Christian Bale, an actor a little different which is in the early of the (serious) career in the world of cinema and certainly this top will not be too long time valid. Christian Charles Philip Bale (born on January 30, 1974).
10. Harsh Times
Jim Davis (Christian Bale) is a former combat soldier who returned from the Gulf War, but has not succeed yet to put his life in order. Is consumed by nightmares at night and by day he has no mood to take a job to keep him in office. Still waiting for an opportunity to rise (which will never appear otherwise) to enter in LAPD, he knock all the economies.
09. Rescue Dawn
It is an epic story about survival, about friendship and not least about the horrors of war from Vietnam. The story takes place in a camp for prisoners of war from among Vietnamese jungle where the pilot Dengler is “thrown” together with several other prisoners, two Americans and three Vietnamese. Among inmates will knock a friendship and begin to plan an escape.
08. Swing Kids
Nazi Germany. At late of 30′s is always linked to the World War II and its horrors products. Amid dramatic that he can not avoid it, he find in Hamburg the existence of a group of young people with concerns other than war, obsessed with American movies, crazy British fashion and swing music. All these things are forbidden.
07. The Machinist
Trevor Reznik, a factory worker, can not sleep. It’s not some insomnia. Trevor has not slept in a year. The chronic fatigue led to deterioration in terrible physical and mental health. Trevor’s shame becomes suspicion, then paranoia, when he starts to feel that his other colleagues conspire for his dismissal… and perhaps something much worse. First he finds the cryptic notes in his apartment. Then find that the mysterious man seen near the accident doesn’t exist.
06. American Psycho
The movie is based on the homonymous novel by Bret Easton Ellis, perhaps the most controversial novel of the 80 United States. Bateman’s actions, the main character, has horrified the readers and critics have raised protest against the dark tone and violence not only free, but also very visual.
The movie “Empire of the Sun” tells the sad story of a British boy named Jamie Graham, from a aristocratic family established in Shanghai, whose idyllic existence changes radically at the beginning of World War II, when Japanese troops invaded the China area previously controlled by the British.
04. The Prestige
In this whirling and mysterious story, two young magicians of the Victorian era, sparks a powerful rivalry turns into a battle of tricks and a relentless thirst to discover the secrets of each other. These two men face it boldly and desire, performing arts and science, ambition and friendship, with dangerous results, deadly and deceptive.
03. 3:10 to Yuma
The rancher Dan Evans (Christian Bale) was on the way to Bisbee in order to elucidate the problem of debt and sale of land, it is witness to a robbery led by the famed Ben Wade (Russell Crowe). Shortly Wade is captured in Bisbee and Evans get to be part of the team that he will escort Wade in the train of 3:10 to Yuma, all for a reward of $200. Evans’s effort to take the villain in the train station is more than an effort to save his land.
02. Batman Begins
Christopher Nolan is the one who pushed the franchise forward and added to all other features of the main character. For the first time we see the human side of Batman, and the way in which the film is constructed involve the spectator in the story that feels truthful, although we all know that Gotham is just a figment of imagination of comic creators.
01. The Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan’s film is a little more than a “superhero movie”. Has a complex scenario, is well written, with twists, focus on the character psychology, less on the action scenes and on the Batmobile. Suddenly Batman is not the fearless hero of Gotham. He has weaknesses, fears, does not always take the right choice. Batman is above all Bruce Wayne, a normal person, with problems in love. These are some of the reasons why this movie is so praised.
