
A young and hapless Antwerp thief, working for a gang led by leather-clad Philippe Clay, quarrels with his boss and kills him during a fight. Read More »
Tag Archives: Belgium
Graduation / Bacalaureat (2016) Cristian Mungiu, Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar

Romeo Aldea (49), a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza Read More »
Monsieur Fantômas (1937) Ernst Moerman, Jacqueline Arpé, Françoise Bert, L. Degroote

In this surrealist piece of avant-garde generation of Belgian cinema, French masked master of crime Fantômas travels Read More »
La femme de Gilles / Gilles’ Wife (2004) Frédéric Fonteyne, Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet

Gilles’ wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him Read More »
The Eighth Day / Le huitième jour (1996) Jaco Van Dormael, Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne, Miou-Miou

Georges has Down’s syndrome, living at a mental-institution. Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. Read More »
Going Home / Oeroeg (1993) Hans Hylkema, Jeroen Krabbé, Rik Launspach, Martin Schwab

A white Dutch boy and the son of an Indonesian servant grow up together. Later on, their lifes take different paths. Read More »
Elles (1997) Luís Galvão Teles, Miou-Miou, Carmen Maura, Marthe Keller

Five women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life’s ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Read More »
Passage / Pasáz (1997) Juraj Herz

Michal Forman, a successful business manager, gets stuck in a traffic jam. Read More »
El aliento del diablo / The Devil’s Breath (1993) Paco Lucio

In the Middle Ages, Damián, a mute hunter, dreams of a better place than the one he has been living in with his family. Read More »
Préparez vos mouchoirs (1978) Bertrand Blier

Solange is depressed: she’s stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Read More »
Forgotten Street / Vergeten straat (1999) Luc Pien

A celebrated Flemish writer, occupying a small apartment in a big Belgian city, which he uses as a working-place Read More »
Lifespan (1975) Sandy Whitelaw, Hiram Keller, Tina Aumont

A doctor trying to develop a serum to lengthen life tries his formula Read More »
Cecilia (1983) Olivier Mathot, Jesús Franco, Muriel Montossé

After surviving a traumatic sexual assault, a woman struggles with the aftermath of her ordeal. Read More »
Leila and the Wolves / Leila wa al ziap (1984) Heiny Srour, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Nabila Zeitouni

A film that weaves together re-enactments, archive footage and fairy-tale sequences Read More »
Evolution / Évolution (2015) Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, Julie-Marie Parmentier

Nicolas is a boy living on a remote island set in the future, or another planet – or is it a dream? Read More »