Mission: Impossible

In the 1996 action-thriller Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, a young operative for the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) who is framed for the murder of his entire team during a botched mission in Prague. Now a fugitive branded a mole by the CIA, Ethan must go rogue to find the true traitor and recover a stolen "NOC list" containing the identities of undercover agents worldwide. This high-stakes espionage mystery, directed by Brian De Palma, trades the franchise’s later focus on massive stunts for a tense, Hitchcockian atmosphere, culminating in a legendary silent heist inside a pressure-sensitive vault at CIA headquarters.