François Beukelaers — Actor (12)
Ex Drummer (2007) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban
Ex Drummer
director: Koen Mortier actor: Dries Van Hegen / Gunter Lamoot
other title: 战鼓 / 戰鼓
Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
Sister Smile (2009) [Movie] TMDB
Sœur Sourire
director: Stijn Coninx actor: Cécile de France / Sandrine Blancke
other title: Sœur Sourire / Soeur Sourire – Die singende Nonne
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.
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen
director: André Delvaux actor: Senne Rouffaer / Beata Tyszkiewicz
other title: L'uomo dal cranio rasato / O Homem da Cabeça Rapada
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 graduation. Some time later, Miereveld has to attend an autopsy, and the shock of the experience deeply affects his mental balance. He finds out — or he believes so — that Fran has become a popular singer. He arranges to meet her to finally reveal his feelings. An ambiguous but perhaps tragic denouement follows which might be a figment of the protagonist's disturbed mind.
22nd of May (2010) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
22 Mei
director: Koen Mortier actor: Sam Louwyck / Titus De Voogdt
other title: 22. Mai / Soudain, le 22 mai
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 the victims. One by one he pulls them out, until something terrible takes place. In complete hysteria he runs off till he falls down from exhaustion. A woman's voice makes him raise his head. She's one of the victims he saved. She wants to know why the suicide bomber did it. This encounter projects him back in history and even in a surreal world. Thereafter he runs into everyone he saved and feels that their defeat shows many parallels with his own. Even his confrontation with the wrongdoer isn't that straightforward as he thought it would be and confronts him with the fact that guilt and innocence can be pretty much alike.
One Night... a Train (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Un soir, un train
director: André Delvaux actor: Yves Montand / Anouk Aimée
other title: Una sera... un treno / Laços Eternos
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 doubly enlightened university environment, this small difference is a shadow on the couple’s personal life. One day, during a train ride, Anne disappears and Mathias goes looking for her in an unknown city.
Crazy Love (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Crazy Love
director: Dominique Deruddere actor: Geert Hunaerts / Josse De Pauw
other title: Crazy Love - Compagni di sbronza / L’amour est un chien de l’enfer
Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man, Harry, in search of love. The first is as a youth, the second on the day of his high school graduation, and the third as a lonely, middle-aged man.
Going Home (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Oeroeg
director: Hans Hylkema actor: Jeroen Krabbé / Rik Launspach
other title: Oeroeg
Johan 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
Behind the Clouds (2016) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Achter de wolken
director: Cecilia Verheyden actor: Chris Lomme / Jo De Meyere
other title: Hinter den Wolken / Au-delà des nuages
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 is it possible to pick up the thread of a life that unraveled fifty years ago? The story of a wonderful last love affair, which is relived with the intensity of a first.