Top Assassin Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Matt Damon

Franka Potente

Chris Cooper

Clive Owen

The Bourne Identity (2002)

7.5 10.2K votes

Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?

Plot: assassin, amnesia, paris, france, based on novel or book, escape, barcelona, spain, ...

Cast

Josh Hartnett

Morgan Freeman

Ben Kingsley

Lucy Liu

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

7.5 4.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Canada, Germany

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

Plot: sniper, assassin, assassination, gambling debt, identity, boss, gangster, mistake in person, ...

Cast

Matt Damon

Julia Stiles

David Strathairn

Scott Glenn

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

7.4 8.4K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.

Plot: assassin, central intelligence agency (cia), corruption, paris, france, based on novel or book, madrid, spain, ...

Cast

Woody Allen

Martin Landau

Mia Farrow

Alan Alda

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

7.4 960 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.

Plot: adultery, new york city, assassin, professor, brother-in-law, murder, mistress, doctor, ...

Cast

Al Pacino

Diane Keaton

Talia Shire

Andy Garcia

The Godfather Part III (1990)

7.4 6.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 162 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

Plot: daughter, new york city, helicopter, assassination, italian american, gangster, confession, symbolism, ...

Place: italy

Cast

Brad Pitt

Joey King

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Brian Tyree Henry

Bullet Train (2022)

7.4 7.7K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: R

Story: Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world's fastest train.

Plot: mission, assassin, based on novel or book, hitman, briefcase, train, luck, runaway train, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Benjamin Wadsworth

Benedict Wong

Lana Condor

Maru00eda Gabriela de Faru00eda

Deadly Class (2019) TV Show

7.4 334 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Follow a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins. Maintaining his moral code while surviving a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques, and his own adolescent uncertainties may prove fatal.

Plot: assassin, training, boarding school, based on comic, murder, dark comedy, school, danger

Time: cold war, 1980s

Cast

Emily Blunt

Benicio del Toro

Josh Brolin

Victor Garber

Sicario (2015)

7.4 9.6K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

Plot: mission, assassin, central intelligence agency (cia), corruption, bomb, fbi, smoking, border, ...

Place: mexico, texas

Cast

Jamie Foxx

Gerard Butler

Colm Meaney

Bruce McGill

Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

7.4 5.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.

Plot: prison, assassin, philadelphia, pennsylvania, bomb, secret passage, deal, investigation, ...

Cast

Keanu Reeves

Common

Laurence Fishburne

Riccardo Scamarcio

John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

7.3 14.4K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.

Style: dark

Plot: martial arts, assassin, rome, italy, hitman, roof, secret organization, sequel, ...

Cast

Andy Serkis

Jason Clarke

Toby Kebbell

Gary Oldman

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

7.3 12.3K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

Style: shocking

Plot: san francisco, california, peace, solidarity, gorilla, intelligence, dystopia, chimpanzee, ...

Time: 2030s

Cast

Matt Damon

Franka Potente

Brian Cox

Julia Stiles

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

7.3 8.2K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: sniper, assassin, berlin, germany, amnesia, based on novel or book, espionage, lie, ...

Cast

Koji Yakusho

Takayuki Yamada

Yu016bsuke Iseya

Goro Inagaki

13 Assassins (2010)

7.3 1.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: Japan, United Kingdom

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: R

Story: A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

Plot: suicide, mission, assassin, samurai, immortality, swordsman, massacre, battle, ...

Time: 19th century

Place: japan

Cast

Denzel Washington

Marton Csokas

Chlou00eb Grace Moretz

David Harbour

The Equalizer (2014)

7.3 10.0K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: R

Story: McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

Plot: assassin, corruption, hitman, call girl, sadism, hostage, gangster, fbi, ...

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya

LaKeith Stanfield

Jesse Plemons

Dominique Fishback

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

7.3 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: R

Story: Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

Plot: chicago, illinois, assassination, black panther party, based on true story, betrayal, betrayal by friend, hard, ...

Time: 1960s

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Cast

Leslie Nielsen

Priscilla Presley

Ricardo Montalban

George Kennedy

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

7.3 4.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

Plot: assassination, police, aquarium, baseball, satire, parody, slapstick comedy, los angeles, ...

Cast

Ana de Armas

Keanu Reeves

Ian McShane

Anjelica Huston

Ballerina (2025)

7.3 2.7K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: R

Story: Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Eve Macarro begins her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.

Plot: assassin, tattoo, grenade, training, female protagonist, female assassin, spin off, flamethrower, ...

Place: austria

Cast

Alexei Navalny

Yulia Navalnaya

Daria Navalnaya

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Zakhar Navalny

Navalny (2022)

7.2 294 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery, he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.

Plot: biography, russian politics, russian man, assassination attempt, russian secret police, poisoning, crime russian, political opposition, ...

Cast

Tom Cruise

Jeremy Renner

Simon Pegg

Rebecca Ferguson

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

7.2 9.8K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.

Plot: mask, mission, assassin, london, england, spy, villain, fake identity, ...

Place: morocco, austria

Cast

Andy Serkis

Woody Harrelson

Karin Konoval

Terry Notary

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

7.2 9.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

Plot: suicide, civil war, escape, winter, mutation, peace, solidarity, gorilla, ...

Time: 2040s

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