Editing Paul Verhoeven (section)

===First feature films (1969–1983)===
Verhoeven's first feature film ''[[Business Is Business (1971 film)|Business Is Business]]'' was released in 1971 and was not well received. His first national success came in 1973 with ''[[Turkish Delight (1973 film)|Turkish Delight]]'', starring Rutger Hauer and [[Monique van de Ven]]. Based on a novel by bestselling Dutch author [[Jan Wolkers]], ''Turkish Delight'' tells the passionate love story of an artist and a young liberal girl from a conservative background. It received an [[Academy Award]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] in 1974. In 1999, the film won a [[Golden Calf (award)|Golden Calf]] for Best Dutch Film of the Century. ''[[Katie Tippel]]'' (1975) again featured Hauer and van de Ven, but it did not match the success of ''Turkish Delight''.

[[File:V.l.n.r. Jeroen Krabbé, regisseur Paul Verhoeven en Renée Soutendijk, Bestanddeelnr 932-5420.jpg|thumb|Verhoeven (center) in 1983]]

Verhoeven built on his reputation and achieved international success with the [[Golden Globe]]-nominated ''[[Soldier of Orange]]'' (1977),<ref>{{cite web |title=Winners & Nominees: Soldier of Orange |url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/film/24971 |work=Hollywood Foreign Press Association |year=1980 |access-date=3 February 2017}}</ref> starring Rutger Hauer and [[Jeroen Krabbé]]. Based on a true story about the Dutch resistance in [[World War II]], it was written by [[Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema]]. ''Soldier of Orange'' received the 1979 LA Film Critics Award for best foreign-language film, and it was also nominated for a Golden Globe in 1980.

In 1980, Verhoeven made ''[[Spetters]]'' with [[Renée Soutendijk]] and Rutger Hauer. The story is sometimes compared to ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'', but it has more explicit violence and sexuality (in this case also homosexuality), which are sometimes seen as the director's trademarks. ''[[The Fourth Man (1983 film)|The Fourth Man]]'' (1983) is a horror film starring Jeroen Krabbé and Renée Soutendijk. It was written by [[Gerard Soeteman]] from a novel by the Dutch writer [[Gerard Reve]], and was Verhoeven's last Dutch production until ''[[Black Book (film)|Black Book]]'' (2006).
[[File:Verhoeven, Soutendijk, Krabbé and Houwer during the motion picture The Fourth Man, 1983.jpg|thumb|Verhoeven with actors [[Renée Soutendijk]] and [[Jeroen Krabbé]] and his longtime producer [[Rob Houwer]] during [[The Fourth Man (1983 film)|''The Fourth Man'']], the LA Film Critics Association Award Winner of 1984]]
''[[The Seattle Times]]'' praised Verhoeven by saying he "often appears to be a one-man Dutch movie industry".<ref>{{cite news |last=Hartl |first=John |title='The Fourth Man' is occult thriller that holds suspense |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=7 June 1985 |page=22}}</ref> ''[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]]'' called Verhoeven "a busy bee whose movies pollinate the festival circuit".<ref>{{cite news |last=Elliott |first=David |title='The Fourth Man' is half-baked film |newspaper=[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]] |date=20 July 1984}}</ref>