Theo van Gogh Filmography

Born:: July 23, 1957 in Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Occupation:: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Few Europeans have deliberately riled up as much virulent and explosive controversy during their lifetimes as the muckraking Dutch director (and politically incendiary journalist) Theo van Gogh did during his all-too-brief 47 years; in the end, it led to van Gogh's murder on an Amsterdam street at...Read More

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Euroquiz

Crew: Director

Actors: Tara Elders, Olga Zuiderhoek

2004
Cool!

Crew: Director

Actors: Johnny de Mol, Katja Schuurman

Synopsis: Theo Van Gogh's Cool! tells the tale of three teenage criminals - (Abdel, Jacky, and Jeffrey) - who end up doing time in a juvenile detention center after messing up a bank robbery. Abdel, who has been changed for the better by his time in the correctional system, learns that their former Read More

2004
May 6th [06/05]

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tara Elders, Thijs Römer, Cahit Olmez, Marcel Hensema, Jack Wouterse

Synopsis: The real-life murder of an idiosyncratic Dutch politician inspired this docudrama, which imagines a possible scenario behind the killing. Jim De Booy (Thijs Römer) is a new photographer who is on assignment, taking pictures of a popular television actress during an appearance at a radio station Read More

2004
Submission

Crew: Director

2004
Interview

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Pierre Bokma, Katja Schuurman, Ellen Ten Damme, Theo Maassen, Michiel de Jong

2003
Blind Date

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: This Dutch drama offers insight into male-female relationships as it chronicles several encounters between a bereaved mother who just lost her young daughter and a middle aged man. The story takes place inside the lounge of the Amsterdam Hilton where the two go for alcohol and solace. At one time Read More

1996
1-900 (Sex Without Hangups)

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Ariane Schluter, Ad Van Kempen

Synopsis: Sexy phone conversations between a man and woman provide the basis of this unique Dutch drama. It is based upon a 1994 "interactive" play wherein the audience, ensconced in individual cubicles containing video monitors, was able to participate by switching back and forth between the characters. Read More

1994
De Noorderlingen

Actors: Victor Löw, Theo van Gogh, Jack Wouterse, Rudolf Lucieer, Alex Van Warmerdam, Annet Malherbe

Synopsis: Alex van Warmerdam's award-winning second feature is set in a remote small Dutch village in the early 1960s. The village is actually just one street of a new town that was never completed, and the behavior of its inhabitants is invariably determined by their unsolved sexual problems, leading to a Read More

1992
Vals Licht

Crew: Director

1992
Loos

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Jansen, Leen Jongewaard

Synopsis: Loos (Tom Jansen) is a lawyer who will defend anybody if they can pay his fees. He is particularly adept at helping sex murderers and other unsavory types. In this drama, he is drawn ever deeper into a murky underworld of sexual perversions, gets in over his head, and by the end of the film is a Read More

1989
Terug Naar Oegstgeest

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Jansen, Geert de Jong, Cas Enklaar, Leen Jongewaard, Elise Hoomans

Synopsis: When Jan (Cas Enklaar) visits his father (Geert de Jong) on his deathbed, he tries to reconcile for years of mutual animosity. Flashbacks are used to tell the story of the family's struggles beginning in the 1930s and through World War II until the 1960s. The family is trapped in a love-hate cycle Read More

1987
Charley

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Maria Kooiman, Rosita Steenbeek

1986
Een Dagje Naar Het Strand

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Cas Enklaar

Synopsis: Director Theo Van Gogh (a great-grandson of Vincent Van Gogh's brother Theo) has created an engrossing series of vignettes, about an alcoholic and his little girl, that are supposed to tie together as a movie but never find the needed continuity. After Bernd (Cas Enklaar) picks up his daughter Read More

1984