Experience the iconic films of visionary director Paul Verhoeven on the big screen with this special limited-time series at Emagine Birmingham 8.
From sci-fi classics to boundary-pushing dramas, this lineup showcases a filmmaker who never holds back.

Featured Films

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RoboCop {1987}

Movie Rating R 1 hr 42 mins
Detroit… in the near future. A cop who dies in the line of duty is transformed into a chrome-plated, indestructible, crime-fighting...
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Total Recall {1990}

Movie Rating R 1 hr 53 mins
When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the...
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Basic Instinct {1992}

Movie Rating R 2 hrs 07 mins
Michael Douglas stars as hardboiled San Francisco detective Nick Curran, a troubled cop with a history of trigger-happy shootings and a...
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Showgirls {1995}

Movie Rating NC17 2 hrs 11 mins
Nomi, a young drifter, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the...
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Starship Troopers {1997}

Movie Rating R 2 hrs 09 mins
Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.
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Elle {2016}

Movie Rating R 2 hrs 10 mins
Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business....
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Benedetta {2012}

Movie Rating NR 2 hrs 11 mins
Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta’s shocking...
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