Vampire’s Kiss (1988)
Jun 13, 2010Man Believes He is a Vampire Comedy
Bizarre comedy where Nicolas Cage is a literary agent who believes he is a vampire. Cage gives the most absurdly over-the-top performance ever put on film
Nicolas Cage
Wild at Heart (1990)
May 22, 2001Surreal Disturbed Road Movie
One of David Lynch's finest films, with lovers Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern on the run in a road movie that travels through deranged places of the mind and explodes with crazy energy
Face/Off (1997)
Jun 3, 2005Action/Surgical Identity Exchange
A John Woo directed action film with the improbable premise where FBI agent John Travolta and terrorist Nicolas Cage end up surgically swapping faces and then taking over the other's identity
City of Angels (1998)
Apr 14, 1999Angel Romance
In undergoing a Hollywood remake, Wim Wenders' exquisitely lovely angel fantasy Wings of Desire becomes a weepy romance with angel Nicolas Cage wooing Meg Ryan
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Oct 25, 1999Urban Hell/Haunted Ambulance Driver
Martin Scorsese returns to the vision of urban hell he gave us in Taxi Driver with Nicolas Cage as an ambulance driver haunted the dead he sees. Powerful, blackly funny at times, if not quite up there as another Taxi Driver
8MM (1999)
Apr 29, 1999Snuff Movie Thriller
This seeks to be another Se7en, adapting a script by Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker and employing the same visual style in the story of Nicolas Cage delving into a seedy underworld in search of a snuff movie.
The Family Man (2000)
Dec 24, 2000Alternate Life Pathways
Brett Ratner conducts a likeable variation on It's a Wonderful Life with banker Nicolas Cage suddenly finding himself in an alternate life as a regular working class man with wife and kids
The Wicker Man (2006)
Nov 18, 2007Pagan Religion
The 1973 version of The Wicker Man is a cult classic; this is one of the worst remakes of all time that gets nothing about the original right, blunts its themes about religion and tosses in crude shocks and killings
The Ant Bully (2006)
Nov 10, 2006Animation/Boy Reduced to Ant Size
An animated film about a child who is cruel to ants only to be magically reduced down to their size and then have to become their saviour against an exterminator
Next (2007)
Sep 9, 2007Precognition/Action Film
This adapts a Philip K. Dick story and then throws it out to make a generic action film with Nicolas Cage as a psychic. All the potential of its idea is lost amid a series of ridiculous plot twists
Ghost Rider (2007)
Mar 26, 2007Comic-Book Avenger/Demonic Superhero
Film adaptation of Marvel Comics' demon superhero emerges as better than it had the right to be. The risibility of the image of a motorcycle-riding demon hero is made to work through some vivid and way-out effects
Knowing (2009)
May 24, 2009Prophecies of Disaster
Alex Proyas seemed a promising genre director during the 1990s. Here Nicolas Cage finds a time capsule that predicts a series of disasters, before the film tangents off into a strange Biblical End of the World scenario
G-Force (2009)
Oct 20, 2009Talking Guinea Pig Secret Agents
Imagine a Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible spy caper played out with talking guinea pigs. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, no less, this offers appealingly energetic silliness
Astro Boy (2009)
Nov 14, 2009Anime TV Series Remake/Android Boy
This animated theatrical remake of the old Astro Boy cartoon series is nicely made, although the film often feels over-simplistic in its scripting and use of cliches
Kick-Ass (2010)
Apr 18, 2010Superhero Wannabes
One of several films around the same time about wannabes without powers playing at being superheroes. Matthew Vaughn delivers a film that falls between witty deflation of and a celebration of nerdy fantasy
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010)
Jul 17, 2010Apprentice Wizard
A live-action film based on the titular segment from Fantasia. From Jerry Bruckheimer meaning that it is a film of empty-headed special effects that fails to conjure any magic of its own
Drive Angry (2011)
Feb 26, 2011Occult Car Chase Film
Essentially a supernatural version of a 1970s car chase movie with Nicolas Cage as a motorist who has escaped from Hell to settle a score. This makes a play for the trashy and absurd and comes out all the more entertaining for it
Season of the Witch (2011)
Jan 14, 2011Mediaeval Action Fantasy/Escorting a Witch
Medieavel fantasy action film with Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman assigned to escort a witch who may be able to deliver the land from the Black Plague. The wider moral issues of the film are buried under action and CGI
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)
Mar 8, 2012Comic-Book Avenger/Demonic Superhero
Ridiculous sequel to the Marvel Comics adaptation with an indifferently written script assembled from cliches, forgettable action scenes and Nicolas Cage giving one of his silliest performances in ages
The Croods (2013)
Mar 31, 2013Animation/Prehistoric Comedy
What gives the expectation of being a formulaic animated film about a prehistoric cave family instead comes with a fresh and naturalistic sense of humour that proves oddly appealing
The Frozen Ground (2013)
Nov 23, 2022True-Life Serial Killer
A film based on true-life serial killer Robert Hansen who would fly girls out into the Alaskan wilderness and then hunt them. Nicolas Cage is the dogged detective up against John Cusack as the killer
Left Behind (2014)
Oct 22, 2014Christian Rapture Film
Nicolas Cage stars in a new film based on the best-selling books about the Biblical end of the world. Despite a much bigger budget than the Kirk Cameron version, nothing terribly interesting happens
Pay the Ghost (2015)
Jul 14, 2017Man Searches for His Supernaturally Abducted Son
Nicolas Cage has never had a good relationship with the horror genre – remember The Wicker Man and Vampire's Kiss? This gives all impression it was designed for the 50c bargain bins, in which Nic tries to save his missing son in what amounts to a supernatural version of Taken
Mom & Dad (2017)
Mar 4, 2018Mass Insanity Where Parents Try to Kill Their Children
A captivating variant on the mass insanity film where parents are frenziedly driven to kill their children. As the murderous father, Nicolas Cage gives a performance where he lets all stops go, while director Brian Taylor, formerly one half of Neveldine/Taylor, makes a rather watchable film
The Humanity Bureau (2017)
Feb 12, 2018Dystopian Future
Nicolas Cage is a lawman of the future who rebels against the system to protect a woman and child. Essentially a copy of the basics of Logan's Run, this manages to be uninteresting in every way
Mandy (2018)
Feb 24, 2019Man's Revenge Trail Against a Cult
Nicolas Cage goes all Death Wish and slaughters a cult that murdered his wife. A regular revenge film is transformed by director Panos Cosmatos into something bizarrely primal
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Mar 9, 2019Animation/Comic-Book Superhero
Sony, the holders of the Spider-Man copyright, squeeze more out of the property with a madcap animated offering that mixes up a host of alternate takes on Spider-Man in what visually resembles an explosion at a pop art exhibition
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)
Mar 16, 2020Animation/Comic-Book Superhero Team
Film spinoff from the animated tv series Teen Titans Go! This hits in with an hilairous barrage of one-liners wickedly spoofing the superhero genre and jokes at DC Comics canon
Between Worlds (2018)
May 3, 2020Astral Projection and Possession
Nicolas Cage career from the mid-2010s gives all impression he has chosen projects for the full-on dementia value. Here he lets all stops go as the spirit of his late wife possesses the body of the teenage daughter of the woman he is seeing
Color Out of Space (2019)
Jan 24, 2020H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation/Mutations from Space
Richard Stanley made one of the most exciting directorial debuts with Hardware. Welcomely returning after a long absence, he is one of the few directors to mainline the essence of H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horrors
Jiu Jitsu (2020)
Nov 28, 2020Action Film/Alien-Human Combat
The action film has largely died off in the 2010s. This is very much a throwback with a set-up reminiscent of Predator about an action team fighting an alien in the jungle
The Croods: A New Age (2020)
Aug 13, 2021Animation/Prehistoric Comedy
The sequel to DreamWorks' animated prehistoric film. For a very low expectation effort - the modern animated sequel - this emerges as far more colourful and entertaining than one expects
Willy’s Wonderland (2021)
Feb 27, 2021Possessed Animatronic Robots
A horror film premised around Nicolas Cage beating the crap out of a series of possessed animatronic robots, a fairly blatant copy of the Five Nights at Freddy's videogame
Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)
Sep 24, 2021Gonzo Post-Apocalyptic Film
Nicolas Cage’s career choices in recent years have taken him into serious psychotronic headspace. Shion Sono is a director whose film's inhabit demented territory. It seemed inevitable that the two should meet up on screen
The Flash (2023)
Jul 29, 2023Comic-Book Superhero
Despite a poor box-office performance and a troubled production behind the scenes, it is a surprise what a good film this is, easily outstripping the last half-dozen MCU films put together
Dream Scenario (2023)
Jan 20, 2024Man Appears in People’s Dreams
A film in which Nicolas Cage keeps appearing in other people’s dreams. This goes from an initial wild absurdism to something that becomes bitingly satiric as it takes on instant celebrity and Cancel Culture
Renfield (2023)
May 12, 2023Dracula’s Manservant
Twilight fairly much killed the vampire film. This is the first of two big-budget offerings of 2023 that aims to turn that around
Arcadian (2024)
Aug 3, 2024Siege Against Monsters
A post-apocalyptic film that seems a conceptual merging of I Am Legend and A Quiet Place where Nicolas Cage and sons are at siege from monsters that surround their farmhouse every night
Longlegs (2024)
Aug 30, 2024Serial Killer Thriller
Osgood Perkins has been a director on the rise in recent years. This was his fourth film where he makes a serial killer thriller featuring a verrrry weird Nicolas Cage in the title role
The Carpenter’s Son (2025)
Dec 19, 2025Horror Film About the Life of Jesus
A horror film about the life of Jesus as a child. That’s not quite what we end up getting but it is enough to give this a bizarre freakshow appeal and get this site watching. Behind that though, this is surprisingly traditional