Nicolas Cage is an actor, director, and producer whose remarkable versatility has led to great success across all genres for over four decades.
Below, we’ve rounded up the 15 best Nicolas Cage movies, ranked by Tomatometer!
Nicolas Cage Biography
Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage’s body of work spans across multiple genres. Most recently, Cage appeared as Dracula in Universal’s Renfield. Additional recent work includes his crowd-pleasing performances in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and the heart-breaking and award-winning drama Pig. In addition, Cage starred in the ground-breaking horror thriller Mandy, the mind-bending Color Out of Space, and the animated comedy Croods 2.
Upcoming this year, Cage will star as The Passenger in RLJE’s Sympathy for the Devil, which will have its theatrical release later this month as well as Matt, a retired beach bum, with a secret past in The Retirement Plan. During his early career, Cage starred in a variety of classic films including Valley Girl, Racing with the Moon, Birdy, PeggySue Got Married, Raising Arizona, Moonstruck, Vampire’s Kiss, Wild at Heart, Honeymoon in Vegas, and Red Rock West.
Cage received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actor’s Guild Award for his performance as a suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas before coming to the attention of worldwide audiences with mainstream blockbusters such as The Rock, Face/Off, Con Air, City of Angels, both installments of National Treasure, and Lord ofWar. He earned his second Academy Award nomination for his performance as Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation. He also directed the film Sonny, for which he was nominated for the Grand Special Prize at The Deauville Film Festival. Cage has also been prolific as a producer, with films such as Shadow of the Vampire and The Life of David Gale, Lord of War, Pig, and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
Other credits include Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Kick-Ass, Drive Angry, The Croods, Joe, Dying of the Light, The Trust, Dog Eat Dog, and Mom & Dad.
Nicolas Cage Filmography
| YEAR | TITLE | ROLE |
| 2023 | The Old Way (2023) | Colton Briggs |
| 2023 | Renfield (2023) | Dracula |
| 2023 | Sympathy for the Devil (2023) | The Passenger |
| 2023 | The Retirement Plan (2023) | Matt |
| 2022 | The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) | Nick Cage |
| 2021 | Willy’s Wonderland (2021) | The Janitor |
| 2021 | Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021) | Hero |
| 2021 | Pig (2021) | Rob |
| 2020 | Jiu Jitsu (2020) | Wylie |
| 2020 | The Croods: A New Age The IMAX 2D Experience (2020) | Grug |
| 2019 | A Score to Settle (2019) | Frank |
| 2019 | Running With the Devil | The Cook |
| 2019 | Primal (2019) | Frank Walsh |
| 2019 | Color Out of Space (2019) | Nathan Gardner |
| 2018 | Between Worlds | Joe |
| 2018 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Spider-Man Noir |
| 2018 | Teen Titans Go! To the Movies | Superman |
| 2018 | Looking Glass (2018) | Ray |
| 2018 | 211 | Mike Chandler |
| 2018 | Mandy (2018) | Red Miller |
| 2017 | Arsenal | Eddie King |
| 2017 | Inconceivable | Brian |
| 2017 | Vengeance: A Love Story | John Dromoor |
| 2017 | Mom and Dad | Brent Ryan |
| 2017 | The Humanity Bureau | Noah Kross |
| 2016 | Snowden | Hank Forrester |
| 2016 | The Trust | Jim Stone |
| 2016 | Dog Eat Dog | Troy |
| 2016 | Army of One (2016) | Gary Faulkner |
| 2016 | USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage | Captain Charles Butler McVay III |
| 2015 | The Runner (2015) | Colin Price |
| 2015 | Pay the Ghost | Mike Lawford |
| 2014 | Left Behind | Rayford Steele |
| 2014 | Dying of the Light | Evan Lake |
| 2014 | Outcast | Gallain |
| 2013 | The Croods | Grug |
| 2013 | The Frozen Ground | Jack Holcombe |
| 2013 | Joe | Joe |
| 2012 | A Thousand Words | Producer |
| 2012 | Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police | Producer |
| 2011 | Justice (2004) | Will Gerard |
| 2011 | Drive Angry | John Milton |
| 2011 | Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance | Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider |
| 2011 | Trespass | Kyle Miller |
| 2011 | Occult LA: Season of the Witch | Behman |
| 2010 | The Sorcerer’s Apprentice | Balthazar Blake |
| 2010 | Kick-Ass | Damon Macready/Big Daddy |
| 2009 | G-Force | Speckles |
| 2009 | Knowing | John |
| 2009 | Astro Boy | Dr. Tenma |
| 2009 | Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | Terence McDonaugh |
| 2008 | Bangkok Dangerous | Joe |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider | Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider |
| 2007 | Next | Cris Johnson |
| 2007 | National Treasure 2 | Ben Gates |
| 2006 | The Ant Bully | Zoc |
| 2006 | World Trade Center | Sgt. John McLoughlin |
| 2006 | The Wicker Man (2006) | Edward Maulis |
| 2005 | Lord of War | Yuri Orlov |
| 2005 | The Weather Man | Dave Spritz |
| 2004 | National Treasure (2004) | Ben Gates |
| 2003 | The Life of David Gale | Producer |
| 2003 | Matchstick Men | Roy |
| 2002 | Windtalkers | Joe Enders |
| 2002 | Adaptation | Charlie Kaufman/Donald Kaufman |
| 2002 | Sonny | Acid Yellow |
| 2001 | Captain Corelli’s Mandolin | Captain Antonio Corelli |
| 2000 | The Family Man | Jack Campbell |
| 2000 | Shadow of the Vampire | Producer |
| 2000 | Bel Air | Executive Producer |
| 2000 | Gone in Sixty Seconds | Randall “Memphis” Raines |
| 1999 | Bringing Out the Dead | Frank Pierce |
| 1999 | 8mm and Super 8mm Films | Tom Welles |
| 1998 | City of Angels | Seth |
| 1998 | Snake Eyes (1998) | Rick Santoro |
| 1997 | Con Air | Cameron Poe |
| 1997 | Face/Off | Castor Troy/Sean Archer |
| 1996 | The Rock | Dr. Stanley Goodspeed |
| 1995 | Kiss of Death (1995) | Little Junior Brown |
| 1995 | Leaving Las Vegas | Ben Sanderson |
| 1994 | Trapped in Paradise | Bill Firpo |
| 1994 | Guarding Tess | Doug Chesnic |
| 1993 | Red Rock West | Michael Williams |
| 1993 | Amos & Andrew | Amos Odell |
| 1992 | Honeymoon in Vegas | Jack Singer |
| 1990 | Wild at Heart | Sailor |
| 1989 | Vampire’s Kiss | Peter Loew |
| 1987 | Raising Arizona | H.I. McDonnough |
| 1987 | Moonstruck | Ronny Cammareri |
| 1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married | Charlie Bodell |
| 1984 | Birdy | Sergeant Al Columbato |
| 1984 | Racing With the Moon | Nicky/Bud |
| 1984 | The Cotton Club | Vincent Dwyer |
| 1983 | Valley Girl (1983) | Randy |
| 1983 | Rumble Fish | Smokey |
| 1982 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Brad’s Bud |
