Tom Cruise
          Director, Actor  
	
	Filmography (All Films)
				 
	  
	        
Taps (1981) 
- Dir. Harold Becker
Feat. Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton, George C. Scott… 
- A surprise box–office smash about a group of cadets who take over their military college, which is on the brink of being closed down. Inspired…
 
Risky Business (1983)
 
- Dir. Paul Brickman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay 
- A kind of '80s update of THE GRADUATE, this imaginative comedy propelled a 17–year old Tom Cruise into the limelight. Uncommonly stylish and…
 
Outsiders, The (1983)
 
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio… 
- Based on the gritty novel by S. E. Hinton (THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW), this ‘realistic’ depiction of teenage outsiders in 50s America is…
 
All The Right Moves (1983) 
- Dir. Michael Chapman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson… 
- Stirring though conventional sports drama has a talented high–school football player (Cruise), weigh up his life priorities in the face of a…
 
Top Gun (1986)
 
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer… 
- Star–making film for Cruise, who goes through all the right motions to get millions of bums on seats. The routine plot is overcome by the…
 
Color of Money, The (1986) 
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Tom Cruise, Paul Newman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio… 
- 25 years on from the THE HUSTLER, Paul Newman is the tainted ex–pool shark who passes his baton on to rookie Tom Cruise. Unremarkable Scorsese,…
 
Legend (1986)
 
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Tom Cruise, Tim Curry 
- Breathtaking imagery highlights this fantasy adventure about evil trying to corrupt innocence. Tom Cruise struts around in tights, but it's Tim Curry…
 
Cocktail (1988) 
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown 
- Tom Cruise receives behind–the–bar cocktail tips from Bryan Brown. Slick comedy was an early box–office for kiwi dir. Donaldson.
 
Rain Man (1988)
 
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino 
- Oscar–winning road drama featuring Dustin Hoffman's virtuoso performance as the idiot savant brother of Tom Cruise, who does equally well in a…
 
Born On the Fourth of July (1989) 
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Tom Cruise 
- Tom Cruise gives an exhilarating performance as Ron Kovic, the teenage patriot who became an embittered, paralysed Vietnam vet, to finally emerge as…