| | The Terminator (1984)| 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)| 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)| 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)| 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)| 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)| 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)| 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. |
| | The Irishman (2019)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 94 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, | Director: Martin Scorsese, An aging hitman recalls his time with the mob and the intersecting events with his friend, Jimmy Hoffa, through the 1950-70s. |
| | Il conformista (1970)| 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)| 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)| 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)| 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)| 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)| 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)| 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. |
| | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $171.02M Lead Role: Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne, | Director: Chad Stahelski, John Wick is on the run after killing a member of the international assassins' guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head, he is the target of hit men and women everywhere. |
| | Serenity (2005)| 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)| 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)| 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)| 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. |
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