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Tom Cruise Movies Quiz

Can you name these movies that starred Tom Cruise?
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First submittedNovember 9, 2012
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Movie
1996
Special agent Ethan Hunt can't trust anyone after his team members
are killed during a botched operation in Prague
Mission: Impossible
1996
"Show me the money", says a sport agent's last remaining client
Jerry Maguire
1988
Man and his autistic brother win money by counting cards
Rain Man
1986
Cocky pilot trains at an elite Navy flight school before fighting Soviet MiGs
Top Gun
2002
Future crimes are predicted and prevented
Minority Report
1999
Stanley Kubrick's last movie sarcastically referred to as the
"Cruise / Kidman" sex tape
Eyes Wide Shut
1993
Hot shot lawyer is hired into a Memphis law firm that represents the mob
The Firm
1986
Paul Newman helps a cocky young pool shark win the big tournament
The Color of Money
2014
In order to defeat an invasion of space aliens, Tom Cruise must
live the same day over and over again
Edge of Tomorrow
1983
Cocky young suburban teen hires a local prostitute and dances to
"Old Time Rock and Roll" in his underwear
Risky Business
2004
Gray-haired hitman forces Jamie Foxx to drive him around Los Angeles
Collateral
2008
Claus von Stauffenberg plots to assassinate Hitler
Valkyrie
2003
U.S. cavalry officer fights in Japan in the 1800s
The Last Samurai
1992
Navy lawyers take down the commander of Guantanamo Bay after he tells
them they "can't handle the truth"
A Few Good Men
1989
Wheelchair-bound Vietnam vet has a hard time adjusting to civilian life
Born on the Fourth of July
1990
Young race car driver wins the Daytona 500, impressing Nicole Kidman
Days of Thunder
2001
After his face is ruined by a car crash, a man loses his grip on reality,
co-starring Penelope Cruz
Vanilla Sky
1988
Cocky young bartender mixes drinks with energy and enthusiasm
Cocktail
2005
Tom Cruise must protect a young Dakota Fanning after aliens invade Earth
War of the Worlds
1994
A journalist goes to New Orleans to hear a vampire's life story
Interview with the Vampire
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Level 90
Dec 21, 2012
Like him or not, guy's been in a lot of good movies.
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Level 82
Apr 12, 2013
Has has. Saw Oblivion the other day. Another solid notch on his resume, though it wasn't great or anything. Friend I was with seemed to like it more than I did.
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Level 47
Jul 3, 2016
Watch the movie Moon and keep in mind it was made prior to Oblivion.
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Level 71
Jun 27, 2017
I really enjoyed 'Oblivion', one of my favourite Si-Fi movies.
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Level 82
Sep 29, 2017
I've tried to watch Moon 3 times and keep getting bored.
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Level 82
Sep 22, 2018
^ whoops. The movie I was trying to watch and getting bored with was actually Mr. Nobody. I downloaded Moon at the same time and just never got around to watching it. I watched it finally. It was okay. Also not great or anything. But more entertaining than Mr. Nobody.
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Level 82
Feb 9, 2013
I was doing much better on this than I do on most of these filmography quizzes but then when time ran out I saw that I should have gotten way more than I did... I think there are only 3 or 4 movies I never heard of before as opposed to most other actors where it's often between 40 and 70% of their resume. Couldn't for the life of me remember names for Rock of Ages and Vanilla Sky... can't believe I forgot Rain Man, Interview, A Few Good Men, Last Samurai, etc... I only got Austin Powers because of the clue that he was playing himself, I doubt that would have popped into my head otherwise.
+4
Level ∞
Apr 8, 2014
Fun fact. Before his latest movie, Tom Cruise's last 3 characters were "Jack", "Jack Reacher" and "Stacie Jaxx".
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Level 82
Jan 4, 2015
After being accused by film critics of being on "Cruise" control through most of the 80s and 90s- repeatedly playing the same character, he has proven that he's a "Jack" of all trades.
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Level 44
Feb 8, 2015
if you read the Reacher books you will understand how he couldn't possibly be Reacher.
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Level 82
Sep 29, 2017
You understand that these are fictional characters in made-up stories, right?
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Level 68
Nov 30, 2019
Fictional or not, doesn’t matter. The point is these characters have been written with distinct persona, characteristics and descriptions and Tom Cruise doesn’t fit...in the same manner that he was miscast in The Firm.
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Level 82
Dec 12, 2021
So... in other words, no.
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Level 56
Dec 13, 2021
You're missing the point mate. The character Reacher works because in the book he's 6'6, big square head and jaw, hands like slabs of meat. That, and the fact he's an ex MP Major explains why he's able to go into all of these small towns and resolve problems fighting bunches of guys at once. His character also takes massive amounts of punishment, again, due to his abnormal size.

If what you're claiming was true we could have Matt Damon play Malcolm X, and a kid who wasn't bitten by a spider play spiderman.

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Level 82
Dec 14, 2021
I'm not missing the point. But you apparently are.
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Level 76
Mar 21, 2022
@kalbahamut And yet you keep failing to make any kind of point, except a vague "it's fiction", which was already counter-argumented. But sure, keep being all smug in your unfounded sense of superiority.
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Level 82
May 1, 2022
ha. project much? Arguing against a point doesn't automatically negate the point.
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Level 27
Jun 6, 2014
some decent films here, shame he is a big of a nutter himself
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Level 79
Jun 26, 2014
He actually became cool again after his epic performance in Tropic Thunder
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Level 37
Aug 2, 2014
Agreed.
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Level 92
Aug 21, 2014
And then he did yet another MI movie, and ruined it.
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Level 82
Jan 4, 2015
agreed
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Level 90
Jun 29, 2017
Plattitude, that's just nuts. The last two MI movies haven't just passed the low bar of being the best MI movies but are actually among Cruise's best movies period.
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Level 82
Sep 29, 2017
::barf:: gotta side with plats on this one.
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Level 40
Nov 23, 2020
@tschutzer Don't listen to them, you are absolutely right.
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Level 82
Dec 12, 2021
If he needs your encouragement to believe that then that's probably a good sign that he's not.
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Level 76
Mar 21, 2022
If you need to resort to fallacies to make your point, then that's probably a good sign you're wrong.
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Level 82
May 1, 2022
and your comments (here and elsewhere) suggest all sort of things about you but if I start listing them I'll just get censored.
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Level 75
Sep 5, 2014
I didn't get anything newer than 1994. I really have to start getting out more.
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Level 67
May 8, 2015
I'm absolutely terrible at these. Missed 7 films I've seen, plus a bunch of well known others.
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Level 47
Jul 3, 2016
I swear to high heaven my brain makes no sense. I easily remembered movies I had only seen once or not at all, but couldn't recall the names of movies I had seen multiple times. WTF BRAIN?!!?!
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Level 79
Jul 25, 2021
Right?! I've never even seen Eyes Wide Shut or Minority Report, but I got them. I watch my favs Valkyrie and War of the Worlds every time I stumble upon them on TV and yet I forgot about them. Brains are super weird.
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Level 29
Feb 17, 2017
Goldmember!
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Level 73
Jun 27, 2017
Dan, you need to update the quiz.
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Level 71
Jun 27, 2017
One of my favourite actors. My favourite of these would be "A few Good Men' ..... with Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollack all playing great parts in a good story.
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Level 22
Aug 29, 2017
like these types of quizes with a movie hint. Hard to reel off all the movies just from memory.
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Level 89
Sep 29, 2017
Now see if you can guess how many of these movies he doesn't ride a motorcycle in.
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Level 76
Mar 21, 2022
Or run intensely.
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Level 59
Sep 29, 2017
How did I forget Top Gun?! Sheesh.
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Level 44
Sep 29, 2017
couldn't remember the name edge of tomorrow as it is also called Live Die Repeat on DVD (and All You Need is Kill in original book)
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Level 73
Dec 12, 2021
Live, Die, Repeat is what I put. Should count.
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Level 67
Sep 29, 2017
People tried real hard not to like Tom Cruise for a few years in the middle of the 2000's...but his movies are just too good, so everyone gave up. I kinda prefer it the way it is now, where we can all agree that he seems bonkers but we're not going to act like we don't want to watch Edge of Tomorrow for the seventh time.
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Level 82
Sep 29, 2017
eh... he's had a few stinkers. All the Mission Impossible movies after the first one were pretty terrible. The Mummy remake was a turd. I just saw American Made and while it was okay... it's the sort of movie I will never watch again and in 5 or 6 years won't be able to recall if I saw it or not. Minority Report was obnoxious in how it underestimated its audience. and... before Rain Man he had as many misses as hits.

but overall... strong resume. Still... can we dislike him as a person? He's clearly nuts.

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Level 67
Sep 30, 2017
Oh, there are for sure some bad movies here. I was commenting more generally that he is in a lot of great movies. I just find it amusing that there was this "We're finished with Tom Cruise!" movement for a moment...and then everyone decided that giving up his movies was hard, so we're just not going to do it.
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Level 82
Nov 25, 2018
It's only been a year and as I forecast, I already forgot that American Made existed. :) That one, Valkyrie, and Edge of Tomorrow were among my "d'oh!"-can't-believe-I-missed-thems this time around. The ones I've never guessed right include Taps, Lions for Lambs, and Endless Love.
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Level 82
Sep 29, 2017
Hahaha... I was trying to remember Magnolia and I typed in "Steel Magnolias" instead...
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Level 82
Sep 29, 2017
I also tried "Day and Knight" and missed that one. D'oh.
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Level 49
Jul 11, 2018
Damn! The last samurai, of course!
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Level 79
Jul 25, 2021
Valkyrie, A Few Good Men, and War of the Worlds are literally some of my favorite movies of all time and I missed them. Mind went totally blank.
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Level 24
Aug 8, 2021
how about an update?
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Level 67
Aug 14, 2021
Update now pretty please for Fallout, Maverick, Edge of tomorrow 2, MI 7 and 8?
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Level 81
Nov 27, 2021
Needs a few more uses of "cocky"
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Level 82
Dec 21, 2021
They could have used that adjective to describe his characters in Jerry Maguire, Rain Man, Minority Report, The Firm, Edge of Tomorrow, A Few Good Men, Days of Thunder, and Interview with the Vampire, but exercised restraint. It's one of the three gears he's most comfortable shifting to, the others being passionately enraged and/or intensely desperate/frantic.
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Level 63
Dec 14, 2021
I've seen fewer of these than I thought, remember even less - and I don't care. He's one of the only actors that really doesn't ever seem like his characters, but rather seems like "Tom Cruise actiing," if you know what I mean. Also, all his characters are practically the same person, with the rare exception.
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Level 76
Mar 21, 2022
"One of the only actors"? There's a whole bunch of actors like that. It's easier to just play yourself than actually act.
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Level 67
Sep 6, 2022
The Journalist was in San Francisco not New Orleans
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Level 77
Mar 10, 2024
He definitely plays a type...The words "cocky" or "hotshot" were found in 1/4 of the questions. And honestly could have been added to a few more.