Pim de la Parra

Directing

Pim de la Parra

Born — Died

1940-01-04 — 2024-09-06

Place of birth

Paramaribo - Dutch Guiana [now Suriname]

Known for

Directing

Credits

54 titles

Pim de la Parra (5 January 1940 – 6 September 2024) was a Surinamese-Dutch film director. De la Parra was born in Paramaribo and is partly of Portuguese-Jewish descent. He was educated at the Netherlands Film Academy. He became an editorial board member of the film magazine Skoop from 1963 which had been established by other students of the Academy.Between 1967 and 1976, he directed films under the independent production company Scorpio Films with Dutch film director Wim Verstappen, who managed all of its achievements. After a few short films, he began his career as an international director with Obsessions (1969), co-written by Martin Scorsese. He co-produced Blue Movie (1971) by Wim Vers…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 1 titles

1980s · 2 titles

1970s · 5 titles

Behind the camera

Blue Movie poster
4.9

25-year-old Michael has been released from prison after a five-year sentence. He moves into a big apartment block, filled with young women who gladly have sex with him.

Blue Movie

1971

Obsessions poster
4.6

A young medical student observes his neighbour's love life through a hole in his apartment wall.

Obsessions

1969

Obsessions poster
4.6

A young medical student observes his neighbour's love life through a hole in his apartment wall.

Obsessions

1969

Diary of a Weak Yogi poster
1.0

Two couples face mounting petty grievances, jealousy, and suppressed mid-life frustrations that steadily degrade their relationships into harsh psychological conflicts.

Diary of a Weak Yogi

2026

Diary of a Weak Yogi poster
1.0

Two couples face mounting petty grievances, jealousy, and suppressed mid-life frustrations that steadily degrade their relationships into harsh psychological conflicts.

Diary of a Weak Yogi

2026

Diary of a Weak Yogi poster
1.0

Two couples face mounting petty grievances, jealousy, and suppressed mid-life frustrations that steadily degrade their relationships into harsh psychological conflicts.

Diary of a Weak Yogi

2026

Dakota poster
6.9

A Dutch pilot with a real passion for flying risks everything to keep his plane in the air.

Dakota

1974

One People poster
5.7

Back in his native Suriname to see his dying mother, an Afro-Surinamese student from the Netherlands’ former colony finds himself torn between his Amsterdam-based life with his white Dutch girlfriend and a future in his newly independent homeland when he falls for a local Hindostani nurse.

One People

1976

One People poster
5.7

Back in his native Suriname to see his dying mother, an Afro-Surinamese student from the Netherlands’ former colony finds himself torn between his Amsterdam-based life with his white Dutch girlfriend and a future in his newly independent homeland when he falls for a local Hindostani nurse.

One People

1976

One People poster
5.7

Back in his native Suriname to see his dying mother, an Afro-Surinamese student from the Netherlands’ former colony finds himself torn between his Amsterdam-based life with his white Dutch girlfriend and a future in his newly independent homeland when he falls for a local Hindostani nurse.

One People

1976

Megalopolis I poster
NR

First film by Pim de la Parra, about a young Surinamese man in Amsterdam who delivers a “monologue interior” about his dissatisfaction with society and his position as an outsider.

Megalopolis I

1963

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dream of a Shadow

1995

VD poster
5.0

Cornelis van Doorn is the CEO of VD, a meat factory as well as a developer of contraceptives. Cornelis is the patriarch of the Van Doorn family: a decadent bunch of loose morals who only lust for money and power. When the man is thinking about retiring, he has to find the right heir to take over the family business.

VD

1972

My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie poster
4.7

Susan has chosen a hermit's life on a dilapidated farm over the shallowness of her previous jet set modeling life. When Anton, a hunky courier, comes along to pick her up for an assignment on the French Riviera, he's so fascinated by Susan's odd assortment of house guests that he decides to stay with them for a couple of days.

My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie

1975

My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie poster
4.7

Susan has chosen a hermit's life on a dilapidated farm over the shallowness of her previous jet set modeling life. When Anton, a hunky courier, comes along to pick her up for an assignment on the French Riviera, he's so fascinated by Susan's odd assortment of house guests that he decides to stay with them for a couple of days.

My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie

1975

Let the Music Dance poster
9.0

Composer Adam has to compose a European anthem while a tax inspector gets in his way.

Let the Music Dance

1990

Let the Music Dance poster
9.0

Composer Adam has to compose a European anthem while a tax inspector gets in his way.

Let the Music Dance

1990

No artwork available
8.0

A young woman from Amsterdam decides to sell her one year old jeep on the street one day. A passer by on a bike helps her repair and charms her during this process. However, he shows no interest in buying the car.

Jongens, jongens, wat een meid

1965

No artwork available
8.0

A young woman from Amsterdam decides to sell her one year old jeep on the street one day. A passer by on a bike helps her repair and charms her during this process. However, he shows no interest in buying the car.

Jongens, jongens, wat een meid

1965

Frank and Eva poster
4.9

The story of a man who goes out looking for hamburgers, while he has a beautiful steak at home. Frank and Eva can't live together, but can't live without each other either. Frank has sex with every woman he can get, while Eva wants to start a family.

Frank and Eva

1973

Frank and Eva poster
4.9

The story of a man who goes out looking for hamburgers, while he has a beautiful steak at home. Frank and Eva can't live together, but can't live without each other either. Frank has sex with every woman he can get, while Eva wants to start a family.

Frank and Eva

1973

Frank and Eva poster
4.9

The story of a man who goes out looking for hamburgers, while he has a beautiful steak at home. Frank and Eva can't live together, but can't live without each other either. Frank has sex with every woman he can get, while Eva wants to start a family.

Frank and Eva

1973

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Het labyrint der lusten

1991

Mens erger je niet poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mens erger je niet

1975

Odyssey of Love poster
7.0

Paul has a full-time lover, an older English woman whose common sense and down-to-earth qualities more than compensate for her relative lack of passion. After all, he is surrounded by women clamoring for time with him in bed. So are all the other men in the story. When one of his sons dies suddenly during an operation, Paul is devastated and cannot make out what has gone wrong in his life. None of his current crop of friends has any insight to offer. Some of these questions become clearer when his sister, with whom he is almost unnaturally close, comes to visit.

Odyssey of Love

1987

Odyssey of Love poster
7.0

Paul has a full-time lover, an older English woman whose common sense and down-to-earth qualities more than compensate for her relative lack of passion. After all, he is surrounded by women clamoring for time with him in bed. So are all the other men in the story. When one of his sons dies suddenly during an operation, Paul is devastated and cannot make out what has gone wrong in his life. None of his current crop of friends has any insight to offer. Some of these questions become clearer when his sister, with whom he is almost unnaturally close, comes to visit.

Odyssey of Love

1987

How to Survive a Broken Heart poster
10.0

D.C. has been abandoned by his girlfriend Nola, wants to go to Hollywood and participates in 'chicken races' out of desperation and lack of money; a perilous event in which one travels a certain distance on the road by car without stopping.

How to Survive a Broken Heart

1991

How to Survive a Broken Heart poster
10.0

D.C. has been abandoned by his girlfriend Nola, wants to go to Hollywood and participates in 'chicken races' out of desperation and lack of money; a perilous event in which one travels a certain distance on the road by car without stopping.

How to Survive a Broken Heart

1991

Intoxicated poster
8.0

Playwright and director Nils Wijn brings his relationship issues to the stage. In his play "The Whore, the Virgin, and the Dying Man," he has his girlfriend Tessa appear in revealing lingerie and takes her to a real prostitute for some practical lessons. This is too much for the actress. Their problem turns out to be contagious, as other members of the theater company also get into arguments with their partners.

Intoxicated

1986

Intoxicated poster
8.0

Playwright and director Nils Wijn brings his relationship issues to the stage. In his play "The Whore, the Virgin, and the Dying Man," he has his girlfriend Tessa appear in revealing lingerie and takes her to a real prostitute for some practical lessons. This is too much for the actress. Their problem turns out to be contagious, as other members of the theater company also get into arguments with their partners.

Intoxicated

1986

Dirty Picture poster
9.0

After attending a conference in Calcutta, Colombian optometrist Dr. Ignacio Cosso makes a stopover in Amsterdam on his way back to his home country. Here, he allows himself to be taken through the city by bicycle rickshaw by a seductive woman. During his journey through the city, he encounters beautiful and often naked women, whom he frequently photographs. In this way, he manages to win over an attractive stripper.

Dirty Picture

1980

Dirty Picture poster
9.0

After attending a conference in Calcutta, Colombian optometrist Dr. Ignacio Cosso makes a stopover in Amsterdam on his way back to his home country. Here, he allows himself to be taken through the city by bicycle rickshaw by a seductive woman. During his journey through the city, he encounters beautiful and often naked women, whom he frequently photographs. In this way, he manages to win over an attractive stripper.

Dirty Picture

1980

Dirty Picture poster
9.0

After attending a conference in Calcutta, Colombian optometrist Dr. Ignacio Cosso makes a stopover in Amsterdam on his way back to his home country. Here, he allows himself to be taken through the city by bicycle rickshaw by a seductive woman. During his journey through the city, he encounters beautiful and often naked women, whom he frequently photographs. In this way, he manages to win over an attractive stripper.

Dirty Picture

1980

Max & Laura & Henk & Willie poster
9.0

The romantic pharmacist Max is in a relationship with Willie and also has a platonic relationship with Laura. The artist Henk is the fourth player in this game of quartets. The foursome is comically torn between the urge for independence and the desire for a partner. Jealousy and relationship anxiety cause the relationships to constantly change, resulting in continuous relocations. In between, there is the minor drama involving Bonita: Max has a passion for pigeons. Together with the melancholic pigeon fancier Gisbers, he is the owner of the cock pigeon Bonita, who never wins any prizes...

Max & Laura & Henk & Willie

1989

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Revelations of an Insomniac

1991

No artwork available
NR

A bickering couple arrives in Aruba. The relationship difficulties keep coming up, which causes them to increasingly go their own way. A TV movie, produced by Dreampower (Pim himself) with little money financed by the NOS, filmed against the background of carnival and the Aruban struggle for independence. An Aruban Minimal Movie, made during the time that Pim lived in Aruba.

Aruba Affair

1981

Joop poster
8.5

Joop tries to tell his friend Loes that he loves her but is repeatedly interrupted.

Joop

1969

Joop poster
8.5

Joop tries to tell his friend Loes that he loves her but is repeatedly interrupted.

Joop

1969

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vrouwen van vandaag

1993

Confessions of Loving Couples poster
4.0

Author Frank's debut novel is successful, but he needs the proceeds to pay off a debt and his girlfriend Mascha ends their relationship. He meets another woman, but he and Mascha also seem to make amends. These amorous vicissitudes give him inspiration for a new book, which will deal with eroticism in the Netherlands.

Confessions of Loving Couples

1967