Johan Leysen Movies

Diane and Dora are two prostitutes who begin to rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile, in another part of town, a murderer is at large.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lineke Rijxman

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Samuel Le Bihan

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Abelanski

After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing Stalinist crimes, will save his life by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johan Leysen

Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johan Leysen

Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within binocular range from his bedroom window, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jérémie Renier

Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Clooney

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: August Diehl

Koekebakker is a successful journalist. His old mates, however, turned out failures: Bekker has lost all hope of changing the world, Hoyer works for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laus Steenbeeke

A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cécile de France

According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Monique van de Ven

Dito Tsintsadze's drama focuses on a loner whose life changes dramatically, when he gets to know a beautiful, but strange girl. Lukas, a young man...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fabian Hinrichs

The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Johan Leysen

The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dominic West

The Egg is a short (58 minute) and sweet seriocomedy from Holland. Johan Leysen plays a shy, illiterate baker who desires an education. Marijke...

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Cast: Johan Leysen

Claire lives with her wealthy adopted parents in a luxurious and isolated house in the woods. She discovers a wounded and bleeding boy her age in her...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Laurien van den Broeck

A village outside Brussels is rocked when a child is killed in a hit-and-run accident and its inhabitants react in a variety of ways to the tragic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ina Geerts

An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jonas Bloquet

A woman and her daughter lives in Oostdijk, a village near Amsterdam. One night when the mother is on her way home, she is killed in a car accident...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Maayke Bouten

Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers. Although the rigorous...

Genre: Music

Cast: José van Dam

Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxurious Evian with Olga's brother Michel Mazelsky to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Philippe Noiret

During the second world war law student Hannie Schaft is a member of the Dutch resistance movement.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Renée Soutendijk

After seven months of pregnancy a husband and wife learn that their unborn child won't survive for long.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Monique van de Ven

In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is...

Genre: History

Cast: Clémence Poésy

The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more...

Genre: Music

Cast: Robert Sean Leonard

Hilde earns just enough to support herself and her son, but when his father returns the troubles begin.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hilde Van Mieghem

ANTWERP CENTRAL takes the viewer on a journey through the physical and mental space of Antwerp’s railway cathedral, from its construction to...

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Cast: Thessa Krüger

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tchéky Karyo

A young woman struggles to cope with her elderly father's out-of-the-blue announcement he considers his life complete and will end it by his next...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julia Akkermans

Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marine Vacth

Her mother has just died. Her father is not what she had thought. Caught between an uncertain past, which she knows only through the photographs her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simão Cayatte

As a veteran of the Latin-American guerilla wars, Pierre Goldman became a mythical figure of the French protest movement of the '60s.

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Cast: Samuel Benchetrit

Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him...

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Cast: Michael Gambon

A young boy develops a passion for archeology and tries to unravel the truth about his ancestry.

Genre: Family

Cast: Thomas Acda

Carmen, a bonobo female, flees from the research center in linguistics where she is being kept. She takes refuge at a young couple's place, Mercier...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Thierrée

Elvie is an inquisitive young girl, who lives in a caravan with her intellectually disabled mother – a loving but naive woman who has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ylse Ringeling

A young man falls in love with extra-liberated Giulia. Their relationship becomes very passionate, but Giulia has no limits in her sexual fantasies...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Serena Grandi

When his wife's murderer is released due to a procedural error, Luc will do everything in his power to stop it from happening... He is going to take...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koen De Bouw

On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Asia Argento

Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Marc Barr

Two very different friends who share an apartment in Amsterdam have reached a dead end in their lives. The arrival of a parcel looks like an...

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Cast: Catherine ten Bruggencate

De Enclave is a Dutch mini series about the mass murders in Srebrenica during the Bosnia war. It tells a part of the Bosnia war, personalized in Ibro...

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Cast: Ramsey Nasr

This melodramatic film follows Eline Vere, as she attempts to break free from the confines of her narrow existence in The Hague through three...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marianne Basler

Three prisoners are on a leave for a week end. 48 hours to come back down to earth. 48 hours to reconnect with their close friends. 48 hours trying...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karim Leklou

2 November 2004, shortly before nine in the morning. In The Hague, the report comes in that in Amsterdam Theo van Gogh has been murdered. All warning...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susan Visser

One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out of work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Halina Reijn

The suffocating love between between a father and a son who, as modern outlaws, struggle to survive in the depleted and neglected southern Dutch...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bart Slegers

October 1997. Paul Winters (35) is deputy public prosecutor in Arnhem and is working on his first major case: an investigation in to the allegations...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kees Boot

Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Benoît Magimel

Mark suffers from an intense form of self-hatred, which translates into neglectful, chilling and destructive behaviour. Mark lives in an equally...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reinout Scholten van Aschat

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lazare Gousseau

Nag, a prostitute, walks the streets. One night, a violent man sends her to the hospital. There she meets Herve, a nurse obsessed with people's age...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

After returning to Paris, a heartbroken man searching for his missing lover finds solace, and a passionate but troubled love, with a grieving nurse....

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ariane Labed

Matt, an influencer and young parent to newborn Julius, discovers a dark secret from his dementing father's past. He starts an in-depth...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ward Kerremans

With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas (Malik Zidi) speeds to the hospital, and in the process, accidentally kills a young man on the road. That...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Nathalie Baye

This production of Giuseppi Verdi's opera based on Macbeth, the famed play by William Shakespeare, is a musical succès d'estime but falls...

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Cast: Shirley Verrett

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sophie Quinton

A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elsa Zylberstein

In 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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Decleir

Young Tiuri has to pass the final test before before being knighted by king Dagonaut. He has to pass a night in the chapel, what is suddenly...

Genre: Family

Cast: Yannick van de Velde

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabelle Adjani

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pili Groyne

A former European song contest singer, fading away in a pâté factory, falls in love with a young, aspiring boxer. Together, they decide...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Isabelle Huppert

Alice leads a routine life as an escort and dodges social contact. When she's forced to take care of her son after the death of her ex, her apparent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Evelyne Brochu

In this drama, Ben is faced with the anger and grief of his entire village when, inebriated, he causes a road accident in which his girlfriend Tinka...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thomas Ryckewaert

Tragic love story about the photographer and explorer Felice Beato who travelled back to Japan in 1895 to seek his former wife O-Kiku. On the way he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johan Leysen

The tender and supporting relationship between a young woman and her gay husband, in WW2.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Chloé Lambert

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johan Leysen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Caroline Bardyn

An old man who isolated himself from civilization receives an unexpected visitor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gilles De Schryver

When her mother abandons her dementing father, Alex unexpectedly finds herself at a crossroads. As she moves back in the parental house to look after...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johan Leysen

On this beautiful, bright first day of summer, Claire Darling has decided to get rid of all her estate. She’s laid down all her favourite...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Deneuve

Frank Valken, high-flying robber, has just made a final masterful break. At least that’s what he believes… Ideal suspects, Valken and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lubna Azabal

1948 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Denmark, in exile, accused of collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of the France. He is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denis Lavant

Lucretia is a killer for hire. Specialised in poisoning and passionate about opera, she'll have to fulfill a difficult contract in the heart of the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Clovis Cornillac

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ornella Muti

What on earth can an adult, childless man write to a kindergarten class? When a lone wolf finds a balloon with a note attached, he seizes the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julia Akkermans

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Myriem Roussel

Unrelenting pessimism dominates this slow-paced, dark film, the debut feature from director Digna Sinke dedicated to an archetypal born loser named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josse De Pauw

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeroen Robert Kramer

She's a lawyer with a social conscience. He's a calculating industrialist who keeps many deals hidden from her. But when she discovers that her...

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Cast: Alexandra Vandernoot

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Cast: Pierre Merejkowsky

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

Genre: History

Cast: August Diehl

The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gian Maria Volonté

Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Johan Leysen

West Point is a 'film noir', a story of family and emigration. It's La Cabo da Rocha, Portugal, the western-most point of the European continent....

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Cast: Isabelle Ronayette

Fred, a 28-year-old bachelor from a quiet village in the Ardennes, is forester and grave digger. He is in love with Isabel but she has always loved...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ise Arnould

Claire, 38, works in the litigation department of a bank. She has to deal with the case of Jacques Marey, 50, the boy she secretly loved when she was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Brochet

Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambled it into a series of vignettes that are...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Johan Leysen

Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carmen Maura

John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Hurt

A reporter who's soon to receive the Journalist of the Year Award hits a young hare on his way home. He gets out of the car to see if it's ok, but...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christopher Lambert

Pamela, a young Roma, insolent, spontaneous and funny, embarks on a journey into the unknown, breaking away from the traditions that suffocate her....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alina Serban

Martin, a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Natasha Parry

One year after their father has died mysteriously at the Wadden Sea, two brothers visit the same place where their father died. Hidden feelings about...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johan Leysen

Six people are about to undertake a journey by foot from the very north of the Netherlands to the very south, in search of the mountains. Only two of...

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Cast: Rosmarie Blaauboer

Johan has three children with different women. Two adult daughters: Sophie and Virginie, and a young son in Amsterdam. Loïc gave Johan diamonds...

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Cast: Emma de Caunes

Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of France. However, Jeanne's secret past comes back to...

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Cast: Clémentine Célarié

A confused old man, Henry, lives on his own in an old empty building that is reminiscent of a deserted palace. Henry hasn't been outside for years....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johan Leysen