Chris Cauwenberghs

Acting

Chris Cauwenberghs

Born February 4, 1947 · Hemiksem, Belgium

Died April 23, 2025 · aged 78

No biography available.

Known For

Congo ExpressCongo Express · 1986
Congo Express
3.81986
MovieDrama
The story centers on Jean (François Beukelaers)—an ex-colonial and former mercenary—and his girlfriend Nadia, who together run the tavern. The bar serves as a gloomy crossroads where three different generations of patrons intersect. As these lonely individuals drink and collide, they confront each other's unfulfilled dreams, romantic illusions, hidden desires, and sudden outbursts of aggression. Trapped between their past actions and what could have been, the characters struggle with profound miscommunication. The film blends dark melancholy with sharp injections of humor, tracking a complex web of human relationships where everyone is simultaneously the hunter and the prey.
PaniekzaaiersPaniekzaaiers · 1986
Paniekzaaiers
5.81986
MovieComedy
Gaston and Leo are active in Antwerp's motorbike brigade. But the two are demoted to simple neighbourhood cops. When they track down a dangerous woman kidnapper and his accomplice, the pair soon find themselves back in favour. Before they can complete their sleuthing, they must escape the attentions of their wives.
Plop en de KaboutermummiePlop en de Kaboutermummie · 2006
Plop en de Kaboutermummie
7.52006
MovieFamily
Koko FlanelKoko Flanel · 1990
Koko Flanel
6.41990
MovieComedyRomance
Placide's dad tells him on his deathbed he'll haunt Placide if he doesn't find a wife soon. Placide cautiously agrees, but he only wants to settle for a very beautiful woman. That might be easier said than done, since he is a vagabond. When he accidentally enters a photo shoot, Placide meets Sarah. He falls in love, but she is way out of his reach.
Plop In The CityPlop In The City · 2006
Plop In The City
3.52006
MovieAdventureComedy
Lui eats a dangerous berry, despite Plop's warning, and grows as tall as a human. The gnomes get angry, so Lui runs away crying and gets lost in the forest. Before he knows it, he ends up in the city, causing chaos wherever he comes..
Plop and the Gnome TreasurePlop and the Gnome Treasure · 1999
Plop and the Gnome Treasure
5.31999
MovieComedyAdventure
Gnome Plop is having a spring cleaning in his mushroom together with his friends Lui, Klus and Kwebbel. While cleaning the chimney, Klus discovers an old treasure map which takes them on a big adventure, far from everything they have ever known..
HectorHector · 1987
Hector
6.81987
MovieComedy
Hector's parents sent him to an orphanage in treatment for smallpox but... they never picked him up. 35 years later, he still lives in the orphanage, surrounded by children, his playmates. Till a forgotten aunt remembers that he exists. She'll get him to participate in the bakery of her husband, Achilles, to work. Hector shows his skills on the basis of unexpected inventions. So he helps Jos, the son of Achilles, to accomplish his dream to be a cycling champion. Hector's good humor and childlike manner overcomes all resistance and pulls his entire entourage along on the path to success. From now on he can learn what love is...
Kabouter Plop - Het kabouterziekenhuisKabouter Plop - Het kabouterziekenhuis · 2003
Kabouter Plop - Het kabouterziekenhuis
2003
MovieComedyAdventure

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WhiteyWhitey · 1980
Whitey
5.11980
MovieDrama
The second movie version, now in color, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main character. The smart but naughty farmhands son's eternal mischief, pranks and disobedience drive his elders (especially teachers, family and father's grumpy employer, a rich farmer, but also neighbors and even the kind curate whose liturgical server he is) and classmates to despair in a time when a boy's punishment was still inevitable, swift and often severe; thus when his mother catches him skinny dipping she takes all his clothes home, forcing him to a long walk of shame, dreading dad's wrath all the way. This version also stresses the story's social and Flamingant aspects.

Koster

BoysBoys · 1992
Boys
4.01992
MovieComedy
In this light-hearted low-budget comedy, two very different Flemish tween bachelors are best buds. Peter is a responsible professional, who's excited to get his first proper account as copy-writer in a small Belgian publicity firm- for condoms, a product the conservative boss dreads as slightly obscene. Tom however is a dare-all without much sense of decency, who earns his living as process-server and repo-man for a judicial bailiff. In their free time they're nearly inseparable, Tom cheering up his somewhat gloomy realistic friend and urging him to take silly risks during a weekend at the seaside and even cheat on his steady girlfriend. When the graphics department refuses to execute Peters idea for the condom campaign without a live male model, only Tom is pleasantly mad enough to pose stark-naked.

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