Directing

Chris Thomson

Born — Died

1945-01-01 — 2015-07-01

Place of birth

New Zealand

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

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, including credits on high profile mini-series 1915 and Waterfront.

Known for

Trucks poster
4.6

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.

Trucks

1997

Moving Target poster
5.9

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.

Moving Target

1988

The Delinquents poster
5.1

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.

The Delinquents

1989

The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? poster
6.3

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.

The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children?

1993

Swimsuit poster
5.1

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.

Swimsuit

1989

The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy poster
5.5

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

The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy

1988

Behind the camera

Trucks poster
4.6

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.

Trucks

1997

Moving Target poster
5.9

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.

Moving Target

1988

The Delinquents poster
5.1

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.

The Delinquents

1989

The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? poster
6.3

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.

The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children?

1993

Swimsuit poster
5.1

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.

Swimsuit

1989

The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy poster
5.5

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

The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy

1988

The Morrison Murders: Based on a True Story poster
4.5

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.

The Morrison Murders: Based on a True Story

1996

The Empty Beach poster
4.9

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 Empty Beach

1985

Stop at Nothing poster
7.7

An ex-prosecutor takes a bodyguard job protecting a girl from a mother who has lost custody. The father was accused of sexually abusing the daughter but the evidence was dismissed. Who's lying?

Stop at Nothing

1991

The Perfectionist poster
8.0

Barbara and Steward are happily married and have three kids. But one day Barbara decides that her children are old enough now and she can quit as housewife and start to study. Against the will of her husband she employs babysitter Eric while she attends university. Steward reacts increasingly nervous about the presence of another man in his family and brings their marriage into a crisis.

The Perfectionist

1985

Woman on the Ledge poster
3.3

Three longtime friends each struggle with a major life crisis threatening to destroy her.

Woman on the Ledge

1993

The City of No poster
7.0

Two men's friendship has been weakened by their contrasting approaches to life. Bob (Jeremy Stephens) has left his wife to paint pictures of a lover (Shirley Gruar) who is much younger than him. Lawyer Graham (Bill Johnson, who later played Mr Wilberforce in Under the Mountain) is the voice of reason, trying to convince Bob to quit his bohemian lifestyle. But is Graham really acting in his mate's best interests?

The City of No

1971

Old Man March Is Dead poster
NR

In rural New Zealand an alcoholic ex-soldier is desperate to obtain more liquor. His family try to keep liquor away from him.

Old Man March Is Dead

1976

Waterfront poster
NR

Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.

Waterfront

1984

No artwork available
NR

A play from 1976

England, Summer, Sunday

1976

No artwork available
NR

A play from 1976

England, Summer, Sunday

1976

A Passage to Inverness poster
7.0

A striptease artist is prosecuted for indecency. Meanwhile, his aunt wants him to visit her, before she dies.

A Passage to Inverness

1977