutger Hauer), a take-no-prisoners homicide detective, is teamed with computer expert Kris Paddock (Tara Fitzgerald) to track down Kurt Bishop (Andrew McCarthy), a software pirate who has been trying to steal a valuable encryption security program. Bishop Read More

Tactical Assault

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Robert Patrick, Isabel Glasser, Ken Howard

Synopsis: In this high-flying action thriller, an expert Air Force flyer finds himself forced to use every trick he has ever learned to stop a murderous, insane former colleague and friend from exacting deadly revenge upon him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bone Daddy

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Barbara Williams

Synopsis: In this taut, gruesome thriller, a novelist (and former medical examiner) turns sleuth when he learns about a serial killer with a flair for filleting his victims alive and then keeping their bones. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Merlin

Actors: Sam Neill, Isabella Rossellini, Miranda Richardson, Martin Short, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: This four-hour fantasy miniseries, elaborating on the Arthurian legend and filmed in England and Wales, offers a portrait of the wizard Merlin (Sam Neill), following his life as a youth (Daniel Brocklebank) to his later conflicts with the evil Queen Mab (Miranda Richardson) and his love for Nimue (Isabella Rossellini Read More

Palmer's Bones

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Barbara Williams, R.H. Thomson

Synopsis: Rutger Hauer plays William Palmer, formerly the chief medical examiner of Chicago who now makes his living as a writer. Palmer has written a novel based on one of the more interesting cases he investigated, a psychopathic murderer who would remove the bones from his victims while they were still Read More

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Actors: Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, Thierry van Werveke, Moritz Bleibtreu, Huub Stapel

Synopsis: Two terminal patients leave their hospital beds for the open highway in this German road movie, a popular success in Germany. When cancer victim Rudi (Jan Josef Liefers) meets Martin (Til Schweiger), who has a brain tumor, they knock back tequila one night and decide to head north to experience Read More

Bleeders

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Roy Dupuis

Synopsis: A family of incestuous Dutch aristocrats emigrates to New England, and 300 years later, their long-lost descendent returns to the ancestral environs to research his rare blood disorder in this low-budget horror flick based on a mothballed Dan O'Bannon script. Orphan John (Roy Dupuis) yearns for Read More

Hostile Waters

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Martin Sheen, Max von Sydow, Richard Graham, Rob Campbell

Synopsis: Based on an actual event, this made-for-television movie chronicles a delicate international situation that could have derailed Russian-American relations in the 1980s. Martin Sheen and Rutger Hauer star as military leaders on opposing sides, in this edgy drama about the collision between a Read More

Call of the Wild

Actors: Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Richard Dreyfuss narrates this made-for-cable adaptation of the classic novel by Jack London. This particular version of the tale has been hailed as one of the most accurate dramatic presentations of London's work. The story tells the exciting and often brutal tale of Buck, a dog who is stolen Read More

Tales from a Parallel Universe: Eating Pattern

Actors: Michael McManus, Eva Habermann, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: In this episode of the sci-fi adventure series, the spaceship Lexx's crew find themselves battling addiction after imbibing a strange liqueur made from body parts. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Redline

Actors: Patrick Dreikauss, Rutger Hauer, Mark Dacascos, Yvonne Scio

Synopsis: A smuggler is killed by a man he thought was his friend and comes back to tell the story in this sci-fi tinged action drama. John Anderson Wade (Rutger Hauer) is a black marketeer who gets on the wrong side of Merrick (Mark Dacascos), his partner in crime. A disagreement with Merrick turns deadly Read More

Crossworlds

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Josh Charles, Stuart Wilson, Andrea Roth, Perry Anzilotti

Synopsis: In this low-budget sci-fi adventure, a nerdy college student is shocked to discover that he has been chosen to save the Earth from intergalactic invaders. Joe E. Talbott learns of his mission from the mysterious beauty who suddenly appears in his dorm late one night. Upon hearing her story, he Read More

Blast

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Linden Ashby, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: Directed by Albert Pyun, Blast centers around the struggles of a group of would-be Olympic spectators being held hostage by a band of terrorist determined to set off a vast amount of explosives at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. The film featres Linden Ashby, Andrew Divoff, Rutger Read More

Precious Find

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Brion James, Harold Pruett, Don Stroud

Synopsis: Philippe Mora, the genre filmmaker whose marsupial-themed Howling III and alien-abduction hit Communion solidified his reputation as a director of clunky, substandard fantasy, returned with this space-set remake of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. True to form, it's a clunky mess, with Harold Read More

Omega Doom

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Shannon Whirry, Norbert Weisser, Tina Cote, Anna Katarina

Synopsis: In this future-set sci-fi action adventure the post-holocaust world in which mankind was defeated by his own machines is now populated and controlled by cyborgs carrying sharpened sticks and laser boomerangs. Omega Doom (Rutger Hauer) is one such cyborg. He is programmed to destroy everything that Read More

Mr. Stitch

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Nia Peeples, Ron Perlman, Wil Wheaton, Taylor Negron

Synopsis: This sci-fi thriller takes the Frankenstein story a few steps further and sets it in the near future. Using a variety of human body parts, a scientist (Rutger Hauer) creates Lazarus, a young man (Will Wheaton) with superior mental and physical capabilities. Poor Lazarus would be perfect but for Read More

Blood of the Innocent

Actors: Thomas Ian Griffith, Rutger Hauer, John Rhys-Davies, Artur Zmijewski, Jerry Flynn

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a ring of Polish criminals are implicated in the murder of a Chi-town cop and the disappearance of a few Russian immigrants. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fatherland

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson, Jean Marsh, Peter Vaughan, Michael Kitchen

Synopsis: What if Germany had won WW II and successfully taken over Europe? Based on a novel by Robert Harris, this compelling drama is set in just such a world, 30 years after the Germans defeated the Allies at Normandy on D-Day. By this time, the country is known as Germania and since the war it has been Read More

Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight

Actors: Diane Keaton

Synopsis: Made-for-television, this drama tells the story of real-life pioneer aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Diane Keaton stars as the famous American female pilot, who challenged social stereotypes and took to the air in the 1930s. In an attempt to fly around the world, Earhart's plane went missing in 1937 and Read More

Nostradamus

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, F. Murray Abraham, Rutger Hauer, Amanda Plummer, Julia Ormond

Synopsis: This period drama explores the life and times of the 16th century doctor and scientist who some believed could see into the future. Michel de Nostradamus (Tcheky Karyo) was the son in a Jewish family who posed as Catholics to be spared the wrath of the Inquisition. As a student of the renowned Read More

Surviving the Game

Actors: Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: The Richard Connell short story, The Most Dangerous Game, has been adapted for the screen many times. In this updated version, the rapper-actor Ice-T plays Mason, a homeless man whose best friend and his dog both die on the same day. Cole (Charles S. Dutton, a relief worker, tells Mason that Read More

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

Actors: Martha Plimpton, Kelly Lynch, Rutger Hauer, Patrick McGaw, Richard Sanders

Synopsis: Carolyn Chute's fascinatingly complex novel Beans of Egypt, Maine was softened and simplified for this 1994 film treatment. Martha Plimpton plays Earlene Pomerleau, who resides in the Maine backwoods community of Egypt. Earlene is swept off her feet by her studdish, irresponsible neighbor Beal Read More

Voyage

Actors: Karen Allen, Rutger Hauer, Connie Nielsen, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: If you've seen the theatrical feature Dead Calm or the made-for-TV Adrift, you should have a pretty good idea of what the USA Network TV movie Voyage has in store for you. "Nothing outside but the sea...Nothing inside but the terror" promised the print ads. Eric Roberts, Connie Nielsen, Rutger Hauer Read More

Blind Side

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Rebecca De Mornay, Ron Silver, Jonathan Banks

Synopsis: A couple returns home from Mexico where they accidentally killed a cop on a highway and proceeded to flee the scene. Before long, however, they are confronted by an intimidating but charismatic man who mysteriously pops up--and who knows all about the incident in Mexico. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Read More

Arctic Blue

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Dylan Walsh, Rya Kihlstedt, Richard Bradford

Synopsis: A plane crash lands an amateur Los Angeles marshal and a dangerous prisoner in the Alaskan wilderness. Their desperate situation forces them to rely on each other. However, the city-boy cop knows nothing about survival in the wilds while his captive is an expert. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Paul Reubens, Luke Perry

Synopsis: The idea of fusing teen sex-comedy and horror genres into a boffo box-office bonanza seems like classic braindead Hollywood-think... but somehow, beyond all reason, the makers of this film manage to pull it off. Much of the credit goes to director Fran Rubel Kuzui (Tokyo Pop) who chooses wisely to Read More

Split Second

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Neil Duncan, Michael J. Pollard, Alun Armstrong

Synopsis: The year is 2008 and something is terrorizing the streets of London, leaving numerous heartless corpses behind. Fortunately detective Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer) is on the case and discovers that the murderous monster behind the killings is just that. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Past Midnight

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Natasha Richardson, Tom Wright, Dana Eskelson

Synopsis: In this thriller a man falsely imprisoned for murdering his wife, finishes his 15 year sentence and then falls in love with his lovely parole officer who believes in him. Things go well until someone threatens the officer and begins trying to get him back in prison. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Beyond Justice

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Carol Alt, Omar Sharif, Elliott Gould, Kabir Bedi

Synopsis: In Beyond Justice-- an Italian-made action film directed by Tessari Duccio with an unusually fine cast -- Christine Sanders (Carol Alt), American millionairess and mother of the grandson of a fanatic Emir (Omar Sharif), hires mercenary Tom Burton (Rutger Hauer) to return her son after the Emir has Read More

Wedlock

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen, James Remar, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: In this futuristic action drama directed by Lewis Teague, Frank Warren (Rutger Hauer) is a man accused of stealing millions of dollars worth of gems. In prison, all the inmates wear collars which are electronically joined to those of an unknown partner. The collars will explode if either partner Read More

Blind Fury

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Brandon Call, Terry O'Quinn, Lisa Blount, Noble Willingham, Meg Foster

Synopsis: Rutger Hauer plays a blinded Vietnam vet who also happens to be an expert swordsman. Twenty years after the war, Hauer finds himself waist-deep in gangsters when he tries to help the son (Brandon Call) of an old army buddy. Along the way, he reforms an ex-comrade in arms (Terrance O'Quinn) who was Read More

The Blood of Heroes

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Vincent D'Onofrio, Anna Katarina, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: Blood of Heroes features a sport that you're not likely to see on ESPN. It's called "juggers", and Rutger Hauer is the champion jugger in the post-apocalyptic world; he goes from village to village with his entourage, brutishly taking on all comers. The action culminates in the bloody "league Read More

Bloodhounds of Broadway

Actors: Julie Hagerty, Randy Quaid, Madonna, Esai Morales, Jennifer Grey, Ethan Phillips, Rutger Hauer, Matt Dillon, Anita Morris

Synopsis: Produced for theatrical released by PBS' American Playhouse, Bloodhounds of Broadway is not exactly a remake of the 1952 film of the same name, though both pictures use the same Damon Runyon stories as inspiration. The scene is Broadway: the time is New Year's Eve, 1928. Madonna plays small town Read More

In Una Notte Di Chiaro Di Luna

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Nastassja Kinski, Peter O'Toole, Faye Dunaway

Synopsis: This international production by well-known director Lina Wertmuller is a harrowing educational melodrama about the AIDS epidemic. The story follows John Knot (Rutger Hauer) a brash, cheerful American reporter, and Joelle (Nastassja Kinski), a new photographer he has had an affair with and Read More

La Leggenda Del Santo Bevitore

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Pinon, Sophie Segalen

Synopsis: Italian director Ermanno Olmi serves up another tale of dignity amongst the "rabble" in Legend of the Holy Drinker. Rutger Hauer plays an alcoholic derelict who comes into a large sum of money. Though his benefactor is a human stranger,