What is the best Michael Fassbender movie of all time?

Harrowing historical dramas, genre-bending sci-fi, offbeat indie gems — Fassbender's range is quietly one of cinema's most impressive. Which film is his best?

Shame

The 2011 Steve McQueen drama in which Fassbender delivers a raw, unflinching performance as a sex addict struggling beneath a polished exterior.

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12 Years a Slave

The 2013 Oscar-winning film in which Fassbender plays the cruel plantation owner Edwin Epps, a terrifying portrayal of brutal power.

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Hunger

Steve McQueen's 2008 debut following IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, with Fassbender losing dramatic amounts of weight for the role.

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Steve Jobs

Danny Boyle's 2015 film structured around three product launches, with Fassbender giving a volcanic portrayal of Apple's visionary co-founder.

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X-Men: First Class

The 2011 X-Men prequel in which Fassbender reinvented Magneto as a suave, tragic Holocaust survivor-turned-revolutionary.

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Inglourious Basterds

Tarantino's 2009 WWII fantasy featuring Fassbender as Lt. Archie Hicox, a British film critic turned spy, in a nail-biting bar scene.

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A Dangerous Method

The 2011 David Cronenberg film exploring the fraught intellectual and personal relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud.

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Macbeth

Justin Kurzel's visually stunning 2015 adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play, with Fassbender commanding every scene as the doomed king.

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Prometheus

The 2012 Ridley Scott Alien prequel in which Fassbender steals the film as David, the eerily philosophical synthetic android.

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Fish Tank

The 2009 British drama in which Fassbender plays the boyfriend of an aspiring teenage dancer's mother, with quietly devastating consequences.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past

The 2014 time-travel epic in which Fassbender's young Magneto faces his most complex moral crisis yet.

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Frank

The 2014 offbeat music drama in which Fassbender plays an eccentric indie rock musician who never removes an oversized papier-mache head.

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Slow West

The 2015 quirky Western in which Fassbender plays a gunslinger escorting a naive Scottish teenager through the dangerous frontier.

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Alien: Covenant

The 2017 Ridley Scott sequel featuring Fassbender in a dual role as androids David and Walter, creating sci-fi's most unsettling dynamic.

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