Best Assassin Movies List

The Terminator (1984)

Aggregate Rating: 263 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 83 | Earnings: $38.40M

Lead Role: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield, | Director: James Cameron,

A seemingly indestructible humanoid cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Aggregate Rating: 253 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $78.80M

Lead Role: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, | Director: Francis Ford Coppola,

During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Aggregate Rating: 252 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 69 | Earnings: $120.52M

Lead Role: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent, | Director:

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 245 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $227.14M

Lead Role: Matt Damon, Edgar Ramírez, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles, | Director: Paul Greengrass,

Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless CIA official and his agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Aggregate Rating: 216 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, | Director: Sergio Leone,

A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.

From Russia with Love (1963)

Aggregate Rating: 213 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $24.80M

Lead Role: Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Daniela Bianchi, | Director: Terence Young,

James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

Aggregate Rating: 211 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 69 | Earnings: $70.10M

Lead Role: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, | Director: Quentin Tarantino,

The Bride wakens from a four-year coma. The child she carried in her womb is gone. Now she must wreak vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her - a team she was once part of.

Il conformista (1970)

Aggregate Rating: 205 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 100 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio, | Director: Bernardo Bertolucci,

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

Aggregate Rating: 203 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $176.05M

Lead Role: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, | Director: Paul Greengrass,

When Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Aggregate Rating: 201 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 94 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, | Director: John Frankenheimer,

A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Aggregate Rating: 199 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 70 | Earnings: $259.75M

Lead Role: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford, | Director:

As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier.

Looper (2012)

Aggregate Rating: 195 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: $66.47M

Lead Role: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, | Director: Rian Johnson,

In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

Léon (1994)

Aggregate Rating: 193 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $32.35M

Lead Role: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello, | Director: Luc Besson,

Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.

The Bourne Identity (2002)

Aggregate Rating: 184 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $121.47M

Lead Role: Franka Potente, Matt Damon, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, | Director: Doug Liman,

A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and regain his memory.

Serenity (2005)

Aggregate Rating: 177 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $25.34M

Lead Role: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alan Tudyk, | Director: Joss Whedon,

The crew of the ship Serenity try to evade an assassin sent to recapture one of their members who is telepathic.

X2 (2003)

Aggregate Rating: 176 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $214.95M

Lead Role: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, | Director: Bryan Singer,

The X-Men band together to find a mutant assassin who has made an attempt on the President's life, while the Mutant Academy is attacked by military forces.

John Wick (2014)

Aggregate Rating: 173 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $43.00M

Lead Role: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe, | Director:

An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

Aggregate Rating: 171 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $78.04M

Lead Role: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, Ricardo Montalban, | Director: David Zucker,

Incompetent police detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

Love and Death (1975)

Aggregate Rating: 171 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 89 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet, Frank Adu, | Director: Woody Allen,

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

The Day of the Jackal (1973)

Aggregate Rating: 168 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, | Director: Fred Zinnemann,

A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.