Dick Maas

Dick Maas is a Dutch writer/director known for making multiple cult classics. He is one of The Netherlands’ most unconventional filmmakers.

Works

The Directors

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 Date2010-11-07

Charactersd himself

The Dick Maas Method

Documentary on the Dutch filmmaker Dick Maas.

Release Date2020-10-01

DepartmentSound

JobOriginal Music Composer

Charactersd Self

Vote Count8

HISTORIA MORBI

Stranded travelers on a remote farm find themselves in a dire situation. Do they fall victim to a murderous father and his son?

Release Date1975-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Flodder

A low-class antisocial family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble.

Release Date1986-12-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count149

Down

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 Date2001-09-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count189

Tom & Thomas

A young boy thinks he's got a lookalike around him, but nobody believes him. Then, he meets Thomas and they switch homes.

Release Date2002-01-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count25

Amsterdamned

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 Date1988-02-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count196

Claim

A young ambitious claims assessor investigates a multi million dollar marine insurance fraud.

Release Date2002-07-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6

Flodder 3

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 Date1995-06-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count67

Character

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 Date1997-04-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count110

Flodder

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

Release Date1993-10-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count18

Saint

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 Date2010-10-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count156

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

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count58

Monster Dog

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 Date1988-08-16

DepartmentSound

JobOriginal Music Composer

Vote Count41

Prey

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 Date2016-10-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count134

Long Distance

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 Date2003-09-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Killer Babes

When three wealthy women hire a hit man to get rid of one of their cheating husbands, everything goes wrong.

Release Date2007-12-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count28

De Speeltuin

A short film about Anna, who is left by her mother in the playground under the watchful eye of an owner and a gardener. But is she safe?

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Amsterdamned II

After 37 years, the canals of Amsterdam are once again turning blood red. Tara Lee is a young ambitious detective with the Amsterdam police force who is confronted by a number of gruesome incidents around the canals. She enlists the help of Visser, a retired detective who once nabbed a serial killer stalking those same canals. They face an adversary who seems to possess superhuman powers.

Release Date2025-11-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Valentin

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 Date2002-09-29

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count112

Rigor mortis

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 Date1981-09-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Abel

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 Date1986-02-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count40

Amazones

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 Date2004-12-09

DepartmentSound

JobOriginal Music Composer

Vote Count12

My Blue Heaven

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 Date1990-12-21

DepartmentSound

JobMusic

Vote Count1

Adelbert

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 Date1977-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Lift

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 Date1983-05-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count189

Do Not Disturb

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 Date1999-11-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count38

Quiz

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 Date2012-03-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count23

Killer Babes

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 Date2024-09-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count55

The Last Island

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 Date1990-11-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count3

Flodder Does Manhattan!

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 Date1992-06-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count94

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil

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 Date1999-10-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count22

Picknick

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 Date1977-02-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Red Swan

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 Date1999-10-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

The Nether Horror Collection

"The Nether-Horror Collection is a compilation of ten remarkable short Dutch horror films. While feature films from our own country often fall short, short films often prove capable of surprising results."

Release Date1996-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Onder de maat

Two fishermen try to save a Salvation Army lady from drowning.

Release Date1980-07-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Overval

A white man bumps into a black man while jogging, and accuses him of having stolen his wallet.

Release Date1980-08-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Golden Earring - Live From The Twilight Zone

The year 1984 was a memorable and exceptionally successful year for Golden Earring. When the lady smiles was released in early February, and became number 1 thanks to the controversial video by Dick Maas, which can be admired in the original version on this DVD. As well as the 3 other historical Dick Maas - Golden Earring videos, by the way. More original and better videos have never been made in the Netherlands. On March 3, the album N.E.W.S. from, (including 'When the lady smiles). That album also hit number 1 and stayed on the album chart for 18 weeks. And on March 7, Golden Earring started its 11th (!) - and in hindsight last - American tour of a total of 38 performances, which the group took to Hawaii.

Release Date1984-09-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector