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?

1

Shame

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

2

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.

3

Hunger

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

4

Steve Jobs

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

5

X-Men: First Class

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

6

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.

7

A Dangerous Method

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

8

Macbeth

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

9

Prometheus

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

10

Fish Tank

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

11

X-Men: Days of Future Past

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

12

Frank

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

13

Slow West

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

14

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.