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- In 1833, when the fledgling Belgian kingdom still fears a Dutch invasion, recruits were selected annually from an age cohort by a draw of lots in each locality. In this grim, then contemporary drama by the 'father of Flemish literature', Hendrik Conscience, Jan Braems, a poor and naive farmers-boy, accepts the not uncommon offer by a rich family to sell his lucky ticket (out) to their son for a hefty sum compared to the miserable labor wages at the time. Army life is even harsher then a farmhand's, especially for a Dutch-speaking an-alphabet who simply can't understand his francophone superiors, and Jan's nature is not complacent enough for military discipline even by todays standards, so he soon gets into all kinds of trouble, including gambling his capital away and a venereal disease. When his girlfriend back home goes looking for him, her life is doomed as well.
- A factory worker is employed in the desolate, cold-storage cellars of a brewery. His spare time he devotes to collecting romantic images of wild flowers and sticking newspaper cuttings in an album, demonstrating a preference for more gruesome stories. Murders, rapes and acts of violence are the events which accompany his everyday existence and invest it with a tinge of color.
- An American soldier travels Belgium during the Ardennes offensive to get back to his unit. He is being accompanied by a young Belgian and the German they take prisoner.
- Hugues cannot get over the untimely death of his wife Blanche, who made him happy for ten years. He lives alone in his house in Bruges, a city he would like to be dead like his wife. The sorrowful widower has transformed the place he lives in into a shrine dedicated to his beloved wife. One day, he meets Jeanne, a ballet dancer, who looks like Blanche.
- Georges, a workman in his forties, get unexpected released from jail after being imprisoned for two years for having passed a sexual relation with his daughter. Once arrived home, he encountered himself in a difficult situation: Meanwhile him being in imprisoned, his wife started a love affair with his best friend, and more, she has gotten a child from him. Georges is prepared to forgive his wife, as a compensation for the crime committed with their daughter, and under the condition that she comes back to live with him. In this complex and emotional loaded situation, Georges and his wife are trying to find back peace of mind and to go on with their lives.
- When he finds out that his company has expropriated his own mother, a successful young manager gets deeply upset. Money and power now have a different meaning. He needs to struggle against his own self and stake everything in order to reorganize true values in his life. His career is at stake. When his mother dies in the pension she's been put, his point of limit is reached. He feels responsible and takes revenge through terrorist actions. The beast explodes.
- A middle aged mother struggles to cope with her youngest daughter growing up after her eldest daughter's marriage breaks down.
- Widower Rainier has returned to his estate after WWI. His family wants him to marry Emily, his sister-in-law. Meanwhile Rolande a woman he met in Paris during the war persuades him to invest a lot of money in the 'Académie de Beauté'.
- This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic success throughout Europe not only made him a fortune allowing him to stock his Antwerp residence ('Rubenshuis' in Dutch) and a castle at Elewijt, in the countryside nearer Brussels, with numerous fashionable treasures, but also became an ennobled diplomat for the Spanish Hapsburg rulers of the Southern Low Countries (now Belgium), who often traveled, for painting commissions and/or diplomatic missions, to and worked in Italy, France, Spain, all Catholic powers, as well as protestant England and the United Provinces (mainly Holland), also allowing him to meet other prominent contemporaries such as artists. It further covers his marriages to Isabella Brandt and Hélène Fourment.
- Stefan Pielek a florist wants to commit suicide but has no official permit. He signs an official application, While he waits to get the permit he falls in love with a young girl Ophelia.
- Sam starts his first week as a helper at a brickyard. He got this job because his new boss is the chairman of the local football team for which he plays. He's a talented goalkeeper. There is much resemblance between Sam and Louis, a 65-year-old who is pottering through the last days before his retirement. They both react strongly to the illegal dumping practices of a firm from the city. But also their boss' hands do not seem to be entirely clean in this business. Will Sam sink into the rut and routine that Louis is rebelling against?
- A mentally deranged concert pianist recalls his deceased love and decides to search for her. He believes he will be able to trace her in the underworld.
- Mark a freelance photographer wants to make a photo novel with the title 'Princess'. His girlfriend Margie plays the Princess. The novel with lots of sex and violence is a great success but Margie feels herself abused.
- "Palaver" tells us the day of three Congolese students (Albert, Victor and Marcel) who visit Bruges for a tour of the city, and end up on the beaches of Ostend. During their trip, they cross a beautiful blond on the arm of an equally superb African.
- A building contractor and his spouse are driven apart by financial worries. Tony is an energetic personality well on in his 30s, presuming upon having everything under control. He's married to Nora, and they have two kids. Tony frequents tough assertiveness training sessions, owing to which he boosts up his self-confidence and considers himself to be the never-failing businessman and the perfect husband. As a result of his excessive investments and his haughty attitude, his company gets under a heavy cloud. When bankruptcy has become inevitable, his problems also affect family life. He starts taking his problems out on his wife who seems to be able to cope with the new situation more easily. She makes him see how vulnerable he really is.
- Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman . Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results.
- Duty and uncertainty take a toll on two sailors working a cargo ship with an unknown mission and date of departure.
- Crippled as a young girl, Sabine vows to become a nun if cured. But when it turns out the original diagnosis was faulty and she regains the use of her legs, she decides to marry instead. Wreaked with guild when her first child is stillborn, Sabine enters a monastery where her sister Gertrude also resides. But after her sister dies of an illness, Sabine leaves the nuns behind and travels to India seeking peace.
- Who ever said that the 'sad clown' figure was a stereotype ? Assuredly, those who say so have never met Filippi, a clown who gets millions of laughs under the big top but whose heart has been bleeding ever since.... But first listen to his story, ladies and gentlemen...: There was a time when Filippi was passionately in love with Arlette, the beautiful trapeze artist of the circus. Unfortunately for him, Arlette did not share his feelings. The one she was smitten with actually was Mario, her handsome partner on the trapeze. What to do if not to get rid of his rival ? After hesitating for a while, Filippi finally decided to make it happen: he sabotaged the trapeze. But, alas! it is Arlette who fell instead of Mario. Now, not only does Filippi mourn his love forever lost but remorse for what he did is killing him slowly. Well if the 'sad clown' stereotype does exist,, ladies and gentlemen, then Filippi is... a living stereotype.
- This is a semi documentary about a Belgian woman trying to deal with her confused ideals after the big industrial strikes in Wallony. To do so, she goes to Spain to try and find out if there is a future for anarchist ideals.
- Tomasz , a young Polish refugee wanders through Antwerp, looking for the woman who helped him to get his mother through the Iron Curtain. During his search he meets alcoholics, vagrants and other outcasts of the society.
- Students meets members of the resistance who were locked up in Fort Breendonk an SS camp in Belgium, during WW II. Theys discuss the past, the present and the future.
- 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 their childhood friend Peter. Then Peter returns after a failed marriage.
- Depicts the ensuing discussion of world reform, revolution, pacifism and society on the spot. This engaging and well-argumented manifesto - a philosophical battle of words which deals mercilessly with modern consumer society.
- A three part sci-fi drama dealing with three possible scenarios of what can go wrong with atomic, biological and chemicals weapons and substances.
- After seven years behind bars, a man returns to his village. Wrongly accused of the rape and murder of a young girl, tormented by the hatred of the villagers, he decides to go in search of the real culprits. But his quest will lead him to yet another killing which this time will finally prove fatal for him.
- Presents World War II European war footage juxtaposed with words from Nazi publications, laws, announcements, directives, proclamations, war books, notices, school books and political documents that show the indoctrination of German children and the treatment of those children deemed non-Aryan.