Anne Coesens

Acting

Anne Coesens

Born

1968-01-01 (58)

Place of birth

Bruxelles, Belgique

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

The Chapel poster
6.4

Twenty three year old virtuoso pianist Jennifer Rogiers has been living with a terrible secret most of her life. When she enters the world famous Queen Elisabeth competition the memory of a traumatic childhood experience surfaces again.

The Chapel

2023

Farewell, Mr. Haffmann poster
6.9

Paris 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a talented jeweler, Mr. Haffmann. But faced with the German occupation, the two men will have no other choice but to conclude an agreement whose consequences, over the months, will upset the fate of our three characters.

Farewell, Mr. Haffmann

2022

The Girls From Above poster
7.0

Héloïse has nowhere to go. She meets Mallorie, who offers to let her stay in the flat she shares with two other young women. Héloïse finds a new home and a new family there. But their past wounds threaten the fragile balance between these women who appear so strong on the surface.

The Girls From Above

2026

Headwind poster
5.7

Alain, a famous actor, agrees to play the impossible role of Jacques Brel. Realising that it might be the last role of his life, he decides to leave the set in the middle of a scene to see Lou, his daughter, whom he has not seen grow up. Against all expectations, Lou gradually enters into his fictional universe.

Headwind

2024

Forest High poster
5.0

In the northern Alps, Anne, Hélène and Suzanne take turns looking after a mountain hut. Through the seasons, hikers come and go. Stories bloom and fade, leaving each of them facing the silence of their chosen solitude and the poetry of nature.

Forest High

2026

Chronique Printanière de la Famille d’un Mort-vivant poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chronique Printanière de la Famille d’un Mort-vivant

2026

Rosa poster
NR

In her fifties, jobless and lonely, Rosa has lost her self-esteem. Her life takes a new turn when she decides to give a ball to her young neighbour, who keeps losing his. To thank her, his parents invite her over unexpectedly and proudly announce that their child has just appeared in a TV advert.

Rosa

2026

Metamorphosis poster
NR

Stuck in a routine that erases her, 30-year-old Ava is about to lose something precious.

Metamorphosis

2024

Nelly & Nadine poster
7.0

Nelly and Nadine meet in Ravensbrück concentration camp. They spend the rest of their lives together. Decades later, Nelly’s granddaughter goes in search of clues. A poignant film about a love story and the need for individual and collective remembrance.

Nelly & Nadine

2024

By Your Side poster
5.7

Manu returns to her childhood home for her mother's birthday. She intends to stay for a few days. The visit brings a wave of memories from the past. Then there's also the difficult present with her psychologically unstable sister - A psychological drama about a family torn apart by schizophrenia.

By Your Side

2020

2010s · 20 titles

April and the Extraordinary World poster
7.1

It's 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

April and the Extraordinary World

2015

Never Grow Old poster
6.0

An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful town, but his own family come under threat as the death toll increases dramatically.

Never Grow Old

2019

Mothers' Instinct poster
6.3

When a sudden tragedy uproots the lives of two women and their families, they begin to question the relationships they once held so dear.

Mothers' Instinct

2019

Above the Law poster
5.9

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 themselves involved in a criminal case of thirty years. It seems that the crazy killers are back.

Above the Law

2017

Eva poster
4.4

A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.

Eva

2018

Not My Type poster
6.1

Clement, a young philosophy teacher, is sent to Arras for a year. He meets Jennifer, a pretty hair stylist, and the two freely share their hearts and bodies as they try to overcome the cultural and social divide between them.

Not My Type

2014

Corps rebelle poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Corps rebelle

2017

All Cats Are Grey poster
6.8

Paul is a chubby kind-­‐hearted amateur detective. Dorothy is an intense upper class teenager. Paul is into quoting Sherlock Holmes and watching Derrick. Dorothy is into punk clothing and hating her mother. Paul is forty three, Dorothy is sixteen, and the only thing that links them is Paul’s knowledge that he is Dorothy’s biological father… over time, this has grown into a one way relationship with Paul spying on Dorothy as she grew up, always from a safe distance…They would never have met if Dorothy hadn’t heard of Paul’s amateur detective skills. She wants to use him to find her father…

All Cats Are Grey

2014

Marquis de Wavrin, from the Manor to the Jungle poster
6.5

A documentary that invites us to discover the strange path led by the explorer-ethnographer Marquis de Wavrin who, in the 1920s and 1930s, made ethnographic films in several countries of Latin America.

Marquis de Wavrin, from the Manor to the Jungle

2017

Accomplices poster
NR

Philippe works as a Judge at the criminal court. He has a complicated relationship with his son Hugues. One night Hugues commits a deadly hit and run while driving home drunk. To protect his only son, Philippe chooses to cover up the evidences.

Accomplices

2016

Jailbirds poster
5.6

In order to save the man she loves from jail, Mathilde takes his place by helping his break-out. While she exclusively relies on him to survive in this prison setting, Mathilde has not heard from him since her imprisonment. Isolated, with her son as her only support, she is now identified by the inmate number 383205-B. Will Mathilde become a convict like any other one?

Jailbirds

2016

Joseph l'insoumis poster
NR

1956, a handful of families survive in makeshift shelters in appalling poverty and daily violence. A man, Joseph Wresinski , a priest, himself born into great poverty, decides to settle among those he calls "his people". Among these families, that of Jacques. His life will be transformed by his meeting with Father Joseph. His own, but also that of the people who will join the fight of this revolutionary priest. A fight against assistance and charity which, he says, “push the poor into indignity

Joseph l'insoumis

2011

Next Year poster
4.8

Clotilde and Aude are 18. They have always been best friends, growing up together in the same small village in the South of France. Despite their differences, they have a strong and exclusive friendship. With their contrasts they attract each other, and they seem to be enough for one another. But Clotilde, looking for something else, decides to leave to study in Paris the following year, after the baccalaureate. She takes Aude along with her in this departure far from their roots. Refusing to admit that their paths are separating little by little, Clotilde and Aude persuade themselves that their friendship can survive anything.

Next Year

2014

Au moins le sais-tu... poster
NR

Alexandra clears her mind. She runs away to try to overcome the ordeal she is going through. Her pain was unpredictable. Life is just as unpredictable.

Au moins le sais-tu...

2014

Du bout des doigts poster
NR

Alain refuses to accept the pessimistic diagnosis of his son, who has been in a vegetative state since his drowning. One night, he tells his wife and daughter that he intends to bring the child home to take care of him. But their reaction isn't the one he expected...

Du bout des doigts

2015

Goodbye Morocco poster
4.9

Tangier. Dounia decides to sell on the black market the antiques uncovered on the building site she manages. She hopes to raise enough money to be able to leave Morocco with her son, who she hardly ever sees since her divorce. The death of a worker disrupts her plan...

Goodbye Morocco

2013

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Là où tu trouvais refuge

2016

Illegal poster
6.7

Tania, a young Russian woman who lives illegally in Belgium with her 13-year-old son Ivan. Constantly on her guard, she dreads police checks until the day she is arrested.

Illegal

2010

Little Lion poster
6.1

A Senegalese teenager is recruited to pursue his dream of playing professional soccer in Europe.

Little Lion

2013

No artwork available
NR

Gloria, a renowned photographer, is mourning the loss of her newborn baby. However, the maternal bond has been broken with the one who is very much alive.

La terre ou le ciel

2012

2000s · 17 titles

Diamond 13 poster
5.2

A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.

Diamond 13

2009

The Secret poster
7.3

Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year old African-American Bill. Initially she is annoyed by his insouciance, but she finds that she is irresistibly attracted to him. Soon the two are in the midst of sordid illicit affair. She knows little about her new lover, and he seems uninterested in learning about her, but the long sessions of lovemaking are something else entirely. Feeling out of control, Marie is increasingly repelled by her own actions. Psychologically, she struggles to reconcile her torrid encounters with Bill and mundane domestic chores such as bathing her son. Moreover, she finds herself incapable of hiding her adulterous behavior, rather she comes home with scratches and hickeys all over her body, to the devastation Francois.

The Secret

2000

Private Lessons poster
5.1

An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.

Private Lessons

2009

Darling poster
6.1

Darling is a woman of today. It seems to always choose the wrong path. Suffers but does not look like a victim. Do not feel sorry for herself. On the contrary, shows a passion for life against all odds. She is struggling to exist. If you fall, get up. Because Darling is naive and fearless, brave and instinctive. Has the life force of a tragic heroine.

Darling

2007

Cages poster
4.7

Eve is an emergency medical technician who falls in love with Damien (Sagamore Stévenin), a handsome and caring man who runs a neighborhood bar in the Belgian countryside. When Damien and Eve become a couple, she joins him in looking after the bar and becomes friendly with the regular customers, but things take an unexpected turn when Eve is in a serious auto accident. While Eve walks away with no serious physical injuries, she's emotionally ravaged by the experience, and develops a severe speech impediment. Eve's new stutter makes it hard for her to communicate with Damien and she becomes the butt of jokes from the customers. Eve is increasingly isolated and Damien takes up with another woman until Eve retaliates by trapping him in their home and forces him to re-establish the building blocks of their relationship, starting with their sexual communication. Meanwhile, Eve's struggle to speak is contrasted with one of the tavern's annual events, an animal calling contest.

Cages

2007

Un fils de notre temps poster
4.0

Somewhere in Europe in the twentieth century, a young man decides to change his life by engaging in the army. A modern and quirky tale, with Jérémie Renier and Bernard Le Coq.

Un fils de notre temps

2003

Strong Shoulders poster
5.2

A young woman obsessively trains to be a track-and-field star.

Strong Shoulders

2003

La fonte des neiges poster
4.3

When the friend who was visiting them suddenly dies, an unremarkable couple is forced to take in his young pregnant wife of Russian origin.

La fonte des neiges

2004

La nuit du meurtre poster
10.0

On a cold fall morning, Nathalie Castellane is found murdered near a swamp. The night before she was at the restaurant with Louis and Hélène, her rich parents, and Eric, her brother. There she had told them about her intention to marry Philippe Laclos, the manager of the Castellane group. When leaving the restaurant, Nathalie had looked very worried... After being notified of Nathalie's death, all the protagonists sink into silence. Which will not help police inspector Tourneur to establish the truth...

La nuit du meurtre

2004

Tomorrow We Move poster
5.9

Single woman Charlotte tries to write erotic fiction despite not having any sensual experience.

Tomorrow We Move

2004

Quand tu descendras du ciel poster
8.0

A mayor wants to get rid of homeless people who blacken his Christmas.

Quand tu descendras du ciel

2003

Natural Enemy poster
4.8

Set in Brittany, a detective called Nicolas Luhel is asked to unravel the circumstances of a teenage boy's death. The main suspect is the boy's father. Shattered by the suicide of the main witness, Nicolas lets himself get snared by the strange and fascinating influence that the father exerts on everyone around him. Eventually, Luhel discovers the truth about the murder and feels that the law is inadequate to deal with it. As a consequence, he decides to destroy the evidence and keep it a secret.

Natural Enemy

2004

No artwork available
1.0

A former police officer, Marc Lorca, sees his wife die from a terrible car accident, which occurred while he was driving. Previously alcoholic, Lorca seems to collapse under the weight of guilt. But a former colleague, Marianne Duriez, recently become a police captain, shows him that the accident is not accounted by any negligence on his part. The survey of experts has indeed revealed that the steering axis of the vehicle was sabotaged. Gradually, the suspect list is expanding. Lorca realizes he knows nothing of the past of his deceased wife, who was obviously part of a small extreme left group.

Passés troubles

2006

No artwork available
8.0

A mother and daughter are working together in the famliy butcher store savagely torn between love and hate.

Chambre froide

2002

No artwork available
6.0

A 16 year old son and his single mother are forced to reckon their true identities. What and who is an accidental hero? The answers are forthcoming as tragic circumstances upset the lives of our protagonists.

The Accidental Hero

2002

9mm poster
5.5

A gunshot tears to shred the outward appearance of a modest family: father, mother and son connected by love, faith, hate, anger and resentment. Who shot who and why?

9mm

2008

Le Voyage de la veuve poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Le Voyage de la veuve

2008

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