Top 10 Best Michael Fassbender Films

"Well, if this is it, old boy, I hope you don't mind if I go out speaking the King's." The tense basement scene in the French tavern ranks among the most nail-biting moments in Tarantino's filmography. Fassbender plays the British film critic and undercover officer with unshakable gentlemanly cool, until one wrong hand gesture proves fatal.

A chilling portrait of absolute evil. As the cruel, unstable plantation owner Edwin Epps, Fassbender shows the psychological rot of slavery in the American South. He makes Epps no caricature, but a man torn apart by religious delusions and his own sickening obsession with Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o).

Alongside director Steve McQueen, Fassbender delivered one of the most courageous and unguarded roles of this century. As successful New York businessman Brandon, whose life is entirely dominated and destroyed by a paralyzing sex addiction, Fassbender plays with a raw, devastating vulnerability that grips you by the throat.

He barely resembled the Apple founder physically, but Fassbender captured Jobs' relentless vision and manic energy like no one else. Through Aaron Sorkin's blistering, fireworks-fast dialogue across three iconic product launches, he delivers a verbal boxing match that earned him a well-deserved Oscar nomination.

Following Ian McKellen seemed impossible, but Fassbender gave young Magneto a tragic James Bond vibe blended with intense rage. As a Holocaust survivor hunting Nazis across South America in the 1960s before rising to lead the mutant resistance, he is the undisputed highlight of the prequel series.

David Fincher cast Fassbender as a methodical, emotionless hitman who waits for hours in empty buildings for the perfect shot while listening to The Smiths. Fassbender's tight control, measured breathing, and cynical voiceovers make this minimalist revenge thriller a delight.

In Ridley Scott's return to the Alien universe, Fassbender stole the show as the synthetic android David. He studied Lawrence of Arabia and diver Greg Louganis to perfect David's curious, eerily serene, and slightly sociopathic movements.

His absolute artistic breakthrough. For his role as Irish IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in the Maze prison, Fassbender lost more than fourteen kilos under medical supervision. The seventeen-minute unbroken dialogue scene with a priest about morality and self-sacrifice is film history.

In this ambitious time-travel adventure, Fassbender literally lifts a baseball stadium to surround the White House. His complex friendship and philosophical rivalry with James McAvoy's Professor X form the emotional backbone of the film.

With mud on his cheeks and fire in his eyes, Fassbender throws himself into Shakespeare's darkest tragedy. As the Scottish warrior driven to regicide and madness by prophecy and ambition, he delivers a physical, bloody, and somber performance.

Acting an entire film with a giant papier-mâché head on: not everyone would dare. As the eccentric, brilliant but mentally fragile frontman of an avant-garde pop band, Fassbender shows remarkable physical comedy and musical talent.

In Andrea Arnold's raw British social-realist drama, Fassbender plays the charming new boyfriend of a single mother, who slowly develops an inappropriate and dangerous fascination with her fifteen-year-old daughter. Fassbender makes the line between attraction and betrayal chillingly tangible.