Thomas Vamos Filmography

Occupation:: Cinematographer

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Mr. Mergler's Gift

Crew: Cinematographer

2004
Arthur Rimbaud

Crew: Camera Operator

Synopsis: Arthur Rimbaud, the title character of this film, was a noted French poet who at the age 26 abandoned his profession to become a North African trader/wanderer. This epic biopic tells his strange and tragic tale. A rather depressive and tormented soul, Rimbaud began his adventures in the early Read More

1996
Le Retour des Aventuriers du Timbre Perdu

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Stevens, Joshawa Mathers, Heather Goodsell, Paul Nocholls, Andrew Bauer-Gador

Synopsis: This Canadian fantasy, aimed at children, is the sequel to 1987's Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller. This imaginative story has Tommy, his sister and friends gathered together to try to liberate Charles Merriweather who has been stuck for 60 years on a Canadian stamp depicting the famous Read More

1994
La Vie d'un Heros

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gilbert Sicotte, Veronique Le Flaguais, Marie Cantin, Christopher B. MacCabe, Erwin Potitt

Synopsis: In this French-Canadian drama, a woman returns to her mother's farm accompanied by her daughter. They go there to reunite with the former prisoner of war who worked upon their land until he returned to Germany in 1946. But the man the woman remembers is not exactly the man she now sees, for he has Read More

1994
Being at Home with Claude

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Roy Dupuis, Jacques Godin, Jean-François Pichette

Synopsis: This French Canadian psychological drama begins as homosexual hustler Yves is having sex with his lover Claude. During the climactic moment, he grabs a knife and cuts the throat of his partner and then flees to the streets of Montreal where he pauses only long enough to make a phone call. The Read More

1992
Piroska és a farkas

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Fanny Lauzier, Jan Nowicki, Teri Tordai

Synopsis: Also known as Red Riding Hood, Year 2000, this Hungarian/Canadian co-production is not for children. Director Marta Meszaros again dwells upon the travails of women trapped in oppressive society. This time, the Red Riding Hood legend is used metaphorically within the framework of a Read More

1989
Summer of the Colt

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Héctor Alterio, China Zorrilla, Alexandra London-Thompson, Juan de Benedictis, Santiago Gonzales

Synopsis: This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, breaks and train his first horse; their 13-year-old Read More

1989
Les Portes Tournantes

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Monique Spaziani, Gabriel Arcand, Miou-Miou, Francois Methe, Jacques Penot

Synopsis: Set in a small Quebec town in the late '20s, this moving drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented young pianist, who gains local celebrity at the town movie theater for her gifts as a silent film accompanist. As an added attraction, Celeste dons ornate gowns for each Read More

1988
Captive Hearts

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Chris Makepeace, Mari Sato, Michael Sarrazin, Seth Sakai

Synopsis: In this WWII melodrama, a young pilot captured by the Japanese falls in love with a village woman. Robert (Chris Makepeace) is shot down over wartime Japan. Village elder Fukushima (Pat Morita) saves him from execution. Over time, Robert wins over the village people, particularly young widow Read More

6/5/87
The Gate

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Stephen Dorff, Christa Denton, Louis Tripp, Kelly Rowan, Jennifer Irwin

Synopsis: During a boring, routine weekend, young Glen (Stephen Dorff) and his best buddy Terry (Louis Tripp) decide to explore Glen's backyard. Before long, the boys come across a strange hole in the ground which yields all manner of sinister prizes. Consulting one of his heavy-metal record albums, Glen Read More

5/15/87
The Peanut Butter Solution

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mathew Mackay, Siluck Saysanasy, Alison Podbrey, Michael Hogan, Michael Maillot

Synopsis: Convinced that a recently burned-down structure harbors ghosts, young Matthew Mackay and Siluck Saysanasy decide to investigate the ruins. In true "urban legend" fashion, what Mackay sees inside the structure causes him to go bald on the spot! His distress is mollified when a pair of friendly Read More

8/22/86
The Great Chess Movie

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Anatoly Karpov, Viktor Korchnoi, Robert "Bobby" Fischer

Synopsis: Chess and the best players of the game are the focus of this video which examines and analyzes players such as Anatoly Karpov, Viktor Korchnoi and Bobby Fischer. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1982
O.K. ...Laliberte

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Luce Guilbault, Jacques Godin, Jean LaPointe

Synopsis: After being arrested for hitting his wife, and then temporarily thrown out of the house by the irate woman, Paul Laliberte (Jacques Godin) teams up with Madelaine (Luce Guilbeault) and his friend Pierre (Jean LaPointe) - and all three proceed to get into unlikely situations. Laliberte's wife Read More

1973
Ixe-13

Crew: Cinematographer

1971
Q-Bec-My-Love

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cartier, Larry Kent

Synopsis: This feature was the official entry for Canada at the 1970 Berlin Film Festival. There is no plot to this film that features full frontal male and female nudity and coitus between the supposed actors and actresses. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1970
St. Denis, Dans Le Temps

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gilles-Philippe Delorme

Synopsis: This historical re-enactment of the victory of Canadian farmers over British troops in 1837 serves as a foreshadowing of the French speaking nationalist movement in Quebec during the late 1960s. A young woman and her boyfriend return to witness the conflict, which was a response to the police Read More

1970
La Chambre Blanche

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michele Magny, Marcel Sabourin

Synopsis: This plodding piece of cinematic ambiguity finds a married couple engaged in boring conversation in a window as scenery changes behind them. When they manage to talk about love, some of the tedium is lifted in the wake of their amorous verbiage. This black and white effort from Jean-Pierre Lefebvre Read More

1970
Ou Etes-Vous Donc . . . ?

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This film combines black-and-white with color photography to tell about two young men who meet and go to the big city. They buy a car and after a psychedelic paint job, the duo rescues a young woman on the verge of suicide. They either conform to society or go insane pondering the answers to Read More

1969
Jusqu'au Coeur

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Charlebois, Paul Berval

Synopsis: This montage-like, symbolic film deals with society's oppression of the individual. Combinations of black-and-white and color photography are used to take satirical swipes at advertising, nuclear war, and abortion, and to illustrate the fact that humankind has a choice and the heart can never be Read More

1969
Kid Sentiment

Crew: Cinematographer

1967
Álmodozások kora

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Andras Balint, Ilona Beres, Judit Halasz

Synopsis: The Hungarian Age of Illusions was the first feature-film effort by writer/director Istvan Szabo. Andras Balint plays an electrical engineer who hops from bed to bed, never making any lasting commitment with any one woman. All this changes when he falls in love with a local celebrity whom he sees Read More

1964