Karim Barras
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
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A livre ouvert
Character: Bruno
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Harcelés
Character: Samy Chayal
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La Chance de ta vie
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A dysfunctional family is propelled into sudden wealth when Loic, the father, wins the lottery. Despite every piece of advice, the family decides to move into a Geneva Palace where Loic meets Jean-Hubert, an ill-qualified financial advisor who will help him achieve his dream of buying back Montrex, the watch factory that fired his father – but nothing will happen as expected....
Winter Palace
Character: Detective Carron
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Au service de la France
Character: Jacky Jacquard
At the height of the Cold War in 1960, André Merlaux joins the French Secret Service and contends with enemies both foreign and bureaucratic....
La Trêve
Character: Karim Briquet
The story is set in a small village in the Ardennes, where a young African footballer is found dead. If all clues lead first to suicide, a police officer just arrived from Brussels does not take long to discover that this is a murder....
Quartier des banques
Character: Luc Naville
Summer 2011: the Swiss financial market is abuzz with the news that Paul Béguelin, the director-general of the private bank Béguelin, was found dead in his office. Is it a case of suicide or score settling? This question is going to haunt his sister Elisabeth. Catapulted to the center stage of the bank, she embarks on an internal investigation. This is the beginning of a long road toward the truth, which will immerse her in the murky mysteries of the bank, her family’s secrets and banking secrec...
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The Belgion Lion
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A surreal, absurd film reflecting on Belgium's colonial past via the story of two men agreeing to find a lion for a crazy hunter against payment of a large sum of money....
La Piscine
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Two friends go to the swimming pool. One had forgotten his swimming cap....
OSS 117: From Africa with Love
Character: Jacquard
1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission – more delicate, more dangerous and more torrid than ever – he is forced to team up with a young new colleague, the promising OSS 1001....
The Sofa
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Baptiste has been dumped. Alone, he waits for his friend Karim to help him get rid of the last piece of furniture in the apartment he shared with his girlfriend: a sofa. When Karim arrives, he tells him that he too has been dumped....
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
Character: Bruno
Victim of a rape, Nadia Coupeau decides to keep the child despite her precarious personal situation. But her child is soon taken away from her and placed in public care. Desperate, but ready to do anything to get him back, she decides to join her friend Zoé in the capital... In this version freely inspired by Emile Zola's work, Nana's trajectory is a cross-section of contemporary society, from the jungle of the suburbs to the golden world of business....
Fallen from the Truck
Character: Robert
Stanislas, a fisherman, loses everything when his boat breaks down. Too old and illiterate, he decides to join forces with old fishermen who attack trucks on the road. It is very risky for Stanislas as his own sons are police officers. When things go wrong, he ends up with a box in which he finds a 10-year-old boy......
A Silence
Character: Barras
Astrid is the wife of an acclaimed lawyer. Silenced for 25 years, her family balance suddenly collapses when her children initiate their search for justice....
The Belgian Wave
Character: Elzo Vaerenbergh
This movies examines a period in modern Belgian history which is as heavily mocked as it is revered: the wave of UFO sightings recorded at the end of the 80s....
Nous ne sommes pas seul·e·s au monde
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Mode Avion
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Four strangers find themselves groggy and disoriented on a deserted island covered with surveillance cameras. Stripped of their belongings, they each hold a phone—blank, with no apps or signal. Suddenly, a message from a masked captor appears: they have 48 hours to figure out why they've been taken if they want to survive. To do so, they’ll be allowed two minutes of connexion at random intervals. But if they try to contact loved ones or alert the authorities, their mission ends, and they'll be e...
Bisons
Character: Joël Chappuis
“Respect for the vanquished”, remarks Steve “is what separates man from beast.” As a champion in Swiss-style wrestling, Steve knows a thing or two about observing codes of combat. But when his family farm faces repossession, he is forced to join hands with his ex-convict brother Joel and enter the lucrative, clandestine world of no-rules fighting....
Asylum Blackout
Character: Pedro
A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm...
My Mother Is Crazy
Character: Emir
A road trip comedy about a crazy mother who has a tense relationship with her son....
Vampires
Character: Le policier
Vincent Lannoo’s ‘mockumentary’ shows us a community of vampires in Belgium. The two ‘parents’ of the family are George and Bertha, who have two teenage children – or rather, they raise two former humans who they turned into vampires. Son Samson is a bit of a jack the lad: enjoying the sexual freedom of vampire life, with all the vigour of an irresponsible young adult regardless of consequences (even incest is not frowned upon in their world, where the word ‘wife’ is often synonymous with ‘mothe...
2 ou 3 choses de Marie Jacobson
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Marie is a doctor. She smokes and reads a lot. And speaks from time to time with the dead. Today, she learns that it is her turn to die. She only has to live a few weeks. It’s short. She must act quikly, dream, laugh and still live....
Harcelés
Character: Samy Chayal
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