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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Anne Billson

Paul Verhoeven’s 10 best films – ranked!

Virginie Efira in Benedetta.
Virginie Efira in Benedetta. Photograph: Ifc Films/Guy Ferrandis/Allstar

10. Flesh+Blood (1985)

Rutger Hauer, in his sixth and last film for Verhoeven, plays the leader of a band of mercenaries who kidnap and deflower the fiancee of a duplicitous nobleman, in this Dutch-American mini epic set in Italy during the middle ages. Brace yourself for non-PC sex and violence, Carry on up the Codpiece humour, and buboes a-go-go.

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