Biography
Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens (21 May 1949 – 23 April 2022), better known by his stage name Arno, was a Belgian singer. He was the frontman of TC Matic, one of the best-known Belgian bands of the 1980s. After the band split in 1986 he enjoyed a solo career. Arno sang in a mixture of English, French, Dutch and his native Ostend-Flemish dialect. For TC Matic, a band which achieved moderate artistic success throughout Europe, he wrote or co-wrote all the band's material, much of it together with ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Arno: Rock'n'Roll Godverdomme
2024
as Himself
Yuku and the Himalayan Flower
2022
as Le Rat (voice)
Yuku is a young mouse who lives with her family in the cellar of a castle. Her grandmother passes on the family values by telling her timeless folk ta...
Nana et les filles du bord de mer
2020
Original Music Composer
Nana has just been left by Mathieu. She goes looking for another man on social media and dating sites, hoping to find the worst. Nana's thwarted desir...
M. Eddy & sa tribu
2018
as Self
Arno : Dancing Inside My Head
2016
Music
For the first time in his 40-year career, Arno Hintjens allows a filmmaker to follow his creative process. The documentary follows him during the reco...
The Taste of Blueberries
2014
as Eric Dessart
An elderly couple in their eighties with a mixed past escape into a fantastic world, full of their desires and fears, the door to which is a motorway ...
La Maison de la Radio
2013
as Self
Making a film about a radio station doesn’t sound like the most visually compelling of projects. How many takes do you need before the acoustic transi...
A new old story
2012
The Injection
2011
as Balthazar
In an indeterminate future where it seems to be raining endlessly a man called Balthazar is waiting at home alone with his dog for a visit from an emp...
Petites vacances à Knokke-le-Zoute
2009
as Maurice
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
2008
as Arno
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they migh...
Ex Drummer
2007
Music
Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
Komma
2006
as Peter De Wit / Lars Ericsson
A man assumes the identity of a dead person and convinces a young amnesiac that he is part of her life.
C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé
2006
Music
A comedy. The husband, the wife, the mistress and the housekeeper. A Fable. The ape, the lion and the little boy.
Arno - Live in Brussels 2005
2005
as Self
Arno Hintjens is a unique figure. A blend between a playboy and a hobo, a truly cosmopolitan nature and a true rock'n roll heart. Or, as Oor's Music E...
Merlin against Santa Claus
2003
Musician
Out of Order
2003
Music
A college kid, who is being pursued by two criminals, flees into a subway. In the subway, he sees them kidnap a girl.
Turtle Sitting
1999
as André
After being laid off from their fish deep-freezing factory, two workers, Esther and André accept a temporary job offer. They are assigned to look afte...
Alors voilà,
1997
as Arno
A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a...
Alors voilà,
1997
Music
A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a...
Love Reinvented
1997
Original Music Composer
Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tal...
William Cliff, poète
1997
as Self
Pregnant, or Lesbian?
1996
Music
A teenager comes out to her parents by asking them to guess whether she is pregnant or a lesbian.
La vie sexuelle des Belges partie 2 - Camping Cosmos
1996
as Arno
On a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and murder. The residents enjoy their holidays in a pec...
Nobody Loves Me
1994
Original Music Composer
Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister...
Thank You, Life
1991
Original Music Composer
Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new frien...