Ben Mendelsohn

Naomi Watts and Robin Wright are two mothers and lifelong friends who fall for each other's sons in this provocative drama, based on the novel by Doris Lessing and directed by Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel). Set in Australia, the film explores "sensuality, the intricacies of love, family, morality and passion."

One of the most acclaimed films of the 2012 Toronto Film Festival, this crime drama from the director of Blue Valentine centres on the intense consequences when a professional motorcycle rider turned bank robber (Ryan Gosling) runs into a rookie police officer (Bradley Cooper). Co-stars Ray Liotta and Eva Mendes.

Nicholas Cage and Nicole Kidman star in this psychological thriller as a wealthy married couple taken hostage in their own home by violent extortionists. Joel Schumacher (Phonebooth) directs.

Ben Mendelsohn plays a man who returns to his childhood home to see his dying father (Bryan Brown) in Rachel Ward's directorial debut.

Classic crime-drama about a violent Melbourne family imploding in the iron grip of its pint-sized matriarch. Winner of Grand Jury Prize winner (World Cinema, Drama) at Sundance Film Festival 2010.

An action-thriller in which Nicholas Cage digs up a time capsule with some shocking predictions about the future. He takes it upon himself to try and prevent the prophesized disasters.

Emmy-winner Ben Mendelsohn and Oscar-nominees Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths star in this 1996 comedy about patients in mental rehab with no theatre experience attempting to put on an opera.

Arriving in Australia with his prized rifle, American sharpshooter Quigley (Tom Selleck) thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realises that his mission is murder - to "eliminate" Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted.