Top Assassin Movies & TV Shows

Cast

John Abraham

Nargis Fakhri

Raashii Khanna

Siddhartha Basu

Madras Cafe (2013)

6.7 130 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 130 min.

Story: An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.

Plot: war correspondent, cupboard, assassination attempt, army intelligence, sri lankan tamil war

Place: sri lanka, india

Cast

Jason Statham

Amy Smart

Jose Pablo Cantillo

Efren Ramirez

Crank (2006)

6.7 4.3K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unless he keeps adrenaline coursing through his body while he searches for an antidote.

Style: absurd

Plot: assassin, helicopter, hitman, poison, fistfight, swimming pool, revenge, shootout, ...

Cast

Harrison Ford

Willem Dafoe

Joaquim de Almeida

Henry Czerny

Clear and Present Danger (1994)

6.6 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.

Plot: sniper, central intelligence agency (cia), helicopter, assassination, usa president, based on novel or book, ambush, espionage, ...

Cast

Bruce Willis

Timothy Olyphant

Justin Long

Cliff Curtis

Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

6.6 6.4K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.

Plot: helicopter, washington dc, usa, hostage, detective, fbi, genius, sarcasm, ...

Conspiracy Theory (1997)

6.6 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.

Plot: new york city, assassin, central intelligence agency (cia), helicopter, government, chase, politics, obsession, ...

Cast

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Miku Martineau

Woody Harrelson

Tadanobu Asano

Kate (2021)

6.6 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Japan

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: A ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims.

Plot: assassin, radiation, poison, revenge, female assassin, tokyo, japan, vengeance

Place: japan

Cast

Gerard Butler

Morgan Freeman

Jada Pinkett Smith

Nick Nolte

Angel Has Fallen (2019)

6.6 3.9K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagues and the FBI, Banning begins a race against the clock to clear his name.

Style: intense

Plot: usa president, sequel, secret service, framed for a crime, terrorist plot, assassination attempt, survivalism, u.s. secret service agent, ...

Cast

Angelina Jolie

Finn Little

Jon Bernthal

Nicholas Hoult

Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

6.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young boy finds himself pursued by two assassins in the Montana wilderness, with a survival expert determined to protect him, and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.

Plot: assassin, based on novel or book, older woman younger man relationship, neo-western, wildfire, distressing, tragic

Cast

Kingsley Ben-Adir

Lashana Lynch

James Norton

Tosin Cole

Bob Marley: One Love (2024)

6.6 992 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley overcomes adversity to become the most famous reggae musician in the world.

Style: absurd, romantic

Plot: london, england, biography, rastafarian, reggae music, assassination attempt, weed, dramatic, ...

Place: jamaica

Cast

Konami Yoshida

Kousuke Okano

Kinryu Arimoto

Rokuro Naya

Kite (1998)

6.6 188 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 50 min.

Story: Sawa, orphaned as a child by murderous thugs, now targets the scourge of society as a trained killer for a mercenary syndicate. Coquettish and capable of unimaginable violence, she's grown into the perfect weapon — but doubt takes hold in Sawa's mind when her fellow assassin, Oburi, decides he wants out.

Plot: assassin, killing, gore, revenge, vigilante, female protagonist, orphan, adult animation, ...

Cast

Armie Hammer

Annabelle Wallis

Tom Cullen

Geoff Bell

Mine (2016)

6.6 1.4K votes

Genre: Thriller, War

Country: Italy, Spain

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: NR

Story: After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical toll of the treacherous conditions.

Plot: parent child relationship, landmine, sandstorm, hallucination, flashback, survival, stranded, psychological thriller, ...

Cast

Sean Connery

Akiko Wakabayashi

Mie Hama

Tetsuro Tamba

You Only Live Twice (1967)

6.6 2.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.

Plot: island, assassin, london, england, helicopter, assassination, based on novel or book, nasa, ...

Place: japan, england

Cast

Geena Davis

Samuel L. Jackson

Patrick Malahide

Craig Bierko

The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

6.6 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.

Plot: martial arts, amnesia, assassination, strong woman, escape, chase, hostage, spy, ...

Hanna (2011)

6.6 3.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.

Plot: assassin, berlin, germany, strong woman, self sacrifice, empowerment, killing, feminism, ...

Place: finland

Cast

Michael Fassbender

Tilda Swinton

Charles Parnell

Arliss Howard

The Killer (2023)

6.6 2.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

Style: satirical, dark, psychological, suspenseful, intense

Plot: sniper, new york city, assassin, airport, paris, france, hitman, new orleans, ...

Cast

Maggie Q

Samuel L. Jackson

Michael Keaton

David Rintoul

The Protégé (2021)

6.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Bulgaria, Romania

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is the world’s most skilled contract killer. When Moody, the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and survival, is brutally killed, Anna vows revenge. As she becomes entangled with an enigmatic killer whose attraction to her goes way beyond cat and mouse, their confrontation turns deadly and the loose ends of a life spent killing will weave themselves ever tighter.

Plot: assassination, female assassin, bucharest, romania, mentor protégé relationship, traumatic childhood, fling, master disciple relationship, ...

The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)

6.5 825 votes

Genre: Action, History, Thriller

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.

Plot: assassination, based on novel or book, nazi, operation anthropoid, czech history, assassination of reinhard heydrich (1942)

Time: world war ii

Cast

Roger Moore

Carole Bouquet

Chaim Topol

Julian Glover

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

6.5 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.

Plot: sea, assassin, london, england, smuggling (contraband), submarine, undercover, secret mission, ...

Place: england

Cast

Jason Statham

Ben Foster

Donald Sutherland

Mini Anden

The Mechanic (2011)

6.5 3.6K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of assassins, Bishop may be the best in the business - with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. When Harry McKenna, his close friend and mentor, is murdered, Harry's son comes to him with vengeance in his heart and a desire to learn Bishop's trade, signaling the birth of a deadly partnership.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: chicago, illinois, research, martial arts, assassin, prostitute, airport, mentor, ...

Place: colombia

Cast

Liam Neeson

Lilly Aspell

Jack Champion

Matthew Modine

Retribution (2023)

6.5 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a mysterious caller plants a bomb under his car seat, a bank executive begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of tasks — all with his kids trapped in the back seat.

Plot: berlin, germany, assassination, bomb, remake, divorce, duringcreditsstinger, phone call

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