Cast: Jack Thompson

Direction Ted Kotcheff

Cast Gary Bond · Donald Pleasence · Chips Rafferty · Jack Thompson

Synopsis Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundayabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and...

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Edward Woodward · Jack Thompson · John Waters · Bryan Brown

Synopsis During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the...

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast John Cusack · Kevin Spacey · Jude Law · Irma P. Hall

Synopsis Bringing John Berendts international best-selling novel, MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, to the screen must have been a challenge. The book is essentially an anecdotal travelogue of the fascinating city of Savannah, Georgia. The filmmakers decided to...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast David Bowie · Ryuichi Sakamoto · Takeshi Kitano · Jack Thompson

Synopsis In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honor and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are cowards when they chose to...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Tommy Lewis · Freddy Reynolds · Ray Barrett · Jack Thompson

Synopsis 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 horrific manner.

Direction Geoff Burton · Kevin Dowling

Cast Jack Thompson · Russell Crowe · John Polson · Deborah Kennedy

Synopsis Set in Sydney, Australia. A (heterosexual) father and his gay son are trying to find Ms/Mr Right respectively. The film shows their relationships with one another and the objects of their affection as tradgedy strikes. There is no overt 'message'...

Direction Ivan Sen

Cast Aaron Pedersen · Hugo Weaving · Jack Thompson · Ryan Kwanten

Synopsis Returning to his small outback hometown, an Aboriginal police detective undertakes an investigation into the brutal murder of a teenage Aboriginal girl that brings the town’s long-simmering tensions to the surface.

Direction Niels Mueller

Cast Sean Penn · Naomi Watts · Don Cheadle · Jack Thompson

Synopsis The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) follows Sam Bicke, a disillusioned salesman struggling with personal and professional failures in 1974. Feeling betrayed by the American Dream and increasingly isolated, Sam becomes fixated on President Richard Nixon, whom he blames for...

Direction Paul Verhoeven

Cast Rutger Hauer · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Tom Burlinson · Jack Thompson

Synopsis A rarely screened cult favorite from Paul Verhoeven, this story of medieval war and revenge should please action fans and admirers of the director and his semi-regular leading man, Rutger Hauer, but its graphic scenes of sexual violence earmark it...

Direction George Lucas

Cast Hayden Christensen · Ewan McGregor · Natalie Portman · Ian McDiarmid

Synopsis Star Wars. Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) follows Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice Anakin Skywalker as they protect Senator Padmé Amidala from assassination attempts. Obi-Wan investigates a mysterious clone army while uncovering a separatist movement led...

Direction Baz Luhrmann

Cast Hugh Jackman · Nicole Kidman · Bryan Brown · Ben Mendelsohn

Synopsis Sarah, an aristocrat, owns a cattle ranch in Australia. After the death of her husband, a baron plans to take over her land, but she joins forces with rancher Jackman to protect her ranch. Extended TV version of Baz Luhrmann's...

Direction Baz Luhrmann

Cast Leonardo DiCaprio · Tobey Maguire · Carey Mulligan · Joel Edgerton

Synopsis The Great Gatsby (2013) follows Nick Carraway, a young man who moves to Long Island in the 1920s and becomes entangled in the lavish and mysterious world of his wealthy neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, is known for...

Direction Baz Luhrmann

Cast Nicole Kidman · Hugh Jackman · David Wenham · Bryan Brown

Synopsis Australia is the story of Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), an English, aristocratic woman who leaves England to follow her husband to Australia. He is in Australia with the intention of selling his cattle station the size of Belgium. However,...

Direction John Badham

Cast Steve Guttenberg · Ally Sheedy · Fisher Stevens · Austin Pendleton

Synopsis In Short Circuit (1986), a military robot named Number 5 is struck by lightning, gaining self-awareness and a childlike curiosity. Fleeing the lab, it befriends a kind woman who helps it hide from scientists and soldiers determined to reclaim it....

Direction Alan Gibson

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Ned Beatty · Franklin Cover · Judy Davis

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

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Emile Hirsch · Holliday Grainger · Holly Hunter · William Hurt

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2013). 2 Episodes. Based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two embark on one one of most infamous...

Direction Stephen Johnson

Cast Simon Baker · Callan Mulvey · Jack Thompson · Caren Pistorius

Synopsis After fighting in the First World War as a sniper, Travis, now a policeman in the vast empty spaces of Northern Australia, loses control of an operation that results in the massacre of an Indigenous tribe. When his superiors insist...

Direction George T. Miller

Cast Tom Burlinson · Terence Donovan · Kirk Douglas · Tommy Dysart

Synopsis Inspired by an epic poem by A.B. "Banjo" Patterson, The Man From Snowy River was a major step forward for the regenerated Australian film industry of the early '80s. This "down-under Western" spotlights Tom Burlinson as Jim Craig, a headstrong...

Direction Peter Collinson

Cast William Holden · Rick Schroder · Jack Thompson · Olivia Hamnett

Synopsis Patrick Foley (William Holden) has been on the move all his live. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little...

Direction Steven Soderbergh

Cast George Clooney · Cate Blanchett · Beau Bridges · Tobey Maguire

Synopsis In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, U.S. Army war correspondent Jake Geismar (George Clooney) becomes embroiled with Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett), a former lover whose missing husband is the object of a manhunt by both the American and Russian armies....