Johan Heldenbergh
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Biography: Johan Heldenbergh (born 9 February 1967) is a Belgian actor, playwright, screenwriter, theatre director and film director. He gained international fame by starring in films, including A Day in a Life (2007), Moscow, Belgium (2008), The Misfortunates (2009), The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012) and The Zookeeper's Wife (2017). For 19 years he lived together with the Flemish actress Joke Devynck in Hofstade in Aalst, Belgium. On 17 September 2013 it became public that both actors separated. They have three children; two are twins. Source: Article "Johan Heldenbergh" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wilrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Birthday: February 09, 1967
Age: 58 years old
Gender: Male
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The Misfortunates
Overview: 13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2009-10-07
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Moscow, Belgium
Overview: ‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matty, mother of three, bumps her car into a truck on the parking lot of a supermarket. Johnny climbs down from the cabin. He is infuriated by the dent in his front bumper and yells at Matty. Although impressed by the accident, Matty fights back with sharp words. Their discussion turns into a row, and the police have to intervene. Matty goes home, the trunk of her car dancing up and down. Back in her apartment, Matty takes a hot bath to recover from the afternoon’s emotionswhen the phone rings. It’s Johnny, apologizing for his behaviour on the parking lot. Matty tells him to stay out of her life. A dramatic comedy begins about a woman whose soul is full of dents and bruises.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-01-30
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Turquoise
Overview: A trio of Turkish brothers immigrants find themselves torn between two lands and cultures, with roots in neither.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-09-29
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A Woman
Overview: Juliane, a police commissioner in Paris, is a woman with great moral integrity. But when she discovers her husband’s double life, she starts committing acts she never would have thought herself capable of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-05
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Come As You Are
Overview: Three young guys like wine and women. They tested wine with pleasure, but the second they have never been able to taste. Under the guise of a wine tour, the three plans a trip to Spain to finally have sex. Nothing will stop them. Certainly not the fact that the first guy is blind, the second is in a wheelchair and the third is completely paralyzed.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2011-09-02
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Steve + Sky
Overview: A story about two struggling people who are trying to find their own place in the world. He is a small-time crook recently released from prison and she is a prostitute craving some love and affection. They find each other in an obscure part of Gent. Jean-Claude is responsible for their meeting ; he is also an ex-inmate who has just traded the low-life crime scene for life as a pimp. Will their love survive?
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2004-02-18
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The Commander
Overview: One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At that moment, its commander Salvatore Todaro makes a decision that was destined to go down in history: to save the 26 shipwrecked Belgians who otherwise would have drowned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and disembark them at the nearest safe harbor. To make room for them on board his submarine, he is forced to navigate on the surface of the water for three days, visible to the enemy forces and endangering his life and that of his men.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-10-31
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The Broken Circle Breakdown
Overview: The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-10-09
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The Worst Ones
Overview: The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-12-07
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Jeunesse, mon amour
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-05-08
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Amal
Overview: An idealistic and passionate literature teacher in a suburban Brussels school becomes the target of intense hostility from students and colleagues tied to Islamic extremism when she chooses to help a teenage Muslim girl accused of homosexuality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-04-17
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Etre roi
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
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Wanted: Man
Overview: When Bas puts up the note Wanted: Man on the notice board of the local supermarket for his single mother, she does not know about it. The self-willed Bas tries to find a solution for the separation between him and his mother, who no longer knows how to cope with Bas' superstitious compulsions. And both are hydrophobic. But by the end of the summer, the harmony between these two heart-warming characters has been restored.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-03-02
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inert
Overview: Casper is haunted by feelings of self-blame and post-traumatic stress after the loss of his father. As he grapples with his grief, he becomes increasingly isolated and is forced to confront the darkness within himself.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-10-01
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The Colors of Fire
Overview: February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial empire of which she is the heiress. But she has a son, Paul, who with an unexpected and tragic gesture will place her on the path to ruin.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-09
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Through the Air
Overview: Vincent, a former air rifle champion lives a quiet life with his wife and his daughter. Despite his happy family life he ends up with economic problems. One day at the shooting range he meets the mysterious Renaud who promises him a solution to his problems by offering him an unusual job. Suddenly Vincent finds himself in a very dangerous spiral which turns out to be even harder to get out of than finding a solution to his economic problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-06-17
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The Zookeeper's Wife
Overview: The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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Ad Vitam
Overview: When he and his pregnant wife are attacked in their home, a former elite agent becomes trapped in a deadly manhunt tied to his own painful past.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-01-09
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Belgica
Overview: The story of two brothers who, even though they have absolutely nothing in common, open a bar together that quickly becomes a regular hangout for nighthawks. Despite the success, they must soon face up to the difficulties inherent in running a family business. Their brotherhood turns into rivalry, through no fault of their own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-03-02
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A Day in the Life
Overview: Mario and Tom are two street punks who want to rob a bank. They ask the young Turkish Emin to be their driver that day. Emin can use the money and accepts, but he doesn't have a getaway car.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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Swimsuit 46
Overview: Chantal, a chubby girl of twelve, is having a hard time finding her way throughlife. She doesn't have a lot of friends, and at home she can only turn to herstepfather for support as she doesn't get along with her mother or stepbrother.Only in the local pool, where she is training intensively for an upcoming swimmingcompetition, does she truly feel at home. But when she needs a new pair ofgoggles, things don't go as smoothly as planned and she takes everything to gethold of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2011-05-21
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Tanguy's Unifying Theory of Life
Overview: Tanguy has big plans - the film script he is working on is almost finished. But meanwhile he still lives with his mother and her new boyfriend and he works as a cleaner. Tanguy is forced to swing into action when his mother tells him that the time has come to look for his own apartment. A cheerful film about Tanguy and his buddy Gregoire, and the setbacks they struggle through.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-01
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My Bonnie
Overview: Four members of a pour family from Ghent each have a memorable day.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-13
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The Confessions
Overview: A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-04-21
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Vleugels
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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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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Gaspard at the Wedding
Overview: After keeping a careful distance for many years, 25-year-old Gaspard must renew contact with his family when his father remarries. Accompanied by Laura, an eccentric young woman who agrees to pretend she's his girlfriend at the wedding, he finally feels ready to set foot in the zoo owned by his parents, where he is reunited with the monkeys and tigers he grew up with... But with a father who is an out-of-control womanizer, a brother who is far too sensible, and a sister who is far too beautiful, he unknowingly sets himself up to experience the last days of his childhood.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-31
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A Ringing in the Ears
Overview: Six military musicians flee into a forest after an attack on their parade. In the chaos that follows, a wounded colleague is left for dead in the woods. Slowly, the unit disintegrates as each tries to escape from enemy territory and from each other.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: nl
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55 Steps
Overview: The inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-01
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Younger Days
Overview: A group of middle-aged former bandmates reunite to scatter the ashes of their deceased lead singer, only to have their bond put to the test by the unexpected presence of one of the friends' twenty-something girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2017-10-19
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Carnivores
Overview: At the dawn of her thirties, Mona tries relentlessly to take off as an actress. Time passes and proposals do not arrive. Short of resources, she is forced to move to Sam, her younger sister.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-03-28
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Dumped
Overview: Françoise has just been dumped by her husband for a much younger woman. In order to cheer her up, and to celebrate her 60th birthday, sisters Rose and Alice decide to take their mother to a resort on the tropical island of Reunion so they can relax, work on their tans, and have too many margaritas. But when Rose pays a one-night stand, Thierry, to show her mother a good time, their holiday plans start to unravel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-04-18
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The Hummingbird Project
Overview: A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-15
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The Breitner Commando
Overview: 1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Algeria, before the French army burns the whole place to the ground. Breitner puts together a team of five outlaws, who are promised freedom if the mission succeeds.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-17
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Porcelain
Overview: The lives of Anna, Paul and their little son Thomas seem perfect from the outside. Paul has a well-paid job, Anna has a home studio where she works with porcelain and Thomas is an angelic child. However, when Thomas bites one of his friends at school, the cracks of a context that is anything but perfect begin to surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-11-23
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Quo Vadis, Aida?
Overview: Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2021-02-26
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Cool Abdoul
Overview: The story of Ismail Abdoul, a promising young boxer getting caught between his sporting carreer and his rising fame in the criminal underworld.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-09-11
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Sisyphus at Work
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-07-22
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My Dad Is a Sausage
Overview: A father leaves his unhappy job at a bank to pursue an acting career.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-03-20
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Any Way the Wind Blows
Overview: Antwerp, early June. On a sweltering Friday, eight people dream of a different life. There is wind and music, police and paranoia, gossip and arguing. There's an ancient virus, a lost Frisbee, a dead horse, and, wandering the city, an enigmatic phenomenon called Windman who feels everyone's pain but can't seem to help himself. In the evening a party awaits them...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-17
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Vigilante
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
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Firmin
Overview: Na bijna dertig jaar keert Germaine, Firmins grote liefde, plots terug naar haar geboortestad. Firmin is dolgelukkig en vastbesloten Germaine's hart te heroveren, maar Germaine wijst zijn avances af. En dan zoekt Mohammed Boutrous, een jonge en getalenteerde bokser, Firmin op. Hij wil dat Firmin hem traint. Firmin accepteert, in de hoop zo zijn eer én de liefde van zijn leven terug te winnen...
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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