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Stories Set in Brussels
Comic-strip walls, EU corridors, rainy communes and God in a tower block — Brussels hides strangeness in grey stone. These ten span Tintin to thrillers; filter the city's stories by era on StoryTerra's map.
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Browse 14 books, 42 movies and 1 TV show set in Brussels.

The Equalizer 2
Robert McCall who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed embarks on a relentless globe-trotting quest for vengeance when a long-time girl friend is murdered.

The Brand New Testament
God lives in Brussels. On Earth though God is a coward with pathetical morals and being odious with his family. His daughter Ea is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels…

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly her ritualized daily routines begin to fall…

Ritual
The discovery of a chopped-off hand in a Brussels canal forces Belgian police diver Kiki to face deep guilt from the past her own and her country’s. Based on the book ‘Ritual’ by Mo Hayder.

Dikkenek
Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fairer sex if he could work up the ambition to wake up in the morning.…

Películas
Películas is the name of a poetry book by Luís Miguel Nava a homosexual poet born in Viseu who died in Brussels and whose magnificent poetic work remains widely unknown. Drawn from the filmmaker’s family super8 film…

JCVD
Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! This…

Into the Night
When the sun suddenly starts killing everything in its path, passengers on an overnight flight from Brussels attempt to survive by any means necessary.

So Help Me God
Some 20 years ago two sex workers were murdered in an upper-class Brussels neighborhood. Celebrated Belgian magistrate Anne Gurwez decides to revisit this cold case pouring over the evidence with the use of new…

Ex Drummer
Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
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