| Cub (2014) | 5.9 | |
| Chantal (2022) | 7.7 | |
| Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005) | 7.0 | |
| The Tour (2011) | 7.6 | |
| The Natives (2015) | 8.2 |
Movies and TV shows set in flanders
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in flanders ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, period drama, suspense and bleak films and TV shows about / with death, life is a bitch, female nudity, friendship, coming of age, bare breasts, family relations, nudity, underground and female full frontal nudity plots mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres shot in Belgium, France, Netherlands and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as flanders: Flanders (2006), The Mill and the Cross (2011), In Flanders Fields (2014), Humanity (1999), A Dog of Flanders (1975), The Tour (2011), The Natives (2015), The Flemish Vampire (2007), Traffic (2024), Chantal (2022).
Best films
New films
| Chantal (2022) | 7.7 | |
| Bullhead (2011) | 7.3 | |
| Cub (2014) | 5.9 | |
| Flanders (2006) | 6.5 | |
| Forgotten Girls (2007) | 7.0 |
List of movies set in flanders
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
André Demester secretly and painfully loves Barbe, his childhood friend, accepting from her the little that she gives him. He leaves home to be a soldier in a war in a far off land. Barbarity, camaraderie and fear turn him into a warrior. As the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, slow cinema, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
castration, war crime, male female relationship, rape, soldier, murder, death, survival, battles, best friend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, military ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
france, middle east, flanders, europe, belgium
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
What would it be like to step inside a great work of art, have it come alive around you, and even observe the artist as he sketches the very reality you are experiencing? From Lech Majewski, one of Poland's most acclaimed filmmakers, The Mill ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, bleak, surreal ...
Plot:
painter, breast feeding, painting, artist, medieval, punishment, art, art history, society, redemption, religions or cults, death sentence ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
flanders, europe, belgium
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the Boesman family's attempt to survive in the city of Ghent during the first world war focusing on each of the five family member's different experiences
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, touching, costume drama
Plot:
soldier, idealism, survival, family life, wartime life, life is a bitch, society, teenage life, military, parents and children, life turned upside down, family in crisis ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
flanders, belgium, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ...
Style:
erotic, contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
small town, sex, female nudity, female pubic hair, voyeur, orgasm, masturbation, psychiatric hospital, dead body, rape, strike, police protagonist ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
france, flanders, europe
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Nello Tarth is a poor but happy orphan who lives with his grandfather Jehan in a little village nearby Antwerp. Nello has a talent for drawing pictures and has been fascinated by it since he saw one of Rubens (a famous artist) pictures as a little ...
Style:
anime, emotional, melancholic, sad, poignant ...
Plot:
dog, boy and dog, poverty, loyalty, friendship, perseverance, hardship, class struggle, coming of age, sacrifice, heartwarming, animal ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
flanders, belgium, antwerp, europe
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Belgium
TV show
Story:
Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010. In Bruges, some 200 cyclists and their entourage are getting ready for the 94th Tour of Flanders. A sea of supporters awaits them along the route, while millions more follow Flanders' finest on radio or TV. With ...
Style:
thrilling, entertaining, captivating, tension, suspense
Plot:
ambition, cycling, cyclist, competitor, bicycle, race, racecar driver, multiple storylines, realism, character study, slice of life, perseverance ...
Place:
flanders, bruges, belgium
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The inhabitants of Bevergem can at least be called special. One day, stand-up comedian Freddy De Vadder also moves in. Why? Nobody knows. And he keeps quiet himself. The inhabitants of Bevergem are charmed by the presence of the eccentric rock ...
Style:
humorous, funny, captivating, entertaining, comedy drama ...
Plot:
village, stand up comedian, small town, rural area, countryside, comedian, village life, rural setting, villager, small village, escape, social satire ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
belgium, flanders
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Frank, a vet, discovers that his daughter has a lesbian relationship. When he tries to confront her rehearsal of a play named "The Flemish Vampire" something unexpected happens.
Style:
intense, suspense, psychological, gothic, queer horror ...
Plot:
vampire, theater, parent child relationship, supernatural, lesbian relationship, stage play, family conflict, family drama, rehearsal, demon, intolerance, darkness ...
Place:
flanders, belgium
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Natalia and Ginel leave their small Romanian Danube village to work abroad in Rotterdam. One evening, when she is assaulted after meeting a local, Natalia asks Ita, a friend from home turned into a crook, to help her.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
migrant worker, female protagonist, immigration, urban, small village, survival, moral ambiguity, exploitation, assault, social realism, class struggle, friendship ...
Place:
romania, belgium, flanders
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Inspector Chantal Vantomme starts a new life in Loveringem, aka the Farwest of Flanders as the new coordinator of the small and rural police office. She arrives in a macho world where the apparent tranquillity does not guarantee less crime.
Style:
crime drama, tense, serious, suspense, contemplative ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
police procedural, investigation, small town, secrets, social realism, provincial life, slow burn, social commentary, isolation, moral ambiguity, corruption, dark humor
Place:
flanders, belgium
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The historical parable about a girl from the Flemish common people with folk motifs in the style of Brueghel and Bosch - love, violence, bloody scenes, ugly ...
Style:
folk tale, fairy tale, costume drama, allegory, surreal ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
devil, medieval, magic, supernatural, temptation, female protagonist, moral dilemma, coming of age, gender roles, mysticism, ethics, wanderer ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times
Place:
flanders
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
A tragicomedy about the everyday life of a butchers family Vangenechten. The business is running fine until the son returns home after a long time. He wants to learn more about the butchers trade and wants to take over the butchers shop so it stays ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, tragicomedy, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
family business, family relations, homecoming, parents and children, workplace, secret agenda, power relations, supportive parent, boss and employee, butcher, rivalry, family drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, flanders, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
Michelle, Guido and Frankie have been co-workers and close friends for years. But when their boss gets fired, Guido gets a promotion and is replaced by the odd Alain Van Damme. No normal day passes on this work floor where impossible situations, ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, funny, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
office, friendship, workplace, satire, job, workplace situations, office worker, boss, supervisor, employer employee relationship, relationship problems, office work ...
Place:
belgium, flanders
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
TV show
Story:
The story of five underdogs, meeting by chance during a quiz in a local pub. They get the idea of taking part in the "Superprestige", the most important quiz. The selection procedure turns out to be difficult, requiring more than just ...
Style:
realistic, tragicomedy, semi serious, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, ambition, misfit partners, partner, hopes, contests and competitions, disorder, underdog, trauma, boyfriend, unfulfillment, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
flanders, belgium
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
A police inspector investigates the robbery of 66 safe deposit boxes at a private bank in Brussels.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
police investigation, law enforcement, secret movement, police detective, dishonesty, honest law enforcer, secret agenda, robbery, boarding school, nordic, murder mystery, criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, flanders
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Many years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts her past and faces up to her tormentors.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, non-linear, teen
Plot:
rape, suicide, alcoholism, teenage rape, suicide by hanging, female protagonist, social problems, tragic past, confronting the past, life is a bitch, troubled past, problem ...
Place:
belgium, flanders
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Denmark, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and ...
Style:
touching, period piece, captivating, costume drama, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
world war one, wartime, death, aspiring writer, women, war, nurse, poetry, wartime life, love and romance, love affair, adaptation ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, year 1918, 1920s ...
Place:
england, london, oxford university, france, yorkshire ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 311 min.
Story:
Based on the book by Belgian XIX century author Charles de Coaster.
Style:
folk tale, epic, grim, dark, period drama ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
friendship, torture, courage, bravery, inquisition, religious persecution, folk hero, oppression, resistance, literary, rebellion, adaptation ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
netherlands, soviet union, flanders, holland, ussr
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Over-imaginative 12 year-old Sam heads off to the woods to summer scout camp with his pack convinced that he will encounter a monster...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, perverse, slasher ...
Plot:
woods, summer camp, boy scout, boy, feral child, child, evil child, bully, youth, trap, dog, child protagonist ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
flanders, belgium, france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Sergeant 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 ...
Style:
epic, realistic, serious, rough, emotional ...
Plot:
world war one, veteran, military, battlefield, battles, platoon, great war, heroic mission, military life, war, state affairs, love and romance ...
Time:
1910s, 50s, 20th century, year 1917
Place:
canada, belgium, france, flanders
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Charismatic highwayman Jan de Lichte leads the oppressed and downtrodden in a revolt against the corrupt aristocracy of 18th-century Belgium.
Style:
suspense, bleak, realistic, historical drama
Plot:
bandit, elite, nobility, thief, forest, poverty, deserter, exploitation, life is a bitch, criminal, mercenary, village ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
flanders, belgium
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: Belgium, France, West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A newlywed couple are passing through a vacation resort. Their paths cross with a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.
Style:
sexy, gothic, queer horror, erotic, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vampire, countess, disposing of a dead body, naive young woman, newlywed, honeymoon, supernatural, sexual awakening, bisexual, female nudity, blonde, female pubic hair ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
belgium, bruges, flanders, bristol
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Twenty-something Freddy is becalmed in a podunk French village where the only sign of life is the local amateur brass band and youth aimlessly roaming around the countryside on scooters. He has an intense sexual connection with his girlfriend but ...
Style:
erotic, art house, slow cinema, aesthetic, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
erection, male pubic hair, racism, motorcycle, prejudice, teenage boy, gay, unemployment, sexual intercourse, sex scene, making love, epilepsy ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
france, europe, flanders
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
christmas, dysfunctional family, transplant, family in crisis, cancer, justice, family relations, siblings relations, death in the family, christmas party, mental illness, family problems ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, flanders
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The plot centres around moody 17 year old Mathilde (Paradis) who has no parents. Her philosophy teacher François (Cremer), happens to stumble across her path and is eager to help her learn more. He starts to come over to her house everyday going ...
Style:
serious, sexual, romantic drama, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, girl man relationship, obsession, teacher student relationship, sex, youth, older man younger woman romance, coming of age, nudity, age difference, male teacher female student affair ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, dunkirk, flanders
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, emotional, period piece, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, closeted homosexual, brutality, unwanted pregnancy, showbiz, couples, art, friendship, nobility, chorus line, audition, love and romance ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 2005, year 1937
Place:
london, england, france, europe, west end london ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them
Style:
political, realistic, emotional, anthology, philosophical ...
Plot:
mining, outdoor sex, revolution, art, politics, business, french history, union, capitalism, fighting the system, anarchist, unemployment ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, year 1993
Place:
france, europe, flanders, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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 vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few ...
Style:
bleak, gloomy, sincere, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
religion, revolution, politics, fighting the system, biopic, liberation theology, belgian history, strike, justice, death, corruption, poverty ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1900s, 1890s, turn of the century ...
Place:
belgium, europe, flanders, poland, tokyo ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, false accusation, criminal, gangster, rise and fall, dishonesty, criminal heroes, rivalry, murder trial, murder, violent content, nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
france, flanders
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Colin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a passionate pigeon fancier. The sheikh has tried several times to buy a champion pigeon, but the owner continues to stubbornly refuse his ...
Style:
touching, serious, sentimental, feel good, realistic
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
young lovers, fall in love, pigeon, couples, follow your dream, hidden identity, fish out of water, dishonesty, couple relations, disorder, betrayal, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, flanders
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