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- DirectorHarry KümelStarsDelphine SeyrigJohn KarlenDanielle OuimetWhile passing through a vacation resort, a newlywed couple encounters a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.
- DirectorFons RademakersStarsWilleke van AmmelrooyJan DecleirCarlos van LanckereThe story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt.
- DirectorHarry KümelStarsOrson WellesSusan HampshireMichel BouquetA young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret.
- DirectorPaul ColletPierre DrouotStarsWilleke van AmmelrooyRoger Van HoolAndré van den HeuvelPierre and Paul earn their living as entertainers at parties. Just before the First World War, they are hired to cheer up Louisa's engagement party, and she divides her love for both in a ménage à trois.
- DirectorRoland VerhavertStarsJan DecleirElizabeth TeissierLiliane VincentWidower Rainier has returned to his estate after WWI. His family wants him to marry Emily, his sister-in-law. Meanwhile Rolande a woman he met in Paris during the war persuades him to invest a lot of money in the 'Académie de Beauté'.
- DirectorBenoît LamyStarsClaude JadeJacques PerrinAnn PetersenAn uprising of the elderly, in the colourful setting of a Brussels retirement home, with its delightful, fragile and anarchistic residents.
- DirectorRoland VerhavertStarsJan DecleirAnsje BeentjesGaston VandermeulenIn 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 locality. In this grim, then contemporary drama by the 'father of Flemish literature', Hendrik Conscience, Jan Braems, a poor and naive farmers-boy, accepts the not uncommon offer by a rich family to sell his lucky ticket (out) to their son for a hefty sum compared to the miserable labor wages at the time. Army life is even harsher then a farmhand's, especially for a Dutch-speaking an-alphabet who simply can't understand his francophone superiors, and Jan's nature is not complacent enough for military discipline even by todays standards, so he soon gets into all kinds of trouble, including gambling his capital away and a venereal disease. When his girlfriend back home goes looking for him, her life is doomed as well.
- DirectorGuido HenderickxStarsMalka RibowskaJan DecleirDoris ArdenCharel and Monique lead an unfulfilled live in a small town. When Monique's old flame and the father of her daughter arrives, tensions are running high. For 24h we follow these people in despair.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsDelphine SeyrigJan DecorteHenri StorckA lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.
- DirectorHarry KümelStarsHugo MetsersCox HabbemaWilleke van AmmelrooyFreek and Simone's lives are taken over by the bizarre character Joachim Stiller.
- DirectorRoland VerhavertStarsEddie BrugmanJacqueline RommertsSylvia de LeurIn this film version of the Dutch-language classic ('heimat'-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy from Lier who after recovering from a life-threatening disease changes his life completely and his name to the self-invented Pallieter (the Dutch language has adopted this as a noun for a "bon vivant"). He moves in with Charlote, a naive, caring relative in the country, where he starts frolicking, no longer caring for image, career or possessions, but concentrates on enjoying life -such as a draftee relative's Brueghelian wedding- and finds love with Marieke. A dark story-line however is when projected work on the river in the name of economical progress threatens the rural landscape they have fallen in love with.
- DirectorAndré DelvauxStarsMarie-Christine BarraultRutger HauerRoger Van HoolThe story of a woman's love for two young men. Antwerp, Belgium, 1940. Lieve (Marie-Christine Barrault) marries Adriaan (Rutger Hauer), a Flemish idealist, who is drawn towards Germany by the occupation to the Eastern Front. She shelters the resistant François (Roger Van Hool) in 1942 and discovers with him what love is really about. At the liberation, she's reunited with a bruised and sentenced Adriaan. In spite of her passion for François, she cannot bring herself to abandon him in these trying circumstances. But she slowly drifts away from her husband, while she senses that François, who is monopolized by his career, is slowly drifting away from her.
- DirectorJan VanderheydenStarsRemy AngenotWillem BenoyJef BruyninckxThe first movie version, from the age of black&white, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main character: a smart but naughty farmhand's son whose eternal mischief, pranks and disobedience drive his elders (especially teachers, family and father's grumpy employer, a rich farmer) and classmates to despair in a time when a boy's punishment was still inevitable, swift and often severe.
- DirectorRik KuypersIvo MichielsRoland VerhavertStarsTine BalderTone BrulinAlice De GraefA pessimistic urban drama, with a musical score by Jack Sels and Max Damasse, charts in strongly expressionistically lit black-and-white images the wanderings of a tormented man through the cosmopolitan port city of Antwerp. The only people to show him understanding are an orphan and two disillusioned women.
- DirectorBert HaanstraStarsAlbert MolKo van DijkJulia de GruyterThe famous statue of Manneken Pis is stolen in Brussels.
- DirectorAndré DelvauxStarsSenne RouffaerBeata TyszkiewiczHector CamerlynckGovert Miereveld is a schoolteacher who has an unhealthy obsession with Fran, one of his students. On the day of Fran's graduation, Govert decides that he needs to tell her.
- DirectorRoland VerhavertStarsPetra LaseurJulien SchoenaertsSenne RouffaerDuty and uncertainty take a toll on two sailors working a cargo ship with an unknown mission and date of departure.
- DirectorAndré DelvauxStarsYves MontandAnouk AiméeAdriana BogdanMathias is a Belgian linguist, living with French theatre producer Anne. After a quarrel about moral questions, they take a train to attend a congress. While Mathias sleeps, Anne disappears. The train stops in the middle of the country and Mathias gets off the train with an older man, Hernhutter, and a young one, Val. The train moves off without them being able to catch it up. They will find a village, but cannot get any help because they do not understand a word of what the inhabitants say...