Senne Rouffaer
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kapellen, Belgium
Birthday: December 19, 1925
Deathday: June 14, 2006
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Gender: Male
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Ad Fundum
Overview: Sammy Raes, a nice, naive law-freshman from a simple family, dies in a form of hazing known as the 'flying carpet'. The father of the arrogant fraternity president Guy Bogaerts who ordered this reckless procedure abuses his connections to prevent a judicial homicide conviction, while the college authorities prefer to avoid a scandal in the press. However Sammy's freshmen friends Tom Smits and Denn
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1993-10-06
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Seventh Heaven
Overview: Seventh Heaven or De Zevende Hemel is a 1993 Dutch romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1993-01-04
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Brussels by Night
Overview: This is the story of a man who travels to Brussels, and meets some people with whom he spends a few days. When they all go on a day trip to the "slanting plane" of Ronquieres, all sorts of bottled up frustrations flare up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1983-11-03
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Kurrel & Co.
Overview: An epilogue of the series "Captain Zeppos"
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-06
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The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
Overview: Govert Miereveld is a lawyer from a small Flemish town who also teaches in a school for girls. He harbors a secret love for one of his young students, Fran, whom he loses touch with after her graduation. Some time later, Miereveld has to attend an autopsy, and the shock of the experience deeply affects his mental balance. He finds out - or he believes so - that Fran has become a popular singer. He arranges to meet her to finally reveal his feelings. An ambiguous but perhaps tragic denouement follows which might be a figment of the protagonist's disturbed mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1966-09-05
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Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Overview: Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly returns home after the invasion succeeds. Later, he decides that the Germans are on the right side of things, and goes off to fight for them on the Eastern Front. Soon afterward, a resistance fighter is stranded on her doorway, and she hides him. The two of them fall in love, and the conflicts and joys of this relationship cause Lieve continued grief well after the end of the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1979-06-04
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I Know I'll See Your Face Again
Overview: Writer Joris (the author's alter-ego) has packed in his job and left his routine. He wanders through Brussels, pretending to be in other places and as far as we can verify lying to everyone. He stays in a dead-beat motel and meets other absurd people, never to any actual end. Will it be different when he meets Luzie and falls in love?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-21
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The van Paemel Family
Overview: The family patriarch Van Paemel is a farmer on baron de Wilde's estate. His mild-mannered son Désire is accidentally shot during a hunting party on the estate and remains an invalid. Eduard, the eldest son, is a member of the socialist workers' movement and involved in strike actions in the city. Against her father's wishes, his daughter Cordule starts an affair with the poacher Masco. His youngest daughter, Romanie, is forced to work as a domestic servant at the castle, where she is seduced by Maurice, the baron's son and heir, and becomes pregnant. When the youngest son Kamiel also has to leave the farm because he is drafted into the army, the lack of workers on Van Paemel's farm becomes critical. As a result, the family is evicted from their home because they cannot pay the rent. Three of the children emigrate to the USA, one becomes a nun and one dies, until only the farmer and his wife remain.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Farewells
Overview: The captain of a ship in port has been entrusted with a secret government mission. He gives leave to the crew, but orders them to report back each morning. As the days go by, and the sailing date still remains a secret, the crew are thrown into a state of increasing uncertainty. The film concentrates on two crew members whose experiences are coloured by the omnipresent reality of the ship which is about to depart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1966-09-07
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The Flying Dutchman
Overview: Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1995-05-11
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Bruges la Morte
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-11-15
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Monsieur Hawarden
Overview: A woman disguises herself as a man to avoid prosecution for murdering her lover fifteen years ago. She is the last living member of a wealthy Vienna family, and has spent the years after the murder traveling Europe with her female servant. Her travels provide her with an anonymous cloak that allows her freedom of movement but little peace of mind. Nearing middle age, the guilt and weariness of an empty life has her contemplating suicide as the only way out of her dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-01
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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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Wodka Orange
Overview: A father is hospitalised and is craving for some wodka, his son needs to find a way to get him to enjoy it without the hospital staff noticing it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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One Night... a Train
Overview: The Belgian linguistics professor Matthias is going through a difficult period in relations with his girlfriend Anne. She is French, he is Belgian, and, oddly enough for an enlightened Europe and a doubly enlightened university environment, this small difference is a shadow on the couple’s personal life. One day, during a train ride, Anne disappears and Mathias goes looking for her in an unknown city.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-09-06
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Less Dead Than the Others
Overview: Frans Buyens's moving and inventive film is based on his own autobiographical novel, which deals in the most sensitive terms possible with the subject of euthanasia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1992-04-01
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Jonny & Jessy
Overview: Jonny loves Jessy, but he likes his car even more and therefore Jessy breaks up with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Istanbul
Overview: A student quits his vacation job to go to Istanbul with a sinister and fascinating man.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-01-30
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The Erasers
Overview: A detective is seeking an assassin in a murder that has not yet occurred, only to discover that it is his destiny to become that assassin.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-19
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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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