Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Nicolas Cage

1. Arcadian (2024)

R | 92 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

A father and his twin teenage sons fight to survive in a remote farmhouse at the end of the end of the world.

Director: Benjamin Brewer | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins, Sadie Soverall

Votes: 991

2. Saturday Night Live (1975– )

TV-14 | 90 min | Comedy, Music

A famous guest host stars in parodies and sketches created by the cast of this witty show.

Stars: The Saturday Night Live Band, Don Pardo, Darrell Hammond, Kenan Thompson

Votes: 52,707

3. Dream Scenario (2023)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

An ordinary family man finds his life turned upside down when strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams.

Director: Kristoffer Borgli | Stars: Lily Bird, Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Jessica Clement

Votes: 55,161

4. The Flash (I) (2023)

PG-13 | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future.

Director: Andy Muschietti | Stars: Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon

Votes: 210,133

5. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)

R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Moviestar Nick Cage is channeling his iconic characters as he's caught between a superfan and a CIA agent.

Director: Tom Gormican | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish, Sharon Horgan

Votes: 151,207

6. Longlegs (2024)

R | 101 min | Horror, Thriller | Completed

FBI Agent Lee Harker is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes unexpected turns, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer and must stop him before he strikes again.

Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe, Alicia Witt, Blair Underwood

7. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

A group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock n' roll.

Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus

Votes: 115,699 | Gross: $27.09M

8. The Retirement Plan (2023)

R | 103 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When Ashley and her young daughter Sarah get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to estranged father Matt, currently living the life of a retired beach bum in the Cayman Islands.

Director: Tim Brown | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ashley Greene, Thalia Campbell, Ron Perlman

Votes: 6,955

9. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

PG | 117 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Teen Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his universe and must join with five spider-powered individuals from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities.

Directors: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman | Stars: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali

Votes: 671,081 | Gross: $190.24M

10. Kick-Ass (2010)

R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.

Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz, Garrett M. Brown

Votes: 593,168 | Gross: $48.07M

11. Con Air (1997)

R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Newly-paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner-transport plane when the passengers seize control.

Director: Simon West | Stars: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Colm Meaney

Votes: 319,162 | Gross: $101.12M

12. The Rock (1996)

R | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer

Votes: 358,049 | Gross: $134.07M

13. Face/Off (1997)

R | 138 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

To foil a terrorist plot, FBI agent Sean Archer assumes the identity of the criminal Castor Troy who murdered his son through facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up prematurely and vows revenge.

Director: John Woo | Stars: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola

Votes: 400,784 | Gross: $112.23M

14. Renfield (2023)

R | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Renfield, Dracula's henchman and inmate at the lunatic asylum for decades, longs for a life away from the Count, his various demands, and all of the bloodshed that comes with them.

Director: Chris McKay | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz

Votes: 95,407

15. National Treasure (2004)

PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

A historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries.

Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean

Votes: 355,081 | Gross: $173.01M

16. Valley Girl (1983)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Romance

Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.

Director: Martha Coolidge | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Michael Bowen

Votes: 18,415 | Gross: $16.80M

17. Mandy (I) (2018)

Not Rated | 121 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.

Director: Panos Cosmatos | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy

Votes: 89,460 | Gross: $1.21M

18. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

R | 111 min | Drama, Romance

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis

Votes: 134,614 | Gross: $32.03M

19. Wild at Heart (1990)

R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, J.E. Freeman

Votes: 100,925 | Gross: $14.56M

20. Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A retired master car thief must come back to the industry and steal fifty cars with his crew in one night to save his brother's life.

Director: Dominic Sena | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, T.J. Cross

Votes: 294,596 | Gross: $101.65M

21. Moonstruck (1987)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello

Votes: 68,421 | Gross: $80.64M

22. Drive Angry (2011)

R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

A vengeful father escapes from hell and chases after the men who killed his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter.

Director: Patrick Lussier | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Billy Burke

Votes: 103,399 | Gross: $10.71M

23. Grindhouse (2007)

R | 191 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's homage to exploitation double features in the '60s and '70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them.

Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, Rob Zombie | Stars: Kurt Russell, Rose McGowan, Danny Trejo, Zoë Bell

Votes: 191,154 | Gross: $25.04M

24. Ghost Rider (2007)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Fantasy, Thriller

When motorcycle rider Johnny Blaze sells his soul to the Devil to save his father's life, he is transformed into the Ghost Rider, the Devil's own bounty hunter, and is sent to hunt down sinners.

Director: Mark Steven Johnson | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Sam Elliott, Matt Long

Votes: 252,192 | Gross: $115.80M

25. Lord of War (2005)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama

An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an INTERPOL Agent.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan

Votes: 336,812 | Gross: $24.15M

26. Raising Arizona (1987)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Crime

When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman

Votes: 150,302 | Gross: $22.85M

27. Knowing (2009)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.

Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson

Votes: 247,466 | Gross: $79.96M

28. Adaptation. (2002)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton

Votes: 203,000 | Gross: $22.25M

29. Rumble Fish (1983)

R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper

Votes: 37,656 | Gross: $2.49M

30. Butcher's Crossing (2022)

R | 105 min | Drama, Western

An Ivy League drop-out travels to the Colorado wilderness, where he joins a team of buffalo hunters on a journey that puts his life and sanity at risk. Based on the highly acclaimed novel by John Williams.

Director: Gabe Polsky | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Fred Hechinger, Jeremy Bobb, Paul Raci

Votes: 4,045

31. Pig (I) (2021)

R | 92 min | Drama, Mystery

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.

Director: Michael Sarnoski | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin, Cassandra Violet

Votes: 89,451

32. Willy's Wonderland (2021)

TV-MA | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

A quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now condemned Willy's Wonderland. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival against wave after wave of demonic animatronics. Fists fly, kicks land, titans clash -- and only one side will make it out alive.

Director: Kevin Lewis | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Beth Grant, Ric Reitz

Votes: 38,531

33. Next (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A Las Vegas magician who can see into the future is pursued by FBI agents seeking to use his abilities to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack.

Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann

Votes: 166,367 | Gross: $18.21M

34. The Surfer (2024)

Thriller | Completed

When a man returns to his beach side hometown in Australia, he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a local group of surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood.

Director: Lorcan Finnegan | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Nicholas Cassim, Miranda Tapsell

35. Sympathy for the Devil (2023)

90 min | Action, Thriller

After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.

Director: Yuval Adler | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joel Kinnaman, Alexis Zollicoffer, Cameron Lee Price

Votes: 9,281

36. Snowden (2016)

R | 134 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto

Votes: 162,931 | Gross: $21.59M

37. National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

Benjamin Gates must follow a clue left in John Wilkes Booth's diary to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Jon Voight

Votes: 253,527 | Gross: $219.96M

38. 8MM (1999)

R | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A private investigator is hired to discover if a "snuff film" is authentic or not.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare

Votes: 142,708 | Gross: $36.66M

39. Birdy (1984)

R | 120 min | Drama, War

After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins, Sandy Baron

Votes: 24,917 | Gross: $1.46M

40. The Croods (2013)

PG | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

After their cave is destroyed, a caveman family must trek through an unfamiliar fantastical world with the help of an inventive boy.

Directors: Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Catherine Keener

Votes: 231,927 | Gross: $187.17M

41. Stolen (2012)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A former thief frantically searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi.

Director: Simon West | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Malin Akerman, Josh Lucas, Danny Huston

Votes: 46,433 | Gross: $0.30M

42. City of Angels (1998)

PG-13 | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

An angel on Earth, a doctor unable to believe, a patient with a secret, a love story made in Heaven.

Director: Brad Silberling | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher, Dennis Franz

Votes: 127,749 | Gross: $78.69M

43. Color Out of Space (2019)

Unrated | 111 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.

Director: Richard Stanley | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight

Votes: 56,210

44. The Life of David Gale (2003)

R | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, Cleo King

Votes: 126,060 | Gross: $19.59M

45. The Old Way (2023)

R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Western

An old gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge.

Director: Brett Donowho | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Clint Howard, Katelyn Bauer

Votes: 8,672

46. The Croods: A New Age (2020)

PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The prehistoric family the Croods are challenged by a rival family the Bettermans, who claim to be better and more evolved.

Director: Joel Crawford | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener

Votes: 52,968 | Gross: $58.57M

47. It Could Happen to You (1994)

PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A police officer promises to share his lottery ticket with a waitress in lieu of a tip.

Director: Andrew Bergman | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez, Wendell Pierce

Votes: 44,621 | Gross: $37.80M

48. Left Behind (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A small group of survivors is left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.

Director: Vic Armstrong | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Lea Thompson, Cassi Thomson, Chad Michael Murray

Votes: 42,507 | Gross: $14.00M

49. The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)

PG | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Family

A protege of the magician Merlin must train his teacher's successor - an introverted but resourceful physics prodigy - in the art of sorcery to prevent the return of Morgana le Fay.

Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer

Votes: 169,971 | Gross: $63.15M

50. The Family Man (2000)

PG-13 | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.

Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven

Votes: 119,356 | Gross: $75.79M