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).
The first of two films Bale would make with legendary director Terrence Malick, this 2005 historical drama looks at the founding of the Jamestown settlement in 17th century Virginia. While Colin Farrell leads the film as John Smith, Bale plays his fellow settler John Rolfe, who eventually marries Pocahontas (Q'orianka Kilcher). Coincidentally, Bale also lent his voice to Disney's animated 1995 film Pocahontas, though as a different character. (The animated film's voice of Pocahontas, Irene Bedard, also appears in The New World, this time as Pocahontas's mother.)
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