29 Joseph Fiennes Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Based on William Craig’s book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, the story revolves around the battle between legendary Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev and Nazi Germany’s most elite sniper Erwin König. While they try to survive each other, Vasily’s life becomes even more complicated when both Commissar Danilov and Vasily fall in love with Tania Chernova. 

After the death of Catholic Queen Mary, in 1558, her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth becomes the Queen of England. But the country is in debt, under attack from Mary of Guise, and her court is full of treacherous novels. Elizabeth must rise to become ‘the virgin Queen’ with the help of Francis Walsingham. 

The Academy Awards-winning movie depicts a fictional love-story of the Bard. Shakespeare is desperately searching for a muse when he meets Viola de Lesseps. A theater-lover, she disguises as man to audition for Shakespeare’s play, but he soon finds the truth. Their blossoming romance inspires him to write ‘Romeo & Juliet.’ However, he is married while she is betrothed to Lord Wessex. 

Based on William Shakespeare’s popular play of the same name, this film tells the story of Bassania, who requires a huge sum of money if he wants to marry the woman of his dreams Portia. He has no other option but to make a deadly deal with a cruel Jewish moneylender named Shylock. 

Goodbye Bafana is a historical drama film which tells the story of a white South African man who is racist towards people of African origin. However, his life is altered drastically by a prisoner whom he guarded for many years. The prisoner was none other than Nelson Mandela.

Luther is a historical drama film which revolves around the life of the idealistic German monk Martin Luther, who develops an intense dislike to the materialism in the church. His teachings eventually lead to the Protestant Reformation and the rise of Protestantism.

Near the end of WWII in 1945, around 500 American soldiers are held prisoner at Cabanatuan, Philippines, and are subjected to harsh treatment. The 6th Ranger Battalion embarks on a heroic mission under Lt. Col. Henry Mucci and Capt. Robert Prince to rescue the POWs. Filipino guerillas assist the Rangers in one of the bravest and triumphant POW rescue raid in American history.

Frank Perry plans to escape from prison after he learns that his daughter is struggling with drug addiction. Along with few fellow prisoners, he begins to dig tunnels, which are going to help him reach the outside world. Meanwhile, he also has to deal with Reza, a fearsome gangster running the inside of the prison.

Nineteen year-old American Lucy Harmon travels to Tuscany after her mother commits suicide. She wants to meet the Italian with whom she fell in love during her last visit 4 years ago. Her mother left her diary of enigmatic poems which suggest that Lucy was conceived on that Tuscany hilltop; it is her quest to solve this mystery and discover who her father is.

It is a biopic of Manfred von Richthofen, an illustrious World War One German fighter virtuoso, that shows his disgust for the war and his love for nurse Kate.

Augusten Burroughs has an alcoholic father and a mother who suffers from mental illness. Therefore. he faces a very difficult childhood. Eventually his mother, who claims that her husband is the reason for her unhappiness, sends Augusten to live with Dr Finch, her eccentric and unconventional psychiatrist.

Greek demigod Hercules, haunted by his tragic past, now leads a band of mercenaries consisting of five loyal followers, and takes any job offered for gold. However, when he is approached by King Cotys of Thrace and his daughter Ergenia to train an army of blood-thirsty soldiers, he must seek out the little conscience left within him.

The Darwin Awards is an adventure comedy film which revolves around a former cop and an insurance investigator, who travel throughout the country to investigate some bizarre insurance claims.  

Killing Me Softly is a romantic mystery thriller film which is about a woman who abandons her loving relationship with her boyfriend and sets out to pursue sexual adventures with a mysterious mountaineer. However, this eventually brings disaster to her life.  

Matthew and Catherine move to a remote Australian desert town along with their two kids. Things get ugly when one day Catherine wakes up to find the kids missing. She calls up the school but she is told that the kids are not attending. Things get even worse when she learns that a dust storm is going to hit the town soon.

Sinbad is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace.  He must now travel to her realm to retrieve it and save Prince Proteus, his childhood friend.