François Beukelaers
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vilvoorde, Belgium
Birthday: February 02, 1938
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Gender: Male
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Anchoress
Overview: A 16th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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Ex Drummer
Overview: Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2007-01-31
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The Over the Hill Band
Overview: Upon the death of her husband, Claire (70) decides to reconnect with her estranged son, down and out R&B musician Sid. She asks him to help her restart the old girl group she used to sing in with two of her friends from the old days. The rebel son is hesitant at first but eventually agrees under one condition: the band has to play HIS music.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2009-08-19
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The Vintner's Luck
Overview: A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life - his beautiful wife Celeste, baroness Aurora de Valday and an angel named Xas.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-01
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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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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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Belle
Overview: A married, middle-aged professor meets a mysterious woman in the woods and has an affair with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-17
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Oesje!
Overview: De film gaat over een Vlaamse boer, Kamiel Spiessens, die er alles aan doet om zijn grond te verdedigen tegen een Nederlandse zakenman. Die man wil op de grond een pretpark neerzetten.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1997-10-29
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22nd Of May
Overview: Sam wakes up, gets ready and goes to do his daily job. And then the unexpected happens. A bomb explodes in the center of the shopping mall where he works. He drags himself towards the entrance to save the victims. One by one he pulls them out, until something terrible takes place. In complete hysteria he runs off till he falls down from exhaustion. A woman's voice makes him raise his head. She's one of the victims he saved. She wants to know why the suicide bomber did it. This encounter projects him back in history and even in a surreal world. Thereafter he runs into everyone he saved and feels that their defeat shows many parallels with his own. Even his confrontation with the wrongdoer isn't that straightforward as he thought it would be and confronts him with the fact that guilt and innocence can be pretty much alike.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-11-17
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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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Her name was
Overview: An elderly lady called Ida is wasting away in a retirement home until one day she meets a new resident named Jef. They fall in love and decide to liven up place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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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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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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A Man Needs a Plan
Overview: Marcel and Jim, two friends, appear to be plagued by a midlife crisis which is ruining both their artistic and emotional lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1993-06-10
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JCVD
Overview: Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! This fictionalized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States, but inadvertently gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-06-04
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A Hard Day's Work
Overview: A young thug is up to no good.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1997-08-13
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Stormforce
Overview: A maverick military diver gets demoted to a dangerous search-and-rescue squadron and must gain the trust of his new team.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Waste Land
Overview: A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-26
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When Giants Die
Overview: When giants die let three generations look back on the street happenings around parties and manifestations. The grandfather appears as a ghost and represents processions organized by order of cities and municipalities. It is his son who places the parades in a series of processions, historical processions, parades, traditional parties and carnival parties. Criticism and attraction play their game. Finally, the grandson searches for contemporary forms and points to demonstrations, manifestations. Reclaiming the street, forming a community, expressing thoughts on the street, together outside, ... 'The street, the mother of democracy', is how it sounds through a robot-controlled horn. To give up the street is to lose freedom.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-09-25
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Zillion
Overview: It's 1997. Frank Verstraeten, a computer genius with a nose for business, a fascination for nightlife and an unhealthy urge to prove himself, only wants one thing: his own disco that not only outperforms the competition but simply humiliates it. The futuristic mega discotheque Zillion is a fact and Frank turns from computer dealer to the pivotal figure of the Antwerp nightlife. He parades with the most beautiful women in Belgium and forges an alliance with Dennis Black Magic, the porn king who provides the spicy extras. Unfortunately, beautiful songs don't last long either.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2022-10-26
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Shadowland
Overview: When Laura was six, her parents got divorced and her father disappeared from her life. The happiness she experienced on her final journey with her father, when he danced with her at a flea market in Brussels, holds a special place in Laura's memory. When Laura finds the shadow puppets her father once bought for her in the attic, these open up a portal to the past for her.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1993-10-21
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La tricheuse
Overview: Lily is a lost girl who lived a miserable childhood. Now she works for Martial, a small-time crook. One day, she meets Armand, a shy high school student, the son of a renowned surgeon. And she discovers true love. But Martial is nothing of a tender heart, on the contrary. He manipulates Lily into forcing Armand to mimic the signature of his father, which will allow his gang to obtain drugs with a view to selling them...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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A Whole Night
Overview: Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-27
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Behind the Clouds
Overview: Two people meet again after more than 50 years. They were lovers once, but their lives took different turns: she married his best friend. Fifty years later, they meet again and passion flares up. But is it possible to pick up the thread of a life that unraveled fifty years ago? The story of a wonderful last love affair, which is relived with the intensity of a first.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-02-10
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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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A Lady in Paris
Overview: Anne leaves Estonia to come to Paris as a caretaker for Frida, an elderly Estonian lady who emigrated to France long ago. Anne soon realizes that she is not wanted. All Frida wants from life is the attention of Stéphane, her younger former lover. Stéphane, however, is desperate for Anne to stay and look after Frida, even against the old lady's will. In this conflict of strangers, Anne will find her own way…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-12-26
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Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium
Overview: "Babel / Letter to my Friends who Stayed in Belgium" narrates the day-to-day existence of a filmmaker wandering through his city (Brussels) and who has a notion to follow in the footsteps of dramatist Antonin Artaud and visit the Tarahumara people of Mexico. This is a film about intimacy and friendship. Written in the first person, it places Boris and Brussels in the center of the universe, here represented by the crazy, vertiginous, endless spiral of the biblical Tower. It is Boris's diary and self-portrait. He plays himself on screen (as do the cast of a hundred who also allowed themselves to be "Babelized")
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Melancoly Baby
Overview: Olga is married to Laurent, who is devoted to his career and often leaves Olga at home alone when he travels away for work. Whilst she is rich and wants for nothing, she is terribly bored with life. When Laurent is working away she meets up with his colleague Pierre and through him meets Claude, who is unemployed and fed up of his situation. Can Olga and Claude help each other to get their lives back on track?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-29
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't Bolleken
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1988-12-18
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Met Dieric Bouts
Overview: A filmed essay about the painter Bouts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-08-15
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Gangsta
Overview: Antwerp, Belgium. The lives of four small-time drug dealers spin out of control when they steal a shipment of cocaine, triggering a full out war between an Amsterdam drug lord and a ruthless Colombian cartel.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-01-24
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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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Congo Express
Overview: Jean, an ex-colonial, and his girlfriend Nadia run the Congo Express bar, a meeting place for three different generations and their stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Beef Cattle
Overview: Thomas, in his forties, holds an important post in a slaughterhouse. He is engaged to Marie-Rose, the daughter of the director, whom he hopes to follow later. In a routine examination in the hospital, however, he finds out that he has cancer and his days are counted. The upheaval that he suffers as a result, however, does not take long, his decision is certain: he will use the short time to clean up some bad guys. What else can he do now?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Bastards
Overview: Short film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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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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Cruel Horizon
Overview: Nick Vandom met his local friend Mai as a soldier during the Vietnam War. When the US troops flee the withdrawal, Nick manages to make his way to the airport with Mai, where the two become their own. Nick returns to the US and leaves May to an uncertain fate. In the years ahead, Nick had a bad conscience. When he responded to a letter from Mai with a cry for help six years later, he immediately set off for Thailand. When Nick found out there that Mai was hiding in the girl's descriptive, forcible ...
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-08
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SIZZLIN’ BACON
Overview: Jurgen Vanderspek (a.k.a. James Vanderbacon) is a senior in high school. He is a loudmouthed macho who loves to tell juicy anecdotes about his sexual escapades, but actually, he is still a virgin. When, one drunken evening, Cissy ends up in his bed, Jurgen gets much more than he bargained for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-12-05
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Ana Temnei
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Original Language: nl
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