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's first major role came in Steven Spielberg's 1987 adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel, which filmed while Bale was just 13. (He beat out thousands of other kids who auditioned for the part, no doubt helped by the fact that he had just co-starred in a TV movie with Spielberg's then-wife, Amy Irving.) He plays Ballard stand-in Jamie Graham, a British schoolboy who becomes a Japanese prisoner in Shanghai during WWII.
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