Mathias Sercu

Acting

Mathias Sercu

Born

1970-12-22 (55)

Place of birth

Ardooie

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Known for

Aspe poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Aspe

2004

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

Vermist poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Vermist

2008

De Kotmadam poster
5.7

'De Kotmadam' was a classic Flemish comedy television series, that aired from 1991 to 2024, meaning the show is the longest running Belgian sitcom in terms of time and amounts of episodes and seasons. The series revolves around Jeanne Piens, who owns a small sweet shop in the centre of Leuven and rents out several rooms of her house to students studying in the city. She is a caring type and loves all her students. Her husband Jef Liefooghe works for the city's gardening department. Except for the last season, their friend Odilon Bonheur, a naïve warden in the local prison, visits regularly to give or seek help.

De Kotmadam

1991

Flikken poster
6.6

Flikken was a popular Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Ghent. The show started in 1999 and ended recently on 19 April 2009. In the series, a team of six police officers solved various crimes, petty crimes as well as organised crime. The series always aimed at showing the policework in a realistic way - though a little personal drama was never far off. Of all the actors that came along during the ten seasons, only Mark Tijsmans and Ludo Hellinx appeared throughout the entire series. Flikken was produced by the VRT and broadcast on Belgian public channel Eén and TROS in the Netherlands. Flikken is very popular in Belgium and the Netherlands. The show has had very high ratings of up to 1.8 million viewers during the last season. Every year the VRT organises the Flikkendag, a family day where the public can meet the actors of the show. There are many games, demonstrations of the real police and other safety organisations and performances of singers. On 18 April 2009, a special farewell party was organised in Ghent, in which the actors and crew said goodbye to their fans - thousands had assembled to watch the show on stage.

Flikken

1999

Recht op Recht poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Recht op Recht

1998

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

The Soundman poster
7.3

May 1940. As Europe trembles on the brink of war, two lives cross within Brussels’ legendary Flagey building, the beating heart of national radio. Elza, a young actress making her debut in radio drama, meets Berre, a gifted soundman with a magical ear. She is enchanted by storytelling; he finds solace in sound. Their encounter sparks a love that dares to exist beyond the rising shadow of their time.

The Soundman

2025

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

De Veestapel aan de Kribbe poster
4.5

A slice of life story about a Christmas Eve. In the nineties. At the household of a West-Flemish family. Spoken in West-Flemish. Comical. But tragic if you ask the narrator.

De Veestapel aan de Kribbe

2023

Divine Sparks poster
NR

A chance encounter at a German highway rest stop sparks youthful attraction between a thirteen-year-old Czech boy and a Belgian girl. In the short time between lunch and their departure, they try to meet each other. With the help of an Arab truck driver, and a man who looks like an African footballer, they overcome language barriers and avoid their families to spend a few minutes together. In this unassuming location, they share an experience that is unique to modern Europe.

Divine Sparks

2020

2010s · 7 titles

Lola and the Sea poster
6.4

Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have not seen each other for two years, undertake a journey all the way to the Belgian coast. They realize the outcome of the journey may not be the one they were both expecting...

Lola and the Sea

2019

Crazy About Ya poster
6.0

In Crazy About Ya, different characters meet. Sometimes their stories are closely interwoven, sometimes they just brush past each other. But sooner or later everyone runs into the hero of this story, Saint Jan. As a true sanctus ex machina he makes sure that in the end, they are all a bit crazier about each other again.

Crazy About Ya

2010

Cargo poster
5.8

'Cargo' brings the raw story of three brothers who own a family business in the fishery and are trying to save it from destruction. The passion for their profession but also for their loved ones, however, drives them to desperate actions.

Cargo

2017

Cold Fears poster
5.8

Matt, a 18-year-old (senior) boy, is in a relationship with a girl in his class, but realizes that something is not right. After a while he realizes that he finds his swimming partner Lander more interesting than his girlfriend Lize. These feelings make Matt feel different. He no longer knows how to stay with himself, especially when his father teases him more and more about the fact that he still hasn't slept with Lize. In the end, Matt chooses to take steps for his own happiness.

Cold Fears

2017

Flemish Heaven poster
6.4

A look at the lives of three generations of women. Monique and her daughter Sylvie run a brothel on the border of West Flanders and France. Eline, Sylvie's six-year-old daughter, is fascinated by the mysterious workplace of her mother and grandmother, but she is never allowed inside. A dramatic event turns their lives upside down and the family ties are put under pressure.

Flemish Heaven

2016

My First Highway poster
4.5

During the annual holiday with his parents at a campsite in Spain, Benjamin (16) falls in love with a Flemish girl operating a local supermarket with her mother. She is beautiful and intriguing and drags him along on an adventure that takes a dangerous turn. This will be a summer he will never forget for the rest of his life.

My First Highway

2016

Verborgen Verlangen poster
7.0

Two publishing brothers Vincent and Dennis Van Brakel are heading towards bankruptcy. But all changes when they receive two manuscripts.

Verborgen Verlangen

2017

2000s · 4 titles

Series credits

Aspe poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Aspe

2004

Aspe poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Aspe

2004

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

Vermist poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Vermist

2008

Vermist poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Vermist

2008

De Kotmadam poster
5.7

'De Kotmadam' was a classic Flemish comedy television series, that aired from 1991 to 2024, meaning the show is the longest running Belgian sitcom in terms of time and amounts of episodes and seasons. The series revolves around Jeanne Piens, who owns a small sweet shop in the centre of Leuven and rents out several rooms of her house to students studying in the city. She is a caring type and loves all her students. Her husband Jef Liefooghe works for the city's gardening department. Except for the last season, their friend Odilon Bonheur, a naïve warden in the local prison, visits regularly to give or seek help.

De Kotmadam

1991

Flikken poster
6.6

Flikken was a popular Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Ghent. The show started in 1999 and ended recently on 19 April 2009. In the series, a team of six police officers solved various crimes, petty crimes as well as organised crime. The series always aimed at showing the policework in a realistic way - though a little personal drama was never far off. Of all the actors that came along during the ten seasons, only Mark Tijsmans and Ludo Hellinx appeared throughout the entire series. Flikken was produced by the VRT and broadcast on Belgian public channel Eén and TROS in the Netherlands. Flikken is very popular in Belgium and the Netherlands. The show has had very high ratings of up to 1.8 million viewers during the last season. Every year the VRT organises the Flikkendag, a family day where the public can meet the actors of the show. There are many games, demonstrations of the real police and other safety organisations and performances of singers. On 18 April 2009, a special farewell party was organised in Ghent, in which the actors and crew said goodbye to their fans - thousands had assembled to watch the show on stage.

Flikken

1999

Flikken poster
6.6

Flikken was a popular Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Ghent. The show started in 1999 and ended recently on 19 April 2009. In the series, a team of six police officers solved various crimes, petty crimes as well as organised crime. The series always aimed at showing the policework in a realistic way - though a little personal drama was never far off. Of all the actors that came along during the ten seasons, only Mark Tijsmans and Ludo Hellinx appeared throughout the entire series. Flikken was produced by the VRT and broadcast on Belgian public channel Eén and TROS in the Netherlands. Flikken is very popular in Belgium and the Netherlands. The show has had very high ratings of up to 1.8 million viewers during the last season. Every year the VRT organises the Flikkendag, a family day where the public can meet the actors of the show. There are many games, demonstrations of the real police and other safety organisations and performances of singers. On 18 April 2009, a special farewell party was organised in Ghent, in which the actors and crew said goodbye to their fans - thousands had assembled to watch the show on stage.

Flikken

1999

Recht op Recht poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Recht op Recht

1998

Juliet poster
6.3

After the death of her father, detective Juliet Dumon starts over. She leaves Brussels and returns to her hometown of De Haan to care for her niece, who lived with her father.

Juliet

2024

Mijn Slechtste Beste Vriendin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mijn Slechtste Beste Vriendin

2021

En daarmee Basta! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

En daarmee Basta!

2005

Chantal poster
7.5

Inspector Chantal Vantomme starts a new life in Loveringem, aka the Farwest of Flanders as the new coordinator of the small and rural police office. She arrives in a macho world where the apparent tranquillity does not guarantee less crime.

Chantal

2022

Black-out poster
6.4

When a nuclear plant is sabotaged, the power grid in Belgium crashes. Prime Minister Annemie Hillebrand is forced to prolong the blackout, otherwise her daughter -who has been kidnapped- will die. Can Michael Dendoncker of the counter terrorism unit, rescue the girl in a country that's off the grid.

Black-out

2020

Campus 12 poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Campus 12

2018

De Rodenburgs poster
2.7

No synopsis available yet.

De Rodenburgs

2009

Salamander poster
7.1

A police inspector investigates the robbery of 66 safe deposit boxes at a private bank in Brussels.

Salamander

2012

Sedes & Belli poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sedes & Belli

2002

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

Buiten De Zone poster
9.0

Buiten De Zone (translated as "Out of the Zone") is a Flemish youth series (1994-1996) about five volunteers at the Jongerenfoon, a helpline that rarely receives calls. Out of boredom, they fantasize about absurd and humorous situations, where reality and fiction constantly blur. Each episode revolves around a theme such as love, fear, or fame. The series is known for its humor, satire, and social criticism and has become a cult classic.

Buiten De Zone

1994

Home Grown poster
7.8

A local Belgian potato farmer loses all his money and tries to earn it back by growing cannabis.

Home Grown

2013

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Winteruur

2015

Rough Justice poster
6.0

Straight-talking Superintendent Liese Meerhout leads the homicide department in the Antwerp police force. She and her team go to great lengths to ensure justice is served, even if it means they too cross the line between right and wrong.

Rough Justice

2016

Marsman poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Marsman

2014

Team Spirit: De serie poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Team Spirit: De serie

2003

Diamant poster
5.5

In this filmed version of Flemish author Jef Gheeraerts' novel, Robert 'Robbe' Parain, an arrogant Antwerp police detective who operates at the limits of illegality and is in personal debt, tenaciously traces but also gets personally entangled in the dark, ruthless, criminal sides of the publicly so glamorous trade in diamonds, notably in his native Antwerp, Hong Kong, Brussels and Congo.

Diamant

1997

Crème de la Crème poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Crème de la Crème

2013

Leven in verlengingen poster
8.0

Life in Extensions tells the story of Tore Sercu, son of Ilse Vanbrabant and director and actor Mathias Sercu. Tore has been living in 'extensions' for over 3 years. ​ He was diagnosed with an aggressive and incurable cancer: multiple myeloma. He was soon declared palliative and would only have 6 months to live. More than 3 years later, Tore and his family are constantly balancing between consciously saying goodbye and consciously living. A complex process that they now want to provide valuable insight into.

Leven in verlengingen

2024

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