Dora van der Groen

A delightfully bittersweet story of four elderly sisters and their relationship with each other. (Sony Pictures Classics)

A Belgian matron establishes and, for several generations, oversees a close-knit, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism thrive. (imdb)

A traditional Belgian father and his modern-thinking son battle it out in this family drama set in Belgium during the early 1900s. The conflict centers around the planting of flax. The son would rather play around with the milkmaid than farm. To instill his work ethic within the free-thinking lad, the father buys a neighboring farm. It doesn't work until the father lies upon his death bed. The loyal son comes around and begins to help. The cinematography for the film is notable. (All Movie)

Journalist Stella discovers the secrets of the Lotte de Heus Verolmen, the widow of the Dutch nazi-collaborator party NSB-frontman Ewald de Heus Verolmen.

A journalist receives a mysterious letter, written to him 20 years before his birth, and uncovers a series of strange occurrences.

Malpertuis is a labyrinth where characters issued from the Greek mythology are made prisoners by Cassavius (Orson Welles). He manages to keep them (as well as his nephew and niece) as prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As the nephew (played by Mathieu Carrière) unravels the mystery, we find out he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than we were led to believe. (imdb)

Old Archibald is chased from the countess's city after she made her physician and counselor Esculaap taste the droppings he bought from him for her. On his way out, he finds a baby in a bundle, marked 'take care of Mariken', and raises the girl his weird, yet sort of wise way, in the wild. One day she wanders off and is captured by the Black Widow (imdb)

In the 1850's, a gentleman arrives at a farmstead in Belgium. He has come to live in the household; it is Monsieur Hawarden. He is well travelled and entertaining, and various romances are referred to. However, we gradually discover that it is actually Meriora Gillibrand, who committed murder in Vienna and is on the run. (Transgender Film Guide)

A 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. (imdb)

A schoolteacher (Miereveld or "field of ants") is entranced by one of his students (Fran). Not being able to have his love fulfilled he tries to escape it and moves house and job. (imdb)

The movie is an adaptation of the famous novel of Willem Elsschot. It shows the peculiar life in a crowded hotel in Paris, 1913. (imdb)

In the sixteenth century, Spain occupies Flanders and Inquisition enforces the faith. Aging writer and philosopher, Zénon Ligre, comes to Bruges using a false name and papers to serve as a physician to the poor, establishing a clinic and steam bath. (imdb)

Eline Vere is a neurotic young woman with a turbulent family. (imdb)

Sailor Jan/John cleans up his home town plagued by thieves and becomes known as fearless. His jealous cousin tries to scare him, but things end badly. Now an outlaw, John teams up with a local servant to slay a shapeshifting demon.

A small-town doctor gets a visit from a former study-friend. He doesn't know this former surgeon has become a junkie that wants to steal his morphine. (imdb)

A Dutch pilot with a real passion for flying risks everything to keep his DC3/Dakota plane in the air. Excellent attention to detail and the beautiful backdrop of the Caribbean make this seldom seen much loved Dutch classic well worth watching.

Cyriel has died. Leonie and a few relatives are standing in the hospital room around the bed on which the body lies. At Cyriel's death, there won't be no more tears from Leonie, but rather one simple and pleasant memory that expresses Cyriel's unspoken love for her.

A short film about Belgian poet Guido Gezelle

TV-movie from 1967

Havinck is een Nederlandse film uit 1987 van Frans Weisz met in de hoofdrollen Willem Nijholt en Will van Kralingen. Het script van Ger Thijs is gebaseerd op de gelijknamige debuutroman uit 1984 van Marja Brouwers. De film werd door de kritiek zeer goed ontvangen, maar was geen groot commercieel succes. Dit kwam deels door de distributie. De film draaide aanvankelijk in bioscoop Calypso in Amsterdam, een theater met 500 stoelen. Zonder goede reden, want de zaal was steeds redelijk goed bezet,

Marcel Hamelinck has a chronic muscle disease and therefore has to retire from his work. After his wife Denise dies, his attention is drawn to his daughter-in-law Simone. Obsessively he tries to make overtures, even at the expense of his own health. He gives her expensive presents and builds a pool to see her swim. After Simone allows him to touch her, Hamelinck only has one wish: to become her slave. Simone cleverly exploits the situation, while Marcel's condition slowly worsens.

Around 1850 Baas Gansendonck who has an inn looks down on the farmers. He wants his daughter Lisa to marry the baron of the village. But she is in love with Karel, the son of a simple brewer.

Sergeant Sestig of the fire brigade is a widower. Three different women try to catch him as a husband. However, that doesn't go smoothly, resulting in a series of panicked complications

Five rather frivolous musicians seize the opportunity to perform on a cruise in the Mediterranean. Alas: they are under contract to engage a female singer - and they fear to fall in love with her, which would endanger their friendship.

A Belgian TV movie from 1958

A professor accidentally discovers a remedy that eliminates fatigue and rejuvenates with new vitality.

A Belgian TV-movie from 1959

The House of Bernarda Alba (Spanish: La casa de Bernarda Alba) is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. Commentators have often grouped it with Blood Wedding and Yerma as a "rural trilogy". Garcia Lorca did not include it in his plan for a "trilogy of the Spanish land" (which remained unfinished at the time of his murder).

Belgian TV-movie from 1959

Willem is furious when a journalist makes fun of him because he acts hysterical in court during the Agusta scandal. He decides to kidnap the man and find out everything about him, but he discovers more than he bargained for.

A rainy evening in the harbor of Antwerp. A man named Laarmans is on his way home even though he doesn’t want to. Three lost Eastern sailors are looking for a woman named Maria Van Dam and ask Laermans to show them the way. He decides to help them find this mysterious woman.