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2) Le samouraï
Series
Criterion collection volume 306
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A steely hitman hired to kill a nightclub owner discovers that the man he is working for has marked him for death.
3) Nobody
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hutch Mansell is an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life's indignities on the chin and never pushing back. A nobody. When two thieves break into his suburban home one night, Hutch declines to defend himself or his family, hoping to prevent serious violence. His teenage son, Blake, is disappointed in him and his wife, Becca, seems to pull only further away. The aftermath of the incident strikes a match to Hutch's long-simmering...
4) John Wick
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack a brilliantly lethal ex-assassin, they have no idea that they've just awakened the boogeyman. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, Wick embarks on a merciless rampage, hunting down his adversaries with the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In this wry German dark comedy, Walter (Jürgen Rissmann) is a professional hitman who has just botched a job. Forced to leave the city, he reluctantly takes up an offer from eccentric crime boss Berger (Reiner Schöne) to protect his house (and young, pretty, free-spirited wife Sybille) in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains. At Walter's side is Micky (Thomas Wodianka), his chatty, thrill-seeking old friend. After a freak accident, what seemed...
6) Mad God
Publisher
Shudder
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[Blu-ray / DVD combo pack]
Language
English
Description
Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Directed by Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Jurassic Park), the world's pre-eminent stop-motion animator, every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Story of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Nameless and faceless, the killer, known by the code name of Jackal, relentlessly moves toward the date with death that would rock the world. The tension mounts as the methodical preparations of the Jackal are paralleled with the efforts of the police to uncover the plot, which gives the story non-stop, edge-of-your-seat suspense.
9) Proud Mary
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A hit woman sees her life change dramatically when a professional hit goes wrong and she crosses paths with a young boy.
10) Assassin's Creed
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain. Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, and amasses incredible knowledge and skills to take on the oppressive and powerful Templar organization in the present day.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arthur Bishop returns as the Mechanic in the sequel to the 2011 action thriller. When the deceitful actions of a cunning but beautiful woman force him to return to the life he left behind, Bishop's life is once again in danger as he has to complete an impossible list of assassinations of the most dangerous men in the world.
12) Killing Gunther
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Things go awry for a group of assassins when they plot to kill a well known hitman.
13) The protégé
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody, Anna is the world's most skilled contract killer. However, when Moody is brutally killed, she vows revenge for the man who taught her everything she knows.
14) Anna
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Publisher
Bbc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Season two begins 30 seconds after the final episode of the first season, Eve is reeling, and Villanelle has disappeared. Eve has no idea if the woman she stabbed is alive or dead, and now both of them are in deep trouble. Eve has to find Villanelle before someone else does, but unfortunately, she's not the only person looking for her.
16) Pulp fiction
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
4 separate stories are gradually brought together, those Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In this next chapter following the 2014 hit, legendary hit man John Wick is forced back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins' guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world's deadliest killers.
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