Acting

Herman Gilis

Antwerp, Belgium

Acting credits

My Dearest poster
4.8

Jeanne has been divorced for seven years now and her life is centered around Sarah, her fifteen year-old daughter. They appear to have a perfectly harmonious life together, a relationship based on deep mutual understanding and trust. So when Sarah needs a contraceptive, it's her mother who goes alone to the drugstore with her. However, under this idyllic surface there are tensions at work. Jeanne's on and off affair with Pierre does not save her from feeling lonely, and Sarah is bored by school. Both of them dream of an independent life, though neither will admit it.

My Dearest

1980

The Story of My Wife poster
5.8

A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in.

The Story of My Wife

2021

Dust poster
6.0

When Belgian tech visionaries Luc and Geert learn that their fraud will hit the papers in less than 24 hours, they realise their company and their status will evaporate. With jail time becoming inevitable, they each go on their separate paths of redemption. As they quietly seek atonement from their investors – their families and the close-knit community, they learn what truly matters.

Dust

2026

Toute une nuit poster
6.5

Following over two dozen different individuals in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance is examined.

Toute une nuit

1982

Ritual poster
6.4

The discovery of a chopped-off hand in a Brussels canal forces Belgian police diver Kiki to face deep guilt from the past, her own and her country’s. Based on the book ‘Ritual’ by Mo Hayder.

Ritual

2022

Eline Vere poster
6.3

This melodramatic film follows Eline Vere, as she attempts to break free from the confines of her narrow existence in The Hague through three tumultuous and ultimately disastrous courtships. Adaptation of Louis Couperus' novel Eline Vere.

Eline Vere

1991

Beef Cattle poster
4.5

Thomas, in his forties, holds an important post in a slaughterhouse. He is engaged to Marie-Rose, the daughter of the director, whom he hopes to follow later. In a routine examination in the hospital, however, he finds out that he has cancer and his days are counted. The upheaval that he suffers as a result, however, does not take long, his decision is certain: he will use the short time to clean up some bad guys. What else can he do now?

Beef Cattle

1979

Temmink: The Ultimate Fight poster
6.2

Somewhere in the near future, exists The Arena. Here men with an 'agression gene' with which they want to live no longer, are being admitted to fulfil their wish to die. Through fights to the death, televised by the commercial sportschannel, lives are being ended before one's time. Temmink, one of the gladiators, wins his first fight, finds a friend in a colleague and falls in love with one of the prostitutes. He becomes a national hero and loses his will to die. But, once admitted to the The Arena, there is no return...

Temmink: The Ultimate Fight

1998

Vele hemels boven de zevende poster
7.2

Five people fight themselves more than each other, in this existence that's so beautiful and incredibly hard at the same time.

Vele hemels boven de zevende

2017

No artwork available
3.0

Based on the short story by Laura Hird

Of Cats & Women

2007

Zaman poster
5.4

An inspector of the Antwerp criminal investigation unit faces problems not only in his professional life, but also at home. When he is partnered with a young, over-confident colleague, he loses control over the case in hand.

Zaman

1983

No artwork available
10.0

Burdened with debt trauma, Mermans is murdered as the wife of Dingenen, a tired, unemployed man in his forties. All suspicions fall on him, but ultimately everything works out in this film adaptation of Aster Berkhof's novel of the same name.

Het Spook Van Monniksveer

1989

The Memory Shop poster
6.4

In the year 2036, a woman visits The Memory Shop. Innovative technology ensures that you can relive your memories there and have them recorded on film. She returns to the Lac de Berléand for a short while on May 7, 1990 for an intense, loving moment with her husband who is now demented.

The Memory Shop

2019

The Life We Dreamt Of poster
7.0

Antwerp. Someone is making a feature film. After shooting the scenes on location, the filmmaker wanders to the railway station. He's having difficulties with his material, it's a commissioned film. The story is giving him trouble too. But he cannot abandon the project. He now wants to introduce a male character so that he can explain his problems.

The Life We Dreamt Of

1982

No artwork available
5.8

A musical comedy. One God creates the world, the other destroys the creation and hopes to make a better job of it.

The Master and the Giant

1980