51 Films & TV Shows Set In Belgium During The 20th Century
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A Midnight Clear
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France The 1940sSet in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight the other.
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Priest Daens
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1900s The 1890sIn the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.
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Het Sacrament
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1950sThe Heylen family's annual get-together to commemorate their mother derails completely.
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Plenty
England ๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sDavid Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
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The North Star
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1930sEdouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod's death, but by now her mother has become Edouard's ally.
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Whitey
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1900sThe second movie version, now in color, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main character. The smart but naughty farmhands son's eternal mischief, pranks and disobedience drive his elders (especially teachers, family and father's grumpy employer, a rich farmer, but also neighbors and even the kind curate whose liturgical server he is) and classmates to despair in a time when a boy's punishment was still inevitable, swift and often severe; thus when his mother catches him skinny dipping she takes all his clothes home, forcing him to a long walk of shame, dreading dad's wrath all the way. This version also stresses the story's social and Flamingant aspects.
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Avalanche Express
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐บ Russia The 20th CenturyThe Fast Track For All-Star Adventure. โ CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
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The Meetings of Anna
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 20th CenturyOn a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individualsโfamiliar and otherwiseโand attends to their discontents.
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Suspiria
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 20th CenturyThe only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of this film are the first 80. โ An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
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Patton
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco ๐น๐ณ Tunisia ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sThe Rebel Warrior โ "Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 20th CenturyA group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days.
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Castle Keep
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sA one-eyed major and his oddball heroes fight a twentieth-century war in a tenth-century castle! โ During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.
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Counterpoint
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sFor every move... a counter move - for every attack... a counter attack! โ In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.
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Battle of the Bulge
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sWarner Bros.' super action show of shows! โ In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
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The Nun's Story
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1930s The 1920sHer Faith Remained Strong and True in the Face of Africa's Terrors! โ After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
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Attack
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sThe Story of the "Fragile Fox" Company! โ At the end of World War II, a National Guard infantry company must set up artillery observation posts in a strategic area. Lt. Costa (Jack Palance) knows that Capt. Cooney (Eddie Albert) is in command only because of the "connections" he made stateside. Costa has serious doubts concerning Cooney's ability to lead, and when Cooney sends Costa and his men out on a dangerous mission -- and refuses to reenforce them -- all hell breaks loose.
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The Girl from Flanders
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1910sA love story between a German soldier and a young Flemish woman amidst World War I.
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A 'Soir' Full of Joy
๐ง๐ช 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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Battleground
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sThe First Great Picture Of The Second World War! โ 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 Flemish Farm
๐ง๐ช 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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Uncensored
๐ง๐ช 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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Nurse Edith Cavell
๐ง๐ช 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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De Witte
๐ง๐ช 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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The Burgomaster of Stilemonde
๐ง๐ช 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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Dawn
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1910sA nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
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