Jan Decleir
Jan Decleir (born February 14, 1946, in Niel, Belgium) is a Belgian film, television and stage actor, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in Flemish cinema. He made his film debut in Mira (1971) and gained international recognition for his performances in Character (1997), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Oscar nominated drama Daens (1992). Alongside his extensive screen career, he is also a highly respected theatre actor and a central figure in Flemish cultural life.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0749 |
| Birthday | 1946-02-14 |
| Place of Birth | Niel, Flanders, Belgium |
| Also Known As | Jan Amanda Gustaaf Decleir, |
2010
Omokage
0/0
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Omokage
1995
Antonia's Line
6.86/143
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon he...
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Antonia's Line
2021
The Claus Family 2
6.5/80
Jules Claus has embraced Christmas again and is getting ready for the busiest time of the year together with grandpa Noël. Everything seems to go acco...
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The Claus Family 2
2003
Father's Affair
5.891/23
Armin is in crisis. One fateful day he discovers he is infertile and has been throughout his life. From this he discovers his first wife, Monika, was...
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Father's Affair
2003
Rosenstrasse
6.36/43
When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's...
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Rosenstrasse
2003
The Memory of a Killer
6.698/154
Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top officia...
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The Memory of a Killer
1993
Anchoress
5.933/15
A 14th-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...
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Anchoress
2011
De Sint Danst de Tango
0/0
Sint and his mischievous assistant Zwarte Piet enjoy collecting children's letters at night, but lose a whole bag.
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De Sint Danst de Tango
2007
Firmin
5.3/7
After almost thirty years, Germaine, Firmin's great love, suddenly returns to her hometown. Firmin is overjoyed and determined to win Germaine's heart...
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Firmin
1990
Koko Flanel
6.443/35
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...
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Koko Flanel
2009
Les Barons
5.7/42
The Barons have a motto: "slack off more to live longer." Every human being is born with a credit of steps. Every step you take brings you closer to d...
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Les Barons
1975
Pallieter
5.333/6
In this film version of the Dutch-language classic ('heimat'-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy from Lier wh...
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Pallieter
1992
Priest Daens
7.077/65
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vo...
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Priest Daens
2000
Lijmen/Het been
7/6
Story of two con men, Boorman and his younger assistant Laarmans, who are trying to sell companies their non-existing magazine.
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Lijmen/Het been
2005
Long Weekend
6.4/15
Businessman Christian Vandenheuvel planned to spend the long weekend with his young mistress, Lisa. Instead, they're take hostage by Jos Diels and Nic...
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Long Weekend
2009
Sister Smile
6.5/50
A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the churc...
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Sister Smile
1997
Character
7.358/116
In pre-WWII Holland, the penniless, illegitimate son of a powerful bailiff sets out to become a lawyer as he spends a lifetime struggling to prove his...
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Character
2007
Where Is Winky's Horse?
6.7/16
In the sequel to "Winky's Horse", 8-year old Winky looks after the horse of St Nicholas. Then one day the horse runs away.
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Where Is Winky's Horse?
2005
Winky's Horse
6.714/28
There is only one thing Winky wants: a horse, a real horse to ride. But horses are expensive. Fortunately it is the season of Sinterklaas; Winky just...
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Winky's Horse
2010
Smoorverliefd
5.2/11
A frank and funny romantic comedy set in Antwerp, filmed in a quirkily inventive style, Madly in Love has a lot to say about human relationships. It f...
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Smoorverliefd
2009
Limo
4.7/3
Four girls discover a primitive hidden village where everybody falls asleep and all children are gone.
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Limo
1981
Two Queens and One Consort
5.8/15
At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.
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Two Queens and One Consort
2007
A Perfect Match
6/3
On the day of his forced retirement, a grumpy school principal decides, together with his neighbour, to search for a wife on the Internet...
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A Perfect Match
1985
The Lion of Flanders
6.316/19
A tale centered on the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the Flemish rank and file won a major victory over the glorious French knights.
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The Lion of Flanders
2005
Someone Else's Happiness
6.375/8
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 new...
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Someone Else's Happiness
2002
Villa Des Roses
5.222/9
In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she...
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Villa Des Roses
1971
Mira
5.286/14
The story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt.
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Mira
2003
Brush with Fate
6.045/11
A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.
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Brush with Fate
2000
Mariken
5.714/7
A family film, based on a well-known Dutch story from the Middle Ages. Mariken tells the compelling and poetic story of spirited young girl named Mari...
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Mariken
2011
Nova Zembla
5.455/77
Gerrit de Veer, a novice writer on a 16th-century Dutch merchant vessel, chronicles the daring mission to discover a trade route across the North Pole...
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Nova Zembla
2010
Marieke, Marieke
2.2/4
Marieke wants to live her life. But how can she succeed if love has been taken away from her? She seeks warmth in the arms of much older men to find t...
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Marieke, Marieke
2007
Wolfsbergen
5/8
Konraad, 83, has written a letter to his relatives saying he wants to die. Maria, Konraad's daughter and only child, refuses to discuss her fathers wi...
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Wolfsbergen
2005
Off Screen
6.5/19
March 11th, 2002. John R. takes the head of security and 17 others hostage in Amsterdam biggest skyscraper. John R. demands to speak with the Philips...
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Off Screen
1984
John the Fearless
8/3
He's the "Rocky" of the 15th century-defender of the poor, enemy of evil, champion of justice. He's fearless and the strongest man in the land. He's r...
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John the Fearless
1978
Mortal Sin
5/4
Psychodrama. Black and white images of a mining area under the influence of a highly orthodox Catholicism in the 1930s are interspersed with color ima...
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Mortal Sin
2023
WILL
6.584/113
Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II.
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WILL
2004
The Kiss
6.5/6
Sarah, a beautiful and gifted 15-year-old from a wealthy but chaotic family, holds on to one dream: to run away from home and to become a professional...
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The Kiss
1982
Things Past
8/1
Based on three stories by R.J. Peskens.
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Things Past
2013
Finn
6.4/19
Nine year old Finn lives with his father in a small town. Together with his best friend Erik he plays football, but he prefers to play music. His dad...
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Finn
2003
SuperTex
7/2
Max, the confident firstborn of a wealthy Dutch-Jewish family, enjoys security, love, and his father Simon’s pride as head of SuperTex. Yet a sudden n...
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SuperTex
1974
The Conscript
5.111/9
In 1833, when the fledgling Belgian kingdom still fears a Dutch invasion, recruits were selected annually from an age cohort by a draw of lots in each...
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The Conscript
2014
Flying Home
5.9/244
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...
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Flying Home
2015
Me and Kaminski
6/44
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on h...
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Me and Kaminski
1986
The van Paemel Family
5.6/8
The family patriarch Van Paemel is a farmer on baron de Wilde's estate. His mild-mannered son Désire is accidentally shot during a hunting party on th...
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The van Paemel Family
1999
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
6.237/19
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999
Running Free
5.929/14
The tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his dream of running free with the help of a st...
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Running Free
1999
Taming the Floods
8/1
Taming the Floods fulfills the dream of the landscape architect Jan Dijkstra: he can design an area in Poland that is regularly flooded by the river....
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Taming the Floods
1990
The Sacrament
5.857/7
The 1950s. A family has its annual family reunion to commemorate the anniversary of mother's death. People drink and eat heavily and after a while all...
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The Sacrament
2007
Paparazzo
2/1
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Paparazzo
1982
Tijd om gelukkig te zijn
8/1
A forty-year-old man loses his work and is unemployed. There is a continual coming and going between uncomfortable in his own skin unemployed person,...
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Tijd om gelukkig te zijn
2015
The Surprise
6.792/72
An eccentric multimillionaire signs an agreement to have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman who has signed up for the s...
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The Surprise
1973
Chronicle of a Passion
6.333/6
After World War I, widower Renier has returned to his estate Horlebecq. His sole diversion is his correspondence with the Parisian Rolande, who he met...
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Chronicle of a Passion
1977
Burned Bridges
5.2/5
In the Belgian hamlet of Verbrande Brug, former lovers Monique and Louis reconnect at a carnival, stirring up drama with their current partners.
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Burned Bridges
2022
The Claus Family 3
5.7/56
When the delivery of presents goes wrong and Grandpa Noël gets in trouble, siblings Jules and Noor must work together to save Christmas.
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The Claus Family 3
2001
De Verlossing
8/1
A Flemish family comes together in their maternal home. Oscar, the grotesque patriarch, his bedridden wife Magda, his feeble son Johnny and his daught...
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De Verlossing
2015
Ay Ramon!
5.7/3
Max and Tikkelotje own an unsuccessful theatre company. When Tikkelotje notices Ramon - the faithful companion to Saint Nicholas - playing the guitar...
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Ay Ramon!
1982
Toute une nuit
6.471/35
Following over two dozen different individuals in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, acceptance and rejection in the r...
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Toute une nuit
2007
Blind
5.9/17
Ruben is a lone and unbalanced young man who lost his sight in childhood. Marie is an albino woman of temperate look and with a lot of insecurities. S...
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Blind
2006
De Zondvloed
0/0
This is a portrait of an old man who is kept locked up in the attic by his daughter with the excuse that outside it continuously rains. The man escape...
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De Zondvloed
2011
The Spring of César
0/0
The poem well integrated in the film, was interpreted by writer/actor/painter Pjeroo Roobjee. The project is melting pot of poetry, animation and musi...
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The Spring of César
2015
Café Derby
6.3/13
1985. Georges is a born market vendor. As a driven salesman he sells anything, anytime, to anyone. When he hears that the Pope is coming to Belgium, h...
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Café Derby
2015
Wat Mannen Willen
3.5/8
We follow the lives of six men searching for true love or just a little happiness at a time when men sometimes have no idea how to be men and what wom...
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Wat Mannen Willen
1996
La Vie sexuelle des Belges partie 2 - Camping Cosmos
5.125/8
On a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and murder. The residents enjoy their holidays in a pec...
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La Vie sexuelle des Belges partie 2 - Camping Cosmos
1979
De Proefkonijnen
4.333/3
The men of Chemics International lead a quiet life. However, this is cruelly disrupted by an industrial accident in which a toxic substance is release...
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De Proefkonijnen
2025
The Baronesses
5.8/5
When 65-year-old Fatima discovers that her husband has been living a double life in Morocco for the past ten years, her world collapses. Furious and d...
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The Baronesses
2015
Szvo
0/0
Belgium short film
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Szvo
2017
The Blind Spot
5.9/37
Dode Hoek (Blind Spot) is the story of Jan Verbeeck, the uncompromising commissioner of the Antwerp drug squad. Known as Mr. Zero Tolerance, he is hug...
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The Blind Spot
2004
The Edelweiss Pirates
5.375/16
Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead. It is a time of great inhumanity. Cologne’s...
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The Edelweiss Pirates
2009
Ob ihr wollt oder nicht
4.3/3
The film starts with the main character Laura, a young woman with advanced cancer, entering quite upset the home of her parents and claiming to have s...
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Ob ihr wollt oder nicht
2003
The Missing Half
6.5/2
Claire and Pierre's marriage hits the skids after Claire, pregnant with twins, feels that one embryo is crushing the other and decides to abort half t...
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The Missing Half
1999
Little Crumb
6.278/27
The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone s...
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Little Crumb
2018
This Magnificent Cake!
6.8/40
In 1885, Africa is a succulent cake destined to be wildly divided and everyone wants a piece. A disturbed European king, a Pygmy working in a luxury h...
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This Magnificent Cake!
2018
Don't Shoot
7.3/43
In one fell swoop, nine-year old David Van de Steen lost his mother, his father and his sister in an attack by the Brabant Killers in Aalst. His grand...
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Don't Shoot
2020
The Barefoot Emperor
5.5/4
How the last King of the Belgians becomes the first Emperor of Europe.
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The Barefoot Emperor
2018
Sinterklaas en de Wakkere Nachten
7/3
Who's keeping the citizens of a Belgian provincial town out of their sleep? Is it Santa Clause?
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Sinterklaas en de Wakkere Nachten
1985
Permeke
10/1
When Anna, a twenty-eight-year-old photographer, is put in charge of a report on the restoration works at The Ostend Museum of Modern Art, she discove...
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Permeke
2006
King of the World
0/0
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 s...
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King of the World
1974
Verloren maandag
4.75/4
Tomasz , a young Polish refugee wanders through Antwerp, looking for the woman who helped him to get his mother through the Iron Curtain. During his s...
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Verloren maandag
1993
Beck – De gesloten kamer
8/2
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?
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Beck – De gesloten kamer
1990
Dilemma
10/1
She's a lawyer with a social conscience. He's a calculating industrialist who keeps many deals hidden from her. But when she discovers that her husban...
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Dilemma
2019
Een verkeerde toekomst
0/0
A short film about our climate, our conscience and our future.
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Een verkeerde toekomst
2014
14-18 Spektakel-Musical
7.2/4
July 28, 1914. The Great War breaks out.
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14-18 Spektakel-Musical
2003
Flight of the Imagination
8/1
An explicator of silent movies falls in love with the star of film he's accompanying.
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Flight of the Imagination
1982
The Life We Dreamt Of
7/1
Antwerp. Someone is making a feature film. After shooting the scenes on location, the filmmaker wanders to the railway station. He's having difficulti...
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The Life We Dreamt Of
1968
De geboorte en dood van Dirk Vandersteen jr.
9/1
The wife of a local dictator gets a miscarriage during a failed assault by rebels. The dictators' brother suggesst to present the newly born baby of o...
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De geboorte en dood van Dirk Vandersteen jr.
2002
Hop
6.571/7
All young Justin and his father want to do is sit down and enjoy watching a soccer game together. When this simple act sparks a chain of events leadin...
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Hop
2020
The Claus Family
6.044/148
When his grandfather suddenly falls ill, holiday-hating Jules learns of his family's magical legacy and realizes he's the only hope to save Christmas.
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The Claus Family
2008
Loft
6.9/434
Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there a...
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Loft
1981
Le Filet Américain
9/1
Political pamphlet in which the theories of Marxist Ernest Mandel are contrasted with the soothing parlance of political leader Paul van den Boeynants...
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Le Filet Américain
1984
Zware jongens
5.778/9
Gaston grew up on the fringes of society and interacts with other people as little as possible. Leo, on the other hand, is a very bourgeois person. He...
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Zware jongens
1990
Le grand paysage d'Alexis Droeven
6/4
When his father dies a young man has the choice to continue the farmwork of his old man who suffered because of the hard labour and all the regulation...
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Le grand paysage d'Alexis Droeven
1999
Shades
6/8
In this film within a film, a Belgian serial killer escapes prison and finds that a filmmaker is making a movie about his life. A maverick director,...
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Shades
2017
Hij komt, hij komt, ... intrede van de Sint
0/0
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Hij komt, hij komt, ... intrede van de Sint
2018
Hij komt, hij komt, ... intrede van de Sint
0/0
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Hij komt, hij komt, ... intrede van de Sint
2000
the Detour
10/1
The Detour is about a young woman travelling through Europe in search of herself and the truth of life. It is based on meetings between goatherd Joann...
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the Detour
1998
S.
4.333/3
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 boy...
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S.
2006
Crusade in Jeans
5.864/66
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part...
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Crusade in Jeans
1978
A Page of Love
7.8/5
François, a Jewish lad, works for an insurance company and is engaged to a Jewish girl. His world is very ordered and secure and perhaps feels a bit c...
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