| | The Dark Knight (2008)| Imdb: 9 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $533.32M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, | Director: Christopher Nolan, When the menace known as the Joker emerges from his mysterious past, he wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, the Dark Knight must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice. |
| | The Dark Knight Rises (2012)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $448.13M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman, | Director: Christopher Nolan, Eight years after the Joker's reign of anarchy, the Dark Knight, with the help of the enigmatic Catwoman, is forced from his exile to save Gotham City, now on the edge of total annihilation, from the brutal guerrilla terrorist Bane. |
| | Batman Begins (2005)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 70 | Earnings: $205.34M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe, Liam Neeson, | Director: Christopher Nolan, After training with his mentor, Batman begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from the corruption that Scarecrow and the League of Shadows have cast upon it. |
| | The Prestige (2006)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $53.08M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine, | Director: Christopher Nolan, After a tragic accident two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion whilst sacrificing everything they have to outwit the other. |
| | American Hustle (2013)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $150.12M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, | Director: David O. Russell, A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia. |
| | The Big Short (2015)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $70.24M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, | Director: Adam McKay, Four denizens in the world of high-finance predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight. |
| | 3:10 to Yuma (2007)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $53.57M Lead Role: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster, Logan Lerman, | Director: James Mangold, A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher. |
| | Ford v Ferrari (2019)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $117.62M Lead Role: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe, | Director: James Mangold, American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966. |
| | The Machinist (2004)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 61 | Earnings: $1.08M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, John Sharian, | Director: Brad Anderson, An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity. |
| | American Psycho (2000)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $15.05M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage, | Director: Mary Harron, A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies. |
| | The Fighter (2010)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 79 | Earnings: $93.57M Lead Role: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, | Director: David O. Russell, A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s. |
| | Public Enemies (2009)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 70 | Earnings: $97.03M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke, | Director: Michael Mann, The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. |
| | Rescue Dawn (2006)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 77 | Earnings: $5.48M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Zach Grenier, | Director: Werner Herzog, A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War. |
| | Empire of the Sun (1987)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 62 | Earnings: $22.24M Lead Role: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, | Director: Steven Spielberg, A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II. |
| | I'm Not There. (2007)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $4.00M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, | Director: Todd Haynes, Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work. |
| | Terminator Salvation (2009)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 49 | Earnings: $125.32M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, | Director: McG, In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted? |
| | The New World (2005)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 69 | Earnings: $12.71M Lead Role: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, | Director: Terrence Malick, The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas. |
| | Out of the Furnace (2013)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $11.33M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson, | Director: Scott Cooper, When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement doesn't follow through fast enough, his older brother, Russell, takes matters into his own hands to find justice. |
| | Velvet Goldmine (1998)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $1.04M Lead Role: Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Toni Collette, | Director: Todd Haynes, In 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild. |
| | Pocahontas (1995)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 58 | Earnings: $141.60M Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Christian Bale, Joe Baker, | Director: An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia. |
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