Dick Maas
Dick Maas is a Dutch writer/director known for making multiple cult classics. He is one of The Netherlands’ most unconventional filmmakers.
Dick Maas is a Dutch writer/director known for making multiple cult classics. He is one of The Netherlands’ most unconventional filmmakers.
When the canals of Amsterdam turn blood red again after 37 years, there is only one man who can tame the evil and battle an adversary who seems to possess superhuman powers.
Release Date:2025-12-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Three girlfriends, neglected and mistreated by their husbands, plan to take revenge on them with the help of an experienced man in this type of job.
Release Date:2024-09-06
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:43
Documentary on the Dutch filmmaker Dick Maas.
Release Date:2020-10-01
Department:Sound
Job:Original Music Composer
Character:Self
Vote Count:8
A zoo veterinarian gets caught up in a grisly adventure as she finds herself leading the city-wide hunt for a monstrous lion terrorizing the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.
Release Date:2016-10-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:125
Release Date:2015-11-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A famous game show host is being harassed in a restaurant by a strange man who claims to have kidnapped his wife and daughter. A morbid game ensues in which the game show host turns out to be the contestant.
Release Date:2012-03-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:23
In 1984, Ate de Jong, Dick Maas and George Schouten founded The Directors, a band made up of movie directors. Later on, more directors joined and so did actors, actresses and singers. This documentary follows the band members at home, on the set, at rehearsals and during performances. It’s a story of friendship, opposing characters, growing old and ambitions and illusions. Anecdotes and archive films provide a hilarious flashback on the lives of the film friends. Time has treated them well. Everybody is or has been successful. To rough it all up, they decide to write a song that will be played at one of the band member’s funeral.
Release Date:2010-11-07
Character:himself
A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5.
Release Date:2010-10-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:144
When three wealthy women hire a hit man to get rid of one of their cheating husbands, everything goes wrong.
Release Date:2007-12-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:27
Four women are sick of being poor. They decide to rob a bank. They are surprised how easily they get away with it and start to commit more robberies. When the net finally closes around them they decide to make one last big hit.
Release Date:2004-12-09
Department:Sound
Job:Original Music Composer
Vote Count:10
A heavily sweating man, returning from a long trip, is telephoning from his car to speak to his wife. But he gets his daughter on the line. Lisette is constantly asking questions and tells about a drawing she made, but all the man is asking for is to get her mother. It seems he desperately wants to speak her, for what might be the last time. When Lisette is getting her mother out of the backyard, the man is still talking, telling Lisette should say to her mother he loves her. The sound of an approaching ambulance can be heard. When his wife finally gets on the phone, it's only a remarkable short conversation. She's asking him about his flight and to come back soon because Lisette misses him much. What is going on?
Release Date:2003-09-28
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:3
Valentin, a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, believes his family has problems that only he can solve. The youngster dreams of being reunited with his mother, who's separated from Valentin's abusive father.
Release Date:2002-09-29
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:103
A young ambitious claims assessor investigates a multi million dollar marine insurance fraud.
Release Date:2002-07-16
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:4
A top secret mission for French Intelligence brings Indy to Istanbul during the first world war. Exploring the city's dark and dangerous streets, he is thrust into a web of betrayal and murder when he discovers a vile Turkish plot to assassinate French espionage agents. Evil of a more enduring kind awaits him in Transylvania where he engages in a mortal combat with bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler and his horrific army of the living dead. With his life at stake, Indy must garner all his strength and wits in order to defeat the fiend and save mankind.
Release Date:2002-05-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:16
A young boy thinks he's got a lookalike around him, but nobody believes him. Then, he meets Thomas and they switch homes.
Release Date:2002-01-23
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:22
After the elevators at a New York City skyscraper begin inexplicably malfunctioning, putting its passengers at risk, mechanic Mark Newman and reporter Jennifer Evans begin separate investigations. Newman gets resistance from superiors at his company, which manufactured the elevator, while additional elevator incidents cause several gruesome deaths. The police get involved and suspect that terrorists are responsible, but a far stranger explanation looms.
Release Date:2001-09-06
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:168
Combining a family vacation with business, Walter Richmond takes his wife and their 10-year-old, mute daughter, Melissa , to the Netherlands -- where Melissa inadvertently witnesses a murder. Unable to tell anyone what she's seen, the frightened girl vanishes in an attempt to elude the killers. Meanwhile, her parents try desperately to piece together the puzzle leading to Melissa's disappearance.
Release Date:1999-11-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:37
After years living in France, The grandfather of Jakob returns back too his old house. He buys the house and asks his grand-son too help renovate it. When his grandfather falls and get hurt, an older woman decides too look out on Jakob.
Release Date:1999-10-14
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
In pre-WWII Holland, the penniless, illegitimate son of a powerful bailiff sets out to become a lawyer as he spends a lifetime struggling to prove his worth to his relentlessly spiteful father.
Release Date:1997-04-17
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:99
Back from their trip abroad, the family must meet the people of the neighborhood while preparing for the 25th anniversary of Zonnedael. Ma falls in love with a bum that is not exactly what he seems to be.
Release Date:1995-06-29
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:62
The misadventures of the anti-social Flodder family living in a upscale suburban neighborhood.
Release Date:1993-10-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:16
The mayor of Sunny Dale see a chance to get rid of the Flodder family: They send the asocial bunch for an international exchange to New York. There they get confused with a Russian delegation of medical doctors while the street worker Werner who accompanies them becomes imprisoned.
Release Date:1992-06-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:84
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 Date:1992-04-17
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:53
Hans falls in love with Brenda, an Indonesian girl. Hans' father sells an old building to Brenda's father, so that he can open an Indonesian restaurant there. Hans' father is the owner of a snackbar himself. The restaurant becomes very succesful, but some racists can't handle that, so they set the snackbar on fire...
Release Date:1990-12-21
Department:Sound
Job:Music
Vote Count:1
After a large airliner crashes on a deserted island killing most of the passengers, two women, five men and a dog survive: an Eastern European, a Canadian lawyer, a French biologist, a prosperous Scottish financier, a young American, an extrovert Australian and a major in the British army. Hopes of rescue fade as the survivors come to realise that the world may have suffered a major disaster.
Release Date:1990-11-16
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:3
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.
Release Date:1988-02-11
Department:Sound
Job:Original Music Composer
Vote Count:188
Release Date:1988-01-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
A low-class antisocial family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble.
Release Date:1986-12-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:135
An extremely weird comedy revolving around the life of 31- year-old Abel, who has never left home (literally). After failing with doctors and psychiatrists, Abel's father Victor brings home Christine, a friend, in an attempt to teach Abel basic social skills. But Victor's wife Duif accuses him of having an affair, and in the ensuing row Abel is thrown out into the street. But help is at hand when he runs into kind-hearted stripper Zus - whose show Victor is obsessed with…
Release Date:1986-02-27
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:37
Victor Raven, a famous rock star, returns to his childhood home to shoot a music video. Believing his presence is responsible for the return of a monstrous hound that killed folks when he was kid, the locals decide to do something violent about it.
Release Date:1984-12-01
Department:Sound
Job:Original Music Composer
Vote Count:38
A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.
Release Date:1983-05-11
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:172
Department:Editing
Job:Editor
In order to get more customers to their rural inn, Karel and Truus have come up with a stunt. Karel will beat the record for being buried alive. After 124 days the media finally show up.
Release Date:1981-09-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
A man drives his blind wife to a picnic spot he hopes she won't return from, but she won't get out of the car.
Release Date:1977-02-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Artist Joris Hansma is financially broke. He wants to end it, but even that seems impossible. His girlfriend Maria also feels miserable enough to commit suicide. They plan to drive a car on an unguarded level crossing to be crushed by a train. An anything but depressing image of a couple who want to commit suicide.
Release Date:1977-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Stranded travelers on a remote farm find themselves in a dire situation. Do they fall victim to a murderous father and his son?
Release Date:1975-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer