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Ben Mendelsohn

Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn (born 3 April 1969) is an Australian actor. He first rose to prominence in Australia for his break-out role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987). He gained international attention for his starring role in the crime drama Animal Kingdom (2010). He has since had roles in films such as The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Starred Up ... more

Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn (born 3 April 1969) is an Australian actor. He first rose to prominence in Australia for his break-out role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987). He gained international attention for his starring role in the crime drama Animal Kingdom (2010). He has since had roles in films such as The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Starred Up (2013), Lost River (2014), Mississippi Grind (2015), Rogue One (2016), Darkest Hour (2017), and Ready Player One (2018).

Mendelsohn starred in the Netflix drama series Bloodline (2015–2017), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2016. He played the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood (2018). He joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Talos in the superhero film Captain Marvel (2019) and the Disney+ series Secret Invasion (2023). He has also starred in the HBO crime miniseries The Outsider (2020). In 2024, he began portraying fashion designer Christian Diorin the television series The New Look.

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The Dark Knight Rises
(2012)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms G...
Runtime:
165 min
Director:
Christopher Nolan
Cast:
Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy
8.4
87%
78
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
(2016)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
Runtime:
133 min
Director:
Gareth Edwards
Cast:
Felicity Jones, Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Diego Luna
7.9
85%
65
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Ready Player One
(2018)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
Runtime:
140 min
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Cast:
Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T. J. Miller
7.5
72%
64
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Spider-Man: Far From Home
(2019)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent.
Runtime:
129 min
Cast:
Tom Holland, Danny DeVito, Zendaya, Marisa Tomei, Jacob Batalon
7.5
91%
69
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The Place Beyond the Pines
(2013)
Crime, Drama
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
Runtime:
140 min
Director:
Derek Cianfrance
Cast:
Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Bradley Cooper, Rose Byrne, Ben Mendelsohn
7.3
80%
68
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Darkest Hour
(2017)
Drama, History
A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. ...
Runtime:
125 min
Cast:
Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup
7.4
84%
75
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Captain Marvel
(2019)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Runtime:
124 min
Cast:
Brie Larson, Brie Larson, Brie Larson, Jude Law, Jude Law
6.9
79%
64
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Animal Kingdom
(2010)
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon discovers, this world is far larger and more menacing than he could ever imagine. J finds hi...
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
David Michôd
Cast:
James Frecheville, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford
7.3
95%
83
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Australia
(2008)
Adventure, Drama, Romance
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 unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
Runtime:
165 min
Director:
Baz Luhrmann
Cast:
Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Essie Davis, David Wenham, Bryan Brown
6.6
55%
53
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The New World
(2005)
Drama, History, Romance
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Runtime:
151 min
Director:
Terrence Malick
Cast:
Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, August Schellenberg
6.7
63%
69
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Killer Elite
(2011)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous g...
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Gary McKendry
Cast:
Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Dominic Purcell, Yvonne Strahovski
6.5
25%
44
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Knowing
(2009)
Action, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.
Runtime:
121 min
Director:
Alex Proyas
Cast:
Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Ben Mendelsohn, Nadia Townsend
6.2
34%
41
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Killing Them Softly
(2012)
Crime, Thriller
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Andrew Dominik
Cast:
Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Ben Mendelsohn
6.2
74%
64
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Slow West
(2015)
Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
John Maclean
Cast:
Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Caren Pistorius
6.9
93%
72
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
(2014)
Action, Adventure, Drama
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Runtime:
150 min
6.0
N/A
52
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Spies in Disguise
(2019)
Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is… not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance su...
Runtime:
102 min
Cast:
Tom Holland, Toru Uchikado, Tom Holland, Ben Mendelsohn, Rashida Jones
6.8
N/A
54
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Quigley Down Under
(1990)
Western
American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even American expatriate Crazy Cora can't keep Quigley safe in his cat-and-mouse game with the homicidal Ma...
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
Simon Wincer
Cast:
Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood, Ron Haddrick
6.9
56%
51
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Vertical Limit
(2000)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving elements. But, as Annie lays injured in an icy cavern, the rescuers face several terrifying events tha...
Runtime:
124 min
Director:
Martin Campbell
Cast:
Chris O'Donnell, Robin Tunney, Bill Paxton, Scott Glenn, Izabella Scorupco
5.9
48%
48
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Adore
(2013)
Drama
Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relati...
Runtime:
100 min
6.2
31%
37
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Mississippi Grind
(2015)
Drama, Thriller
Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic poker player. The two strike up an immediate friendship and Gerry quickly persuades his new friend to accompany him on a road trip to a legendary high stakes poker game in New Orleans. As they make their ...
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden
Cast:
Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn, Sienna Miller, Analeigh Tipton, Alfre Woodard
6.4
89%
77
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Robin Hood
(2018)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.
Runtime:
116 min
Cast:
Taron Egerton, Taron Egerton, Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Jamie Foxx
5.3
15%
32
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Trespass
(2011)
Thriller
Kyle and Sarah Miller have it all: a huge gated house on the water, fancy cars, and the potential for romance in their relationship. He's just back from a business trip and their teen daughter Avery is sneaking out to a party, when four thugs in security uniforms and ski masks stage a home invasion. They want what's in the safe: cash a...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Joel Schumacher
Cast:
Nicolas Cage, Cam Gigandet, Nicole Kidman, Liana Liberato, Nico Tortorella
5.3
10%
37
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Lost River
(2015)
Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Ryan Gosling
Cast:
Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Eva Mendes, Matt Smith, Iain De Caestecker
5.8
30%
42
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Sirens
(1994)
Comedy, Drama
In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visit noted painter Norman Lindsay, whose planned contribution to an international art exhibit is considered blasphemous. While Campion and Lindsay debate, Estella finds herself drawn to the three beautiful models sitting for the painter's c...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
John Duigan
Cast:
Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Sam Neill, Elle Macpherson, Portia de Rossi
5.9
74%
64
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Map of the Human Heart
(1993)
Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the most difficult spaces to gap.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Vincent Ward
Cast:
Jason Scott Lee, Robert Joamie, Anne Parillaud, Annie Galipeau, Patrick Bergin
7.2
80%
N/A
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$9.99
(2009)
Animation, Drama
Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You'll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms your reason for being! The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating, exquisite colour p...
Runtime:
78 min
Director:
Tatia Rosenthal
Cast:
Tom Budge, Josef Ber, Joel Edgerton, Leon Ford, Barry Otto
6.7
73%
68
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Beautiful Kate
(2009)
Drama
Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his young aspiring actress fiancee who struggles with the isolation. When home he starts having memories of his childhood many involving his beautiful twin sister and his older brother. These m...
Runtime:
90 min
6.8
83%
N/A
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The Year My Voice Broke
(1987)
Drama, Romance
Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
John Duigan
Cast:
Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Graeme Blundell, Lynette Curran
7.4
94%
N/A
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Una
(2017)
Drama, Thriller
When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Benedict Andrews
Cast:
Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Ben Mendelsohn, Rooney Mara, Riz Ahmed
6.5
82%
67
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Cosi
(1996)
Comedy, Drama, Music
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart despite the fact that none of the patients are able to sing and none of them s...
Runtime:
102 min
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Spotswood
(1992)
Comedy
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Mark Joffe
Cast:
Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Alwyn Kurts, John Walton, Toni Collette
6.2
67%
N/A
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The Big Steal
(1990)
Comedy
Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After Danny is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Nadia Tass
Cast:
Ben Mendelsohn, Claudia Karvan, Steve Bisley, Marshall Napier, Damon Herriman
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Guns for Hire
(2015)
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Beatle is a quirky loner who refuses to live by society's rules. Her business cards read "Towing/Assassination," and she even has a hit man infomercial to go along with it. Her only human contact is with her psychiatrist and the stripper/hooker she employs once a week. Everything changes the night she meets Athena Klendon, a suicidal b...
Runtime:
83 min
Cast:
Ever Carradine, Michele Hicks, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ben Mendelsohn, Tony Shalhoub
5.6
N/A
N/A
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Idiot Box
(1996)
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Mick and Kev – bored, unemployed and aimless in the western suburbs of Sydney – decide to rob a bank, more or less for the fun of it.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
David Caesar
Cast:
Ben Mendelsohn, Jeremy Sims, John Polson, Graeme Blundell, Deborah Kennedy
6.5
N/A
N/A
Amy
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Amy
(1997)
Comedy, Drama
Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Nadia Tass
Cast:
Alana De Roma, Ben Mendelsohn, Rachel Griffiths, Nick Barker, Kerry Armstrong
7.0
43%
40
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Needle
(2010)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
College student Ben inherits a curious old mechanical box that churns out voodoo dolls. When a shadowy figure starts using the box to murder Ben's friends, he must find the killer.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
John V. Soto
Cast:
Jane Badler, Jessica Marais, Travis Fimmel, Trilby Glover, Michael Dorman
5.0
N/A
N/A
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Black and White
(2002)
Drama
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing and signs a statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of Appeal established in the country, and with a legal system compromised by intimidation ...
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Craig Lahiff
Cast:
Robert Carlyle, Kerry Fox, Ben Mendelsohn
6.7
39%
N/A
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Untogether
(2019)
Comedy, Drama
Once considered a teen prodigy, a recovering addict sobers up and tries to get her writing career back on track. She begins a relationship with a rising author known for his wartime memoirs.
Runtime:
98 min
Cast:
Lola Kirke, Jemima Kirke, Ben Mendelsohn, Jamie Dornan, Alice Eve
5.1
40%
46
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Metal Skin
(1994)
Action, Drama
Psycho Joe babysits his brain-damaged father without a friend in the world, living in squalor in the suburbs of Melbourne. Joe loves one thing: Fast cars! When he gets a job at a local supermarket, Joe meets fellow "petrol head" Dazey, who quickly becomes his idol and best friend. Soon after, Joe falls for Savina, a goth girl who pract...
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Geoffrey Wright
Cast:
Ben Mendelsohn, Tara Morice, Nadine Garner, Aden Young, Chantal Contouri
6.1
N/A
N/A
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Mullet
(2001)
Comedy, Drama
Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and fit back in to the lives of those he left, including his ex-girlfriend Tully and brother Pete.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
David Caesar
Cast:
Ben Mendelsohn, Susie Porter, Andrew Gilbert, Belinda McClory, Tony Barry
6.0
N/A
N/A