Fons Merkies

Fons Merkies

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

История

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

Профиль

Fons Merkies

Фильмы

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?
Love Over Distance
Music
A successful, city-based construction manager finds herself reconsidering her cosmopolitan life choices when her employer relocates her to a folksy seaside town.
Bella Donna's
Original Music Composer
After the death of their best friend, three young women decide to complete her bucket list - only to find one particular entry exceptionally challenging: finding true love.
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
After 21-year-old student Tonio dies in a traffic accident, his novelist parents face sorrow and regret as they suffer the agony of losing their only child.
Hart Beat
Original Music Composer
Making music means everything for the shy Zoë. But since her father left, she never played guitar again. When she is hit by the bus from Mik, superstar Bieber size, sparks fly allthough she is not a fan at first. Off course, people around the two love birds dont exactly cooperate to make things work...
Коммуна
Original Music Composer
В огромной вилле, расположенной в фешенебельном районе Копенгагена, Эрик и его жена Анна, воплощая давнюю мечту, создают коммуну близких по духу людей, готовых жить под одной крышей. Общие интересы, беседы, вечеринки полны эйфории и дарят ощущение подлинного единства. До тех пор, пока Эрик не приводит в дом свою новую возлюбленную…
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
When her grandfather has a car accident, Isabel (11) takes on his search for the sword that has been promised to her ancestor centuries ago by the world famous musketeer D’Artagnan. Assisted by her nephew Rik (12) and friend Jules (13), she will need just as much bravery, loyalty and perseverance as the illustrious musketeer to find his lost sword, to save her grandfather and to reunite her family.
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.
Het Bombardement
Orchestrator
A thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the centre of Rotterdam is bombed and the young lovers lose sight of each other.
Het Bombardement
Music
A thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the centre of Rotterdam is bombed and the young lovers lose sight of each other.
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
Одураченный
Original Music Composer
Экспериментальный интерактивный телепроект Пола Верховена, в создании которого были задействованы зрители телеканала FCCE. Едва перешагнув полувековой юбилей, владелец крупной строительной фирмы, баловень фортуны и любитель женщин, вдруг почувствовал, как удача ускользает из его рук. Прямо на праздновании юбилея от Ремко уходит жена. Партнеры по бизнесу разрабатывают план, как выкинуть его из компании. Но хуже всего — в кабинет вдруг заявляются обе любовницы, чтобы сообщить, что одна из них беременна.
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
Величие
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.
Амфибиус 3D
Music
Морской биолог Скайлар Шейн нанимает лодку капитана Джека Боумана, чтобы найти образцы доисторических форм возле северного побережья Суматры. Во время экспедиции, они сталкиваются с бандой контрабандистов, скрывающихся на рыболовецкой платформе посреди моря. Но контрабандисты не самое страшное, с чем придется столкнуться Скайлар — приближается жуткий шторм, а в темных глубинах вод проснулось древнее и могучее существо…
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.
Шторм
Music
В последний день января 1953 года прорыв сразу нескольких дамб и сильный шторм на море вызывают колоссальное наводнение в Голландии. Хлынувшее море затопляет сотни километров земли, разрушая фермерский дом молодой матери-одиночки Юлии, которая оказывается разлучённой со своим маленьким ребёнком. Саму её от гибели чудом спасает молодой лейтенант военно-воздушных сил, который соглашается помочь ей в безнадёжной попытке найти потерянного малыша посреди обрушившегося на страну хаоса и разрухи.
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.
Священник
Music
Преуспевающий наркодиллер, за пристрастие к черной одежде прозванный "Священник", неожиданно начинает ощущать, что кто-то из его сообщников ведет нечестную игру. Пытаясь вычислить предателя, Священник вдруг осознает, что это его лучший друг... и избавляется от него. Но предателем оказывается совсем другой человек...
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.
Сестры-близнецы
Music
После смерти родителей две сестрёнки разлучены. Лотта растёт в Нидерландах, Анна - в Берлине. Два совершенно разных мира. На исходе Второй Мировой войны они отыскивают друг друга, что приносит лишь разочарования. Анна выходит за офицера СС, Мартина, погибающего затем в боях, а Давид - жених Лотты, еврей, замучен в концлагере. Пятьдесят лет спустя престарелые Анна и Лотта сталкиваются на курорте. Возможно ли воссоединение сестёр?
Лунный свет
Music
Обнаружив в сарае своего ровесника, истекающего кровью, юная Клэр решила не сообщать об этом взрослым, а выходить его сама…
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.
Амнезия
Music
Алекс, 28-летний фотограф, больше не может фотографировать людей по непонятной, загадочной причине. Как только он наводит свою фотокамеру на кого-то из людей, тут же в объективе появляется одна и та же женщина... У Алекса есть брат Арам, которого он не видел много лет. Они даже не разговаривали много лет. Но вдруг Арам неожиданно звонит и сообщает Алексу, что их мать серьезно больна, и ей, вероятно, осталось недолго. Мысль о том, что ему необходимо вернуться в Амнезию – дом своих родителей, где прошли его детство и юность, — не очень радует Алекса, однако в тот же вечер он отправляется в Амнезию...
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.
The Polish Bride
Music
Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
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