Bert André

In a gray city, two glass and metal towers rise symmetrically, joined by a glass-covered walkway. A middle-aged man, dressed like everyone else in suit, white shirt, and tie, sits at his computer screen. He notices another man who looks like him and who works in the other building... (imdb)

Sort of a cross between "Love Story" and an earthy Rembrandt painting, this movie stars Rutger Hauer as a gifted Dutch sculptor who has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young girl... (imdb)

This Flemish heimat-movie after a novel by Felix Timmermans, the title of which translates as "farmers psalm", is about the at first sight idyllic, but actually tragical life of Wortel, a god-fearing peasant in a pre-war Belgian village, who has a hard time accepting the curate's assurance it's all part of God's grand plan when his loved ones keep coming to terrible harm, and searching solace in the hand-carving of a wooden statue of Christ. (imdb)

Romantic comedy with the unhappy distinction of being voted the worst Dutch movie of the past 25 years

Based on the book by Hendrik Conscience, this movie tells the tale of the Flemish uprising against the French, leading to the 'Guldensporenslag' (Battle of the Golden Spurs).

Under the ruins of a medieval fortress, a deaf-mute lives alone, contemplating the surrounding landscapes. One day a couple of artists build a modern house on the ground, leaving the voyeur obsessed with the new routine. The fetish for the beautiful neighbor, who is a model and poses scenes of nudity, dismantles the tranquility of the place.

The Mayor of a small Flemish town is determined at all costs to save a unique bird sanctuary from a ruthless businessman who advocates a housing development on the site.

Ab Goeree, a Jazz saxophonist with a group, is involved in an accident and paralysed from the waist down. Periods of depression and rebellion alternate, until anger over his group's slide into commercialism prompts him to take up his saxophone again and prepare for a come-back. (BFI.org)

Lookalike twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself as her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious major