Jan Hammenecker
Also Known As: Ян Гемменекер
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oostende, Flanders, Belgium
Birthday: January 24, 1968
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Kings and Queen
Overview: Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-22
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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 Taste of Things
Overview: Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-08
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La Mouche
Overview: In the 60s, in the heart of a village, Robert lives with his mother Odette. About fifty, balding, paunchy, Robert spends most of his time locked in the garage where he tries to develop a teleport machine. Robert will try to teleport himself, but a fly is stuck in the machine, and the scientific apprentice will gradually turn into a giant insect. Robert will little by little dehumanize to become a beast able to climb the wall, pushed by an insatiable search for food.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-05
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Puppylove
Overview: Diane is a mysterious and lonely teenager. Sharing special bonds with her father Christian, she takes care of the education of her brother Marc. The arrival of Julia in the neighborhood, a charismatic and liberated young British woman, is going to disturb Diane’s daily life. Desperately willing to become an adult, Diane is going to live, for a semester, the most shattering experiences of her life. The more she gets close to Julia, the more she gets irresponsible, ignoring consequences and limits to her desires.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-29
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In Mom's Head
Overview: Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to discover the truth behind her listlessness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-28
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The Long Falling
Overview: After murdering her abusive husband, a woman on the run develops a friendship with another widow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-04
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Mambo Queens
Overview: Hélène and Marie are twin sisters. They meet up with their stepfather, Daniel, to help him empty the family home following the death of their mother. Over the course of a weekend, they will have to rebuild their relationship.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-01
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A Change of Heart
Overview: Beatrice, recently widowed by a far right sympathetic policeman, lives with her son & mother. She doesn’t like migrant and foreigners. When she meets Mokhtar, an Iranian entered illegally in France, her world crumbles. This is the beginning of a passionate love story leading Beatrice to defy her racist entourage and the law so that he can cross the Channel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-23
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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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Hand of the Headless Man
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-14
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Tango Libre
Overview: A prison guard is attracted to a woman at his weekly tango class. They meet again when she visits her husband in the prison where he works and he is drawn into her complicated romantic life. Meanwhile the prisoners are learning the tango.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-28
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Respire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-29
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Dust
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Original Language: fr
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Cub
Overview: Over-imaginative 12 year-old Sam heads off to the woods to summer scout camp with his pack convinced that he will encounter a monster...
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2014-10-29
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La proie
Overview: Ali Toumi, born Algerian, has just escaped from a Belgian prison. Buying a new identity he hopes to make a fresh start and provide his son and himself with a normal integrated life. But an encounter with an old acquaintance makes Ali relapse into old habits.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-11
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Koko Flanel
Overview: Placide's dad tells him on his deathbed he'll haunt Placide if he doesn't find a wife soon. Placide cautiously agrees, but he only wants to settle for a very beautiful woman. That might be easier said than done, since he is a vagabond. When he accidentally enters a photo shoot, Placide meets Sarah. He falls in love, but she is way out of his reach.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1990-02-23
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Merci!
Overview: A Bodhisattva saving people on a Belgian tram. Along with yawning and the flu, few things are as contagious as laughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-11
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Max & Bobo
Overview: Max is a Sicilian living in Brussels who makes a living as a hairdresser. His flourishing business goes bankrupt when he gets hairdresser's eczema overnight. He loses his customers and his wife. What is more, he is in trouble with the law. At the police station, he encounters heavyweight Bobo who asks him for all his money. When Max refuses, Bobo gets the impression that he must be tough. In reality, he just wants to be left alone. In his good old days, Max never cared for anyone, so now there is no one he can turn to. Bobo, who spent all his life in foster homes and youth centers, seems to be the only one to care for him. Together they devise a plan to find some quick money. Bobo's idea is to rob a jewelry store.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-21
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Holiday
Overview: Maurice’s (26) family organizes a weekend getaway. The balance of power between the different generations seems to be blurred, but is he willing to keep up appearances just like the others?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-11-30
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Wien for Life
Overview: An off-the-wall crime comedy about two oddballs whose unusual friendship is torn apart by a winning lottery ticket scratched off in a desolate petrol station on the border between Flanders and France. Also... are wrong-way drivers real?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-01
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The Treatment
Overview: Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all - looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure in harassing Nick. Then, when a disturbing case comes to light involving a missing nine-year-old, Nick heads a massive search which turns into a relentless manhunt.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2014-01-29
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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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Little Hands
Overview: Léo is the two-year old, son of the acting manager of a factory on the brink of closing. When employees discover the news, Bruno, a more radical Worker who is willing to fight for his job, abducts Léo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-03-15
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Mr. Nobody
Overview: Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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La Monique de Joseph
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-02-11
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All of Us
Overview: The story of a self-help group of 4 people with a terminal illness, led by a therapist without experience.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2020-01-08
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Saint-Jacques... La Mecque
Overview: Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-12
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Là où tu trouvais refuge
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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Cleo
Overview: Six months after a car accident that cost her her parents, Cleo is finally starting to feel the same way before. She lives with her seven-year-old brother Bruno at her grandmother's house and is ready to return to her favorite activity – drinking parties with friends at Club No. 7. When she gets into a fight in a bar, she is given a helping hand by the reclusive Leos. Despite the ten-year age difference, they become friends, and Cleo naively hopes that there will be something more between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-11-27
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La dinde
Overview: December 1953. Rosa and Alfred, a young couple of Polish Jews, await the return of Rosa's brother from America. Alfred will take care of the turkey. The delivery man brings it still alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Ti amo
Overview: An Italian Don Juan and his friend from zaïre are looking for the maternity ward called 'Sacred Heart'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Family
Overview: After ratting out his Mafia cohorts, Giovanni Manzoni and his family enter the Witness Protection Program and relocate to a sleepy town in France. Despite the best efforts of their handler to keep them in line, Giovanni (now called Fred Blake), his wife and children can't help but resort to doing things the "family" way. However, their dependence on such old habits places everyone in danger from vengeful mobsters.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-13
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The Shift
Overview: An Islamic terror attack at a school in Brussels.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-06-03
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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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D'où que vienne la douleur
Overview: Two years ago, Romy left his mother, Monique, a prostitute who does not give hard-ons any more, without leaving any signs or ever giving any news. Their getting back togeather is a collision, a last-ditch struggle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-03-18
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A Change of Heart
Overview: Beatrice, recently widowed by a far right sympathetic policeman, lives with her son & mother. She doesn’t like migrant and foreigners. When she meets Mokhtar, an Iranian entered illegally in France, her world crumbles. This is the beginning of a passionate love story leading Beatrice to defy her racist entourage and the law so that he can cross the Channel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-23
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LE ROI ET L'EMPEREUR
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-10-10
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Let’s Fail in Love
Overview: Emma and Antoine, who have been together for eight years, visit Antoine's parents for the weekend. But Antoine suddenly breaks down and confesses to Emma that he wants to break up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-13
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Juste la lettre T
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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Les Poissons marteaux
Overview: A jazz singer who abandoned her mentally handicapped daughter at birth tries to reconnect with her. The dialogue, though not easy, is gradually re-established with the help of the “Hammer Fishes”, a rock band made up of patients from the institution.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-18
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Les cimes
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-02-01
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