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A 'Soir' Full of Joy
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1940sBased on a true story from November 1943 : the Resistance manages to publish a fake edition of the pro-German newspaper 'Le Soir', put on sale by surprise in the newsstands and stuffed full of parodic articles pouring ridicule upon occupying forces. The film faithfully traced the course of this humorous and enterprising attempt to wake up the populace, filling out the basic plot with irreverent patriotic gags.
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So Little Time
🇧🇪 BelgiumDuring World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother.
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Battleground
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1940sThe First Great Picture Of The Second World War! — The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralized and trapped, with no hope of support from the Allies.
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The Jack of Diamonds
🇧🇪 BelgiumDown on their luck, a couple rent out their ship to a mysterious man looking for treasure he'd hidden during the war. Complications ensue when it turns out he's not the only one looking for it.
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Against the Wind
🇧🇪 BelgiumA disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.
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Patrie
🇧🇪 Belgium The 16th CenturyShown in Cannes 1946.
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The Flemish Farm
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1940sWartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.
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Squadron Leader X
🇧🇪 BelgiumGestapo terror roams London, itself! — Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
🇧🇪 BelgiumGee it's great to be together at last on another fellows honeymoon! — A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Uncensored
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1940sDuring the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the capture of the paper's staff, although they don't know their identities. One of them is a well-known entertainer, and when his jealous partner hears of the reward, he turns him in. The paper's publishers escape capture, but their staff doesn't. The paper's founders must find not only a way to keep from getting captured by the Nazis but keep their newspaper going and get their staff released.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1860s The 1850s The 1840sGerman Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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Nurse Edith Cavell
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1910sBritish nurse Edith Cavell (Anna Neagle) is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
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Carnival in Flanders
🇧🇪 Belgium The 17th CenturyThe Spanish soldiers were not as ruthless as they were depicted. — Flanders, Spanish Empire, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic like rats on a sinking ship, the brave female citizens, led by the bold wife of the burgomaster, decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet.
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Becky Sharp
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1810sYOU WILL SEE HER TRANSFORMED BY THE WONDEROUS NEW TECHNICOLOR — The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanity Fair", the film looks at the English class system during the Napoleonic Wars era.
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The Iron Duke
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1800s The 1810sThe life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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De Witte
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1900sThe first movie version, from the age of black & white, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main character: a smart but naughty farmhand's son whose eternal mischief, pranks and disobedience drive his elders (especially teachers, family and father's grumpy employer, a rich farmer) and classmates to despair in a time when a boy's punishment was still inevitable, swift and often severe.
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General Crack
🇧🇪 Belgium The 18th CenturyThe film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack. His father had been a respectable member of the nobility but his mother was a gypsy. General Crack, as a soldier of fortune, spent his adult life selling his services to the highest bidder. He espouses the doubtful cause of Leopold II of Austria after demanding the sister of the emperor in marriage as well as half of gold of the Empire. Before he has finished his work, however, he meets a gypsy dancer and weds her. Complications arise when he takes his gypsy wife to the Austrian court and falls desperately in love with the emperor's sister.
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The Burgomaster of Stilemonde
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1910sIn Belgium during the first World War , the Uhlans order the burgomaster to be shot by his son-in-law.
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Two Lovers
🇧🇪 Belgium The 16th CenturyEvery Emotion Thrillingly Yours in This Their Final Picture Together! — Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman). Donning the guise of "Leatherface," a swashbuckling masked avenger, Van Ryke performs his derring-do on behalf of the Prince of Orange (Nigel de Brulier). Naturally, Van Ruke considers beautiful Spanish aristocrat Donna Leonora de Vargas (Vilma Banky) to be a bitter enemy, and the feeling is mutual. To no one's surprise, however, Van Ryke and Donna Leonara eventually fall in love (hence the title). The pulse-pounding climax finds Van Ryke riding hell-for-leather through a rainstorm to warn the Flemish troops about the Spaniards' plans to burn the city of Ghent to the ground. Two Lovers was based on Madame Orczy's novel Leatherface, and adapted for the screen by Alice Duer Miller.
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Dawn
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1910sA nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
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La revanche belge
🇧🇪 BelgiumWar drama about a woman hero, in love with a military engineer and coveted by his odious collaborationist krauts . She does not give in to the blackmail of a German who is lying to her about her fiancé's alleged death. The only remnant of the Belgian production of the Frenchman Bergerat.
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Through The Back Door
🇧🇪 BelgiumA young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother.
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The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1910sA propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, and fanciful prediction of the nature of the war's end.
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The Battle of Waterloo
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1800s The 1810s'1815. Wellington defeats Napoleon.' (British Film Catalogue)
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