51 Films & TV Shows Set In Belgium During The 20th Century
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Gemini Man
Georgia Virginia ๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ญ๐บ Hungary ๐จ๐ด Colombia The 1990s The 2010sWho will save you from yourself? โ Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. To his horror, Brogan soon learns that the man who's trying to kill him is a younger, faster, cloned version of himself.
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Wonder Woman
๐ง๐ช Belgium England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ซ๐ท France The 1910s The 2010sPower. Grace. Wisdom. Wonder. โ An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
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7 Days in Hell
England ๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1990s The 2000sThe epic battle for epicness โ A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days.
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The Monuments Men
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940s The 1970sIt was the greatest art heist in history โ Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the worldโs artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
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Company of Heroes
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940sAmerican soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect.
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Cloud Atlas
California Hawaii Scotland England ๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1970s The 1930s The 2010s The 1840sEverything is Connected โ A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
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The Sound of Belgium
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1980sA chronicle of unique popular music, The Sound of Belgium goes in search of the spirit of a nation and the people that danced to it. โ In the late 1980s, the Belgian electronic New Beat music movement conquered dance floors worldwide, and all of a sudden Belgium was on the map. This eclectic predecessor of house music appeared to materialize out of nothing, but according to the makers of The Sound of Belgium, it was the product of a historical search for identity that apparently went back to the Battle of Waterloo and the aftermath of the First World War.
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Death of a Shadow
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1910sSoldier Nathan died during World War I. A strange collector imprisoned his shadow and gave him a new chance: a second life against 10000 captured shadows. It is love that guides him, as his purpose is to meet Sarah again, the woman he fell in love with before he died. But then he discovers that she's already in love with someone else, jealousy clouds his mind and pushes him towards a bitter decision, not without consequences.
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War Horse
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France The 1910sSeparated by War. Tested by Battle. Bound by Friendship. โ Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
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Beneath Hill 60
๐ง๐ช Belgium Queensland The 1910sAfter Gallipoli there was still a war to be won. โ The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfareโone of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.
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Nothing to Declare
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France The 1990sDuring the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.
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Sister Smile
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950sA 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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The Red Baron
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1910s The 1900sHeroes rise. Empires fall. Legends endure. โ Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.
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Passchendaele
Alberta ๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1910sSergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian Division and participated in all major Canadian battles of the war, and set the record for highest number of individual bravery awards for a single battle
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Saints and Soldiers
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sTrapped behind enemy lines. All they have is their hope. โ Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
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The Memory of a Killer
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1990sVincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. Since Ledda starts showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, it's getting more and more difficult to complete his contracts. When he has to murder a 12-year old call-girl, he refuses and becomes a target himself. While Vincke and Verstuyft are chasing him and counting the corpses, Ledda is taking care of his employers.
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Resistance
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sThe epic tale of an American reconnaissance pilot downed in occupied Belgium at the height of World War II. Hidden by resistance fighters, the pilot falls in love with the wife of the man who will save him. When their affair is exposed, an act of betrayal threatens their lives and the entire resistance movement, forcing the pilot to make a powerful choice that could change the course of the war.
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Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France The 1970sIn the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To become a champion. His greatest tragedy? Not having the legs his heart deserves.
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Lumumba
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1950sThe true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
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Lijmen
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1930sStory of two con men, Boorman and his younger assistant Laarmans, who are trying to sell companies their non-existing magazine.
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The Wall
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1990sThis is a surrealistic film about a local small town 'hot chips' owner who finds his store cut in half by a newly erected wall in Belgium that is meant to separate the Flemish speakers from the Walloons (French Speakers) . Unfortunately for Albert, he finds himself on the wrong side of the wall after a long night of new millennium partying and the beginning of a love affair with a gorgeous Flemish girl. (from IMDB.com)
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Double Team
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1990sAmerica's top counter-terrorist usually works alone... this time he's got company. โ He's a one-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world. They Don't Play by the Rules. You're either on their side...or in their way. America's top counter-terrorist usually works alone...this time he's got company.
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The Eighth Day
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1990sWhat a difference a day makesโฆ โ Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
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Camping Cosmos
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1980sLa vie sexuelle des Belges II โ On 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...
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The Sexual Life of the Belgians
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sJan Bocquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception (parents drunk, the encounter lasting ten seconds) and reporting his first orgasm (at the hands of Eddy, in a beach-side caravan, as they watch Laurel and Hardy), his comparative experiences with girls, and his move from Harelbeck to Brussels. There he meets Greta, bartender at a Bohemian cafe, who teaches him the Kama Sutra, the naked Esther, who reads him stories, and Thรฉrรจse, his wife for three years. They split after two children; he moves to a small flat, writes pornography to pay the bills, works sporadically on a novel, espouses anarchism, and meets more women. His self-confidence grows.
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