Jack Thompson Movies

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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