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All of Tom Cruise's Movies Ranked

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, or Tom Cruise, is one of the biggest movie stars on the planet and has been now for quite a few decades. He has a reported net worth of $570 million as of 2020, and is still going strong with a number of high profile projects in the system. As huge fans of Mr. Cruise, we took all his ratings from IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes and worked out his overall rating for each of his movies… Enjoy.

20 – Mission: Impossible (1996)
Expect the impossible.
Adventure | Action | Thriller
Directed by: Brian De Palma
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7.09 /10

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 No. 1 suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

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19 – The Color of Money (1986)
The Hustler isn’t what he used to be. But he has the next best thing. A kid who is.
Drama
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
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7.15 /10
Former pool hustler “Fast Eddie” Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent’s showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.
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18 – American Made (2017)
Based on a True Lie
Action | Crime | Comedy
Directed by: Doug Liman
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7.19 /10

The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

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17 – Top Gun (1986)
Up there with the best of the best.
Action | Drama
Directed by: Tony Scott
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7.29 /10

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.

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16 – Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
A story of innocence lost and courage found.
Drama | War
Directed by: Oliver Stone
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7.32 /10

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

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15 – Jerry Maguire (1996)

Everybody loved him… Everybody disappeared.
Comedy | Drama | Romance

Directed by: Cameron Crowe

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7.41 /10

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.

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14 – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
No plan. No backup. No choice.
Action | Thriller | Adventure
Directed by: Brad Bird
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7.43 /10

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.

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13 – The Outsiders (1983)
They grew up on the outside of society. They weren’t looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
Crime | Drama
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
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7.48 /10

When two poor Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, are assaulted by a vicious gang, the Socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.

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12 – Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Cruise. Kidman. Kubrick.
Drama | Thriller | Mystery
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
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7.60 /10

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.

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11 – Minority Report (2002)
The system is perfect until it comes after you.
Action | Thriller | Science Fiction | Mystery
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
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7.69 /10

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.

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10 – The Last Samurai (2003)
In the face of an enemy, in the heart of one man, lies the soul of a warrior.
Drama | Action | War | History
Directed by: Edward Zwick
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7.73 /10

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.

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9 – Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Drink from me and live forever
Horror | Drama | Fantasy
Directed by: Neil Jordan
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7.75 /10

Born as an 18th-century lord, Louis is now a bicentennial vampire, telling his story to an eager biographer. Suicidal after the death of his family, he meets Lestat, a vampire who persuades him to choose immortality over death and become his companion. Eventually, gentle Louis resolves to leave his violent maker, but Lestat guilts him into staying by turning a young girl — whose addition to the “family” breeds even more conflict.

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8 – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
Desperate times. Desperate measures.
Action | Adventure
Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie
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7.78 /10

Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating ‘The Syndicate’, an International and highly-skilled rogue organisation committed to destroying the IMF.

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7 – Collateral (2004)
It started like any other night.
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Directed by: Michael Mann
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7.82 /10

After a long day, LA taxi driver Max is about to knock off when sharp-suited Vincent offers him $600 to make five stops. Sounds good until Vincent turns out to be a merciless hitman and each one of those stops involves a hit. As the night goes on, Max starts to wonder if he’ll live to see the sunrise, as the pair are hunted by the police and the FBI.

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6 – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Some missions are not a choice.
Action | Adventure
Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie
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8.08 /10

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.

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5 – A Few Good Men (1992)
One man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.
Drama
Directed by: Rob Reiner
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8.11 /10

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.

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4 – Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Some missions are not a choice.
Action | Science Fiction
Directed by: Doug Liman
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8.11 /10

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.

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3 – Rain Man (1988)
A journey through understanding and fellowship.
Drama
Directed by: Rob Reiner
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8.18 /10

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has an autistic older brother named Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) 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.

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2 – Magnolia (1999)
Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours.
Drama
Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
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8.39 /10

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.

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1 – Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Feel the need… The need for speed.
Action | Drama
Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
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8.94 /10

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.

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