After his son dies, Dr. Tenma (Nicolas Cage) builds a powerful robot in his image to help him deal with his grief. Unable to live up to Dr. Temna's high expectations, Astro Boy (Freddie Highmore) leaves his home in Metro City and sets out into the world to become a super hero. But, when Metro City is threatened, Astro Boy returns to save the day and attempts to reconcile with the father who rejected him. Directed by David Bowers. With Kristen Bell, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane and Eugene Levy. Categories: Action, Animation, Sci-Fi, Based on a Comic. Year: 2009.
Nicolas Cage in Astro Boy
Directed by Werner Herzog. With Nicolas Cage, Xzibit, Eva Mendes, Lance E. Nichols, J.D. Evermore, Shea Whigham and Val Kilmer. Categories: Crime, Drama. Year: 2009.
Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
This is the movie that asks the question: What would it be like if the government were able to train guinea pigs to be secret agents? Penélope Cruz, Sam Rockwell, Nicolas Cage and others provide the voices for a group of high-IQ talking computer-generated guinea pigs that are specially trained to save humanity from a villain's plot to take over the world. The movie is in a 3-D digital format. Directed by Hoyt Yeatman. With Tracy Morgan, Will Arnett, Bill Nighy, and Zach Galifianakis and. Categories: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy. Year: 2009.
Nicolas Cage in G-Force
When a time capsule buried behind his son's elementary school is unearthed one year early, professor Ted Myles (Nicolas Cage) discovers that amongst a set of children's drawings is a sheet of paper covered in a series of random numbers. When Ted deciphers the code, he realizes that the numbers are actually the dates of every major disaster that has occurred in the last 50 years. With only three date remaining, Ted sets out with Diana Whelan (Rose Byrne), the daughter of the woman who wrote the numbers, to prevent the cataclysmic events that he fears are destined to become a reality. Directed by Alex Proyas. With Chandler Canterbury, Lara Robinson, Ben Mendelsohn and Adrienne Pickering. Categories: Drama, Thriller. Year: 2009.
Nicolas Cage in Knowing
When Joe (Nicolas Cage), a cold-blooded assassin, travels to Bangkok for a series of contract killings, he hires a street punk named Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm) to run errands, intending to execute him when the job is over. Instead, Joe begins mentoring the young man and falls for Fon (Charlie Yeung), a local shop girl. When the true nature of his latest assignment comes to light, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and must fight for his life when his boss decides it's time to clean house. Directed by Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang. With James With and Panward Hemmanee. Categories: Action, Crime, Thriller, Remake. Year: 2008.
Nicolas Cage in Bangkok Dangerous
In order to protect the woman he loves, motorcycle stunt performer Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) sells his soul to Mephisto (Peter Fonda), but ends up losing Roxanne (Eva Mendes) anyway. Years later, Mephisto returns with a deal. In exchange for his soul, Blaze agrees to become the Ghost Rider, an avenging spirit that takes its form at night as a demon with a flaming skull and motorcycle. Directed by Mark Steven Johnson. With Wes Bentley and Sam Elliott. Categories: Action, Fantasy, Thriller. Year: 2007.
Nicolas Cage in Ghost Rider
Treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) returns to uncover the truth behind Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Using the 18 pages missing from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Gates investigates the mystery, which implicates one of his ancestors in the murder. To discover the truth and clear his family name, Gates will stop at nothing - even if it means breaking into Buckingham Palace and the White House. Directed by Jon Turteltaub. With Jon Voight, Diane Kruger, Ed Harris, Helen Mirren, Harvey Keitel and Justin Bartha. Categories: Action, Adventure. Year: 2007.
Nicolas Cage in National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Las Vegas magician Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) can see the future. But, to escape the tests and examinations he went through as a child, he now lives under an assumed name and keeps his powerful abilities a secret. When a terrorist group threatens LA with a nuclear attack, government agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) must convince Johnson to use his gift to help her stop the destruction before it's too late. Directed by Lee Tamahori. With Jessica Biel. Categories: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Year: 2007.
Nicolas Cage in Next
Young Lucas Nickle is the new kid in town. Friendless and harassed by a neighborhood bully, Lucas takes out his frustration by flooding an ant hill in his yard. But, when the ants decide to retaliate by using a magic potion, Lucas is shrunk down to the size of an ant and sentence to live in their colony. Directed by John A. Davis. With Nicolas Cage, Julia Roberts, Paul Giamatti and Meryl Streep. Categories: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy. Year: 2006.
Nicolas Cage in The Ant Bully
This is the true story of John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and William J. Jimeno (Michael Peña), two Port Authority police officers who rushed in to rescue people from the World Trade Center on 9/11. After the towers collapsed, McLoughlin and Jimeno were trapped themselves and later became two of the last survivors extracted from Ground Zero. This is their story, and the story of the rescuers who never gave up hope that they would be saved. Directed by Oliver Stone. With Jay Hernandez, Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Categories: Drama, History. Year: 2006.
Nicolas Cage in World Trade Center
Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) is a Ukrainian immigrant to Brooklyn, NY who decides to make a name for himself as an international arms dealer. While doing business in the world's deadliest war zones, Yuri and his brother, Vitaly (Jared Leto), struggle to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent (Ethan Hawke), their business rivals, and even some of their customers who intend on using the merchandise against them. Directed by Andrew Niccol. With Bridget Moynahan and Ian Holm. Categories: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Year: 2005.
Nicolas Cage in Lord of War
Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) has spent his life searching for the legendary Knights Templar Treasure. For six generations, the Gates family has chased after clues left behind by America’s founding fathers and traveled across the nation in search of the bounty. Now, at last, Gates believes he has discovered where the ultimate hint to the treasure’s resting place can be found - a hidden map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Directed by Jon Turteltaub. With Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean and Jon Voight. Categories: Action, Adventure. Year: 2004.
Nicolas Cage in National Treasure
Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage), a neurotic screenwriter, is having trouble adapting a book about an orchid thief into a movie. While Charlie agonizes over his writer's block, his less cerebral twin brother Donald (also Cage) decides to become a screenwriter himself, much to Charlie's disdain. When Charlie finally gets his inspiration, he becomes so caught up in his screenplay that the line between reality and fantasy begins to blur, and he sets out to locate the book's author, Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), and the real-life orchid thief, John Laroche (Chris Cooper). Directed by Spike Jonze. With Cara Seymour, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston, Brian Cox and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Categories: Comedy, Drama. Year: 2002.
Nicolas Cage in Adaptation
Randall Raines (Nicolas Cage) is a legendary car thief who gets dragged into one last job when his brother, Kip (Giovanni Ribisi), winds up in debt with the vicious stolen car merchant Raymond Calitri (Christopher Eccleston). Tasked with stealing 50 different luxury cars in 4 days, Raines assembles a dream team of thieves (including Angelina Jolie, T.J. Cross, Will Patton, James Duval and Scott Caan) and tries to save his brother's life while dodging the shrewd detectives Castlebeck (Delroy Lindo) and Drycoff (Timothy Olyphant). Directed by Dominic Sena. Categories: Action, Crime, Thriller. Year: 2000.
Nicolas Cage in Gone in Sixty Seconds
On the night of a heavyweight championship fight, Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage), a cocky, corrupt Atlantic City cop, watches the bout with his old friend Kevin Dunne (Gary Sinise), who is working the security detail for the Secretary of Defense. When the Secretary is assassinated while Dunne is distracted by a mysterious redhead, Santoro begins to uncover a complex conspiracy involving a boxer, a drunken fan and a woman in a white wig. Directed by Brian De Palma. With John Heard, Carla Gugino and Luis Guzmán. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1998.
Nicolas Cage in Snake Eyes
After being paroled, Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage), a former military man, finds himself in the middle of a mid-air hijacking of a plane full of inmates masterminded by Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (John Malkovich). On the ground, U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin (John Cusack) tries to get the plane back in one piece and a group of the most dangerous and notorious prisoners in the US back behind bars. Directed by Simon West. With Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Monica Potter and Dave Chappelle. Categories: Action, Crime, Thriller. Year: 1997.
Nicolas Cage in Con Air
FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) assumes the identity of sadistic criminal Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) through the use of a revolutionary plastic surgery technique in order to infiltrate his organization. But, when Troy wakes from a coma and discovers what has happened, he forces the doctors to give him Archer's face and proceeds to take over his life. Directed by John Woo. With Joan Allen and Gina Gershon. Categories: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Year: 1997.
Nicolas Cage in Face/Off
After General Hummel (Ed Harris) and a renegade team of Marines seize control of Alcatraz, the group vows to launch missiles containing lethal nerve gas into downtown San Francisco unless their demands are met. In response, the US government sends a team of Navy SEALs and two civilians, FBI chemical weapons expert Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) and John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery), a top-secret federal prisoner, to subdue the homegrown terrorists. But, when the SEALs are neutralized, the mission's success rests on the shoulders of Goodspeed and Mason, the only man ever to escape from the infamous prison. Directed by Michael Bay. With David Morse, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn, John Spencer and Vanessa Marcil. Categories: Action, Adventure, Thriller. Year: 1996.
Nicolas Cage in The Rock
H.I. McDonnough (Nicolas Cage), a small town hold-up man, falls in love with Ed (Holly Hunter), the female cop who always arrests him. Desperate to start a family and unable to conceive, the newly married McDonnoughs kidnap a baby from furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson). The newlyweds try to keep their crime a secret, but nosy friends and co-workers and a post-apocalyptic bounty hunter (Randall 'Tex' Cobb) have their own plans for the child. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. With John Goodman, William Forsythe and Frances McDormand. Categories: Action, Comedy, Crime. Year: 1987.
Nicolas Cage in Raising Arizona