Theo van Gogh

Theodoor (Theo) van Gogh (The Hague, July 23, 1957 – Amsterdam, November 2, 2004) was a Dutch director, actor, screenwriter, columnist, programme maker, and television presenter.

Works

The Northerners

A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.

Release Date1992-04-17

Charactersd Fat Willy

Vote Count61

Koos Tak's Lonely War

The miserable adventures of Koos Tak, reporter for newspaper 'De Tijdgeest'

Release Date1996-04-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Episode Count7

The Sequence of Parallel Bars

The film opens with a rubber-clad woman stepping sensuously out of a limousine. The camera lovingly closes-up on her stilletoed foot... She enters a dark desolate warehouse, and meets two men, who proceed to chain her up and worship her body. Originally projected on three screens simultaneously. Music by legendary noise musician Merzbow.

Release Date1992-01-01

Charactersd The Corpulent Man

Vote Count4

White Madness

The toxic, suffocating relationship between a dominant mother and her estranged son, Lazlo. Lazlo lives a reclusive life in a squat, spending his time painting taxidermied animals and using heroin. When his mother is involved in a serious accident and calls for him, he is forced to confront the world he tried to leave behind, leading to a grim collision between her delusions of control and his self-destructive addiction.

Release Date1984-04-19

Charactersd Junk

Vote Count2

Interview

A middle-aged journalist interviews the real-life Dutch star Katja Schuurman, in her own loft. Pierre, the journalist is annoyed at being given such a fluffy assignment, as he is normally a political correspondent. Initially he has no questions for Katja, but soon they are coaxing their darkest secrets out of each other.

Release Date2003-05-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count29

Terrorama!

The film tells the story of six mental cases, trying to get rid of society's norms and values by kidnapping Gerard van Dongen, a well-known TV host. During an improvised TV show, the terrorists confront this Van Dongen with their darkest thoughts and emotions, resulting in violent excesses and extreme sexual behavior.

Release Date2001-10-10

Charactersd religious maniac

Vote Count4

Wintertijd

Release Date1999-09-11

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Moord op Pim Fortuyn

Documentary by BNN about the murder of politician Pim Fortuyn, in which the facts surrounding the murder are viewed as parts of a conspiracy against him. On May 6, 2002, politician Pim Fortuyn was murdered at the Mediapark in Hilversum. Almost immediately thereafter, the perpetrator, Volkert van der G., was arrested. Nevertheless, conspiracy theories still persist claiming that Van der G. was aided in his act. These theories are unveiled using archival material, reconstructions, and animations.

Release Date2010-05-05

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Fortuyn: On-Hollands

What does Pim Fortuyn's legacy mean for the Netherlands today? How have his rise and his assassination changed the political and societal debate on migration? And what does that say about Dutch views on tolerance and diversity? In the eight-part KRO-NCRV documentary series Fortuyn: Un-Hollands, producer mint film office gives a voice to people who were barely heard at the time, but who were right at the center of the Fortuyn debate. Critics, political allies and opponents, men and women, with a bicultural background and white, tell how they experienced the Fortuyn revolt and what influence Pim Fortuyn had – and still has – on their lives and positions in the Netherlands.

Release Date2025-10-13

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Episode Count3

Vote Count1

De storm van Balkenende

Balkenende's storm Jan Peter Balkenende discusses his premiership in detail for the first time. For eight years (2002 - 2010) he held the highest political office in The Netherlands.

Release Date2025-12-27

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Beatrix

Insiders, close friends, and experts talk about the impressive life of Princess Beatrix: the powerful woman, friend, and mother behind the office.

Release Date2025-01-31

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Episode Count1

Eenmotorige Mug

In the early spring of 1997, Theo van Gogh conducted a series of interviews with Willem Oltmans, the man who at the time loudly proclaimed that he had been obstructed by the State of the Netherlands for more than forty years—in particular Foreign Minister Luns, who called Willem Oltmans "the single-engine mosquito." For years, his lament was barely heard in the Netherlands. But around the mid-nineties, a different wind seemed to be blowing, and Oltmans gained an increasingly wider audience. For it turned out he was right; according to hundreds of secret coded telegrams, he had been obstructed for years in an extremely bizarre manner.

Release Date2004-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Because of her incestuous past Charley (Marie Kooiman) refuses to talk. Together with her friend she invites men to her house, seduces and poisons them and removes their male parts. Then it is revealed that she can talk after all.

Release Date1986-02-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Reunie

Release Date1994-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Submission: Part I

The film tells the story of four fictional characters played by a single actress wearing a veil, but clad in a see-through chador, her naked body painted with verses from the Koran. The characters are Muslim women who have been abused in various ways. The film contains monologues of these women and dramatically highlights three verses of the Koran that give authority to men over women, by showing them painted on women’s bodies.

Release Date2004-08-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count19

Medea

Greek tragedy by Euripide moved to Dutch politics. Medea, the daughter of the chairman of the senate, falls madly in love with ambitious politician Jason. Together they plan a campaign to make Jason prime minister.

Release Date2005-01-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

06/05

A fictional version of the events that led to the assassination of the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn on May 6, 2002. The movie is based upon the book "The sixth of May" by Tomas Ross.

Release Date2004-12-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count22

Cool!

This movie follows a gang of Morrocan/Dutch youngsters into their criminal career.

Release Date2004-09-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

1-900

Sarah, 30, single, well educated, likes art, places a voice ad for phone sex, inviting replies from men under 35, sturdy and sensual. Wilbert, a chubby middle aged architect, leaves a message that he is Thomas, 32 and well formed. A week later, she phones. She likes his voice, he likes her laugh, so once a week she phones him (he's not to know her last name, where she lives, or her number). Portraits emerge of humor and sadness. He presses for details of her life and tells her about his work; she wants these Thursday calls to be fantasy and release, separate from the rest of who she is. The film dramatizes these tensions of lies and truth, connection and distance. Written by

Release Date1994-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

False Light

The student Simon has moved to the red-light district and is completely smitten with a sex worker. When he comes to her aid after she is assaulted, they begin a relationship. He delves into her private life and discovers that underworld figures are after her.

Release Date1993-02-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Day at the Beach

After Bernd (Cas Enklaar) picks up his daughter Walyne (Tara Fallaux) who lives with her mother, he takes her off for a supposed day of fun together. His idea of fun is to get his hands on as much free alcohol as he can, and as a result of his carelessness he and his daughter are constantly separated. Each time they reunite, he finds a new group of people for a few more drinks, and another round starts -- as a consequence, there is no build-up to the climax at the end.

Release Date1984-09-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Flodder

The misadventures of the anti-social Flodder family living in a upscale suburban neighborhood.

Release Date1993-10-07

Episode Count1

Vote Count20

Big Brother VIPS

Release Date2000-05-22

Episode Count5

Venus in Furs

While still living in Amsterdam under his birth name 'Ian Kerkhof,' Aryan Kaganof co-penned the script for his friends Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seyferth's debut feature Venus in Furs (1995), which is undoubtedly the most faithful cinematic adaptation of the S&M-themed Leopold von Sacher-Masoch novella of the same name. A number of years later after moving back to his homeland of South Africa, Kaganof directed his own tribute to Sacher-Masoch's classic work.

Release Date2001-03-31