Jack Thompson films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 16 films on Boxlist

Known for High Ground, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and The Great Gatsby.

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Starring Jack Thompson

High Ground
2020 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which...
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal...
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The Great Gatsby
2013 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche...
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Short Circuit
1986 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a...
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Flesh + Blood
1985 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a...
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The Light Between Oceans
2016 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t give him any money to start anew. He tries to find someone to blame for his...
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot that could change the galaxy forever.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
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Broken Arrow
1996 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them...
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Australia
2008 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over...
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
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Leatherheads
2008 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a...
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The Good German
2006 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon...
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Poker Face
2022 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they've betrayed him over the years. But as his plans unfold, a group of...
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Original Sin
2001 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp
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