Films about assassinations

1979 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola

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.

1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2005 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1959 film by Alfred Hitchcock

2012 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2015 film directed by Christopher McQuarrie

2008 film by Bryan Singer

2014 film directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg

1991 film directed by Oliver Stone

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.

2007 film directed by Antoine Fuqua

2008 film directed by Timur Bekmambetov

2015 film directed by Francis Lawrence

1956 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1993 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen

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.

2016 film directed by Gavin O'Connor

1990 French film directed by Luc Besson

1969 French-Algerian film by Costa-Gavras

1997 film by Michael Caton-Jones

1973 film by Fred Zinnemann

1993 film directed by Alan J. Pakula

1988 film by David Zucker

2007 film by Andrew Dominik

1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock

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.

2004 film directed by Jonathan Demme

2011 film by Joe Wright

2008 film by Pete Travis

1970 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

1966 film directed by Richard Fleischer

1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer

2006 film by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

1958 film by Andrzej Wajda

2011 film directed by Michel Gondry

1975 film directed by Robert Altman

1992 film by Phillip Noyce

2016 film by Ben Stiller

1983 film by David Cronenberg

2016 film by James DeMonaco

1991 film by Tony Scott

2006 film directed by Emilio Estevez

1981 film by Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov

2004 film directed by Don Mancini

1974 film by Alan J. Pakula

2016 film directed by Sean Ellis

1977 film by Wim Wenders

1934 film by Alfred Hitchcock

2025 film directed by Gavin O'Connor

2004 film by Tommy O'Haver

2004 film

1974 film by Michael Cimino

1995 film directed by John Badham

1928 film by Ernst Lubitsch

2011 film directed by Ernie Barbarash

1989 film directed by John Woo

2017 film directed by Cédric Jimenez

1972 film by Joseph Losey

2010 film by Takashi Miike