Nicolas Cage’s Typical Vibe
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Nicolas Cage has 98 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Rock.
Recurring themes

Get the Gringo
2012
Action · Thriller

Jack Reacher
2012
Crime · Drama

The Equalizer
2014
Thriller · Action

The Assignment
2016
Action · Crime

The Business
2005
Drama · Action

Domino
2005
Action · Crime

Mesrine: Killer Instinct
2008
Drama · Action

The Awakener
2018
Thriller · Action

The Rock
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Max · Included

Adaptation.
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Face/Off
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Paramount+ · Included

Matchstick Men
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Con Air
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Hulu · Included

Leaving Las Vegas
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Prime Video · Included

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Dir. Matthew Vaughn · With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.
Dir. Spike Jonze · With Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
Dir. John Woo · With John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen

Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
Dir. Andrew Niccol · With Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto

When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.
Dir. Joel Coen · With Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson

A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
Dir. Simon West · With Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich

Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.
Dir. Tom Gormican · With Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Dir. Mike Figgis · With Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands

Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.
Dir. Brett Ratner · With Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia

Searching for a safer habitat, the prehistoric Crood family discovers an idyllic, walled-in paradise that meets all of its needs. Unfortunately, they must also learn to live with the Bettermans -- a family that's a couple of steps above the Croods on the evolutionary ladder. As tensions between the new neighbors start to rise, a new threat soon propels both clans on an epic adventure that forces them to embrace their differences, draw strength from one another, and survive together.
Dir. Joel Crawford · With Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.
Dir. Brad Silberling · With Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Dennis Franz

Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?
Dir. Alan Parker · With Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Dir. David Lynch · With Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe

Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. True to his word, Lang proceeds to share the prize money with Biasi, which infuriates his greedy wife, Muriel. Not content with the arrangement, Muriel begins scheming to take all the money.
Dir. Andrew Bergman · With Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.
Dir. Joel Schumacher · With Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini

Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane

Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.
Dir. Kristoffer Borgli · With Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera

Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a race to find the gold before his enemies do.
Dir. Jon Turteltaub · With Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha

Ex-car thief Randall Raines is forced out of retirement to save his brother Kip after a boost gone wrong. With the help of allies old and new, they race to meet the demands of notorious crime boss Raymond Calitri as the police are in hot pursuit.
Dir. Dominic Sena · With Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.
Dir. Richard Stanley · With Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur

Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Dir. Jon Turteltaub · With Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.
Dir. John Dahl · With Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle

Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.
Dir. Chris McKay · With Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Awkwafina

When his car breaks down, a quiet loner agrees to clean an abandoned family fun center in exchange for repairs. He soon finds himself waging war against possessed animatronic mascots while trapped inside Willy's Wonderland.
Dir. Kevin Lewis · With Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Beth Grant

An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
Dir. Scott Walker · With Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack

All the major DC superheroes are starring in their own films, all but the Teen Titans, so Robin is determined to remedy this situation by getting over his role as a sidekick and becoming a movie star. Thus, with a few madcap ideas and an inspirational song in their hearts, the Teen Titans head to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams.
Dir. Aaron Horvath, Peter Rida Michail · With Greg Cipes, Scott Menville, Khary Payton

A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.
Dir. Alex Proyas · With Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury
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