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).
Bale played a small (but well-received) role in Jane Campion's 1996 adaptation of Henry James's novel (the director's first film since her hit The Piano). The loaded cast was led by Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, and Barbara Hershey, but the movie itself was dismissed by some critics as pretentious and slow.
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