Josse De Pauw
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1952-03-15
Locus Natus: Asse, Flanders, Belgium
Et ut:
Toto the Hero
80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken...
release : 1991.05.17popularis : 7.804
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.
release : 2001.03.07popularis : 2.299
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...
release : 1983.11.03popularis : 2.165
Stronghold
An isolated farmhouse is chosen as a hide-out by criminals Jim and Charlie after an armed robbery. The Deleye family are forced to accept the...
release : 1985.03.14popularis : 1.846
25 Degrees in Winter
An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. He ends up helping her to find her husband who had...
release : 2004.07.21popularis : 4.188
Vinyan
Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles.
release : 2008.08.30popularis : 7.511
Someone Else's Happiness
A village outside Brussels is rocked when a child is killed in a hit-and-run accident and its inhabitants react in a variety of ways to the tragic...
release : 2005.12.07popularis : 3.289
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...
release : 1987.10.01popularis : 3.099
Orly
At the Paris airport Orly, a woman falls for a stranger, a family heads to a funeral, a couple lose touch, a wife reads her husband’s break-up...
release : 2010.06.01popularis : 2.019
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...
release : 2000.04.12popularis : 3.647
Skin
In a near future the world is split into two categories, the supporters of law and order on the one hand and the rebels on the other. Chico, a biker,...
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 1
Sailors Don't Cry
Hilde earns just enough to support herself and her son, but when his father returns the troubles begin.
release : 1989.03.09popularis : 1.756
Flying Home
Colin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a passionate pigeon fancier. The sheikh...
release : 2014.04.02popularis : 7.884
I Know I'll See Your Face Again
Writer Joris (the author's alter-ego) has packed in his job and left his routine. He wanders through Brussels, pretending to be in other places and...
release : 2001.02.21popularis : 0.262
The Flying Dutchman
Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale...
release : 1995.05.11popularis : 3.011
Wild Mussels
A group of friends in their early twenties re-consider their boring lives in a sleepy fishing village in the Netherlands.
release : 2000.09.28popularis : 1.8
Nachtdoek
A tale of two gaps in a man’s life: a daughter who has left home, and a blank space on a museum wall.
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 0.799
Youth Without God
This French-Belgian drama, based on a novel by Odon von Horvath, is set in 1938 in a German city along the banks of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. It...
release : 1996.05.28popularis : 1.996
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...
release : 1989.11.01popularis : 3.11
The Eighth Day
Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful...
release : 1996.05.22popularis : 13.7
Everybody Happy
Burned-out comedian Ralph Hartman suffers from severe anxiety and fears he's being passed over by younger comedians. But his biggest problem comes in...
release : 2016.09.28popularis : 1.27
The Pointsman
A woman gets off a train by mistake and finds herself stranded alone with a peculiar man who doesn't even speak her language.
release : 1986.09.18popularis : 1.822
Cargo
'Cargo' brings the raw story of three brothers who own a family business in the fishery and are trying to save it from destruction. The passion for...
release : 2017.09.28popularis : 1.667
Patrick
Patrick is the handyman on his father's naturist campsite. The remaining time he dedicates to his hobby, designing and creating wooden furniture....
release : 2019.07.01popularis : 5.257
Hombres complicados
A 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...
release : 1998.08.13popularis : 0.568
The Passion of Darkly Noon
Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.
release : 1995.01.02popularis : 6.245
Bruxelles mon amour
3 generations of filmmakers tell a story about Brussels, 3 stories settled in the rue Saint Quentin, a forgotten street somewhere in the shadow of...
release : 2001.08.15popularis : 0.881
The Silent Pacific
Unrelenting pessimism dominates this slow-paced, dark film, the debut feature from director Digna Sinke dedicated to an archetypal born loser named...
release : 1984.03.15popularis : 0.595
Easy in Mind
A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries.
release : 1989.07.05popularis : 1.129
King of the World
Cinema version of the 5 part TV series. During World War II, Stan Vandewalle saves boxing trainer Max from the bombed German war prisoners camp, and...
release : 2006.12.06popularis : 0.639
Kursk
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118...
release : 2018.11.07popularis : 16.514
Beck – De gesloten kamer
A police officer investigates the case of a man shot dead in a room locked from the inside. A suicide? Then where's the gun?
release : 1993.09.02popularis : 0.937
Last Call
Old entertainer gets a last chance to play a serious role.
release : 1995.02.16popularis : 0.7
Cheese
Frans Laarmans temporarily abandons his job as an office worker to become a salesman for a big cheese company.
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 1.781
Maria
A young mother called Maria is returning home after a long abscence. Her kids have created their own fantasies as to why their mother has been away...
release : 2001.10.23popularis : 0.862
Especially on Sunday
Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by a stray dog; a lonely widow spies on her newly-wed...
release : 1991.09.26popularis : 2.982
Charlatan
3-part documentary on the life of Belgian singer Arno Hintjens.
release : 2021.04.20popularis : 1.876