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Tom Cruise has 46 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Interview with the Vampire.
2017
Action · Drama

Top Gun: Maverick
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Paramount+ · Included

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Netflix · Included

Minority Report
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Paramount+ · Included

Rain Man
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%MGM+ · Included

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Paramount+ · Included

Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
Dir. Doug Liman · With Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
Dir. Joseph Kosinski · With Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas

When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino

Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson · With Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.
Dir. Brad Bird · With Tom Cruise, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
Dir. Edward Zwick · With Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames

When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.
Dir. Rob Reiner · With Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.
Dir. Cameron Crowe · With Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith

The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
Dir. Doug Liman · With Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
Dir. Ben Stiller · With Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival and redemption exposes the fragile innocence and enduring bonds of youth on the wrong side of town.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio

Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
Dir. Joseph Kosinski · With Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.
Dir. J.J. Abrams · With Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames

A young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner cheated by her family’s hostile land takeovers. They escape to America, ready to take advantage of the 19th century Oklahoma land rush.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson

as Self - Actor & Film Producer / Narrator
Prime Video · Rent
With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.
Dir. Jan Harlan · With Tom Cruise, Barbara Kroner, Steven Marcus

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
Dir. Cameron Crowe · With Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto

Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.
Dir. Paul Brickman · With Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano
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