Dora van der Groen
Nacimiento : 1927-03-10, Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium
Muerte : 2015-11-08
Lotte de Heus Verolmen
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.
Pauline Declercq
Pauline is a 'little girl of 66 years old'. She is mentally retarded and been cared after by her sister Martha. When Martha dies, her two younger sisters, Paulette and Cecile have to make a decision on the best place for Pauline to be looked after. Neither of them is ready to take care of her. Paulette has a shop to look after and Cecile has her Albert. But according to Martha's last will, her fortune will only be divided in three equal parts if one of the sisters looks after Pauline. If they decide to take her to an institution, Pauline will be the only heir.
Schwarzen Witwe
A family film, based on a well-known Dutch story from the Middle Ages. Mariken tells the compelling and poetic story of spirited young girl named Mariken. The orphan Mariken lives in a secluded forest with an eccentric old hermit. One day, she decides to leave her surroundings and sets off for town to buy a new goat. On her adventurous journey into the 'real' world, she finds out about the good and bad sides of people.
In the course of four seasons we follow the process as Maurits mourns the death of his mother. His intensely sad father, a restorer of paintings, is not able to offer him any solace. Maurits denies his mother's death and withdraws to the flood plains of the river. There he meets Moniek. During their journey of discovery through the plains, their tender friendship turns into love. But Maurits anger and sorrow sometimes turn to extreme emotions and that frightens Moniek. A dead dog takes them over the top and Moniek never wants to see him again.
Leonie
Cyriel has died. Leonie and a few relatives are standing in the hospital room around the bed on which the bodie 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.
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This documentary tells the story of an 80-year-old woman who has "...nothing else to do but to sit and think."
Allegonde
En una tranquila granja de la campiña holandesa, la nonagenaria Antonia repasa su vida. Tranquilamente acostada en su cama, hace memoria hasta el día, poco después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en que volvió al pueblo en el que nació. A partir de ahí, recuerda su vida durante los cincuenta años siguientes, así como la de sus hijos y nietos. Un día tras otro, el comportamiento independiente, inconsciente y algo excéntrico de Antonia y su familia, y en especial su lucha por el feminismo, se mezcla con la vida cotidiana del pueblo en que viven. La vieja granja se convierte en el hogar de personajes muy variados en los que el resentimiento inicial se convierte en tolerancia y, posteriormente, en amor.
Mother
Frans Buyens's moving and inventive film is based on his own autobiographical novel, which deals in the most sensitive terms possible with the subject of euthanasia.
Greete
Siglo XVI. Una vez que el duque de Alba aplastó la rebelión de Flandes contra España, Felipe II (1559-1598) restringió la libertad religiosa, aplicó los decretos del Concilio de Trento y reforzó el poder de la Inquisición en esas tierras. En este contexto, llega a Brujas con documentación falsa el venerable escritor y filósofo Zenón Ligre. Tras fundar una clínica y unas termas, se dispone a trabajar como médico y alquimista para los más pobres. El pensamiento y los métodos de Zenón, que se apartan de la ortodoxia oficial, tienen un gran éxito entre la población flamenca, pero corren el riesgo de ser condenados por la Inquisición. (FILMAFFINITY)
moeder Lydia
When his wife Lydia commits suicide, succesful attorney Robert Havinck is freed from his unhappy marriage. Unfortunately, it turns out she took a complete stranger along with her, and a feeling of guilt and curiosity about her motives lead Havinck to team up with his fifteen-year old daughter to explore Lydia's final days.
In this erotic drama, Marcel (Ralph Michael) fantasizes about being with his daughter-in-law Simone (Beatie Edney) after the death of his wife. The woman pretends to be surprised over his attention but does nothing to discourage his advances. He promises to build her a swimming pool in order to further his fantasies. The story is taken from the novel by Junichiro Tamizaki.
Moeder van Nora
A building contractor and his spouse are driven apart by financial worries. Tony is an energetic personality well on in his 30s, presuming upon having everything under control. He's married to Nora, and they have two kids. Tony frequents tough assertiveness training sessions, owing to which he boosts up his self-confidence and considers himself to be the never-failing businessman and the perfect husband. As a result of his excessive investments and his haughty attitude, his company gets under a heavy cloud. When bankruptcy has become inevitable, his problems also affect family life. He starts taking his problems out on his wife who seems to be able to cope with the new situation more easily. She makes him see how vulnerable he really is.
Barbele
In a part of Flanders where flax is the main crop, farmer Vermeulen rules his estate like an 'old school' patriarch, stern and authoritarian, nobody else's word is ever taken seriously, just scolded fools, he rather risks being wrong then considering any advice. His marriage is based on a grim understanding: the wife Barbele accepts his heartless manner with everyone, even their studious, smart, healthy, studly son and heir Louis, but his two silly sisters are spoiled with a pointless fancy nunnery boarding school education fit for the upper classes. Farm-life is hard enough, laboring without machines or reliable weather, but this year the stubborn master made it even worse by picking the riskier, badly drained field and sowing later then his neighbors, even when luck turns he'll fetch a lower price for it. Poor practically perfect Louis is granted neither praise, respect nor any pleasure, however hard and well he slaves, obedient like the hired farmhands although well-read. Even ...
Mrs. Mies
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.
Moeder Andre
Finales del siglo XIX. Katty, huyendo de la pobreza, abandona su pueblo y se traslada a Ámsterdam, donde ejerce la prostitución para mejorar el nivel de vida de su familia. En la capital conocerá el poder de corrupción del dinero y el sórdido mundo de la explotación sexual.
The story of a young woman with mental problems told in a non-chronological fashion.
Mary
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.
mevrouw Laarmans
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.
Coleta
After World War I, widower Renier has returned to his estate Horlebecq. His sole diversion is his correspondence with the Parisian Rolande, who he met during the war. Even though his family is pressuring him into marrying his sister-in-law Emily, Renier stays obsessed with Rolande and even visits her in Paris. She manages to persuade him to invest large sums of money into the "Academie de Beauté" in Paris. His reckless investments and breaking off his engagement with Emily leads to unbearable tensions at Horlebecq...
Costume Designer
Jonny loves Jessy, but he likes his car even more and therefore Jessy breaks up with him.
Un experto en espionaje industrial retirado (Frank Langella), vive con su mujer (Faye Dunaway) e hijos en Paris, donde trabaja como experto en informática. Para obligarlo a volver a su anterior oficio, una poderosa organización secreta secuestra a sus hijos.
Film in cinéma-vérité style exploring the boundery between fiction and reality of actors and the roles they (have to) play.
Sylvie Dideloo
Cassavio (Orson Welles) es un extraño personaje que, al borde de su muerte, lega a sus descendientes su fortuna y su mansión “Malpertius”. Un caserón que esconde un oscuro secreto y del que es muy difícil escapar.
Mw. Deschamps
A woman disguises herself as a man to avoid prosecution for murdering her lover fifteen years ago. She is the last living member of a wealthy Vienna family, and has spent the years after the murder traveling Europe with her female servant. Her travels provide her with an anonymous cloak that allows her freedom of movement but little peace of mind. Nearing middle age, the guilt and weariness of an empty life has her contemplating suicide as the only way out of her dilemma.
Olga
Each year Thomas goes an a pilgrimage but he has more difficulty to complete it, but then he is offered a footbath that appears to contain a miracle drug. Wouldn't this make a huge seller during Expo 58 in Brussels... .
Lottie
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.
Jessy Labroche
A widower is being courted by 3 women, ... .
Prostituée
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.
herself
A portrait of the belgian writer Herman Teirlinck by Henri Storck.
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.