Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "hired-assassin"

1. Legend (I) (2015)

R | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1960s.

Director: Brian Helgeland | Stars: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Paul Anderson

Votes: 202,388 | Gross: $1.87M

2. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)

PG-13 | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical

A spoof of Robin Hood in general, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) in particular.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck

Votes: 136,798 | Gross: $35.74M

3. Jack Reacher (2012)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper responsible for a mass shooting.

Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog

Votes: 364,972 | Gross: $80.07M

4. Blood Simple (1984)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh

Votes: 105,222 | Gross: $2.15M

5. Desperado (1995)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Former musician and gunslinger El Mariachi arrives at a small Mexican border town after being away for a long time. His past quickly catches up with him and he soon gets entangled with the local drug kingpin Bucho and his gang.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida, Cheech Marin

Votes: 197,627 | Gross: $25.63M

6. Hotel Artemis (2018)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, 'Hotel Artemis' follows the Nurse, who runs a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals.

Director: Drew Pearce | Stars: Jodie Foster, Sofia Boutella, Dave Bautista, Sterling K. Brown

Votes: 58,414 | Gross: $6.71M

7. Zorro (2024– )

Action

Zorro is set in 1834 and follows Diego de la Vega determined to find out who killed his father, he will discover family secrets that will change his destiny forever.

Stars: Miguel Bernardeau, Renata Notni, Dalia Xiuhcoatl, Emiliano Zurita

Votes: 2,058

8. For Your Eyes Only (1981)

PG | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Secret service agent James Bond is assigned to find a missing British vessel equipped with a weapons encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

Director: John Glen | Stars: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson

Votes: 108,279 | Gross: $62.30M

9. The Samurai (1967)

GP | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier

Votes: 57,127 | Gross: $0.04M

10. Fallen Angels (1995)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

This Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung

Votes: 50,820

11. Dial M for Murder (1954)

PG | 105 min | Crime, Thriller

A former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams

Votes: 188,754 | Gross: $0.01M

12. Cold Pursuit (2019)

R | 119 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A grieving snowplow driver seeks out revenge against the drug dealers who killed his son.

Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Micheál Neeson, Michael Eklund

Votes: 78,050 | Gross: $32.14M

13. Bitten (2014–2016)

TV-MA | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Elena navigates her life between the human world and the werewolf world as the only female of the species.

Stars: Laura Vandervoort, Greyston Holt, Greg Bryk, Steve Lund

Votes: 19,276

14. Get Carter (1971)

R | 112 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.

Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne

Votes: 36,769 | Gross: $0.39M

15. Three Colors: White (1994)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After his wife divorces him, a Polish immigrant plots to get even with her.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr

Votes: 79,589 | Gross: $1.46M

16. 30 Minutes or Less (2011)

R | 83 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy, strap a bomb to his chest, and inform him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else...

Director: Ruben Fleischer | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson, Aziz Ansari

Votes: 106,625 | Gross: $37.05M

17. Emanuelle, Queen of Sados (1980)

X | 91 min | Crime, Drama

A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.

Director: Ilias Mylonakos | Stars: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Livia Russo, Haris Tryfonas

Votes: 776

18. Quarry (2016)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Quarry, a disillusioned Vietnam War vet, returns home to Memphis in 1972 only to find rejection and scrutiny at every step. A mysterious man known only as The Broker gives him an offer he can't refuse - to work for him as a hitman.

Stars: Logan Marshall-Green, Jodi Balfour, Damon Herriman, Edoardo Ballerini

Votes: 14,356

19. Suddenly (1954)

Unrated | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates

Votes: 7,371 | Gross: $1.40M

20. The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)

R | 111 min | Action, Drama, Western

A thrilling and action-packed Western, The Ballad of Lefty Brown is a story about loyalty, friendship, and the relentless pursuit of justice.

Director: Jared Moshe | Stars: Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Stephen Alan Seder, Kathy Baker

Votes: 7,809 | Gross: $0.01M

21. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

Not Rated | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi

Votes: 14,012

22. Crossfire Trail (2001 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Drama, Western

Rafe promises a dying friend to look after his wife and 40,000 acre ranch in Wyoming. A powerful businessman wants the ranch and widow by whatever means necessary.

Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Tom Selleck, Virginia Madsen, Wilford Brimley, David O'Hara

Votes: 3,664

23. The Fixer (2008–2009)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ex-special forces operative and convicted murderer John Mercer is awarded an early release from prison on the condition that he becomes an assassin for the government.

Stars: Andrew Buchan, Jody Latham, Tamzin Outhwaite, Peter Mullan

Votes: 1,161

24. Bad (1977)

X | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women to do hit jobs. K.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work when he runs out of ... See full summary »

Director: Jed Johnson | Stars: Cyrinda Foxe, Matthew Anton, Cathy Roskam, Carroll Baker

Votes: 909

25. Catwoman: Hunted (2022)

PG-13 | 78 min | Animation, Action, Crime

Follows Catwoman in an attempt to steal a priceless jewel. This puts her squarely in the crosshairs of both a powerful consortium of villains, Interpol and Batwoman.

Director: Shinsuke Terasawa | Stars: Elizabeth Gillies, Stephanie Beatriz, Jonathan Banks, Steve Blum

Votes: 3,521

26. Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom (2009)

TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Action, Crime

The story of two brainwashed assassins, Ein and Zwei, who struggle to regain their memories as they work for the Inferno crime syndicate.

Stars: Miyu Irino, Newton Pittman, Ayahi Takagaki, Lindsay Seidel

Votes: 1,927

27. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)

R | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A former gangster reenters the criminal underworld after his brother suspiciously commits suicide.

Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Clive Owen, Malcolm McDowell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Charlotte Rampling

Votes: 8,988 | Gross: $0.36M

28. I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)

Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Henri is depressed after losing his job, but finds himself too afraid to go through with suicide. He hires a contract killer to do the job for him instead - but what happens if he changes his mind?

Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, T.R. Bowen

Votes: 7,572

29. Elephant White (2011)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An assassin is hired by a businessman to avenge the murder of his daughter by white slave traders in Thailand.

Director: Prachya Pinkaew | Stars: Djimon Hounsou, Kevin Bacon, Vithaya Pansringarm, Sahajak Boonthanakit

Votes: 11,104

30. Kahaani 2 (2016)

Not Rated | 127 min | Mystery, Thriller

A woman with a mysterious past is charged with kidnapping and murder.

Director: Sujoy Ghosh | Stars: Vidya Balan, Arjun Rampal, Jugal Hansraj, Kharaj Mukherjee

Votes: 6,065 | Gross: $0.28M

31. I Like Your Nerve (1931)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance

Young man (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) attempts to break up an engagement between a woman (Loretta Young) and an older man (Edmund Breon).

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Henry Kolker, Claud Allister

Votes: 318

32. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

So White flees from the wicked Queenie, wins over the thugs from Murder Inc. and meets her overrated Prince Chawmin'.

Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Ivie Anderson, Mel Blanc, Ruby Dandridge, Vivian Dandridge

Votes: 1,561

33. Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story (2011)

TV-14 | 145 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Biopic of the notorious late-1940s Manila gangster until his death at 26 in 1951: a legend known to this day who came from Tondo, a town in Manila known during that period as a tough and dangerous place.

Director: Tikoy Aguiluz | Stars: Jorge Estregan, Roi Vinzon, Danny Labra, Eddie Tuazon

Votes: 215

34. Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon (1977)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A HK cop investigates several similar murders done by Chow's men. Golgo 13, top sniper, is the 4th assassin hired to kill HK drug lord Chow for Americans wanting the HK drug market.

Director: Yukio Noda | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Lun Chia, Etsuko Shihomi, Emi Shindô

Votes: 611

35. Requiem for a Killer (2011)

91 min | Thriller

Lucrèce, the best killer in the business, accepts a final job: eliminate an opera singer who threatens the interests of a corporation. She's hired as a contralto for a festival her target is singing in, but things don't happen as planned.

Director: Jérôme Le Gris | Stars: Mélanie Laurent, Clovis Cornillac, Tchéky Karyo, Xavier Gallais

Votes: 1,413

36. Get Charlie Tully (1972)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Crime

Charlie Tully and womanizing Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000, but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for conning an American and a dog. Reggie puts the money in a... See full summary »

Director: Cliff Owen | Stars: Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser, Pat Coombs

Votes: 493

37. The Double McGuffin (1979)

PG | 101 min | Mystery, Family

Some school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a body instead. When they bring the police, neither is there, and the police refuse to believe... See full summary »

Director: Joe Camp | Stars: Dion Pride, Greg Hodges, Jeff Nicholson, Vincent Spano

Votes: 464

38. Kills On Wheels (2016)

103 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Two disabled teenagers looking for meaning in their lives, team up with a wheelchair hit-man.

Director: Attila Till | Stars: Zoltán Fenyvesi, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Ádám Fekete, Mónika Balsai

Votes: 3,851 | Gross: $0.02M

39. The Hard Man (1957)

Approved | 80 min | Western

A lawman becomes a Deputy in a town where he suspects the friend he had to kill in self defense, was framed for murder.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Guy Madison, Valerie French, Lorne Greene, Barry Atwater

Votes: 481

40. The Last Lullaby (2008)

R | 93 min | Drama, Mystery

A retired hit-man can't pass up one last high-priced contract. In his final job, he is directed to kill the beautiful and intriguing librarian Sarah, but his violent ways begin to fail him as he falls for this totally unsuspecting mark.

Director: Jeffrey Goodman | Stars: Tom Sizemore, Sasha Alexander, Sprague Grayden, Bill Smitrovich

Votes: 1,009 | Gross: $0.03M

41. Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004)

Not Rated | 625 min | Drama

The collapse and the struggle of a poor farming clan in Philippines.

Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Elryan de Vera, Angie Ferro, Pen Medina, Marife Necesito

Votes: 507

42. The College Girl Murders (1967)

Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas.

Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Uschi Glas, Grit Boettcher, Konrad Georg

Votes: 1,041

43. Thunder Island (1963)

Approved | 65 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A Central American woman hires an American hit man to assassinate the former dictator of her island country. The plan is foiled by another American while attempting to save the lives of his wife and child.

Director: Jack Leewood | Stars: Gene Nelson, Fay Spain, Brian Kelly, Miriam Colon

Votes: 227

44. The Odd Job (1978)

87 min | Comedy

Arthur Harris is a happily-married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife Fiona is leaving him. Devastated, he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Graham Chapman, David Jason, Diana Quick, Simon Williams

Votes: 279

45. The Liquidator (2011)

Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Thriller

A highly skilled bodyguard avenging his brother's untimely death uncovers a ring of corruption extending to the highest levels of society and government.

Director: Akan Satayev | Stars: Berik Aytzhanov, Vinnie Jones, Aziz Beyshenaliev, Karlygash Mukhamedzhanova

Votes: 540

46. Diamond Ninja Force (1988)

PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

We begin with Shô Kosugi demonstrating the use of a katana, saying nothing about the film he is introducing. When Gordon is taking his girlfriend's picture in Hong Kong, several Caucasian ... See full summary »

Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Richard Harrison, Melvin Pitcher, Andy Chworowsky, Pierre Tremblay

Votes: 211

47. Hitler--Dead or Alive (1942)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Ward Bond, Dorothy Tree, Warren Hymer, Paul Fix

Votes: 370

48. Pepe Saclao: Public Enemy No. 1 (1986)

Action, Drama

THIS ACTION-DRAMA INTO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ASSASSIN, PEPE DE LUNA SACLAO, PRINCIPAL SUSPECT IN THE KILLING OF CATANDUANES GOVERNOR JUAN ALBERTO AND TARAC VICE-GOVERNOR NICOLAS FELICIANO AND HIS PILOT.

Director: Pepe Marcos | Stars: Ramon Revilla, Dante Rivero, Dang Cecilio, Olivia Ortiz

49. Hei shi fu ren (1982)

87 min | Thriller

Mei-Ling is brutally raped one night by a group of men. Six years later, Mei-Ling is now the boss of a hostess club. Together with the help of hired assassin Shiu Ping, she gets her revenge, taking out each man one by one.

Director: Yu-Lung Hsu | Stars: Li-Yun Chen, Sha Ma, Sing Chen, Paul Chang Chung

Votes: 19

50. When We Are All Sleep (2009)

107 min | Drama

Chakameh who has lost both her husband and child in a car accident meets a guy who recently been released from prison. While she is under pressure from the lawyers to compromise with the ... See full summary »

Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Mozhdeh Shamsai, Alireza Jalali-tabar, Hesam Navab Safavi, Shaghayegh Farahani

Votes: 1,031