English actor Orlando Bloom first gained notoriety playing the part of Legolas in The Lord of the Rings movie series, which he later reprised in The Hobbit film series. His roles in epic fantasy, historical, and adventure movies helped him become more well-known. Bloom is further known for playing Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise. With the start of his relationship with singer-songwriter Katy Perry in 2016, Bloom gained even more notoriety. The pair is presently planning their rescheduled wedding, which was initially intended to take place in 2020, but was postponed because of coronavirus worries, per E! News.

Roles in movies including Black Hawk Down, Ned Kelly, Elizabethtown, and New York, I Love You prove Bloom has had an impressive career. He also appeared in Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, and The Three Musketeers, three hugely successful films. Currently, Carnival Row on Amazon Prime Video is garnering attention thanks to Bloom, but per Midgard Times, the second season is likely to be the last. Bloom is one of the most prominent performers of his generation with such a vast portfolio and several award nominations and wins to his credit. Here is a list of his best movies, ranked.

12 The Good Doctor

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Magnolia Pictures

In 2011s The Good Doctor, a narcissist who craves control over others, Martin E. Blake (Bloom), is shown as being superficially pleasant. He finds himself in hot water with his supervisors after failing to win over his first few patients. As Diane (Riley Keough), an 18-year-old kidney patient, starts to feel better, Martin starts fiddling with her drugs and screwing up her therapy. When he mistakenly falls asleep while monitoring Diane during the night, he goes too far and murders her.

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11 Ned Kelly

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Universal Pictures

Ned Kelly is a 2003 Australian western film based on Robert Drewe's 1991 novel Our Sunshine. In the British colony of Victoria, Ned Kelly (Heath Ledger) grows up after saving a small kid from drowning. When he was 17 years old in 1871, he comes across a white mare grazing by herself in the desert. Two English banks are broken into by Ned, Dan, Joe (Bloom), and Steve, who also destroy the mortgage records that the Crown is using to starve the people. In a gunfight, they later encounter a patrol in the jungle and murder three cops. Despite being shot in the arms and legs, Ned regains consciousness after being hurt and keeps firing at the cops. After being shot to the ground, he is ultimately defeated. In November 1880, Ned is executed despite a petition for a pardon.

10 The Outpost

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Screen Media Films

Based on Jake Tapper's nonfiction book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, a 2020 war movie titled The Outpost tells the story of the Battle of Kamdesh during the Afghan War. Romesha and Carter were each awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Battle of Khamdesh, which left 27 Americans injured and eight killed. They belonged to the group that ended up becoming the war's most decorated unit. Captain Benjamin D. Keating, the group's leader, is portrayed by Bloom. While Larson and Carter provide cover fire to help others to flee, Gallegos and a number of other people are imprisoned inside an armored vehicle. Carter saves the injured SPC Mace while enduring intense gunfire as a B-1 bomber delivers its payload on the Taliban's position.

9 Wilde

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BBC Films

Stephen Fry plays the titular character in Brian Gilbert's 1997 British historical drama Wilde. The movie chronicles Oscar Wilde's life as he tries to accept his queerness. Lord Alfred Douglas (Jude Law) is reintroduced to the dramatist, who develops a stormy bond with the hedonistic poet. After his queerness is revealed, he is finally prosecuted for gross indecency and given a two-year term of hard labor. In May 1897, Wilde gets freed from jail and Ada is waiting for him with the draft of De Profundis. He immediately departs for continental Europe in exile. Bloom is only given a Rentboy credit in the movie, but his performance is fantastic.

8 Elizabethtown

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Paramount Pictures

American love story/ tragedy Elizabethtown is a 2005 Paramount Pictures release that was written and directed by Cameron Crowe. The film's plot centers on young shoe designer Drew Baylor (Bloom), who loses his job after setting an industry record cost to his employer of over $1 billion. When Drew is on the point of taking his own life, his sister calls to inform him that their father has passed away in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where they both grew up. He decides to delay his suicide so that he might return their father's remains to Oregon, and while on his way, he encounters Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst), with whom he unexpectedly falls in love.

7 Kingdom of Heaven

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Warner Bros Pictures

A 2005 epic historical fiction drama film is titled the Kingdom of Heaven. The narrative takes place in the 12th-century Crusades. The Kingdom of Jerusalem is defended by a French village blacksmith against Saladin, the Ayyubid Muslim Sultan, who is battling to retake the city from the Christians. This leads to the Battle of Hattin. The life of Balian of Ibelin (Bloom), a crusader lord from the 12th-Century Kingdom of Jerusalem, is depicted in the script extensively fictionalized.

6 Black Hawk Down

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Sony Pictures Releasing

A military movie from 2001 called Black Hawk Down was directed and co-produced by Ridley Scott and Jerry Bruckheimer from a screenplay by Ken Nolan. The 1993 American military raid in Mogadishu is the subject of writer Mark Bowden's nonfiction book of the same name, published in 1999. President Clinton of the United States sends Task Force Ranger to Mogadishu in 1993 to apprehend Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who has declared himself the country's leader. Task Force Ranger is made up of members of the 3rd Battalion/75th Ranger Regiment, Delta Force operators, and the 160th SOAR flight crew. Following the overthrow of the central government in the midst of the civil war in Somalia, Aidid is engaged in combat with an African Union (AU) militia that is loyal to Mohamed Farah Aidid.

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5 The Three Musketeers

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Summit Entertainment

A 2011 romantic action-adventure movie with clockwork/ steampunk themes, The Three Musketeers is based on the 1844 Alexandre Dumas novel of the same name. The musketeers Athos (Matthew Macfadyen), Porthos (Ray Stevenson), and Aramis (Luke Evans) steal Leonardo da Vinci's airship plans in Venice with the aid of Milady de Winter. Milady, however, betrays them, renders them helpless, and sells the designs to the Duke of Buckingham (Bloom). A year later, D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman) travels to Paris from his hamlet in Gascony with the aim of following in his father's footsteps as a musketeer, only to discover that the group has been disbanded. Richelieu asks the young King Louis XIII to have all four of the figures executed, but Queen Anne is moved by their valor, and the young King decides to adorn them instead.

4 Troy

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Warner Bros Pictures

Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, and Bloom are among the cast members of the 2004 American epic historical battle movie Troy. It is loosely based on Homer's Iliad in that it tells the complete tale of the ten-year Trojan War rather than simply the conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon in the ninth year and is compressed into a matter of weeks. Along with the rest of the Greek army, Achilles leads the Myrmidons as they invade the Trojan army under Hector, which is defending the ancient city of Troy. Since the Iliad ends with Hector's death and funeral, the movie's conclusion is drawn from Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica rather than the Iliad.

3 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

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Warner Bros Pictures

Based on J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 book The Hobbit, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is an epic high fantasy adventure movie from 2014 that was directed by Peter Jackson. Within the film, Orlando Bloom reprises his role as Legolas from The Lord of the Rings series. It serves as a precursor to The Lord of the Rings trilogy and is both The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug's sequel and the third and final film in The Hobbit trilogy. The narrative of Bilbo and his companions' conflict with Smaug is shown in the movie. The residents of Lake-town sense danger approaching as soon as the Dragon departs the Lonely Mountain. People, dwarves, elves, and orcs all get ready for battle. As Thorin spirals out of control, Bilbo attempts to assist. After freeing Gandalf from the Necromancer's prison, his rescuers come to understand who the Necromancer is.

2 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

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New Line Cinema

Legolas, an elf and one of the Fellowship, is played by Bloom. The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of grand fantasy action movies produced and directed by Peter Jackson, based on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. The movies, which are set in the made-up Middle-earth, follow hobbit Frodo Baggins as he and the Fellowship set out on a mission to destroy the One Ring in order to secure the death of its creator, the Dark Lord Sauron. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King continues the story from the previous film, with Merry, Pippin, Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and the others forming an alliance against Sauron and his legions in Minas Tirith while Frodo (Elijah Wood), Sam (Sean Astin), and Gollum are making their way toward Mount Doom in Mordor to destroy the One Ring, unaware of Gollum’s real intentions.

1 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

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Walt Disney Studios

The third film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, was released in 2007 and is an epic fantasy pirate movie. It was directed by Gore Verbinski. The movie centers on Bootstrap Bill Turner's son Would Turner, a young blacksmith turned pirate, and Elizabeth Swann, who will become his wife. His tale is altered when, following the ceremony to preserve his life, he is appointed Captain of The Flying Dutchman. The film depicts what transpires with Turner, Swann, Hector Barbossa, and the Black Pearl crew as they attempt to free Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker. The crew then gets ready to battle Cutler Beckett's East India Trading Company, which controls Davy Jones and has long-term ambitions to put an end to piracy.