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Movies: Best "mission of murder" Movies


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Shark Tale(2004)

3.0/5 (with 2,866 votes)

Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great white shark with a surprising secret that no sea creature would guess: He's a vegetarian. When a lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and Lenny becomes an outcast, the two form an unlikely friendship.

Wanted(2008)

16
| 1h 50min | Action, Thriller, Crime
3.3/5 (with 3,151 votes)

Doormat Wesley Gibson discovers that his recently murdered father - who Wesley never knew - belonged to a secret guild of assassins. After a leather-clad sexpot drafts Wesley into the society, he hones his innate killing skills and turns avenger.

The Pelican Brief(1993)

3.3/5 (with 648 votes)

A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

Assassins(1995)

3.2/5 (with 662 votes)

Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract killing grows ever more dangerous as Rath falls for his female target and becomes a marked man himself.

Clear and Present Danger(1994)

2h 21min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 647 votes)

CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.

Layer Cake(2004)

1h 45min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.5/5 (with 943 votes)

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

16 Blocks(2006)

13
| 1h 42min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 857 votes)

An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they find themselves running the gauntlet as other forces try to prevent them from getting there.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai(1999)

16
| 1h 56min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 489 votes)

An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob. Jarmusch's spiritual gangster film tells the story of an inner-city hit man (Whitaker) who lives on a rooftop, training himself as a samurai in the strictest sense. He communicates primarily by carrier pigeon, while remaining loyal to a gangster (Tormey) who once saved his life.

The Contract(2006)

15
| 1h 36min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
2.9/5 (with 214 votes)

Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer.

Gigli(2003)

2.0/5 (with 201 votes)

Gigli is ordered to kidnap the psychologically challenged younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor. When plans go awry, Gigli's boss sends in Ricki, a gorgeous free-spirited female gangster who has her own set of orders to assist with the kidnapping. But Gigli begins falling for the decidedly unavailable Ricki, which could be a hazard to his occupation.

F/X(1986)

16
| 1h 49min | Action, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 178 votes)

A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.

Weekend at Bernie's(1989)

13
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Crime
3.2/5 (with 430 votes)

Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets killed and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe he's still alive. The killer wants to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he's got to shoot him again, and again, and again.

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The Twilight Samurai(2002)

3.9/5 (with 126 votes)

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?

Azumi(2003)

3.5/5 (with 137 votes)

In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ultimate assassin.

The Long Goodbye(1973)

3.7/5 (with 240 votes)

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

Red Scorpion(1988)

1h 45min | Adventure, Action, War
3.0/5 (with 118 votes)

A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the rebels.

Thieves and Robbers(1983)

1h 41min | Action, Comedy, Crime
3.2/5 (with 52 votes)

LAPD Captain Parker finally is going on Holiday with all his family. At the last moment he has to cancel the program to re-capture a pilferer named Tony Roma, bad copy of a Latin lover. He use to seduce older women and then steals their jewelry. Parker is close to sort the case out when Roma is witness of a Mafia murder. Parker Holiday flies away.

Cassandra's Dream(2007)

1h 48min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 337 votes)

The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.

Gozu(2003)

3.4/5 (with 83 votes)

Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.

Bulworth(1998)

1h 48min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 100 votes)

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.

Shadowboxer(2005)

15
| 1h 33min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 29 votes)

Mikey and Rose are professional assassins. They are also lovers, and once upon a time Rose also knew Mikey's father. During an elaborate hit job for a malicious gangster, Rose fails to kill the main target, the gangster's pregnant girlfriend. Instead, she delivers her baby and convinces Mikey to help her protect them both. As Rose weakens from cancer, Mikey becomes breadwinner for this unusual family. But tranquility will not last.

The Star Chamber(1983)

1h 45min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 65 votes)

As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.

Blonde and Blonder(2008)

1h 35min | Action, Comedy
1.9/5 (with 21 votes)

Comic mayhem ensues when two lovely blondes, Dee and Dawn, are mistaken as international mob killers.

Joy Division(2006)

1h 45min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.

Brothers' Nest(2018)

1h 38min | Comedy, Crime
3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her new husband before she dies, two brothers go to extreme and deadly lengths to protect their inheritance from being signed away before it’s too late.

Directed by Clayton Jacobson - With Shane Jacobson

A Thousand Billion Dollars(1982)

2h 12min | Thriller
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is to garner enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start disappearing - and before any more corpses accumulate, including his own.

The Piano Player(2002)

1h 31min | Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller
2.2/5 (with 7 votes)

A tale about the relationship between a businessman who launders money for a Mafia figure and his gangster bodyguard.

Apartment Zero(1989)

2h 4min | Thriller, Horror, Drama
3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.

Operation Double Cross(1965)

1h 32min | Thriller
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In Barcelona, secret agent Antoine Donadieu thwarts the plans of a Nazi scientist.

The Bourne Identity(1988)

3h 5min | Thriller, Action, Drama
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An unconscious man is washed ashore on the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. A retired doctor takes care of the unconscious stranger. When the mysterious man recovers, he can't remember a thing...he does not know his name, he does not know where his flashback memories come from, and he does not know why the access code for an anonymous Swiss bank account is implanted in his thigh. As he seeks his own identity, things quickly become dangerous. There are attempts to kill him, he is well known in first class hotels across Europe, and worst of all, there are strange similarities between his memories and reported actions of the notorious terrorist, Carlos the Jackal.

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