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Tom Cruise (1962-) has been one of the biggest movie stars for almost forty years. He first started appearing in supporting roles in the early 1980s in movies like Endless Love, Taps and The Outsiders. After appearing in those supporting roles, he got the chance to star in 1983’s surprise hit …..Risky Business. After Risky Business it has been a string of hit movie after hit movie.
His IMDB page shows over 50 acting credits since 1981. This page will rank Tom Cruise movies from Best to Worst in seven different sortable columns of information. The only movies not included in the rankings are the ones that have not yet been released in theaters and his Austin Power’s cameo.
Tom Cruise Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Tom Cruise 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 Tom Cruise movies by his co-stars
- Sort Tom Cruise movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Tom Cruise movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Tom Cruise movies by 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 Tom Cruise movie received.
- Sort Tom Cruise movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
R
Movie (Year)
UMR Co-Star Links
Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil)
Review
Oscar Nom / Win
UMR Score
R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) B.O. Rank by Year Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score S
1
Rain Man (1988)
AA Best Picture WinDustin Hoffman
177.80
466.4
943.80
1
79
08 / 04
99.8
2
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
AA Best Picture NomVal Kilmer &
Ed Harris718.70
735.8
1,528.90
1
91
06 / 01
99.6
3
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
AA Best Picture Nom
AA Best Actor NomDirected by Oliver Stone
70.00
190.1
437.20
17
82
08 / 02
99.1
3
Jerry Maguire (1996)
AA Best Picture Nom
AA Best Actor NomCuba Gooding Jr.
154.00
375.5
667.20
4
82
05 / 01
99.1
4
Minority Report (2002)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
132.10
245.5
666.10
17
88
01 / 00
98.7
5
A Few Good Men (1992)
AA Best Picture NomJack Nicholson
141.30
367.1
631.80
5
76
04 / 00
98.3
7
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Alec Baldwin &
Angela Bassett220.20
260.5
936.10
8
85
00 / 00
98.2
8
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Simon Pegg &
Jeremy Renner209.40
284.7
944.40
7
86
00 / 00
98.2
9
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Simon Pegg &
Jeremy Renner195.00
249.4
873.00
11
84
00 / 00
98.2
10
Risky Business (1983)
Curtis Armstrong
63.50
217.5
217.50
11
83
00 / 00
97.7
10
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Simon Pegg
172.10
172.1
567.50
13
88
02 / 00
97.6
11
War of the Worlds (2005)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
234.30
394.6
996.70
4
73
03 / 00
96.6
14
Collateral (2004)
Jamie Foxx
101.00
175.3
378.00
23
81
02 / 00
96.5
12
The Firm (1993)
Gene Hackman
158.30
412.3
703.70
4
69
02 / 00
95.4
17
The Color of Money (1986)
Paul Newman
52.30
151.9
151.90
13
82
04 / 01
95.4
18
The Last Samurai (2003)
Ken Watanabe
111.10
198.7
816.60
20
68
04 / 00
95.4
15
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
134.00
219.6
651.80
15
71
00 / 00
95.4
18
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
Brad Pitt
105.30
278.1
591.00
11
67
02 / 00
94.9
19
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Ben Stiller &
Robert Downey Jr.110.50
165.9
282.40
24
78
01 / 00
94.9
20
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Jon Voight
181.00
441.4
1,116.30
3
65
00 / 00
93.8
22
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Emily Blunt
100.20
132.2
488.90
34
84
00 / 00
93.1
20
Top Gun (1986)
Directed by Tony Scott
176.80
513.7
1,028.10
1
56
04 / 01
92.7
21
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Anthony Hopkins
215.40
430.8
1,092.80
3
60
00 / 00
92.5
24
Days of Thunder (1990)
Robert Duvall
82.70
210.7
402.50
13
54
01 / 00
90.7
26
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Cameron Diaz &
Kurt Russell100.60
192.0
388.00
20
53
01 / 00
89.6
25
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Nicole Kidman &
Directed by Stanley Kubrick55.70
118.6
345.30
42
75
00 / 00
89.0
27
Taps (1981)
George C. Scott &
Sean Penn35.90
139.0
139.00
16
67
00 / 00
87.7
29
Valkyrie (2008)
Bill Nighy
83.10
124.7
300.70
36
65
00 / 00
85.4
31
Far and Away (1992)
Nicole Kidman &
Directed by Ron Howard58.90
153.0
357.90
21
56
00 / 00
85.4
30
Oblivion (2013)
Morgan Freeman
89.10
118.2
379.40
41
64
00 / 00
84.7
31
Magnolia (1999)
AA Best Supp Actor NomPhilip Seymour Hoffman &
Julianne Moore22.50
47.8
103.20
80
83
03 / 00
84.1
32
Jack Reacher (2012)
Robert Duvall
80.10
108.4
293.30
38
64
00 / 00
82.7
33
American Made (2017)
Domhnall Gleeson
51.30
61.7
162.10
54
75
00 / 00
81.0
36
Cocktail (1988)
Elizabeth Shue
78.20
205.2
449.80
9
27
00 / 00
78.0
34
Knight and Day (2010)
Cameron Diaz
76.40
104.4
357.90
45
56
00 / 00
76.7
35
The Outsiders (1983)
Emilio Estevez &
Matt Dillon25.70
87.9
87.90
27
59
00 / 00
75.3
37
All the Right Moves (1983)
Chris Penn
23.10
79.2
79.20
30
60
00 / 00
73.0
38
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
Cobie Smulders
58.70
73.2
202.10
57
54
00 / 00
63.1
40
Endless Love (1981)
Brooke Shields
31.20
120.9
120.90
25
32
01 / 00
54.1
39
Rock of Ages (2012)
Alec Baldwin
38.50
52.2
80.50
81
52
00 / 00
49.0
41
The Mummy (2017)
Russell Crowe
80.10
96.3
490.10
40
38
00 / 00
48.9
42
Legend (1985)
Directed by Ridley Scott
15.50
47.1
47.10
55
48
01 / 00
42.5
43
Lions for Lambs (2007)
Robert Redford &
Meryl Streep15.00
23.5
99.10
123
47
00 / 00
19.4
44
Losin' It (1983)
Shelley Long
1.20
4.3
4.30
131
42
00 / 00
6.0
Tom Cruise Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
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I’m not a huge Tom Cruise fan at all. As some one else posted, I’ve like him less and less as his career goes on. But I have to say, you have written a fantastic hub! Well organized, great charts, photos. Fantastic job of grabbing the readers attention–great job!
As for Tom, it’s a matter of me trying to separate Cruise the actor from Cruise the PR nightmare, I think. I loved Risky Business because I was a young teen when that came out. I also liked Jerry McGuire and Rain Man, but that’s about it.
Thanks for the great compliment CarolineChicago. I am in the same boat about Tom Cruise….I liked the three movies you mentioned and Minority Report….but the rest have been OK at best. I wonder how many got turned off by him and the jumping couch thing on Oprah. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
I didn’t even realize he had been in so many movies even though I’ve hears of them all or seen them.I liked him in Risky Business when I was in high school and he was superb in Rain Man! I’ll have to revisit some haven’t seen.
Thank you Realhousewife…..I was in high school as well when Risky Business came out….it was very popular with my high school back then….he has two new movies coming out soon…Mission Impossible 4(I have no interest in that one)….but he also has a movie called Rock of Ages(sounds interesting)…thanks for reading and the compliment.
Well done!!! My favorite Tom Cruise role is when he was jumping up and down on Oprah’s couch….It’s not on your list??? Hmmmmm. I’m a big time Outsiders fan and he played a good supporting role in that movie. Other than that not a fan. UP!!!
Thanks Sunshine….your comment is greatly appreciated
Your page has provoked a lot of discussion in our household. It turns out that Tom Cruise is the number one star in our DVD collection here, but he isn’t anyone’s favorite actor. We’re still trying to figure out how that happened. As usual, another great movie page.
Hey BoomerFlicks…..interesting dilemma you have….I would say you have so many Cruise movies….is because all his movies were “event” movies(at least before 2006)..I know I bought Mission Impossible 3….only because it was a great price it’s first week in release….but the DVD was everywhere on sale….you could not miss it even if you wanted to…Cruise is not my favorite either….this is my 51st page….and I finally got around to him….but looking at my DVD collection I have 19 of his movies….he is like a virus…lol….thanks for reading
Hmmm [glances at list] none of his films are in my top 20 or top 50 for that matter, gosh I sound snobby. 🙂
Top Gun was fun, 4th of July was depressing. I did enjoy A Few Good Men but Nicholson had more to do with that than Tom or Demi Moore. Of his recent films I liked Minority Report and War of the Worlds. He does a lot of running in his films and he grins a lot. He made me laugh in Tropic Thunder. I wasn’t impressed with Knight & Day. But I did like the epic Last Samurai…
Wow what a rambling post… but you did miss one interesting titbit Cogerson, Tom’s real name – Thomas Mapother IV. I wonder how far he would have got with that name? 🙂
Hey Steve….yep I do not think Thomas Cruise Mapother IV is a name for the movie marquees…in reading your comments …it sounds like you Mr. Cruise more than you want to admit…it’s ok….he is a very popular actor….lol……I agree with you that Minority Report is a very good movie….to me…much better than War of the Worlds….thanks for reading and commenting
“Attica!” “Attica!”
“You still picking your feet in poughkeepsie?”
Oh yes! 🙂
I got the Dog Day Afternoon reference….I had top cheat and look up the French Connection quote…Al and Gene will be done soon…..did you know they made a movie together? It was called Scarecrow…..not the happiest ending a movie has ever had….
Cogerconanson, I saw Scarecrow, not one of my favourites.
I was thinking (I do that sometimes) Tom Cruise appeared with a lot of big stars in his movies, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Duvall, Jack Nicholson, Jon Voight, Paul Newman, Brad Pitt (wink). But he missed two of the biggest, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. He still has time…
Cruise had better find a movie for them quick…Pacino is 71 and De Niro is 67 about to be 68…..I always find it sad to realize that actors are nearing the end….like I do not think there will be anymore Gene Hackman movies…what a shame.