
Birthday:
03-26-1956
(68 years)
Birthplace:
Antwerp, Belgium
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S&M Judge
Act like Koen Allegaerdts
event2009 star_border 6.6
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In 1997, the Belgian public was in shock when judge Koen A. was convicted for the S&M relationship with his wife. Although their life was destroyed by the verdict, Koen and his wife Magda remain together today. The film is a story about dark sexuality and true love, told from the lover's unique point of view
No. 10
Act like Reichenbach
event2021 star_border 6.5
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A stubborn stage actor navigates single fatherhood, a strenuous theatre project, an adulterous love affair, and the confounding dreams awakened by a puzzling street encounter with a mysterious stranger.
The Memory of a Killer
Act like Seynaeve
event2003 star_border 6.8
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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 official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. Since Ledda starts showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, it's getting more and more difficult to complete his contracts. When he has to murder a 12-year old call-girl, he refuses and becomes a target himself. While Vincke and Verstuyft are chasing him and counting the corpses, Ledda is taking care of his employers.
Ad Fundum
Act like Lawyer Theys
event1993 star_border 6.3
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Sammy Raes, a nice, naive law-freshman from a simple family, dies in a form of hazing known as the 'flying carpet'. The father of the arrogant fraternity president Guy Bogaerts who ordered this reckless procedure abuses his connections to prevent a judicial homicide conviction, while the college authorities prefer to avoid a scandal in the press. However Sammy's freshmen friends Tom Smits and Denn
The Vanishing
Act like Rex Hofman
event1988 star_border 7.5
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Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.
The Last Days of Emma Blank
Act like Haneveld
event2009 star_border 6.1
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A woman living in a large country home drives her servants to mutiny with her outrageous demands as she waits for death to come for her.
Shades
Act like Max Vogel
event1999 star_border 5.8
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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, a merciless producer, an insubordinate star, and a conviced serial killer all try to survive the deadliest place on Earth: a movie set.
Duska
Act like Bob
event2007 star_border 5.1
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An older film critic's life is interrupted by an unexpected visitor.
Skin
Act like S.T.A.N.
event1987 star_border 8
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In a near future the world is split into two categories, the supporters of law and order on the one hand and the rebels on the other. Chico, a biker, who is to be conscripted into the army, is part of the second group. He soon runs away from a military hospital and, thanks to the help of a gang of motorcyclists, helps his friends to escape from prison. A violent confrontation with police forces ensues.
The Bloody Olive
Act like Sam
event1997 star_border 7.3
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A murder-à-trois in every conceivable way.
Anchoress
Act like Reeve
event1993 star_border 6
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A 16th-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 hermit.
Inside
Act like Owner
event2023 star_border 5.6
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An art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn't go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.
A Man Needs a Plan
Act like Jim
event1993 star_border 7
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Marcel and Jim, two friends, appear to be plagued by a midlife crisis which is ruining both their artistic and emotional lives.
Hotel Poseidon
event2021 star_border 5.7
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A day in the life of reluctant hotel owner Dave, a man troubled by nightmares, his neighbour, his friends and love. Dave’s days and nights blend into each other as he wanders vacantly through the halls of the abandoned and dilapidated Hotel Poseidon, which he inherited from his deceased father. When a young woman knocks on the hotel’s door looking for a room, while Dave’s best friend wants to throw a party in the backroom, and a recurring dream haunts him, a surreal and grisly ordeal is set in motion.
Hazard
Act like Nonkel Ronny
event2022 star_border 5.6
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Noah loves his girlfriend Lea and their daughter Zita dearly, just about as much as his extremely pimped car with vanity plate “H4Z4RD”. When his cousin offers him a seemingly simple job as a driver, it soon turns into an unlikely and nerve-racking race through Antwerp, which can only result in the end of Noah, his family or the car…
WILL
Act like Omer Verschueren
event2023 star_border 6.6
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Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II.
Suspect
event2005 star_border 4
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Teacher Rob Dekoster is a good man, albeit a bit too frivolous and liberal with funds the local arts center's interim director. His wife Nelle, who sometimes abuses drugs, spoils his ingrate teenage stepdaughter Sandy, who is kind only to her sweet, mentally handicapped brother, Jimmy Vandevyver. After a class on sexual abuse from feminist teacher Lydia De Beule, Sandy pretends Rob abused her. Lydia, Rob's ex, eagerly helps her fabricate 'proof', which a female police commissioner eagerly believes. A frustrated judge (and father) shamelessly ignores the legal benefit of the doubt, even tricks Rob while in jail. Nelle discovers more then one sick truth.
Neem Me Mee
Act like Kees
event2023 star_border 7.5
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Six people over seventy are at a turning point in their lives. Without knowing each other, they go on a journey together.
Wolf
Act like Steven Perseyn
event2010 star_border 4
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Commissaris Thomas Verhaege is met zijn team een oplichter op het spoor, op het moment dat Vadim Arveladze, een zware crimineel, hun pad kruist. Een hologram met bezwarende informatie wordt de speelbal tussen politie en gewetenloze criminelen. Een bitse strijd ontstaat als de criminelen Thomas’ echtgenote Eva kidnappen om te ruilen voor het bewuste hologram. Het voortbestaan van België is de inzet.
The Gas Station
event2000 star_border 6.5
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An acknowledged master of the short sans dialogue, Jos Stelling won a bundle of awards for THE WAITING ROOM at festivals in Holland, Russia, and Switzerland. And if you thought that richly inventive spoof of the leering macho in God?s Little Acre, the crowded waiting room of your local railway station, was one of the luniest Erotic Tales ever made, then buckle your seat belt for a ride down Life?s Great Battlefield: the expressway during rush hour! Take the boredom of the slow lane, add the spice of one-upmanship, top it off with a delightful girl-boy butting match, and what?s missing? A layover at the next gas station.
The Waiting Room
event1996 star_border 7.1
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A large train station, it might be anywhere in a big city. Waiting passengers, some are curiously observing each other, some are too much involved with their own petty problems to pay attention to anything else. Our man, self- assured, practically undresses some of the woman present with his eyes, at least as long as his wife is absent, trying to get them some coffee. A beauty in blue returns his challenging looks, he can hardly believe it's true. Obviously, it is his lucky day today. By the time his wife returns our man has experienced some astonishing things under the watchful eyes of the fellow passengers. And most probably he will be much more reserved next time he sees a beautiful blonde.
Admiral
Act like Van Ginneken
event2015 star_border 6.4
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When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michael de Ruyter, can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet.
Image
Act like Herman
event2014 star_border 6
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Eva Hendrickx is an ambitious young journalist working on the team of television legend Herman Verbeeck. She's determined to bring a story about the riots in the suburbs of Brussels. While the city spins further away in a spiral of violence, Eva meets Lahbib, a Moroccan with a heavy past. He escorts her into his complex and hard world. Meanwhile, Herman Verbeeck sees a way to exploit Eva's story in the ever-competitive mediagame...
The Last Diamond
Act like Philippe de Mazières
event2014 star_border 6.3
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Simon, a burglar on probation, agreed to go on the biggest shot of his life: The flight of the "Florentine", a mythical diamond set auction by its owners. To succeed, he must approach Julia, expert diamond for sale which is a considerable personal and family issue. Beyond a jigsaw particularly daring, Julia Simon will lead to a destiny she could not imagine.
Man of Steel
Act like Victor's father
event1999 star_border 3.8
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A romantic and funny coming-of-age story. Victor, a 13-year-old boy, is desperately looking for his First Kiss. When that First Kiss comes too close, Victor seeks refuge in his imagination, becoming the Man of Steel who has no emotions, because tears will make him rust. But no Man of Steel can resist Fania, a 13-year-old girl, for very long.
Happy Family
event2006 star_border 5.6
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Thijs is a ripe-age Dutch tomato grower. His adult daughters plan to have him move in a skyscraper-flat, leaving home and professional life, but he takes his adolescent (half-)Moroccon grandson Omar's advice to refuse and keep living. Thijs even lets the cheerful rascal coach his love-life, which lands him on a blind date with Jacky, an energetic Flemish woman, who won't take no for an answer but turns up at his door-step till he consents, and soon drags him into evening life, preparing for a dance contest. Soon after Omar turns up, listless and lazier then ever, runaway from school and home. The obvious reason for the horny hound's hanging head is a girl: Mergal is foxy, Turkish and as smitten as he, but her burly big brother Erhan will only allow a boy to go steady with her who has proven himself his better on the field in the traditional manly sport of oil-wrestling. Now Thijs...
Transfer
Act like Elias Duyster
event2022
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An imprisoned serial killer is pleasantly surprised by a visit from his estranged daughter.
Walhalla
Act like Gunther Somers
event1995 star_border 2
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Grocer De Feyter is put out of business by competition from a supermarket run by the Moroccan Saïd. To keep afloat, he does the dirty work for a right-wing politician. This man is in cahoots with a project developer who wants to build a furniture superstore in the slum area. With the aid of criminals, they manage to bring racial tension in the area to boiling point. Against this background, affection blossoms between the daughter of the grocer and the son of Saïd, a real Romeo and Juliet. Then a group of skinheads decides to put an end to the fragile romance with violence.
Schneider vs. Bax
Act like Mertens
event2015 star_border 6.1
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On his birthday, a hitman reluctantly takes on the easy task of killing a writer, only to find the job a lot more difficult than expected.
Paradise Trips
Act like Mario Dockers
event2015 star_border 6.9
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Holiday bus driver Mario has spent his entire life shuttling old age pensioners to the sunny south with his own travel company 'Paradise Trips'. Today, on the verge of his own retirement, Mario has to bring a motley crew of alternative partygoers to a psychedelic festival in Croatia. The journey soon turns into a fascinating trip that confronts Mario with his own prejudices and his long-lost son.
Home Suite Home
Act like Ludwig
event2015 star_border 8
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Ludwig is an aging hotel inspector who’s become bored with his luxury lifestyle. When he meets a young woman in Paris, it might just be the wake-up call he needed.
Hope
event2016 star_border 4.8
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The Hope Affair is the story of the fascinating affair between an impassioned woman in the midst of an attack on a conservative male bastion and an éminence grise from that same men’s world. An affair that pitches head against heart. An affair that completely spins out of control. And that can be quite funny.
Sluizer Speaks
event2014
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Some doctors say he won't last another day but still he keeps making films. Sluizer Speaks tells the story of George Sluizer, director of such films as The Vanishing and Dark Blood who fully dedicated his life to cinema. Where did his passion for film lead him?
Sextet
Act like Professor
event2007 star_border 5.9
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Sextet is a film about love and relationships in Amsterdam. It features an ingeniously interwoven plot of several stories and characters. Together with the feature SIMON (2004) this one is part of Terstall's trilogy about the liberties of the present Dutch society.
Gangsta
Act like Onderzoeksrechter
event2018 star_border 6.9
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Antwerp, Belgium. The lives of four small-time drug dealers spin out of control when they steal a shipment of cocaine, triggering a full out war between an Amsterdam drug lord and a ruthless Colombian cartel.
Love Revisited
Act like Fer
event2017 star_border 5.5
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When their son suddenly dies the long divorced Ton and Fransje seek comfort with each other.
Borgman
Act like Gardener
event2013 star_border 6.5
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An enigmatic vagrant cons himself into the home life of an arrogant upper-class family, turning their lives into a psychological nightmare in the process.
Miracle Monks
Act like Cardinal
event2014 star_border 5.3
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Five monks live harmoniously in the monastery but suddenly their peace is disturbed by a gang of construction workers. The leader of the church sold the monastery to the town council, and now their beloved home is destined to become a spa! The monks' desperate attempts to stop this situation seem in vain, but then - a miracle! The monastery is saved. But that is just the start of their troubles...
Your Mother Should Know
Act like Yves
event2018 star_border 6.8
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A young photographer moves back in with his mother and has to adjust to his old hometown. Things get more challenging when she appoints him as her dating coach in order to spend more time together.
The Flying Dutchman
Act like Netelneck’s son
event1995 star_border 6.7
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Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.
Crazy Love
Act like Jeff
event1987 star_border 6.1
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Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other on the mouth. His father is a hero who kidnapped his mother and married her on a lonely mountain peak... Later on, he'll do the same. But Harry has a lot to learn. He learns about 'being hot' and 'fucking' and about what you have to do when you're alone and 'feel the itch'. He also learns that there are handsome men and ugly ones, that love can be unfair. That one can find comfort in drinking... but above all he learns that man is capable of anything - absolutely anything! - to get his fair share of love.
Elixir d'Anvers
Act like Tanchelijn
event1996
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Six young filmmakers were each given the chance to shoot a short on a common theme. Combined, their efforts result in a feature. The idea is to tell an alternative history of Antwerp, based on tall stories, rumors and events.
Dilemma
Act like Zeger
event1990
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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 husband is involved in illegal arms traffic and is also having an affair with one of her colleagues, a direct confrontation ensues.
Black Coffee
event1997
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Philip, a naive young man, has been signed up by his mother for 'Mister Right'. In the 499th episode of this popular television-show, Philip is chosen by the sexy Tamara to be her date. Together they spend a week on the isle of Tenerife. They fall in love and have a wonderful time together. With a little video camera they film the highlights of their trip for the television audience at home. At the end of their stay, they'd very much like to continue their relationship at home in Belgium. But at the airport they agree to look after a briefcase of a Belgian businessman. However the man doesn't show up and they take the briefcase with them.
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
event1979 star_border 5.6
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Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly returns home after the invasion succeeds. Later, he decides that the Germans are on the right side of things, and goes off to fight for them on the Eastern Front. Soon afterward, a resistance fighter is stranded on her doorway, and she hides him. The two of them fall in love, and the conflicts and joys of this relationship cause Lieve continued grief well after the end of the war.
Redbad
Act like General Thierry
event2018 star_border 6.3
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In the year of 754 AD, during a time of epic battles and bloodshed, the legend of the pagan warrior king, Rebad, is born, but so is a new weapon against his people: Christianity. Redbad must ultimately unite a Viking army powerful enough to defeat the seemingly invincible Franks.
Lisa
Act like Robert
event1996 star_border 3.5
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Lisa's life changes dramatically when she discovers she is seropositive.
Cruise Control
Act like Jean Bonckers
event2020 star_border 5.5
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Life does not go well the last couple of years for film director Serge Gabriëls. Since the day he chose his career above the woman of his life, things kept going downhill. When a bailiff was sent to declare his production company bankrupt, he lost all hope and perspective. Fortunately at that crucial moment he received the one phone call he has been waiting for his whole life. Out of the blue, Serge is offered the opportunity to realize the dream of his lifetime: to shoot a real love story.
Porcelain
Act like Jean Dubois
event2019 star_border 4
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The lives of Anna, Paul and their little son Thomas seem perfect from the outside. Paul has a well-paid job, Anna has a home studio where she works with porcelain and Thomas is an angelic child. However, when Thomas bites one of his friends at school, the cracks of a context that is anything but perfect begin to surface.
Loft
Act like Burgemeester Alex Van Esbroeck
event2008 star_border 6.9
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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 are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.
Flying Home
Act like Teacher in pub
event2014 star_border 5.9
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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 has tried several times to buy a champion pigeon, but the owner continues to stubbornly refuse his offer. In an attempt to gain the trust of the Sheikh, Colin offers him a deal: if he manages to convince the owner to sell the champion pigeon, the sheikh will agree to do business with Colin's company. But when Colin meets Jos, the grumpy owner of the pigeon, and Isabella, his granddaughter, he realizes that this mission will not be as easy as he had hoped.
Déjà Vu
Act like Michel (6 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7
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In "Déjà-Vu" we follow Florence Fierens, a busy career woman and radio host. With her own morning radio show, she reaches a national audience and is committed to women's rights and against domestic violence. However, her seemingly carefree life is turned upside down when her 15-year-old daughter Louise unexpectedly steps out of life.
Grief-stricken, Florence searches for answers, together with her ex-husband and son. More and more it appears that Florence's life was not as perfect as she told herself.
Rough Diamonds
Act like Matthias Dumont (8 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6.8
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When a prodigal son sends his family's empire into crushing debt, his estranged brother returns to Antwerp's diamond district to pick up the pieces.
The Bank Hacker
Act like Alidor Van Praet (8 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7.3
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After two years in prison, professional con man Alidor Van Praet needs to rebuild the illegal fortune the police seized from him. When he spots 19-year-old Jeremy Peeter’s hacking skills at a computing convention, he knows this shy teenager is the key to making it happen and to get revenge on the financial system that drove his father to suicide.
The Biker Boys
Act like Gini (2 ep.)
event2014 star_border 7.6
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Three well-known adventurers want to make a travel program where they search for the origins of the Vespa in Italy. Unfortunately, everything that can go wrong, goes wrong.
Zone Stad
Act like Jean-Yves Bosvoorde (6 ep.)
event2003 star_border 5.6
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Zone Stad is a Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Antwerp. In the series, police officers solve various crimes, which are shown as realistically as possible.
Lockdown
Act like Elias Duyster (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7.8
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Each short story plays in the same setting with 2 characters, each on their side of the glass of the visitors area from a prison that them (and also the world) divides.
Transport
(8 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.3
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A journalist traces a microchip found in baby food. A bank manager's mistake ensnares her in a much larger scheme. A family falls apart after the father goes missing. An insurance examiner investigates what happened to a border control veterinarian. This suspenseful Nordic noir drama enters the world of international money laundering through the stories of ordinary people caught up in the crimes.
High Tides
Act like Jaques (10 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6.8
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Over a tense summer on the Belgian coast, a wealthy friend group faces adulthood's harsh realities while grappling with love and societal expectations.
Tabula Rasa
Act like Inspecteur Jacques Wolkers (9 ep.)
event2017 star_border 7.4
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A psychological thriller about Mie, a young woman with amnesia who is locked up in a secure psychiatric hospital. Mie is visited by Detective Inspector Wolkers who claims she was the last person seen with the vanished Thomas Spectre. As a witness and prime suspect, she appears to be the sole key to this mysterious disappearance. In order to solve the puzzle and find Thomas, Mie has to reconstruct her lost memories and find her way back through the dark labyrinth of her recent past.
Arcadia
Act like Pieter Hendriks (16 ep.)
event2023 star_border 5.9
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Following a major catastrophe, a new society, Arcadia, is born. Resources have become scarce and a point system, known as the Citizen Score, is introduced. It determines what you can and may do and what a citizen is entitled to.
Bad Bad Belgium
(1 ep.)
event2024
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There are some things you don't learn in history class... The 'Bad Bad Belgium' series tells those stories that were deliberately deleted from the collective memory. From the Belgian involvement in the atomic bombs in the 1940s, through the controversial start of Flemish mass tourism in the 1960s, to the first Belgian ecstasy pill in the 1990s.
Juliet
Act like Guillaume Duvivier (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 5
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After the death of her father, detective Juliet Dumon starts over. She leaves Brussels and returns to her hometown of De Haan to care for her niece, who lived with her father.
F*** You Very, Very Much
Act like Victor (6 ep.)
event2021 star_border 3
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Fed up with her banal existence, Ann ditches her life as it is. Dragging her two best friends along, she navigates a year of brutally-honest madness, enlightened by mental field trips to the Stone Age and unsolicited superhero advice.
Hotel Beau Séjour
Act like Maurice Teirlinck (10 ep.)
event2017 star_border 7.3
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What if you had to investigate your own murder? This anthology series follows victims who wake up to find their own dead bodies and have to navigate the limbo between life and death to solve the mystery of who killed them and why.
Professor T.
Act like Herman Donckers (26 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.5
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Eccentric criminal psychology Professor T is a successful police advisor but his unpredictable nature drives his colleagues crazy. He has a brilliant mind, but also several psychological and neurological disorders which make him a complex and often difficult individual. However, aided by the trusty and understanding Annelies and Daan they form a team of high-powered experts that Antwerp Homicide Department rely on. After Season Two, however, things change radically. This is a thinking person's television series.
Vermist
Act like Thomas Coninckx (2 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6.8
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Vermist is a Dutch language crime drama produced by Belgian broadcaster VT4 and Netherlands production company Eyeworks. It is broadcast on VT4 and a French language version—Urgence disparitions—is shown by W9.
Based on the characters and background of the successful Flemish film Vermist, the first episode was broadcast on March 25, 2008. A second season was broadcast in 2010.
Dood Spoor
(6 ep.)
event2025
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Ed Bex, a man with an eating disorder: as soon as he puts something in his mouth, he sees what happened to it. He uses this special gift in his unusual job: with 'The Last Greeting' he helps relatives to reconstruct the last hours of their dearly deceased. When Inspector Adams finds a body in an airtight bag, he asks for Ed's help. Ed has doubts: does he want to use his gift in a murder case? When he does get stuck into the case, he becomes entangled in a mix of absurd situations, personal chaos and deep pangs of conscience.
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