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Directing
Chris Thomson
Born January 1, 1945 · New Zealand
Died July 1, 2015 · aged 70
Chris Thomson (1945 - 1 July 2015) was a New Zealander director and producer. While still in his 20s Chris Thomson was given command of a number of landmark New Zealand TV dramas, including genre-hopping colonial tale The Killing of Kane and The Alpha Plan (1969), Aotearoa’s first dramatic TV series. After time working for the BBC, he moved to Australia and began a busy career as a director, incl…
Known For
Trucks · 1997Trucks
★ 4.61997
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
A group of seemingly humanistic trucks takeover a truck stop and starts killing everything in sight. The remaining townsfolk must band together and come up with a way to murder the inanimate objects, a seemingly difficult task considering the abnormal circumstances.
The Morrison Murders: Based on a True Story · 1996The Morrison Murders: Based on a True Story
★ 4.51996
MovieCrime
A husband and wife and their youngest son are murdered in this true story. Their two other sons are left to cope with their loss, but the local sherrif begins to suspect that one of the brothers committed the crime, and must convince the other to help him discover the truth.
Woman on the Ledge · 1993Woman on the Ledge
★ 3.31993
MovieDramaTV Movie
Three longtime friends each struggle with a major life crisis threatening to destroy her.
Moving Target · 1988Moving Target
★ 5.91988
MovieThrillerCrime
A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone.
The Delinquents · 1989The Delinquents
★ 5.11989
MovieDramaRomance
A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.
Swimsuit · 1989Swimsuit
★ 4.81989
MovieComedyRomance
Mrs. Allison is the owner of the Saltare Swimsuit company. Her top man Brian, and his not so bright assitant Willard have to find men and women that can be prospective models for her swimwear. The movie looks at the personal life of many of the young hopefuls. The men and women take strenuous photo shoots and workouts, but few will be chosen.
The Empty Beach · 1985The Empty Beach
★ 4.91985
MovieThrillerMystery
Before shady businessman John Singer disappeared off Bondi Beach, his name meant money--big and small, clean and dirty--a man absorbed in a world of greed and dishonesty. Singer's widow, Marion, believes he's still alive and she employs the investigative skills of the tough, no-nonsense private eye, Cliff Hardy to find him. Battered and bruised, Hardy battles through the filth of corruption and the stench of political blackmail. He comes face to face with the crime bosses, who feed off human misery and eliminate their rivals without thinking twice. From the high life and low life of Sydney, to the seediness and splendour of Bondi Beach, Cliff Hardy uncovers the ultimate truth.
The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? · 1993The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children?
★ 6.31993
MovieTV MovieDrama
In rural Comfort, Texas, the strict protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, pretty strictly supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for fraternizing teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, storm weather is announced, the busses even ride early to keep ahead, but the wind makes a river rise too fast: the busses are caught, everybody must run on foot. As TV reporters see from their helicopter, the rising water is too fast for one bus after choosing the wrong way, children and staff must climb in trees but can't cling on very long.
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