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- DirectorMarc CaroJean-Pierre JeunetStarsRon PerlmanDaniel EmilforkJudith VittetA scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
- DirectorRémy BelvauxAndré BonzelBenoît PoelvoordeStarsBenoît PoelvoordeJacqueline Poelvoorde-PappaertNelly PappaertA film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.
- DirectorMichael RadfordMassimo TroisiStarsMassimo TroisiPhilippe NoiretMaria Grazia CucinottaA simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsLeonardo DiCaprioDavid ThewlisRomane BohringerYoung, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsÉmilie DequenneFabrizio RongioneAnne YernauxYoung and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
- DirectorMike van DiemStarsPavlik Jansen op de HaarJan DecleirFedja van HuêtJacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs.
- DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsDaniel AuteuilPascal DuquenneMiou-MiouAn unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum.
- DirectorRadu MihaileanuStarsLionel AbelanskiRufusClément HarariIn 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
- DirectorMichel OcelotRaymond BurletStarsDoudou Gueye ThiawMaimouna N'DiayeAwa Sene SarrKirikou, an unusual little boy, must search the wisdom of the forbidden mountain in order to save his village from a spell cast by the evil sorceress Karaba
- DirectorAlain BerlinerStarsGeorges Du FresneMichèle LaroqueJean-Philippe ÉcoffeyLudovic is an innocent seven-year-old child who provokes horror in his community when he dresses in girls clothes and insists he's a girl.
- DirectorMarleen GorrisStarsWilleke van AmmelrooyJan DecleirVeerle van OverloopA Dutch matron establishes and, for several generations, oversees a close-knit, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism thrive.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsJérémie RenierOlivier GourmetAssita OuedraogoRoger uses his son Igor to ruthlessly traffic and exploit undocumented immigrants. When one of the immigrants is killed, Igor is guilt-ridden and wants to care for the dead man's family against his father's orders.
- DirectorKevin Alyn EldersStarsDennis RodmanDane CookJohn PinetteBasketball superstar Dennis Rodman stars as a hip Interpol agent attempting to defeat the deadly plans of a crazed arms dealer.
- DirectorGérard CorbiauStarsStefano DionisiEnrico Lo VersoElsa ZylbersteinThe story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th-century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli.
- DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsMichel BouquetMireille PerrierJo De BackerThomas believed he was switched at birth with Alfred. Feeling cheated, Thomas spent his life plotting revenge against Alfred, his perceived lifelong adversary who he felt stole the privileged life that should have been his.
- DirectorFrédéric FonteyneStarsNathalie BayeSergi LópezJacques VialaA woman puts an ad in a magazine looking for a man to fulfill her fantasy of a stringless, anonymous pornographic affair.
- DirectorClaude BerriStarsRenaudGérard DepardieuMiou-MiouIn mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
- DirectorStijn ConinxStarsJan DecleirGérard DesartheAntje de BoeckIn the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.
- DirectorAlain ChabatStarsElliotCaroline CellierJean-Pierre BacriJean-Pierre, a frazzled sport agent, has better things to do than to look after his friend's labrador Didier. An amazing discovery will lead him off on an amazing adventure.
- DirectorPhilip RidleyStarsBrendan FraserAshley JuddViggo MortensenA young man who has spent his life as a member of an ultraconservative Christian cult loses his parents and becomes disoriented, wandering into a forest and meeting a coffin transporter, a caring woman, her mute boyfriend, and his mother.
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsRami DoueiriNaamar SahliMohamad ChamasIn April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.
- DirectorJeroen KrabbéStarsLaura FraserAdam MontyIsabella RosselliniAgainst a background of holocaust memories, a liberal Jewish girl becomes a nanny to a young Jewish boy with a disability and grows fond of him.
- DirectorStijn ConinxJef Van de WaterStarsUrbanusBea Van Der MaatWilleke van AmmelrooyPlacide's dad tells him on his deathbed he'll haunt him if he doesn't find a woman soon. When he accidentally enters a photo shoot, Placide meets Sarah.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsJuliette BinocheWilliam HurtStephanie ButtleA psychoanalyst in NYC exchanges apartments with a woman in Paris. When his patients show up, they talk to her and then pay. He returns early to NYC and becomes a patient.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsAna BelénVictoria AbrilAriadna GilAt the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
- DirectorBenoît JacquotStarsIsabelle HuppertVincent MartinezVincent LindonFashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, along with the man's violent and abusive nature, force Dominique to reconcile the conflicts created by her passion. In this quest, Dominique is aided [and sometimes hindered] by friends, clients, and Quentin's former and current acquaintances.
- DirectorErik Van LooyStarsTom Van LanduytMathias SercuTom Van BauwelCollege initiation rites on one Belgian campus end in tragic death of one freshman. His friends are determined to see the justice done.
- DirectorBenoît MariageStarsBenoît PoelvoordeMorgane SimonBouli LannersDreaming of more than his routine life, a father pushes his 15 years old son to break a world record: opening and closing a door 40,000 times in 24 hours.
- DirectorPaul CoxStarsDavid WenhamKate CeberanoJan DecleirThe true story of the nineteenth century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
- DirectorLéon Paul De BruynStarsSusanna MakayHajni BrownCelia FaragoBizzare, often perverse yarn about nurses in a metropolitan hospital who seduce then murder male patients.
- DirectorMartine DugowsonStarsRomane BohringerElsa ZylbersteinFlorence ThomassinThe film tells the story of two girls who are of totally different character. They know each other since their childhood and were friends until they became teenagers. But growing up and becoming adults they go different ways.
- DirectorRoel ReinéStarsFedja van HuêtFrederick StuartAurélie MerielAfter watching their small business go up in flames, three lifelong friends need money fast. Opportunity knocks when a local drug lord offers them a small fortune to smuggle 25 million dollars worth of Ecstasy from Amsterdam to Barcelona.
- DirectorMathieu KassovitzStarsJulie MauduechHubert KoundéMathieu KassovitzLola is pregnant. But she does not know who the father is: Jamal, the black muslim, son of diplomats, or Felix, the pennyless jewish messenger. Jamal and Felix meet at Lola's, and the race begins.
- DirectorFérid BoughedirStarsSonia MankaïAva Cohen-JonathanSarah ParienteSummer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.
- DirectorFrank Van PasselStarsFrank VercruyssenAntje de BoeckAnn PetersenA young man having lost his familiy as a boy in an accident comes to Brussels. There he falls in love with a girl who drives trams.
- DirectorNana DzhordzhadzeStarsPierre RichardNino KirtadzeMicheline PresleThe story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
- DirectorDominique DeruddereStarsPete PostlethwaiteAntonie KamerlingGéraldine PailhasThe disabled Glover asks gigolo Chris to bring out his erotic fantasies. Chris accepts the offer in exchange for a lot of money, and dives in bed with women in suite 16 while Glover watches. But then something goes horribly wrong.
- DirectorJan VerheyenStarsStany CretsPeter Van den BeginBart De PauwTony is a homosexual law student who quits his studies. With a van and a handful of cash, he hits the road hoping to become a salesman. This, however, turns out to be harder than he expected.
- DirectorBernard-Henri LévyStarsAlain DelonLauren BacallArielle DombasleA French author who fled to Mexico for a quiet life and an actress who is willing to seduce him to get a part in a film adapted from one of his books.
- DirectorJan BucquoyStarsJean-Henri CompèreNoe FrancqIsabelle LegrosA semi-autobiography of the first 28 years of the director, the Flemish anarchist Jan Bucquoy.
- DirectorPatrice ToyeStarsAranka CoppensSara de RooDirk RoofthooftIn a juvenile lockup, a new ward answers questions: she's Rosie, 13, no parents, a sister Irene, a brother Michel. In flashbacks we find out what happened. She lives with Irene, who's 27, whom Rosie knows is in fact her mother, but that's their secret. Irene's brother Michel, unemployed, a compulsive gambler, comes to stay with them. Around then, Irene meets Bernard; they come to care for each other. This leaves Rosie without attention, so she puts all her adolescent hopes and romantic fantasies into a relationship with Jimi, a good looking kid she sees on a bus. Is it adventures with Jimi that land her in juvie? Once she's there, why doesn't he answer her letters?
- DirectorJos StellingStarsRené GroothofVeerle DobbelaereRené van 't HofLate 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War. Flanders, 1568: Italian minstrel Campanelli tells he followed a Dutchman, the robber of a golden chalice, but failed to prevent him being taken -after banging a country-girl- by the men of a rigid farmer Netelneck, who has him tied-up inside a huge shit-container. After Campanelli frees him, the gold stays inside, and the Dutchman is killed, but the minstrel turns to offer the paying audience a happier version. Seven years later, he scares the Dutchman's posthumous son into bringing him food and convinces the kid he can fly, like his dad, who is on a grand ship, but fails to drag the gold out and is blinded and chased by Netelneck. Fourteen years later, the minstrel returns and tricks Netelneck into diving after the gold himself so he can drawn the bastard, then sets the 'little Dutchman' on the road to find his father, who proves a mere thief living in a beached shipwreck. Both join a brigand band, but it ends up arrested by the Spaniards and imprisoned under the authority of Netelneck's son, who has him thrown in an oubliette forced to scoop water, but Lotte, his only lover ever, notices something she gave him and believes her son, now she's Netelneck junior's wife, is the little Dutchman's...
- DirectorBaz TaylorStarsJeff GoldblumMimi RogersJuan EchanoveAn American executive living in Europe plots to murder his judgmental, callous wife, only to get accused of actually murdering her when she disappears after leaving him over his own neurotic behavior.
- DirectorErik Van LooyStarsMickey RourkeGene BervoetsAndrew HowardA maverick director, a ruthless producer, a rebellious movie star, and a convicted serial killer, are all trying to survive the most deadliest place on earth - a movie set.
- DirectorDimitri de ClercqAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsFred WardArielle DombasleCharles TordjmanThe Blue Villa is a seedy bordello on a Mediterranean island where the villages are frightened by the ghost-like return of a young man, who mysteriously disappeared after the killing of a young Eurasian woman.
- DirectorPhilippe HaïmStarsJean RochefortGuillaume CanetClaire KeimA mad but cunning old man imprisons a young man in his apartment to be his friend.
- DirectorFrank HerreboutStarsDaniël BoissevainGonny GaakeerAngelique de BruijneTony is really handsome, but he smells. A scientist gives him a potion that should get rid of his fishy smell. Unfortunately, there are some serious side effects.
- DirectorMarion HänselStarsStephen ReaLing ChuAdrian BrineThe film tells the story of a strange friendship between an adult, already on the return of his path of life, and a Chinese girl who just begins her path. Nikos is the radio operator of a merchant ship and has just arrived in Hong-Kong. He is tired and wants to forget his problems by smoking opium. Innocence and hope turns to him in the person of Li, a Chinese girl who lives in a Sampan (a houseboat) and has to clean boats and empty trash-cans to survive.
- DirectorFreddy CoppensStarsJacques VermeireGreet RouffaerDanni HeylenMax sells trophies, but is much more interested in dancing than in selling.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsDirk van DijckKees PrinsPeer MasciniThe film takes place in a small cafe on the forecourt. When Gerard, one of the regular visitors, appears in the cafe to inform him that he is leaving, the usual course of the cafe's life suddenly breaks.
- DirectorStijn ConinxStarsFrancesca VanthielenJoachim KrólRick EngelkesA young woman spends an adventurous winter with a trapper on Spitsbergen.
- DirectorLudo CoxStarsChris van den DurpelGeena LisaJaak Van AsscheKamiel lives a quiet life with his dog Walter on a remote farm. The mayor announces the building of a recreational area on Kamiel's fields. He does not yield to pressure, but then Walter is dognapped.
- DirectorRaoul ServaisStarsArmin Mueller-StahlElliott SpiersKatja StudtA young prince is taken for tuition at a seaside hotel but quickly bores and wanders off to visit a nearby lighthouse. Befriended by the keeper, he learns of a secret world he can see inside the light of the lamp: the world of Taxandria, ruled by the dictatorship of the 'eternal present' where all machines, progress, and time have been banned. However, a naive but creative printing clerk unwittingly causes a revolution when he upsets a printing press and tries to replace the spilled letters only to have his new words taken for a subversive code. On the run he falls in love with a princess, discovers the forbidden art of photography, and sets out to fulfill his dream of building a flying machine.
- DirectorSólveig AnspachStarsKarin ViardLaurent LucasJulien CottereauWhile expecting her first child, Emma learns that she has breast cancer. The doctor plans an abortion. She consults another specialist, Doctor Morin, who says that the treatments can be followed while continuing the pregnancy.
- DirectorHans HylkemaStarsJeroen KrabbéRik LaunspachMartin SchwabJohan Ten Berghe joins the Dutch army when the Dutch East Indies unilaterally declare independence as Indonesia. He initiates his naive driver Twan in life in the East, having grown up there as son of colonial official Hendrik, now missing. Their adventures intertwine with Johan's childhood memories, especially concerning his native best friend, Oeroeg, who joined the rebellion, as well as their nanny and later de facto stepmother. Conflicting loyalties become tangible in extreme situations.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsGuilaine LondezThomas LangmannFrançois NégretJack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with Joseph and her days with Jack.
- DirectorFina TorresStarsAriadna GilArielle DombasleEvelyne DidiAna bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris (in her wedding gown) to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star. The great Parisian director Italo Medici is filming an operatic Cinderella, but will Ana "fit into the glass slipper" before she is deported back to Caracas? The evil, plotting, self-absorbed Celeste tries to thwart Ana, but Ana has a great team in her corner: her Russian voice coach, a wealthy lesbian psychoanalyst, a prescient gay waiter/astrologer, and a voodoo witch doctor. Fun and adventurous.
- DirectorThomas VincentStarsSylvie TestudAmar Ben AbdallahClovis CornillacWhile the local population of Dunkerque drinks away their dissatisfaction in life during the yearly Karnaval, second generation Algerian immigrant Larbi gets mixed up in the festivities looking for the local girl Bea.
- DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsJohn HurtRosana PastorAlice KrigeAn out-of-favor British politician is sent to Brussels as the new European Commissioner for Industry. He is made aware of a web of political and industrial corruption through a series of anonymous letters. Despite his own history of political expediency, the Commissioner rises to the moral challenge, and faces off with the evil forces responsible.
- DirectorEmmanuel FinkielStarsShulamit AdarLiliane RovèreEsther GorintinDuring a tour of a group of Israeli Jews of Polish origin, the bus in which Riwka is located breaks down between Warsaw and Auschwitz.
- DirectorHarry KümelStarsMarianne BaslerMonique van de VenJohan LeysenEline Vere is a neurotic young woman with a turbulent family.
- DirectorMarc PuntStarsDagmar LiekensSophie WintersTom Van LanduytTwo female kickboxers and a lawyer take on a crime lord.
- DirectorJan BucquoyStarsJean-Henri CompèreFanny HanciauxLolo FerrariOn a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and murder. The residents enjoy their holidays in a peculiar way...
- DirectorWillem WallynStarsPeter Van den BeginCarl RiddersHerbert FlackWillem is furious when a journalist makes fun of him because he acts hysterical in court during the Agusta scandal. He decides to kidnap the man and find out everything about him, but he discovers more than he bargained for.
- DirectorLuís Galvão TelesStarsMiou-MiouCarmen MauraMarthe KellerFive women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life's ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsGad ElmalehMessaoud HattauMagaly BerdySalut Cousin! is the tale of two Algerian cousins and their mishaps in the racially volatile environment of Paris.
- DirectorAgnès MerletStarsLudovic VandendaeleEric da SilvaSandrine BlanckeBrothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may date to their mother's leaving the family.) Martin is philosophical, romantic, and poetic: he dreams of being the son of a shark; he holds tight to a book about goldfish his mother gave him. In both halting and wild ways, he tries to court Marie, a neighbor girl. Simon, with a pocketknife and an intractable will, seems more dangerous to others. What, on earth, is there for these children-becoming-men?
- DirectorFilip Van NeyghemStarsJoren SeldeslachtsMelissa GorduynBenny ClaessensA series of mysterious events and the pestering motor gang 'The Red Vampires' turns the idyllic holiday of Blinker and his friends into a thrilling adventure.
- DirectorRobbe De HertStarsWerner De SmedtMapi GalánStuart LaingA true story about a Flemish resistance warrior.
- DirectorChris NewbyStarsNatalie MorseGene BervoetsToyah WillcoxIn the 14th-century, a visionary girl is to become an Anchoress, a walled-in recluse, so that she can live in the Virgin's house forever. Over time she awakens to her own sensuality and explores her own female, earth-based spirituality.
- DirectorFrancesco BarilliGiuseppe BertolucciMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsPhilippe NoiretOrnella MutiBruno GanzA collection of tales set on the Adriatic coast.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsFabrizio BentivoglioMichele PlacidoOmero AntonuttiAn intriguing look at a sinister web of power, linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
- DirectorGérard CorbiauStarsLaurent GrévillMartin LamotteChiara CaselliA sensitive, 14 year old orphan in a military school learns about life and love from his classmates and teachers.
- DirectorJean-Paul LilienfeldStarsUrbanusRenée SoutendijkHilde Van MieghemSamuel's life is a mess. His girlfriend just left him and he is out of a job. Having hit rock bottom, he decides suicide will be the only way out. While attempting to kill himself, he rescues the life of his neighbor Charlyne. Trying to cheer her up, he tells her he is sent from heaven to make her happy again.
- DirectorMarc PuntStarsAxel DaeseleireSuyin AertsGaston BerghmansThis is the story of Frans Van Reeth, a self-proclaimed Robin Hood who chooses a life of crime as a get rich quick scheme. He was known to be a daring and reckless burglar who was never armed and always under prepared.
- DirectorTonie MarshallStarsAnémoneNathalie BayeFrançois CluzetSassy waitress Sylvette, macho guy Sandro, shy bourgeoisie Sophie, and American actress Susan do not know one another and have little in common--except for having the same father: a scammer named Julius.
- DirectorBart van LeemputtenStarsWalter De DonderAimé AnthoniChris CauwenberghsFour gnomes are going on an adventure when one of them finds a treasure map. On the road they have to overcome a lot of challenging obstacles.
- DirectorKarim DridiStarsSami BouajilaNozha KhouadraPhilippe AmbrosiniIn Paris, Ismaél, a young Tunisian, cares for two brothers, Nouredine, a cripple, and streetwise Mouloud, 14. In haste, Ismaél and Mouloud go to Marseilles where an uncle lives. Nouredine has died in a fire, and Ismaél feels guilt on top of grief. Ismaél becomes friends with Jacky, a white man whose father and brother hate immigrants. Mouloud hangs out with cousin Rhida who breaks Islamic rules and deals hash. Ismaél decides Mouloud must return to Tunisia, but the boy runs off, becoming an acolyte to Rhida's supplier. Ismaél and Jacky's Arab girlfriend start an affair, friends betray friends, and the racism gets ugly. Can Ismaél rescue himself and Mouloud or will life in France crush them?
- DirectorCharlotte SilveraStarsJulie DelarmeGeorges CorrafaceMarie-Christine BarraultSabine, an adolescent girl with a gift for mathematics becomes involved with Jiri, a 40-something man-of-the-theatre from Prague. The story of their relationship and the gradual transformation of Sabine's life as a result of it.
- DirectorDominique DeruddereStarsJosse De PauwDirk RoofthooftHilde Van MieghemA businessman gets in serious financial troubles. When his mother dies, he thinks he's saved, but she only leaves 50.000 francs (1.500 USD). His brother Bruno, a customs officer, wants to use the money for her funeral, but our businessman prefers to use it to shake off his attackers. He promises them they will get through customs without problems with a certain package... Now his only problem is to convince Bruno...
- DirectorYves HancharStarsOlivier MaesPierre RichardChristian MailletIn 19th century, a disillusioned priest helps a young boy drifter who's a chess wunderkind to move on up in life and social structures using his talent. Years later, he's a success, but game of life and love has higher stakes than chess.
- DirectorJan VerheyenStarsMichael PasTom Van BauwelHilde HeijnenIn this light-hearted low-budget comedy, two very different Flemish tween bachelors are best buds. Peter is a responsible professional, who's excited to get his first proper account as copy-writer in a small Belgian publicity firm- for condoms, a product the conservative boss dreads as slightly obscene. Tom however is a dare-all without much sense of decency, who earns his living as process-server and repo-man for a judicial bailiff. In their free time they're nearly inseparable, Tom cheering up his somewhat gloomy realistic friend and urging him to take silly risks during a weekend at the seaside and even cheat on his steady girlfriend. When the graphics department refuses to execute Peters idea for the condom campaign without a live male model, only Tom is pleasantly mad enough to pose stark-naked.
- DirectorYvan Le MoineStarsJean-Yves TualAnita EkbergDyna GauzyLucien is a dwarf, who works hard in a large legal office. His only friend is trapeze circus artist Isis. One day he gets the attention of singer Paola Bendoni and falls in love with her.
- DirectorJean-Philippe ToussaintStarsTom NovembreMireille PerrierMarie-France PisierA film director tries to cope with his frantic producer, too-amorous actors, and a disaster-prone crew as he rushes to get his deeply symbolic hockey movie "Dolores" done in time for the Venice Film Festival.
- DirectorBenoît LamyStarsRichard BohringerUte LemperPapa WembaA man is trapped in an elevator, getting out proves to be more challenging than just asking for help.
- DirectorRobbe De HertStarsMichael PasFrank AendenboomBabette van VeenIn this sequel to Blueberry Hill, the boys of the Catholic metal working-class, who are now all working, decide to take revenge on the hated former principal Verbiest, after the sanctimonious 'pillar of society' assaulted one of their girls. Since he is now a close collaborator of the Belgian minister of education, planning to launch his own political career by showing off a fund-raising telethon on Flemish TV, where one of the boys works as a technician, they decide to expose him on the air.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsHippolyte GirardotRafik Ali AhmadHussein SbeityA French photograher is kidnapped and held hostage in a war-torn Beirut. Slowly but surely his integrity and self-respect is broken.
- DirectorRosa VergésStarsViktor LazloSergi MateuFernando Guillén CuervoSofía, a dentist, and Tristán, owner of a shoe store, live in the same building but have never met or even seen each other. Disenchanted with love, both have sworn never to fall in love again, until they finally meet.
- DirectorJuliusz MachulskiStarsAleksander BednarzGrzegorz DamieckiBernard-Pierre DonnadieuA young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved. However, the "little Polish war" looks completely different to the way that young Jeremin imagined it to be. In course of time, he learns to be on the wrong side. But there is no escape - he must kill or he will be killed. What's more, he falls in love with a beautiful Polish girl...
- DirectorNae CaranfilStarsFrançois CluzetIsabella FerrariMargherita BuyThis movie depicts the two years that young Stendhal spent in Italy. Stendhal, that time still known simply as Henri Beyle, is living the life of a wanderer, looking for a direction in his life, meeting famous Rossini and falling in love with young widow Giuseppina. A story of love, betrayal and an analysis of women and men's minds and souls.
- DirectorArmondo Linus AcostaStarsJohn HurtRobert PowellFrancesca AnnisAn eccentric bag lady rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the New World.
- DirectorGuido HenderickxStarsNatali BroodsIsnel Da SilveiraKatelijne DamenAn erotic road-movie about people that are going round in circles. It's about a girl, S., who is dangling between Brussels and New York, boys and girls, love and hate, life and death. She has a mother, a father, a boyfriend and a girlfriend, but none of them are any good to her.
- DirectorJulien VrebosStarsPeter Van den BeginAlexandra VandernootPascale BalA story about the insecurity and instability in Belgium 1980's created by extreme-right-wing politicians, gangsters and corrupt police officers.
- DirectorFrancisco MansoStarsNelson XavierMaria CeiçaChico DíazNopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways ...
- DirectorGer PoppelaarsStarsNick van BuitenTamar van den DopJohan Leysen* (Dutch with English subtitles) FAMILY (2000) A young boy develops a passion for archeology and tries to unravel the truth about his ancestry.
- DirectorAlain TannerStarsMyriam MézièresJuanjo PuigcorbéFélicité WouassiLady M. gives up everything to follow Diego on an aimless journey. On the way, she learns that he is married to a woman of color and has a child.
- DirectorMarion HänselStarsJohn LynchJonny PhillipsOscar PetersenThis thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest people based on the usual prejudices, black and coloured people who plant marijuana in this case. Meanwhile, the true assassin not only goes his way unpunished from the very beginning, but becomes one of the rural town's most respected citizens. The sheriff at one point does begin having certain suspicions, and from there on the bulk of the plot is played out. The location is a very arid part of South Africa, so with so much desert rock, there are bound to be quarries. Some may reveal important secrets.
- DirectorLuc PienStarsJos VerbistAnja DaemsCaroline MaesA celebrated Flemish writer, occupying a small apartment in a big Belgian city, which he uses as a working-place, witnesses how the inhabitants of a dead-end street try to fight the injustice of expropriation.
- DirectorRicky TognazziStarsVincent LindonSabrina FerilliLuca ZingarettiFrancesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It needs at least 60 million liras to participate to the deal, but all the banks refuse to lend the money. A corrupt bank employee introduces him to Claudio, apparently an assistant of Sergio, Francesco's old school friend. Sergio is an accountant available to lend Francesco the money he needs. Francesco wins the deal, but soon he discovers that Claudio is not what he says.
- DirectorYvon MarcianoStarsSergio CastellittoMarie TrintignantAnémoneAn illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy.