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37 films tagged assassins
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2025 · Thriller
Taken in as a child by an assassins' society that trains its killers as dancers, Eve grows up in the trade and goes after the people who killed her father. Wall to wall fighting, in the John Wick world.
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2025 · Drama
A mob boss hears that Dante's handwritten Divine Comedy has surfaced in a Vatican cellar and sends a scholar and two hard men to get it. It cuts between that and Dante writing the poem, with one actor in both.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Horror
An eight-year-old girl whose parents have vanished hires the hit man across the hall to kill the monster under her bed. He does not believe in the monster, and goes along with her anyway.
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2025 · Crime
An ageing hitman is offered a deal for his freedom. The story then runs twice, once straight as a thriller and once as a broad comedy, and the whole thing is barely an hour long.
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2025 · Action
A hitman is ambushed at home by five men in demon masks who kill his wife and daughter and leave him for dead, and he wakes from a coma twelve years later. The rest is fights, close and bloody, one after another.
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2025 · Science fiction
Marvel's second-string operatives are sent into the same secret facility with orders to kill each other, work out they have been set up, and have to get out together. Fights, and a lot about their worst memories.
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2025 · Thriller
An assassin working off a debt takes his family on the small-town holiday he remembers from childhood, and the amusement park there turns out to belong to people who want them gone. Short, fast and very violent.
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2025 · Thriller
An accountant who keeps books for criminals is pulled in when a federal official is murdered with "find the accountant" written on his arm. He calls in his estranged brother, who kills people for a living.
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2025 · Thriller
An Indian intelligence agent who went rogue years ago is recruited by a cartel setting out to take over the government, and a special units officer is sent to bring him down. Nearly three hours of chases, fights and set pieces.
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2025 · Crime
A cheerful suburban estate agent used to be a hitman for the outfit his brother runs, and a letter from the woman he was meant to kill brings all of it back to his door. It is short, silly and full of fights.
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2014 · Action
A retired hitman is pulled back in after some young men break into his house and take the one thing he had left. It runs on a strict underworld etiquette that the film never stops to justify.
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2025 · Action
Two leaders of a CIA assassination unit fell in love, had a son and disappeared, and the man who ran the unit has been sending killers after them ever since. Chases and shootouts, with the boy in the middle of them.
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2025 · Action
A contract killer in her sixties, still the best the agency has, is slowing down, and a younger assassin has become fixated on her. The film keeps going back to how she was trained as a girl.
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2026 · Action
A former MI6 assassin living alone on a Scottish island takes in the teenager who brings his supplies, then a surveillance program flags him as a terrorist. Kill teams start arriving, and he has had years to set traps.
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2026 · Comedy
A hitman who wants out of the mob does one last job for a loan shark whose wife he is sleeping with, and finds a second copy of that loan shark waiting for him. A crime comedy that turns into a time travel problem.
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2026 · Thriller
Bombay, 1995: a hitman who kills with a barber's razor wants out and gone to Fiji, and a widow wants him to kill the four men who ruined her husband. Close to three hours of gangsters, police and payback.
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2026 · Thriller
Four former Spanish intelligence agents are killed on the same day, and an operative codenamed Zeta is sent after the one who is still missing, with a Colombian officer alongside him. A spy thriller, and the hunt keeps widening.
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2004 · Thriller
A Los Angeles cab driver picks up a smooth passenger who offers good money for a night of stops around the city, and the first stop goes badly. It is one night, mostly the two of them in the car.
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2025 · Comedy
A hitman hiding out in Los Angeles is offered safe passage home if he can turn his boss's awkward son into a man, starting tonight, on a job. The two of them spend one night getting it very wrong.
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2007 · Thriller
A welder out hunting finds a case of cash beside several dead men and takes it, which brings a very patient killer after him. An ageing sheriff follows behind, always arriving late.
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2002 · Action
A nameless swordsman is brought before the king of Qin to explain how he killed the three assassins who had been hunting him, and tells it more than once. Each version gets its own color, and the fights are closer to dance than to brawling.
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2023 · Comedy
A mild college professor moonlights for the police, posing as a contract killer in sting operations, and turns out to be very good at inventing a new man for each job. Then one of the women he is sent to trap likes the man he is playing.
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2023 · Action
John Wick goes looking for a way out from under the crime syndicate that has put a price on his head, which means Osaka, Berlin and Paris. Nearly three hours long, and most of it is fighting.
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2003 · Action
A woman wakes from a coma and starts working through a list of the people who put her there, beginning in a suburban kitchen and ending in a Tokyo nightclub. Huge fights, chapters out of order.
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2012 · Science fiction
In a near future where the mob sends people back thirty years to be shot on arrival, a young hitman is sent a target he recognises. Fast to begin with, then it stops somewhere quiet for a long while.
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2002 · Crime
An enforcer for an Illinois mob boss in 1931 takes to the road with his twelve-year-old son after a job goes wrong. Slow and quiet, and it tells you more with pictures than with dialogue.
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2008 · Crime
Two Irish hitmen are sent to a picture-postcard Belgian town to lie low after a job, and one of them is bored out of his mind. They wait for a phone call.
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2019 · Crime
A truck driver falls in with the Philadelphia mob and spends decades doing what he is told, including for a union boss the whole country knew. Three and a half hours, told by an old man looking back.
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2023 · Thriller
An assassin waits in an empty Paris office for a target, and when the job goes wrong he sets about the people who sent him. Chapter by chapter, with his voice in your ear the whole way.
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2022 · Action
Several assassins with separate jobs end up on the same overnight train from Tokyo to Kyoto, all after the same briefcase. Fast, silly, and it never leaves the carriages.
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2012 · Crime
Two men rob a mob card game and a fixer is brought in to settle it, in a New Orleans with election coverage on every television. Talky, slow and very sour.
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2005 · Thriller
After the 1972 Olympics a Mossad team is sent to Europe to kill the men held responsible, and the work starts to change them. Long, procedural and increasingly uneasy.
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2010 · Action
A dozen samurai are quietly gathered to kill a lord whose cruelty the shogunate would rather not discuss, and they turn a whole village into a trap. The last three quarters of an hour is one long battle.
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2020 · Science fiction
An assassin does her work by piloting other people's bodies, and the latest job will not let her back out. Very bloody, and the identity slips both ways.
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1994 · Crime
Three Los Angeles crime stories, told out of order and doubling back on each other. Long stretches of two men talking about nothing in particular.
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2025 · Thriller
A technology expert returns to Recife during Carnival in 1977 with people looking for him and a young son to collect. Long, warm and steadily more dangerous.
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1984 · Science fiction
A machine and a soldier both arrive from a future war looking for the same waitress in Los Angeles. Cheap, mean, and it does not stop.
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