Josse De Pauw
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Biography: Josse De Pauw (born in Asse in 1952), is a versatile Belgian artist and actor. He is married to modern dance performer Fumio Ikeda. Description above from the Wikipedia article Josse De Pauw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Asse, Flanders, Belgium
Birthday: March 15, 1952
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Gender: Male
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Toto the Hero
Overview: 80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-17
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Overview: A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-07
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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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Stronghold
Overview: An isolated farmhouse is chosen as a hide-out by criminals Jim and Charlie after an armed robbery. The Deleye family are forced to accept the situation under Jim's brutal domination.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-03-14
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25 Degrees in Winter
Overview: An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. He ends up helping her to find her husband who had emigrated long before. They are joined by his wacky Spanish mother and cute young daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-07-21
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Vinyan
Overview: Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-30
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Pour un fils
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-04
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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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Crazy Love
Overview: Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other on the mouth. His father is a hero who kidnapped his mother and married her on a lonely mountain peak... Later on, he'll do the same. But Harry has a lot to learn. He learns about 'being hot' and 'fucking' and about what you have to do when you're alone and 'feel the itch'. He also learns that there are handsome men and ugly ones, that love can be unfair. That one can find comfort in drinking... but above all he learns that man is capable of anything - absolutely anything! - to get his fair share of love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Orly
Overview: At the Paris airport Orly, a woman falls for a stranger, a family heads to a funeral, a couple lose touch, a wife reads her husband’s break-up letter. All wait for their planes. Absorbed in their immediate fates, they move through the impeccably structured space, unaware of a looming threat outside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-06-01
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Everybody's Famous!
Overview: Jean is a family man and factory worker who dreams of becoming a songwriter. Pinning his hopes on his teenage daughter, Marva, he takes her to singing contests in which the awkward and overweight girl struggles to belt out a tune. When Jean is suddenly fired because of cut backs, he is ashamed and even more desperate to have his daughter succeed. In a chance meeting Jean kidnaps the most famous pop star in the country and holds her hostage demanding to be heard by the music industry. Catching the attention of the media and the eyes of the nation, Jean and Marva realize that the show must go on until everyone is famous.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2000-04-12
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Skin
Overview: In a near future the world is split into two categories, the supporters of law and order on the one hand and the rebels on the other. Chico, a biker, who is to be conscripted into the army, is part of the second group. He soon runs away from a military hospital and, thanks to the help of a gang of motorcyclists, helps his friends to escape from prison. A violent confrontation with police forces ensues.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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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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Flying Home
Overview: Colin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a passionate pigeon fancier. The sheikh has tried several times to buy a champion pigeon, but the owner continues to stubbornly refuse his offer. In an attempt to gain the trust of the Sheikh, Colin offers him a deal: if he manages to convince the owner to sell the champion pigeon, the sheikh will agree to do business with Colin's company. But when Colin meets Jos, the grumpy owner of the pigeon, and Isabella, his granddaughter, he realizes that this mission will not be as easy as he had hoped.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-02
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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 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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Wild Mussels
Overview: A group of friends in their early twenties re-consider their boring lives in a sleepy fishing village in the Netherlands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2000-09-28
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Nachtdoek
Overview: A tale of two gaps in a man’s life: a daughter who has left home, and a blank space on a museum wall.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
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Youth Without God
Overview: This French-Belgian drama, based on a novel by Odon von Horvath, is set in 1938 in a German city along the banks of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. It attempts to provide insight as to why certain German youths were so easily lead into becoming Nazis by using two narrators, one a teacher who challenged the movement and another by a student who embraced it. Pabst teaches a group of teenage boys, all of whom seem to be young Nazis. The trouble begins when Pabst and a WW I vet are assigned to take the class to a military camp and a nature outing for urban kids. While there a boy is brutally murdered and they blame one local girl. During her trial, Pabst speaks out against Hitler and becomes pariah. Still he continues investigating the death, at great personal expense until at last he brings the real killer to justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-28
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Wait Until Spring, Bandini
Overview: Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his bricklayer father wastes the little money he has in the Imperial Poolhall and his time with the rich American widow, Hildegarde. Even though his beautiful and pious mother lets his father get away with that, even if his little brother wets the bed. Arturo loves them all. He also loves to play baseball, even though he has to wait until spring. And he also loves the movies ... and Rosa. But she doesn't love him ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-01
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The Eighth Day
Overview: Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-22
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Everybody Happy
Overview: Burned-out comedian Ralph Hartman suffers from severe anxiety and fears he's being passed over by younger comedians. But his biggest problem comes in the form of his imaginary alter ego: a bearded, high-pitched sadist who follows him everywhere he goes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-09-28
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The Pointsman
Overview: A woman gets off a train by mistake and finds herself stranded alone with a peculiar man who doesn't even speak her language.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1986-09-18
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Cargo
Overview: 'Cargo' brings the raw story of three brothers who own a family business in the fishery and are trying to save it from destruction. The passion for their profession but also for their loved ones, however, drives them to desperate actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2017-09-28
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Patrick
Overview: Patrick is the handyman on his father's naturist campsite. The remaining time he dedicates to his hobby, designing and creating wooden furniture. When Patrick loses his campsite hammer, his quest to retrieve it takes him to the farthest corners of the camping grounds.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-07-01
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Hombres complicados
Overview: A businessman gets in serious financial troubles. When his mother dies, he thinks he's saved, but she only leaves 50.000 francs (1.500 USD). His brother Bruno, a customs officer, wants to use the money for her funeral, but our businessman prefers to use it to shake off his attackers. He promises them they will get through customs without problems with a certain package... Now his only problem is to convince Bruno...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-13
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The Passion of Darkly Noon
Overview: Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-02
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Bruxelles mon amour
Overview: 3 generations of filmmakers tell a story about Brussels, 3 stories settled in the rue Saint Quentin, a forgotten street somewhere in the shadow of the European administration area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-08-15
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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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Easy in Mind
Overview: A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-07-05
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King of the World
Overview: Cinema version of the 5 part TV series. During World War II, Stan Vandewalle saves boxing trainer Max from the bombed German war prisoners camp, and shoots two German soldiers while escaping. After the war, Stan resolves to put all his frustration over the death of his slow-witted brother Aloïs, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, with his side-car against a farmer's truck in making come true Aloïs other dream, to see Stan becoming 'king of the world' as boxer.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-12-06
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Kursk
Overview: Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-07
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Beck – De gesloten kamer
Overview: A police officer investigates the case of a man shot dead in a room locked from the inside. A suicide? Then where's the gun?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-02
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Last Call
Overview: Old entertainer gets a last chance to play a serious role.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1995-02-16
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Cheese
Overview: Frans Laarmans temporarily abandons his job as an office worker to become a salesman for a big cheese company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Maria
Overview: A young mother called Maria is returning home after a long abscence. Her kids have created their own fantasies as to why their mother has been away for such a long time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2001-10-23
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Especially on Sunday
Overview: Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by a stray dog; a lonely widow spies on her newly-wed son and daughter-in-law; a German tourist tries to seduce a younger nurse. The fourth segment was cut in the US by its distributor Miramax.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-09-26
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Charlatan
Overview: 3-part documentary on the life of Belgian singer Arno Hintjens.
Genres: Documentary Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2021-04-20
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Peckerhead
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-11-08
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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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S.
Overview: It's about a girl, S., who is dangling between Brussels and New York, boys and girls, love and hate, life and death. She has a mother, a father, a boyfriend and a girlfriend, but none of them are any good to her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-21
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Hector
Overview: Hector's parents sent him to an orphanage in treatment for smallpox but... they never picked him up. 35 years later, he still lives in the orphanage, surrounded by children, his playmates. Till a forgotten aunt remembers that he exists. She'll get him to participate in the bakery of her husband, Achilles, to work. Hector shows his skills on the basis of unexpected inventions. So he helps Jos, the son of Achilles, to accomplish his dream to be a cycling champion. Hector's good humor and childlike manner overcomes all resistance and pulls his entire entourage along on the path to success. From now on he can learn what love is...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1987-10-19
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