Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "assassin", "low-budget-film"

1. Taxi Driver (1976)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama

A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks

Votes: 920,807 | Gross: $28.26M

2. Samurai Cop (1991)

Unrated | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Joe Marshall and Frank Washington are two tenacious police detectives who seek at all costs to stop the Katana, a renegade Yakuza gang composed of violent and sadistic killers who want to lead the drug trade in Los Angeles.

Director: Amir Shervan | Stars: Robert Z'Dar, Mathew Karedas, Janis Farley, Mark Frazer

Votes: 10,096

3. Disaster Movie (2008)

PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events.

Directors: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer | Stars: Carmen Electra, Vanessa Lachey, Nicole Parker, Matt Lanter

Votes: 94,546 | Gross: $14.19M

4. Firestarter (2022)

R | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A young girl tries to understand how she mysteriously gained the power to set things on fire with her mind.

Director: Keith Thomas | Stars: Zac Efron, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Michael Greyeyes

Votes: 22,114

5. Foxy Brown (1974)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A voluptuous vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter

Votes: 12,036 | Gross: $2.46M

6. El Mariachi (1992)

R | 81 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Jaime de Hoyos, Peter Marquardt

Votes: 71,301 | Gross: $2.04M

7. Red Sonja (1985)

PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The fearless warrior Red Sonja sets out to avenge her family's murder and rid her kingdom from the tyrannical rule of evil Queen Gedren.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman, Paul L. Smith

Votes: 44,890 | Gross: $6.95M

8. Interceptor (2022)

TV-MA | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

One Army captain must use her years of tactical training and military expertise when a simultaneous coordinated attack threatens the remote missile interceptor station she is in command of.

Director: Matthew Reilly | Stars: Elsa Pataky, Luke Bracey, Aaron Glenane, Mayen Mehta

Votes: 27,427

9. The Clovehitch Killer (2018)

Unrated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A picture-perfect family is shattered when the work of a serial killer hits too close to home.

Director: Duncan Skiles | Stars: Dylan McDermott, Charlie Plummer, Samantha Mathis, Madisen Beaty

Votes: 33,981 | Gross: $0.01M

10. Coffy (1973)

R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A sexy Black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.

Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott

Votes: 12,936

11. Wizards (1977)

PG | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wizard and his faire folk comrades fight an evil wizard who's using technology in his bid for conquest.

Director: Ralph Bakshi | Stars: Bob Holt, Jesse Welles, Richard Romanus, David Proval

Votes: 13,011 | Gross: $9.00M

12. Big Game (2014)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A young teenager camping in the woods helps rescue the President of the United States when Air Force One is shot down near his campsite.

Director: Jalmari Helander | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber

Votes: 35,504 | Gross: $0.02M

13. Walking Tall (1973)

R | 125 min | Action, Biography, Crime

Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser, who almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Leif Garrett, Dawn Lyn

Votes: 6,748 | Gross: $4.75M

14. Blackout (VI) (2022)

TV-MA | 81 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A man wakes in a hospital with no memory, and quickly finds himself on the run in a locked down hospital with the Cartel on his tail. He scrambles to find his true identity in the most vicious way.

Director: Sam Macaroni | Stars: Josh Duhamel, Abbie Cornish, Omar Chaparro, Nick Nolte

Votes: 4,803

15. Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993 Video)

R | 99 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

2 companies battle for Cyborg domination. One's built a cyborg/Angelina Jolie so human, that they hope, she'll get into the competition's HQ and explode. But she escapes with her human martial arts instructor.

Director: Michael Schroeder | Stars: Elias Koteas, Angelina Jolie, Jack Palance, Billy Drago

Votes: 5,149

16. The Machine (I) (2013)

R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In efforts to construct perfect android killing machines in a war against China, UK scientists exceed their goal and create a sentient robot.

Director: Caradog W. James | Stars: Toby Stephens, Caity Lotz, Denis Lawson, Sam Hazeldine

Votes: 32,067

17. Versus (II) (2000)

R | 119 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

There are 666 portals that connect this world to the other side. These are concealed from all human beings. Somewhere in Japan exists the 444th portal.... The forest of resurrection.

Director: Ryûhei Kitamura | Stars: Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka, Kenji Matsuda

Votes: 13,729

18. Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.

Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura | Stars: Eihi Shiina, Itsuji Itao, Yukihide Benny, Jiji Bû

Votes: 12,738

19. Hogfather (2006 TV Movie)

189 min | Comedy, Fantasy

It's Hogswatch (equivalent to Christmas) on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened.

Director: Vadim Jean | Stars: David Jason, Marc Warren, Michelle Dockery, David Warner

Votes: 11,037

20. Mercenaries (2014)

Unrated | 89 min | Action, Adventure

The President's daughter is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of elite female commandos is assembled to infiltrate a women's prison for a daring rescue.

Director: Christopher Ray | Stars: Zoë Bell, Kristanna Loken, Vivica A. Fox, Brigitte Nielsen

Votes: 2,755

21. 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)

R | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In a post-apocalyptic New York City, a policeman infiltrates the Bronx, which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs.

Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Mark Gregory, Fred Williamson, Vic Morrow, Christopher Connelly

Votes: 4,071

22. Eliminators (2016)

R | 94 min | Action, Thriller

Thomas, widower and ex federal agent, hides in London with his daughter. 3 men break in. Thomas kills them. His photo ends on TV. A US crime boss sends a killer to London.

Director: James Nunn | Stars: Scott Adkins, Stu Bennett, Daniel Caltagirone, James Cosmo

Votes: 4,857

23. China Salesman (2017)

Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A Chinese IT company representative attempts to spoil a conspiracy to start a civil war in an African country orchestrated by an European businessman who is aided by a tough African warrior.

Directors: Tan Bing, Sean Eden Yi | Stars: Dongxue Li, Mike Tyson, Janicke Askevold, Li Ai

Votes: 1,965

24. Deadly Prey (1987)

R | 88 min | Action, Thriller

A group of sadistic mercenaries kidnap people off the streets and set them loose on the grounds of their secret camp, so the "students" at the camp can learn how to track down and kill their prey.

Director: David A. Prior | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Troy Donahue, Ted Prior, Fritz Matthews

Votes: 3,464

25. Assassin 33 A.D. (2020)

PG-13 | 109 min | Sci-Fi

While doing research, a group of young geniuses accidentally stumbles upon a secret terrorist plot to create a time machine to go back in time and change history.

Director: Jim Carroll | Stars: Morgan Roberts, Ilsa Levine, Donny Boaz, Heidi Montag

Votes: 2,406

26. Hands of Steel (1986)

R | 94 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A cyborg is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands. He fails and hides in a diner in a desert run by a woman who likes him. The people who sent him are after him and so is the local arm wrestling champ.

Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Daniel Greene, Janet Agren, Claudio Cassinelli, George Eastman

Votes: 2,876

27. Slaughter (1972)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.

Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: Jim Brown, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn, Cameron Mitchell

Votes: 1,314

28. Close Range (2015)

TV-MA | 80 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a fight with a dirty sheriff and the cartel he works for to protect his niece and sister.

Director: Isaac Florentine | Stars: Scott Adkins, Nick Chinlund, Caitlin Keats, Madison Lawlor

Votes: 5,639

29. Firepower (1993)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

In the near future, street gangs have their own city zones where cops can't go. Two tough cops are sent undercover in one of them to investigate an illegal cure for AIDS. But they must first fight in a deathmatch, and the match is fixed.

Director: Richard Pepin | Stars: Chad McQueen, Gary Daniels, George Murdock, Joseph Ruskin

Votes: 757

30. Duffle Bag Boy (2024)

Action, Adventure, Crime

Lost and forgotten, a homeless veteran hitchhikes his way into becoming an outlaw and goes to war with the kingpin of a criminal empire.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, James Anthony Perez, Cheryce Livingston, Don Tempesta

31. 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: 658

32. Detonator II: Night Watch (1995 TV Movie)

R | 94 min | Action, Thriller

Rembrandt's Night Watch returns to Amsterdam fake. UN agents Mike and Sabrina investigate there and in Hong Kong - stumbling on N.Korean special bombs aimed at the West's communication.

Director: David Jackson | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Alexandra Paul, William Devane, Michael Shannon

Votes: 1,779

33. Gone with the Pope (2010)

Unrated | 83 min | Crime, Drama

Famed nightclub performer Duke Mitchell is Paul, a paroled gangster with an unholy scheme: to kidnap the Pope and 'charge a dollar from every Catholic in the world' as the ransom. Shot in ... See full summary »

Director: Duke Mitchell | Stars: Duke Mitchell, Lorenzo Dardado, Jim LoBianco, Peter Milo

Votes: 507

34. Caravan to Vaccares (1974)

PG | 98 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But... See full summary »

Director: Geoffrey Reeve | Stars: David Birney, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Lonsdale, Marcel Bozzuffi

Votes: 443

35. The Eleventh Hour (2008)

Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Thriller

Action film about a N.Korean general's vendetta against a U.S. team of special ops soldiers who are on a mission to free Japanese political prisoners.

Director: John Lyde | Stars: Matthew Reese, Jennifer Klekas, K. Danor Gerald, David Nibley

Votes: 906

36. Before the Storm (2000)

106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Middle Eastern taxi driver living in Sweden, alongside his daughter's classmate, finds his life descending into chaos, terrorism and the demons of his past.

Director: Reza Parsa | Stars: Per Graffman, Maria Lundqvist, Sasha Becker, Anni Ececioglu

Votes: 1,026

37. Riot (1996)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot.

Director: Joseph Merhi | Stars: Gary Daniels, Sugar Ray Leonard, Paige Rowland, Charles Napier

Votes: 570

38. Street Knight (1993)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.

Director: Albert Magnoli | Stars: Jeff Speakman, Christopher Neame, Lewis Van Bergen, Jennifer Gatti

Votes: 881 | Gross: $0.84M

39. Crackerjack (1994)

R | 96 min | Action, Thriller

A cop on vacation at a mountain resort comes to the rescue when the resort is taken over by violent criminals.

Director: Michael Mazo | Stars: Thomas Ian Griffith, Nastassja Kinski, Christopher Plummer, George Touliatos

Votes: 872

40. VANish (2015)

79 min | Action, Crime, Horror

A kidnapped young woman is forced on a road trip full of murder and mayhem that takes place entirely in her captor's getaway van.

Director: Bryan Bockbrader | Stars: Maiara Walsh, Tony Todd, Danny Trejo, Austin Abke

Votes: 1,820

41. Mask of Death (1996)

R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

While attempting to flee from the FBI, the criminal Frank Dallio kills Detective McKenna's wife, Rachel. McKenna himself is shot in the face by the professional killer Lyle Mason, who dies ... See full summary »

Director: David Mitchell | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Rae Dawn Chong, Billy Dee Williams, Conrad Dunn

Votes: 408

42. Hatsujô kateikyôshi: Sensei no aijiru (2003)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Sachiko Hanai is a call girl. One day she is caught up in a gunfight and is shot in the forehead. Instead of killing her, the bullet in her head gives her psychic powers. She also ... See full summary »

Director: Mitsuru Meike | Stars: Kyôko Hayami, Kikujirô Honda, Yukijirô Hotaru, Yûichi Ishikawa

Votes: 768 | Gross: $0.00M

43. Double Target (1987)

102 min | Action, Adventure, War

After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the ... See full summary »

Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Miles O'Keeffe, Donald Pleasence, Bo Svenson, Kristine Erlandson

Votes: 417

44. Sensitive New Age Killer (2000)

87 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A family man who witnessed a hit-man carry out a killing as a child decides to carry out contract executions in the suburbs of Melbourne, but soon finds himself also working as a hit-man, making his life far more complicated.

Director: Mark Savage | Stars: Paul Moder, Kevin Hopkins, Helen Hopkins, Carolyn Bock

Votes: 196

45. 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: 237

46. The Blood Bond (2011)

86 min | Action, Thriller

A world-renowned spiritual leader arrives in the Asian nation of Purma to give a teaching to the faithful. Accompanying him is a retinue of monks and attendants, including his personal ... See full summary »

Directors: Michael Biehn, Antony Szeto | Stars: Michael Biehn, Phoenix Chou, Simon Yam, Emma Pei

Votes: 284

47. Contract Killers (2013)

TV-14 | 95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Double-crossed by those he trusted the most, a newbie government hit man discovers that he's the target for the world's most dangerous assassin and so begins a ruthless game of kill first or be killed.

Director: Mathew John Pearson | Stars: Richard Alexander, Dallas Barnett, Renee Cataldo, Kerry Glamsch

Votes: 458

48. The Golden Boat (1990)

83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

An absurdist odyssey through downtown Manhattan with a sweet old serial killer, a student-cum-critic-cum-musician and assorted international bohemians.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Michael Kirby, Federico Muchnik, Brett Alexander, Mary Hestand

Votes: 152

49. Bride of Vengeance (1949)

Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, History

A female Borgia is sent out to live up to the family name by killing someone, but falls in love with her intended victim.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: John Lund, Paulette Goddard, Macdonald Carey, Raymond Burr

Votes: 168

50. Overdrive (1998)

R | 92 min | Action

Reckless race-car driver Gary Stricker finds a woman who gives him a new reason to live, but she might also get him killed.

Director: Lev L. Spiro | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Robert Wagner, Kaela Dobkin, Stephen Meadows

Votes: 98