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Kanopy
82
7.5
/17140/
75
/497/
74
/371/
4.3
/89414/
95
/64/
77
/145/
94
/16/

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
60
6.6
/3792/
70
/96/
66
/106/
3.7
/31981/
100
/9/
63
/22/

Je Tu Il Elle (1974)
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
60
7.3
/3464/
73
/103/
69
/86/
4.1
/31545/
100
/8/
68
/12/

News from Home (1977)
Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.
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73
55
6.8
/2226/
70
/27/
66
/39/
3.6
/999/
93
/30/
73
/68/
69
/16/

Vodka Lemon (2003)
In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless--she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet when Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected love revitalizes them.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
54
7.3
/2607/
72
/54/
69
/65/
4.1
/14551/
71
/7/
84
/16/

The Meetings of Anna (1978)
On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents.
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Kanopy
74
53
6.6
/1241/
66
/41/
65
/35/
3.8
/6243/
90
/40/
70
/4/
81
/10/

No Home Movie (2016)
Documentary about humans dealing with changing technology, the basic concepts of communication, cinema, and Akerman's mother, seen in her Brussels apartment.
poster
Criterion Channel
62
50
6.0
/2355/
59
/74/
56
/63/
3.7
/8814/
79
/14/
48
/29/

The Captive (2000)
A handsome, idle, and hopeless neurotic lives in a labyrinthine, half-renovated Paris flat with his ailing grandmother, a faithful family servant, and Ariane Rey, his willing captive, the object of his obsessive jealousy and unquenchable desire.
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Hoopla
73
48
7.2
/1117/
63
/28/
67
/27/
3.9
/4913/
83
/81/

From the East (1993)
Scenes of life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. In this road movie of still lifes, which eschews voiceover narration, the camera explores the landscapes and the faces of the people who live in them.
poster
69
46
6.5
/989/
63
/19/
66
/25/
3.7
/2541/
86
/14/
41
/3/
92
/6/

Almayer's Folly (2012)
A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
40
6.8
/1328/
65
/24/
64
/33/
3.9
/8162/

Toute une nuit (1982)
Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance.
poster
56
35
5.9
/2537/
56
/33/
59
/43/
3.3
/3270/
40
/3/

A Couch in New York (1996)
A burnt-out New York psychiatrist finds his practice taken over by the understanding Parisian woman with whom he swapped apartments.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
34
6.8
/893/
62
/22/
65
/21/
3.7
/9126/

Golden Eighties (1986)
Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he's appealing to Lili, the salon's manager, who's trendy and also the salon-owner's moll; to Mado, who's innocent and sweet; and to Pascale, who's intelligent but passive and downcast. Robby's dad tells him to grow up and see beyond the mercurial Lili, so he proposes suddenly to Mado. She's delighted, but the day before the wedding, Lili returns to give Robby another look. In the background, a Yank who was a soldier in France in World War II returns to Paris and tries to recapture the love of his wartime sweetheart, Robby's mom.
poster
Criterion Channel
57
30
5.9
/1152/
62
/37/
53
/38/
3.5
/6518/
41
/5/

The Room (1972)
Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This breakthrough formal experiment is Akerman's first film made in New York.
poster
64
21
7.0
/441/
53
/6/
62
/14/
3.8
/1930/
60
/1/

South (1999)
Chantal Akerman investigates the American Deep South through the story of a lynching and grisly murder of an African-American man that took place in Texas in 1998.
poster
60
18
6.6
/253/
51
/6/
53
/13/
3.5
/1159/

Down There (2006)
Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She films from the apartment and in her narration she talks about her family, her Jewish identity and her childhood. She wonders whether normal everyday life is possible in this place and whether filming is a realistic option.
poster
Criterion Channel
51
18
6.7
/210/
10
/1/
54
/8/
3.7
/1363/

American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989)
Chantal Akerman explores Jewish American identity in this multilayered portrait of the immigrant experience. Shot in Brooklyn near the Williamsburg Bridge, Histoires D'Amérique takes the form of a series of first-person addresses delivered by a cross-section of Jewish New Yorkers, whose by turns tragic and humorous tales speak to a collective history of trauma, displacement, and resilience.
poster
63
17
6.4
/516/
47
/14/
55
/13/
3.6
/1201/
78
/2/

Night and Day (1991)
Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with Joseph and her days with Jack.
poster
53
17
6.1
/211/
37
/9/
48
/6/
3.4
/1658/

Le 15/8 (1973)
Mid-August in Paris (the title is a date: August 15) in a sunny, quiet apartment a young woman talks, thinks, reflects about herself, everyday life and little events in a long, uninterrupted monologue. The camera pictures her and her gestures in long, fixed shots moving around the rooms, the space, the light and shadows of a summer day.
poster
60
11
6.9
/198/
45
/6/
59
/9/
3.5
/552/

The Eighties (1985)
All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. The story is set at a shopping mall where people audition for an upcoming show. Afterwards, they are seen going through the grueling routines of learning the music and rehearsing.
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?
10
/1/

Lutera (1964)
Film starring Bahar and Aslam Pervaiz
poster
?
10
/1/

The Palace of Wonders (1981)
A short documentary on the fabulous courthouse building in Brussels from the architect Joseph Poelaert, temporarily a house of dreams structured in 26 bits, 1 for each letter of the alphabet, from A-Z.
poster
?
7.1
/18/
10
/2/
100
/1/

Hridpindo (2022)
A married biology professor goes back to her ex boyfriend who is still in love with her. When a secret is revealed, she cannot decide between listening to her heart and her mind.
poster
55
?
6.1
/117/
58
/6/
47
/3/

Recommendation for Mercy (1975)
Inspired by true events, a 14 year-old boy is accused of raping and murdering a little girl
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
8.3
/52/
60
/1/

Last Paradise (2015)
A global quest for adventure, 45 years in the making all in stunning, original footage
poster
?
8.4
/37/
10
/1/
50
/4/

Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium (1991)
The film narrates the day-to-day existence of a filmmaker wandering through his city (Brussels) and who has a notion to follow in the footsteps of dramatist Antonin Artaud and visit the Tarahumara people of Mexico. This is a film about intimacy and friendship. Written in the first person, it places Boris and Brussels in the centre of the universe, here represented by the crazy, vertiginous, endless spiral of the biblical Tower. It is Boris's diary and self-portrait. He plays himself on screen (as do the cast of a hundred who also allowed themselves to be “babelised“).
poster
54
?
5.8
/157/
43
/6/
48
/6/
3.4
/252/

Short Memory (1982)
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.
poster
?
4.3
/24/
25
/2/

Paradise Island (2009)
A poor boy befriends a girl from a rich family who disapprove their relationship.
poster
?
5.7
/52/
25
/2/
40
/1/

Hanging Out Yonkers (1973)
An unfinished Chantal Akerman film about the troubled youths and drug addicts going through rehabilitation in Yonkers. Myra Alfreds, who commissions the film, accompanies Akerman and Mangolte on the film shoot in Yonkers, a city of nearly 200,000 inhabitants in New-York State, just north of the Bronx. The images show the big window of the storefront serving as a reception center for street youth. The young people participate in a variety of full-time activities and undertake to stop taking drugs.
poster
?
7.9
/62/
53
/3/
61
/6/

Brussels-Transit (1982)
Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II was in Yiddish. This Belgian-based filmmaker, deeply impacted by New York experimental cinema, gives us a masterful blend of powerful drama and stark documentary to tell the story of postwar European Jewry. Home, as it had been, no longer exists, and all that Samy’s family wants is a place in which to sink new roots.
poster
45
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6.1
/222/
40
/1/
51
/6/
17
/6/
57
/5/

Restless (2008)
Moshe Amar is a once poet and now a "businessman" who left his wife with their new born in Israel twenty years ago and spent them in the land of limitless possibilities trying to leave a mark of immortality but, up to that point, only got the marks that frantic debt collectors are more than happy to give. Tsach is the abandoned son who is now a skilled sniper in the Israeli Army. Tsach resents his father for both abandoning his mother for 21 years and not attending her funeral.
poster
55
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6.7
/406/
53
/3/
34
/4/

Celestial Clockwork (1995)
Ana bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star.
poster
77
?
8.2
/215/
72
/4/
77
/3/

Our Yard (1996)
Life at the ordinary backyard in Yerevan. Two hours of non-stop jokes and music.
poster
?

Making of Tomorrow We Move (2004)
What a revelation and a privilege it is to see Chantal Akerman at work. Its French title a pun, this film offers behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Tomorrow We Move: makeup and costume tests, script readings, scene blocking and rehearsals, and on-set interviews with Aurore Clément and Sylvie Testud, her lead actresses, as well as Akerman herself.
poster
?

Jeanne Dielman, 6 quai aux Barques, 1000 Bruxelles (2024)
A short documentary on the creation of the fresco by Alba Fabre Sacristán paying homage to Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Made by Akerman's childhood friend and longtime collaborator Marilyn Watelet and also co-writer and assistant director on the iconic film.
poster
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Insomnies (1979)
Insomnies is an impressionistic look at the city at night, avoiding the clichés of commercial or tourist films and suggesting instead a lifestyle rhymed by windshield wipers and the music of The Honeymoon Killers. The film is flashing back-and-forth and ultimately leaves, like an arabesque of light and colour made of lines, curves and angles.


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