Jack Thompson Movies

A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in...

An aloof, struggling food photographer thinks he has found true love with a fiery grade-school teacher. At first, the relationship is all wine and...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque....

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life.

The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.