Jack Thompson Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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