
Jan Decleir
Actor · b. 1946 · Niel, Flanders, Belgium
Jan Decleir (born February 14, 1946, in Niel, Belgium) is a Belgian film, television and stage actor, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in Flemish cinema. He made his film debut in Mira (1971) and gained international recognition for his performances in Character (1997), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Oscar nominated drama Daens (1992). Alongside his extensive screen career, he is also a highly respected theatre actor and a central figure in Flemish cultural life.
Movies24
Movie6.9DramaMysteryFive close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.
Loft
2008 · 445 votes
Movie6.0FamilyFantasyWhen his grandfather suddenly falls ill, holiday-hating Jules learns of his family's magical legacy and realizes he's the only hope to save Christmas.
Movie6.5DramaWarTwo young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II.
Movie6.4FamilyComedyJules Claus has embraced Christmas again and is getting ready for the busiest time of the year together with grandpa Noël. Everything seems to go according to plan, until Jules receives a very special letter with an intriguing question...
Movie6.9DramaComedyAfter World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.
Movie5.9RomanceColin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a passionate pigeon fancier. The sheikh has tried several times to buy a champion pigeon, but the owner continues to stubbornly refuse his offer. In an attempt to gain the trust of the Sheikh, Colin offers him a deal: if he manages to convince the owner to sell the champion pigeon, the sheikh will agree to do business with Colin's company. But when Colin meets Jos, the grumpy owner of the pigeon, and Isabella, his granddaughter, he realizes that this mission will not be as easy as he had hoped.
Flying Home
2014 · 249 votes
Movie5.7FamilyComedyWhen the delivery of presents goes wrong and Grandpa Noël gets in trouble, siblings Jules and Noor must work together to save Christmas.
Movie6.3DramaThe true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999 · 20 votes
Movie6.4ComedyDramaBusinessman Christian Vandenheuvel planned to spend the long weekend with his young mistress, Lisa. Instead, they're take hostage by Jos Diels and Nick, two of the 46 laborers who lost their job recently when Christian had his family film bankrupted. Each victim fails to escape, even the fire alarm doesn't get them freed. After Jos realizes the mistress is his only daughter, and Nick falls in love with Lisa, the masked men's mood evolves as they progress to truth time, when the police arrives.
Movie7.3HistoryDramaIn pre-WWII Holland, the penniless, illegitimate son of a powerful bailiff sets out to become a lawyer as he spends a lifetime struggling to prove his worth to his relentlessly spiteful father.
Movie5.8DramaAt the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.
Movie6.2FamilyThe tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his dream of running free with the help of a stableboy.
Running Free
1999 · 15 votes
Movie7.3DramaHistoryIn one fell swoop, nine-year old David Van de Steen lost his mother, his father and his sister in an attack by the Brabant Killers in Aalst. His grandfather, Albert, has the well-nigh impossible task of giving David a new perspective on life, a future.
Movie5.9ComedyYoung journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
Movie10.0She's a lawyer with a social conscience. He's a calculating industrialist who keeps many deals hidden from her. But when she discovers that her husband is involved in illegal arms traffic and is also having an affair with one of her colleagues, a direct confrontation ensues.
Dilemma
1990 · 1 votes
Movie6.4Drama1985. Georges is a born market vendor. As a driven salesman he sells anything, anytime, to anyone. When he hears that the Pope is coming to Belgium, he smells his chance. In addition to the grounds, where tens of thousands of believers will attend an open-air mass, Café Derby is for rent. Georges is sure to earn a small fortune. But his wife and five children are not convinced. It would be another move in too short a time. But as George puts his mind to something...
Café Derby
2015 · 14 votes
Movie6.4FamilyNine year old Finn lives with his father in a small town. Together with his best friend Erik he plays football, but he prefers to play music. His dad wants him to play football, just like every other kid his age. Finn does not understand why, but his father doesn't want to talk about it. When Finn meets a mysterious old man, who plays the violin beautifully, he decides to learn how to play the violin as well. The old man teaches him, while Finn's dad thinks he is playing football... Is Finn the only one who sees the magic of music? What does his father hide?
Finn
2013 · 19 votes
Movie5.3DramaIn 1833, when the fledgling Belgian kingdom still fears a Dutch invasion, recruits were selected annually from an age cohort by a draw of lots in each locality. In this grim, then contemporary drama by the 'father of Flemish literature', Hendrik Conscience, Jan Braems, a poor and naive farmers-boy, accepts the not uncommon offer by a rich family to sell his lucky ticket (out) to their son for a hefty sum compared to the miserable labor wages at the time. Army life is even harsher then a farmhand's, especially for a Dutch-speaking an-alphabet who simply can't understand his francophone superiors, and Jan's nature is not complacent enough for military discipline even by todays standards, so he soon gets into all kinds of trouble, including gambling his capital away and a venereal disease. When his girlfriend back home goes looking for him, her life is doomed as well.
Movie6.8ComedyRomanceAn eccentric multimillionaire signs an agreement to have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman who has signed up for the same arrangement. Trouble ensues when the couple falls in love and wishes to get out of the contract.
Movie2.3Marieke wants to live her life. But how can she succeed if love has been taken away from her? She seeks warmth in the arms of much older men to find the strength to face the past and finally be herself. Marieke is 20 years old. She lives with her mother, Jeanne, a woman left cold and distant ever since her husband died. During the day, Marieke works in a Brussels chocolate factory. At night, she escapes into the arms of much older men. With them she feels strong, cherished and free. The arrival of Jacoby, a book editor living abroad, searching for her father's last manuscript, upsets Marieke's precarious balance. Her mother does everything in her power to keep them apart. She fears that he will reveal the secret that has remained hidden for so many years. Marieke falls in love with Jacoby but devastated by the truth of her father's death, she sinks despair. Will she find the strength to accept the truth and live anew?
Marieke, Marieke
2010 · 4 votes
Movie5.9AdventureFantasyDolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the danger is not coming from outside the crusade, but from within.
Movie5.5HistoryDramaGerrit de Veer, a novice writer on a 16th-century Dutch merchant vessel, chronicles the daring mission to discover a trade route across the North Pole to Asia. But the heroic journey turns into tragedy when the ship gets stuck in the relentless, penetrating ice. The men are forced to spend the winter on the frozen, arctic wasteland of Nova Zembla, fighting polar bears, hunger and lethal temperatures. Their chances of making it until the following spring are virtually zero.
Nova Zembla
2011 · 78 votes
- Movie2.0ThrillerDrama
Paparazzo
2007 · 2 votes
Movie8.0CrimeA police officer investigates the case of a man shot dead in a room locked from the inside. A suicide? Then where's the gun?
Beck – De gesloten kamer
1993 · 2 votes
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TV7.4Action & AdventureDramaJasper Vloemans works in a small chocolate factory that employs mentally challenged workers to package its products. He falls in love with one of his colleagues: Tina, a girl from Kosovo. When Tina is suddenly deported to her home country, Jasper and his friends set out on a road trip to find her.
Tytgat Chocolat
2017 · 5 votes
TV9.0FamilyKidsDe grote boze wolf show
2000 · 2 votes
TV7.0ComedyFollowing the sudden death of the family patriarch, the four argumentative Vrancken brothers are forced to live under the same roof for an entire year before they can claim their inheritance. Deliciously dark Belgian comedy.
TV8.0Dag Sinterklaas was a Flemish television program with Bart Peeters who goes every day visit St. Nicholas and Zwarte Piet in a castle, their temporary abode when they are in Belgium to hand out presents on the sixth of December. St. Nicholas has a horse named Slecht Weer Vandaag.
Dag Sinterklaas
1992 · 2 votes
TV7.5DramaAfter the CEO of a milkfactory dies a violent death, his three daughters Roos, Floor and Frédérique take over the company.
Meiden van de Wit
2002 · 2 votes
TV7.8Sci-Fi & FantasyComedyKulderzipken is a Flemish television series that premiered in 1995. Two seasons of ten episodes each have been made since then.
Kulderzipken
1995 · 5 votes
TVDocumentaryA series of eight episodes documenting 250.000 years of history. Charles Groenhuijsen takes us along sights and locations that historically harbored various inhabitants of ‘The Lowlands’. In what today is known as The Netherland, Belgium, Germany, New York, Ghana, Surinam, and Indonesia, Charles will be looking for the stories of ‘our’ past through potsherds, bones, stones, ancient text's, drawings, paintings, pictures, radio, and tv- fragments
TV7.5DramaWij Heren Van Zichem
1968 · 2 votes
TV10.0Action & AdventureKeromar
1971 · 1 votes
TV9.0ComedyBuiten De Zone (translated as "Out of the Zone") is a Flemish youth series (1994-1996) about five volunteers at the Jongerenfoon, a helpline that rarely receives calls. Out of boredom, they fantasize about absurd and humorous situations, where reality and fiction constantly blur. Each episode revolves around a theme such as love, fear, or fame. The series is known for its humor, satire, and social criticism and has become a cult classic.
Buiten De Zone
1994 · 11 votes
TV8.5CrimeDramaA story of friendship, love, crime and death. Against the backdrop of a large criminal investigation the lives of various characters involved get entangled. Meanwhile a vulture floats in the sky over the city, observing and being watched.
TV8.7De Kavijaks
2007 · 3 votes
TV6.5DramaNetje grows up in a poor working-class family in Antwerp. She is the youngest of four children and the apple of her father's eye. Her mother, on the other hand, would rather not have had a fourth child. Netje does not have a happy childhood, and her future does not look bright either. But the harsh realities of life turn Netje into a strong woman who, despite all the setbacks, never gives up and continues to search for happiness.
Moeder, waarom leven wij?
1993 · 2 votes
TV5.5DramaIn this filmed version of Flemish author Jef Gheeraerts' novel, Robert 'Robbe' Parain, an arrogant Antwerp police detective who operates at the limits of illegality and is in personal debt, tenaciously traces but also gets personally entangled in the dark, ruthless, criminal sides of the publicly so glamorous trade in diamonds, notably in his native Antwerp, Hong Kong, Brussels and Congo.
Diamant
1997 · 4 votes
TV4.0Action & AdventureDramaThe story of Stan Vandewalle, who's on his way to becoming a sports hero. On his way to the top he encounters many challenges: keeping up appearances, easy women, alcohol, drugs and money... lots of money.
Koning van de Wereld
2007 · 3 votes
TVKidsFamilyIn Sinteressante dingen, Professor Herman Van den Uytleg, professor of the interesting and speculative sciences, comments on the adventures of Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet. For example, Sint and Piet experience exciting stories on the steamer, they look for a solution for the sick Captain and much more!
TV7.5DramaStan Moereels is found dead. Was it suicide, or was he killed? Stan's foster-child Jana Meyer decides to investigate. Alexander Vorlat doesn't make it easy for her. He has his own reasons to make it difficult for everyone around him.
Stille Waters
2001 · 4 votes
TV5.3DramaComedyA show about carnaval in Knorrendonk
TV6.5DramaThe story takes place on Terschelling, which is closed off from the rest of the Netherlands at the end of the 19th century. Sil Droeviger, a farmer in Oosterend, supplements his income for his family, consisting of his wife Jaakje and sons Jelle and Wietse, with beachcombing. One day a strong storm arises and Sil rescues a girl from a sunken Swedish dinghy, while the mother drowns. Sil takes the girl home and raises her as his own daughter. He calls her Lobke, just like their daughter who died shortly after birth.
Sil de strandjutter
1976 · 6 votes