Complete Filmography
The Color Purple
2023
Original Film Writer
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately find...
The Hero
2016
Director, Scenario Writer
After Sara Silverstein suddenly finds herself involved in a series of violent attacks she realizes she needs to unravel her father’s past in order to ...
Silent Fear
2015
Director, Writer
Sabine is looking for the truth behind the disappearance of her best friend twenty years ago. An encounter with the handsome Olaf, a man she remembers...
The Dinner
2013
Director, Screenplay
Two brothers and their wives have dinner in a fancy restaurant to discuss their teenage children's misdeeds. An excoriating assessment of Europe’s con...
Black Gold
2011
Screenplay
On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to riva...
A Matador's Mistress
2008
Director, Writer
Scandal erupts over a famous bullfighter's affair with a left-wing actress.
Martian Child
2007
Director
A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's ...
Max
2002
Director, Writer
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at p...
The Siege
1998
Screenplay
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent ...
Foreign Student
1994
Writer
A French football playing exchange student falls in love.
Ricochet
1991
Story
An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
Story
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval his...
Empire of the Sun
1987
Screenplay
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured w...
Lionheart
1987
Screenplay, Story
A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves ...
Amazing Stories
1986
Teleplay
A feature film edited from three episodes of Amazing Stories (1985): The Mission, Mummy Daddy and Go to the Head of the Class.
The Color Purple
1985
Screenplay
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After...