Tom Cruise was in an American thriller film.
Collateral is a 2004 American neo-noir crime thriller directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie . Tom Cruise . In the 2000s , Cruise starred in a number of successful films , including the science fiction thrillers Vanilla Sky ( 2001 ) and Minority Report ( 2002 ) , the epic war film The Last Samurai ( 2003 ) , the crime film Collateral ( 2004 ) , the science fiction disaster thriller War of the Worlds ( 2005 ) , and the historical thriller Valkyrie ( 2008 ) . Valkyrie is a 2008 American-German historical thriller film set in Nazi Germany during World War II . Vanilla Sky is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed , written , and co-produced by Cameron Crowe .