Vanilla Sky (2001)
Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A successful publisher finds his life taking a turn for the surreal after a car accident with a jilted lover.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor
Director: Cameron Crowe
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Sport
A documentary chronicling the 35 year car racing career of Paul Newman. The documentary showcases Newman's racing life as both a prolific driver and owner.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Patrick Dempsey, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward, John Lasseter, Jay Leno, Michael Andretti
Director: Adam Carolla, Nate Adams
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport
Tom Cruise gives his best performance to date as a sports agent who suddenly discovers his scruples — and promptly loses his job. But with the help of one loyal colleague and one outrageous client, Jerry Maguire learns that loving well is the best revenge. Written & directed by Cameron Crowe.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jay Mohr, Jerry O'Connell
Director: Cameron Crowe
Edge of Tomorrow / Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Action | Sci-Fi
Involved in a war against alien invaders, Bill Cage finds himself caught in a time loop: each time he dies, he returns to the morning of the doomed fight. Alongside a female soldier, he uses the paradoxical situation to plan, train, and try to save his future.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Charlotte Riley, Bill Paxton, Jonas Armstrong, Dragomir Mrsic
Director: Doug Liman
Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow / Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Action | Sci-Fi
Involved in a war against alien invaders, Bill Cage finds himself caught in a time loop: each time he dies, he returns to the morning of the doomed fight. Alongside a female soldier, he uses the paradoxical situation to plan, train, and try to save his future.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Charlotte Riley, Bill Paxton, Jonas Armstrong, Dragomir Mrsic
Director: Doug Liman
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Rain Man (1988)
Drama
Self-centred car exporter Charlie Babbitt attends his estranged father's funeral to collect his inheritance. To his surprise, he discovers the money is going to Raymond, the autistic brother he never knew he had. Charlie 'kidnaps' Raymond in an effort to claim some of his inheritance but, as he grows closer to his brother, he realizes there may be more to life than money.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Jerry Molen, Jack Murdock, Michael D. Roberts
Director: Barry Levinson
The Last Samurai (2003)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Set in Japan during the 1870s, The Last Samurai tells the story of Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a respected American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern warfare. As the Emperor attempts to eradicate the ancient Imperial Samurai warriors in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly government policies, Algren finds himself unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters with the Samurai, which places him at the center of a struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his own sense of honor to guide him.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada
Director: Edward Zwick
Taps (1981)
Drama
When a fiercely devoted group of military school cadets learns that their school is being sold to real estate developers, they refuse to accept defeat.
Starring: Tom Cruise, George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn, Evan Handler
Director: Harold Becker
Far and Away (1992)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western
A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. Filmed in 70mm.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock, Colm Meaney
Director: Ron Howard
Oblivion (2013)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Set on a future Earth, civilization lives above the clouds and scavengers collect ancient artifacts from the polluted surface below. An earthbound soldier, who is stuck there repairing drones that patrol and blast a savage alien life form, encounters a beautiful woman who crashed in a craft and they have an experience that forces him to question his world view.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Morgan Freeman, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Melissa Leo
Director: Joseph Kosinski
The Firm (1993)
Drama | Thriller
A Harvard Law School grad discovers that the law firm he has recently joined is run by the Mafia.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney, Ed Harris
Director: Sydney Pollack
Risky Business (1983)
Comedy | Drama
Racy suburban comedy about a party-loving teen who is living the high life while his parents are out of town until a mishap with his father's Porsche requires some quick cash. The enterprising youth turns pimp and starts an escort service for his slavering chums. But things get complicated when business booms and he falls for one of his "employees."
Starring: Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Curtis Armstrong, Bronson Pinchot, Raphael Sbarge, Joe Pantoliano
Director: Paul Brickman
Minority Report (2002)
Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for "Precrime," a special unit of the police department that arrests murderers before they have committed the actual crime. Precrime bases its work on the visions of three psychics or "precogs" whose prophecies of future events are never in error. When Anderton discovers that he has been identified as the future killer of a man he's never met, he is forced to become a fugitive from his own colleagues as he tries to uncover the mystery of the victim-to-be's identity. When he kidnaps Agatha (Samantha Morton), one of the precogs, he begins to formulate a theory about a possible frame- up from within his own department.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Lois Smith, Peter Stormare
Director: Steven Spielberg
Rock of Ages (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julianne Hough, Russell Brand, Bryan Cranston, Diego Boneta, Paul Giamatti, Malin Akerman, Mary J. Blige
Director: Adam Shankman
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Drama | Fantasy
After an aristocratic Louisiana gentleman's abrupt transformation into a vampire at the hands of a mysterious foreigner, he reluctantly settles into a life of nocturnal domesticity, augmented by the addition of a little girl.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater, Kirsten Dunst
Director: Neil Jordan
The Outsiders (1983)
Crime | Drama
Coming-of-age drama about teenagers growing up in the 1950s Midwest. The youngest of three orphaned brothers gets into trouble with the law after he and his "greaser" friend are attacked at a park by the rich "socs."
Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Leif Garrett
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Collateral (2004)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Vincent is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max is a cabbie with big dreams and little to show for it. Now, Max has to transport Vincent on his next job – one night, five stops, five hits and a getaway. And after this fateful night, neither man will ever be the same again. Tonight everything is changing…
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx
Director: Michael Mann
Cocktail (1988)
Drama | Romance
After leaving the Army, Brian Flanagan tries to get a marketing job in New York. But without a college degree, this was not possible. He then decides to start studying for a business degree at the local City College and gets a part time job as a bartender. He realizes that its not that easy, but when his new boss Douglas Coughlin teaches him the secrets of the bar trade and they become the most famous bartenders in town. Both Brian and Doug Coughlin want their own top class cocktail bars someday and Brian's Cocktail Bar is to be called 'Cocktails & Dreams', and in order to get the necessary money to open it, Brian travels to Jamaica to work as a bartender at a resort Tiki Bar, and the pay is good.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue
Director: Roger Donaldson
The Color of Money (1986)
Drama | Sport
Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.
Starring: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Bill Cobbs, John Turturro
Director: Martin Scorsese
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Cruise plays Dr. William Harford, who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage – and may even ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery – after his wife's (Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. Graceful tracking shots, controlled pacing, rich colors, startling images: bravura trails that make Kubrick a filmmaker for the ages are here to keep everyone's eyes wide open.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Serbedzija
Director: Stanley Kubrick
