Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Teenagers struggling with independence, sexuality, money, maturity, rock'n roll, Spicoli ordering pizza and high school. Oh and that pool scene.
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Nicolas Cage
Director: Amy Heckerling
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance / Ghost Rider 2 (2012)
Action | Fantasy | Thriller
Former stuntman and bounty hunter of rogue demons Johnny Blaze has been living in self-imposed exile, believing that his powers are a curse. But when he is approached by a member of a monastic order who is looking for someone to protect a mother and her son, who are being pursued by the devil in the figure of a man named Roarke, the Ghost Rider takes the case.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ciarán Hinds, Idris Elba, Violante Placido, Johnny Whitworth
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
The Ant Bully (2006)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
When you're as small as an ant, the world is big – and adventure is bigger! That's what young Lucas discovers after he aims his water pistol at some hapless ants. They retaliate with a secret potion that shrinks "the Destroyer" to their size… and turns an anthill into a mountain of thrills, action and laughs! Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Paul Giamatti head the voice cast of this rollicking, warm-hearted family treat.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Zach Tyler Eisen
Director: John A. Davis
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Seeking Justice (2011)
Action | Drama | Thriller
After his wife is assaulted, her husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score, which brings him more trouble.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce
Director: Roger Donaldson
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Adaptation (2002)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Despite the success of his first produced script, "Being John Malkovich," for which he received an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay, Charlie Kaufman is plagued by insecurities, both in his career and his personal life. When he is hired to adapt "The Orchid Thief," a nonfiction book about a fanatical orchid breeder, John Laroche, he is completely stumped.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Brian Cox
Director: Spike Jonze
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Ghost Rider (2007)
Action | Fantasy | Thriller
From Marvel Comics, creators of Spider-Man, Blade and X-Men, comes a new hero… Ghost Rider. Long ago, superstar motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) made a deal with the devil to protect the ones he loved most: his father and his childhood sweetheart, Roxanne (Eva Mendes). Now, the devil has come for his due. By day, Johnny is a die-hard stunt rider… but at night, in the presence of evil, he becomes the Ghost Rider, a bounty hunter of rogue demons. Forced to do the devil's bidding, Johnny is determined to confront his fate and use his curse and powers to defend the innocent.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Wild at Heart (1990)
Crime | Romance | Thriller
If Lula knows on thing in this world, it's that she's destined to be with her ex-con boyfriend Sailor – no matter how many times her mama tries to kill him. But when she and Sailor finally hit the road in a desperate bid to find happiness, their journey plunges them into a disturbing underworld filled with sexual secrets and dangerous desires that form a terrifying "tapestry of human extremity" (Variety).
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini
Director: David Lynch
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The Rock (1996)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader, a former highly-decorated U.S. general, demands $100 million to be paid in ransom, as restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations and were thereby denied compensation. Otherwise, he is threatening to launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX nerve gas into the San Francisco Bay area. An elite SEAL team, with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert and a former Alcatraz escapee, is assembled to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on Alcatraz and neutralize the rocket threat before time runs out.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe
Director: Michael Bay
Gone in Sixty Seconds / Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A legendary car booster (Nicolas Cage) thinks he left the fast lane behind him until he's forced out of retirement to save his kid brother from the wrath of an evil mobster. It is nothing less than a fullthrottle race to pull off the ultimate car heist: 50 exotic beauties in 24 hours — and the cops are already onto them!
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Delroy Lindo, Will Patton
Director: Dominic Sena
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Face/Off (1997)
Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In this plot-twisting, high-tech thriller, relentless FBI agent Sean Archer must go dangerously undercover to investigate the location of a lethal biological weapon planted by his arch rival, the sadistic terrorist-for-hire Castor Troy. After undergoing a radical surgical procedure, Archer literally "borrows" Troy's face and identity to carry out his mission. But things go awry when Troy, emerging from a coma, transforms into Archer and wrecks havoc upon his life, both at work and at home. As the bomb continues to tick and the tension mounts, it becomes a high stakes game of cat and mouse as both Archer and Troy, ironically trapped in their enemy's body, try to save face – their own.
Starring: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon
Director: John Woo
Con Air (1997)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A prison parolee- on his way to freedom- faces impossible odds when the maximum security transport plane he is on is skyjacked by the most infamous murderer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom! Buckle up and hang on tight as explosive, high-flying action soars to new heights…and delivers high-caliber motion picture enjoyment!
Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames
Director: Simon West
Drive Angry (2011)
Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
A vengeful father escapes from hell and chases after the men who killed his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Billy Burke, David Morse
Director: Patrick Lussier
Kick-Ass / Kick Ass (2010)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Dave Lizewski, a comic-book fanboy, decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. As any good superhero would, he chooses a new name — Kick-Ass — assembles a suit and mask to wear, and gets to work fighting crime. There's only one problem standing in his way: Kick-Ass has absolutely no superpowers. His life is forever changed as he inspires a subculture of copy cats, is hunted by assorted violent and unpleasant characters, and meets up with a pair of crazed vigilantes, including an 11-year-old sword-wielding dynamo, Hit Girl and her father, Big Daddy.
Starring: Aaron Johnson, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Nicolas Cage, Garrett M. Brown, Clark Duke
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Trespass (2011)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
In a private, wealthy community, priority is placed on security and no exception is made for the Miller family's estate. Behind their pristine walls and manicured gardens, Kyle, a fast-talking businessman, has entrusted the mansion's renovation to his stunning wife, Sarah. But between making those big decisions and keeping tabs on their defiant teenage daughter, Sarah often finds herself distracted by a young, handsome worker at their home.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Cam Gigandet, Ben Mendelsohn, Liana Liberato, Jordana Spiro, Dash Mihok
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Drama | Romance
An avowed alcoholic, Ben drank away his family, friends and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in one final binge. On the strip, Ben picks up a street-smart hooker named Sera in what might have been another excess in his self-destructive jag. Instead their chance meeting becomes a respite on the road to oblivion as something connects between these two disenfranchised souls.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Valeria Golino
Director: Mike Figgis
Knowing (2009)
Action | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A single father and chairman of his town's historical society is summoned when a time capsule buried behind an elementary school in 1958 is prematurely unearthed because of a water-main break. The man, whose son attends the school, sifts through the contents and finds drawings of what 1958 tykes predicted the modern world would be like. It's all flying cars and fantasy stuff, with the exception of one chilling entry. One child predicted some of the most horrible events in recent history, and there's one that hasn't yet occurred, which the man attempts to prevent.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Ben Mendelsohn, Lara Robinson
Director: Alex Proyas
Raising Arizona (1987)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Mystery
A petty crook falls in love with the woman cop who always arrests him, but when they find out she can't bear children, they steal one, hit the road, and lots of mayhem ensues.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson
Director: Joel Coen
