Nicolas Cage has been seeing a surge in his career in the last few years, and as someone with the unbearable weight of massive talent always with him, you would think it could be hard to choose which of his movies he considers to be his best. However, the actor recently singled out which Nicolas Cage movies he, Nicolas Cage, believes to be his greatest.

Cage appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote his new movie, Renfield, which sees the versatile actor taking on the role of Dracula. While that role has been well-received by even those who haven’t exactly praised the movie itself, Cage was able to list which of his films he particularly believes show him at the top of his game. These movies are Pig, Mandy, Bringing Out the Dead, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, and Joe.

Naturally, many other movies could have made this list, and there is no doubt that some people haven’t even heard of the titles that Cage noted. Host Colbert already added some of his favorites to the list, which included the action thriller Face/Off, and Cage said this is also one of his other personal favorites. He continued:

"You know what's interesting about Face/Off... Face/Off was a big movie – a big studio movie – that I made at Paramount. And I was able to use what I learned from this little Vampire's Kiss movie and put it in this giant movie and it worked! And I was like 'People really dig this!' And so I was very happy with those results."

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Nicolas Cage Says a Cameo From 1989 Is His Favorite “Lesser-Know’ Performance

Nicolas Cage in Matchstick Men
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While Cage’s top 5 movies are all films that people will have probably at least heard of in passing, he previously cited another movie as his top appearance in a film that many people don’t know about. The film was Never on Tuesday and was released back in 1989. As the actor previously explained:

“Umm, there was a little cameo that I did that lasted all of about uh one minute in a movie called Never on Tuesday. I don’t recommend the entire film. But um, it was a performance I did, I didn’t get paid but the agreement was with the director and whoever was financing the picture that if I do it, they would let me do whatever I wanted. So it was a complete avant-garde experiment and of course I played a character who had a prosthetic nose which was very long and pointed.

And I had this whole concept of this guy who had a very long nose and was having trouble meeting girls so his father bought him a Ferrari Testarossa to help him with that. So I showed up on set with a prosthetic nose and a very high voice driving a Ferrari Testarossa and of course it was very frustrating for all the other actors. They like it now, apparently, but at the time it was like you can’t really fire me because that was the agreement. You said I could do whatever I wanted, and he did and so that’s my favorite lesser known performance.”