Menno Meyjes

Menno Meyjes

1954-01-01 Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 16 Credits
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The Color Purple

The Color Purple

2023

Original Film Writer

7.1
Writing

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

The Hero

2016

Director, Scenario Writer

4.9
Directing Writing

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

Silent Fear

2015

Director, Writer

4.4
Directing Writing

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

The Dinner

2013

Director, Screenplay

5.4
Directing Writing

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

Black Gold

2011

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

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

A Matador's Mistress

2008

Director, Writer

5.8
Directing Writing

Scandal erupts over a famous bullfighter's affair with a left-wing actress.

Martian Child

Martian Child

2007

Director

6.7
Directing

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

Max

2002

Director, Writer

6.1
Directing Writing

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

The Siege

1998

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

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

Foreign Student

1994

Writer

3.8
Writing

A French football playing exchange student falls in love.

Ricochet

Ricochet

1991

Story

6.1
Writing

An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

1989

Story

7.9
Writing

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

Empire of the Sun

1987

Screenplay

7.5
Writing

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

Lionheart

1987

Screenplay, Story

5.5
Writing

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

Amazing Stories

1986

Teleplay

6.4

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

The Color Purple

1985

Screenplay

7.8
Writing

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...