Johan Leysen
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.943 |
| Birthday | 1950-02-19 |
| Place of Birth | Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium |
| Also Known As |
1984
Broken Mirrors
6.3/9
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.
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Broken Mirrors
2001
Brotherhood of the Wolf
6.725/1539
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...
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Brotherhood of the Wolf
1993
Betrayal
6.6/7
After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing Stalinist crimes, will save his life by accepting...
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Betrayal
1998
Train of Life
7.4/272
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 P...
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Train of Life
2022
The Quietest Hour
0/0
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 play...
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The Quietest Hour
2001
Pretend I'm Not Here
6.1/16
Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within binocular range from his bedroom window, he harasse...
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Pretend I'm Not Here
2010
The American
5.952/1352
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.
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The American
2002
Tattoo
6.1/60
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 Inspec...
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Tattoo
1983
Little Titans
8/1
Koekebakker is a successful journalist. His old mates, however, turned out failures: Bekker has lost all hope of changing the world, Hoyer works for t...
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Little Titans
2009
Sister Smile
6.5/43
A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the churc...
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Sister Smile
1992
The Johnsons
5.9/11
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 b...
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The Johnsons
2003
Gun-shy
6/15
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 doi...
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Gun-shy
1996
Tykho Moon
5.6/29
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 f...
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Tykho Moon
1996
True Blue
6.1/9
The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
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True Blue
1988
Egg
0/0
The Egg is a short (58 minute) and sweet seriocomedy from Holland. Johan Leysen plays a shy, illiterate baker who desires an education. Marijke Veugel...
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Egg
2002
Moonlight
7/18
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...
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Moonlight
2005
Someone Else's Happiness
6.1/7
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 new...
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Someone Else's Happiness
2009
Private Lessons
5.3/28
An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.
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Private Lessons
1985
Death in the Shadows
5.2/6
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 in...
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Death in the Shadows
1988
The Music Teacher
6.9/22
Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers. Although the rigorous trainin...
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The Music Teacher
2000
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
1/1
Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxurious Evian with Olga's brother Michel Mazelsky to hea...
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Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
1981
The Girl with the Red Hair
6.6/13
During the second world war law student Hannie Schaft is a member of the Dutch resistance movement.
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The Girl with the Red Hair
1990
Romeo
5.5/2
After seven months of pregnancy a husband and wife learn that their unborn child won't survive for long.
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Romeo
2011
The Silence of Joan
3.6/11
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 approache...
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The Silence of Joan
1993
Swing Kids
6.697/228
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 difficu...
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Swing Kids
1989
Sailors Don't Cry
4/2
Hilde earns just enough to support herself and her son, but when his father returns the troubles begin.
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Sailors Don't Cry
2011
Antwerp Central
0/0
ANTWERP CENTRAL takes the viewer on a journey through the physical and mental space of Antwerp’s railway cathedral, from its construction to the prese...
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Antwerp Central
1995
Moon Shadow
5.8/5
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Moon Shadow
2022
Pink Moon
7/13
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 birt...
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Pink Moon
2013
Young & Beautiful
6.5/1229
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 f...
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Young & Beautiful
2012
Photo
5.5/2
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 m...
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Photo
2011
Goldman
5.3/3
As a veteran of the Latin-American guerilla wars, Pierre Goldman became a mythical figure of the French protest movement of the '60s.
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Goldman
1997
The Gambler
4.8/6
Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him...
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The Gambler
1999
Missing Link
5.5/6
A young boy develops a passion for archeology and tries to unravel the truth about his ancestry.
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Missing Link
2005
Carmen
0/0
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 an...
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Carmen
2023
Under the Naked Sky
8/1
Elvie is an inquisitive young girl, who lives in a caravan with her intellectually disabled mother – a loving but naive woman who has difficulty under...
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Under the Naked Sky
1986
Desiring Julia
4.6/24
A young man falls in love with extra-liberated Giulia. Their relationship becomes very passionate, but Giulia has no limits in her sexual fantasies an...
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Desiring Julia
2013
The Verdict
6.776/49
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 j...
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The Verdict
2014
Obsessive Rythms
5.3/3
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 t...
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Obsessive Rythms
2002
The Red Siren
5.2/20
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 cha...
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The Red Siren
1985
De deur van het huis
0/0
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 opportuni...
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De deur van het huis
1991
Eline Vere
6/5
This melodramatic film follows Eline Vere, as she attempts to break free from the confines of her narrow existence in The Hague through three tumultuo...
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Eline Vere
2002
De enclave
0/0
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...
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De enclave
2023
Time Out
4.2/3
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 to...
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Time Out
2014
2/11 Het spel van de wolf
4.4/5
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...
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2/11 Het spel van de wolf
2003
Grimm
5.8/33
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 m...
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Grimm
2015
Son of Mine
6.5/12
The suffocating love between between a father and a son who, as modern outlaws, struggle to survive in the depleted and neglected southern Dutch provi...
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Son of Mine
1999
Mates
0/0
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 o...
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Mates
2000
The King Is Dancing
6.6/43
Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and...
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The King Is Dancing
2024
Bite
4/1
Mark suffers from an intense form of self-hatred, which translates into neglectful, chilling and destructive behaviour. Mark lives in an equally destr...
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Bite
2021
La chaleur du foyer
0/0
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La chaleur du foyer
1999
Nag la Bombe
0/0
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 an...
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Nag la Bombe
2015
Despite the Night
6/21
After returning to Paris, a heartbroken man searching for his missing lover finds solace, and a passionate but troubled love, with a grieving nurse. T...
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Despite the Night
2023
Noise
4.72/125
Matt, an influencer and young parent to newborn Julius, discovers a dark secret from his dementing father's past. He starts an in-depth investigation,...
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Noise
2015
The Assistant
5.1/13
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...
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The Assistant
1987
Macbeth
0/0
This production of Giuseppi Verdi's opera based on Macbeth, the famed play by William Shakespeare, is a musical succès d'estime but falls short in the...
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Macbeth
2005
Miss Montigny
0/0
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Miss Montigny
1996
A Saturday on Earth
5.7/3
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...
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A Saturday on Earth
1992
Priest Daens
7.095/58
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 vo...
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Priest Daens
2008
The Letter for the King
5.771/24
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 disturbed...
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The Letter for the King
1994
Queen Margot
7.182/369
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...
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Queen Margot
2015
The Brand New Testament
6.666/1632
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 stand...
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The Brand New Testament
2016
Souvenir
5.9/27
A former European song contest singer, fading away in a pâté factory, falls in love with a young, aspiring boxer. Together, they decide she should att...
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Souvenir
2017
Past Imperfect
6.3/7
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 i...
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Past Imperfect
2016
Waldstille
7/1
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 d...
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Waldstille
1998
Felice… Felice…
6.2/5
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 d...
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Felice… Felice…
2003
Silk and Ashes
2/1
The tender and supporting relationship between a young woman and her gay husband, in WW2.
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Silk and Ashes
New Planet
0/0
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New Planet
1988
't Bolleken
0/0
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't Bolleken
2017
Resurrection
5.7/11
An old man who isolated himself from civilization receives an unexpected visitor.
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Resurrection
2017
Façades
4.8/5
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...
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Façades
2019
Claire Darling
5.5/69
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 objects on h...
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Claire Darling
2017
Above the Law
5.9/113
Frank Valken, high-flying robber, has just made a final masterful break. At least that’s what he believes… Ideal suspects, Valken and his gang find th...
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Above the Law
2016
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
5.9/13
1948 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Denmark, in exile, accused of collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of the France. He is accompanied by...
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2011
Requiem for a Killer
4.9/83
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 Sw...
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Requiem for a Killer
1998
L'Inconnu de Strasbourg
5/3
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 to...
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L'Inconnu de Strasbourg
2018
Ga niet naar zee
7.5/1
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 opportun...
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Ga niet naar zee
1985
Hail Mary
6.3/78
A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
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Hail Mary
1984
The Silent Pacific
0/0
Unrelenting pessimism dominates this slow-paced, dark film, the debut feature from director Digna Sinke dedicated to an archetypal born loser named Ma...
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The Silent Pacific
2015
The World According to Monsieur Khiar
0/0
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The World According to Monsieur Khiar
1990
Dilemma
0/0
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 husban...
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Dilemma
2019
Ravachol
0/0
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Ravachol
2019
A Hidden Life
7.1/684
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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A Hidden Life
1988
The Abyss
5.4/16
The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe unde...
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The Abyss
2019
Zénon the Rebel
0/0
Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in André Delvaux’s film, p...
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Zénon the Rebel
2008
West Point
3.5/2
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. Oppo...
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West Point
1977
In All Intimacy
0/0
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 th...
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In All Intimacy
2006
La Dérive des continents
3.5/2
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...
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La Dérive des continents
1984
Frontier
0/0
Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambled it into a series of vignettes that are mixed-up...
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Frontier
1992
Between Heaven and Earth
4.7/3
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 e...
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Between Heaven and Earth
1998
The Commissioner
5.8/9
John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for hi...
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The Commissioner
2006
Vatanen's Hare
4.7/3
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 the...
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Vatanen's Hare
2018
Alone at My Wedding
5.5/6
Pamela, a young Roma, insolent, spontaneous and funny, embarks on a journey into the unknown, breaking away from the traditions that suffocate her. Sh...
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Alone at My Wedding
1982
Le Lit
4.3/3
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 se...
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Le Lit
1986
Requiem
0/0
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...
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Requiem
1992
Above the Mountains
0/0
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...
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Above the Mountains
2000
Princesses
1.5/2
Johan has three children with different women. Two adult daughters: Sophie and Virginie, and a young son in Amsterdam. Loïc gave Johan diamonds of a c...
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Princesses
1995
La rage au cœur
0/0
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 haunt...
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La rage au cœur
2007
A Lapse of Memory
0/0
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. Th...
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A Lapse of Memory
2016
Back to Utopia
0/0
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Back to Utopia
1984
Toy
0/0
An short anti-cruise missile film created in collaboration with a group of filmmakers.
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Toy
1977
Rubens, schilder en diplomaat
0/0
This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic succ...
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