Known for Acting
Eric Godon (born February 7, 1959) is a Belgian character actor, director and writer. Recognisable by his burly appearance and deep voice, he is perhaps best known in English language circles, for his roles in In Bruges and The Missing.
Born
February 7, 1959 (age 67)
Birthplace
Baudour, Hainaut, Belgium
Filmography
57 films, 13 shows


Dust
2026 · 1h 49m
country: Belgium
When Belgian tech visionaries Luc and Geert learn that their fraud will hit the papers in less than 24 hours, they realise their company and their status will evaporate. With jail time becoming inevitable, they each go on their separate paths of redemption. As they quietly seek atonement from their investors – their families and the close-knit community, they learn what truly matters.


Beneath the Houses
2025 · 1h 20m
country: Unknown
In the year 1990 a police cadet searches for her estranged father who has gone missing in Yugoslavia, a country on the brink of civil war.


Blutspur Antwerpen
2025 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
A murder in broad daylight in the port of Antwerp: model Jean-Baptiste Kalemba is shot dead by a masked cyclist while jogging in front of the famous “Havenhuis”. Although the assassin must be a professional, Detective Inspector Louma Shapiro and her colleague Pierre Didier suspect a mistake.


Bo Jacquo
2024 · 18m
country: Unknown
Daniel is the lead actor in a mafia film. He's about to shoot the pivotal scene: his father's death. His emotional preparation will plunge him into childhood memories and impact his own life.


L'enfant
2024 · 23m
country: Unknown
During her pregnancy, a woman experiences terrifying symptoms that necessitate an urgent intervention by a doctor, plunging both of them into one of the darkest situations.


Chasing Johnny
2024 · 1h 46m
country: Belgium
Johnny, a local activist, is wanted by the police after a robbery gone wrong. Paul, his childhood friend, comes back home after 15 years to find him before the police. Investigator Anna Radoszewski is also on Johnny’s trail. Thus begins a search in which memo- ries and secrets resurface. In a social context that shakes the town, everybody is looking for Johnny, who soon becomes the symbol of a revolt.


The Child
2024 · 23m
country: Belgium
During her pregnancy, a woman experiences terrifying symptoms that necessitate an urgent intervention, plunging her into a live-threatening situation.


Holy Mother
2024 · 2h 2m
country: Belgium
In the 9th century, Emma, a 17-year-old girl, is named Abbess in order to repopulate and Christianize border territories in conflict with the Moors. Upon arriving at the Abbey she will have to overcome the mistrust aroused by a woman determined to fulfill her mission, which will lead her to confront nobles, peasants and the nuns themselves. Despite everything, Emma will show that it is possible to challenge established power structures. Although she will pay a high price to get it...


Diversion
2022 · 17m
country: Belgium
On the trail of a serial killer, a police investigator with formidable instincts is close to the goal when state security interferes in his case.


Diary of Spices
2022 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Two different worlds, art, and cuisine collide in a tense and mysterious thriller.


Freaks Out
2021 · 2h 21m
country: Belgium
Four super-powered circus freaks find themselves trapped in war-torn Rome after their foster father is captured by the Nazis.


Caliber 9
2021 · 1h 31m
country: Belgium
Milan, Nowadays: Fernando, son of Ugo Piazza, is a brilliant criminal defense lawyer whose mother, Nelly, has done everything in her power to raise him different from his father, a deplorable gangster.


Undergods
2021 · 1h 32m
country: Belgium
An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.


CDD: Corpus Crisis
2020 · 24m
country: Belgium
Two students are hired by the mafia to clean up crime scenes. On the last day of work, a problem: a body is not 100% dead.


Yummy
2019 · 1h 30m
country: Belgium
A young couple travels to a shabby Eastern European hospital for plastic surgery. The young woman wants a breast reduction. Her mother comes along for yet another face-lift. Wandering through an abandoned ward the boyfriend stumbles upon a young woman, gagged and strapped to an operating table; she is the result of an experimental rejuvenation treatment. He frees her, but does not realize he just caused the outbreak of a virus that will change doctors, patients and his mother-in-law into bloodthirsty zombies.


Zerschunden - Ein Fall für Dr. Abel
2019 · 1h 32m
country: Germany
A murderer always kills across Europe according to the same pattern: he kills single women and provides the victims with his personal signature. A friend of Abel's is suspected. Abel wants to help him and investigates himself.


Anna
2019 · 1h 59m
country: France
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.


Rebels
2019 · 1h 27m
country: France
Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of her childhood which she left almost 15 years ago. She finds her mother there and a world she left behind. Without money, she is hired in a fish cannery where she befriends two workers. But one day, one of her colleagues tackles her insistently, she defends herself and kills him accidentally.


The Most Assassinated Woman in the World
2018 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Set against the backdrop of the infamous Theatre Grand Guignol the story revolves around iconic actress Paula Maxa - the most famous of the Grand Guignol's leading ladies and the titular Most Assassinated Woman, who was graphically slain on stage multiple times a day.


Control
2017 · 2h 6m
country: Belgium
The once unconditional friendship between police officers Vincke and Verstuyft hits a very rough patch when they come up against a series of gruesome murders. Complicating matters even further, a survivor of the killer drives a wedge between them when Verstuyft falls for her charms. Meanwhile, the serial killer has a new victim in sight...


Pilgrimage
2017 · 1h 36m
country: Belgium
In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.


The Young Karl Marx
2017 · 1h 58m
country: Belgium
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.


Totems
2016 · 8m
country: Belgium
An excellent example of how sometimes dialogue is not necessary, Totems is a visual display of our inner animal disposition. A lumberjack is working in a forest when a tree falls down and his leg gets stuck. As he is trapped in a beautiful but cruel environment, the despair awakens his primal instincts.


The Ardennes
2015 · 1h 33m
country: Belgium
A brutal home-jacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much has changed. Dave has his life back on track and is trying to help Kenneth however possible, but is witnessing how the highly strung Kenneth tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Sylvie.


Plein soleil
2015 · 24m
country: Belgium
Under the leaden sky of a summer day, Eric goes to work to defend a great issue. But, blinded by stress, Eric is forgetting the most important thing...


Johnny Walker
2015 · 1h 25m
country: Netherlands
A washed up Hollywood director is trapped in a remote castle by his own fears until the arrival of a mysterious woman offers him possible salvation. Inspired by Dostoevsky's 'Notes from the Underground', Johnny Walker attempts to answer the burning question: Is living a long life vulgar, immoral or just plain bad manners?


Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
2015 · 1h 35m
country: Belgium
The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.


Suite Française
2015 · 1h 43m
country: Belgium
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.


The Connection
2014 · 2h 15m
country: Belgium
Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.


The Intruder
2014 · 1h 26m
country: Netherlands
In this smart and incisive thriller, a Dutch cop of Moroccan heritage goes undercover in a Moroccan drug ring and finds there a feeling of belonging he never experienced in "normal" society.


Fishing Without Nets
2014 · 1h 49m
country: Kenya
In Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values. Abdi and his fellow pirates hit the high seas and capture a French oil tanker, demanding a hefty ransom. During the long, tedious wait for the cash to arrive, Abdi forges a tentative friendship with one of the hostages. When some of the pirates resort to violence, Abdi must make dramatic choices to determine his course.


Marie Curie, une femme sur le front
2014 · 1h 24m
country: France
A chronicle of Nobel Prize winning physicist Maria Skłodowska-Curie's little known yet invaluable contribution to wounded soldiers' treatment during World War I, and her professional partnership with radiotherapy pioneer Claudius Regaud.


Chambre double
2013 · 15m
country: Belgium
Gilles is a doctor. After a procedure, in the middle of the night he ends up in a small hotel in a downtown area. As soon as Gilles enters his room, the hotel receptionist knocks on his door and asks Gilles to help care for a young woman who was badly beaten…


Erased
2012 · 1h 40m
country: Belgium
A former agent of the CIA and his estranged daughter go on the run after his employers target them for assassination.


Sex, Lies and Surgery
2012 · 1h 23m
country: France
John - conscientious and romantic - and Michael - thoughtless and unfaithful - are surgeons at their father’s private hospital. John felt madly in love with Priscilla, a wonderful nurse. But he is betrayed by Michael who decides to marry her. Shattered by his loss, John moves to Canada. But Michael’s new project to dedicate the clinic to plastic surgery leads them to bankruptcy, forcing John to come back in the hope of saving the clinic...


Asylum Blackout
2012 · 1h 25m
country: Belgium
A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm


10 jours en or
2012 · 1h 35m
country: France
When a carefree bachelor is unexpectedly left in charge of a young boy, the two embark on a road trip that will change both of their lives.


Nothing Sacred
2012 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A pair of twins named Blue and Delilah, separated at birth, meet for the first time at their mother's death bed. Their mother tells the twins that it is their fate to fulfill a secret prophecy. The prophecy foretold long ago that they would avenge her death by killing the dark sorcerer Chambers. The only problem is that Chambers is their father - and in a month from now, he'll have the last gruesome ingredient he needs to become immortal. As time runs down, the twins chase Chambers across the world from the corpse-filled catacombs of Paris to the most sacred rituals of the Muskogee Indians in Oklahoma. Along the way, they have to do battle with Chambers' vast army of followers, bringing them face to face with the Mayor of Paris, the Greek god Hermes, a street magician whose frightening tricks are real, and an immortal king with a castle hidden high in the mountains of Belgium.


All Our Desires
2011 · 2h
country: France
Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. Under Claire’s influence, Stéphane discovers a new lease of life and at last finds a cause that is worth fighting for...


Second Chance
2011 · 1h 27m
country: Belgium
Julien Monnier has a serious problem. Though he's a brilliant couples counselor, he can't keep a woman in his life for more than two weeks. Indeed, ever since his childhood, Julien jinxes every woman who falls in love with him. But it's not just any small jinx. It's the kind that sends you to the hospital several times a week, that destroys your professional life or that turns your friends into enemies. Julien is strictly speaking a true black cat for women. Joanna Sorini will soon learn this at her expense the day she meets him. A career that's just taking off, a love life that finally seems to be taking a good turn, all that may just change.


Nothing to Declare
2010 · 1h 48m
country: France
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.


Cannibal
2010 · 1h 30m
country: Belgium
A lonely man finds a beautiful young woman unconscious and covered in blood while walking through the woods. He starts to fall for her but learns of a terrifying secret.


The Pack
2010 · 1h 25m
country: France
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back from the bathroom, Charlotte starts looking for him in vain. She decides to return during the night but gets kidnapped by the bartender, La Spack, who turns out to be Max's mother and needs to feed her kids, 'The pack', a bunch of blood lusting ghouls. Charlotte now faces a terrifying reality: these ghouls are already dead... and hungry. Alone and in the middle of nowhere, she quickly realizes... she's next on the menu!
Dominique
Dominique
2010 · 10m
country: Netherlands
Paris, France. In the harsh fashion world the life of young model Dominique (Sylvia Hoeks) is dictated by her never ending search for assignments. Unfriendly roommates, demanding agents and indifferent casting directors force her to keep up appearances with a self defense mechanism fueled by cynicism. In this superficial reality she's determined not to lower her mask and take her own path.


En chantier, monsieur Tanner !
2010 · 1h 37m
country: Belgium
Paul Tanner has just inherited a mansion on a vast property. Going there, he noticed that the building was in poor condition and that work had already started. He decides to continue the renovation and brings in several contractors who give him quotes for amounts that exceed his financial capabilities.


From Paris with Love
2010 · 1h 32m
country: United Kingdom
James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig—working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an assignment with Charlie Wax. Trigger-happy Charlie soon has James crying for his desk job, but when he learns that the same guys they're trying to catch are after him, James realises that Charlie may be his only hope of survival.


Otages
2009 · 1h 39m
country: France
In a major pharmaceutical laboratory, 8 terrified employees are taken hostage by a commando using astonishing methods. Every two hours, a different hostage is inoculated with a poison... Angèle Garry, a woman of character, rebel and maverick, and Antoine Pradeau, an outstanding negotiator, are responsible for resolving this affair together... while they just broke up. Who are these men? What do they want? How far will they go? Angèle has 6 hours to answer these questions and avoid a bloodbath...


The Vintner's Luck
2009 · 2h 1m
country: Belgium
A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life - his beautiful wife Celeste, baroness Aurora de Valday and an angel named Xas.


Les Poissons marteaux
2009 · 1h 35m
country: Belgium
A jazz singer who abandoned her mentally handicapped daughter at birth tries to reconnect with her. The dialogue, though not easy, is gradually re-established with the help of the “Hammer Fishes”, a rock band made up of patients from the institution.


Trouble at Timpetill
2008 · 2h 13m
country: Belgium
The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.


Une chaîne pour deux
2008
country: Belgium
Victor Granville, owner of a bicycle factory that bears his name, learns that he is seriously ill and hands over his SME to the New Deal group, a large company mainly active in communications and media. Corinne, a young executive at New Deal, is appointed head of Granville to restructure the company and eliminate one of the two production lines. In order to choose "fairly" which team of workers will keep their jobs, she sets up a competition between the two lines: the one that produces the most bicycles will be kept, and the other team will be laid off. Jean-Paul and Bruno, the two line managers, have no choice, but they vow to avoid dirty tricks in order to preserve their friendship... Is this possible when they have to save their jobs and those of their team?


Crossfire
2008 · 1h 40m
country: France
A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look. A mysterious, charismatic figure, he leads by example, and gradually his team begins to feel like cops again.


In Bruges
2008 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.


Vatanen's Hare
2006 · 1h 35m
country: Belgium
A reporter who's soon to receive the Journalist of the Year Award hits a young hare on his way home. He gets out of the car to see if it's ok, but the hare runs off deeper into the forest, taking him on adventure of self-discovery.


Pom, le poulain
2006 · 1h 25m
country: Belgium
In the forest the mare Mirabelle has more than one reason to be proud : she's the mother of Pom and the best horse in the team to help the forestry workers. She loves towing the cut trunks with the other horses and the dockers. But then, she's held wrongly responsible for an accident in which the boss's son has got injured. She's sold and separated from her foal.


Stormforce
2006 · 1h 57m
country: Belgium
A maverick military diver gets demoted to a dangerous search-and-rescue squadron and must gain the trust of his new team.


The Intruder
2005 · 1h 50m
country: Belgium
Tom Vansant is an emergency physician from Brussels who is desperately searching for his daughter who ran away from home and is now missing for eighteen months. He meets a girl of whom he thinks that she knows what happened to his daughter but the girl doesn't want to talk about her past. In his search to find out why she doesn't talk about it he ends up in a small village in the Ardennes where no one wants to help him discover what really happened.