Barbara Sarafian
Birthday: Born in 1968-04-16 in Ghent, Belgium
Deathday: Alive
Barbara Sarafian is a Belgium actress born on April 16, 1968 in Ghent.
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Déjà Vu
Character: Helena
In "Déjà-Vu" we follow Florence Fierens, a busy career woman and radio host. With her own morning radio show, she reaches a national audience and is committed to women's rights and against domestic violence. However, her seemingly carefree life is turned upside down when her 15-year-old daughter Louise unexpectedly steps out of life. Grief-stricken, Florence searches for answers, together with her ex-husband and son. More and more it appears that Florence's life was not as perfect as she told h...
The Window
Character: Marion Glass DI
A look at the multi-billion dollar business surrounding international professional football where players are bought and sold at the end of the English Super League season....
Baptiste
Character: Martha Horchner
Battered by life, detective Julien Baptiste will investigate to the brink of obsession. Whatever the cost. Whatever it takes....
Clan
Character: Eva Goethals
A visually stunning, delicious blend of crime thriller and black comedy from Belgium featuring five sisters, one evil dead husband and two nosy life insurance salesmen. Desperate Housewives on acid....
Vossenstreken
Character: Sara Roose
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Grond
Character: Marilou
In a community bound by an age-old tradition, how possible is it to revamp a business for the dead? A Moroccan-Belgian entrepreneur attempts to find out....
Zone Stad
Character: Inge Daems
Zone Stad is a Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Antwerp. In the series, police officers solve various crimes, which are shown as realistically as possible....
De Slimste Mens ter Wereld
Character: Self - Jury
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1985
Character: Agnès De Vuyst
1985 follows friends Marc and Franky, and his sister Vicky, in the turbulent 1980s. Marc and Franky move to Brussels for a career with the Gendarmerie. Soon the three young people are sucked into a spiral of crimes that are attributed to the so-called "Bende van Nijvel" gang....
Frakke & Jempie
Character: Cindy
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Tegen de Sterren op
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In Vlaamse velden
Character: Virginie Boesman
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...
Beau Séjour
Character: Melanie Engelhof
What if you had to investigate your own murder? This anthology series follows victims who wake up to find their own dead bodies and have to navigate the limbo between life and death to solve the mystery of who killed them and why....
Dubbelleven
Character: Karen Van Dijck
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Witse
Character: Christina Houtmann
Witse is a Dutch language crime drama produced by Belgian broadcaster VRT and broadcast on their één channel. It is also shown on BVN. First broadcast in 2004, as of 2010 the programme comprises eight series with a ninth and final series planned for 2012. It stars Hubert Damen as the eponymous Witse, a driven inspector in the Belgian federal police based in Halle. It is one of the most popular Flemish television programmes with some 1.6 million viewers. There are also Witse books. The first thr...
Is er een dokter in de zaal?
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Vrede op aarde
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De Dag
Character: Procureur
The nerve-racking events of a cold winter's day, seen from two different perspectives. The odd episodes tell the story of a team of police negotiators and special forces who respond to a hostage crisis in a small bank branch. The even episodes tell exactly the same events, only through the eyes of the criminals inside and their victims....
Achter De Schermen
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Assisen
Character: Florence Dumont
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James De Musical
Character: Self
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Het Perfecte Plaatje
Character: Self
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Eenmaal andermaal
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Waarheid, durven of doen
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Nonkels
Character: Marie-Gisèle
Three middle-aged brothers and their families are turned upside down when an unexpected guest, a refugee from Cameroon, shows up on their doorstep....
Gevoel voor tumor
Character: Esther Schoonjans
25-year-old medical student Tristan Devriendt's life is turned upside down when he suddenly develops cancer and thus becomes a patient himself. Ambitious dreams are abruptly interrupted and give way to a life-and-death struggle. Tristan, his family and friends find themselves in a confusing mix of emotions with humour and love as an unexpected side effect....
Glad IJs
Character: Suzy Dewaele
In this bittersweet satire about what life has in store for those who pursue only their own happiness, self-made ice cream boss Phil 'Frisco' Druyts values his employees more than his family. When he discovers his family’s plan to sell his business, he takes matters into his own hands, creating turmoil for them and unleashing a nationwide manhunt....
Viva La Feta
Character: Self
Jani Kazaltzis and Otto-Jan Ham are staying on the Greek island Sifnos for a month, where they have to entertain 8 famous Flemish guests and give them the holiday of a lifetime....
Keizersvrouwen
Character: Marina Carmin
Haunted by a shadowy past, the wife of a rising star in Amsterdam's mayoral office finds herself drawn into the city’s underworld of sex and drugs....
Kiekens
Character: Myriam Opdebeeck
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Kotmadam Sarafian
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The craziest landlady in the country is undoubtedly Barbara Sarafian. With her rich life experience and powerful personality, she takes care of seven students in Ghent for an entire academic year. Barbara lives with them in their student room for 10 months, where life's greatest lessons arise and where they navigate a rollercoaster of heartbreak, exam stress, growing pains and partying together. Is Barbara the strict mother or more of a warm friend? Will there be a generational clash or will she...
Niets Te Melden
Character: Carine
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Het Leven.doc
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Kamp Jeroom
Character: Self - Participant
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Vermist
Character: Mevrouw Maes
Vermist is a Dutch language crime drama produced by Belgian broadcaster VT4 and Netherlands production company Eyeworks. It is broadcast on VT4 and a French language version—Urgence disparitions—is shown by W9. Based on the characters and background of the successful Flemish film Vermist, the first episode was broadcast on March 25, 2008. A second season was broadcast in 2010....
De Ideale Wereld
Character: Self - Guest
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Sedes & Belli
Character: Inge Wyffels
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Wat als?
Character: Various characters
A sketch show with each sketch beginning with the question “what if.” A roller coaster of sketches that immerses you in life as it almost could be....
De Slimste Mens ter Wereld
Character: Self - Participant
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Enquêtebureau
Character: Self - Panellid
Do you pee in the shower? Have you ever cheated on an exam? What is your favorite deep-fried snack? And do you prefer wine over beer? Not too serious topics, but we can still discuss them for hours. We will find out Flanders' answers to these and many more questions in the brand new humorous panel show Enquêtebureau with host Steven Van Herreweghe. Two teams of three well-known Flemish people compete against each other with the aim of testing their knowledge about the behavior and habits of the ...
Control Pedro
Character:
Control Pedro is a humorous panel show on Flemish television, presented by the always enthusiastic Pedro Elias. In this show, Pedro and four well-known 'internet users' dive into the worldwide web. They search for the funniest, most bizarre, and surprising videos, apps, and other internet phenomena....
The Masked Singer
Character: Self - Judge
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S&M Judge
Character: Presenter
In 1997, the Belgian public was in shock when judge Koen A. was convicted for the S&M relationship with his wife. Although their life was destroyed by the verdict, Koen and his wife Magda remain together today. The film is a story about dark sexuality and true love, told from the lover's unique point of view...
Moscow, Belgium
Character: Matty
‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matty, mother of three, bumps her car into a truck on the parking lot of a supermarket. Johnny climbs down from the cabin. He is infuriated by the dent in his front bumper and yells at Matty. Although impressed by the accident, Matty fights back with sharp words. Their discussion turns into a row, and the police have to intervene. Matty goes home, the trunk of her car dancing up and down. Back in her ...
The Over the Hill Band
Character: Pascale
Upon the death of her husband, Claire (70) decides to reconnect with her estranged son, down and out R&B musician Sid. She asks him to help her restart the old girl group she used to sing in with two of her friends from the old days. The rebel son is hesitant at first but eventually agrees under one condition: the band has to play HIS music....
Crazy About Ya
Character: Lydia Leekens
In Crazy About Ya, different characters meet. Sometimes their stories are closely interwoven, sometimes they just brush past each other. But sooner or later everyone runs into the hero of this story, Saint Jan. As a true sanctus ex machina he makes sure that in the end, they are all a bit crazier about each other again....
Bullhead
Character: Eva Forrestier
A young cattle farmer is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader....
Allez, Eddy!
Character: Angel
When the village’s first supermarket opens its doors in 1975, Freddy’s isolated life is turned upside down. To celebrate its opening, the supermarket organises a bicycle race of which the winner will get to meet Eddy Merckx. Freddy’s father, a fervent opponent of the supermarket, wants nothing to do with the race. Freddy enters secretly....
Marieke, Marieke
Character: Jeanne
Marieke wants to live her life. But how can she succeed if love has been taken away from her? She seeks warmth in the arms of much older men to find the strength to face the past and finally be herself. Marieke is 20 years old. She lives with her mother, Jeanne, a woman left cold and distant ever since her husband died. During the day, Marieke works in a Brussels chocolate factory. At night, she escapes into the arms of much older men. With them she feels strong, cherished and free. The arrival ...
Brasserie Romance
Character: Roos
Manager Pascaline and chef Angelo have been, for several years, striving toward earning the coveted "chef's hat" in the Gault Millau restaurant guide. Tonight is Valentine's Day: one of the busiest nights of the year. Angelo provides an appropriate menu and Pascaline lovingly sets the tables. As always, Pascaline has everything under control. Her customers expect a lot tonight. For every couple that has won a table they expect to get love on their plate. Hopefully nothing goes wrong....
Hemel
Character: Brechtje
Divided into chapters, the film first chronicles Hemel's many sexual conquests, but then takes on a different tone as it explores her complicated relationship with her father, Gijs. A dapper auctioneer, Gijs has dated a series of younger women since Hemel's mother's death. But when Gijs starts seeing the charming Sophie, for the first time Hemel feels that her special relationship with her father is threatened......
Ellektra
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Ellektra is a story about comfort. The main character Sam finds real comfort and is released from her virtual comfort, drugs. Her true comfort is the sixteen year old girl Ellen, who puts people suffering from severe misfortune into contact with each other through SMS, and gives new meaning to their lives....
The Point Men
Character: Sigma Reporter
Some time after their botched operation to capture a known Palestinian terrorist, a team of Israeli agents starts to get killed off one by one. Their leader must get to the bottom of things before the killer(s) plan is complete....
La Vierge à l'enfant
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CQ
Character: Festival Critic
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet....
Vincent
Character: Marianne
Vincent is a 17-year old ecologist who drives his family crazy with his attempts to reduce their carbon footprint. Vincent‘s giddy French aunt Nikki takes him on a trip to France, convinced that the boy‘s obsession is related to his suffocating mother. But on their road-trip, Vincent proves to be much more than Nikki can handle....
Everybody Happy
Character: Laura Maris
Burned-out comedian Ralph Hartman suffers from severe anxiety and fears he's being passed over by younger comedians. But his biggest problem comes in the form of his imaginary alter ego: a bearded, high-pitched sadist who follows him everywhere he goes....
Saint
Character: Moeder Frank
A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5....
8 ½ Women
Character: Clothilde
Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½....
Fortress 2
Character: Hart
7 years on from the original Fortress movie, Brennick and his family are still on the run. Finally, they give in, and surrender, only to find themselves imprisoned in a new, more sophisticated fortress prison in outer space. But Brennick's not a man to give in easily, and with a 10 year old son waiting for him back on earth, he's going to pack some serious assault on the evil corporation....
Baba Yega: The Movie
Character: Cordelia Zen
One of the Baba's disappears from the face of the earth and his friends find him back. In doing so, the Baba's take it on against the evil Cordelia Zen, witch is trying to deprive all children of their spontaneity and joy of life....
We
Character: Vera - Mother Simon
During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between right and wrong. As innocence is crushed in depraved games and sexual exploitation, the teenagers soon turn into ruthless predators....
Isabelle
Character: Gislene
Isabelle is a famous and beloved actress from the Netherlands, who disappears when on Holiday in Belgium. She has been kidnapped by bartender Jeanne Bitor, an artist with a disfigured face. Jeanne is very bitter about her 'ugly' appearance, and she is obsessed with the process of dying and deterioration of animals and humans. Therefore, she abducts Isabelle and starves her to death, while painting her in different phases of the process....
All of Us
Character: Els
The story of a self-help group of 4 people with a terminal illness, led by a therapist without experience....
Superette Anna
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March 6, 1987. A masked guy robs a local superette, but finds out there's hardly any money there. As the cops are on their way, he takes the owner and his family hostage. Meanwhile, the Herald of Free Enterprise is quickly sinking - but what's the connection and how will it affect the robbery in place?...
Working Girls
Character: The boss
Everyday, three sex workers cross the border from France into Belgium to practice their trade. At the end of one particularly hot summer, all three share a secret that will bind them together forever....
Zillion
Character: Marleen Verstraeten
It's 1997. Frank Verstraeten, a computer genius with a nose for business, a fascination for nightlife and an unhealthy urge to prove himself, only wants one thing: his own disco that not only outperforms the competition but simply humiliates it. The futuristic mega discotheque Zillion is a fact and Frank turns from computer dealer to the pivotal figure of the Antwerp nightlife. He parades with the most beautiful women in Belgium and forges an alliance with Dennis Black Magic, the porn king who p...