Jack Thompson Movies

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Clooney

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Angelina Jolie

It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sean Penn

Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hayden Christensen

For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe

A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Clooney

Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Burlinson

Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Reese Witherspoon

A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Cusack

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald Pleasence

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who cheated them by kidnapping his son's fiancée. As the plague and warfare cut a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Rutger Hauer

Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Together they fight...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Sam Neill

A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.

Genre: Action

Cast: Alicia Silverstone

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amanda Schull

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward Woodward

A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Thompson

A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Alex O'Loughlin

The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.

Genre: Action

Cast: Dennis Hopper

During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jack Thompson

The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Allen

A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Alex O'Loughlin

Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sharon Stone

The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Thompson

A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Katie Holmes

This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare insight into what really happened. Together with...

Genre: War

Cast: Jack Thompson

Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life:...

Genre: Action

Cast: Matthew Le Nevez

Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes...

Genre: Action

Cast: William Holden

Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Andie MacDowell

The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tom E. Lewis

Oakie, a young blue heeler pup, is supposed to be delivered to Texas, USA, but through a courier bungle he ends up in Texas, Queensland, in Outback...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Troy Dann

During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glenn Close

The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Thompson

Tess returns home to Drovers Run, a family-run ranch in Australia’s outback, to reunite with her estranged father Jack and half sister Claire....

Genre: Western

Cast: Jack Thompson

Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Thompson

Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Thompson

A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginal people to be exposed to...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Colin Friels

Harry and his much-younger girlfriend surprise their friends one vacation weekend by announcing their desire to marry immediately. As they are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aden Gillett

Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Helen Morse

After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Thompson

A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.

Genre: History

Cast: Jack Thompson

A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Aaron Pedersen

A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christina Ricci

An ex footballer, embroiled in a scandal, returns to his hometown to clear his name and reignite an old flame.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Thompson

In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defeat during the America's Cup race against an...

Genre: Action

Cast: Matthew Modine

Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Gulpilil

Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Greta Scacchi

A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Thompson

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Nicole Kidman

Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elke Neidhart

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ingrid Bergman

In the Australian town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie and Runt, her stray dog, attempt to win the Agility Course Championship at the Krumpets Dog...

Genre: Family

Cast: Lily LaTorre

A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Russell Crowe

A story of struggle and tragedy, the film features harrowing underground disasters, heroic rescues and traces a history of strikes, industrial...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Thompson

When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious suspect, particularly with her scandalous past. But...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Telly Savalas

The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Remick

After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce...

Genre: Action

Cast: Billy Zane

Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, whose corpse is found in the basement of the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Thompson

Comedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence in the context of Australian media and politics...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Thompson

Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Thompson

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Bowie

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Fassbender

Following her husband Arthur's mysterious death, Rachel Baxley packs up her life as a State Department wife in Hong Kong and boards a freighter along...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Raquel Welch

A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Stratton

After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ally Sheedy

An Aboriginal Australian and Native American documentary narrated by award-winning actor Jack Thompson, One Heart-One Spirit tells the story of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kenneth Little Hawk

1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Guy Pearce

At the height of WWII and ten years after their union in Matlock Island, Father Ralph reunites with Meggie who faces a deep crisis. Now, he must make...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Chamberlain

Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rod Taylor

Narrated by Jack Thompson and featuring the last Gallipoli Anzacs this film challenges the widely held perspective of the Gallipoli Campaign and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Thompson

In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Simon Baker

Tormented by the news that they bear, two men from town watch over a family whose lives are about to change forever.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Thompson

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keith David

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Phillip Adams

The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Thompson

Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets &...

Genre:

Cast: Jack Thompson

It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp....

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cromwell

"Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers an...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Thompson

After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Sebastian Pilakui

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio

An American military man moves his family to Australia to undergo training in submarine warfare, providing new challenges for his wife and their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karen Black

Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return for arranging an escape,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Carl Betz

The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patrick Brammall

Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.

Genre: Action

Cast: Lorna Lesley

A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one weekend.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Frederiksen

The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stefanie Powers

When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear...

Genre: Action

Cast: John Travolta

An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Gulpilil

An opportunistic bounty hunter and a beautiful insurance agent travel to Australia to track down stolen booty.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Valentine

Where Dead Men Lie is a short drama based on a "script" written by Henry Lawson in 1896 in the earliest days of moving pictures. Anticipating the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Haddy