All "Sniper" Movies
by dimantha_j | created - 03 Oct 2014 | updated - 17 Jul 2016 | PublicSure the loudest explosions are in war movies but when you want to watch something that combines violence with stealth and cunning tactics, suddenly snipers come into mind. As ‘sniper’ unfortunately isn't a dedicated film genre, therefore finding some classy movies with snipers in them is far more difficult then you can actually imagine. Here today we have compiled a comprehensive list of the best sniper movies of all time that will literally make you sit at the edge of your seat......
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1. Shooter (I) (2007)
R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after hearing of a plot to kill the President. After being-double crossed for the attempt and on the run, he sets out for the real killer and the truth.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Rhona Mitra, Danny Glover
Votes: 354,280 | Gross: $47.00M
2. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
R | 131 min | Action, Drama, War
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
Votes: 276,923 | Gross: $51.40M
3. Phone Booth (2002)
R | 81 min | Crime, Thriller
Publicist Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle. Unable to leave or receive outside help, Stuart's negotiation with the caller leads to a jaw-dropping climax.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell
Votes: 284,985 | Gross: $46.57M
4. The American (2010)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An assassin hides out in Italy for one last assignment.
Director: Anton Corbijn | Stars: George Clooney, Paolo Bonacelli, Violante Placido, Irina Björklund
Votes: 101,810 | Gross: $35.61M
5. Sniper (1993)
R | 98 min | Action, Thriller, War
A veteran US Marine sniper is partnered with a rookie sniper as his spotter to take out a politician and a rebel leader in the jungles of Panama.
Director: Luis Llosa | Stars: Tom Berenger, Billy Zane, J.T. Walsh, Aden Young
Votes: 25,412 | Gross: $18.99M
6. Sniper: Reloaded (2011 Video)
R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The son of a renowned sniper decides to track down the sniper who ambushed his squad when they were sent to rescue a white planter in the Congo.
Director: Claudio Fäh | Stars: Chad Michael Collins, Richard Sammel, Annabel Wright, Billy Zane
Votes: 8,537
7. Elephant White (2011)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An assassin is hired by a businessman to avenge the murder of his daughter by white slave traders in Thailand.
Director: Prachya Pinkaew | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Djimon Hounsou, Vithaya Pansringarm, Sahajak Boonthanakit
Votes: 11,091
8. Sniper 2 (2002 Video)
R | 91 min | Action, War
Sgt. Beckett's last mission sends him to a remote war-torn wasteland between Eastern Europe and Asia to assassinate a repressive terrorist leader. Once the job is done, Beckett and his spotter find escaping more difficult than anticipated.
Director: Craig R. Baxley | Stars: Tom Berenger, Bokeem Woodbine, Erika Marozsán, Tamás Puskás
Votes: 6,603
9. Sniper 3 (2004 Video)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Deadly sniper Tom Beckett is recruited by the CIA to go to Ho Chi Minh City and take out a ruthless drug dealer who turns out to be an old war buddy he thought was dead.
Director: P.J. Pesce | Stars: Tom Berenger, Byron Mann, John Doman, Denis Arndt
Votes: 4,547
10. The Marksman (2005 Video)
R | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
With Russia on the brink of nuclear annihilation, there's only one man who can save it: an elite U.S. Special Forces operative who's been ordered to take out a Chechen nuclear power plant before terrorists set off a live reactor.
Director: Marcus Adams | Stars: Wesley Snipes, William Hope, Emma Samms, Anthony Warren
Votes: 4,651
11. Two-Minute Warning (1976)
Approved | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police race against time to eliminate him.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges
Votes: 4,358
12. Targets (1968)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An aging horror star questions his place in modern Hollywood, while a disturbed young man goes on a killing spree.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh, James Brown
Votes: 11,307
13. The Sniper (2009)
90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A police sniper teams up with a hot-headed rookie to take down his former friend and teammate, who is exacting revenge on the police force.
Director: Dante Lam | Stars: Richie Jen, Xiaoming Huang, Edison Chen, Bowie Lam
Votes: 2,228
14. Straight Shooter (1999)
Unrated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After his daughter died of cancer, former French foreign legionnaire "Straight Shooter" alias Volker Bretz threatens those who financed, built, favoured and now work the nuclear power plant... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Bohn | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Heino Ferch, Katja Flint, Hannelore Hoger
Votes: 741
15. Target (2004)
R | 84 min | Action, Thriller
U.S. Army sniper Charlie Snow finds himself at the other end of the crosshairs when the brother of an Eastern European arms dealer whom he killed decides to take vengeance on Charlie and his family in L.A.
Director: William Webb | Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Deborah Worthing, Steffani Brass, Rory Thost
Votes: 645
16. Jack Reacher (2012)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper responsible for a mass shooting.
Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog
Votes: 364,086 | Gross: $80.07M
17. Jarhead (2005)
R | 125 min | Biography, Drama, War
A psychological study of Marine's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black, Scott MacDonald
Votes: 205,634 | Gross: $62.66M
18. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
R | 169 min | Drama, War
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Votes: 1,490,856 | Gross: $216.54M
19. The Jackal (1997)
R | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An imprisoned I.R.A. fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora
Votes: 123,857 | Gross: $54.93M
20. Assassins (1995)
R | 133 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Professional hit-man Robert Rath wants to fulfill a few more contracts before retiring but unscrupulous ambitious newcomer hit-man Miguel Bain keeps killing Rath's targets.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore, Anatoli Davydov
Votes: 88,017 | Gross: $30.31M
21. Savior (1998)
R | 103 min | Drama, War
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
Director: Predrag Antonijevic | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Nastassja Kinski, Pascal Rollin, Catlin Foster
Votes: 11,466 | Gross: $0.01M
22. Léon: The Professional (1994)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello
Votes: 1,240,577 | Gross: $19.50M
23. The Day of the Jackal (1973)
PG | 143 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the aftermath of France allowing Algeria's independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel
Votes: 44,747 | Gross: $16.06M
24. Spy Game (2001)
R | 126 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane
Votes: 166,623 | Gross: $0.03M
25. Hitman (I) (2007)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Russia and Eastern Europe.
Director: Xavier Gens | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper
Votes: 177,444 | Gross: $39.69M
26. Renegade Force (1998)
R | 89 min | Action, Thriller
An F.B.I. Agent (Michael Rooker) and a female cop (Diane DiLascio) join forces to stop renegade cops who are killing the bad guys. Robert Patrick is the leader of the renegades, and Louis ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Kunert | Stars: Michael Rooker, Robert Patrick, Diane DiLascio, Louis Mandylor
Votes: 817
27. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.
Director: George Armitage | Stars: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack
Votes: 99,386 | Gross: $28.01M
28. The Hurt Locker (2008)
R | 131 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce
Votes: 472,656 | Gross: $17.02M
29. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
R | 116 min | Drama, War
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin
Votes: 787,841 | Gross: $46.36M
30. The Deadly Tower (1975 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The infamous story of Charles Whitman, "America's favourite sniper" (in Stephen King's words), is told here once again.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Kurt Russell, Richard Yniguez, Ned Beatty, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 1,165
31. Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A disillusioned pilot shot down over war-torn Bosnia goes on the run from the local military and an assassin, as his commanding officer risks all to save him.
Director: John Moore | Stars: Gene Hackman, Owen Wilson, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield
Votes: 112,601 | Gross: $59.07M
32. Act of Valor (2012)
R | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent.
Directors: Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh | Stars: Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano, Rorke Denver
Votes: 71,696 | Gross: $70.01M
33. American Sniper (2014)
R | 133 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis
Votes: 527,236 | Gross: $350.13M
34. Shot Through the Heart (1998 TV Movie)
R | 112 min | Drama, War
The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends, who end up on opposing sides in the war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to ... See full summary »
Director: David Attwood | Stars: Linus Roache, Vincent Perez, Lia Williams, Adam Kotz
Votes: 1,238
35. Sniper: Ghost Shooter (2016 Video)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Snipers ordered to protect a gas pipeline from terrorists suspect a security breach when they're targeted by a ghost shooter who knows their location.
Director: Don Michael Paul | Stars: Chad Michael Collins, Billy Zane, Dennis Haysbert, Nick Gomez
Votes: 5,200
36. Sniper: Special Ops (2016)
R | 84 min | Action, Thriller, War
When the mission to rescue a U.S. Congressman who has been kidnapped by the Taliban goes sideways, Army sniper and his partner are left behind. Now, they must survive in enemy territory and wait for their unit to come back for them.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Steven Seagal, Rob Van Dam, Tim Abell, Charlene Amoia
Votes: 3,500
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