François Beukelaers

François Beukelaers

Born: February 2, 1938
in Vilvoorde, Belgium

Movies for François Beukelaers...

Zillion
Title: Zillion
Character: Diederik De Caluwe
Released: December 15, 2022
Type: Movie
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 outperforms the competition but simply humiliates it. The futuristic mega discotheque Zillion is a fact and Frank turns from computer dealer to the pivotal figure of the Antwerp nightlife. He parades with the most beautiful women in Belgium and forges an alliance with Dennis Black Magic, the porn king who provides the spicy extras. Unfortunately, beautiful songs don't last long either.
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When Giants Die
Title: When Giants Die
Released: September 25, 2022
Type: Movie
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 and municipalities. It is his son who places the parades in a series of processions, historical processions, parades, traditional parties and carnival parties. Criticism and attraction play their game. Finally, the grandson searches for contemporary forms and points to demonstrations, manifestations. Reclaiming the street, forming a community, expressing thoughts on the street, together outside, ... 'The street, the mother of democracy', is how it sounds through a robot-controlled horn. To give up the street is to lose freedom.
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Gangsta
Title: Gangsta
Character: Priest
Released: January 24, 2018
Type: Movie
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 cartel.
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Her name was
Title: Her name was
Character: Jef
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Tabula Rasa
Character: Walter
Released: October 29, 2017
Type: TV
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 with the vanished Thomas Spectre. As a witness and prime suspect, she appears to be the sole key to this mysterious disappearance. In order to solve the puzzle and find Thomas, Mie has to reconstruct her lost memories and find her way back through the dark labyrinth of her recent past.
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SIZZLIN’ BACON
Title: SIZZLIN’ BACON
Character: Dr. Löngschlöng
Released: December 5, 2016
Type: Movie
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. When, one drunken evening, Cissy ends up in his bed, Jurgen gets much more than he bargained for.
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Behind the Clouds
Title: Behind the Clouds
Character: Arnold
Released: February 10, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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Waste Land
Title: Waste Land
Character: Jozef Woeste
Released: September 26, 2014
Type: Movie
A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder.
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A Lady in Paris
Title: A Lady in Paris
Character: Maurice
Released: December 26, 2012
Type: Movie
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 attention of Stéphane, her younger former lover. Stéphane, however, is desperate for Anne to stay and look after Frida, even against the old lady's will. In this conflict of strangers, Anne will find her own way…
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Title: Danni Lowinski
Character: Ignace De Baerdemaeker
Released: March 1, 2012
Type: TV
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 as a lawyer soon deliver her many clients.
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22nd of May
Title: 22nd of May
Character: Salesman
Released: November 17, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Ella
Character: Antoine De Prins
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: TV
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The Vintner's Luck
Title: The Vintner's Luck
Character: Chief Winemaker
Released: September 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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 Valday and an angel named Xas.
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The Over the Hill Band
Title: The Over the Hill Band
Character: Jean
Released: August 19, 2009
Type: Movie
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 of her friends from the old days. The rebel son is hesitant at first but eventually agrees under one condition: the band has to play HIS music.
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Sister Smile
Title: Sister Smile
Character: L'évêque
Released: April 29, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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JCVD
Title: JCVD
Character: JCVD's Father
Released: June 4, 2008
Type: Movie
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 him! This fictionalized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States, but inadvertently gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages.
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Title: Katarakt
Character: Karel Donkers
Released: December 9, 2007
Type: TV
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Ex Drummer
Title: Ex Drummer
Character: Pa Verbeek
Released: January 31, 2007
Type: Movie
Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
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Stormforce
Title: Stormforce
Character: General Cassiman
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A maverick military diver gets demoted to a dangerous search-and-rescue squadron and must gain the trust of his new team.
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Title: Veel Geluk, Professor!
Character: de kolonel
Released: March 5, 2001
Type: TV
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Everybody's Famous!
Title: Everybody's Famous!
Character: NTO directeur
Released: April 12, 2000
Type: Movie
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 struggles to belt out a tune. When Jean is suddenly fired because of cut backs, he is ashamed and even more desperate to have his daughter succeed. In a chance meeting Jean kidnaps the most famous pop star in the country and holds her hostage demanding to be heard by the music industry. Catching the attention of the media and the eyes of the nation, Jean and Marva realize that the show must go on until everyone is famous.
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Title: Recht op Recht
Released: December 27, 1998
Type: TV
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Oesje!
Title: Oesje!
Character: Raymond Stasse
Released: October 29, 1997
Type: Movie
De film gaat over een Vlaamse boer, Kamiel Spiessens, die er alles aan doet om zijn grond te verdedigen tegen een Nederlandse zakenman. Die man wil op de grond een pretpark neerzetten.
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A Hard Day's Work
Title: A Hard Day's Work
Released: August 13, 1997
Type: Movie
A young thug is up to no good
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Title: Ons Geluk
Character: Dokter Floren
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: Kats & Co
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: TV
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Shadowland
Title: Shadowland
Released: October 21, 1993
Type: Movie
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 Brussels, holds a special place in Laura's memory. When Laura finds the shadow puppets her father once bought for her in the attic, these open up a portal to the past for her.
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Anchoress
Title: Anchoress
Character: Bishop
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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A Man Needs a Plan
Title: A Man Needs a Plan
Character: Marcel
Released: June 10, 1993
Type: Movie
Marcel and Jim, two friends, appear to be plagued by a midlife crisis which is ruining both their artistic and emotional lives.
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The Bastards
Title: The Bastards
Character: Jack
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Short film.
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Cruel Horizon
Title: Cruel Horizon
Character: Mike Forrester
Released: September 8, 1989
Type: Movie
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. Nick returns to the US and leaves May to an uncertain fate. In the years ahead, Nick had a bad conscience. When he responded to a letter from Mai with a cry for help six years later, he immediately set off for Thailand. When Nick found out there that Mai was hiding in the girl's descriptive, forcible ...
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't Bolleken
Title: 't Bolleken
Character: Baron
Released: December 18, 1988
Type: Movie
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Crazy Love
Title: Crazy Love
Character: The doctor
Released: October 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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 on the mouth. His father is a hero who kidnapped his mother and married her on a lonely mountain peak... Later on, he'll do the same. But Harry has a lot to learn. He learns about 'being hot' and 'fucking' and about what you have to do when you're alone and 'feel the itch'. He also learns that there are handsome men and ugly ones, that love can be unfair. That one can find comfort in drinking... but above all he learns that man is capable of anything - absolutely anything! - to get his fair share of love.
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Congo Express
Title: Congo Express
Character: Jean, de Congolees
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Jean, an ex-colonial, and his girlfriend Nadia run the Congo Express bar, a meeting place for three different generations and their stories.
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Istanbul
Title: Istanbul
Character: Joseph
Released: January 30, 1985
Type: Movie
Willy, a student, quits his vacation job to go to Istanbul with the sinister yet facinating Klamski. On the way from Ostend to Arlon some chance meetings unpuzzle the truth about Klamski, but Willy turns out to have a dark side as well.
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Brussels by Night
Title: Brussels by Night
Character: Max
Released: November 3, 1983
Type: Movie
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 frustrations flare up.
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Toute une nuit
Title: Toute une nuit
Released: October 27, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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Melancoly Baby
Title: Melancoly Baby
Character: Laurent
Released: August 29, 1979
Type: Movie
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. When Laurent is working away she meets up with his colleague Pierre and through him meets Claude, who is unemployed and fed up of his situation. Can Olga and Claude help each other to get their lives back on track?
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Beef Cattle
Title: Beef Cattle
Character: man in grey
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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, however, he finds out that he has cancer and his days are counted. The upheaval that he suffers as a result, however, does not take long, his decision is certain: he will use the short time to clean up some bad guys. What else can he do now?
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Met Dieric Bouts
Title: Met Dieric Bouts
Released: August 15, 1975
Type: Movie
A filmed essay about the painter Bouts.
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Belle
Title: Belle
Character: False Stranger
Released: January 17, 1973
Type: Movie
A married, middle-aged professor meets a mysterious woman in the woods and has an affair with her.
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One Night... a Train
Title: One Night... a Train
Character: Val
Released: November 22, 1968
Type: Movie
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.
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The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
Title: The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
Character: Patient
Released: September 5, 1966
Type: Movie
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.
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La tricheuse
Title: La tricheuse
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
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 discovers true love. But Martial is nothing of a tender heart, on the contrary. He manipulates Lily into forcing Armand to mimic the signature of his father, which will allow his gang to obtain drugs with a view to selling them...