The Alzheimer Affair 2003  R, 121 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: The Memory of a Killer
Director: Erik Van Looy
Cast: Koen De Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Jan Decleir, Hilde De Baerdemaeker, Jo De Meyere, Geert Van Rampelberg, Gene Bervoets, Patrick Descamps, Vic de Wachter, Tom Van Dyke
Although he is coming down with Alzheimers, assassin Angelo Ledda (Jan Decleir) accepts the contract for one last job. When everything goes awry, Angelo turns on his employers, and–amidst business corruption, double-crosses, and Angelo's confused mental state–goes on a killing spree. Meanwhile, Antwerp police detectives (Koen De Bouw and Werner De Smedt) follow closely on Anglo's trail, hoping to profit from Angelo's declining mental abilities in an effort to gain needed information about his mob boss.
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Antonia 1995 R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: Antonia's Line
Director: Marleen Gorris
Cast: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Els Dottermans, Jan Decleir, Mil Seghers, Dora van der Groen, Veerle van Overloop, Esther Vriesendorp, Carolien Spoor, Thyrza Revesteijn, Elsie de Brauw
This Dutch film won an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film. The story begins on the day of Antonia's death and then uses flashbacks to tell the tale. Antonia (Willeke van Ammelrooy) began a commune on her farm shortly after World War II ended. The commune was made up of women who chose alternative lifestyles of having sex and children while rejecting marriages and control by men.
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Brush with Fate 2003  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Brent Shields
Cast: Glenn Close, Thomas Gibson, Ellen Burstyn, Phyllida Law, Kelly Macdonald, Patrick Bergin, Jan Decleir, Thekla Reuten, Kieran Bew, Betty Shurrman
History teacher Cornelia has a picture hanging on her wall that may be a 300-year-old painting by Dutch artist Vermeer. It is seen by fellow historian Richard (Thomas Gibson) who states that, though it certainly looks like a Vermeer painting, it couldn't possibly be. Thus the history of the picture is presented by Cornelia, tracing how it affected the lives of owners throughout the centuries. A "Hallmark Hall of Fame" TV presentation.
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Character 1997 R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Mike van Diem
Cast: Fedja van Huet, Jan Decleir, Betty Schuurman, Victor Low, Tamar van den Dop, Hans Kesting, Jonathan M. Reeves, Lou Landre, Rick van Gastel, Bernard Droog
This Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film is about a young man (Fedja van Huet) who bears the wrath of neighbors through no fault of his own (his mother bore him out of wedlock). By the time he finds his father (Jan Decleir), hatred rules his emotions in this fascinating tale of a father and son both driven by similar ambitions.
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Rosenstrasse 2003 PG-13, 136 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Doris Schade, Jutta Lampe, Svea Lohde, Jurgen Vogel, Martin Feifel, Fedja van Huet, Carola Regnier, Plien van Bennekom, Jan Decleir, Thekla Reuten
Marriages involving Jewish men and non-Jewish women are the subject of this film in which newly widowed Ruth Weinstein (Jutta Lampe) travels to Germany to uncover facts behind the 1943 events when Aryan women tried to save their Jewish husbands by participating in a stand-off against Nazis at their detention camp.
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Running Free 1999  G, 82 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Adventure
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Cast: Chase Moore, Jan Decleir, Maria Geelbooi, Arie Verveen, Lukas Haas, Graham Clarke, Patrick Lyster, Morne Visser, Dan Robbertse, Nicholas Trueb, Robin Smith, Iluce Kgao
During 1944, while a cargo of work horses is aboard a ship headed to Africa, one of the mares gives birth to a foal, Lucky (Lucky's thoughts are narrated by Lukas Haas). When their ship docks, Lucky is separated from his mother and must go on without her. After a long train ride, the horses arrive in a mining town, and Lucky is adopted by orphaned stable boy Richard (Chase Moore). When the town's residents are forced to escape from enemy fire, Lucky is abandoned by Richard. Lucky flees into the nearby desert where he meets other animals and a young Bushman girl Nyka (Maria Geelbooi) who teach him lessons in how to survive in the wild environment.
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| 1. The Alzheimer Affair (2003)
aka: The Memory of a Killer
2. Antonia (1995)
aka: Antonia's Line
3. Brush with Fate (2003)
4. Character (1997)
5. Rosenstrasse (2003)
6. Running Free (1999)
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