10 great films with Tom Cruise in which he doesn't save the world (11 photos)

A selection of popular films with Tom Cruise, where he does not perform another impossible mission, but plays interesting and often controversial characters. What movie with Tom Cruise is your favorite?





On July 3, American actor Tom Cruise turned 61 years old. For at least the last ten years, Cruise has been perceived by the public as an actor exclusively in action films and an adrenaline maniac who chooses projects so that he can jump with a parachute (preferably into an abyss, flying into it on a motorcycle), climb the highest tower in world and hover on a flying plane while outside.

This is today's Tom Cruise.

However, he was not always an actor of this type. In fact, he has as many as three Oscar nominations - and not for his stunt work, but for purely dramatic ones. Overall, the first half of his career, that is, roles in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, was well balanced. Of course, he played heroes who save everything around him, but he alternated such characters with ordinary people who have more mundane tasks and problems.

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)



Stanley Kubrick's last film. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman play a couple who are not as happy as they might seem from the outside. Due to the mutual jealousy of the spouses and the desire for the unknown, dubious women appear in the life of the hero Cruise, and then a completely secret sect, which in some mystical way is connected with his wife.

Rain Man (1988)





Tom Cruise plays an enterprising young man, Charlie, whose brother Raymond suffers from autism and is in a mental hospital. It turns out that it is to Raymond that their father leaves a large inheritance. Now Cruise's mercantile hero is trying to make friends with his brother, whose existence he never knew about before and whose mental state is fraught with many surprises.

Jerry Maguire (1997)



Tom Cruise plays a sports agent who is fired from his firm for essentially being honest. He enlists the support of as many as one former colleague, takes a fish from the aquarium of the old office and creates his own agency. Competing with unscrupulous sharks in the sports industry is not easy, but it is possible. If you're good at your job.

The actor received an Oscar nomination for his role in the film.

Magnolia (1999)



Tom Cruise plays the famous showman and sex guru Frank, who is drawn into the whirlpool of the film's events and with whom his dying father wants to see. For this role, Tom Cruise was nominated for his last acting Oscar.

Interview with the Vampire (1994)



Tom Cruise is a vampire! First, he turns Brad Pitt into a similar hero, and he turns young Kirsten Dunst into a vampire. This trio of star vampires, of course, will not be able to live happily, because everyone adapts to their own immortality in different ways.

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)



Tom Cruise as a military man. But not a brave warrior who single-handedly deals with the army, but a Vietnam War veteran who returned to America as an invalid and joined the anti-war movement, showing people by his example what war and its consequences do to ordinary people.

Cruise's first Oscar nomination.

Vanilla Sky (2001)



The successful protagonist, played by Tom Cruise, gets into a car accident and his life changes dramatically. Firstly, his face is badly damaged, and secondly, he cannot understand which part of his life is a dream and which is reality.

A Few Good Men (1992)



Tom Cruise plays a young lawyer who takes on the case of an American private who died at the Guantanamo Bay military base. He defends the dead soldier’s colleagues accused of hazing and gets to the truth, which “is too much for him,” according to the base commander, Colonel Jessep, played by the excellent Jack Nicholson.

Accomplice (2004)



Tom Cruise is a villain! And the hitman Vincent, who hires a simple taxi driver Mask to get to all his victims. Fulfilling the order, Vincent takes Max hostage, but seems to become attached to him and is not going to kill him. However, on the other hand, Vincent draws his driver deeper and deeper into the criminal events of this long night.

The Color of Money (1986)



A former brilliant billiard player played by Paul Newman meets a young billiard talent played by Tom Cruise. He takes patronage over the young man, but their principles diverge: the elder strives for money, and the younger for victories. And, as it turns out, these are different paths.