Jeremy Thomas Filmography

Mister Lonely

Crew: Producer

Actors: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, James Fox, Melita Morgan

Synopsis: When a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in Paris falls for a Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton) during a performance at a retirement home, the lovestruck pair retreats to a seaside castle in the Scottish highlands populated by a commune of reclusive impersonators. Read More

The Palermo Shooting

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Campino, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dennis Hopper, Milla Jovovich, Inga Busch

Synopsis: Die Toten Hosen front-man Campino headlines iconic German filmmaker Wim Wenders' drama about a world-renowned photographer who finds a new life and a new love while being targeted by a tenacious trigger-man. Finn (Campino) is a successful shutterbug who leads a hectic life, gets precious little Read More

Dirt Music

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rachel Weisz, Colin Farrell

Synopsis: A woman isolated in the harsh terrain of Australia's Northern Territories (Rachel Weisz) finds her withering passion for life unexpectedly rekindled by the arrival of a mysterious drifter (Colin Farrell) as author Tim Winton's acclaimed novel comes to the screen under the direction of Phillip Read More

Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mick Jones, Nicky "Topper" Headon, Terry Chimes, Iain Gillies, Joe Strummer

Synopsis: Filmmaker Julien Temple takes a look beyond the guise of the late, anti-establishment icon Joe Strummer to offer a warm portrait of the self-described "mouthy little git" who was born John Mellor and was destined to become the frontman for one of the most influential punk bands ever. A complex Read More

Glastonbury

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Eavis, T. Rex, Radiohead, R.E.M., Coldplay

Synopsis: In 1970, a music aficionado and entrepreneur named Michael Eavis staged a "pop, folk, and blues" festival on a dairy farm in the English community of Glastonbury, not far from Stonehenge. 1,500 attended the "Glastonbury Fayre," and a second festival followed in 1971. By 2005, The Glastonbury Read More

Fast Food Nation

Crew: Producer

Actors: Patricia Arquette, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Dano, Luis Guzman, Ethan Hawke, Ashley Johnson, Greg Kinnear, Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne, Esai Morales, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Lou Taylor Pucci, Ana Claudia Talancón, Wilmer Valderrama

Synopsis: Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's New York Times best-seller of the same name, director Richard Linklater's ensemble drama examines the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food and features an all-star cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson Read More

Tideland

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jodelle Ferland, Janet McTeer, Brendan Fletcher, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: Following the death of her drug-addicted mother, a whimsical young girl follows her chemically dependent father to a remote prairie house to discover a wondrous world of magical fireflies and nocturnal bog men in this hallucinatory childhood fantasy from visionary filmmaker Terry Gilliam. Noah (Jeff Bridges Read More

Don't Come Knocking

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, Gabriel Mann, Sarah Polley

Synopsis: Director Wim Wenders and writer Sam Shepard, who collaborated on the award-winning film Paris, Texas, once again join forces for this dark drama of a man trying to turn over a new leaf late in life. Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) is a veteran actor who has been a popular Western star since the Read More

Chang Hup The Gi Tril Nung

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tshewang Dendup, Lhakpa Dorji, Sonam Kinga, Sonam Lhamo, Deki Yangzom

Synopsis: Written and directed by Khyentse Norbu, Chang Hup The Gi Tril Nung (Travellers and Magicians) chronicles two parallel stories. The first belongs to Dondup (Tshewang Dendup), a bored mountain villager determined to move to the United States, and Tashi (Lhakpa Dorji), another restless soul whose Read More

Dreaming Lhasa

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jampa Kalsang, Tenzin Chokyi Gyatso, Tenzin Jigme, Phuntsok Namgyal Dhumkhang, Tsering Topgyal Phurpatsang

Synopsis: A Tibetan-American filmmaker seeking to capture the tales of former political prisoners on film is drawn into the plight of Tibet's exile community in this drama from filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam. Though she currently hails from New Your City, Karma (Tenzin Chokyi Gyatso) is Read More

Young Adam

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone

Synopsis: An amoral young man wends his way into the lives of a handful of damaged souls in this adaptation of British Beat Generation writer Alexander Trocchi's first novel. Written for the screen and directed by David Mackenzie, Young Adam begins with the discovery of a barely dressed woman's corpse by Read More

The Dreamers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor

Synopsis: Veteran Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci directs the erotic drama The Dreamers, adapted from the novel The Holy Innocents: A Romance by Gilbert Adair. American student Matthew (Michael Pitt) is studying in Paris during the politically turbulent late '60s. The story begins in 1968 with the Read More

Promised Land

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rosamund Pike, Diana Despechni, Hanna Schygulla, Anne Parillaud, Alla An

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil, Kenneth Branagh

Synopsis: After directing a number of major motion pictures in the United States, Australian-born filmmaker Phillip Noyce returned home to make this remarkable adventure-drama, based on a true story as well as a lamentable period in his nation's history. When European settlers first arrived in Australia Read More

Sexy Beast

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, Cavan Kendall

Synopsis: Gary (Ray Winstone) is a former gangster who has made a modest amount of money from his criminal career. Happy to put his life of crime behind him, he has retired with his wife Deedee (Amanda Redman) to the sunny bliss of rural Spain, where he lives an idyllic life with his family and a few close Read More

Taboo

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Beat Takeshi Kitano, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Koji Matoba

Synopsis: After a 13-year absence, partially due to a life-threatening stroke, master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima returns to the silver screen with this revisionist samurai epic. From his first major film, Cruel Story of Youth to his most notorious work Ai no Korrida, Oshima has coupled the political and the Read More

Brother

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tatyana Ali, Joy Nakagawa, Beat Takeshi Kitano, Claude Maki, Omar Epps, Masaya Kato, Ren Ohsugi

Synopsis: Internationally acclaimed director and Japanese media phenomenon Takeshi Kitano follows up his well-regarded Kikujiro with this straight-ahead gangster saga with a cross-cultural twist. The film focuses on Yamamoto (Kitano), a yakuza forced out of the country when a gang war all but wipes out his Read More

Phorpa

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jamyang Lodro, Orgyen Tobgyal, Neten Chokling

Synopsis: A group of Tibetan monks finds themselves torn between spiritual enlightenment and their love for soccer in the comedy Phorpa/The Cup. In Northern India near the Himalayas, a band of Buddhist monks from Tibet have set up a monastery in exile from their native land. Under the gaze of their leaders Read More

All The Little Animals

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: John Hurt, Christian Bale, Daniel Benzali, James Faulkner

Synopsis: British producer Jeremy Thomas made his directorial debut with this drama adapted from the novel by Walker Hamilton. Hindered by a childhood auto accident, teen Bobby (Christian Bale) is a misfit from a well-to-do family; he suffers yet another setback after the premature death of his mother. His Read More

The Ogre

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Malkovich, Marianne Sägebrecht, Volker Spengler, Dieter Laser

Synopsis: Based on a novel by French author Michel Tournier, this drama chronicles the redemption of Abel, a French POW responsible for kidnapping dozens of young boys for recruitment by the Nazi SS during WW II. The film opens with black-and-white shots of Abel's childhood in Paris. The year is 1925 and Read More

The Brave

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Cody Lightning, Nicole Mancera

Synopsis: Johnny Depp made his debut as a director and screenwriter with this allegorical tale of the plight of Native Americans. Raphael (Depp) is an alcoholic American Indian who lives in a hovel near a junkyard with his wife Rita (Elpidia Carillo) and his children Frankie (Cody Lightning) and Marta (Nicole Mancera Read More

Stealing Beauty

Crew: Producer

Actors: Liv Tyler, Sinéad Cusack, Donal McCann, Jeremy Irons, Jean Marais

Synopsis: This beautiful if ponderous soufflé of a film from director Bernardo Bertolucci serves more as an Italian travelogue than a drama. Liv Tyler stars as Lucy Harmon, an American teenager arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to visit family friends residing there. Lucy visited four years earlier Read More

Blood and Wine

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Stephen Dorff, Jennifer Lopez, Judy Davis, Michael Caine

Synopsis: Jack Nicholson reunited with director Bob Rafelson, director of Five Easy Pieces and The King Of Marvin Gardens, for this violent, downbeat crime drama. Alex (Jack Nicholson) is a wine dealer whose business is going belly-up, along with his life. His step-son Jason (Stephen Dorff) hates him, his Read More

Crash

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette

Synopsis: After surviving a brutal car wreck, commercial director James Ballard finds himself slowly drawn to a mysterious subculture of people who have transformed automobile accidents into erotic events. Like the J.G. Ballard novel that inspired it, David Cronenberg's study of the sexual dimension of Read More

Rough Magic

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Russell Crowe, Jim Broadbent, D.W. Moffett, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: Director Clare Peploe (wife of Bernardo Bertolucci) adapted this blend of noir mystery and magical realism from the story Miss Shumway Waves a Wand by James Hadley Chase. Bridget Fonda stars as Myra Shumway, an apprentice to a magician (Kenneth Mars) in 1952 Los Angeles. Myra is unhappily engaged Read More

A Hundred and One Nights

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

Victory

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Simon Callow, Jean Yanne, Ho Yi

Synopsis: This third feature film version of Joseph Conrad's tragic romantic drama (the best of which remains John Cromwell's 1940 adaptation) is the one that stick's closest to the original story of a reclusive, hard-hearted fellow living on a private island in the Dutch East Indies who must protect his Read More

Little Buddha

Crew: Producer

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda, Alex Wiesendanger, Ying Ruocheng

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci attempts to mix Buddhist spirituality with childhood fantasy in Little Buddha. When Dean Conrad (Chris Isaak), a Seattle architect, comes home from work one day, he finds two robed Buddhist monks sitting in his living room talking with his wife Lisa (Bridget Fonda). Guided by a Read More

Naked Lunch

Crew: Producer

Actors: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider

Synopsis: This cinematic/literary hybrid fuses motifs from Beat writer William S. Burroughs's novel of the same name with elements of the author's biography and plenty of the cerebral alienation and biomorphic special effects fans of creepy cult director David Cronenberg have come to expect. Bill Lee (Peter Read More

Let Him Have It

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins, Clare Holman, Tom Bell

Synopsis: The Derek Bentley Case has been an uneasy blight on the British legal system since the early 1950s. Two young, frightened boys were caught by police trying to break into to a building. One of the boys had a gun. When the policeman reached out to the youth to turn over the gun, his friend shouted Read More

The Sheltering Sky

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett, Timothy Spall

Synopsis: From director Bernardo Bertolucci, The Sheltering Sky is a filmed adaptation of the novel of the same name by Paul Bowles. Debra Winger and John Malkovich star as Kit and Port Moresby, a married American couple who globetrot to North Africa in the late '40s with the hopes of re-sparking their love Read More

Everybody Wins

Crew: Producer

Actors: Debra Winger, Nick Nolte, Will Patton, Judith Ivey, Jack Warden, Kathleen Wilhoite

Synopsis: Private investigator Tom O'Toole (Nick Nolte) is reluctant to take on a case offered to him by cryptically offbeat Angela Crispini (Debra Winger), but he lets himself be seduced by her. Angela believes that Felix Daniels (Frank Military) was wrongly convicted of murdering his uncle. As O'Toole Read More

The Last Emperor

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto

Synopsis: The Last Emperor is the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last ruler of the Chinese Ching Dynasty. Told in flashback, the film covers the years 1908 to 1967. We first see the three-year-old Pu Yi being installed in the Forbidden City by ruthless, dying dowager Empress Tzu-Hsui (Lisa Lu). Though Read More

Good To Go

Crew: Producer

Actors: Art Garfunkel, Robert DoQui, Harris Yulin, Reginald Daughtry, Richard Brooks

Synopsis: The beat of "go-go" music -- hip-hop oriented dance music with a heavy emphasis on percussion -- provides the backdrop for this drama about corruption and racism in Washington D.C. There are the good guys who play and promote the music, the bad guys who deal in drugs and crime, the bad racist cop Read More

Insignificance

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Will Sampson

Synopsis: Using four famous but unnamed individuals to symbolize a notorious era in American politics, as well as to explore the nature of despair, director Nicolas Roeg has created an intriguing drama. Based on a play by Terry Johnson, the story begins with the blond Theresa Russell as a sex-goddess Read More

The Hit

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Hurt, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol, Terence Stamp, Bill Hunter

Synopsis: In this offbeat crime film, Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) an English mobster turned informant, has been given a new identity and has been living in a small, isolated village in Spain for 10 years. Unfortunately for Parker, the men he has betrayed have ascertained his whereabouts and send Braddock (John Hurt Read More

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jack Thompson

Synopsis: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence was the first English-language project of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses). In tune with his previous filmic essays on racism and brutality, Merry Christmas concentrates on a war of wills between rebellious POW David Bowie Read More

Eureka

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Jane Lapotaire, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: A reclusive, unhappy gold magnate finds his isolated tropical paradise threatened by the intrusion of organized criminals in director Nicolas Roeg's convoluted, arty drama. Gene Hackman stars as Jack McCann, a one-time gold prospector who his parlayed the discovery of a rich deposit in the Read More

Bad Timing

Crew: Producer

Actors: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey

Synopsis: Psychiatrist Alex (Art Garfunkel) becomes sexually obsessed with Milena (Theresa Russell), a woman whom he meets at a party. The pair become involved in an intense and mutually destructive love affair. The drama unfolds in a series of flashbacks, as Alex tells his story to police Inspector Netusil Read More

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Malcolm McLaren, John (Johnny Rotten) Lydon, Sid Vicious, Paul Cook

Synopsis: Let Malcolm McLaren show you how to achieve fame and fortune by making your pop group the most despised band in the world! This film about the brief but eventful career of The Sex Pistols primarily focuses on McLaren, their manager, as he presents his ten-point program on how to achieve success Read More

The Shout

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens, Tim Curry

Synopsis: An asylum director begins telling a visitor to a cricket game the story of one of his "better" patients, Crossley (Alan Bates) who is able to compete. Some time previously, Crossley accosted Anthony (John Hurt), a composer, just after church and was for some reason invited to dinner. Once at the Read More

Mad Dog Morgan

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Frank Thring, Michael Pate

Synopsis: Dennis Hopper plays the title character in this true story of a 19th-century Australian gold-digger who is pressed into a life of crime. A six-year stint in jail doesn't provide reform, but does introduce him to an Aboriginal partner-in-crime (David Gulpilil). The duo then proceed to terrorize the Read More