Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch, although he also wrote some poetry in English.
Movies1 1985 HD
When Anna, a twenty-eight-year-old photographer, is put in charge of a report on the restoration works at The Ostend Museum of Modern Art, she...
Movies1 1984 HD
Documentary exploring why Belgian television doesn't invest more money in Belgian cinema as is the case in e.g. the netherlands.
Movies1 1990 HD
A documentary celebrating 25 years of flemish subsidised cinema.
Movies1 1988 HD
Biographical film about the life and work of the Belgian painter Jan Cox. Cox had a tempestuous youth, during which he co-founded the Jeune Peinture...
Movies1 2007 HD
Thirty years ago Sylvia Kristel became world-famous with 'Emmanuelle'. This erotic film was the starting point of a curious career, during which...
Movies5.2 1973 HD
A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to...
Movies5.2 1971 HD
The story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt.
Movies6 1982 HD
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...
Movies5.4 1968 HD
The tribulations of an American GI during the Ardennes offensive and the people he encounters, keeps you riveted all the way through the unexpected...
Movies5 1987 HD
A respected police commissioner has a reputation as a opera lover, but by night he also enjoys plunging into the transvestite scene. In addition, he...
Movies4.5 1987 HD
In this erotic drama, Marcel (Ralph Michael) fantasizes about being with his daughter-in-law Simone (Beatie Edney) after the death of his wife. The...
Movies6 1990 HD
The 1950s. A family has its annual family reunion to commemorate the anniversary of mother's death. People drink and eat heavily and after a while...
Movies6 1990 HD
The 1950s. A family has its annual family reunion to commemorate the anniversary of mother's death. People drink and eat heavily and after a while...
Movies6 1990 HD
The 1950s. A family has its annual family reunion to commemorate the anniversary of mother's death. People drink and eat heavily and after a while...
Movies5 1975 HD
In this film version of the Dutch-language classic ('heimat'-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy from Lier...
Movies6.2 1985 HD
A tale centered on the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the Flemish rank and file won a major victory over the glorious French knights.
Movies6.2 1985 HD
A tale centered on the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the Flemish rank and file won a major victory over the glorious French knights.
Movies6.3 1975 HD
Well to do business man Pierre falls for the unpredictable and free spirited Toni. They begin a relationship, despite the fact that she's living with...
Movies1 2001 HD
A Flemish family comes together in their maternal home. Oscar, the grotesque patriarch, his bedridden wife Magda, his feeble son Johnny and his...
Movies6.7 1958 HD
An independent-thinking doctor in a rural community with his own ideas of how medicine should be practiced begins to find himself ostracized from the...
Movies6.7 1958 HD
An independent-thinking doctor in a rural community with his own ideas of how medicine should be practiced begins to find himself ostracized from the...
Movies8.2 1967 HD
A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression.
Movies4.5 1981 HD
Hugo Claus rewrote and directed Friday as the cinematic version of his original 1969 play of the same name. Just as in the play, the story begins...
Movies4.5 1981 HD
Hugo Claus rewrote and directed Friday as the cinematic version of his original 1969 play of the same name. Just as in the play, the story begins...
Movies1 1978 HD
An ageing GP tries to convince his son in law to take over his practice. Monique van de Ven plays the doctor's daughter, who is torn apart by love of...
Movies6 1966 HD
The rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's trying to get his attention by flirting with a Dutch...
Movies5.8 1961 HD
A boy is resentful of his mother's budding romance with the best friend of her late husband, and is torn and confused about his emerging feelings for...
Movies1 1968 HD
Short sci-fi where a man finds a robotic woman a.k.a. 'toygirl'.
Movies1 2001 HD
A Flemish family comes together in their maternal home. Oscar, the grotesque patriarch, his bedridden wife Magda, his feeble son Johnny and his...
Movies1 1964 HD
A film about friendship between forsaken boys.
Movies1 1995 HD
Short gangster film based on a novella by Belgian writer Hugo Claus.
Movies5 1980 HD
The second movie version, now in color, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White',...
S16 E258.5 1975 HD
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...
