Vastralaya

Evan Shively (Perseus271)

Edgar Colt

Vitor Miguel

Prisma Soulstorm

Serena

Jordan

Bruna Guedes

Husain Kothari

FRNK

Uendi Prifti

Abdul Hasib

Flanders' countryside in Belgium's early decades didn't belong to the hard-working farmers, like patriarch Van Paemel, who would rather die then consider any alternative to knowing his place and responding to problems like Animal farm's donkey, toiling even harder till it kills him anyhow. He rules his family expecting similar servitude, but cruel fate sees to it that his gentle son Desiré has a terrible, ill-compensated, never trialled life-long crippling rifle-accident, reducing the good, now unproductive boy to dreaming about emigration to America in never-ending pain, at the idle hands of the hunting party hosted by the baron who owns everything, and takes like his ruling class a very dim view at the demands, spearheaded by the young Socialist party, of the less docile new generation, whose protests are put down violently by gendarmes (paramiltary police)...

5 friends who are all married and know each other very well decide to rent a loft together. In this loft they meet their mistresses. Everything is OK until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. The 5 friends begin to suspect each other of murder. And it becomes clear that they don't know each other as good as they always thought.

This Flemish heimat-movie after a novel by Felix Timmermans, the title of which translates as "farmers psalm", is about the at first sight idyllic, but actually tragical life of Wortel, a god-fearing peasant in a pre-war Belgian village, who has a hard time accepting the curate's assurance it's all part of God's grand plan when his loved ones keep coming to terrible harm, and searching solace in the hand-carving of a wooden statue of Christ.

Romanticized biography of the Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwers.

A stranger arrives in town with only one goal: purchasing an expensive castle farm. But to do that, he'll have to work hard.

The chronicles of the inhabitants of a fictitious square in a Flemish city.

A Swedish cop in a small town by the Baltic coast.

Stan Moereels is found dead. Was it suicide, or was he killed? Stan's foster-child Jana Meyer decides to investigate. Alexander Vorlat doesn't make it easy for her. He has his own reasons to make it difficult for everyone around him.

A 10-part series telling the story of the Boesman family during World War I.

Clan draws you into the lives of the Goethals sisters, tied together by the premature death of their parents, they've clung to each other like a real clan. But ever since their fifth sister's marriage the bond has frayed. Together, the four of them plot the murder of their brother-in-law, Jean-Claude, a pain in the ass just asking to be liquidated. Clever and quick-witted, the sisters devise a whole host of ingenious schemes. But while planning a murder is easy, committing it is another story... and with each mounting failure, the collateral damage grows.

This long-running sitcom, Flanders' most successful comedy series, is named "F.C. De Kampioenen". The show is about a bunch of acquaintances in a small Belgian town, who are quite bad at their sport, soccer, but can't do without each other despite many rivalries, pranks, envy etc. Far more action takes place in the pub - also club canteen - of the Crucke family and their respective homes then on the field, which is close to the nasty garage-manager and owner. The major characters are the players and their wives, and the sponsor and club president, who owns a sausage factory.

The script of this relatively prestigious Flemish TV series was composed by Paul Koeck, himself a Flemish novelist, from several books of his colleague Gerard Walschap, one of which provided the title, Dutch for 'Our happiness', but the story is definitely not one of bliss. The main protagonist is René Hox, a fine and talented young man, son of two uncultivated rag-pickers who keeps their name even though he's adopted by the generous wealthy brewer Door Onckeloms who puts him trough university as his prospective heir; René however chooses to follow his inclination to the arts. His over-developed social conscience soon gets him in conflict with the conservative elite, and things don't improve when he falls in love with Leontien Verstraeten, a ruthless libertarian. There are many other story-lines involving various other characters, most of which end up seeing their apparent good fortune squashed by life.

British crime investigation series based around aristocratic, Oxford-educated Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley (

British TV series, from 2001, based on books by Elizabeth George, from 1988

Crimes through the eyes of a team of forensic pathologists and forensic scientists.

Single mum Hannah is determined to get her life back on track. At daughter Floor's new school she quickly becomes involved in the miniature society with its own rules and regulations on playgrounds and parking lots, group chats, crossing guard duties and of course head lice checking.

Michel, 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 Vandam. No normal day passes on this work floor where impossible situations, hilarious moments and odd people are just a daily thing.

The eccentric but brilliant criminology professor Jasper Teerlinck is an advisor to the Belgian federal police in Antwerp. Although a valuable contributor, he drives everyone nuts because of his strange behavior.

Tristan Devriendt is a successful med school student and a true womanizer. Everything in his life seems perfect and he's trying to get one of the rare internship places with a prestigious neurosurgeon. Until the day he discovers that he has a tumor in his head. Follow his struggles and new life path in Sense for Tumor.

The show throws Chief Inspector George Gently into a maelstrom of murders and mayhem, whilst lovingly recreating the swinging sixties as it finally hits the North-East, in perfect and nostalgic detail. With his sidekick, the ambitious and undisciplined Detective Sergeant John Bacchus, they make the perfect police partnership, full of warmth and humour.

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