Fons Merkies

Fons Merkies

Nacimiento : 1966-06-07, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

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Fons Merkies is a Dutch composer, mostly for movies and musicals.

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Fons Merkies

Películas

Faithfully Yours
Original Music Composer
The Big Slime Movie
Music
Indy and Olivia are crazy about making slime, but they run into trouble when a big toy factory boss starts an anti-slime campaign to increase his own toy sales.
So What Is Love
Original Music Composer
Cato is given the opportunity to become a partner in a commercial office where there is a need for change. Cato seems to be the right person to teach the grumpy lawyers a bit of morale.
Circus Noël
Original Music Composer
Men from Mars
Original Music Composer
Dutch comedy about three school friends that return to The Marsman College for a reunion of their middle school. Their lives have changed completely after 25 years, but 40 is the new 20 and every man should become more handsome with age... or not? Where Edwin is still a woman's magnet his friends have all their different problems. Marks has been swapped for a younger guy bu his wife and family man Peter is struggling with his manhood since a can't read anymore without putting on his reading glasses. How do these guy's handle these changes? Grabbing a beer, not much talking, pad on the back and drinking away you hangover with even more alcohol? Or do things go different when you pass the age of 40?
Amor a distancia
Music
Una exitosa gerente de construcción de Róterdam se encuentra reconsiderando sus opciones de vida cosmopolita cuando de repente es trasladada a un pequeño pueblo costero de Holanda.
Bella Donna's
Original Music Composer
Después de la muerte de su mejor amiga, tres mujeres jóvenes deciden completar su lista de deseos, sólo para encontrar una entrada en particular excepcionalmente desafiante: encontrar el amor verdadero.
Sing Song
Music
The musical adventure of the 16-year-old Jasmine who goes to Suriname to attend a song contest, but secretly is looking for her mother.
Fatal
Music
Milan and Sophie are two twentysomethings who want to marry and have children. Milan has ambitious plans for opening a dance club. After hard work, it seems to be a success. But one day, after getting beat up, Milan is told that he will never walk again. His world collapses and not just his...
Tonio
Original Music Composer
Basada en la novela de A.F. Th. van der Heijden, (con más de 200.000 copias vendidas hasta la fecha). El 23 de mayo de 2010, a los 21 años de edad, Tonio van der Heijden (interpretado por Chris Peters) fue atropellado por un coche y llevado en estado crítico al hospital, donde murió. Un trágico suceso que cambió drásticamente la vida de sus padres (Pierre Bokma y Rifka Lodeizen), que vieron a su único hijo fallecer en cuidados intensivos. La vida de Tonio dejó un legado de dolor en sus padres, que lucharán para impedir que sus propias vidas sean arrastradas a una espiral descendente de tristeza. (FILMAFFINITY)
Hart Beat
Original Music Composer
La tímida Zoë, cantautora de quince años, choca accidentalmente contra el autobús de la gira de Mik, la sensación pop de dieciséis años. Cuando se ven, saltan chispas entre ellos, pero justo cuando el amor empieza a surgir, una amiga celosa y una rival con demasiadas aspiraciones torpedean su frágil relación.
La comuna
Original Music Composer
Dinamarca, principios de los años 70. Un matrimonio muy unido formado por dos jóvenes académicos decide irse a vivir a una comuna en Hellerup junto a su hija pequeña. Allí Erik y Ana descubren las peculiaridades de esa vida, que en principio parece idílica, pero que cambia cuando la joven amante de Erik se muda también con ellos.
Men in the City 2
Original Music Composer
A lot has changed in the lives of our men, but in the sequel to Men in the City, finding their true love turns out to be everything but a fairytale. So the search continues in full swing.
Sword of D'Artagnan
Music
Guiada por el código secreto de su abuelo, la enérgica Isabel, su hermano Rik y su amiga Jules se aventurarán en la búsqueda de la legendaria espada de D’Artagnan.
Summer
Original Music Composer
Sixteen-year-old Anne grows up in the isolated Biesbosch area, where spacious fields and power pylons define the landscape. With a group of friends, she spends a sultry summer holiday there trying to make the leap to maturity. But this shared experience turns into a conflict situation when Anna develops feelings for the tough girl Lena. Coming-of-age drama about growing pains, the inevitable end of childhood and choosing your own life - no matter how confusing your environment may find it.
Men in the City
Original Music Composer
Following the love lives of different types of men in Amsterdam.
The Dinner
Music
Two brothers and their wives have dinner in a fancy restaurant to discuss their teenage children's misdeeds. An excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
El bombardeo
Orchestrator
Rotterdam, mayo de 1940. El joven panadero (y aspirante a boxeador) Vicente de Graaf conoce por casualidad a la rica Eva von Heerle. Ella es hija de notables refugiados de Alemania. Está a punto de contraer matrimonio con el rico industrial Dirk Lagerwaard. Vicente quiere ir a Estados Unidos para encontrar una cura para su hermano enfermo. Los dos se enamoran cuando las tropas alemanas invaden Holanda, pero sólo un milagro podrá unirlos. O el destino...
El bombardeo
Music
Rotterdam, mayo de 1940. El joven panadero (y aspirante a boxeador) Vicente de Graaf conoce por casualidad a la rica Eva von Heerle. Ella es hija de notables refugiados de Alemania. Está a punto de contraer matrimonio con el rico industrial Dirk Lagerwaard. Vicente quiere ir a Estados Unidos para encontrar una cura para su hermano enfermo. Los dos se enamoran cuando las tropas alemanas invaden Holanda, pero sólo un milagro podrá unirlos. O el destino...
Family Way
Original Music Composer
All the members of the De Roover family have ended up at a point of no return in their lives where crucial choices have to be made. Winnie wants a child. Her husband Rutmer wants to get in touch with his feelings. His brother Charlie doesn't want any responsibilities. Their brother-in-law Dick wants his deceased wife back. Head of the family Arend wants to be happy. Mother Jeannette wants somebody to want her. Written by Topkapi Films
Tricked
Original Music Composer
La película trata sobre un magnate cuya vida de éxito, de excesos y de múltiples aventuras extramatrimoniales empieza a pasarle factura a partir de una fiesta de cumpleaños que le organiza su mujer, tras la cual todo a su alrededor se desmorona de manera vertiginosa con una serie de sospechosas coincidencias.
Fidgety Bram
Original Music Composer
Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up in the class of the strict teacher Mr. Fish. The straightfoward Mr. Fish doesn’t care about the inside world of the constantly moving around and unconcentrated little boy and does whatever it takes to make Bram do things the ‘right’ way.
De Overloper
Original Music Composer
The relationship between Wolfs and Eva will be put to the test. Wolfs is imprisoned for stealing money from the government and Eva tries to forget about him. When Wolfs regains his freedom due to a technicality, he associates himself with a bunch of criminals. Wolfs and Eva meet again in a world where where not everything is what it seems...
All Stars 2: Old Stars
Original Music Composer
In All Stars 2 Old Stars, the unexpected wedding of one of the boys means they treat themselves to an ‘old-fashioned training camp’ in the form of a long weekend in Barcelona. The match between Barcelona and Real Madrid is meant to be the high point of the trip. But of course not everything goes according to plan for the Swift Boys.
Anatole
Music
Majesty
Music
One hour before the State Opening of Parliament, something very unusual happens. The Prime Minister appears and demands an adjustment to the Queen's speech. The speech concerns aid to Africa. Even with all the pressure around the State Opening, Beatrix goes back in time, and remembers her banishment to Canada, the visit to the victims of the Flood disaster and the turbulence suffered by her parents at Palace Soestdijk during the Hofman case.
Amphibious 3D
Music
Marine biologist Skylar Shane hires an expat charter boat captain, Jack Bowman, to help her find prehistoric life form samples in the north Sumatran Sea. During the expedition, they run into some of Jack's 'friends', a gang of smugglers headquartered on a fishing platform in the middle of the sea. Tamal, an orphan sold into servitude on the fishing platform by his uncle, a 'Dukun' (sorcerer and master of black magic) shaman, begs Skylar to take him away. She empathizes with the boy, who reminds her of her lost daughter, Rebecca, and is determined to help him, not knowing what lurks beneath the dark inky water, waiting to surface. Ever since Tamal arrived, mysterious things begin to happen, until one by one the smugglers will be killed by the terrifying creature from the deep. In the middle of an eerie, violent storm, the animus inside Tamal grows stronger, calling for the ancient creature of his nightmares...
Sterke Verhalen
Music
Comedy about the adventures of a group of friends in Amsterdam, who are planning a party during their summer holiday. When the ticket sales are disappointing they think of a new and exiting way to attract more people to the party.
The Storm
Music
Una terrible tormenta en Zelanda causa en 1953 la ruptura de los diques que protegen estas tierras de los embates del mar. Julia, una madre soltera que vive en la granja de sus padres, queda atrapada en mitad de una inundación que afecta a toda la región del sur de los Países Bajos. A pesar de que su joven vecino Aldo consigue rescatarla la mujer está desconsolada ya que su bebé quedó atrapado en una caja de madera en el ático de la casa. Cuando vuelven a la zona del desastre descubren que el niño ha desaparecido. Las posibilidades de que su hijo siga vivo son mínimas, pero Julia está convencida de que su hijo vive y comienza su búsqueda en compañía de Aldo (FILMAFFINITY).
Leef!
Music
Anna is a vital woman who is married and has two daughters. She picks up her old passion of writing again after frequent requests by a colleague and a friend, but she had not foreseen the consequences of family and friends reading her stories...
Pluk and His Tow Truck
Original Music Composer
Pluk has a great red crane truck, but no home. Like every little boy, he needs a place to live. So it fits well that a tower room is available in the colorful Petteflet apartment block. Pluk can move in here and immediately makes new friends, but he also gets in a lot of trouble: With Ms. Sauberer, who always cleans, and the architect who wants to cut down the idyllic Turtelpark ...
Hidden Flaws
Music
Seventy-year-old Agnes takes the ashes of her dear Robert and travels to their regular holiday cottage on the Scottish island of Mull. On the way, two Dutch runaways, the ten-year-old girl Chris and her younger brother Tommie, sneak into her car. The children warn Agnes they will flee again if she calls the police. In the secluded house, beautifully located near a bay with a view of the sea, the elderly woman and the children gradually grow towards each other. Chris is confident and short-tempered, and dominates not only her younger, pigheaded brother, but also old Agnes, who loses herself in memories of Robert. Meanwhile, Agnes has to withstand the people who want to take over the house from her. The surroundings play a major role in this adaptation of Renate Dorrestein's novel about family, trust and secrets.
Le Ciambelle
Music
When a woman realises that her life is lived for her by her husband and children and she falls under the spell of southern smells, sounds and tastes, she hallucinates her way to her Fata Morgana.
El Predicador
Music
En el mundo del negocio de las drogas, donde se actúa solo por dinero, la amistad y la lealtad son consideradas aún más importantes. Y el gángster Klaas Bruinsma es quien mejor lo refleja.
Cloaca
Music
Four old college friends in their forties come together in a time of trouble and despair. Old joy relives, but the harsh reality of their problems can't satisfy them and eventually endangers their friendships.
Bite
Music
A family is on summer vacation. Their adolescent son is a mixture of bored and horny. A yellow jacket wasp joins them in their car and then at their vacation campsite. A sultry young woman is doing laundry outdoors just as a brief, torrential downpour occurs and the wasp allows her to reveal, much to the young man's delight, her special knowledge of how to deal with insect bites.
De man in de linnenkast
Music
A lonely man finds comfort when he discovers a hidden garden in his linen cupboard. The idyllic discovery lends new lustre to his life, but soon it turns out that he is not the only one considering the garden his.
Gemelas
Music
Alemania, años veinte. Tras la muerte de sus padres, dos hermanas gemelas son separadas. Una crecerá con una tía en Holanda, llevando una vida acomodada, mientras la otra lo hará en duras circunstancias en una granja alemana propiedad de su tío.
Moonlight (Amor en fuga)
Music
Claire es una chica muy joven de buena familia cuya vida se complica al enamorarse de un traficante de drogas afgano.
Zus & Zo
Music
In this Oscar-nominated comedy, three wacky sisters try to save their inheritance from their supposedly gay brother, who suddenly appears with a fiancé in tow. If he gets married, their father's will stipulates that he gets the family hotel in Portugal. So the sisters put aside their personal differences and set out to stop the wedding at all costs.
Polonaise
Music
In the TV film Polonaise, traffic jams have grown into a phenomenon in which traffic jam call girls, hairdressers and photographers enliven the endless delays. The film follows a number of people in a jam on the A5. The central character is a Pole in an expensive Saab Convertible, who is wanted by the police. A red Panda carries the heavily pregnant Hilde and her cynical sister. Hilde is worried because she has not seen her friend anymore after a quarrel. In an old Saab, a young couple is bickering. She is a `yuppie cunt' who stakes her marriage for a parking licence and is tired of her husband smoking dope. Charlie the music promoter is driving his son's car. He likes traffic jams, because they allow him to settle his deals undisturbed and meet his secret love, the traffic jam call girl Nena. While the characters are confronted with each other and themselves more and more, tension rises to a peak. A radio pirate connects the story lines with his chatter.
Family
Music
Mother is dying and invites her family to spend a few days in a chalet in Austria. In the isolation of the snow-covered mountains, old wounds are reopened and the family ties crumble steadily through quarrels and irritations.
Monte Carlo
Original Music Composer
A young traveler picks up and elderly woman on his way from Holland to Monte Carlo.
The Cave
Original Music Composer
Psychological thriller. Geography teacher smuggles a case of heroin for a friend.
AmnesiA
Music
Alex, a 28 year-old photographer, is no longer able to photograph people, for some mysterious reason. Every time he focuses his camera on someone, the same woman appears in his viewfinder - an image he cannot bear. When his brother Aram, whom he has not seen or spoke to for years, unexpectedly phones him and asks him to come to their parental home because their mother is severely ill and may not have long to live, he panics. The thought of a confrontation with the area where he grew up and the renewed encounter with his family makes him feel nervous. Nevertheless, that evening he leaves for AmnesiA: the estate of his parents, the spot where he spent his youth.
Ochtendzwemmers
Original Music Composer
Each morning a group of people meet in the swimming pool to swim. The police suspects it is a criminal organization and interrogate Loes.
With Great Joy
Music
By accident, Luc discovers the whereabouts of his brother Ad, who mysteriously disappeared fifteen years before. As it turns out, he is living with Els, secluded from the rest of the world, on a farm. Luc decides to stay a few days, even though he and his wife Mieke are not welcome at first. After a while, Mieke heads home. Also, Luc hears strange sounds coming from a barn at the farm. He decides to investigate the matter. He discovers a secret that Ad and Els have been hiding for years.
Leak
Original Music Composer
Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend turned gangster. The childhood friend turns informant. But his revelations are hardly the most important "leaks" in the story. In fact, the new relationship between old friends goes all wrong, and the young policeman becomes increasingly involved in a deadly web of lies, crimes, treason, and revenge, all seemingly out of control.
Suzy Q
Music
A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.
One Man and His Dog
Music
Kees (Ramsey Nasr) is a gently eccentric loner who takes his imaginary dog for a walk each evening and likes to listen in on his neighbors' conversations. He is lonely. He has no real family, as his father is dead and his mother is institutionalized. However, when the chronically unemployed Kees gets a job at a bank, many of his co-workers don't know what to make of him, and scarcely anyone talks to him -- until the day someone comments on a photo in his wallet. Though he doesn't actually know the woman in the picture, Kees tells them the woman in the photo is his girlfriend and starts spinning tales about their "relationship." Before long, Kees has invented an entire alternate personality and is stealing photos from others to fit the new "friends" and "family" he's created.
La novia polaca
Music
Una mujer polaca entra ilegalmente a los Países Bajos mediante dos holandeses que la obligan a prostituirse. Ella escapa y se refugia en la casa de un granjero solitario y taciturno, quien la cuida y le ofrece pagarle un pasaje de regreso a Polonia. Sin embargo, ella decide quedarse a trabajar en la granja donde, a pesar de las dificultades del idioma, logra un progresivo acercamiento con el hombre...
All Stars
Music
Seven young men who played soccer together since their early youth grow apart and are forced to think about the nature of their friendship. In a comic way and a very Dutch setting, All Stars is about pregnant girlfriends and homosexuality, career plans and the power of parents.
The Shadow Walkers
Music
Tragicomedy about two brothers who married two sisters, walking the streets of Deventer at night lamenting the fact that each should have married the other one's wife.
Eenmaal geslagen, nooit meer bewogen
Music
De Orde Der Dingen
Music