Tom Cruise
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Taps (1981)
- Dir. Harold Becker
Feat. Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton, George C. Scott…
- A surprise box–office smash about a group of cadets who take over their military college, which is on the brink of being closed down. Inspired…
- Risky Business (1983)
- Dir. Paul Brickman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay
- A kind of '80s update of THE GRADUATE, this imaginative comedy propelled a 17–year old Tom Cruise into the limelight. Uncommonly stylish and…
- Outsiders, The (1983)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio…
- Based on the gritty novel by S. E. Hinton (THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW), this ‘realistic’ depiction of teenage outsiders in 50s America is…
- All The Right Moves (1983)
- Dir. Michael Chapman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson…
- Stirring though conventional sports drama has a talented high–school football player (Cruise), weigh up his life priorities in the face of a…
- Top Gun (1986)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer…
- Star–making film for Cruise, who goes through all the right motions to get millions of bums on seats. The routine plot is overcome by the…
- Color of Money, The (1986)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Tom Cruise, Paul Newman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio…
- 25 years on from the THE HUSTLER, Paul Newman is the tainted ex–pool shark who passes his baton on to rookie Tom Cruise. Unremarkable Scorsese,…
- Legend (1986)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Tom Cruise, Tim Curry
- Breathtaking imagery highlights this fantasy adventure about evil trying to corrupt innocence. Tom Cruise struts around in tights, but it's Tim Curry…
- Cocktail (1988)
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown
- Tom Cruise receives behind–the–bar cocktail tips from Bryan Brown. Slick comedy was an early box–office for kiwi dir. Donaldson.
- Rain Man (1988)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
- Oscar–winning road drama featuring Dustin Hoffman's virtuoso performance as the idiot savant brother of Tom Cruise, who does equally well in a…
- Born On the Fourth of July (1989)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Tom Cruise
- Tom Cruise gives an exhilarating performance as Ron Kovic, the teenage patriot who became an embittered, paralysed Vietnam vet, to finally emerge as…
- Days of Thunder (1990)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Paul Newman
- TOP GUN on wheels with Tom Cruise as a star rookie race–driver whose attention behind the wheel veers to Dr. Nicole Kidman's behind.
- Far and Away (1992)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman
- Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman sport Irish accents for this sweeping saga that follows their quest to claim a piece of America they can call their own.
- A Few Good Men (1992)
- Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore
- Tom Cruise portrays another upstart lawyer brat who is called to defend the alleged murderers of a fellow army cadet. Blame soon veers to the very…
- Firm, The (1993)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman…
- Tom Cruise ain't bad as a prodigal law graduate offered a six–figure salary with a prestigious but corrupt law firm. A reasonable meal is made…
- Interview With the Vampire (1994)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst
- Tom Cruise rises to the much–touted role of Vampire Lestat, Brad Pitt invigorates the lifeless Louis, and Kirsten Dunst gives a child…
- Mission: Impossible (1996)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Tom Cruise
- Hollywood refit of the '60s cult TV show with classic stylings and theme–tune thankfully intact. Precisely executed action sequences redeem a…
- Jerry Maguire (1996)
- Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Jr. Gooding
- The (then) thinking person's Tom Cruise movie, with Hollywood's biggest star actually getting to act in this insightful comic–drama about…
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman
- A fascinating and convoluted Freudian thriller, Stanley Kubrick's swansong has elicited praise, condemnation and baffled dumb–looks, though its…
- Magnolia (2000)
- Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jason Robards Jr., William H. Macy…
- A sprawling, stylistically–impressive but moribund domestic melodrama about Californian amorality and redemption (of sorts), with interleaved…
- Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
- Dir. John Woo
Feat. Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton…
- Submerging all traces of the original series, Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, whose mission it is to keep a deadly synthetic virus out of the hands…
- Stanley Kubrick - A Life in Pictures (2001)
- Dir. Jan Harlan
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Woody Allen, Jack Nicholson…
- Authorised by his family, a 'biography' of the great, reclusive, obsessive film–maker, whose genius is attested by the likes of…
- Vanilla Sky (2001)
- Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jason Lee, Cameron Diaz…
- A straight Hollywood remake of the Spanish sci–fi thriller OPEN YOUR EYES by the director of ALMOST FAMOUS – the result of which plays like…
- Minority Report (2002)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow…
- An exhilarating science fiction thriller that lavishly realizes (and embellishes) a Philip K. Dick short story with the corporate muscle and…
- Last Samurai, The (2003)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, William Atherton…
- Swathed in the scenery of New Zealand, this enactment of the Japanese civil wars of the late 19th century is an ambitious, though…
- Collateral (2004)
- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith…
- A moody night–thriller that cruises the streets of Los Angeles with a taxi–driver (Foxx) whose cab is commandered by a ruthless,…
- Ray: Genius - A Night for Ray Charles (2004)
- Dir. Bruce Gowers
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Morgan Freeman…
- An extended concert tribute to soulman Ray Charles, combining new and vintage entertainers and memories from the likes of Quincy Jones, B.B. King and…
- War of the Worlds (2005)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto…
- Dynamic and intense re–imagining of H.G. Wells sci–fi staple (for its first half at least), in which hostile aliens invade Earth in…
- Mission: Impossible 3 (2006)
- Dir. J.J. Abrams
Feat. Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Keri Russell…
- Propulsive and hyper–violent third outing for Tom Cruise as US superagent Ethan Hunt, here on a globe–jetting mission to foil a vile…
- Lions for Lambs (2007)
- Dir. Robert Redford
Feat. Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise
- A contemporary 'hot potato' issue is tackled from political, academic, militaristic and journalistic viewpoints, drawing an ultimately powerful…
- Tropic Thunder (2008)
- Dir. Ben Stiller
Feat. Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jnr., Jack Black…
- Ferociously funny action comedy from actor–director Ben Stiller, following a group of pretentious actors on a mission to create the biggest…
- Valkyrie (2008)
- Dir. Bryan Singer
Feat. Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson…
- Hollywood crosses enemy lines with Tom Cruise perversely cast as a disaffected Nazi officer who leads a plot to assassinate Hitler.
Dispensing…
- Knight and Day (2010)
- Dir. James Mangold
Feat. Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard…
- Brassy secret agent vehicle finds Tom Cruise on the lam from hired killers with Cameron Diaz in tow.
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (Mission Impossible 4) (2012)
- Dir. Brad Bird
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg…
- Back–to–basics third sequel sees an evergreen Tom Cruise go rogue to clear IMF's name while in pursuit of a fugitive terrorist with…
- Rock of Ages (2012)
- Dir. Adam Shankman
Feat. Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise…
- Tom Cruise hams it up something shocking ahead of a star musical cast in this big singing, big strutting hair metal revival set to the music of Def…
- Jack Reacher (2012)
- Dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Feat. Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins…
- Tom Cruise assumes the coveted role of Lee Child's best–selling anti–hero in this violent, no–nonsense action vehicle.
- Oblivion (2013)
- Dir. Joseph Kosinski
Feat. Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko…
- Tom Cruise's isolated existence as a drone repairman patrolling a decimated earth is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious woman via a crash…
- Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
- Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson…
- Tom Cruise plays a reluctant futuristic solider who gets caught in a time loop and is forced to repeat his death on the battlefield until victory…
- Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Mission Impossible 5) (2015)
- Dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Feat. Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner…
- Tom Cruise and team return to take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate – a rogue organization as highly skilled as…
- Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Patrick Heusinger…
- Formulaic action–thriller sequel with Tom Cruise returning as the eponymous tough guy from Lee Child's series of popular novels, this time on…
- Mummy, The (2017)
- Dir. Alex Kurtzman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella…
- Tom Cruise plays a US military man who accidentally unearths Princess Ahmanet's tomb and unleashes unspeakable evil. A fun mish–mash of monster…
- American Made (2017)
- Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright…
- Tom Cruise stars in this energized biopic about an American pilot who became a drug–runner for the CIA in the 1980s that would come to be…
- Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Mission Impossible 6) (2018)
- Dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Feat. Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames…
- Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt in this highly regarded sixth installment of the film franchise. The stakes are higher than ever with…
- Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Mission Impossible 7) (2023)
- Dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Feat. Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson…
- The Impossible franchise jumps into the somewhat possible scenario of an A.I. singularity event. The heavy apocalyptic subject is balanced by…