Ben Van Ostade

Acting

Ben Van Ostade

Known for

Acting

Credits

26 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

Congo Express poster
3.8

The story centers on Jean (François Beukelaers)—an ex-colonial and former mercenary—and his girlfriend Nadia, who together run the tavern. The bar serves as a gloomy crossroads where three different generations of patrons intersect. As these lonely individuals drink and collide, they confront each other's unfulfilled dreams, romantic illusions, hidden desires, and sudden outbursts of aggression. Trapped between their past actions and what could have been, the characters struggle with profound miscommunication. The film blends dark melancholy with sharp injections of humor, tracking a complex web of human relationships where everyone is simultaneously the hunter and the prey.

Congo Express

1986

Stronghold poster
5.9

Wildschut starts with a violent casino robbery in Knokke. Criminals Jim and the badly wounded Charlie flee with the loot, but their car breaks down in the foggy Flemish countryside. They seek shelter and break into 'Wildschut', a remote, run-down farmhouse.The gangsters immediately take the resident Deleye family hostage. After Charlie dies from his injuries, the psychopathic Jim is left alone with the captives. A tense psychological mind game unfolds, filled with threat and humiliation as Jim plays the family members against each other.While a local police chief starts a clumsy search, tension builds to a boiling point. The father tries to fight back, leading to a bloody, explosive finale where the survivors must do anything to escape Jim's madness.If you want, I can also translate the film review into English, or provide the English cast list and international titles.AI-reacties kunnen fouten bevatten. Meer informatie

Stronghold

1985

Exit-exil poster
7.3

The film follows Duke and Olivia , a troubled couple living in a gloomy city. Duke is a failed, alcoholic saxophonist, while Olivia works as a striptease dancer. Trapped in a toxic environment, Olivia decides to break free from Duke’s self-destructive lifestyle to uncover her past She was separated from her parents as a child, and with the help of a judge named Gerard, she travels back to her childhood home located on a garbage dump. There, the locals welcome her as the "Madonna of the landfill".

Exit-exil

1986

Series credits

Lisa poster
6.9

No synopsis available yet.

Lisa

2021

Aspe poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Aspe

2004

Aspe poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Aspe

2004

Familie poster
6.1

'Familie' is the longest running Belgian soap opera. The Van den Bossches originally had an electronics company, later a holding company that included a clothing chain and a sandwich shop. In the meantime, we closely follow the personal lives of the Van den Bossches and their entourage. Grandma Anna and all her children and grandchildren have been through a lot over time and it doesn't look like their lives will become calmer any time soon.

Familie

1991

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

Binnenstebuiten poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Binnenstebuiten

2013

Vermist poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Vermist

2008

Vermist poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Vermist

2008

Ella poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ella

2010

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

Emma poster
NR

Emma tells the story of two women, Emma and Birsen, with completely different backgrounds who are determined to make it in the television world. Along the way they often hit their heads against the wall.

Emma

2007

Heterdaad poster
6.0

In this Flemish detective series, the Dutch title of which means in the act, notably "in flagrante delicto", a team of the Belgian (national) police lead by John Nauwelaerts investigates serious crimes, often against the clock as victims sometimes may still be in danger. Special attention is also given to the legally necessary, but sometimes frustrating, interaction with the judicial authorities, other police forces (this inefficiency required a major reform in reality), various experts and lawyers.

Heterdaad

1996

Commissaris Roos poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Commissaris Roos

1990

Danni Lowinski poster
6.7

A former hairdresser graduates from law school and starts working as a cheap legal consultant. Her ambition, her spontaneous and unique way to investigate cases, her big heart and her first successes as a lawyer soon deliver her many clients.

Danni Lowinski

2012

The Bunker poster
6.2

A specialized team is responsible for the country's State Security. This Antwerp cell operates from the bunker, a secret and underground headquarters

The Bunker

2015

Dag & Nacht: Hotel Eburon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dag & Nacht: Hotel Eburon

2010

R.I.P. poster
6.5

RIP was about the funeral company Vingerhoets. This business is losing its paterfamilias and boss. The widow Victorine Vingerhoets and her nephew, Willie Haezevoets, who live at home, have to take over the business and keep it going. Willie is patronized as a son and doesn't feel like going through life as an undertaker because he is desperately looking for a wife. The input of friend of the house Raymond van Derre (also known as Raymondke) often ensured that things never went the way they should.

R.I.P.

1992

Alfa Papa Tango poster
9.0

Alfa Papa Tango was a 1990 - 1991 Belgian romantic TV drama series directed by Vincent Rouffaer, written by Guy Bernaert and Mark De Bie.

Alfa Papa Tango

1990

Kats & Co poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Kats & Co

1994