Roger Van Hool

Acting

Roger Van Hool

Born 1940-09-27 · Antwerp, Belgium

Roger Van Hool was born on September 27, 1940 in Antwerp, Belgium. He is an actor, known for As Above, So Below (2014), Oscar (1967) and Les grands détectives (1974).

Acting credits

As Above, So Below poster
6.8

When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

As Above, So Below

2014

The Truth poster
6.0

Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.

The Truth

2019

The Odyssey poster
6.6

The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.

The Odyssey

2016

The Woman Next Door poster
7.1

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

The Woman Next Door

1981

Oscar poster
7.3

This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.

Oscar

1967

Isn't She Lovely? poster
5.8

A couple of parents get in over their heads when they decide to use Scandinavian alternative teaching methods for their teenager.

Isn't She Lovely?

2020

United Passions poster
3.5

An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determined men who created it. Driven by their vision and passion, three men, overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make the World Cup a reality. Spanning the tumultuous 20th Century, this timeless saga celebrates the event that became the most popular sporting event in the world.

United Passions

2014

Iris poster
6.0

A female veterinarian moves to the country side to start her own practice. She encounters a lot a skeptical villagers.

Iris

1987

L'Affaire poster
3.6

A man who had everything taken away from him, including his family, by his brother teams up with a young card player in order to take revenge on the brother.

L'Affaire

1994

The Abyss poster
5.4

The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe under an assumed name for twenty years. But he remains a non-conformist. He returns to his native Bruges, where he thinks he has been forgotten. In this silent labyrinth where the faces of the past resurface, he rediscovers his identity and thus signs his death warrant.

The Abyss

1988

Woman in Chains poster
7.0

Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gilbert, whose wife Josée is captivated by Stanislas. But unbeknownst to her, Stanislas is amassing photographs of a very perverse, disturbed nature.

Woman in Chains

1968

Aux abois poster
6.8

Paul, a former insurer, is struggling to make ends meet. He agrees to meet Sarrebry, a loan shark introduced to him by his friend Daubelle. Paul mortally knocks out the disgusting crook and steals a large sum of money from him.

Aux abois

2005

Conversations with My Gardener poster
6.5

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.

Conversations with My Gardener

2007

Heartbeat poster
6.4

The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.

Heartbeat

1968

Tanguy poster
6.0

Tanguy is 28 years old and still living with his parents. They think it's time he moves out. He doesn't, so they hatch a plan.

Tanguy

2001

Lock poster
4.5

After her eleven year old daughter Cathy befalls a freak accident, Danielle is in a state of catatonic paralysis. Daily, she hears her daughter's voice, telling tell her that her disappearance was no accident. A multitude of supernatural event make progressively Roger, the father, and Fanny, wife of service, become aware of a presence in the house. One night, Roger and Fanny are persecuted by the presence of a devilish laugh that resembles the girl.

Lock

1983

Et qu'ça saute ! poster
9.0

A uranium deposit brings turmoil to the small South American republic of Guatalpa. Between two revolutions, the government tries unsuccessfully to decide whether the Americans, Soviets or Cubans will exploit the concession. Delegates from these nations spy on and betray each other to achieve their goal.

Et qu'ça saute !

1970

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Beaux Quartiers

1983

Woman Between Wolf and Dog poster
5.6

Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly returns home after the invasion succeeds. Later, he decides that the Germans are on the right side of things, and goes off to fight for them on the Eastern Front. Soon afterward, a resistance fighter is stranded on her doorway, and she hides him. The two of them fall in love, and the conflicts and joys of this relationship cause Lieve continued grief well after the end of the war.

Woman Between Wolf and Dog

1979

Plato's Banquet poster
4.9

At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial.

Plato's Banquet

1989

Boys and Girls poster
7.0

Ten young people (six boys and four girls), most of whom students, rent a house in bad repair and set about living together. The experience is not obvious and the ten tenants have to cope with more than one difficulty. But they also have their moments. Things really go awry when Françoise, an unmarried girl, is forced to deliver the baby she carries prematurely and when Solange, the lonely girl of the group, attempts suicide. Shortly afterwards, the group learns that the house is due for demolition. They decide to take advantage of this opportunity to face adult life individually.

Boys and Girls

1967

Louise, One Word of Love poster
4.8

The young Isabelle escapes from the orphanage and she adopted by two chaps on a caravan. They then meet by chance the posh family of Louise- who runs away with the three adventurers when confronted with the reality of having to marry a Belgian with a large moustache and a bald head. They find a dog. Later Louisa degenerates into a minor moment of sexual hedonism and multiplexing with the two chaps before they are all overwhelmed by the Armageddon that was WWI.

Louise, One Word of Love

1972

The Eyewitness poster
6.3

A 23 year old boy learns how to see again after he has been blind for nearly 20 years. He does however continue to see images of his mother flashing by.

The Eyewitness

1996

The Garden of Torment poster
4.6

The story of a Antoine, a physician who was exiled to China in the 1930's due to his drug habit.

The Garden of Torment

1976