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Films from the country "belgique", sorted by revenue
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The Invader (2011)
, 1h35Directed by Nicolas Provost
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Serge Riaboukine, Dieudonné Kabongo, Tibo Vandenborre, Hannelore Knuts, Stefania Rocca, Carole Weyers
Des hommes à la peau noire sont rejetés par la mer sur une plage naturiste du sud de l'Europe. Certains sont morts. Deux d'entre eux se retrouvent à Bruxelles, exploités par des marchands de sommeil, et tentent vaille que vaille de survivre. Amadou, qui se fait appeler Obama, séduit Agnès, une femme d'affaires, mais est rapidement rejeté par celle-ci. Amadou est alors pris d'une fièvre vengeresse et tue ceux qui l'ont exploité.
Route Irish (2011)
, 1h49Directed by Ken Loach
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, Stephen Lord, Najwa Nimri, John Bishop
The film opens on a ferry in Liverpool, as Fergus Molloy (Mark Womack) remembers the final messages sent to him by his lifelong friend Frankie (John Bishop), whose funeral he is to attend. The night before, Molloy unseals his friend's coffin to see his friend's badly injured corpse. At the funeral, Haynes (Jack Fortune) a director of the private military company that Molloy and Frankie worked for, gives a eulogy praising Frankie and describing military contractors as the "unsung heroes of our time". Afterwards, Haynes and Walker (Geoff Bell) explain to Frankie's family the circumstances of his death, though Molloy remains embittered and closely questions the two men. Later at the wake, Molloy attacks Haynes when he sees him distributing his business card to enlisted soldiers there.
Na Wewe (2010)
, 19minutesOrigin Belgique
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Actors Fabrice Kwizera, Renaud Rutten
A minivan transporting ordinary citizens is stopped on a Burundian dirt road. With force a band of Hutu rebels armed with Kalashnikovs get the passengers off. The rebel leader barks:"Hutus to the left, Tutsis to the right!". The sorting fails as all hurry to the left and neither passengers nor rebels can distinguish Hutus from Tutsis.
The Over the Hill Band (2009)
Directed by Geoffrey Enthoven
Origin Belgique
Genres Comedy-drama
Actors Lucas Van den Eynde, Marilou Mermans, Greg Timmermans, Lut Tomsin, Robrecht Vanden Thoren, Michel Israël
Claire, a 70-year-old woman, and her husband have a car accident in which last one dies. On the day of his funeral, Claire is reunited with Lut and Magda. In their late teens, the three were members of a rather famous music group, singing covers of Jacques Brel and other famous artists. The group split after Claire became pregnant. Claire also meets her youngest son Sid again. He absconded many years ago as his parents were only interested in their other son Michel who is now an overanxious man. Over the past years, Sid tried to become a famous R&B-artist but no recording company is interested in his work.
The Misfortunates (2009)
, 1h48Directed by Felix Van Groeningen
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Johan Heldenbergh, Valentijn Dhaenens, Natali Broods, Sara De Bosschere, Tom Audenaert
Writer Gunther Strobbe made his ladyfriend pregnant and looks back at this youth. He lived together with his father, grandmother and uncles in a house in the fictitious town of Reetveerdegem. Much of his youth was about drinking, cigarettes, women, and truancy. Heavier themes include addiction, criminality, and death.
Double Take (2009)
, 1h20Origin Belgique
Genres Documentary
Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' short story 25th August, 1983, Double Take's narrative plot is based on a fictional encounter Alfred Hitchcock has with an older version of himself. Whilst on set of his 1962 film The Birds, Hitchcock calls a twelve-minute break in order to answer a phone call in one of the universal studio buildings. After a foreboding encounter with a security guard, Hitchcock finds his way into a room similar to the tearooms in both the Chasen's hotel in Los Angeles and the Claridge's hotel in London. Here, Hitchcock and his doppelgänger meet. The ensuing conversation between the two is characterized by personal paranoia and distrust where the younger Hitchcock is in deep fear of his older alter ego.
Dossier K. (2009)
, 2hOrigin Belgique
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Koen De Bouw, Blerim Destani, Hilde de Baerdemaeker, Greg Timmermans, Jappe Claes, R. Kan Albay
Nazim Tahiri (Blerim Destani) finds out that his father has been murdered in Antwerp by members of the rival Gaba clan. Kanun, an Albanian law from the 15th century, forces Nazim to take revenge. He goes to Antwerp, where his godfather, Prenk Shehu (R. Kan Albay), leads the family mafia businesses.
Vinyan (2008)
, 1h36Directed by Fabrice Du Welz
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Buddy films
Actors Emmanuelle Béart, Rufus Sewell, Julie Dreyfus, Josse De Pauw
Jeanne and Paul are a wealthy couple who were in Thailand helping to establish an orphanage when the 2004 tsunami leveled the island. Jeanne and Paul had a young son who disappeared in the storm, and since his body has never been found, Jeanne holds out hope that he might still be alive, a hope that becomes a desperate concern when she sees a video of children being held by kidnappers in Burma which shows a child who looks like her boy. Eager to find out the truth, Paul pays a hefty fee to local outlaw Mr. Gao to escort him and Jeanne into a forbidden zone known only to Thailand's criminal underclass near the Burmese border. Jeanne and Paul soon find themselves out of their depth in a strange land they do not understand where dangerous men commune with the spirits of the dead.
Irina Palm (2007)
, 1h43Directed by Sam Garbarski
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Marianne Faithfull, Miki Manojlović, Kevin Bishop, Siobhán Hewlett, Jenny Agutter, Jonny Coyne
The 50-year-old widow Maggie (Marianne Faithfull) desperately needs money for the cost of traveling to Australia for a special medical treatment of her beloved ill grandson Olly. After several unsuccessful attempts to get a job, she finds herself in the streets of Soho. Her eye is caught by poster in the window of a shop called Sexy World: "Hostess wanted." She enters, and Miki (Miki Manojlović), the owner of the shop, explains to her frankly that "hostess" is a euphemism for "whore." The job he has for her is one for which age and being visually attractive are not important: a male customer inserts his penis in a hole in a wall (glory hole), and she, at the other side, gives a handjob (however, the film does not show any penis). Her colleague, Luisa, shows her how to do it, and after the first hesitation, she quickly develops good skills. However, she keeps her work secret from friends and family, which leads to uncomfortable situations. After a while, she tells some friends. They are quite interested and ask various details.
Goodbye Bafana (2007)
, 1h57Directed by Bille August
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Dennis Haysbert, Joseph Fiennes, Diane Kruger, Mehboob Bawa, Terry Pheto
The young revolutionary Nelson Mandela is arrested, and it is the task of censor James Gregory to watch him. He has long since moved to South Africa with the family for his work in the prison of Robben Island, and slowly he clashes with the politics and racist culture of his countrymen and the people of his own race. Gregory begins to express hatred for South African apartheid. In time, Gregory challenges his superiors, and seeks to improve Mandela's life until he is released from prison after twenty-seven years of imprisonment, and is elected president of South Africa.
La Brèche (2007)
, 35minutesOrigin Belgique
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues
In Saint Louis, a city built in the center of the Senegal River’s delta, it’s common to make an offering to the water genies when a child is born; a sign of the importance of water as a symbol to people whose daily lives are marked by rituals. Since the eighties, the infrastructures built to control the delta’s volume endanger its ecosystem, while the villages grow more and more desperate in the face of total indifference.
Private Property (2007)
, 1h45Directed by Joachim Lafosse
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama
Actors Isabelle Huppert, Jérémie Rénier, Yannick Renier, Kris Cuppens, Patrick Descamps, Raphaëlle Bruneau
Two young adult non-identical twin men, François and Thierry, still live with their mother. They are very close, e.g. they bathe together and wash each other's hair.
Desert Blues (2006)
, 1hOrigin Belgique
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Although they come from different ethnic groups, two musicians and one band from Mali come together to make people listen to the desert: Habib Koité, a Bambara whose roots are in the Khassonke culture of western Mali; Afel Bocoum, a Songhai, considered the heir to Ali Farka Touré; and Tartit, an all-female Tuareg group from Timbuktu, ethnically related to the Berber people, that lends its voice to the cause of a subsisting culture. The coming together of these three is an event with true political significance considering the tragic events that shook Mali between 1995 and 1996.
Winky's Horse (2005)
, 1h35Directed by Mischa Kamp
Origin Belgique
Genres Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Christmas films, Films about horses, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jan Decleir, Ebbie Tam, Betty Schuurman, Mamoun Elyounoussi, Sallie Harmsen, Peter Bolhuis
There is only one thing the six-year-old Winky wants: a horse, a real horse to ride.
Congo River (2005)
, 1h56Directed by Thierry Michel
Origin Belgique
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about historical events
Actors Thierry Michel
The film takes us from the mouth to the source of the second largest river basin in the world, that of the Congo River (the largest is the Amazon). All along its 4371 km, we discover places that have seen the turbulent history of this country, while archives remind us of the mythological figures that created its destiny: explorers such as Livingstone and Stanley, the colonial kings Léopold II and Baudouin I and leaders such as Lumumba, Mobutu and Kabila.