Valentijn Dhaenens

Acting

Valentijn Dhaenens

Born

1976-11-28 (49)

Place of birth

Gent, Flanders, Belgium

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Known for

Zone Stad poster
5.2

Zone Stad is a Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Antwerp. In the series, police officers solve various crimes, which are shown as realistically as possible.

Zone Stad

2003

Witse poster
6.6

Witse is a Dutch language crime drama produced by Belgian broadcaster VRT and broadcast on their één channel. It is also shown on BVN. First broadcast in 2004, as of 2010 the programme comprises eight series with a ninth and final series planned for 2012. It stars Hubert Damen as the eponymous Witse, a driven inspector in the Belgian federal police based in Halle. It is one of the most popular Flemish television programmes with some 1.6 million viewers. There are also Witse books. The first three were based on the last two episodes of each season, but since 2010 every six months a brand new story is published, written and invented by established Belgian writers, as Bob Van Laerhoven and Bart Van Lierde. The music for Witse is composed by Steve Willaert.

Witse

2004

Hidden Assets poster
6.8

A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong.

Hidden Assets

2021

Acid poster
5.6

During a heat wave, strange clouds start pouring down acid rain, wreaking devastation and panic throughout France. In a world teetering on the edge, a girl and her divorced parents must join forces to confront and try to escape this climate catastrophe.

Acid

2023

Recht op Recht poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Recht op Recht

1998

Code 37 poster
6.8

Female detective Hannah Maes leads a police squad, specialized in sexual offenses. A smaller, but important part of the story is about the private quest of Hannah. She investigates a past robbery at her home and the subsequent brutal rape of her mother.

Code 37

2009

Film credits

2020s · 11 titles

Acid poster
5.6

During a heat wave, strange clouds start pouring down acid rain, wreaking devastation and panic throughout France. In a world teetering on the edge, a girl and her divorced parents must join forces to confront and try to escape this climate catastrophe.

Acid

2023

Our Girls poster
7.3

A near-fatal accident involving their teen daughters upends the lives of two families as they consider how far they're willing to go to save their child.

Our Girls

2025

WILL poster
6.5

Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II.

WILL

2023

Sea Sparkle poster
4.2

When her father dies at sea, Lena starts desperately looking for the cause, convinced a sea monster is to blame. Her relentless push against the tide reveals a tale of anger and grief, yet also of the strength and comfort the ocean provides.

Sea Sparkle

2023

Summer Brother poster
6.4

As Brian cares for his severely mentally disabled brother over a sweltering summer holiday he is forced to grow up, and finds unexpected love and affection.

Summer Brother

2023

No artwork available
NR

Ada has to choose. Confess to a murder she didn't commit, or plead her innocence before a jury.

Ada

2020

Sisyphus at Work poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sisyphus at Work

2021

Gun poster
6.5

Being in a new relationship is never easy, but when children are involved, everything changes radically. The budding love between Joris and Eva gets into higher gear when their familes meet each other for the first time.

Gun

2022

Becoming Mona poster
6.6

Life is what happens when you stop living for others and start living for yourself. This poignant tragicomic journey of courage follows Mona from early childhood, when she is inculcated to be a quiet, obedient presence in the world. She blossoms into a talented young artist, but years of repressing her feelings have impaired her emotionally, binding her to unhealthy relationships at work and at home. Still, there is a fierce, independent spirit that lies inside her, waiting to be liberated. Assured direction coaxes flawless, seamlessly connected performances from actresses Tanya Zabarylo and Olivia Landuyt in the title role as a young woman and young girl respectively.

Becoming Mona

2020

Night by Night poster
2.0

The night is blue and the moon is yellow. A renowned private eye is hired to observe a lonesome pianist.

Night by Night

2021

No artwork available
NR

A reluctant Belgian must decide the fate of a man accused of murder, alongside his 11 other jurors.

Juror no. 5

2020

2010s · 9 titles

Girl poster
7.1

A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.

Girl

2018

Patrick poster
6.6

Patrick is the handyman on his father's naturist campsite. The remaining time he dedicates to his hobby, designing and creating wooden furniture. When Patrick loses his campsite hammer, his quest to retrieve it takes him to the farthest corners of the camping grounds.

Patrick

2019

Bloody Marie poster
5.2

Marie Wankelmut, once successful comic artist, lives among the prostitutes in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Nowadays drunken and bold, she gets into one conflict after another. A gruesome sobering event at her neighbors, forces her to take action.

Bloody Marie

2019

No artwork available
NR

She came from the Ukraine to the Netherlands for work, but was forced to prostitution. Now she has to choose: Help an innocent child and risk everything or live on as an illegal prostitute to help her own family.

Under the Weight of Clouds

2012

Stranger in Paradise poster
4.1

A political essay on the absurd dilemmas presented by asylum policies. In a classroom, migrants’ illusions are dashed against the rocks of European arrogance.

Stranger in Paradise

2016

Until It Hits You poster
NR

A couple and their 10-year-old boy spend the holidays in a caravan in the middle of a forest. It's a family tradition and everything is perfect: the landscape that surrounds them is inviting, familiar and beautiful. Then the unthinkable happens... the little boy disappears.

Until It Hits You

2013

The Boy is Gone poster
8.0

A young boy pursues his dream of being a pilot and becomes instrumental to a nation's nightmare.

The Boy is Gone

2012

Gloria poster
10.0

Nine year old Gloria receives a cardboard city from her dad. Soon the city comes alive in her imagination. In this happy world she experiences crazy adventures, but it is also confronts her with the harsh reality of life.

Gloria

2013

Nesting poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nesting

2019

Series credits

Zone Stad poster
5.2

Zone Stad is a Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Antwerp. In the series, police officers solve various crimes, which are shown as realistically as possible.

Zone Stad

2003

Witse poster
6.6

Witse is a Dutch language crime drama produced by Belgian broadcaster VRT and broadcast on their één channel. It is also shown on BVN. First broadcast in 2004, as of 2010 the programme comprises eight series with a ninth and final series planned for 2012. It stars Hubert Damen as the eponymous Witse, a driven inspector in the Belgian federal police based in Halle. It is one of the most popular Flemish television programmes with some 1.6 million viewers. There are also Witse books. The first three were based on the last two episodes of each season, but since 2010 every six months a brand new story is published, written and invented by established Belgian writers, as Bob Van Laerhoven and Bart Van Lierde. The music for Witse is composed by Steve Willaert.

Witse

2004

Hidden Assets poster
6.8

A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong.

Hidden Assets

2021

Recht op Recht poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Recht op Recht

1998

Code 37 poster
6.8

Female detective Hannah Maes leads a police squad, specialized in sexual offenses. A smaller, but important part of the story is about the private quest of Hannah. She investigates a past robbery at her home and the subsequent brutal rape of her mother.

Code 37

2009

Rupel poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rupel

2004

Albert II poster
5.0

Largely fictionalized, partly fictitious chapters from the life of the Belgian royal family during and around the reign of king Albert II. Besides his duties, including signing a more federal regime for the Belgian state, focus is on his marital troubles, illegal offspring and unruly sons. Albert's elder brother and predecessor Boudewijn I and his widow Fabiola also play a largely fictionalized part.

Albert II

2013

Gina & Chantal poster
6.0

In a chic residential area, the contrast between Gina, the wife of the wealthy businessman Mark, and her cleaning lady Chantal, cannot be greater. Gina and her villa neighborhood girlfriends Nicky and Eve enjoy "the good life" to the full, while Chantal is in debt and has a hard time making ends meet. Behind the beautiful facades of the residential area, however, there is a secret that is not allowed to see the daylight. A secret that even the women are unaware of.

Gina & Chantal

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

10 Broeders

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