If we do a quick survey among fans of the seventh art about which actor is the one who has starred in the most successes over the last 40 years without ceasing to belong to the star system, it is very possible that many of the answers point to a certain Tom Cruise, a New Yorker from Syracuse who came into the world in 1962. He is, of course, one of the greatest cases of cinematic longevity remembered in that myth-crushing machine that is often Hollywood.
an incombustible actor
Tom Cruise is one of the actors who have earned the right to star in any movie he wants and, what’s more, he got it practically from the beginning, when in 1983, just two years after starting his career, he gave life to that kid who takes advantage of the absence of their parents to come into contact with the world of adults: love, parties, sex, business, etc. Risky Business was his baptism, but success after success soon followed, allowing him to explore other paths away from the blockbusters .
The decade of the 80s of Tom Cruise is, surely, one of those that most defined his career and the one that, thanks to the enormous blockbusters achieved, earned him that freedom to choose and be part of the industry in roles of much greater responsibility as a producer. executive in many of his own initiatives. He even became a screenwriter with Days of Thunder , by Tony Scott, and shared the screen with established stars such as Paul Newman in The Color of Money and Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man .
Tom Cruise’s best movies
We won’t bore you anymore. Here we leave you the Tom Cruise movies that you should not miss , to better understand all of his filmography.
Risky Business (1983)
Tom Cruise stars in this comedy in which he met his first wife, Rebeca De Mornay, and which follows in the footsteps of other crazy productions of the time : a party with a prostitute, a robbery, an expensive decorative egg and a runaway with pimps who want to get their hands on Joel. Hence the risky business …
Legend (1985)
Tom Cruise gives his career a swerve with this fantasy film that takes us to a dream world (and nightmare) full of goblins, beasts, fairies, magic, unicorns and a spreading evil. Ridley Scott directs in one of the lesser-known films of the North American actor.
Top Gun (1986)
What to say about the film that elevated Tom Cruise to Hollywood stardom. The story of an academy of fighter pilots who compete to be the best. Tony Scott takes the controls to create one of the most emblematic titles of the entire decade.
The Color of Money (1986)
Paul Newman plays an old villar champion who lives retired, but fortune will make him cross the path of Tom Cruise, a young promise who is looking for an opponent at his level. A film that received extraordinary reviews in its time and that says a lot about the most dramatic side of the American actor.
Rain Man (1988)
Barry Levinson directs one of the most Oscar-winning films of that year that shows us a Tom Cruise eager to inherit his father’s fortune but discovers, horrified, that his entire legacy remains in the hands of his older brother, who suffers from autism. Dustin Hoffman gets one of his most stellar roles and traces an endearing relationship between brothers that will evolve throughout his footage. Wonderful.
Born on the 4th of July (1989)
The second film in Oliver Stone’s Vietnam trilogy puts us in the shoes of a veteran who is confined to a wheelchair after suffering from war injuries. But that pain will not even be comparable to what Tom Cruise’s own character suffers when he returns to his country and finds himself rejected by a large part of American society.
Days of Thunder (1990)
Tom Cruise and Tony Scott meet again in this film in which the New Yorker is also the screenwriter . The film takes us to the world of Nascar racing to feel all the emotion of a sport that can end in tragedy at any moment.
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Another of the great successes of Tom Cruise who, along with Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas, became a phenomenon in the 90s. It was surely thanks to his influence that vampires became fashionable again, although nobody I would draw as sinister and dark characters. Especially after seeing so much beauty together in this film.
Mission Impossible (1996) (Producer)
Tom Cruise already has his career perfectly on track and is beginning to be the one who produces his films. The actor gets the rights to the old CBS TV series and adapts it to the cinema to give it a completely different twist: spies, betrayals, special agents, cutting-edge technology and many more movies that were to arrive over the next (almost ) 30 years. We will not name more of this saga because they are all contained in this first one.
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Who does not remember the story of that sports agent who slams the door of a successful multinational to start the business on their own? The “show me the pasta” movie that was a box office and critical success, and that confirmed the good moment of the actor as a reference in Hollywood throughout the world.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
One of the typical projects that Tom Cruise agrees to do because he feels like it, and even more so if he directs Stanley Kubrick. He stars in the film with his wife , Nicole Kidman, who was his wife at the time, and the story deals with issues such as sex, love and fidelity in a really raw way. Very very good.
Magnolia (1999)
Directed by the extraordinary Paul Thomas Anderson, the story follows nine intersecting storylines that take place in a valley near Los Angeles. Rough film to which the American actor adapts without batting an eyelid.
Tropic Thunder (2008)
This film, the work of Ben Stiller, is an example of how Tom Cruise does not mind getting into the skin of a character that deviates from the stereotype that he has been interpreting in recent decades . Take a look at the video above to enjoy the characterization he had to go through to get on screen.
Oblivion (2013)
Joseph Kosinski directs Tom Cruise in a really interesting science-fiction film that tells us the story of a planet Earth that has been practically destroyed and contaminated due to the destruction of the Moon. Humans have escaped into space and only a few remain controlling what little remains. As interesting as surprising.
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Another little Tom Cruise gem that reminds us of a video game: a soldier who fights against an alien invasion, receives the gift of reviving after each death he suffers on the battlefield. Without a doubt, one of the genre films that you must see and to which the actor from Syracuse has accustomed us throughout his entire career.
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
32 years later, Tom Cruise returns to the role that made him famous in the 80s , with a film that revives the old memories of those pilots who fought to be the best. Now they don’t need as much recognition anymore but they stay fit and ready to face any threat. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, with whom he already met in Oblivion , and is being a mass phenomenon in theaters with a crazy collection. In fact, such is the success that it can already be said that it has become the best premiere in the actor’s film history. Didn’t we already say it was fireproof?