102 Ben Kingsley Movie Performances, Ranked Best to Worst

Based on the true story of German industrialist Oskar Schindler, this Academy Award-winning film depicts his arrival in German-occupied Poland during World War II to make a fortune from his factories, which he staffs with cheap Jewish laborers. However, upon witnessing Nazi brutality, he provides shelter to hundreds of his workers, saving them from the Holocaust.

Based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, the movie begins in South Africa when a young Gandhi is thrown out of the train for travelling in the first class compartment despite having tickets for it. He begins a nonviolent protest campaign and later uses it in India’s fight for independence. 

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, who has personal reasons to investigate Ashecliffe Hospital, an institution for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, is assigned the case of a strange disappearance of a woman from a locked room. As he digs deeper into the sinister operations of the asylum, he begins to lose his grasp of reality.

Slevin Kelevra visits his friend, Nick, in New York and finds himself in a big mess. His friend is missing, he is kidnapped twice and asked to repay huge sum of money that Nick owes to two crime bosses and is even asked to murder someone. Under watch from a notorious assassin and a detective, Slevin has to quickly find a solution.

Kathy Nicolo, a neglected woman and reformed drug-addict, loses the California coast house inherited from her father, to government over misunderstanding about unpaid taxes. Iranian immigrant Behrani purchases it in an auction to better his family’s future. Kathy, with the help of Officer Lester, makes life difficult for the Iranian family to get back her house. Where will this clash lead to?

Josh is a regular kid, who likes playing football. However, his father notices that he is quite good at chess. Therefore, he starts encouraging his son, and helps him in developing his tactics.

Hugo, an orphan boy, sneakily maintains the clocks of the Paris train station he lives in while his uncle is mysteriously missing. He often steals toy parts from bitter store owner Georges to repair an automaton found by his late father, but it can only be activated with a special key in possession of Georges' goddaughter Isabelle.

After the fearsome tiger Shere Khan learns about his existence, Mowgli—a young human child raised by a pack of wolves—is reluctantly convinced to leave the jungle escorted by his mentor Bagheera, a black panther, and Baloo, a high-spirited bear. Along the way, he learns about his past and meets several other animals, both benign and gruesome.

The movie is based on the true story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's legendary daredevil walks on a tightrope suspended between the two towers of the World Trade Center on August 7, 1974.  

The seventh film in the Iron Man film series, Iron Man Three sees Tony Stark suffering from stress, anxiety and insomnia after the battle of New York. Soon, he finds himself pitted against a powerful and mysterious foe, Mandarin. When his close ones get attacked, Tony goes after those responsible and in process discovers that an event from past is connected to the present. 

David Swinton is a mecha—highly advanced robot—programmed to experience love. He lives with Henry and Monica as their son because the couple’s real son, Martin, is in a comatose condition. David’s life is good but when Martin returns, the couple abandon him. David now wants to become real so that his human mother can love him.

Martin Bishop, who runs a company that tests security systems, is blackmailed by government agents into getting a black box from its inventor. Bishop’s ex-girlfriend and his team of experts, who retrieve the device, discover that it can decode any encryption code. As Bishop realizes that those men were criminals and not government officers, they incriminate him in the murder of the inventor.

In the summer of 1994 in New York City, a lonely teenager named Luke spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout the city. He is also seeing a therapist Dr Squires, due to his self-esteem issues, but the doctor has problems of his own as well.

Based on the popular novel of the same name by Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist tells the story of an orphan who meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. He soon becomes part of a household of boys who are trained to steal for their eccentric master.

This biographical crime drama film revolves around Bugsy Siegel, a notorious gangster, who moves to Hollywood and gets involved with a film star. He soon starts gambling and comes up with the idea of developing a gambling haven in Las Vegas.   

Dave is a political comedy film, which revolves around the life of Dave Kovic, a man who bears an uncanny resemblance with the President of the United States, Bill Mitchell. When Mitchell suffers a stroke, Dave is hired by the Secret Service to impersonate the President on an ongoing basis. 

In 1899, Oxford graduate Dr. Edward Newgate joins Stonehearst Asylum for apprenticeship. He is smitten by a stately-looking lady patient Eliza Graves. But Newgate feels that asylum superintendent Dr. Silas Lamb’s treatment methods are quite unorthodox and strange. Then one night as he follows an abnormal sound, he is shocked to discover that at the asylum, nothing is as it seems to be. 

After being attacked by an alien race, humans have set up an advanced military academy in outer space where gifted children are trained to prepare for a future alien invasion. One extraordinary student's wits are challenged in particular.

Completing missionary work in China, American couple Roy and Jessie take trans-Siberian express to Moscow and befriend fellow-travelers Carlos and Abby. Soon, Jessie realizes that things may not be as they appear. As their train travel turns into a journey involving deception, murder, and drug-dealers, a Russian narcotics detective, who is too astute to miss a thing, makes the matters more difficult. 

An adaptation of the video game of the same name, the movie sees an adopted Persian prince Dastan and Alamut princess Tamina fight to protect a sacred dagger from falling into villainous hands. The dagger gives its possessor the power to travel back in time as well as destroy the world.

Admiral-General Haffaz Aladeen, the universally-hated despotic ruler of the fictional oil-rich nation Wadiya, goes to New York to address concerns about the country's nuclear program at UN Security Council. The dictator flees from an assassination attempt, but with his iconic beard shaved, he struggles to survive in a community built by people he had ordered to be executed.

 A billionaire, diagnosed with terminal cancer, undergoes a radical medical procedure, which transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. He is told that the body is artificially grown and that he must take his medicines regularly in order to prevent hallucination. Mystery begins to deepen when one day he forgets to take his medicine and hallucinate about a woman and child. 

Col. Terry Childers is a Marine veteran and a hero. A decorated officer and a patriot, he is now being court martialled for opening fire on what is claimed to be peaceful demonstration in front of the US Embassy in Yemen. To defend him, he chooses an old comrade-in-arms, whom he had saved years ago during the Vietnam War. 

The film is the final installment of a trilogy based on Night at the Museum. The story focuses on Larry Daley, a night guard at American Museum of Natural History, where all the artifacts come to life at night and describes his travel to London in the company of Teddy Roosevelt, Sacagewea, Jedediah, Octavius, Dexter, Attila the Hun in order to save the tablet of Ahkmenrah from losing its magic.  

Ramesses is the real son of the Pharaoh of Egypt, Seti while Moses is his adopted son. When Seti dies, Ramesses becomes the new Pharaoh and learn of Moses Hebrew origin. Moses is banished but, on God’s will soon becomes the leader of Jews and takes up a difficult task of leading six-hundred-thousand of them across the Red Sea.

War Machine is a war drama comedy film, revolving around a successful, charismatic four-star general, Glenn McMahon, who has to confront opposition from enemies, allies and bureaucrats while leading a massive rebuilding operation in Afghanistan.   

An alien transmission containing information about an alien DNA is intercepted by a team of scientists led by Xavier Fitch. Using it they create Sil, a woman-alien hybrid. But when Sil starts growing up at a rapid rate and escapes to find a suitable mate, by any means necessary, the government tries to stop her.

The Last Legion is an action war adventure film which tells the story of Romulus Augustus, soon-to-be king of the Roman Empire. After the Roman Empire starts to crumble, Romulus embarks on a dangerous mission to Britain to find a legion of supporters.   

The Love Guru is a romantic comedy film which tells the story of an American who has been brought up by gurus in India, as he tries to become the world’s top love guru, after he returns to the US. His first challenge is to help a professional hockey player who is going through romantic troubles, as his wife left him for a rival athlete. 

Rayne, who is half-human and half-vampire, escapes from the freak show, in which she once took part. She eventually teams up with a team of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother. 

Orphaned human boy Eggs is brought up by the Boxtrolls, a trash-collecting community of quirky creatures residing in caverns beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. But the wicked exterminator, Archibald Snatcher, is out to destroy the Boxtrolls. Eggs comes above the cavernous home and meets spirited Winnie who readily helps with a plan to save Boxtrolls. But their lives, too, are at risk.