Uilenspiegel Still Lives

Uilenspiegel Still Lives 1935

1

A local brass band rehearses for a music competition in Bruges. They are confident that a new march by a young music teacher will get them the first prize. Their chance of winning seems to get an awful lot smaller when a a fight breaks out between the chairman and the music teacher -- urging the latter to sell the march to another band.

1935

Met den helm geboren

Met den helm geboren 1939

1

Meldodrama/folk comedy about a lower class guy who falls in love with the daughter of the lord of the castle ... .

1939

Good Luck, Monique!

Good Luck, Monique! 1941

1

Four aspiring young artists live together in the same apartment: Monika wants to be an actress ; Sonny, her sister, studies at the Academy of Fine Arts ; Marina dreams of being a professional dancer ; and Lena hopes to be a singer. One day, Victor and Helena, Monika and Sonny's uncle and aunt, come to visit them unannounced. As they are conservative people, the four friends do their best to hide their free lifestyles from them. On the other hand, the girls realize that it is now or never for them and one by one they end up landing the long hoped-for assignments. But, sentimentally, Monika is not happy. She does not care for her rich fiancé. The one she would like to share her life is a mere garage mechanic...

1941

Drie flinke kerels

Drie flinke kerels 1938

1

Three reporters are being fired by their old fashioned editor after a compromising photo of them appeared in some newspapers.

1938

A Nice Case

A Nice Case 1941

1

A good bourgeois couple have adopted Monneke, a country boy. Maybe they should not have as their peaceful life is turned upside down by the antics of the little rascal.

1941

Janssens versus Peeters

Janssens versus Peeters 1939

1

A popular comedy in which the daughter of baker Peeters is set to get married with the son of innkeeper Janssens but then the parents start to argue and are opposed to the marriage but the couple elopes.

1939

White is Trump

White is Trump 1940

1

Liliane Springer, the daughter of Antwerpen office manager, has fallen in love with a football player, Raymond Smet. The trouble is that he is the star player of the Green team whereas her father is dedicated supporter of the White football team. Will love be stronger than sectarianism?

1940

Whitey

Whitey 1934

7.70

The first movie version, from the age of black & white, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main character: a smart but naughty farmhand's son whose eternal mischief, pranks and disobedience drive his elders (especially teachers, family and father's grumpy employer, a rich farmer) and classmates to despair in a time when a boy's punishment was still inevitable, swift and often severe.

1934

Alleen voor U

Alleen voor U 1935

1

A musical comedy about a rich girl Jenny who falls in love with a a poor but beautiful singing hairdresser's assistant.

1935

Music in the Harbour

Music in the Harbour 1937

1

Frits and Jef are mates on a ship and have been friends for long. Frits, who is the steward, is also engaged to Jef's sister Marieke. When the two men disembark in Antwerp, their birth town, Frits realizes to his shock that a drug runner has hidden his contraband in his baggage. He informs the police at once and starts his own investigation...

1937