1928年，伊文思第一次赴巴黎，试图探讨摄影机的表现可能性，并在那里拍摄了一部4分钟的短片《对运动的研究》。
Images of mostly traffic in Paris, a.o. seen from the appartment of Germaine Krull or shot while walking through the city with her. Here already the influence of the Russina avant-garde films can be seen clearly, e.g. when looking at the diagonal frame compositions.

Documentary about the building of blast furnaces by the communist youth workers organisation Komsomol, constructed as part of the first five year plan of Stalin's Soviet Union. The film is set Magnitogorsk in the de Ural, where an industrial city of over 200.000 people was built in just a few years, and in the Kubas basin in Siberia. The film is a tribute to the achievements of the volunteers, the Komsomol, but does not show the dark side of history: the thousands of imprisoned Kulach doing hard labour under terrible conditions. Influenced by the Russian filmmaker Vsevolod Pudovkin, Ivens tells the story by following one non-fiction character, a non-actor, who re-enacted the scenes. this form of 'personalised story', which we would call docudrama, reappears after this first attempt in Komsomol in many Ivens films.

1931年，应苏联导演普多夫金的邀请赴苏联访问了3个月，伊文思在那里做了几十次演讲，并放映了自己的影片，也观看了杜甫仁科等苏联电影工作者的作品。回荷兰后，应“菲利浦电器公司”之请，拍摄了宣传片《工业交响曲》（又名《菲利浦收音机》）。他不顾厂方严格的限制，在影片中揭示了高度机械化劳动对工人的身体和精神造成的损害。
one of the most important ivens' works. Philips Radio is considered the third important Dutch avant-garde film of Joris Ivens, after The Bridge and Rain. The film was commissioned by Philips in order to show the modern production process of radio's in the factories and offices in Eindhoven. Only in a later stage of the shootings it was decided to use the latest film sound technologies in studios in France and make the first Dutch sound film.

1911年，13岁的伊文思在家人的协助下拍摄了一部长200米的影片《茅屋》，只是他的第一部电影习作。
On the age of 13 Joris Ivens was fond of Cowboys and Indians stories, so he decided to invent one himself. He made a script and used a camera from his father's shop. This became his first film Wigwam, with his own family as cast. Black Eagle, a bad indian, kidnaps the daughter of a farmer's family. Flaming Arrow, played by the young Joris Ivens, saves the child from the kidnapper and brings it back to her family. No better conclusion than smoking a piece pipe.

In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made …A Valparaíso, one of his most poetic films. Contrasting the prestigious history of the seaport with the present the film sketches a portrait of the city, built on 42 hills, with its wealth and poverty, its daily life on the streets, the stairs, the rack railways and in the bars. Although the port has lost its importance, the rich past is still present in the impoverished city. The film echoes this ambiguous situation in its dialectical poetic style, interweaving the daily life reality (of 1963) with the history of the city and changing from black and white to colour, finally leaving us with hopeful perspective for the children who are playing on the stairs and hills of this beautiful town.

1966 被迫侨居国外20余年的伊文思被准予回到祖国荷兰，他决定拍摄一部反映港口城市鹿特丹的影片《鹿特丹—欧洲之港》。伊文思在影片中没有象一般纪录片那样表现鹿特丹港的繁忙景象而是以荷兰民间传说“飞翔的荷兰人”为主线，表现了一个具有叛逆性格的荷兰的形象。另外，他在祖国逗留期间荷兰文化大臣拟向伊文思颁发荣誉奖金，伊文思本人拒绝接受。
Instructional film about the (former) biggest harbour in the world, with a hybrid format. Well known Ivens themes are revisited, like The Flying Dutchman in the fiction part of the film, who returns to the modern day Rotterdam, that has recovered very well after the devastating bombardments in the second world war.

桥，纪录短片

　　《雨》用诗意的电影镜头，描绘了一场从坠落到停歇的雨水之旅。透过摄影机之眼，我们跟随着雨水——从车水马龙的街市到人潮涌动的人流。短短十几分钟的记录，是活生生的雨滴在悄然坠落，是积水中荡漾的圆晕在绽放，是云朵流淌下的氤氲在默默隐退……这音乐般流畅的印象派风格，给了我们一份来自大自然的馈赠与解说。

One of Joris Ivens' most poetic films is his first attempt to film the wind. With a beautiful photography, a powerful editing and a poetic commentary the film tries to make the wind visible and tangible. It starts in black and white, continues in colour and ends in cinemascope to illustrate the force of the upcoming Mistral wind that blows in the south of France. The original scenario was much more elaborate and ambitious and fits Ivens' lifelong wish to film the impossible: the wind. It was difficult to find a producer for this film, for most people were rather sceptical to finance a film with an invisible main character. Finally Claude Nedjar was willing to produce the film, which despite many financial problems was finished in 1965.

本片围绕一位年轻的雕刻家艾里克（鲁特格尔·哈尔 Rutger Hauer饰）与美艳女郎奥尔加（莫妮卡·梵·德·冯 Monique van de Ven饰）展开，讲述两人之间一段刻骨铭心的孽缘情债。一起车祸让天性崇尚自由欲望的艾里克，邂逅美艳女郎奥尔加。从此他终日沉迷于暴力虐待式的床第之欢。当奥尔加远嫁美国后，艾里克重陷孤独，他只能以更加疯狂的性欲来发泄心中的痛苦。然而当两人再次重遇时，那段刻骨铭心的爱欲却再也无法重现，唯化作一段孽缘成追忆。
这部由荷兰著名电影导演、剧作家、制片人保罗·范霍文执导，改编自畅销作家Jan Wolkers同名小说《土耳其狂欢》的情色电影，不但荣获1974年第46届奥斯卡金像奖最佳外语片提名，更获得“本世纪最佳荷兰电影”称号。本片营造出一种颓废唯美的绝望氛围，创下当年荷兰票房纪录。《土耳其狂欢》以热情大胆的爱情故事和赤裸野性的性暴力场面，成为荷兰电影史上是一部举足轻重的影片。