Top 10 Bizarre Christian Bale Movies
10.
Equilibrium
In a future where freedom is outlawed outlaws will become heroes.
In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books,
art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death.
Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying
those who resist the rules.
When he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has
been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only
person capable of overthrowing it.
9.
Swing Kids
In a world on the brink of war.
You either march to one tune or dance to another.
Kids all over the world and all through time want to rebel.
Peter Muller (Robert Sean Leonard) and Thomas Berger (Christian Bale) are two such young
men whose rebellion against the conformity of Nazi Germany took the form of a love of
American swing music, British fashion, and Harlem slang.
But when an innocent prank forces Peter into the Hitler Youth, their friendship and their
loyalties are put to the test against the seductive power of Nazism.
8.
The Prestige
A friendship that became a rivalry.
A rivalry that turned deadly
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long
battle for supremacy — full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly
consequences.
From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier and Alfred
Borden were competitors.
However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life
and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them.
Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London.
7.
Reign of Fire
Fight Fire with Fire
In present-day London, twelve-year-old Quinn watches as his mother, a construction engineer,
inadvertently wakes an enormous fire-breathing beast from its century-long slumber.
Twenty years later, much of the world has been scarred by the beast and its offspring.
As a fire chief, Quinn is responsible for warding off the beasts and keeping a community
alive as they eke out a meager existence.
Into their midst come a hotshot American, Van Zan, who says he has a way to kill the
beasts and save mankind – a way Quinn’s never seen done.
Fuses a medieval past with a post-apocalyptic future in this exciting tale of adventure
and survival.
6.
Velvet Goldmine
The Rise Of A Star…
The Fall Of A Legend!
1971: Glamrock explodes all over the world and challenges the seriousness within the
flower power generation by means of glitter and brutal music.
Brian Slade, a young rockstar, inspires numerous teenage boys and girls to paint their nails
and explore their own sexuality.
In the end Slade destroys himself.
Unable to escape the role he created for himself, he plots his own murder.
When his fans discovers that the murder is a fake, his star falls and he is forgotten
about.
1984: Arthur, a journalist working for a New York newspaper, gets assigned the story about
the fake murder of Brian Slade.
When Arthur was young and grew up in Manchester, he was more than a fan of Slade.
Reluctantly he accepts the assignment and starts to investigate what happened his old
glamrock hero.
5.
Batman Begins
Fear is your weapon.
A young Bruce Wayne falls into a cave where he encounters a swarm of bats.
Bruce develops a fear of bats, and later urges his parents to leave an opera featuring bat-like
creatures.
Outside the theater, Bruce Wayne’s parents are both killed in a robbery by mugger Joe
Chill.
Bruce blames himself for his parents’ murder: had he not been frightened, the Waynes would
not have encountered Chill.
He is taken in by a mysterious instructor named Ducard and urged to become a ninja in
the League of Shadows, but he instead returns to his native Gotham City resolved to end
the mob rule that is strangling it.
4.
Newsies
A Thousand Voices.
A Single Dream.
In 1899, New York City got its news from an army of ragged orphans and runaways, called
newsies.
They sold the newspapers of Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and other great publishers.
Like many of his friends, newsie Jack Kelly (Christian Bale) dreams of a better life far
from the hardship of the streets.
But when Pulitzer and Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsies’ expense, Jack finds
a cause to fight for, and must decide between his dreams and his newfound responsibility.
3.
All the Little Animals
Of All the Animals, The Cruelest is Man
Bobby Platt is a mentally slow young man who escapes an abusive, hateful stepfather who
has killed his pets one by one.
To save himself, Bobby runs away and meets a strange old man who wanders the highways
to bury roadkill animals.
Bobby becomes the old man’s apprentice and learns to see the world of nature in a strange
idyllic way.
But soon the shadow of his stepfather catches up to him and Bobby’s world explodes into
a grotesque nightmare.
2.
American Psycho
No Introduction Necessary.
Patrick Bateman, lives Wall Street by day and his nights are spent in ways impossible
to fathom.
Christian Bale plays this soul-less, modern monster whose zealous materialism and piercing
envy fuels his homicidal activities.
1.
The Machinist
How do you wake up from a nightmare, when you’re not asleep?
Trevor Reznik is a lathe-operator who suffers from insomnia and hasn’t slept in a year.
Slowly, he begins to doubt his sanity as increasingly bizarre things start happening at work and
at home.
Haunted by a deformed co-worker who no one seems to think exists, and an ongoing stream
of indecipherable Post-It notes he keeps finding on his fridge, he attempts to investigate
what appears to be a mysterious plot against him and, in the process, embroils two women
in his madness.