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 reunited with his Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan in 2006 for this tale of rival 19th century stage magicians played by Bale and Hugh Jackman. Weirdly, it was released the very same month as another turn-of-the-century magician movie, The Illusionist. That not all that similar film had very slightly better reviews, but The Prestige had the edge at the box office.
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