Movies: Frans Buyens

A miserable man owns a secondhand store. He is mean to his customers and to his assistant. One day, a boy and a girl come into the shop to sell a golden watch they are very fond of....

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A forty-year-old man loses his work and is unemployed. There is a continual coming and going between uncomfortable in his own skin unemployed person, his mistress - a middle-class - and an exuberant and fragile girl....

The adaptation of a play performed by the Stap theatre group, a company that organizes theatrical performances featuring actors with a mental disability....

Documentary about the Belgian artist Frits Van den Berghe....

The strange story of a flower girl and a scarecrow who fall in love, move to the big city and become the victims of their own greed....

Film in cinéma-vérité style exploring the boundery between fiction and reality of actors and the roles they (have to) play....

A documentary celebrating 25 years of flemish subsidised cinema....

A rainy evening in the harbor of Antwerp. A man named Laarmans is on his way home even though he doesn't want to. Three lost Eastern sailors are looking for a woman named Maria Van Dam and ask Laermans to show them the way. He decides to help them fi...

Frans Buyens's moving and inventive film is based on his own autobiographical novel, which deals in the most sensitive terms possible with the subject of euthanasia....

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Documentary about life in Eastern Germany....

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An interview with Ernest Mandel directed by Frans Buyens in 1972....