Jack Thompson Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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 &...

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....

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

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.

In 1868 Goldfields Victoria, an Irish settler seeks revenge and justice from those who murdered his family.

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

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

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

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

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