Flemish/Belgian series to watch
A list of Belgian, mostly flemish series that are generally perceived as the best in the last 30-40 years.
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- StarsYassine OuaichWard KerremansAhlaam TeghadouiniA young entrepreneur turns Belgium's Moroccan community on its head by trying to change their funeral tradition.
- StarsPiet De PraitereBart VannesteWim WillaertFamous stand-up comedian Freddy De Vadder flees to a picturesque village called Bevergem. Why? Nobody knows. He doesn't talk about it. The contrast between him and the grotesque residents could not be bigger. In anticipation of the yearly town festival the temper gets heated. But Freddy doesn't care. He just hopes his hideout is secure.
- StarsSien EggersDirk van DijckWim Willaerta farmer loses all his money and decides to grow weed to compensate for the losses.
- StarsDirk van DijckJos VerbistTom AudenaertTells the story about a young guy who starts his own quiz team to join a competition (Belgium)
- StarsReinhilde DecleirSien EggersLucas Van den EyndeA tragicomedy about the everyday life of a butchers family Vangenechten.
- CreatorMalin-Sarah GozinStarsBarbara SarafianKristine Van PellicomRuth BecquartFour sisters conspire to kill their obnoxious brother-in-law but murder isn't easy especially when they have to contend with bad luck, the victim's senile mother and a pair of bumbling insurance investigators who can't afford to pay out.
- StarsBart De PauwMathias SercuDanny Timmermans'Buiten DE Zone' is set at a telephone exchange, run by five volunteers, who try to answer telephone calls from people of their own age.
- StarsMatteo SimoniRik VerheyeStef AertsThe 7 part black dramedy follows the comical exploits of four gigolos, the Callboys, while testosterone-driven management, petty arguments and deaf-mute ambition make their short-lived business crash and burn.
- StarsBart De PauwTom WaesMaaike CafmeyerA parody on a docusoap, the Pfaffs.
- StarsJeroen PercevalLiesa Van der AaCedric TyllemanA team of negotiators and special forces respond to a hostage situation in a small bank, with the events unfolding through the eyes of the criminals and their victims.
- StarsHubert DamenDaan HugaertMark StroobantsAfter his wife cheats on him with his superior, police commissioner Witse leaves Brussels for Halle to start a new life. His idiosyncratic character and ways of solving cases often clashes with his new colleagues.
- StarsRené VerrethMandus de VosJaak Van AsscheA group of colleagues at a cobwebbed ministerial department struggles to maintain a peaceful working atmosphere.
- StarsJan DecleirFrieda PittoorsPeter Van den BeginHubert has been the annual Prince of Carnival for over 35 years in the small town of Knorrendonk. When the doctor finds him unfit for this year's celebration, the Councel of Eleven decides there will be an election. Hubert wants the sceptor to stay in the family and proposes a competition between his children Frank and Yvonne. In preparation of the election they have to face family secrets and small town intrigues
- StarsFilip PeetersArianna FoxViolet BraeckmanA police inspector investigates the robbery of 66 safe deposit boxes at a private bank in Brussels.
- StarsJelle De BeuleLieven ScheireKoen De PoorterA group of friends set up a pirate television station and in a humorous fashion report the news from their little town in Flanders, where more absurd things tend to happen then would seem in the first place.
- StarsJolente De KeersmaekerSara de RooTom Dewispelaere6 friends started a television production company, "De Parelvissers" (The Pearlfishers). 7 years later one of them, Jan De Ridder, took 100 million francs out of the bank and disappeared without a trace. Shortly after that the company went bankrupt. Another five years later the younger brother of Jan, Piet De Ridder, invites the other 'Pearlfishers" to a remote house in the Ardens, to make a documentary film about the company and hoping that together they may find some answers about what might have happened to Jan.
- StarsFrank FocketynDirk van DijckWim OpbrouckMichel, Guido and Frankie have been co-workers and close friends for years. But when their boss gets fired, Guido gets a promotion and is replaced by the odd Alain Vandam. No normal day passes on this work floor where impossible situations, hilarious moments and odd people are just a daily thing.
- CreatorSanne NuyensBert Van DaelNathalie BasteynsStarsLynn Van RoyenGene BervoetsInge PaulussenA young woman wakes to discover her own murder on her hands. Struggling to get help and solve the case from five locals who are somehow involved with the night of her death, she uncovers so much more.
- StarsWouter HendrickxLiesa Van der AaMieke De GrooteAfter a virus outbreak in the center of Antwerp the goverment decides to lock the people who might be affected by placing a wall around the center
- CreatorYouri BooneJan PepermansPieter PeylsStarsTiny BertelsRomy LauwersThomas De SmetWhen her marriage fails Sylvia is forced to move with her children into a brothel on the Chaussée d'Amour. Out of financial necessity she decides to exploit the bar. Meanwhile a detective tries to solve an old murder case.
- CreatorVeerle BaetensMalin-Sarah GozinStarsVeerle BaetensStijn Van OpstalJeroen PercevalMie, a woman with amnesia, is visited by DI Wolkers who claims she was the last person seen with the vanished Thomas Spectre. In order to find Thomas, Mie has to reconstruct lost memories and find a way through the labyrinth of her past.
- StarsLize FerynWietse TangheMatthieu SysA 10-part series telling the story of the Boesman family during World War I.
- StarsMatteo SimoniStef AertsJeroen PercevalIn 18th-century Flanders a soldier-turned-bandit becomes a local hero as he leads the oppressed and downtrodden in a revolt against the corrupt aristocracy.
- StarsHerbert FlackMichel van DousselaereHerman BoetsIn each episode of this Flemish whodunit based on the books of Pieter Aspe, a serious crime - usually one or more murders in the author's home town Bruges - gets investigated by the grumpy but brilliant chief inspector Pieter Van In and his team.
- CreatorSteve De WildeBram RendersBart VaessenStarsKadèr GürbüzGovert DeploigeDanny TimmermansSteve Mertens and Birgit Baukens, a non-stereotypical gay guy and a wannabe career woman, decide to share a house. To cover the rent, they take in three others: Birgit's ex-boyfriend Tom Derijcke, party animal Zoë Zonderland and wicked computer nerd Akke Impens. Complemented by their landlord's hyperactive daughter Jasmijn De Ridder, they soon form a crazy but close group of friends. Later on the series, they are joined by Carlo Stadeus, Akke's best friend, who is physically obsessed by Birgit. Finally, after a switch in house owners, the pedantic teenager Kim De Hert is the last one to force herself into the gang. As the series strolls towards it's conclusion, each of these characters seems to be facing a future they did not expect.