Top Assassin Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Aurora Ribero

Hana Malasan

Andri Mashadi

Adipati Dolken

The Shadow Strays (2024)

7.2 323 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Indonesia

Duration: 145 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: Skilled in the art of killing, a young assassin defies her mentor to save a boy from a ruthless crime syndicate — and she'll destroy anyone in her path.

Plot: mission, martial arts, assassin, gangster, redemption, gore, revenge, gang, ...

Cast

Mark Wahlberg

Michelle Monaghan

Maggie Q

Zoe Colletti

The Family Plan (2023)

7.2 1.9K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Dan Morgan is many things: a devoted husband, a loving father, a celebrated car salesman. He's also a former assassin. And when his past catches up to his present, he's forced to take his unsuspecting family on a road trip unlike any other.

Plot: road trip, on the run, gamer, car salesman, duringcreditsstinger, hidden identity, family trip, ex army, ...

Place: las vegas

Shooter (2016) TV Show

7.2 730 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 31

Audience: TV-14

Story: Bob Lee Swagger is an expert marksman living in exile who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president.

Plot: assassination, sniper, fbi, police, murder, betrayal, conspiracy, shooter, ...

Cast

John David Washington

Robert Pattinson

Elizabeth Debicki

Kenneth Branagh

Tenet (2020)

7.2 11.2K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 150 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

Style: intense

Plot: assassin, espionage, spy, time travel, mumbai (bombay), india, arms dealer, terrorism, ...

Cast

Rachel Weisz

7.2 11.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.

Plot: assassin, hero, spy, kgb, based on comic, female assassin, female spy, female hero, ...

Cast

Jamie Dornan

Cillian Murphy

Charlotte Le Bon

Anna Geislerovu00e1

Anthropoid (2016)

7.1 1.2K votes

Genre: History, Thriller, War

Country: Czech Republic, France

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.

Plot: assassination, nazi, prague, czech republic, biography, female protagonist, third reich (iii reich 1933-45), operation anthropoid, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: germany

Cast

Ben Affleck

Anna Kendrick

J.K. Simmons

Jon Bernthal

The Accountant (2016)

7.1 7.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.

Plot: prison, sniper, assassin, autism, military service, money, treasury department, sniper rifle, ...

Cast

Eric Bana

Daniel Craig

Ciaru00e1n Hinds

Mathieu Kassovitz

Munich (2005)

7.1 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 164 min.

Audience: R

Story: During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Plot: hotel room, mossad, assassination, paris, france, hostage, olympic games, intelligence, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: israel

Cast

Mark Wahlberg

Michael Peu00f1a

Danny Glover

Kate Mara

Shooter (2007)

7.1 5.5K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.

Style: intense

Plot: philadelphia, pennsylvania, assassination, usa president, based on novel or book, widow, fbi, on the run, ...

Place: ethiopia

Gunslinger Girl (2003) TV Show

7.1 55 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-14

Story: The Social Welfare Agency saves the lives of terminal patients using cybernetic implants. Then it teaches them to kill. After surviving the slaughter of her family, young Henrietta awakens to her new life at the Agency with a rebuilt body and no memory. Teamed with Jose, who is responsible for turning her into the perfect assassin, Henrietta’s been given a second chance—but at what cost?

Style: psychological

Plot: cyborg, assassin, espionage, based on manga, child soldier, anime

Place: italy

Cast

Tom Cruise

Paula Patton

Simon Pegg

Jeremy Renner

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

7.1 10.8K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: mask, assassin, budapest, hungary, skyscraper, secret intelligence service, sandstorm, seattle, ...

Place: dubai

Cast

Marlon Brando

James Mason

John Gielgud

Louis Calhern

Julius Caesar (1953)

7.1 239 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

Plot: assassination, based on play or musical, ancient rome, conspiracy, julius caesar, 1st century bc

Time: antiquity

Cast

Matthew McConaughey

Reese Witherspoon

Tye Sheridan

Jacob Lofland

Mud (2013)

7.1 3.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.

Plot: sniper, friendship, bounty hunter, snake, mississippi river, river, killing, houseboat, ...

Cast

Kamal Haasan

Shah Rukh Khan

Hema Malini

Rani Mukerji

Hey Ram (2000)

7.0 65 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: India

Duration: 199 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country. He sets out to kill him.

Plot: assassination, muslim, hindu, mahatma gandhi, based on true story, riot, race riot, revenge, ...

Cast

Tadanobu Asano

Nao Omori

Shinya Tsukamoto

SABU

Ichi the Killer (2001)

7.0 1.1K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Horror

Country: Japan

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: 18

Story: As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.

Plot: assassin, pain, yakuza, gore, dominatrix, violence against women, piercing, based on manga, ...

Cast

Jessica Chastain

Jason Clarke

Kyle Chandler

Jennifer Ehle

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

7.0 4.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 157 min.

Audience: R

Story: A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

Style: intense

Plot: hotel, van, mossad, central intelligence agency (cia), assassination, prisoner, car dealer, f word, ...

Place: iraq, pakistan, islamabad

Cast

Sean Connery

Ursula Andress

Joseph Wiseman

Jack Lord

Dr. No (1962)

7.0 4.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.

Style: witty

Plot: exotic island, london, england, space marine, card game, assassination, casino, based on novel or book, ...

Place: england, jamaica

Cast

Joel McCrea

Laraine Day

Herbert Marshall

George Sanders

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

7.0 452 votes

Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: PG

Story: American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

Plot: diplomat, assassination, chase, parent child relationship, windmill, conspiracy, reporter, black and white, ...

Time: world war ii

In the Line of Fire (1993)

7.0 1.8K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: assassin, central intelligence agency (cia), usa president, the white house, bodyguard, stalking, election, secret service, ...

Cast

Tom Cruise

Kenneth Branagh

Bill Nighy

Terence Stamp

Valkyrie (2008)

7.0 4.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

Plot: friendship, suicide, plan, berlin, germany, husband wife relationship, assassination, nazi, ...

Time: world war ii

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