Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Kim Coppola; January 7, 1964) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. During the early years of his career, Cage starred in a variety of films such as Rumble Fish (1983), Racing with the Moon (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Raising Arizona (1987), Vampire’s Kiss (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), and Red Rock West (1993). During this period, John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 36 listed him as one of twelve Promising New Actors of 1984. For his performance in Leaving Las Vegas (1995), he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received his second Academy Award nomination for his performance as Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation (2002). He subsequently appeared in more mainstream films, such as The Rock (1996), Con Air (1997), City of Angels (1998), 8mm (1999), Windtalkers (2002), Lord of War (2005), The Wicker Man (2006), Bangkok Dangerous (2008) and Knowing (2009). He also directed the film Sonny (2002), for which he was nominated for Grand Special Prize at Deauville Film Festival. Cage owns the production company Saturn Films and has produced films such as Shadow of the Vampire (2000) and The Life of David Gale (2003). In October 1997, Cage was ranked No. 40 in Empire magazine’s The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list, while the next year, he was placed No. 37 in Premiere’s 100 most powerful people in Hollywood. In the 2010s, he starred in Kick-Ass (2010), Drive Angry (2011), Joe (2013), The Runner (2015), Dog Eat Dog (2016), Mom and Dad (2017), Mandy (2018), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), and Color Out of Space (2019). His participation in various film genres during this time increased his popularity and gained him a cult following.
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Nicolas Cage Movies
Discover the best Nicolas Cage movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Nicolas Cage ranked by year and score.
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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027)
Action
Adventure
Animation
Miles Morales has survived dimension-hopping, but now the Spider Society itself is hunting him down, and the friends he trusted have turned their backs on him. Stranded in the most...
Score
-.-
2
The Surfer (2025)
Drama
Thriller
A father brings his son back to the seaside town where he grew up, hoping to share his passion for surfing. Instead, he encounters a tight-knit group of local surfers...
Score
5.8
3
Longlegs (2024)
Crime
Horror
Mystery
FBI recruit Lee Harker has a gift for finding things that shouldn't be found. When she's pulled into a cold case surrounding a serial killer who has left a trail...
Score
6.5
4
Dream Scenario (2023)
Comedy
Fantasy
Paul Matthews is an ordinary man living an ordinary life until one day he's not. Strangers across the globe begin reporting encounters with him in their dreams, transforming the unremarkable...
Score
6.7
5
Renfield (2023)
Comedy
Fantasy
Horror
Nicolas Cage embodies centuries of servitude in this darkly comic reimagining of the Dracula mythos. Renfield, the vampire's famished servant, seizes a chance at autonomy when he encounters Rebecca, a...
Score
6.4
6
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
Action
Comedy
Crime
Nicolas Cage plays a broke, artistically restless version of himself who accepts a million-dollar appearance fee to attend the birthday party of an obsessive superfan in Spain. What starts as...
Score
6.8
7
Pig (2021)
Drama
Mystery
Thriller
Rob lives off the grid in the Oregon woods, relying on his prized truffle-hunting pig to survive and, in some quieter sense, to feel human. When the animal is stolen,...
Score
6.6
8
Running with the Devil (2019)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
When a carefully orchestrated drug shipment falls apart somewhere between the mountains of Colombia and the streets of the United States, a cartel boss dispatches two of his most dangerous...
Score
5.4
9
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Action
Adventure
Animation
Miles Morales is just a Brooklyn kid trying to figure out where he fits in when a spider bite complicates everything. Suddenly he is sharing his city with a half-dozen...
Score
8.4
10
Mandy (2018)
Action
Fantasy
Horror
In the isolated mountains of 1983, a man and woman find solace in their remote sanctuary until a cult's violence shatters their refuge. What follows is a descent into a...
Score
6.2
11
Snowden (2016)
Crime
Drama
History
Oliver Stone traces Edward Snowden's transformation from idealistic intelligence contractor to whistleblower, following his decision to expose the NSA's vast surveillance programs. The film charts his evolution within the security...
Score
7.1
12
Left Behind (2014)
Action
Science Fiction
Thriller
When a pilot discovers that passengers around him have mysteriously vanished mid-flight, he joins a handful of bewildered survivors trying to comprehend what's happened. As society fractures into violence and...
Score
4.3
13
Outcast (2014)
Action
Adventure
An enigmatic swordsman finds himself drawn into a deadly power struggle when he encounters two royal siblings fleeing their murderous brother. With the throne at stake and assassins closing in,...
Score
5.2
14
Rage (2014)
Action
Crime
Thriller
A man who thought he'd left his violent past behind gets pulled back into it when his daughter vanishes into Russian criminal networks. Desperate and furious, he reconnects with the...
Score
5.3
15
Joe (2014)
Drama
Joe runs a timber crew with the kind of weathered authority that comes from surviving hard choices. When he notices bruises on the youngest worker's arms, his instinct to protect...
Score
6.5
16
Kick-Ass (2010)
Action
Crime
A unremarkable teenager with nothing but comic books and determination straps on a costume to fight crime, despite lacking any superhuman abilities or formal training. His amateur vigilante experiment spirals...
Score
7.1
17
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Crime
Drama
A New Orleans detective receives accolades for saving lives during Hurricane Katrina, but the injury he sustains sets him on a darker path. Prescription painkillers become his constant companion as...
Score
6.2
18
Knowing (2009)
Action
Mystery
Science Fiction
When a decades-old time capsule surfaces at an elementary school, MIT astrophysicist John Koestler finds something unsettling inside: a sheet of numbers written by a child in 1959 that appears...
Score
6.2
19
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Action
Adventure
Mystery
When Ben Gates finds pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, he sees a chance to clear his ancestor's name from the Lincoln assassination. Teaming up again with Abigail and Riley,...
Score
6.4
20
The Wicker Man (2006)
Horror
Mystery
Thriller
A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.
Score
4.4
21
World Trade Center (2006)
Drama
History
Thriller
Oliver Stone's portrait of survival centers on two Port Authority officers buried alive in the collapse's aftermath. Their ordeal becomes less about spectacle than intimate testimony, a grounded study of...
Score
6.1
22
The Ant Bully (2006)
Adventure
Animation
Comedy
A bratty ten-year-old finds karmic justice when an ant colony shrinks him down to insect size and forces him to stand trial for his backyard destruction. Sentenced to serve time...
Score
5.8
23
Lord of War (2005)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Nicolas Cage inhabits Yuri Orlov, a Ukrainian immigrant turned international arms merchant who peddles weapons to despots and warlords with the polish of a used-car salesman. As his empire expands...
Score
7.3
24
National Treasure (2004)
Action
Adventure
Mystery
Ben Gates has spent his whole life chasing a legend: a vast fortune hidden by the Founding Fathers, its location encoded within America's most sacred documents. When his partner turns...
Score
6.7
25
Matchstick Men (2003)
Comedy
Crime
Drama
Roy Waller runs elaborate cons with surgical precision, his neuroses kept carefully in check through ritual and routine. When his estranged daughter materializes in his carefully ordered life, his meticulous...
Score
7.0
26
Adaptation. (2002)
Comedy
Crime
Drama
A neurotic screenwriter confronts the gap between his artistic ambitions and creative paralysis while attempting to transform a botanical nonfiction book into cinema. As his twin brother hawks a competing...
Score
7.3
27
Windtalkers (2002)
Action
War
During the Pacific campaign of World War II, the U.S. military deployed Navajo soldiers as code talkers, their native language serving as an unbreakable cipher the Japanese could never crack....
Score
6.3
28
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
Action
Crime
Thriller
Randall Raines walked away from a life of stolen cars and never looked back. Then his younger brother Kip got in over his head with Raymond Calitri, a ruthless crime...
Score
6.4
29
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Drama
Frank Pierce has spent years as a New York paramedic rescuing the dying, but the job has hollowed him out. Haunted by those he couldn't save, he drifts through shifts...
Score
6.6
30
Snake Eyes (1998)
Crime
Mystery
Thriller
A corrupt cop with questionable loyalties watches a killing unfold during a high-stakes boxing event. What begins as a straightforward investigation spirals into something far more sinister, revealing layers of...
Score
6.2
31
Face/Off (1997)
Action
Crime
Science Fiction
Sean Archer is a federal agent so consumed by his hunt for terrorist Castor Troy that he agrees to wear the man's face, literally. A radical surgical procedure gives Archer...
Score
7.1
32
Con Air (1997)
Action
Crime
Thriller
Cameron Poe has paid his debt and earned parole, but his journey home takes a sinister turn when the prison transport plane carrying him becomes a airborne battleground. A coalition...
Score
6.8
33
The Rock (1996)
Action
Adventure
Thriller
A decorated but disillusioned general takes Alcatraz hostage, pointing chemical warheads at San Francisco and demanding the country answer for soldiers left behind. The government's unlikely response pairs a nervous...
Score
7.1
34
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Drama
Romance
A washed-up screenwriter checks into Las Vegas with a single, bleak purpose: to disappear into a bottle. His spiral intersects with Sera, a sex worker navigating her own damage, and...
Score
7.3
35
Deadfall (1993)
Crime
Drama
When a botched operation leaves Joe responsible for his father's death, he inherits an unusual burden: Mike's final request to reclaim stolen goods from his estranged twin brother Lou. What...
Score
4.1
36
Wild at Heart (1990)
Crime
Romance
Thriller
Sailor and Lula are young, reckless, and desperately in love. When they flee town to escape Lula's vindictive mother, they embark on a dangerous cross-country odyssey where desire collides with...
Score
7.0
37
Vampire’s Kiss (1989)
Comedy
Crime
Fantasy
Nicolas Cage delivers an unhinged performance as a Manhattan publishing executive whose encounter with a mysterious woman triggers a psychological unraveling. Convinced he's undergone a vampiric transformation, he descends into...
Score
5.9
38
Moonstruck (1987)
Comedy
Drama
Romance
A pragmatic widow in her late thirties agrees to marry a man she doesn't love, hoping to escape the romantic misfortunes that have plagued her. When she encounters his volatile...
Score
6.9
39
Raising Arizona (1987)
Comedy
Crime
When a reformed criminal and a former lawman decide to steal one of five identical newborns from an Arizona industrialist, they believe they've found their path to domesticity. What follows...
Score
7.1
40
Rumble Fish (1983)
Crime
Drama
Romance
Rusty James drifts through a dying gang culture, chasing a version of toughness that no longer exists. His older brother, the Motorcycle Boy, was once a legend on these streets,...
Score
7.0
41
The Outsiders (1983)
Crime
Drama
Tulsa, 1960s. The greasers wear their poverty like a bruise, always visible, always tender. When a confrontation between working-class Ponyboy and his friend Johnny and a group of wealthy Socs...
Score
7.2
42
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Cameron Crowe spent a year undercover at a real California high school, and what he brought back reads like an anthropology field report that somehow got funny. The movie tracks...
Score
6.8
Nicolas Cage TV Shows
Browse the ultimate list of Nicolas Cage TV shows. Find top-rated television series, critically acclaimed dramas, and hit shows starring Nicolas Cage.
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Spider-Noir (2026)
Action & Adventure
Crime
Mystery
The 1930s New York that Ben Reilly inhabits is all rain-slicked cobblestones, busted radiators, and cases that barely cover the rent. He used to be something more, the city's lone...
Score
8.5
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the highest-rated movies starring Nicolas Cage?
According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Nicolas Cage are Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, The Surfer, and Longlegs.
How many movies and TV shows has Nicolas Cage starred in?
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 43 titles starring Nicolas Cage, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
Are the movies starring Nicolas Cage worth watching?
Yes! The overall filmography starring Nicolas Cage maintains a strong average user rating of 6.5 out of 10 across all tracked titles.