Johan Leysen
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Birthday: February 19, 1950
Deathday: March 30, 2023
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Known For
Broken Mirrors
1984-09-27
Broken Mirrors
Overview: Diane and Dora are two prostitutes who begin to rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile, in another part of town, a murderer is at large.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-09-27
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Brotherhood of the Wolf
2001-01-31
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Overview: In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
Genres: Adventure Horror Action History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-31
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Betrayal
1993-11-24
Betrayal
Overview: After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing Stalinist crimes, will save his life by accepting to become a hostage of the regime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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Train of Life
1998-09-16
Train of Life
Overview: In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Genres: Drama Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-16
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The Quietest Hour
2022-06-02
The Quietest Hour
Overview: Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano playing and dance with their girlfriends. As the hours pass before his eyes, Thomas contemplates the lost friendship, the person Mari was and the conversations of that night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-06-02
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Pretend I'm Not Here
2001-01-17
Pretend I'm Not Here
Overview: Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within binocular range from his bedroom window, he harasses his neighbors by sending unsigned notes and making their private affairs public. When they discover his identity and draw him in, will this release him from his solitude, or confirm in his mind that he will always be the outsider?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-17
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The American
2010-08-31
The American
Overview: Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-31
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Tattoo
2002-04-04
Tattoo
Overview: Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief Inspector Minks. The victim is a naked young woman with the skin stripped off her back, killed as she staggered into traffic. As Schrader and Minks investigate the murder, the case is complicated by a finger found in the stomach of the victim. Forensic examination proves the finger belongs to Nobert Günzel, who was previously convicted of rape and assault. The police raid Günzel’s residence, and discover a blood-stained table with restraints and bits of human flesh in his basement. They also find video equipment and preserved, tattooed skin from the victim’s back. Soon, they found dead bodies buried in the garden. Günzel then goes missing.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-04-04
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Little Titans
1983-01-02
Little Titans
Overview: Koekebakker is a successful journalist. His old mates, however, turned out failures: Bekker has lost all hope of changing the world, Hoyer works for the socialist party, Bavink suffers from mental problems and Kees is a simple laborer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1983-01-02
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Sister Smile
2009-04-29
Sister Smile
Overview: A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-29
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The Johnsons
1992-02-14
The Johnsons
Overview: According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give birth to something evil to unleash horror and destruction upon human kind. Ugly septuplet brothers reproduced within the framework of mysterious genetic experiments terrorize a young innocent girl who seems to be chosen for the sinister predestination.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1992-02-14
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Gun-shy
2003-01-01
Gun-shy
Overview: Dito Tsintsadze's drama focuses on a loner whose life changes dramatically, when he gets to know a beautiful, but strange girl. Lukas, a young man doing "meals on wheels" instead of military service, doesn't have many friends and leads a boring life, until he meets Isabella. The fascinating girl soon becomes his best friend, but Lukas learns she has a sexual relationship to her stepfather. Thus, he is obsessed with the idea of delivering Isabella by killing the man..
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Tykho Moon
1996-11-28
Tykho Moon
Overview: The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious disease and are in urgent need of organ transplants. The perfect donor, Tykho Moon, probably has been killed in a fire, but according to rumours he's still alive. Although assassins stalk the family members, the McBees start a hunt for Tykho. Trying to escape the dragnet, Alex, a sculptor, meets Lena, a killer posing as a whore.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-28
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True Blue
1996-11-15
True Blue
Overview: The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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Egg
1988-03-18
Egg
Overview: The Egg is a short (58 minute) and sweet seriocomedy from Holland. Johan Leysen plays a shy, illiterate baker who desires an education. Marijke Veugelers portrays the equally shy schoolteacher who endeavors to teach Leysen how to read. Love blooms, and the results, while not always happy, are aesthetically more pleasing than in the similarly plotted Jane Fonda/Robert De Niro starrer Stanley and Iris. Most prints of The Egg are in Dutch with English subtitles, which is as it should be; any attempt to dub these characters with Americanized voices would dissipate the film's fragile charm.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1988-03-18
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Moonlight
2002-09-27
Moonlight
Overview: Claire lives with her wealthy adopted parents in a luxurious and isolated house in the woods. She discovers a wounded and bleeding boy her age in her family's garden shed. The boy is a young drug courier from Afghanistan; shot and wounded after serving his purpose as human packing material. Claire decides to keep the boy a secret. He slowly recovers under her care; and they fall in love. When the drug dealers return and Claire's family is due to move back to the city; they decide to flee; though Claire finds it difficult to outrun her past as an abandoned child.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-27
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Someone Else's Happiness
2005-12-07
Someone Else's Happiness
Overview: A village outside Brussels is rocked when a child is killed in a hit-and-run accident and its inhabitants react in a variety of ways to the tragic news.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-12-07
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Private Lessons
2009-01-21
Private Lessons
Overview: An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-21
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Death in the Shadows
1985-02-07
Death in the Shadows
Overview: A woman and her daughter lives in Oostdijk, a village near Amsterdam. One night when the mother is on her way home, she is killed in a car accident in the street they live in.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-02-07
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The Music Teacher
1988-08-01
The Music Teacher
Overview: Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on both teacher and students, there is plenty of time for relationships to develop between the three.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-01
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Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
2000-01-19
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
Overview: Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxurious Evian with Olga's brother Michel Mazelsky to hear their son, virtuoso cellist Jascha, perform. Jascha is lovesick over violinist Anna Ghirardi, with whom he had a brief affair a year ago, although she's happily married to naturalist Primo.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-01-19
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The Girl with the Red Hair
1981-09-17
The Girl with the Red Hair
Overview: During the second world war law student Hannie Schaft is a member of the Dutch resistance movement.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-09-17
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Romeo
1990-04-13
Romeo
Overview: After seven months of pregnancy a husband and wife learn that their unborn child won't survive for long.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1990-04-13
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The Silence of Joan
2011-05-13
The Silence of Joan
Overview: In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is approached by different men for whom she is believed to be the embodiment of the infinite.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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Swing Kids
1993-03-05
Swing Kids
Overview: The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazi's begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-05
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Sailors Don't Cry
1989-03-09
Sailors Don't Cry
Overview: Hilde earns just enough to support herself and her son, but when his father returns the troubles begin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1989-03-09
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Antwerp Central
2011-01-01
Antwerp Central
Overview: ANTWERP CENTRAL takes the viewer on a journey through the physical and mental space of Antwerp’s railway cathedral, from its construction to the present day. The film covers three centuries of Belgian railway history: from the moment that the national railway company laid its first tracks to the development of the high-speed rail link in the 21st century. Echoes of Belgium’s colonial past and the location of the station in the centre of the bustling diamond district and next to the city zoo add a surreal touch as contrasting pairs, such as animal and human, nature and industry, baroque and modernity, dilapidation and renovation are complexly juxtaposed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Moon Shadow
1995-02-16
Moon Shadow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-02-16
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Pink Moon
2022-09-08
Pink Moon
Overview: A young woman struggles to cope with her elderly father's out-of-the-blue announcement he considers his life complete and will end it by his next birthday.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Young & Beautiful
2013-08-21
Young & Beautiful
Overview: Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-08-21
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Photo
2012-04-10
Photo
Overview: Her mother has just died. Her father is not what she had thought. Caught between an uncertain past, which she knows only through the photographs her mother has left behind, and the prospect of a marriage that she does not really want, Elisa sets out to discover the truth. But will she recognize it when she finds it?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-04-10
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Goldman
2011-08-29
Goldman
Overview: As a veteran of the Latin-American guerilla wars, Pierre Goldman became a mythical figure of the French protest movement of the '60s.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-08-29
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The Gambler
1997-10-30
The Gambler
Overview: Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him to complete the novel reality and fiction become blurred; in this feverish atmosphere of excess Dostoyevsky's characters come to life as he struggles to complete his work.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-30
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Missing Link
1999-04-22
Missing Link
Overview: A young boy develops a passion for archeology and tries to unravel the truth about his ancestry.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1999-04-22
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Carmen
2005-09-04
Carmen
Overview: Carmen, a bonobo female, flees from the research center in linguistics where she is being kept. She takes refuge at a young couple's place, Mercier and his pregnant wife Myriam. Mercier, beginning at a new job, is reluctant to welcome the ape. But Myriam makes friend with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-04
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Under the Naked Sky
2023-09-21
Under the Naked Sky
Overview: Elvie is an inquisitive young girl, who lives in a caravan with her intellectually disabled mother – a loving but naive woman who has difficulty understanding others. During one long summer Elvie’s life is about to change forever. Growing more mature, she starts to see and understand the world in a way her mother is incapable of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2023-09-21
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Desiring Julia
1986-09-05
Desiring Julia
Overview: A young man falls in love with extra-liberated Giulia. Their relationship becomes very passionate, but Giulia has no limits in her sexual fantasies and games. Poor guy, will soon discover he'll have to pay a price for Giulia. He'll have to put up with all her strange and pervert desires, until of course he reaches his limits.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-09-05
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The Verdict
2013-10-09
The Verdict
Overview: When his wife's murderer is released due to a procedural error, Luc will do everything in his power to stop it from happening... He is going to take justice into his own hands and will then compete with the constitutional state which let him down.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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Obsessive Rythms
2014-01-08
Obsessive Rythms
Overview: On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge to one of the men, Furio: he has 4 months to restore the hotel and inaugurate it with great pomp. Aware of the difficulties but anxious to prove the point, Furio accepts encouraged by his wife Margo who believes that this assignment will allow the couple to rediscover the lost momentum.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-08
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The Red Siren
2002-08-21
The Red Siren
Overview: Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids charges. Alice promptly runs away, determined to find her dad whom she claims lives in Portugal. The police believe he is dead and that Alice is in denial. Nonetheless, they dispatch Anita, an Italian police officer on loan to the French, to find Alice and bring her back. Meanwhile, Eva has launched her own paramilitary force to hunt for Alice, and Alice has found a protector in Hugo, an ex-soldier turned hit man and gang member. He promises to get her to her father. All roads lead to a small town on the Portuguese coast.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-21
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De deur van het huis
1985-10-01
De deur van het huis
Overview: Two very different friends who share an apartment in Amsterdam have reached a dead end in their lives. The arrival of a parcel looks like an opportunity for a change.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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Eline Vere
1991-03-01
Eline Vere
Overview: This melodramatic film follows Eline Vere, as she attempts to break free from the confines of her narrow existence in The Hague through three tumultuous and ultimately disastrous courtships. Adaptation of Louis Couperus' novel Eline Vere.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1991-03-01
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De enclave
2002-04-14
De enclave
Overview: De Enclave is a Dutch mini series about the mass murders in Srebrenica during the Bosnia war. It tells a part of the Bosnia war, personalized in Ibro Hadzic, who lost all of his family there.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2002-04-14
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Time Out
2023-05-03
Time Out
Overview: Three prisoners are on a leave for a week end. 48 hours to come back down to earth. 48 hours to reconnect with their close friends. 48 hours trying to make up the lost time.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-03
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2/11 Het spel van de wolf
2014-10-02
2/11 Het spel van de wolf
Overview: 2 November 2004, shortly before nine in the morning. In The Hague, the report comes in that in Amsterdam Theo van Gogh has been murdered. All warning bells start ringing. With the country in flames, sometimes literally, politicians and officials in The Hague have to neutralise all sorts of known and unknown stings, and just when Van Gogh’s cremation seems to herald a period of relative peace, a second explosion follows: the attack on the Hofstad Network in the Laakkwartier in The Hague. A reconstruction of nine days of political high tension and flying dust, a decade after the assassination of the trendsetting filmmaker and TV presenter.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2014-10-02
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Grimm
2003-10-08
Grimm
Overview: One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out of work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle is dead. Marie meets Diego, a wealthy charming Spanish surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his sick, domineering sister, Teresa. To Jacob's astonishment, Marie wants to marry Diego. Even after the wedding has taken place, jealous Jacob tries to get his sister away from Diego. When this doesn't succeed, Jacob starts to provoke his brother-in-law. It soon transpires that no one will go unpunished for this.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-10-08
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Son of Mine
2015-01-29
Son of Mine
Overview: The suffocating love between between a father and a son who, as modern outlaws, struggle to survive in the depleted and neglected southern Dutch province of Limburg.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: li
Release Date: 2015-01-29
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Mates
1999-02-01
Mates
Overview: October 1997. Paul Winters (35) is deputy public prosecutor in Arnhem and is working on his first major case: an investigation in to the allegations of a Bosnian girl that she was raped by three soldiers in the Dutch UN contingent and whose brother is alleged to have been killed by them. Winters suspects that the girl is telling the truth, but he can't prove it and the case is adjourned. Then one of the men gives a revealing statement that throws a different light on the case. Winters argues in favour of reopening the case, but faces opposition from an unexpected quarter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1999-02-01
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The King Is Dancing
2000-12-06
The King Is Dancing
Overview: Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-12-06
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Bite
2024-06-06
Bite
Overview: Mark suffers from an intense form of self-hatred, which translates into neglectful, chilling and destructive behaviour. Mark lives in an equally destructive and hateful town. The only exception is his dying grandfather who lives in a hospice. In the hospice, Mark meets Lisa, a nurse. Mark’s behaviour frees her from her angelic yoke, but their bizarre bond slowly starts spinning out of control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-06-06
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La chaleur du foyer
2021-01-12
La chaleur du foyer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-01-12
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Nag la Bombe
1999-10-30
Nag la Bombe
Overview: Nag, a prostitute, walks the streets. One night, a violent man sends her to the hospital. There she meets Herve, a nurse obsessed with people's age and death in general. He falls madly in love with Nag and enters a world that amounts to very little.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-10-30
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Despite the Night
2016-07-06
Despite the Night
Overview: After returning to Paris, a heartbroken man searching for his missing lover finds solace, and a passionate but troubled love, with a grieving nurse. This unconventional romance unfolds against a backdrop of music and defies expectations, venturing into uncharted emotional territory.
Genres: Horror Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-07-06
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Noise
2023-03-17
Noise
Overview: Matt, an influencer and young parent to newborn Julius, discovers a dark secret from his dementing father's past. He starts an in-depth investigation, which consequently opens a Pandora's box of secrets and unravels more family dramas than anticipated. Matt's wife, Liv, is deeply concerned and will do everything in her power not to lose him, but is it too late..?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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The Assistant
2015-09-02
The Assistant
Overview: With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas (Malik Zidi) speeds to the hospital, and in the process, accidentally kills a young man on the road. That death sets into motion events that will change everyone’s lives forever, including the young man’s mother Marie-France (Nathalie Baye), who cannot recover from the trauma. Nine years later, Marie-France takes a job as Thomas’s secretary without him knowing about her connection to his past. As Marie-France’s maternal rage reaches tragic proportions, she insinuates herself into his life, his work and his family in this classic thriller à la Hitchcock.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-02
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Macbeth
1987-04-17
Macbeth
Overview: This production of Giuseppi Verdi's opera based on Macbeth, the famed play by William Shakespeare, is a musical succès d'estime but falls short in the cinematic arena. Shirley Verrett stars as the murderous and ambitious Lady Macbeth, Leo Nucci co-stars as her similarly ambitious but slightly more scrupulous husband, who has the good grace to feel some horror at his deeds before he does them. The entire opera was filmed inside a Belgian castle, and some of the smaller parts are obviously lip-synched to pre-recorded music.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-04-17
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Miss Montigny
2005-06-10
Miss Montigny
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-06-10
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A Saturday on Earth
1996-08-28
A Saturday on Earth
Overview: A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is central to the story, but seemingly unimportant events can hold great significance. Through a montage of different film stock and techniques director Diane Bertrand creates pieces of a puzzle, from which the viewer has to piece together a story. That's the premise of the film, and it is solvable. You just have to work a bit...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-08-28
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Priest Daens
1992-10-01
Priest Daens
Overview: In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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The Letter for the King
2008-07-16
The Letter for the King
Overview: Young Tiuri has to pass the final test before before being knighted by king Dagonaut. He has to pass a night in the chapel, what is suddenly disturbed by a strangers request of help. With his decision to help the stranger, Tiuri abandons his given task and starts into an adventure, that will shape the destiny of Dagonaut. On his journey he learns about the true meaning of love, friendship, courage and loyalty.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-07-16
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Queen Margot
1994-05-13
Queen Margot
Overview: Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-13
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The Brand New Testament
2015-09-02
The Brand New Testament
Overview: God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-02
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Souvenir
2016-12-21
Souvenir
Overview: A former European song contest singer, fading away in a pâté factory, falls in love with a young, aspiring boxer. Together, they decide she should attempt a comeback.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-12-21
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Past Imperfect
2017-02-08
Past Imperfect
Overview: Alice leads a routine life as an escort and dodges social contact. When she's forced to take care of her son after the death of her ex, her apparent indifference seems to fade away and she gets confronted with her emotional emptiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-02-08
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Waldstille
2016-09-16
Waldstille
Overview: In this drama, Ben is faced with the anger and grief of his entire village when, inebriated, he causes a road accident in which his girlfriend Tinka dies. Ben is sent to prison and his resentful in-laws get custody of his little daughter Cindy. When Ben after two years returns to the southern village of Waldstille, he intends to restore contact with Cindy as soon as possible - despite opposition from his parents-in-law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-09-16
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Felice… Felice…
1998-02-05
Felice… Felice…
Overview: Tragic love story about the photographer and explorer Felice Beato who travelled back to Japan in 1895 to seek his former wife O-Kiku. On the way he describes in a nostalgic letter to his brother how much he yearns for his lost love O-Kiku and how impotent he feels in an ancient Japan subject to rapid change. The journey takes him to Nagasaki and Moji, Onomichi, Mount Fuji, Yokohama and Tokyo. Places he once visited with his beloved and where he now no longer understands the people. Felice...Felice... is inspired by hand-coloured nineteenth century photos taken by e.g. Felice Beato, Sjimooka Renjo and Baron von Stilfried. In this film, shot entirely in a studio, the photos depict Felice's journey. Awarded the Golden Calf for Best Feature film in 1998. (NFF)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-05
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Silk and Ashes
2003-06-06
Silk and Ashes
Overview: The tender and supporting relationship between a young woman and her gay husband, in WW2.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-06
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New Planet
New Planet
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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't Bolleken
1988-12-18
't Bolleken
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1988-12-18
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Resurrection
2017-10-15
Resurrection
Overview: An old man who isolated himself from civilization receives an unexpected visitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2017-10-15
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Façades
2017-12-13
Façades
Overview: When her mother abandons her dementing father, Alex unexpectedly finds herself at a crossroads. As she moves back in the parental house to look after her father, she starts questioning her own life. Does she want to stay with her adulterous husband? She tolerated his affairs for years, but is she really happy with him? Or should she, like her parents, drop the facade?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2017-12-13
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Claire Darling
2019-02-06
Claire Darling
Overview: On this beautiful, bright first day of summer, Claire Darling has decided to get rid of all her estate. She’s laid down all her favourite objects on her front lawn for one splendid garage sale. As a horde of curious bystanders and neighbors fights over the ridiculously underpriced antiques, each object resurrects flashes of Claire Darling’s tragic and flamboyant life. Alerted by her childhood friends, Marie Darling, Claire’s estranged daughter, is forced to come back to the family mansion to stop this sale and unveil the reasons behind her mother’s eccentric decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-02-06
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Above the Law
2017-12-06
Above the Law
Overview: Frank Valken, high-flying robber, has just made a final masterful break. At least that’s what he believes… Ideal suspects, Valken and his gang find themselves involved in a criminal case of thirty years. It seems that the crazy killers are back.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-06
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2016-03-09
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Overview: 1948 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Denmark, in exile, accused of collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of the France. He is accompanied by Lucette, his wife and his cat Bebert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-09
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Requiem for a Killer
2011-02-23
Requiem for a Killer
Overview: Lucretia is a killer for hire. Specialised in poisoning and passionate about opera, she'll have to fulfill a difficult contract in the heart of the Swiss alps. Posing as a singer, Lucretia will have to appear on the scene of the higly exclusive Festival d'Ermeux and try to kill one of her partners: British bariton Alexander Child. Having recently acquired a Scottish distillery, he remains the only obstacle to a strategic pipeline project with considerable economic stakes; having recently won a tough legal battle against British Oil, their last resort is to eliminate him. Complicating everything is Rico, sent by the French contra-espionage, who tries to infiltrate the orchestra and stop the plot against Alexander Child.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-02-23
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L'Inconnu de Strasbourg
1998-08-19
L'Inconnu de Strasbourg
Overview: Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive. After Jean-Paul drives away, he picks up a hitchhiker. When the car, stolen by the hitchhiker, explodes, police believe the dead hitchhiker is Jean-Paul. Madeleine takes up with Jean-Paul's brother, Bastien, while Jean-Paul, arriving in Strasbourg, is mistaken for the heir to a fortune. The detective on the case spends more time writing crime novels than investigating real-life crimes.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-08-19
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Ga niet naar zee
2018-10-02
Ga niet naar zee
Overview: What on earth can an adult, childless man write to a kindergarten class? When a lone wolf finds a balloon with a note attached, he seizes the opportunity to pass on his hard-learned life lessons to the unknown infant that sent it. Lessons that do not necessarily line up with a pre-schooler’s experiences, but which may be valuable to him or her at a later age. In the process, unconnected generations find each other in this moving short film, based on a story by Tommy Wieringa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-10-02
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Hail Mary
1985-01-23
Hail Mary
Overview: A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-23
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The Silent Pacific
1984-03-15
The Silent Pacific
Overview: Unrelenting pessimism dominates this slow-paced, dark film, the debut feature from director Digna Sinke dedicated to an archetypal born loser named Marian (Josee Ruiter). Marian is a journalist who has been working in Latin America and who arrives home just after her father dies to find out that the man she had married for purely political reasons might be deported because the authorities found out he was not living with her. Meanwhile, Marian is upset that her mother and sister are keeping her mentally handicapped brother in an institution, and she goes there to get him released into her custody -- a mistake it turns out. He is actually worse off with her, and vice-versa. On top of everything, Marian cannot break away from the depression she feels over a tragic incident that happened while she was in Latin America -- and anything she does is colored by that moment from the past. These burdens become almost too much to bear, both for Marian and the viewers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-03-15
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The World According to Monsieur Khiar
2015-11-24
The World According to Monsieur Khiar
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2015-11-24
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Dilemma
1990-06-08
Dilemma
Overview: She's a lawyer with a social conscience. He's a calculating industrialist who keeps many deals hidden from her. But when she discovers that her husband is involved in illegal arms traffic and is also having an affair with one of her colleagues, a direct confrontation ensues.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1990-06-08
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Ravachol
2019-09-01
Ravachol
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-01
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A Hidden Life
2019-08-27
A Hidden Life
Overview: Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-27
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The Abyss
1988-05-13
The Abyss
Overview: The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe under an assumed name for twenty years. But he remains a non-conformist. He returns to his native Bruges, where he thinks he has been forgotten. In this silent labyrinth where the faces of the past resurface, he rediscovers his identity and thus signs his death warrant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-13
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Zénon the Rebel
2019-12-11
Zénon the Rebel
Overview: Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in André Delvaux’s film, played by Gian Maria Volonte, for the movie adaptation of the same book in 1988. But what does Zénon represent for us today, and what has become of him? How can this entirely fictional philosopher, doctor, alchemist and inventor from the Renaissance help us understand the era in which he lived as well as our own in these uncertain times? This is what this documentary sets out to do.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-11
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West Point
2008-11-02
West Point
Overview: West Point is a 'film noir', a story of family and emigration. It's La Cabo da Rocha, Portugal, the western-most point of the European continent. Opposite the USA, it's a metaphor of Ellis Island. It's the street dances and it's the part of what has been forgotten that Alexander and his sister Jeanne must accept in order to break free from the original crime, the feeling of abandonment and the color of wheat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-02
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In All Intimacy
1977-01-05
In All Intimacy
Overview: Fred, a 28-year-old bachelor from a quiet village in the Ardennes, is forester and grave digger. He is in love with Isabel but she has always loved their childhood friend Peter. Then Peter returns after a failed marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1977-01-05
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La Dérive des continents
2006-05-15
La Dérive des continents
Overview: Claire, 38, works in the litigation department of a bank. She has to deal with the case of Jacques Marey, 50, the boy she secretly loved when she was a 12-year-old. Today, Claire lives with Antoine and their daughter, Lola, 13, who falls in love with Julien, 22, Jacques's son. Like Mother like daughter ? Love stories usually end badly, but they don't necessarily repeat themselves!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-05-15
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Frontier
1984-03-26
Frontier
Overview: Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambled it into a series of vignettes that are mixed-up in time and in location, thereby dashing any hope of following the story. A journalist goes to a southern European country to interview a well-known terrorist who has refused to stop his activities even though the revolution he fought for ended successfully five years earlier. Questions are raised about adopting violence as a way of life without at first realizing it and about the seeming impossibility of raising the consciousness of backwater cultures. Perhaps because of the way the story has been filleted into fragments, characters like the journalist and terrorist do not have enough continuous screen time to build up their individuality, a second factor that makes it difficult to become involved in the drama.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-03-26
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Between Heaven and Earth
1992-05-26
Between Heaven and Earth
Overview: Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down even for a minute, despite her pregnancy. She is, however, taking Lamaze classes and is quite competently coping with the romantic attentions of a man she's not very interested in. It's not at all irrelevant that her news beat includes stories on terrorism, the greenhouse effect, pollution and genetic engineering, because when her baby's due date comes and goes, she starts hearing from her infant from in the womb. It is telling her that it and many other babies are refusing to be born into such a horrible world. She learns that this is true, and that the children born through induced labor are dying.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-05-26
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The Commissioner
1998-02-22
The Commissioner
Overview: John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for his failures. However, once there he stumbles upon a chemical weapons outrage that points to a sinister political-industrial conspiracy.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-22
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Vatanen's Hare
2006-12-27
Vatanen's Hare
Overview: A reporter who's soon to receive the Journalist of the Year Award hits a young hare on his way home. He gets out of the car to see if it's ok, but the hare runs off deeper into the forest, taking him on adventure of self-discovery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-27
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Alone at My Wedding
2018-11-02
Alone at My Wedding
Overview: Pamela, a young Roma, insolent, spontaneous and funny, embarks on a journey into the unknown, breaking away from the traditions that suffocate her. She arrives in Belgium with three words of French and the hope that marriage will change her and her daughter’s destiny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-02
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Le Lit
1982-12-31
Le Lit
Overview: Martin, a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his second wife is at his bedside, comforted by his first wife -- also present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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Requiem
1986-07-21
Requiem
Overview: One year after their father has died mysteriously at the Wadden Sea, two brothers visit the same place where their father died. Hidden feelings about each other come to the foreground.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-21
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Above the Mountains
1992-09-03
Above the Mountains
Overview: Six people are about to undertake a journey by foot from the very north of the Netherlands to the very south, in search of the mountains. Only two of them reach the destination.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1992-09-03
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Princesses
2000-09-13
Princesses
Overview: Johan has three children with different women. Two adult daughters: Sophie and Virginie, and a young son in Amsterdam. Loïc gave Johan diamonds of a criminal origin. Her husband Simon thought they were his and murdered her. Then he set out his hunt for the diamonds and for killing Johan. The police thought that Johan had murdered Loïc and called his daughters, who had not known about each other. Afterwards Sophie receives a note to take a certain train to Amsterdam. A young boy gives Virginie the oral message "The treasure is in the trout". She immediately understands that this trout must be in her mother's freezer, unknown to the mother. Both girls take the train. Simon contacts them as a helpful fellow-passenger. The girls soon detect his aim of murdering them. In Brussels they escape the train. Virginie steals a car but is not as good at driving as at stealing (she will prove this again).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-09-13
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La rage au cœur
1995-06-05
La rage au cœur
Overview: Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of France. However, Jeanne's secret past comes back to haunt her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-06-05
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A Lapse of Memory
2007-02-01
A Lapse of Memory
Overview: A confused old man, Henry, lives on his own in an old empty building that is reminiscent of a deserted palace. Henry hasn't been outside for years. The camera follows a day in his life - his simple daily chores and his eccentric rituals. Henry looks like a European from a good family, but has many Asian habits. The second protagonist is the building in which Henry is staying: the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. It is one of the best preserved examples of chinoise architecture and furnishing in the world. Neither the client nor the architect had ever set foot in Asia. In a monologue, a parallel narrative unfolds in a game with reality and fiction. Word and image, fiction and documentary become intertwined with each other and point across the frontiers of ‘East’ versus ‘West’.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-01
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Back to Utopia
2016-11-06
Back to Utopia
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-06
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Toy
1984-01-01
Toy
Overview: An short anti-cruise missile film created in collaboration with a group of filmmakers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Rubens, schilder en diplomaat
1977-10-02
Rubens, schilder en diplomaat
Overview: This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic success throughout Europe not only made him a fortune allowing him to stock his Antwerp residence ('Rubenshuis' in Dutch) and a castle at Elewijt, in the countryside nearer Brussels, with numerous fashionable treasures, but also became an ennobled diplomat for the Spanish Hapsburg rulers of the Southern Low Countries (now Belgium), who often traveled, for painting commissions and/or diplomatic missions, to and worked in Italy, France, Spain, all Catholic powers, as well as protestant England and the United Provinces (mainly Holland), also allowing him to meet other prominent contemporaries such as artists. It further covers his marriages to Isabella Brandt and Hélène Fourment.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-02
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