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).
By 2005, Christian Bale had already appeared in nearly 20 films, many as the lead. But it was here where he truly became a star, and where he became forever associated with his best-known role: Bruce Wayne/Batman. It was Bale's first blockbuster: His first live-action film with a production budget and box office grosses over $100 million (far exceeding that mark on both counts). It was also Bale's first time working with director Christopher Nolan, and that fruitful partnership would go on to make three additional films, including two Batman sequels.
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