assassination movies

Naked Weapon (2002)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Thoresen, Marit | Wong Pui-Ha, Almen | Wu, Daniel | Kwok, Kai Yan | Rommeswinkel, Renee Nichole | Ka Lai, Mo | Aguerreberry, Augustin | Q, Maggie | Anya | Lee, Jewel | Lo, Monica | Lai, Benny | Cheng, Pei-pei | Chan, Dennis | Lin, Hoi
Directors: Ching, Siu-Tung
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Like a contagious virus, pretty and athletic girls in their teens start dissappearing around the globe one after another. The mastermind behind these abductions is Madame M (Almen Wong), who plans to train these girls into professional killers. After several years of gruesome training, only Charlene (Maggie Q), Katt (Anya) and Jill (Jewel Lee) survive and become the world’s most sought after professional killers. On a recent mission to assassinate someone in Hong Kong, however CIA agent Jack (Daniel Wu), who vows to help her reclaim her past by eliminating Madame M.

007 World Is Not Enough, The (1999)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Marceau, Sophie | Carlyle, Robert | Richards, Denise | Coltrane, Robbie | Dench, Judi | Llewelyn, Desmond | Cleese, John | Cucinotta, Maria Grazia | Bond, Samantha | Kitchen, Michael | Salmon, Colin | Goldie | Calder, David | Scott Thomas, Serena
Directors: Apted, Michael
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The 19th installment follows MI-6 Commander James Bond to a swiss bank in Bilbao, Spain where upon retrieval of three million pounds (British dollars) a siege takes place. James barely escapes the local police, leaving them questioning the mysterious shooting that occurred minutes ago. The next day, at the MI-6 Headquarters in London, Bond first greet Miss Moneypenny and gives her a nice souvenir: a cigar. Q then calls him in first to meet Sir Robert King then to report on the mission. It was then that the three million pounds was in fact, a bomb which destroys the Headquarters and kills King. Bond’s only suspect, who happens to be the woman from the swiss bank blows herself up form a hot-air balloon. He then meets Sir King’s daughter, Electra, who now own her father’s oil company. But Bond’s real mission has a new enemy named Renard a man who feels no pain whatsoever after a bullet was put into his head, who along with Electra and their henchmen plan to nuke Europe and everything in it’s path. Now with the help of Christmas Jones, a research scientist, James must foil the terrorists plan before the entire Easternmost countries are wiped out forever. The world is not enough for disasters. And the world is not enough for terrorists. The world is only enough for one man- one hero: James Bond 007!

Schizopolis (1996)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Soderbergh, Steven | Brantley, Betsy | Jensen, David | Malone, Mike | Jemison, Eddie | Allen, Scott | La Nasa, Katherine | Cooper, Silas | Pattison, Liann | Courtney, C.C. | Nitsch, Linda | Mixon, L. Christian
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Fletcher Munson is a lethargic, passive worker for a Scientology-like self-help corporation called Eventualism. After the death of a colleague, he is promoted to the job of writing speeches for T. Azimuth Schwitters, the founder and head of the group. He uses this as an excuse to be emotionally and romantically distant from his wife, who, he discovers, is having an affair with his doppelganger, a dentist named Dr. Jeffrey Korchek. As Munson fumbles with the speech and Korchek becomes obsessed with a new patient, a psychotic exterminator named Elmo Oxygen goes around the town seducing lonely wives and taking photographs of his genitals.

JFK (1991)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Jones, Tommy Lee | Taggart, Gary | Bacon, Kevin | Ramirez, Anthony | LePere, Ray | Metcalf, Laurie | Oldman, Gary | Rooker, Michael | Sanders, Jay O. | Spacek, Sissy | Lemmon, Jack | Pesci, Joe | Kirkland, Sally | Morris, E.J.
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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Part fact and part opinion, mainly of Jim Garrison and director Oliver Stone, as to the events surrounding the proposed conspiracy of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison began a probe into the actions of the F.B.I. and other officials of whom he suspected where covering up information that could lead to evidence of multiple shooters. The motive is believed to be to escalate the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. President Kennedy was attempting to prevent any further involvement in this situation, but which Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson supposedly promised the United States government that he would “give them the war”. Thus, the motive for eliminating President Kennedy. The movie also details the events of many people involved in the assassination, from Lee Harvey Oswald to Clay Shaw, a prominent figure in New Orleans.

Red Eye (2005)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: McAdams, Rachel | Murphy, Cillian | Cox, Brian | Mays, Jayma | Paton, Angela | Johnson, Laura | Plakson, Suzie | Kasch, Max | Scalia, Jack | Press-Marx, Theresa | Pine, Robert | Gilliard, Carl | Gordon, Mary Kathleen | Lester, Loren | Pavel, Philip
Directors: Craven, Wes
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After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, the Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa is waiting for a flight to Miami. Due to the bad weather and consequent flight delay, she meets in the airport bar Jack Rippner, who is also in the waiting list. They sit together in the plane, and Jack reveals that he wants Lisa to change the room in Lux of an important American politician to facilitate a terrorist attempt against him. Otherwise, Lisa’s father will be killed by a hit man. Lisa has to decide what to do with the menacing man at her side.

Mercury Rising (1998)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hughes, Miko | Willis, Bruce | McBride, Chi | Baldwin, Alec | Chan, Dickens
Directors: Harold Becker
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Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who is assigned to protect a 9 year old autistic boy who is the target for assassins after cracking a top secret government code.

Second Nature (2003)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnson, Corey | Baldwin, Alec | Boothe, Powers | Lombard, Louise | Jackson, Philip | O'Brien, Kurtis | Zimmerman, Leigh | Austin, Michele | Torrens, Pip | Rowan, Courtney | Winter, Cornelia | Donovan, Daisy | Lucas, Charlie | Mantle, Clive | Forrester, David | Hagon, Garrick
Directors: Bolt, Ben
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Everything is not as it seems for a man (Alec Baldwin) who recovers from a plane crash in which his family is killed. After plastic surgery and rehabilitation, he determines that he worked for a secret agency for which he was an assassin. His former boss (Powers Boothe) puts him back to work to assassinate a political leader, but when he proves unable to pull the trigger, it is he who becomes the target for assassins. As he avoids capture, the story unfolds about his true past and the reason why he has a tattoo of “chilly willy” inside his lip.

Beyond Hypothermia (1996)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Sang Woo Han | Ching Wan Lau | Shirley Wong | Chien-lien Wu
Directors: Leung, Patrick
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A mysterious and highly skilled hitwoman in Hong Kong is paid to assassinate top-level crime bosses. After striking up a relationship with a noodle vendor, she decides to travel to South Korea to complete one last job. Unfortunately, the dead man’s bodyguard is out for revenge.

Desert Saints (2000)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roam, Brent | Woods, Shawn | Bersh, Christopher | Sutherland, Kiefer | Ticotin, Rachel | Grant, Beth | Chapman, Zach | Sheridan, Jamey | Stefanson, Leslie | Walters, Melora | Quaid, Buddy | Diamond, Keith | Sage, Bill | Waksal, Aliza | Gelfant, Alan
Directors: Greenberg, Richard
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Traffic (2000)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Del Toro, Benicio | Vargas, Jacob | Chavez, Andrew | Saucedo, Michael | Milian, Tomas | Yenque, Jose | Rivera, Emilio | O'Neill, Michael | Douglas, Michael | Jones, Russell G. | Hetherington, Lorene | Collins, Eric | Holden, Beau | Stader, Peter | Lew, James
Directors: Soderbergh, Steven
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A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.