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Apocalypse Now
1979 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 black comedy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars an ensemble cast including Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an alternate history story of two converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership at a Paris cinema—one through a British operation largely carried out by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt), and another by French Jewish cinema proprietor Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent) who seeks to avenge her murdered family. Both are pitted against Hans Landa (Waltz), an SS colonel with a fearsome reputation.
Taxi Driver
1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese
Munich
2005 film directed by Steven Spielberg
North by Northwest
1959 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Lincoln
2012 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
2015 film directed by Christopher McQuarrie
Valkyrie
2008 film by Bryan Singer
The Interview
2014 film directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
JFK
1991 film directed by Oliver Stone
Face/Off
Face/Off is a 1997 American science fiction action thriller film directed by John Woo, from a screenplay by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary. It stars John Travolta as an FBI agent and Nicolas Cage as a terrorist, who undergo an experimental surgery to swap their faces and identities. The film co-stars Joan Allen, Gina Gershon, and Alessandro Nivola in his film debut, and features Dominique Swain in her film debut, Nick Cassavetes, Harve Presnell, Colm Feore, CCH Pounder, and Thomas Jane in supporting roles.
Shooter
2007 film directed by Antoine Fuqua
Wanted
2008 film directed by Timur Bekmambetov
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
2015 film directed by Francis Lawrence
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 film by Alfred Hitchcock
In the Line of Fire
1993 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Zoolander
Zoolander is a 2001 American comedy film directed, co-produced, co-written by and starring Ben Stiller. A satire on the fashion industry, the film follows fashion model Derek Zoolander (Stiller) who is tricked by fashion mogul Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell) into assassinating the Prime Minister of Malaysia, whose progressive laws on the fashion industry would harm his businesses. The cast also features Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Milla Jovovich, Jerry Stiller and Jon Voight.
The Accountant
2016 film directed by Gavin O'Connor
Nikita
1990 French film directed by Luc Besson
Z
1969 French-Algerian film by Costa-Gavras
The Jackal
1997 film by Michael Caton-Jones
The Day of the Jackal
1973 film by Fred Zinnemann
The Pelican Brief
1993 film directed by Alan J. Pakula
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 film by David Zucker
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007 film by Andrew Dominik
Foreign Correspondent
1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Ballerina (2025 film)
Ballerina is a 2025 American action thriller film directed by Len Wiseman and written by Shay Hatten. It is a spin-off installment within the John Wick film series, taking place between the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) and Chapter 4 (2023). It stars Ana de Armas as ballerina and assassin Eve MaCarro, who takes on an army of killers as she avenges the death of her father. The supporting cast includes Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Norman Reedus, Ian McShane, and Keanu Reeves.
The Manchurian Candidate
2004 film directed by Jonathan Demme
Hanna
2011 film by Joe Wright
Vantage Point
2008 film by Pete Travis
The Conformist
1970 film by Bernardo Bertolucci
Fantastic Voyage
1966 film directed by Richard Fleischer
The Manchurian Candidate
1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer
Rang De Basanti
2006 film by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Ashes and Diamonds
1958 film by Andrzej Wajda
The Green Hornet
2011 film directed by Michel Gondry
Nashville
1975 film directed by Robert Altman
Patriot Games
1992 film by Phillip Noyce
Zoolander 2
2016 film by Ben Stiller
The Dead Zone
1983 film by David Cronenberg
The Purge: Election Year
2016 film by James DeMonaco
The Last Boy Scout
1991 film by Tony Scott
Bobby
2006 film directed by Emilio Estevez
Teheran 43
1981 film by Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov
Seed of Chucky
2004 film directed by Don Mancini
The Parallax View
1974 film by Alan J. Pakula
Anthropoid
2016 film directed by Sean Ellis
The American Friend
1977 film by Wim Wenders
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 film by Alfred Hitchcock
The Accountant 2
2025 film directed by Gavin O'Connor
Ella Enchanted
2004 film by Tommy O'Haver
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004 film
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1974 film by Michael Cimino
Nick of Time
1995 film directed by John Badham
The Patriot
1928 film by Ernst Lubitsch
Assassination Games
2011 film directed by Ernie Barbarash
The Killer
1989 film directed by John Woo
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017 film directed by Cédric Jimenez
The Assassination of Trotsky
1972 film by Joseph Losey
13 Assassins
2010 film by Takashi Miike