Movies about assassins

Movies about assassins
List of the best films about assassins according to the audience: In the Arms of an Assassin, The Accountant, The Protégé, Hardcore Henry, The Villainess, Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes, The Hitman's Bodyguard, The Rhythm Section, Sniper: Ultimate Kill, Gunpowder Milkshake.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, melodrama
CountryUSA, Dominican Republic

Victor (William Levy) is one of the world’s most handsome men, but he has a deep secret – he is a cold blooded assassin. Smooth talking and seductive, Victor was raised to do one thing only, which is to kill for money. When he is sent to the home of a brutal drug lord to collect payment for his most recent hit, he encounters the beautiful Sarai (Alicia Sanz), who has been forced to spend the last 9 years of her life with the drug lord.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:05

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom

    Rembrandt and Anna, two world premier assassins who share a mysterious past from Vietnam, traverse the globe competing for high-profile contracts. When Anna's mentor is murdered, she and Rembrandt must form an uneasy alliance and return to Vietnam to track down his killer.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, action
    CountryRussia, USA
    Duration02:30

      Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army of mercenaries. Fighting alongside Henry is Jimmy, who is Henry's only hope to make it through the day. Hardcore takes place over the course of one day, in Moscow, Russia.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, crime
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:12

      A young girl is raised as a killer in the Yanbian province of China. She hides her identity and travels to South Korea where she hopes to lead a quiet life but becomes involved with two mysterious men.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genreaction, drama, adventure, history
      CountryUSA

      Before he lost his sight. Before he pledged his service to Kublai Khan. Hundred Eyes saw what made him into the deadly assassin who trains Marco Polo.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genreaction, comedy
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:06

      The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Republic of Ireland, USA

      After the death of her family in an airplane crash on a flight that she was meant to be on, Stephanie Patrick discovers the crash was not an accident. She then seeks to uncover the truth by adapting the identity of an assassin to track down those responsible.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:12

      Colombian drug kingpin Jesús Morales secretly pays for the services of a sniper nicknamed "The Devil," capable of killing one-by-one the enemies of anyone who hires him. With no adversaries left alive, Morales grows stronger and gains control of more smuggling routes into the United States. The DEA, alarmed by this threat to the country, sends agent Kate Estrada, who has been following Morales for years, and Marine sniper Brandon Beckett to Colombia. Their mission: Kill "The Devil" and bring Morales back to the US to be tried for his crimes. The agents think they have everything under control, but Morales and "The Devil" have prepared plenty of surprises to keep the mission from succeeding.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genreaction, comedy
      CountryFrance, Germany, USA

      In her turbulent life as a professional assassin, Scarlet was cruelly forced to abandon her daughter Sam and go on the run. Years later, despite the estrangement, Sam has also grown up into a cold blooded hitwoman. After a high-stake mission spins out of control, putting an innocent 8-year-old girl in the middle of the gang war she has unleashed, Sam has no choice but to go rogue. This ultimately leads her back to her mother and her former hitwomen sidekicks, who all join forces in an avenging war against those who took everything from them.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, thriller, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Japan
      Duration02:15

        New CIA operative, Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryThailand, China, USA
        Duration01:31

        A crime syndicate places a hit on a billionaire's daughter, making her the target of an elite assassin squad. A small band of down-and-out mercenaries protects her, fighting tooth and nail to stop the assassins from reaching their target.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genreaction
        CountryUSA

        After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryPhilippines

        When a former BlackRose cartel assassin deliberately betrays them by refusing to complete her mission, the cartel orders her execution. Unbeknownst to them, she fakes her own death and is able to create a new life of her own. When the cartel discovers she is alive, the hunter becomes the hunted as she fights to get revenge on those who took her new life away from her.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Hungary, USA
        Duration02:48

        In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, two assassins carry out a sinister mission, a teacher battles a fatal illness, and an enigmatic janitor and a curious waitress lead dangerous double lives. Murderous consequences unravel in the dead of night, as their lives intertwine at the hands of a mysterious criminal mastermind who is hell-bent on revenge.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration00:43

        London cop and compulsive gambler Harry Clayton is on the verge of losing everything. On the night when his huge debts are to be called in, he meets the enigmatic Eve, who gives him a mysterious bracelet said to endow the wearer with immense luck. Harry's fortunes suddenly begin to shift, but he also soon finds himself sucked into a sinister crime wave sweeping through the city.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genredrama, history
        CountryChina

        In the year 198 BC, Cao Cao (Chow Yun Fat), Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, ventured to the east and defeated China's greatest warrior Lu Bu, terrifying every ambitious warlord across the country. Several years later, after taking the Han Emperor under his wing, Cao crowns himself King of Wei. He built a magnificent Bronze Sparrow Island to symbolize his power and rumors spread that he would replace the Emperor. Meanwhile, young lovers Mu Shun (Hiroshi Tamaki) and Ling Ju (Liu Yi-Fei) are taken from a prison camp to a hidden tomb, where they spend five cruel years together, training as assassins for a secret mission. In the year 220 BC astronomical signs predict dramatic change. As a result, Cao's son Cao Pi (Yau Sam-Chi) and Cao's followers urge Cao to become the new Emperor - but unknown opposing forces plot against him.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA

        Jim Hanson’s quiet life is suddenly disturbed by two people crossing the US/Mexico border – a woman and her young son – desperate to flee a Mexican cartel. After a shootout leaves the mother dead, Jim becomes the boy’s reluctant defender. He embraces his role as Miguel’s protector and will stop at nothing to get him to safety, as they go on the run from the relentless assassins.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        In the mean streets of London's East End, a former Serbian commando and a fourteen-year old boy plot revenge against a powerful crime lord and his ruthless lieutenants. As our heroes prepare to take on their enemies, the boy is mentored in the dark arts of assassination and learns the true meaning of friendship, honor and respect.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genreaction, melodrama, drama
        CountrySouth Korea
        Duration01:53

        The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister. After his father’s botched espionage mission, North Korean Myung-hoon and his young sister Hye-in are sent to a labor prison camp. In order to save his sister’s life, Myung-hoon volunteers to become a spy and infiltrates the South as a teenage defector. While attending high school in the South, he meets another girl named Hye-in, and rescues her when she comes under attack. South Korean Intelligence soon discover Myung-hoon’s activities and begin tracking him, all the while his own government sends a vicious assassin to eliminate him.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genreaction, drama, history
        CountryTaiwan, China, Hong Kong, France
        Duration01:45

        A female assassin during the Tang Dynasty who begins to question her loyalties when she falls in love with one of her targets.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genreaction, thriller, fantasy
        CountrySouth Africa, China, USA
        Duration02:23

        An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

        Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:41

        A widower suspects that his seemingly perfect adolescent daughter is a heartless killer.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration01:33

        Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But when he is ordered to take out his mentor and close friend Harry, Bishop is anything but detached.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, China
        Duration02:35

        In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        Janie’s just trying to get well. As she recovers from a violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker. But when she develops an obsession with a stranger, Janie's buried demons begin to surface.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:50

          A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrehorror
          CountryUSA

          A thriller centered on a widower who moves into a seemingly perfect new home with his daughter and new wife.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genreaction, thriller, adventure
          CountryUSA, China, Hong Kong, Austria, United Kingdom, Morocco
          Duration02:29

            Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada
            Duration02:26

              An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

              Markimdb: 4.7
              Genrehorror, action, thriller
              CountryUSA, Australia, Canada
              Duration01:30

              See No Evil 2 revives the nightmare of the first film when Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel. In this ominous, underground locker for the dead, a group of medical students fight to survive as this deranged psychopath once again starts to pick them apart one by one.

              Markimdb: 4.2
              Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:57

              Theresa, a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss, is torn between her fractured emotional state and the reality-altering effects of a potent cannabinoid drug.

              Markimdb: 3.9
              Genrethriller
              CountrySpain, USA

              When Mike finds out that he has he same neurological disease as his father, he decides to enter a chain of assisted suicides, which operates under one rule: if you want to die, you must kill someone first.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genredrama, military, biography, history
              CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary, USA, Australia
              Duration01:59

              England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genreaction, thriller, crime
              CountryUSA, China
              Duration01:37

                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.

                Markimdb: 7.8
                Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:50

                  Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.

                  Markimdb: 5.8
                  Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
                  CountryUSA, Spain, United Kingdom, France
                  Duration02:24

                  Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.

                  Markimdb: 5.4
                  Genreaction, comedy
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:45

                  Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.

                  Markimdb: 5.1
                  Genreaction, thriller
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:32

                  After she betrays a powerful mob boss, a woman matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers who are out to collect the bounty on the heads of her and her family.

                  Markimdb: 5
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:53

                  In a world without government, the surviving Unisols maintain order and choose the strongest of their ranks to rule, testing them in life-or-death combat.

                  Markimdb: 5.5
                  Genreaction, thriller
                  CountryGermany, Spain, USA
                  Duration02:02

                  An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.

                  Markimdb: 5.8
                  Genrethriller, comedy, crime
                  CountryAustralia, USA
                  Duration01:30

                  While on a seemingly routine job, a jaded hit man discovers that he's not the only one with his target in the crosshairs.

                  Markimdb: 4.9
                  Genrethriller
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:04

                  A man's life is turned inside out after a visit from his college friend leads him into the unexpected.

                  Markimdb: 6.8
                  Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
                  CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany
                  Duration01:51

                  A 16-year-old girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe. Tracked by a ruthless operatives, she faces startling revelations about her existence and questions about her humanity.

                  Markimdb: 5.1
                  Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA

                  WWE Superstar Mike "The Miz" Mizanin returns as Jake Carter where he is assigned to protect a whistleblower who wishes to expose a corrupt military defence contractor. However, the military hires a heavily armed team of mercenaries to kill her and it's up to Carter to stop them at any cost.

                  Markimdb: 6
                  Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
                  CountryCanada, USA

                  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.

                  Markimdb: 6.1
                  Genrefantastic, thriller, crime
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA, Germany
                  Duration01:16

                  Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as 'The Girl', Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim.

                  Markimdb: 5.5
                  Genreaction, thriller
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration02:51

                  A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong address. When the event ends with multiple homicides, the news triggers those hunting him to send Europe's most dangerous assassin to kill him. Now on the run with his daughters life in jeopardy, a determined father must get her to safety before the people he's been hiding from tracks him down.




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