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Stories Set in Brussels — top stories

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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10 famous stories set in Brussels

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Browse 14 books, 42 movies and 1 TV show set in Brussels.

The Equalizer 2

The Equalizer 2

Columbia Pictures-Sony Pictures-Escape Artists-Mace Neufeld Productions-Fuqua Films-Lonetree Entertainment-ZHIV Productions
movie

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.

Setting: Boston, USA; Brussels, BelgiumTime Period: 2018
The Brand New Testament

The Brand New Testament

RTBF-Caviar-Climax Films-VOO-BNP Paribas Fortis-Orange Studio-BeTV-Juliette Films-Terra Incognita Films-Après le Déluge-Belga Productions
movie

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…

Setting: Brussels, BelgiumTime Period: 2015
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Paradise Films-Unité Trois-Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la FWB-Ministère de la Culture Française de Belgique
movie

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…

Setting: Brussels, BelgiumTime Period: 1970s
Ritual

Ritual

Eyeworks-Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF)-Screen Flanders-Kinepolis Film Productions
movie

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.

Setting: Brussels, BelgiumTime Period: 2022
Dikkenek

Dikkenek

Avalanche Productions-EuropaCorp-Seven
movie

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.…

Setting: Brussels, BelgiumTime Period: 2006
Películas

Películas

movie

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…

Setting: Brussels, Belgium; Viseu, PortugalTime Period: 2010s
JCVD

JCVD

Gaumont-Canal+-Samsa Film-RTBF-CinéCinéma-Artémis Productions-Bankable-La SOFICA Cofinova 4-Film Fund Luxembourg-Cofinova 4
movie

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…

Setting: Brussels, Belgium; USATime Period: Contemporary
Into the Night

Into the Night

tvshow

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

Setting: Brussels, Belgium; Flight across EuropeTime Period: Contemporary near future
So Help Me God

So Help Me God

France 3 Cinéma-RTBF-Le Bureau-Artémis Productions-VOO-BeTV-Shelter Prod
movie

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…

Setting: Brussels, BelgiumTime Period: 2018
Ex Drummer

Ex Drummer

CCCP-Czar-A-Film Home Entertainment-Metro Tartan Distribution Ltd.-Legend Films International-A-Film Distribution-Camera Obscura-L'Altrofilm-CG Entertainment-Mercurio Cinematografica-Palisades Tartan-TriPictures-Siren Visual Entertainment-Blaq Out
movie

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

Setting: Brussels, BelgiumTime Period: 2000s

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