Every Christian Bale Movie, Ranked
Updated January 2023.
With the arrival of Ford v Ferrari this week, the famously "difficult" and intense Academy Award-winning British actor Christian Bale has now appeared in (or lent his voice to) 45 feature films, dating back to his debut as a teenager in 1987.
In the gallery above, we rank most of those films from worst to best, minus 1989's Henry V (in which he barely appears) and a pair of minor European films (1987's Mio in the Land of Faraway and 1994's Royal Deceit) which never screened or received reviews in the United States. Also excluded are three animated films in which Bale provided voices (Mowgli, Howl's Moving Castle, and Pocahontas).
Just a few months after his memorable, career-boosting starring turn in American Psycho, Bale had a supporting role in John Singleton's 2000 Shaft remake/sequel starring Samuel L. Jackson as a NYPD detective who is the nephew and namesake of Richard Roundtree's John Shaft. Bale plays a fugitive suspect in a racially motivated murder being investigated by the younger Shaft. It wasn't a good movie, but it would be far better than anything Bale would make over the next few years.
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