Koen de Bouw Movies

A budding pugilist who befriends a boxing trainer in a Nazi prison camp rises through the ranks while haunted by the accidental death of his beloved younger brother in director Guido Hendrickx's entry into the 2007 Montreal World Film Festival. Scrappy fighter Stan Vandewalle and seasoned trainer Max knew that nothing good would come to either if they remained complacently in their prison camp, so when they moment was right the pair made a break for it. Though their escape was treacherous, Stan did manage to save Max's life and the two men eventually made their way to safety. Despite the fact that Stan's starts to experience great success in the boxing ring, the fighter is dealt a devastating blow when his younger brother Alois is unexpectedly killed in a tragic accident. While Stan's embittered older brother Romain places the blame for Alois' death square on the struggling boxer's shoulders, Stan vows to become the greatest boxer that the sporting world has ever known in order to honor his fallen sibling. Later, after meeting a promoter named Kits who books him several important matches including bouts in Europe and Havana, Stan meets Julie, the girl who proves to be the love of his life. Yet as much success as Stan has both in live and in love, he will soon be forced to reflect back on his life while questioning the many important decisions he has made. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A career criminal struggles to perform an act of street justice as he loses control of his faculties in this thriller from Belgium. Angelo Ledda (Jan Decleir) is a veteran hitman who has spent most of his life as a hired killer. Angelo decides to get out of the business when he finds he's losing his memory due to the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, but he's been offered a lucrative final assignment that involves murdering two people. Angelo initially says yes to the job, until he finds out one of his targets will be a 13-year-old girl; it goes against Angelo's principles to kill a child, and he decides not to take the assignment. However, Angelo quickly discovers his customers found someone with no such scruples; angry, he seeks vengeance against the man who would kill a young girl, and as he shoots his way through the chain of command that led to the murder, he makes the troubling discovery that the crime is tied to a cadre of powerful figures in business and politics. As Angelo struggles against his failing memory to find out who had final responsibility for the hit and why they ordered it, a pair of police detectives, Vincke (Koen de Bouw) and Verstuyft (Jan Decleir), is trying to find the link between the murders of a growing number of prominent citizens. The Memory of a Killer as initially screened in Belgium as De Zaak Alzheimer, or The Alzheimer Case. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

In this taut contemporary thriller, a group of vacationers who find a can of valuable gems must figure out why they're dying one by one in the wilderness. Five German friends travel to South Africa for a rugged 11-day wilderness vacation without cell phones or any other contact with civilization. One of them befriends a stranger and invites him along as they take a chartered plane to a region near the Namibian border. Their hiking and camping expedition goes smoothly until the second day, when they find a dead parachutist with a can of uncut diamonds worth around six million dollars. They decide to bury the man and debate whether they should inform the authorities when they reach civilization. Then someone dies suddenly from an apparent accident. The deaths continue as tensions and suspicions mount. Before it's too late, the survivors have to figure out if the victims died by accident, were killed by an outsider who appears to be stalking them, or were murdered by one or more members of their own group. ~ Todd Kristel, Rovi