François Beukelaers

AKA:
2.8491

1938-02-02

Vilvoorde, Belgium

Biography

Crew Roles

Behind the screens : Les demoiselles de Rochefort
Director
Behind the screens : Jacques Demy’s Les demoiselles de Rochefort - Les décors
Director
Director
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {53}

Bishop

1993-09-10 6

Anchoress

A 16th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror

Pa Verbeek

2007-01-31 6.8

Ex Drummer

Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Jean

2009-08-19 6

The Over the Hill Band

Upon the death of her husband, Claire (70) decides to reconnect with her estranged son, down and out R&B musician Sid. She asks him to help her restart the old girl group she used to sing in with two ...
Genre :

Chief Winemaker

2009-09-01 4.597

The Vintner's Luck

A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life - his beautiful wife Celeste, baroness Aurora de V ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Romance

L'évêque

2009-04-29 6.542

Sister Smile

A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self. ...
Genre :Drama

Val

1968-09-06 6

One Night... a Train

The Belgian linguistics professor Matthias is going through a difficult period in relations with his girlfriend Anne. She is French, he is Belgian, and, oddly enough for an enlightened Europe and a do ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

False Stranger

1973-01-17 5.6

Belle

A married, middle-aged professor meets a mysterious woman in the woods and has an affair with her. ...
Genre :Drama

Raymond Stasse

1997-10-29 5.2

Oesje!

The film is about a Flemish farmer, Kamiel Spiessens, who does everything he can to defend his land against a Dutch businessman. That man wants to build an amusement park on the land. ...
Genre :

Salesman

2010-11-17 6.184

22nd Of May

Sam wakes up, gets ready and goes to do his daily job. And then the unexpected happens. A bomb explodes in the center of the shopping mall where he works. He drags himself towards the entrance to save ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Thriller

NTO directeur

2000-04-12 5.471

Everybody's Famous!

Jean is a family man and factory worker who dreams of becoming a songwriter. Pinning his hopes on his teenage daughter, Marva, he takes her to singing contests in which the awkward and overweight girl ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Music

Jef

2018-01-01 0

Her name was

An elderly lady called Ida is wasting away in a retirement home until one day she meets a new resident named Jef. They fall in love and decide to liven up place. ...
Genre :Drama

Patient

1966-09-05 6.7

The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short

Govert Miereveld is a lawyer from a small Flemish town who also teaches in a school for girls. He harbors a secret love for one of his young students, Fran, whom he loses touch with after her graduati ...
Genre :Drama

Max

1983-11-03 5.5

Brussels by Night

This is the story of a man who travels to Brussels, and meets some people with whom he spends a few days. When they all go on a day trip to the "slanting plane" of Ronquieres, all sorts of bottled up ...
Genre :Drama

Marcel

1993-06-10 7

A Man Needs a Plan

Marcel and Jim, two friends, appear to be plagued by a midlife crisis which is ruining both their artistic and emotional lives. ...
Genre :

JCVD's Father

2008-06-04 6.7

JCVD

Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from hi ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Comedy, Crime

1997-08-13 6

A Hard Day's Work

A young thug is up to no good. ...
Genre :Crime

General Cassiman

2006-01-01 5.4

Stormforce

A maverick military diver gets demoted to a dangerous search-and-rescue squadron and must gain the trust of his new team. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

Jozef Woeste

2014-09-26 5.1

Waste Land

A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

2022-09-25 0

When Giants Die

When giants die let three generations look back on the street happenings around parties and manifestations. The grandfather appears as a ghost and represents processions organized by order of cities a ...
Genre :Documentary

Diederik De Caluwe

2022-10-26 7

Zillion

It's 1997. Frank Verstraeten, a computer genius with a nose for business, a fascination for nightlife and an unhealthy urge to prove himself, only wants one thing: his own disco that not only outperfo ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

1993-10-21 0

Shadowland

When Laura was six, her parents got divorced and her father disappeared from her life. The happiness she experienced on her final journey with her father, when he danced with her at a flea market in B ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

1960-01-01 0

La tricheuse

Lily is a lost girl who lived a miserable childhood. Now she works for Martial, a small-time crook. One day, she meets Armand, a shy high school student, the son of a renowned surgeon. And she discove ...
Genre :

1982-10-27 6.7

Toute une nuit

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Arnold

2016-02-10 4.2

Behind the Clouds

Two people meet again after more than 50 years. They were lovers once, but their lives took different turns: she married his best friend. Fifty years later, they meet again and passion flares up. But ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Helmer

1989-11-01 6

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his bricklayer father wastes the little money he has in the Impe ...
Genre :Drama

Maurice

2012-12-26 6.045

A Lady in Paris

Anne leaves Estonia to come to Paris as a caretaker for Frida, an elderly Estonian lady who emigrated to France long ago. Anne soon realizes that she is not wanted. All Frida wants from life is the at ...
Genre :Drama

self

1991-01-01 5

Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium

The film narrates the day-to-day existence of a filmmaker wandering through his city (Brussels) and who has a notion to follow in the footsteps of dramatist Antonin Artaud and visit the Tarahumara peo ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Laurent

1979-08-29 7

Melancoly Baby

Olga is married to Laurent, who is devoted to his career and often leaves Olga at home alone when he travels away for work. Whilst she is rich and wants for nothing, she is terribly bored with life. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Baron

1988-12-18 0

't Bolleken

Mr. Vitàl is the sole heir and initially very energetic nephew of an elderly rentier, Uncle Ken, who succumbs to years of excessive enjoyment of the finer things in life, especially too much gin and t ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

1975-08-15 6.3

Met Dieric Bouts

A filmed essay about the painter Bouts. ...
Genre :Documentary

Priest

2018-01-24 6.864

Gangsta

Antwerp, Belgium. The lives of four small-time drug dealers spin out of control when they steal a shipment of cocaine, triggering a full out war between an Amsterdam drug lord and a ruthless Colombian ...
Genre :Thriller, Action, Crime

The doctor

1987-10-01 6.117

Crazy Love

Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Jean, de Congolees

1986-01-01 2.5

Congo Express

Jean, an ex-colonial, and his girlfriend Nadia run the Congo Express bar, a meeting place for three different generations and their stories. ...
Genre :Drama

man in grey

1979-01-01 3.8

Beef Cattle

Thomas, in his forties, holds an important post in a slaughterhouse. He is engaged to Marie-Rose, the daughter of the director, whom he hopes to follow later. In a routine examination in the hospital, ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

Jack

1993-01-01 0

The Bastards

Short film. ...
Genre :Comedy

Joseph

1985-01-30 5.333

Istanbul

A student quits his vacation job to go to Istanbul with a sinister and fascinating man. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Mike Forrester

1989-09-08 3

Cruel Horizon

Nick Vandom met his local friend Mai as a soldier during the Vietnam War. When the US troops flee the withdrawal, Nick manages to make his way to the airport with Mai, where the two become their own. ...
Genre :Adventure, Action

Dr. Löngschlöng

2016-12-05 0

SIZZLIN’ BACON

Jurgen Vanderspek (a.k.a. James Vanderbacon) is a senior in high school. He is a loudmouthed macho who loves to tell juicy anecdotes about his sexual escapades, but actually, he is still a virgin. Whe ...
Genre :Comedy

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Ana Temnei

Genre :

Hubert

2008-02-19 5

Happy Together

Martin is a successful man with a well-paid job at a pharmaceutical company. He lives with his family in an upscale neighborhood of a Belgian city, and is already making plans for another home in Tusc ...
Genre :Drama

Zijn Vader

2015-08-18 0

Homeful Bliss

One evening, 38-year-old Frank returns to his quiet residential house where his family has organised a surprise birthday party. Everybody is present: his wife, two children, brother, sister-in-law, hi ...
Genre :

Ignace De Baerdemaeker

2012-03-01 6.7

Danni Lowinski

A former hairdresser graduates from law school and starts working as a cheap legal consultant. Her ambition, her spontaneous and unique way to investigate cases, her big heart and her first successes ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Dokter Floren

1995-01-01 4

Ons Geluk

Genre :Drama

Giovanni Busso

1998-12-27 6.2

Recht op Recht

Genre :Drama

Walter

2017-10-29 7.41

Tabula Rasa

A psychological thriller about Mie, a young woman with amnesia who is locked up in a secure psychiatric hospital. Mie is visited by Detective Inspector Wolkers who claims she was the last person seen ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Antoine De Prins

2010-09-24 1

Ella

Genre :Soap

Karel Donkers

2007-12-09 7

Katarakt

Genre :Drama

de kolonel

2001-03-05 0

Veel Geluk, Professor!

Genre :Drama

1994-01-01 8

Kats & Co

Genre :Crime, Drama

Fons Verbiest

1991-12-30 6.1

Familie

'Familie' is the longest running Belgian soap opera. The Van den Bossches originally had an electronics company, later a holding company that included a clothing chain and a sandwich shop. In the mean ...
Genre :Soap

Staf Swinnen

2013-07-01 0

Binnenstebuiten

Genre :Drama, Soap

Dirk Van Stavoort

2004-02-13 5.455

Aspe

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Dokter

2015-09-30 8.9

Bevergem

The inhabitants of Bevergem can at least be called special. One day, stand-up comedian Freddy De Vadder also moves in. Why? Nobody knows. And he keeps quiet himself. The inhabitants of Bevergem are ch ...
Genre :Comedy