Johan Leysen
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1950-02-19
Place of Birth:Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium
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Broken Mirrors (1984)
Diane and Dora are two prostitutes who begin to rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile, in another part of town, a murderer is at large.

Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the...

Betrayal (1993)
After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing Stalinist crimes, will save his life by...

Train of Life (1998)
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to...

The Quietest Hour (2022)
Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano...

Pretend I'm Not Here (2001)
Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within binocular range from his bedroom window, he...

The American (2010)
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.

Tattoo (2002)
Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief...

Little Titans (1983)
Koekebakker is a successful journalist. His old mates, however, turned out failures: Bekker has lost all hope of changing the world, Hoyer works for...

Sister Smile (2009)
A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the...

The Johnsons (1992)
According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give...

Gun-shy (2003)
Dito Tsintsadze's drama focuses on a loner whose life changes dramatically, when he gets to know a beautiful, but strange girl. Lukas, a young man...

Tykho Moon (1996)
The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male...

True Blue (1996)
The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.

Egg (1988)
The Egg is a short (58 minute) and sweet seriocomedy from Holland. Johan Leysen plays a shy, illiterate baker who desires an education. Marijke...

Moonlight (2002)
Claire lives with her wealthy adopted parents in a luxurious and isolated house in the woods. She discovers a wounded and bleeding boy her age in her...

Someone Else's Happiness (2005)
A village outside Brussels is rocked when a child is killed in a hit-and-run accident and its inhabitants react in a variety of ways to the tragic...

Private Lessons (2009)
An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.

Death in the Shadows (1985)
A woman and her daughter lives in Oostdijk, a village near Amsterdam. One night when the mother is on her way home, she is killed in a car accident...

The Music Teacher (1988)
Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers. Although the rigorous...

Lulu Kreutz's Picnic (2000)
Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxurious Evian with Olga's brother Michel Mazelsky to...

The Girl with the Red Hair (1981)
During the second world war law student Hannie Schaft is a member of the Dutch resistance movement.

Romeo (1990)
After seven months of pregnancy a husband and wife learn that their unborn child won't survive for long.

The Silence of Joan (2011)
In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is...

Swing Kids (1993)
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more...

Sailors Don't Cry (1989)
Hilde earns just enough to support herself and her son, but when his father returns the troubles begin.

Antwerp Central (2011)
ANTWERP CENTRAL takes the viewer on a journey through the physical and mental space of Antwerp’s railway cathedral, from its construction to...

Pink Moon (2022)
A young woman struggles to cope with her elderly father's out-of-the-blue announcement he considers his life complete and will end it by his next...

Young & Beautiful (2013)
Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute...

Photo (2012)
Her mother has just died. Her father is not what she had thought. Caught between an uncertain past, which she knows only through the photographs her...

Goldman (2011)
As a veteran of the Latin-American guerilla wars, Pierre Goldman became a mythical figure of the French protest movement of the '60s.

The Gambler (1997)
Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him...

Missing Link (1999)
A young boy develops a passion for archeology and tries to unravel the truth about his ancestry.

Carmen (2005)
Carmen, a bonobo female, flees from the research center in linguistics where she is being kept. She takes refuge at a young couple's place, Mercier...

Under the Naked Sky (2023)
Elvie is an inquisitive young girl, who lives in a caravan with her intellectually disabled mother – a loving but naive woman who has...

Desiring Julia (1986)
A young man falls in love with extra-liberated Giulia. Their relationship becomes very passionate, but Giulia has no limits in her sexual fantasies...

The Verdict (2013)
When his wife's murderer is released due to a procedural error, Luc will do everything in his power to stop it from happening... He is going to take...

Obsessive Rythms (2014)
On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge...

The Red Siren (2002)
Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids...

The Front Door (1985)
Two very different friends who share an apartment in Amsterdam have reached a dead end in their lives. The arrival of a parcel looks like an...

Eline Vere (1991)
This melodramatic film follows Eline Vere, as she attempts to break free from the confines of her narrow existence in The Hague through three...

De enclave (2002)
De Enclave is a Dutch mini series about the mass murders in Srebrenica during the Bosnia war. It tells a part of the Bosnia war, personalized in Ibro...

Time Out (2023)
Three prisoners are on a leave for a week end. 48 hours to come back down to earth. 48 hours to reconnect with their close friends. 48 hours trying...

2/11 Het spel van de wolf (2014)
2 November 2004, shortly before nine in the morning. In The Hague, the report comes in that in Amsterdam Theo van Gogh has been murdered. All warning...

Grimm (2003)
One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out of work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their...

Son of Mine (2015)
The suffocating love between between a father and a son who, as modern outlaws, struggle to survive in the depleted and neglected southern Dutch...

Mates (1999)
October 1997. Paul Winters (35) is deputy public prosecutor in Arnhem and is working on his first major case: an investigation in to the allegations...

The King Is Dancing (2000)
Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right...

Bite (2024)
Mark suffers from an intense form of self-hatred, which translates into neglectful, chilling and destructive behaviour. Mark lives in an equally...

Nag la Bombe (1999)
Nag, a prostitute, walks the streets. One night, a violent man sends her to the hospital. There she meets Herve, a nurse obsessed with people's age...

Despite the Night (2016)
After returning to Paris, a heartbroken man searching for his missing lover finds solace, and a passionate but troubled love, with a grieving nurse....

Noise (2023)
Matt, an influencer and young parent to newborn Julius, discovers a dark secret from his dementing father's past. He starts an in-depth...

The Assistant (2015)
With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas (Malik Zidi) speeds to the hospital, and in the process, accidentally kills a young man on the road. That...

Macbeth (1987)
This production of Giuseppi Verdi's opera based on Macbeth, the famed play by William Shakespeare, is a musical succès d'estime but falls...

A Saturday on Earth (1996)
A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire...

Priest Daens (1992)
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...

The Letter for the King (2008)
Young Tiuri has to pass the final test before before being knighted by king Dagonaut. He has to pass a night in the chapel, what is suddenly...

Queen Margot (1994)
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble...

The Brand New Testament (2015)
God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't...

Souvenir (2016)
A former European song contest singer, fading away in a pâté factory, falls in love with a young, aspiring boxer. Together, they decide...

Past Imperfect (2017)
Alice leads a routine life as an escort and dodges social contact. When she's forced to take care of her son after the death of her ex, her apparent...

Waldstille (2016)
In this drama, Ben is faced with the anger and grief of his entire village when, inebriated, he causes a road accident in which his girlfriend Tinka...

Felice… Felice… (1998)
Tragic love story about the photographer and explorer Felice Beato who travelled back to Japan in 1895 to seek his former wife O-Kiku. On the way he...

Silk and Ashes (2003)
The tender and supporting relationship between a young woman and her gay husband, in WW2.

Resurrection (2017)
An old man who isolated himself from civilization receives an unexpected visitor.

Façades (2017)
When her mother abandons her dementing father, Alex unexpectedly finds herself at a crossroads. As she moves back in the parental house to look after...

Claire Darling (2019)
On this beautiful, bright first day of summer, Claire Darling has decided to get rid of all her estate. She’s laid down all her favourite...

Above the Law (2017)
Frank Valken, high-flying robber, has just made a final masterful break. At least that’s what he believes… Ideal suspects, Valken and...

Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2016)
1948 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Denmark, in exile, accused of collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of the France. He is...

Requiem for a Killer (2011)
Lucretia is a killer for hire. Specialised in poisoning and passionate about opera, she'll have to fulfill a difficult contract in the heart of the...

L'Inconnu de Strasbourg (1998)
Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul...

Ga niet naar zee (2018)
What on earth can an adult, childless man write to a kindergarten class? When a lone wolf finds a balloon with a note attached, he seizes the...

Hail Mary (1985)
A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

The Silent Pacific (1984)
Unrelenting pessimism dominates this slow-paced, dark film, the debut feature from director Digna Sinke dedicated to an archetypal born loser named...

Dilemma (1990)
She's a lawyer with a social conscience. He's a calculating industrialist who keeps many deals hidden from her. But when she discovers that her...

A Hidden Life (2019)
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

The Abyss (1988)
The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe...

Zénon the Rebel (2019)
Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in...

West Point (2008)
West Point is a 'film noir', a story of family and emigration. It's La Cabo da Rocha, Portugal, the western-most point of the European continent....

In All Intimacy (1977)
Fred, a 28-year-old bachelor from a quiet village in the Ardennes, is forester and grave digger. He is in love with Isabel but she has always loved...

La Dérive des continents (2006)
Claire, 38, works in the litigation department of a bank. She has to deal with the case of Jacques Marey, 50, the boy she secretly loved when she was...

Frontier (1984)
Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambled it into a series of vignettes that are...

Between Heaven and Earth (1992)
Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down...

The Commissioner (1998)
John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for...

Vatanen's Hare (2006)
A reporter who's soon to receive the Journalist of the Year Award hits a young hare on his way home. He gets out of the car to see if it's ok, but...

Alone at My Wedding (2018)
Pamela, a young Roma, insolent, spontaneous and funny, embarks on a journey into the unknown, breaking away from the traditions that suffocate her....

Le Lit (1982)
Martin, a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his...

Requiem (1986)
One year after their father has died mysteriously at the Wadden Sea, two brothers visit the same place where their father died. Hidden feelings about...

Above the Mountains (1992)
Six people are about to undertake a journey by foot from the very north of the Netherlands to the very south, in search of the mountains. Only two of...

Princesses (2000)
Johan has three children with different women. Two adult daughters: Sophie and Virginie, and a young son in Amsterdam. Loïc gave Johan diamonds...

La rage au cœur (1995)
Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of France. However, Jeanne's secret past comes back to...

A Lapse of Memory (2007)
A confused old man, Henry, lives on his own in an old empty building that is reminiscent of a deserted palace. Henry hasn't been outside for years....

Back to Utopia (2016)
The 500-year-old book UTOPIA takes us on a journey through the world of today. A quest that will reveal how Thomas More's vision lives on in...

Toy (1984)
An short anti-cruise missile film created in collaboration with a group of filmmakers.

Rubens, schilder en diplomaat (1977)
This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic...

Lockdown (2021)
Each short story plays in the same setting with 2 characters, each on their side of the glass of the visitors area from a prison that them (and also...

The Enclave (2002)
The Enclave is a three-part series directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen, about the fall of Srebrenica and the Dutch government's failure to...

9 Days of the Vulture (2001)
A story of friendship, love, crime and death. Against the backdrop of a large criminal investigation the lives of various characters involved get...

Pandora (2022)
Judge Claire Delval discovers that her father, Simon Delval, is involved in the corruption case she has been investigating for years. Forced to...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

I know who you are (2018)
After wrecking his car in a deserted road in the middle of the forest and being found with the blood and mobile phone of his niece, successful...

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958)
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series

Les Thibault (2003)
Between 1905 and 1918, the opposing destinies of two brothers from a large Catholic bourgeois family.