Maverick, Ethan Hunt, and one impossible stunt after another. The highest-grossing Tom Cruise movies, ranked by worldwide box office.
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Maverick, Ethan Hunt, and one impossible stunt after another. The highest-grossing Tom Cruise movies, ranked by worldwide box office.
Top Gun: Maverick
Cruise returned to the cockpit 36 years after the original for a sequel that became a cultural event, grossing over $1.5 billion worldwide and reviving the theatrical blockbuster after the pandemic. The highest-grossing film of his career.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Widely hailed as the best entry in the franchise, with Ethan Hunt's HALO jump and a Paris-to-Kashmir helicopter chase, it earned about $824 million worldwide.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Cruise clung to the side of an airborne A400 and held his breath underwater as the team takes on the Syndicate, in a film that grossed roughly $711 million worldwide.
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Cruise scaled the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, in Brad Bird's franchise-reviving entry, which took in about $695 million worldwide.
War of the Worlds
Steven Spielberg's alien-invasion thriller cast Cruise as a dockworker protecting his kids as tripods lay waste to Earth, grossing roughly $604 million worldwide.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
The two-part saga's climactic chapter sent Ethan Hunt after the rogue AI known as the Entity, earning about $599 million worldwide in 2025.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Cruise rode a motorcycle off a cliff in one of the most elaborate stunts ever filmed, in a chapter that grossed roughly $571 million worldwide.
Mission: Impossible II
John Woo brought his signature slow-motion gunplay and doves to the franchise's second outing, which earned about $546 million worldwide and topped the global box office in 2000.
The Last Samurai
Cruise plays a disillusioned Civil War officer who finds honor among Japan's samurai in Edward Zwick's sweeping epic, which grossed roughly $455 million worldwide.
The Mummy
Cruise headlined Universal's attempt to launch a 'Dark Universe' of monster films, an action-horror reboot that took in about $409 million worldwide despite a rough reception.
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