Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "government-assassin"

1. The Beekeeper (2024)

R | 105 min | Action, Thriller

One man's brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as "Beekeepers."

Director: David Ayer | Stars: Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi, Josh Hutcherson

Votes: 89,923

2. Apocalypse Now (1979)

R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

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

Votes: 711,140 | Gross: $83.47M

3. Blacklight (2022)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Travis Block is a government operative coming to terms with his shadowy past. When he discovers a plot targeting U.S. citizens, Block finds himself in the crosshairs of the FBI director he once helped protect.

Director: Mark Williams | Stars: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Taylor John Smith, Emmy Raver-Lampman

Votes: 24,550 | Gross: $9.59M

4. Taboo (2017)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London during the War of 1812 to rebuild his late father's shipping empire. However, both the government and his biggest competitor want his inheritance at any cost--even murder.

Stars: Tom Hardy, David Hayman, Jonathan Pryce, Oona Chaplin

Votes: 149,229

5. Red Sparrow (2018)

R | 140 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School,' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.

Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling

Votes: 201,787 | Gross: $46.87M

6. The Sum of All Fears (2002)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.

Director: Phil Alden Robinson | Stars: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ian Mongrain, Russell Bobbitt

Votes: 124,548 | Gross: $118.91M

7. The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Samantha Caine lives in a small town with her daughter. Eight years ago she emerged, two months pregnant, from a nearby river with no memory of her past or who she is. However, she's getting closer to finding out about her past.

Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima, Craig Bierko

Votes: 85,744 | Gross: $33.33M

8. Gemini Man (2019)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

An over-the-hill hitman faces off against a younger clone of himself.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong

Votes: 122,298 | Gross: $48.55M

9. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

R | 113 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), in which he purports to have been a C.I.A. hitman.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts

Votes: 92,057 | Gross: $16.00M

10. The Pelican Brief (1993)

PG-13 | 141 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard

Votes: 96,111 | Gross: $100.77M

11. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)

Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A legendary American war veteran is recruited to hunt a mythical creature.

Director: Robert D. Krzykowski | Stars: Sam Elliott, Rocco Gioffre, Aidan Turner, Melissa Jalali

Votes: 13,822

12. Flashpoint (1984)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two U.S. border patrolmen find a buried 20+ year old jeep in the desert with a skeleton, rifle and $800,000. They keep the money. Suddenly, the FBI shows a lot of interest in the car.

Director: William Tannen | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway

Votes: 3,171 | Gross: $3.85M

13. The Andromeda Strain (2008)

44 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.

Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Christa Miller, Ricky Schroder, Louis Ferreira

Votes: 14,615

14. General Commander (2019)

R | 85 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

GRS operative Jake Alexander and his team of young recruits go after the most dangerous and notorious criminals with the help of a Hong Kong billionaire.

Directors: Philippe Martinez, Ross W. Clarkson | Stars: Steven Seagal, Sonia Couling, Byron Gibson, Mica Javier

Votes: 1,971

15. Briarpatch (2019–2020)

TV-MA | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A senator's aide unravels a complex web of lies, crimes and conspiracies when she returns to her corrupt hometown -- San Bonifacio, Texas, near the Mexican border--to investigate the death of her sister, a local cop killed by a car bomb.

Stars: Rosario Dawson, Jay R. Ferguson, Edi Gathegi, Brian Geraghty

Votes: 2,693

16. Scorpio (1973)

PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

During the Cold War, the CIA orders free-lance operative Scorpio to assassinate his former CIA mentor Cross and a deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos

Votes: 5,212

17. Cyborg 2087 (1966)

86 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Earth's civilization of the future sends a cyborg back to the 1960s to change the future.

Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Michael Rennie, Karen Steele, Wendell Corey, Warren Stevens

Votes: 659

18. Golden Years (1991)

Not Rated | 232 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An elderly janitor hurt in an explosion at a secret army lab run by "The Shop" starts to grow younger. A ruthless operative is sent to cover it up, so the janitor and his wife go on the run with help from a sympathetic female agent.

Stars: Keith Szarabajka, Felicity Huffman, Ed Lauter, R.D. Call

Votes: 3,237

19. Heat Vision and Jack (1999 TV Movie)

30 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Astronaut on the run with special powers and his talking motorcycle must deal with a malevolent artificial life form that's possessing people and turning them into dust, as well as NASA's hitman and real life actor Ron Silver.

Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Ron Silver, Christine Taylor

Votes: 1,781

20. Pressure Point (1997)

97 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Deadly government assassin Sebastian Dellacourt botches a job and ends up in prison. His only way out is to do one final job and infiltrate a dangerous militia led by delusional Arno Taylor, who wants to overthrow the US government.

Director: David Giancola | Stars: Don Mogavero, Steve Railsback, Larry Linville, Linda Ljoka

Votes: 372

21. My Own Worst Enemy (2008)

60 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Henry Spivey, an efficiency expert, lives a typical suburban life, right down to the wife, two kids, dog, and minivan. In contrast, Edward Albright is a lethal, multilingual operative. It ... See full summary »

Stars: Christian Slater, Mike O'Malley, Saffron Burrows, Mädchen Amick

Votes: 3,457

22. Down River (2018)

70 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, Zachary Greene, Cody Poirot, Nicholas Winand

Votes: 591

23. Brotherhood of the Rose (1989)

PG-13 | 240 min | Thriller

Two orphans, Romulus and Remus, are raised by CIA handler John Eliot to be the best in the cloak and dagger game. Decades later, he turns on them and orders their elimination. They decide to fight back and track him down to learn why.

Stars: Peter Strauss, Robert Mitchum, Connie Sellecca, David Morse

Votes: 930

24. Sharpshooter (2007 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Thriller

An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quiting only to find out that he is the target of his CIA boss.

Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: James Remar, Mario Van Peebles, Al Sapienza, Catherine Mary Stewart

Votes: 1,061

25. Chronicle of an Escape (2006)

R | 103 min | Crime, Thriller

The goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young men.

Director: Israel Adrián Caetano | Stars: Rodrigo de la Serna, Pablo Echarri, Nazareno Casero, Lautaro Delgado

Votes: 3,705 | Gross: $0.00M

26. Cy Warrior (1989)

90 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Part man. Part robot. All ass kick. Unaffected by extreme heat and cold, impervious to bio-weapons and totally obedient, Cyber Warrior One will be the soldier of the future for the U.S. military. There's just one problem - he has a heart.

Director: Giannetto De Rossi | Stars: Frank Zagarino, Henry Silva, Sherrie Rose, Brandon Hammond

Votes: 239

27. Assassin (1973)

83 min | Drama, Thriller

A government assassin is sent to kill a government official who might be leaking its secrets.

Director: Peter Crane | Stars: Ian Hendry, Edward Judd, Frank Windsor, Ray Brooks

Votes: 138

28. Assassins' Code (2011)

R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.

Director: Lawrence Riggins | Stars: Julian Lee, Choi Min-soo, John Savage, Martin Kove

Votes: 192

29. Ferestadeh (1983)

103 min | Drama

An Iranian assassin is sent to the United States to kill a former Iranian official who served under the Shah of Iran. The night before the assassination he find out that his target (Mr. ... See full summary »

Director: Parviz Sayyad | Stars: Parviz Sayyad, Mary Apick, Houshang Touzie, Saeed Rajai

Votes: 238

30. Hunting the KGB Killers (2017)

PG-13 | 54 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

The inside story of Alexander Litvinenko's murder in London and the subsequent international manhunt that led to the Kremlin, told in full for the first time, with exclusive access to key individuals.

Director: Chris Malone | Stars: Eddie Marsan, Andrew Byron, Hubert Hanowicz, Jon Foster

Votes: 134

31. Edge (1997)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Edge is the story of Edward 'Edge' Jones (Edge), a man with no memory of the event in the Persian Gulf war that left him physically scarred and lost in a civilian world that offers him no ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Harty | Stars: Aaron Michael Lacey, Steve Tartalia, Briel Banks, Celeste Lynch

Votes: 61

32. Alibi (I)

Action, Crime, Drama | Announced

An action-thriller centered on a socialite whose public presence is an ideal cover for his secret twin brother, a government assassin.

33. The Hitchhiker (1983–1991)
Episode: Fading Away (1990)

TV-MA | 24 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

An ex-marine believes he's been abandoned by his peers while on a dangerous assignment.

Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Nick Mancuso, Helen Hughes, Angelo Rizacos, Brenda Bazinet

Votes: 31

34. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: French Twist (1986)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When a known terrorist comes to Miami the team tries to find him. And an Interpol operative comes to assist them. Crockett is taken with her but Tubbs thinks there's something odd about her.

Director: David Jackson | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 428

35. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Comings & Goings (1998)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Anton inexplicably reappears, but he's now dying from the arch's effects. Matt suspects that Elsinger knows more than he's admitting.

Director: John Bell | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 20

36. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Fire Within/Fate (1997)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

The simple case of a farmer turned victim of spontaneous human combustion uncovers a potential conspiracy. Bullied high school student with the powers of telepathy and precognition tries to change the tragic fate of his best friend.

Director: Aaron Shuster | Stars: Paul Miller, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 27

37. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Temple of Light (1999)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Lindsay infiltrates a serene, anti-government, new age cult that worships an entity they call Varik to investigate the reported possession of a cultist and popular scream queen by Varik. She and the team uncover a deadly conspiracy.

Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Joanne Vannicola, Colin Fox

Votes: 14

38. Renegade (1992–1997)
Episode: Hard Evidence (1996)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Peter Flood shows pictures of what he thinks are UFO's to Bobby Sixkiller and Reno Raines. He wants them to check it out . They think government cover up. They check it out.

Director: Lorenzo Lamas | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Kathleen Kinmont, Branscombe Richmond, Steven Williams

Votes: 43

39. Strange World (1999–2002)
Episode: Man Plus (2000)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a brilliant pianist suffers a seizure during concert and dies, an implant that serves as a form of a steroid is found in his brain. Several other corpses with implants show up. Turner investigates who's killing these people and why.

Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Tim Guinee, Sandra Quarterman, Vivian Wu, Kristin Lehman

40. Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode: The Assassin (1994)

Not Rated | 26 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

A happy housewife is pitted against three CIA agents, who have come to kill her husband, a supposed rogue agent.

Director: Martin von Haselberg | Stars: Shelley Hack, Chelsea Field, Jonathan Banks, Marshall R. Teague

Votes: 678

41. Bobcat Goldthwait's Misfits & Monsters (2018)
Episode: Patsy (2018)

TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

After accidentally shooting his commanding officer in the rear end, Private Herbert Smalls is called upon for a very special mission - a mission 50 years in the past.

Director: Bobcat Goldthwait | Stars: Greg Corbett, Grace DeAmicis, Alex Elder, Josh Fadem

Votes: 51