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30 Best Tom Cruise Movies

26. Mission: Impossible (1996)

For a film based on a TV show, Tom Cruise made the role of spy Ethan Hunt all his own.

Before this film saga took off in a way where it was best known for action, Cruise made great use of nail-biter moments, as in the film’s iconic ceiling-lowering sequence, where a drop of sweat could ruin everything. That being said, the sequence where Cruise narrowly avoids death from a helicopter.