Nicolas Cage Movies

Want to know the best Nicolas Cage movies?  How about the worst Nicolas Cage movies?  Curious about Nicolas Cage’s box office grosses or which Nicolas Cage movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Nicolas Cage movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

When I first started writing movie pages, one of the first actors I picked (my oldest son’s suggestion) was Nicolas Cage.  Nicolas Cage (1964-) has been starring in movies for over thirty-five years.  During those years he has starred in many box office hits and has picked up two Best Actor Oscar® and four Golden Globe® nominations.  He won the Best Actor Oscar® for his role in Leaving Las Vegas (1995).  The last few years have seen most of his movies go straight to DVD…beginning to wonder if he will ever get back to his glory days.

His IMDb page shows over 100 acting credits since 1981. This page will rank Nicolas Cage movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts and cameos were not included in the rankings. His straight to home entertainment movies have a separate table that looks at 10 of his movies.

Nicolas Cage in 1995's Leaving Las Vegas
Nicolas Cage in 1995’s Leaving Las Vegas

Nicolas Cage Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Nicolas Cage Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Nicolas Cage movies by co-stars of his movies
  • Sort Nicolas Cage movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Nicolas Cage movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)  *** If domestic & worldwide grosses are the same…then worldwide gross is unknown
  • Sort Nicolas Cage movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Nicolas Cage movie received.
  • Sort Nicolas Cage movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Nicolas Cage in 1997's Con Air
Nicolas Cage in 1997’s Con Air

Check out Nicolas Cage‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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  1. Watched his latest movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. That got me motivated to update this page, which added in about 10 movies….and get a new tally count….I am now sitting at 83 Nicolas Cage movies watched. That has to be one of the highest totals for me.

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  3. Nicolas Kim Coppola changed his name to Cage because he thought that otherwise there could be accusations that his career had benefited from nepotism. His uncle is the great Francis and his aunt is Talia Shire, best known to me as Connie Corleone but probably others on this site think of her as Adrianna Balboa nee Pennino.

    15 of nick’s movies have crashed the Cogerson $100 million in adjusted domestic grosses and have an overall adjusted US gross of around $2.76 billion, average approx. $185 million per movie. One of the biggest stars of the modern cinema, his personal net worth is said to be $25 million and IMDB credits him with 46 acting awards and 69 noms.

    Best POSTERS in Cage video: 1/Ghost Rider 2/Men of Courage 3/VAMPIRE Kiss 4/Drive Angry 5/Guarding Myrna 6/the set for Sorcerer’s Apprentice 7/Knowing/8 It could Happen to you 9/National Treasure 2004 10 two for Mandy 10/Rumble Fish 11/Lord of War 12/the set for Kick Ass 13/foreign Language one for Face/Off 14/two for Leaving Man Chester 15/both for Spidey 16/Valley Girl.

    My own pick of the STILLS 1/’the Wild One’ 2/Season of the Witch 3/burning! – really startling but visually stunning 4/Snake Eyes 5/Next 6/Sorcerer’s Apprentice 7/with Meg Ryan 8/Gone in 60 seconds 9/World Trade Centre 10/National Treasure 2004 10/The Croods 11/Con Air 12Raising Arizona 12/Adaptation.

    98% rated. You and The Work Horse agree on 4 of Nick’s top 6 best reviewed movies.

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    1. Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info and trivia, it is appreciated.

      Glad you enjoyed the picture gallery.

      Come to think of it Nicolas Cage rarely teamed up with another big star of similar age, in fact I think John Travolta was the only one and John was 10 years older. Sean Connery was old enough to be his dad, or nearly grandad. Jon Voight was old too. John Cusack wasn’t the same level of stardom as Cage, so Travolta in Face/Off was the only time Nic teamed up with another ‘youngish’ superstar.

      By contrast Brad Pitt loved teaming up with other superstars even way back in 1994 and Interview With the Vampire with Tom Cruise. He recently starred with Di Caprio in Tarantino’s new film.

      Only one Nic Cage film scored 10 out of 10 from my sources and it was Moonstruck, five more scored 9 including Adaptation, Leaving Las Vegas and Birdy.

      Oscar-winning animation Spiderman into the Spiderverse tops both IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes charts for Cage.

      “Jim Carrey and I went to George Hamilton’s wine bar. He’s an interesting one. He was there and had some fun stories. I told him how he was one of my heroes from the time he played Evel Knievel. We had cigars, and very expensive bottles of wine were opened, and Jim and I were going, “This is great, man.” At the end of the night we got slapped with an $8,000 bill. It was at that point that George became the fox in the Pinocchio story. He happens to look quite a bit like that fox. I would not want to play cards with George Hamilton.”

      “I do not have a religion in my life, I wasn’t raised that way. My father always believed that if I was going to have a religion I should discover it on my own and not have it crammed down my throat at a young age. I kind of wish I had some religion.”

      “There’s a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.”

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      1. 1/Thanks for the fine feedback. I think your comment about Cage and the age of his co-stats is well-observed.

        2/Joel and Randy in the old westerns would actually surround themselves with youngsters of both genders as co-stars. They would steal the girl away from a guy her own age, or at least much nearer to it than to that of Scott/McCrea and often ride off into the sunset with her leaving the young guy to lick his wounds, “know his place” and “grow up into a fine young American.”

        3/See for example the love triangle in 1954’s Black Horse Canyon: Joel 50, the lovely Mari Blanchard 30, and Race Gentry [a young stud who looked a cross between Elvis and Rock Hudson] 20. Tantalizingly in the movie Joel is actually called Rock and Race is called Ti.

        4/ The old cliché is “You couldn’t make it up,” but somebody obviously did in that one. Say!- I can poke fun at some of the absurdities associated with my western heroes, some of whose movies I still enjoy [I’ve recently re-watched Rory’s Dawn at Socorro and Joel’s The Lone hand] so why can’t you have a laugh now and again at some of those big brutes YOU idolize. Even Arnie occasionally sent himself up in his movies and Harrison Ford recently said “It’s great these days being able to play old guys!”

        5/I particularly loved the last of your quotes. Mind you it struck me as something Hirsch would come out with in one of his Brando put-downs and which the likes of WH would then regard as the definitive profile of a method actor. To paraphrase Robert Ryan’s Reno Smith speaking about Spencer Tracy’s Macreedy in 1955’s Bad Day at Black Rock “I know guys like the Work Horse. They never change.”

        6/Talking about HIM, I see he’s still giving the rest of us commentariat the slip. Maybe he can only be teased out at the moment by one of us providing some quote from Joel that has never appeared before. I wonder what WH is doing at the moment and where he is.

        O wand’ring one!
        Though thou hast surely strayed,
        Take heart of grace,
        Thy steps retrace,
        O wand’ring one

        [From musical play Poor Wandering One]

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  4. Added Steve’s Nicolas Cage You Tube Video To This Page. Our thoughts found on his channel.

    “I just updated our Nicolas Cage UMR page the other day…and now you have a video…great minds thinking alike. 50 movies….is a lot…but we have 78 on our page. I have seen all of the movies listed in your video and a total of 72 Nicolas Cage movies. Favorites include…#1 Into the Spider-Verse…loved that movie…loved Cage’s voice role. #11 and #10 Con-Air and The Rock…both massive hits that are silly fun action movies. #27 Family Man….love Cage in that role and #38 Honeymoon in Vegas…James Caan is awesome in that one…plus you get a bunch of Flying Elvises….what more do you want out of a movie? Good video. Voted up and shared.”

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    1. Hi Bruce, 72 watched out of 78 Nic Cage films on your UMR chart is pretty impressive.

      My tally 33 of the 50 on the video, Flora has seen 5 from the video. I think Spider-Man is no.1 on your chart too. From what I’ve read Cage is a huge comic book fan and even named his son Kal-El, Superman’s birth name. 🙂

      Thanks for the comment, vote and share, it is appreciated.

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