Hugo Claus

The Heylen family's annual get-together to commemorate their mother derails completely.

When his son joins the labour movement, the weather-beaten, work-worn farmer Van Paemel is driven off his land by the local landowner and is forced to move into an impoverished hovel. Another son is wounded in a hunting accident and his daughter is made pregnant by one of the landowner's offsprings. (FlandersImage.be)

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).

'Mira' tells the story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt. Based upon Stijn Streuvel's novel 'De Teleurgang van de Waterhoek'. (imdb)

A gang of wealthy ne'er do wells rape and terrorize women for fun and force their husbands to watch. (imdb)

Georges, a workman in his forties, gets unexpectedly released from jail after being imprisoned for two years for having passed a sexual relation with his daughter. Having arrived back home, he finds himself in a difficult situation. (IMDb (adapted))

A respected police commissioner has a reputation as a fervent opera lover, but by night he also enjoys plunging into the transvestite scene. In addition, he harbors a longing for his very own sister. When he learns that his wife has been murdered, he tries to implicate the set-designer who has designs on his sister. (imdb)

A young boy coming into puberty is resentful of his mother's budding romance with the best friend of her late husband, and is torn and confused about his emerging feelings for Toni, a young girl in his neighborhood. His fascination with an antique Oriental knife leads him to steal it and he uses it to try to impress Toni while at the same time trying to break up his mother's relationhip. (imdb)

An American soldier travels Belgium during the Ardennes offensive to get back to his unit. He is being accompanied by a young Belgian and the German they take prisoner.

Well-to-do business man Pierre falls for the unpredictable and free-spirited Toni. The begin a relationship, despite the fact that she's living with another man who is the father of her child. (imdb)

This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic success throughout Europe not only made him a fortune allowing him to stock his Antwerp residence ('Rubenshuis' in Dutch) and a castle at Elewijt, in the countryside nearer Brussels, with numerous fashionable treasures but also became an ennobled diplomat for the Spanish Hapsburg rulers of the Southern Low Countries (now Belgium)... (KGF Vissers)

A factory worker is employed in the desolate, cold-storage cellars of a brewery. His spare time he devotes to collecting romantic images of wildflowers and sticking newspaper cuttings in an album, demonstrating a preference for more gruesome stories. Murders, rapes, and acts of violence are the events that accompany his everyday existence and invest it with a tinge of color. (Hannelore Goossens)

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 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").

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.