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Tag Archives: Belgium
The Dead Bruges AKA Brugge, die stille (1981) Roland Verhavert, Idwig Stephane, Magda Lesage, Chris Boni
Hugues cannot get over the untimely death of his wife Blanche, who made him happy for ten years. Read More »
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle AKA Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle (2021) Arthur Harari, Yûya Endô, Kanji Tsuda, Yûya Matsuura
When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda Read More »
Violet (2014) Bas Devos, Cesar De Sutter, Koen De Sutter, Mira Helmer
15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Read More »
Barracuda (1997) Philippe Haïm, Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Canet, Claire Keim
A mad but cunning old man imprisons a young man in his apartment to be his friend. Read More »
Don’t Look Back AKA Ne te retourne pas (2009) Marina de Van, Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci, Andrea Di Stefano
Jeanne, a writer, married with two children – starts to see unsettling changes in her home. Read More »
Imaginary Heroes (2004) Dan Harris, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels, Emile Hirsch
The Travis family façade is destroyed by an event incomprehensible to them Read More »
King of Thieves AKA König der Diebe (2004) Ivan Fíla, Lazar Ristovski, Iakov Kultiasov, Katharina Thalbach
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma Read More »
Nico, 1988 (2017) Susanna Nicchiarelli, Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca
The last year of singer Nico’s life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons. Read More »
The Childhood of a Leader (2015) Brady Corbet, Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham, Stacy Martin
A chronicle of the childhood of a post-World War I leader. Read More »
Kruiswegstraat 6 (1973) Jean Daskalidès, Nand Baert, Roger Bolders
Octave Verbrugge, a powerful Belgian building contractor, met Hugo Saint-Laurent Read More »
Brussels by Night (1983) Marc Didden, François Beukelaers, Johan Joos, Mariette Mathieu
This is the story of a man who travels to Brussels, and meets some people Read More »
The King’s Daughters AKA Saint-Cyr (2000) Patricia Mazuy, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Simon Reggiani
Madame de Maintenon rises from humble beginnings to become a courtesan Read More »
Character AKA Karakter (1997) Mike van Diem, Pavlik Jansen op de Haar, Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huêt
Jacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact Read More »
Goodbye Bafana (2007) Bille August, Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger
James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth, Bafana, and had even had a photograph taken with him. Read More »