Direction: Olivier Smolders

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Olivier Smolders. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


La philosophie dans le boudoir (S)

1991 · Movie · 14 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders

Cast Jean-François Stévenin · Sylvaine Maias · Marc Chapiteau · Aurelia Alcais

Plot First part of a dyptich based on the Marquis de Sade’s de Sade’s notorious Philosophy in the Bedroom.

6.3

39 votes

6.3

39 votes

Spiritual Exercises (S)

2005 · Documentary · 6 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders

Plot Smolders reflects on the art of cinema.

6.1

23 votes

6.1

23 votes

Point de fuite (S)

1987 · Movie · 7 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders

Cast Catherine Aymerie · François Galland

Plot A new teacher comes to class to teach a lesson on a complicated math theorem. The class is waiting completely nude and catches her off guard. She takes off her...

5.9

33 votes

5.9

33 votes

Black Night

2005 · Movie · 90 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders

Cast Fabrice Rodriguez · Yves-Marie Gnahoua · Philippe Corbisier

Plot In a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown.

5.9

30 votes

5.9

30 votes

A Share of the Shadow

2014 · Documentary · 28 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders

Cast Benoît Peeters · Marie Lecomte · Tatiana Nette · Bouli Lanners

Plot "La part de l'ombre" recovers the life of the Hungarian photographer Oskar Benedek, who disappeared the day his exhibition opened; what happened to him?

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Mort à Vignole (S)

1998 · Documentary · 25 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders

Cast Olivier Smolders

Plot While staying on an island off Venice, a film maker questions the way in which personal and biographical issues play a role in stories about love and death.

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Masques (S)

2021 · Documentary · 23 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders

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Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head (S)

1991 · Documentary · 25 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders · Johan van den Driessche

Cast Christian Courtois · Alexandre von Sivers · Lémi Cétol · Barbara De Jonghe

Plot Portrait of an imaginary painter based on the life and the work of A. Wiertz.

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The Amateur

1996 · Movie · 26 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders

Cast Yves Degen · Cathy Grosjean · Eric Pauwels · Mélanie Rullier

Plot The story of a man who smells of women’s nudity.

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Journey Around My Room

2008 · Documentary · 26 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders

Plot Isolated in his room, a filmmaker talks about territories and travels, real or imaginry, that have shaped him until today.

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The Golden Legend (S)

2015 · Documentary · 24 min. · Belgium

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Adoration (S)

1987 · Movie · 16 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders

Cast Takashi Matsuo · Catherine Aymerie

Plot ADORATION is the true story of a Japanese man's love crazed obsession for a woman, which ends in cannibalism.

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Neuvaine

1984 · Movie · 30 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders

Cast Yves Degen · Eliane Degraeve · Benoît Jadot · Mylène Lowette

Plot A writer withdraws himself in his old school in order to find his lost imagination.

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Rapture (S)

1991 · Movie · 7 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders

Cast Catherine Holbrechts · Nathalie Wazilewski · Aleksandra Djukic · Zoé Adriaen

Plot This is the second part of the “Philosophy in the bedroom“ dyptich. Based on the life of Teresa of Avila, a charismatic and controversial ascetic who had mystical visions.

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Alone (S)

1990 · Documentary · 13 min. · Belgium

Direction Thierry Knauff · Olivier Smolders

Plot Portraits of children in a psychiatric institution.

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L'art d'aimer (S)

1985 · Movie · 15 min. · Belgium

Direction Olivier Smolders

Cast Simone Barry · Yolaine Couvreur · Fernand de Dobbeleer · Colette Forton

Plot Through the portrait of the various women who marked his life, a man tells how he ended to kill his mother.

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