Movies with Jack Thompson

The Man from Snowy River

Genres: Adventure, Family, Romance

Starring: Kirk Douglas, Chris Haywood, Jack Thompson, Tom Burlinson, June Jago, Sigrid Thornton, Gus Mercurio

Directors: George Miller

Country: Australia

Year: 1982

Available Quality: Hi Def

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 low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. Kirk Douglas plays two roles as twin brothers who haven't spoken for years, one of whom was Jim's father's best friend and the other of whom is the father of the girl he wants to marry. A 20 year old feud re-erupts, catching Jim and Jessica in the middle of it as Jim is accused of letting a prize stallion loose.

 

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Starring: Frank Oz, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson, Temuera Morrison, Christopher Lee, Rose Byrne, Ian McDiarmid

Directors: George Lucas

Country: USA

Year: 2002

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Set 10 years after the events in "The Phantom Menace". After an assassination attempt on the life of Senator Padme Amidala, Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan learner Anakin Skywalker are sent to investigate. After tracking down the assassin, she is killed before any information can be driven out of her. The two Jedi are then sent on two different missions, Anakin is sent to Naboo with Padme and Obi-Wan is sent to the planet of Kamino where he will investigate the assassination attempts. Little does he know, he is investigating some of the biggest events of the Star Wars saga, as he finds out that there is a connection between the assassinat...

 

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Starring: Garry McDonald, Guy Pearce, Katie Holmes, Nicholas Bell, Jack Thompson, Bailee Madison, Julia Blake

Directors: Troy Nixey

Country: USA, Australia, Mexico

Year: 2010

Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def

A young girl is sent to live with her estranged father and his girlfriend at their new home. The father, Alex has plans to spruce up the home with the help of his interior decorator girlfriend, Kim. The previous owner of the home was a famous painter who mysteriously disappeared. Alex's daughter, Sally, soon discovers the cause of the painter's disappearance.

 

Last Dance

Genres: Thriller, Drama

Starring: Skeet Ulrich, Sharon Stone, Randy Quaid, Rob Morrow, Don Harvey, Jayne Brook, Jack Thompson

Directors: Bruce Beresford

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

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 sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep friendship, while all the while the date for her execution draws nearer.

 

Original Sin

Genres: Thriller, Romance, Mystery

Starring: Angelina Jolie, Antonio Banderas, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson, Gregory Itzin, Allison Mackie, Joan Pringle

Directors: Michael Cristofer

Country: USA, France

Year: 2001

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

When a man selects a mail order bride, he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However, what she is is a con artist, whore, and actress, who teams with a fellow actor to steal money from men. What she does not expect is that she falls in love with her new husband and ultimately must decide between him and her sadistic former lover. Contains explicit sex including sadistic acts as Thomas Jane cuts Jolie's back with a knife as part of their lovemaking.

 

Sunday Too Far Away

Genres: Drama

Starring: Jack Thompson, Max Cullen, John Ewart, Robert Bruning, Jerry Thomas, Peter Cummins, Sean Scully

Directors: Ken Hannam

Country: Australia

Year: 1975

" ...so the toughest bloke in the toughest pub sent me down a beer . . . I know I'm only 21, but I AM the gun shearer . . ."

 

Breaker Morant

Genres: Drama, War

Starring: Chris Smith, Chris Haywood, Jack Thompson, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Bryan Brown, Vincent Ball, John Waters

Directors: Bruce Beresford

Country: Australia

Year: 1980

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 war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.

 

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Genres: Drama, War

Starring: Alistair Browning, Yuya Uchida, Tom Conti, David Bowie, Jack Thompson, Takeshi Kitano, Ryuichi Sakamoto

Directors: Nagisa Ôshima

Country: UK, Japan

Year: 1983

Available Quality: iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

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, honour and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are cowards when they chose to surrender instead of commiting suicide. One of the prisoners, interpreter John Lawrence, tries to explain the japanese way of thinking, but is considered a traitor.

 

Whaledreamers

Genres: History, Documentary

Starring: John Hurt, Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jack Thompson, Terence Unity Freitas, Kim Kindersley, Bunna Lawrie

Directors: Kim Kindersley

Country: Australia

Year: 2006

whaledreamers - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning filmoffers an incredible glimpse into a rarely seen and scarcely understoodtribal culture whose entire story of creation revolves around whales and has endured for centuries. The film passionately explores the connection between the subtle elegance of these mothers of the sea and ancient civilizations around the world whose culture and very existence is based on whales.

 

Oh My God

Genres: Documentary

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jack Thompson, John Demartini, David Copperfield, Peter Rodger, Ringo Starr, Seal

Directors: Peter Rodger

Country: USA

Year: 2009

What Is God? In every corner of the world, there is one question that can never be definitively answered, yet stirs up equal parts passion, curiosity, self-reflection, and often wild imagination: What is God? Filmmaker Peter Rodger explores this profound, age-old query in the provocative nonfiction feature film OH MY GOD. Frustrated with religious turmoil, fanaticism, and fundamentalism, he set out on a global quest to understand why the concept of God has become politicized. The result is a stunningly beautiful film featuring inviting faces and personalities who are a touching reminder of the melting pot that we call humanity . . . and the m...

 

Feed

Genres: Crime, Thriller

Starring: Alex O'Loughlin, Matthew Le Nevez, Jack Thompson, Patrick Thompson, David Field, Gabby Millgate, Rose Ashton

Directors: Brett Leonard

Country: Australia

Year: 2005

An Interpol cop from Sydney, who has his own demons, pursues a man in the United States who liberates women from the cultural norms of thinness by feeding them to gross weights. He also shows their photographs to Internet subscribers. But what else is he up to? The Aussie suspects murder or worse. The cop, Phillip Jackson, and his mark, Michael Metszencalmpf, are in a game of cat and mouse - but which is the cat?

 

Ten Empty

Genres: Drama

Starring: Tom Budge, Jack Thompson, Geoff Morrell, Brendan Cowell, Daniel Frederiksen, Kaliopi Eleni, Lucy Bell

Directors: Anthony Hayes

Country: Australia

Year: 2008

Ten years after his mother's suicide, Elliot Christie returns home to be the godfather of a baby born to his father and aunt. Meanwhile, Elliot's younger brother, Brett is suffering from depression and their father has become an alcoholic.

 

Wake in Fright

Genres: Thriller, Drama

Starring: Donald Pleasence, John Meillon, Jack Thompson, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Peter Whittle

Directors: Ted Kotcheff

Country: USA, Australia

Year: 1971

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Outback was based on Kenneth Cook's novel Wake in Fright. Gary Bond plays a naive young Australian teacher who is tragically unprepared for his new position in the outback. The community he has been sent to is populated almost exclusively by amoral, primitive toughs, more interested in slaughtering kangaroos and sexual carousing than in such niceties as education or propriety. The methodical shattering of Bond's dearly held values plunge the young teacher deeper into degeneracy. Outback was so graphic in its original Australian version that 15 minutes had to be cut before American distributor Group W would consider touching it.

 

Mao's Last Dancer

Genres: Drama

Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Sam Anderson, Jack Thompson, Kyle MacLachlan, Ferdinand Hoang, Christopher Kirby, Suzie Steen

Directors: Bruce Beresford

Country: Australia

Year: 2009

Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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 a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

 

Wind

Genres: Action, Drama, Sport

Starring: Cliff Robertson, Bill Buell, James Rebhorn, Michael Higgins, Matthew Modine, Jack Thompson, Jennifer Grey

Directors: Carroll Ballard

Country: USA

Year: 1992

Will Parker, played by Matthew Modine, loses the Americas Cup, the worlds biggest sailing prize, to the Australians and decides to form his own syndicate to win it back.

 

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Starring: Bob Gunton, Kevin Spacey, Kim Hunter, Jude Law, Leon Rippy, Geoffrey Lewis, John Cusack

Directors: Clint Eastwood

Country: USA

Year: 1997

This panoramic tale of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William's famous Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim's violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the irrepressible Lady Chablis, a drag queen ...

 

Broken Arrow

Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure

Starring: Bob Gunton, Christian Slater, Delroy Lindo, Frank Whaley, John Travolta, Vyto Ruginis, Ousaun Elam

Directors: John Woo

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Major Deakins is a tough U.S. Air Force pilot who is assigned to a flight mission with 'nice-guy' Captain Hale. They are to fly the B3 Stealth Bomber on wargame maneuvers over Utah loaded with two live nuclear weapons. Deakins, having been continually passed over for promotion, sells out his country and arranges to use the thermonuclear warheads under his command to blackmail the U.S. government. The only thing standing in his way is his old buddy, Captain Hale....

 

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Mykelti Williamson, Naomi Watts, Nick Searcy, Sean Penn, April Grace, Michael Wincott, Don Cheadle

Directors: Niels Mueller

Country: USA, Mexico

Year: 2004

Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother's old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon's broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that land...

 

A Far Off Place

Genres: Adventure, Family, Romance

Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Maximilian Schell, Robert John Burke, Daniel Gerroll, Patricia Kalember, Ethan Embry, Jack Thompson

Directors: Mikael Salomon

Country: USA

Year: 1993

The witty Nonni and the stuck-up city-boy Harry are the only ones to survive a massacre of a gang of poachers among the gamekeeper's family on his lonesome farm in the savanna. Now the ruthless murderers are after them as the only witnesses. Without a means of transportation, the only way to escape is to walk through 2000 kilometers of Kalahari desert with the help of the African bushman Xhabbo. On the months-long journey ahead they not only become good friends against their differences, but also realize that every one of them has strength and skills that are required to survive.

 

The Good German

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Starring: Tony Curran, Tobey Maguire, Cate Blanchett, Dave Power, George Clooney, Jack Thompson, Boris Kievsky

Directors: Steven Soderbergh

Country: USA

Year: 2006

Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he's assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena's keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets.