Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "armed-man"

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: 923,515 | Gross: $28.26M

2. Falling Down (1993)

R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin

Votes: 207,268 | Gross: $40.90M

3. Skyfall (2012)

PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench

Votes: 732,146 | Gross: $304.36M

4. Dark City (1998)

R | 100 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.

Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt

Votes: 212,708 | Gross: $14.38M

5. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)

R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.

Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Carla Quevedo

Votes: 222,860 | Gross: $6.39M

6. Jarhead (2005)

R | 125 min | Biography, Drama, War

A psychological study of Marine's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home.

Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black, Scott MacDonald

Votes: 207,134 | Gross: $62.66M

7. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Crime

Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

Director: David Zucker | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, Ricardo Montalban

Votes: 185,566 | Gross: $78.76M

8. Dirty Harry (1971)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.

Directors: Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni

Votes: 168,793 | Gross: $35.90M

9. The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Approved | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach

Votes: 102,743 | Gross: $4.91M

10. Rambo: Last Blood (2019)

R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Rambo must confront his past and unearth his ruthless combat skills to exact revenge in a final mission.

Director: Adrian Grunberg | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Adriana Barraza

Votes: 109,871 | Gross: $44.82M

11. Wyatt Earp (1994)

PG-13 | 191 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, a man becomes a myth in this thrilling journey of romance, adventure, and desperate heroic action.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, David Andrews

Votes: 55,074 | Gross: $25.05M

12. From Russia with Love (1963)

PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

Director: Terence Young | Stars: Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Daniela Bianchi

Votes: 145,622 | Gross: $24.80M

13. The American (2010)

R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An assassin hides out in Italy for one last assignment.

Director: Anton Corbijn | Stars: George Clooney, Paolo Bonacelli, Violante Placido, Irina Björklund

Votes: 102,245 | Gross: $35.61M

14. The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Approved | 150 min | Action, Adventure, War

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes

Votes: 79,217 | Gross: $45.30M

15. Oliver & Company (1988)

G | 74 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York City.

Director: George Scribner | Stars: Joey Lawrence, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Richard Mulligan

Votes: 53,077 | Gross: $74.15M

16. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin, while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams

Votes: 113,251 | Gross: $20.97M

17. The One (2001)

PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A rogue Multiverse agent goes on a manhunt for alternate versions of himself, getting stronger with each kill. Only the last version of himself, an LASD cop, can stop his crusade before he becomes "The One".

Director: James Wong | Stars: Jet Li, Carla Gugino, Delroy Lindo, Jason Statham

Votes: 96,220 | Gross: $43.91M

18. Rio Lobo (1970)

G | 114 min | Drama, War, Western

After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the two traitors whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam

Votes: 13,700 | Gross: $9.27M

19. The Haunted Palace (1963)

Not Rated | 87 min | Horror

Charles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr., Frank Maxwell

Votes: 8,510 | Gross: $2.62M

20. Moonwalker (1988)

PG | 93 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy

Anthology movie by, and starring, Michael Jackson in his prime, combining a number of music videos from his bestselling "Bad" album with a fantasy tale of Michael's confrontation with a ruthless drug dealer known as Mr. Big.

Directors: Jerry Kramer, Jim Blashfield, Colin Chilvers | Stars: Michael Jackson, Joe Pesci, Sean Lennon, Kelley Parker

Votes: 18,277

21. Carlos (2010)

Not Rated | 111 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.

Stars: Edgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Fadi Abi Samra, Karam Ghossein

Votes: 14,432 | Gross: $0.15M

22. He Walked by Night (1948)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann | Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell

Votes: 6,733

23. Disco Boy (2023)

92 min | Drama

After a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, in the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and the lives of his family.

Director: Giacomo Abbruzzese | Stars: Morr Ndiaye, Wahab Oladiti, Salem Kisita, Mutamba Kalonji

Votes: 1,268

24. The Boys Club (1996)

R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

In Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.

Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Stuart Stone, Devon Sawa

Votes: 1,348

25. Brother (1997)

99 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Mariya Zhukova

Votes: 24,616

26. 'R Xmas (2001)

R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Drea de Matteo, Lillo Brancato, Lisa Valens, Ice-T

Votes: 1,635 | Gross: $0.00M

27. Battle for Finland (2007)

117 min | Drama, History, War

In the summer of 1944, the Finnish Forces must defend Finland from the invading Soviet Red Army.

Directors: Ake Lindman, Åke Lindman, Sakari Kirjavainen | Stars: Rauno Ahonen, Mikkomarkus Ahtiainen, Frank Biermann, Jussi Brech

Votes: 1,977

28. Arizona Bushwhackers (1968)

Approved | 87 min | Romance, Western

A Confederate spy takes the sheriff job in a lawless Union town where people are hostile to him and where a crooked saloon owner peddles rifles to the renegade Indians.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, Marilyn Maxwell

Votes: 373

29. You Won't See Winter (2022)

70 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The director of the Iranian internet censorship is trying to contain the scandal of viral sex footage on social media depicting his sister-in-law's alleged lesbian affair with an Iranian-Canadian girl.

Director: Abdolreza Kahani | Stars: Ghazal Partou, Nazanin Arabani, Sadaf Shakori, Ali Aryana

Votes: 8

30. Savage in the City (1977)

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Director: John W. Shadow | Stars: Jim Bruce, Andrew Bull, Victor Buono, Yan Yan Lam

31. Comrades in Arms (1991)

R | 91 min | Action, Adventure

The Cold War is over, but the battle is still blazing as Russia and America join forces. When a ruthless international drug cartel threatens to impose a new world order of its own, ... See full summary »

Director: J. Christian Ingvordsen | Stars: Lyle Alzado, Rick Washburn, J. Christian Ingvordsen, Lance Henriksen

Votes: 110

32. Warheads (1993)

179 min | Documentary, War

A nineteen year old from Munich ,bedazzled by a political idea,sets off to war in Croatia, part of the former Yugoslavia, and becomes a mercenary killer.

Director: Romuald Karmakar | Stars: Guenter Aschenbrenner, Karl

Votes: 37

33. Tugatog (2000)

85 min | Adventure, Thriller

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Director: Don Escudero | Stars: Jao Mapa, Spencer Reyes, Vhong Navarro, Christopher Roxas

34. Kraze (2010)

74 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A man who lost everything in the Haitian earthquake defends his new friends against gangsters.

Director: Matt Davids | Stars: Mauril Bastien, Roodly Jules, Yella Pierre-Lewis, Ben Poux

35. Ambulance (2016– )
Episode: Episode #6.8 (2020)

58 min | Documentary

The Friday night shift takes its toll on crews in London as they deal with reports of an armed man on the loose and two stabbings. Adam and Orani are dispatched to an elderly man who is seeing things.

Directors: Imogen Wynell-Mayow, Erica Gornall | Star: Christopher Eccleston

Votes: 6

36. Critical Incident (2019– )
Episode: Episode #2.6 (2020)

44 min | Documentary, Crime

A village becomes the scene of a violent gun fight when a firearms team confronts an armed man. Two paramedics with the Welsh Ambulance Service are victims of a terrifying attack. Plus, a look at the work of the Police Treatment Centres.

Directors: Chris Christodoulou, Edel O'Mahony | Star: Jim Johnson

37. Crimes Gone Viral (2020– )
Episode: Men Gone Wild (2020)

TV-14 | Documentary

A case in which a homeowner was forced to defend himself when an armed man burst into his home late one night. Plus, a man who went on a violent rampage in a diner

Stars: Nigel Bristow, Dustin Ebaugh, Claudia Horan, Judith Joseph

Votes: 9

38. Ang probinsyano (2015–2022)
Episode: Duda (2021)

TV-14 | 55 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

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Stars: Coco Martin, Susan Roces, Tommy Abuel, Angel Aquino

39. Happy Valley (2014–2023)
Episode: Episode #3.1 (2023)

TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When Catherine discovers the remains of a murder victim, it bizarrely leads her straight back to Tommy Lee Royce.

Directors: Patrick Harkins, Sally Wainwright | Stars: Sarah Lancashire, Shane Zaza, Mete Dursun, Alexis Platt

Votes: 1,145

40. Criminals: Caught on Camera (2013–2015)
Episode: Shops & Robbers (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime

The show examines the staggering rise in retail crime - both shoplifting and violence against employees - and how CCTV cameras make a difference.

Stars: Nick Wallis, Barbara Ashton, Kapil Lagella, Kevin O'Hearne

Votes: 9

41. Criminals: Caught on Camera (2013–2015)
Episode: Violent Assault (2015)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime

Guns aren't the only violent weapons; several incidents of knife attacks show up on CCTV across Britain, ranging from daring robberies to murder.

Stars: Nick Wallis, Barbara Ashton, Barry Birch, Gregg Dawe

Votes: 8