What is the best Nicolas Cage movie of all time?

By YPB Team

Vote for the ultimate Nicolas Cage film — from Oscar-winning drama to gloriously unhinged action epics, his filmography spans every extreme of cinema.

Leaving Las Vegas

A 1995 drama in which Cage plays a suicidal alcoholic who forms an unlikely bond with a sex worker, earning him the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Raising Arizona

A 1987 Coen Brothers screwball comedy about a couple who kidnaps a baby from a furniture tycoon after finding they cannot have children.

Adaptation

A 2002 meta-comedy written by Charlie Kaufman in which Cage plays twin screenwriter brothers struggling to adapt a book about orchids.

Moonstruck

A 1987 romantic comedy in which Cage plays a passionate one-handed baker who falls for his brother's fiancée, played by Cher.

Face/Off

A 1997 John Woo action thriller in which Cage and John Travolta swap faces and identities in a high-concept cat-and-mouse showdown.

Con Air

A 1997 action blockbuster in which Cage plays a wrongly convicted ex-con aboard a prison transport flight taken over by dangerous criminals.

The Rock

A 1996 Michael Bay action thriller in which Cage plays an FBI chemical weapons expert forced to help a rogue general take over Alcatraz.

National Treasure

A 2004 adventure film in which Cage plays a historian who steals the Declaration of Independence while hunting for a legendary Freemason treasure.

Wild at Heart

A 1990 Palme d'Or-winning David Lynch road thriller about two lovers on the run from a hitman and the woman's overbearing mother.

Pig

A 2021 critically acclaimed drama in which Cage plays a reclusive truffle forager who ventures into Portland's underworld to recover his stolen pig.

Mandy

A 2018 psychedelic revenge horror film in which Cage plays a lumberjack who goes on a blood-soaked rampage after his girlfriend is killed by a cult.

Vampire's Kiss

A 1989 black comedy cult classic in which Cage delivers an iconic unhinged performance as a publishing executive who believes he is turning into a vampire.

Matchstick Men

A 2003 Ridley Scott crime dramedy in which Cage plays an obsessive-compulsive con artist whose life is upended when his teenage daughter shows up.

Bringing Out the Dead

A 1999 Martin Scorsese drama in which Cage plays a guilt-ridden New York paramedic haunted by the ghost of a girl he failed to save.

Joe

A 2013 indie drama in which Cage plays a rough-edged ex-convict foreman who mentors a troubled teenager trying to escape an abusive home.

Ghost Rider

A 2007 Marvel superhero film in which Cage plays a motorcycle stuntman who becomes a supernatural bounty hunter for the Devil called Ghost Rider.

Snake Eyes

A 1998 Brian De Palma thriller in which Cage plays a corrupt Atlantic City detective who uncovers a political assassination conspiracy at a boxing match.

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