Once again this year, film fans will have a fantastic opportunity to go and see the best movies right across the country at very special prices over a period of four days. 

For four days – Wednesday 24, Thursday 25, Friday 26 and Saturday 27 September – whether or not you are a BNP Paribas Fortis customer, you will have the chance to enjoy movies for the special price of €4 per seat at all participating cinemas.

The BNP Paribas Fortis Film Days initiative, now in its fifth year, has become a truly unmissable event for all movie fans.  

Preview screenings of a number of Belgian and international films are on the programme, with new releases such as The Equalizer, The Drop and Elle l’adore. Some of these movies are described in more detail below.

To view the list of participating cinemas and for more information on the new releases, go to www.filmdays.be. 

Experience a foretaste of what is to come by viewing our short film fragments  – Hector and the Search for Happiness – And So It Goes –  What  If   – The November Man – Locke – Colt 45 – Le Grimoire d'Arkandias 
 

A small selection from a fairly comprehensive film programme – Third Person, the latest film by Paul Haggis, co-stars Liam Neeson, James Franco, Adrien Brody and Mila Kunis. Love, passion, trust and betrayal underlie the multiple intrigues which criss-cross this romantic thriller.

In Roger Donaldson’s action thriller The November Man, a former CIA agent is recalled to the service for a highly personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.  The leading roles are played by Pierce Brosnan and Olga Kurylenko.  

Those who prefer movies with a lighter tone will not wish to miss the British romantic comedy Hector and the Search for Happiness, based on a novel of the same title.  This gem is directed by Peter Chelsom, with Simon Pegg and Toni Colette in the main roles.

Then we have And so it goes, a US romantic comedy drama directed by Rob Reiner and starring Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton. The plot centres on two retired neighbours whose lives are turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of a long-unknown grand-daughter. 

French comedy Lou, Journal Infime [Secret Diary], directed by Julien Neel and starring Lola Lasseron and Ludivine Sagnier, will transport you into the joyful comic book world of a teenage girl called Lou.

Tom Hardy’s mesmerising performance in the British-made thriller Locke will have you glued to the screen for an hour and a half. From behind the steering wheel of his car, Hardy-as-Locke goes through a hellish journey that turns his life upside down.  

Action film fans will also have the chance to see Colt 45, a thriller directed by Belgian film-maker Fabrice du Welz, starring Gérard Lanvin and Joey Starr.  

Other movies not to miss are Michael Dowse’s What If, with Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan in a highly complicated love story; and Le Grimoire d'Arkandias, [Arkandias’ Book of Magic Spells], directed by Alexandre Castagnetti and starring Christian Clavier and Isabelle Nanty, which interprets on the big screen the first volume of the trilogy written by Eric Boisset, in which two teenagers make use of magic powers they discover in an old book of spells.