Ranking Every Nicolas Cage Movie Worst To Best

13. Matchstick Men (2003)

People get so hung up on Ridley Scott's sci-fi and action movies that they forget he's also been a great purveyor of human drama, as made evident in the criminally underrated Matchstick Men.

Cage is majestic as a con man crippled by both Tourette's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder, who on the eve of pulling off his biggest heist, finds himself introduced to his 14-year-old daughter (Alison Lohman).

That the film received no Oscar nominations and tanked at the box office despite solid reviews is a crying shame, because it contains one of Cage's finest-ever performances.

12. Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (2009)

Cage teaming up with Werner Herzog sure was a match made in heaven, as proven by this deliriously surreal quasi-remake of the classic Harvey Keitel-starring, Abel Ferrara-directed crime thriller Bad Lieutenant.

Typically, Herzog was interested in far more than a straight remake, effectively taking the Bad Lieutenant "branding" to tell a very different tale of a corrupt cop having his way with the world.

Cage's performance practically defies categorisation, accentuated perfectly by Herzog's surreal, twisted direction, and a script which plays to the sensibilities of both. There is no Cage film quite like it.