Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "hit-squad"

1. The Equalizer 2 (2018)

R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves?

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Orson Bean

Votes: 197,929 | Gross: $102.08M

2. Cape Fear (1991)

R | 128 min | Crime, Thriller

A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis

Votes: 216,778 | Gross: $79.10M

3. Atomic Blonde (2017)

R | 115 min | Action, Thriller

An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

Director: David Leitch | Stars: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Eddie Marsan

Votes: 206,603 | Gross: $51.69M

4. Polar (I) (2019)

TV-MA | 118 min | Action, Thriller

A retiring assassin suddenly finds himself on the receiving end of a hit, contracted by none other than his own employer seeking to cash in on the pensions of aging employees.

Director: Jonas Åkerlund | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick, Fei Ren

Votes: 99,018

5. Quantum of Solace (2008)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organisation from eliminating a country's most valuable resource.

Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench

Votes: 470,902 | Gross: $168.37M

6. The Brothers Grimsby (2016)

R | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A new assignment forces a top spy to team up with his football hooligan brother.

Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Rebel Wilson, Freddie Crowder

Votes: 111,360 | Gross: $6.86M

7. What Happened to Monday (2017)

TV-MA | 123 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy

In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe, Marwan Kenzari

Votes: 134,559

8. Munich (2005)

R | 164 min | Action, Drama, History

After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 238,350 | Gross: $47.40M

9. Fantasy Island (2020)

PG-13 | 109 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

When the owner and operator of a luxurious island invites a collection of guests to live out their most elaborate fantasies in relative seclusion, chaos quickly descends.

Director: Jeff Wadlow | Stars: Michael Peña, Maggie Q, Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell

Votes: 58,090 | Gross: $27.31M

10. Mr. Right (I) (2015)

R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

A girl falls for the "perfect" guy, who happens to have a very fatal flaw: he's a hitman on the run from the crime cartels who employ him.

Director: Paco Cabezas | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Sam Rockwell, Tim Roth, James Ransone

Votes: 61,175 | Gross: $0.03M

11. El Mariachi (1992)

R | 81 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Jaime de Hoyos, Peter Marquardt

Votes: 71,323 | Gross: $2.04M

12. End of Days (1999)

R | 122 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

At the end of the century, Satan visits New York in search of a bride. It's up to an ex-cop who now runs an elite security outfit to stop him.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Kevin Pollak

Votes: 116,748 | Gross: $66.89M

13. Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

R | 96 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.

Director: Robert Longo | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Dina Meyer, Ice-T

Votes: 76,218 | Gross: $19.08M

14. The Gunman (2015)

R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

A sniper on a mercenary assassination team kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's successful kill shot forces him into hiding. Returning to the Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself.

Director: Pierre Morel | Stars: Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Jasmine Trinca, Javier Bardem

Votes: 43,397 | Gross: $10.64M

15. Ishtar (1987)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

Director: Elaine May | Stars: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin

Votes: 12,030 | Gross: $14.38M

16. Rage (2014)

Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Thriller

When the daughter of a reformed criminal is kidnapped, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.

Director: Paco Cabezas | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Rachel Nichols, Max Ryan, Michael McGrady

Votes: 25,529

17. The Andromeda Strain (2008)

44 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.

Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Christa Miller, Ricky Schroder, Louis Ferreira

Votes: 14,613

18. In Darkness (2018)

Not Rated | 110 min | Mystery, Thriller

A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.

Director: Anthony Byrne | Stars: Natalie Dormer, Ed Skrein, Emily Ratajkowski, Neil Maskell

Votes: 14,285

19. Blackway (2015)

R | 90 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

An ex-logger comes to the aid of a woman who returns to her hometown in the Pacific Northwest and finds herself harassed and stalked by a former cop turned crime lord.

Director: Daniel Alfredson | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles, Ray Liotta, Alexander Ludwig

Votes: 10,699 | Gross: $0.02M

20. The Prince (I) (2014)

R | 93 min | Action, Thriller

When his daughter is kidnapped, a retired assassin is drawn back into the life he gave up. To rescue her, he must confront his former rival.

Director: Brian A. Miller | Stars: Jason Patric, Bruce Willis, John Cusack, Jessica Lowndes

Votes: 19,211

21. Limetown (2019)

TV-14 | 30 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Follows Lia Haddock, a journalist for American Public Radio (APR), as she unravels the mystery behind the disappearance of over 300 people at a neuroscience research facility in Tennessee.

Stars: Jessica Biel, Sherri Saum, Stanley Tucci, Omar Elba

Votes: 3,267

22. The Godfather (2006 Video Game)

M | Action, Crime, Drama

Set in New York from 1945-1955, Players will join the Corleone family as "soldiers" and work their way up the ranks through loyalty, fear, and any number of illegal activities. The goal is to become Don of your own mafia family.

Director: Peter Mitchell Rubin | Stars: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, James Caan, Abe Vigoda

Votes: 4,002

23. The Stone Killer (1973)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A top New York detective is sent to Los Angeles where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin, Paul Koslo

Votes: 3,796 | Gross: $1.39M

24. No. 1 of the Secret Service (1977)

PG | 91 min | Action, Comedy

N° 1 is fearless, irresistible, and licensed to kill. N° 1 is assigned to capture a madman who is killing international financiers. Before getting the bad guy, N° 1 encounters mercenaries ... See full summary »

Director: Lindsay Shonteff | Stars: Nicky Henson, Richard Todd, Aimi MacDonald, Geoffrey Keen

Votes: 245

25. Avalanche Express (1979)

PG | 88 min | Action, Thriller

Soviet KGB General Marenkov defects to the Americans and together with his CIA handler Harry Wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the KGB agents in Europe.

Directors: Mark Robson, Monte Hellman | Stars: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell

Votes: 1,717

26. Hit! (1973)

R | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Federal Agent, whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose, is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles

Votes: 863 | Gross: $0.08M

27. Excessive Force (1993)

R | 87 min | Action

A group of Chicago cops are involved in a raid from which $3,000,000 disappears. The local mob go after them and the body count starts to rise. The new Chief of Police makes it clear to the... See full summary »

Director: Jon Hess | Stars: Thomas Ian Griffith, James Earl Jones, Lance Henriksen, Tony Todd

Votes: 1,487 | Gross: $1.15M

28. White Boy (2017)

TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary, Crime

In 1980's Detroit, 17 year-old Richard Wershe, Jr. allegedly ran a sophisticated inner-city drug dealing operation. Now, journalists, police, federal agents and hit men are speaking for the first time about the legend of "White Boy Rick."

Director: Shawn Rech | Stars: Richard Wershe Jr., Scott M. Burnstein, Dana Hathaway, Joe Swickard

Votes: 2,260

29. The Bodyguard from Beijing (1994)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A corrupt businessman commits a murder and the only witness is the girlfriend of another businessman with close connections to the Chinese government, so a bodyguard from Beijing is ... See full summary »

Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Jet Li, Christy Chung, Kent Cheng, Collin Chou

Votes: 5,597

30. Death Chase (1988)

R | 86 min | Action

After a man's sister is killed by two gunmen who seemingly come out of nowhere, he manages to find and kill them. He then discovers that the men he killed were part of a multi-millionaire's... See full summary »

Director: David A. Prior | Stars: Paul L. Smith, Jack Starrett, William Zipp, Bainbridge Scott

Votes: 120

31. Holocaust 2: The Revenge (1980)

76 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A secret group of Jewish activists locates and murders the Nazi doctors and soldiers who tortured and murdered their relatives in a notorious extermination camp.

Director: Angelo Pannacciò | Stars: William Berger, Tina Aumont, Elisabeth Tulin, Kai Fischer

Votes: 137

32. Bulletstorm (2011 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Commando Grayson Hunt, his team, and their evil boss General Sarrano, whom they want dead, crash land on the planet Stygia, a former elite resort now overrun with killer plants, feral cannibal gangs and monsters with acid for blood.

Director: James D. Mortellaro | Stars: Steve Blum, Andrew Kishino, Jennifer Hale, Chris Cox

Votes: 2,224

33. Contract Killers (2013)

TV-14 | 95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Double-crossed by those he trusted the most, a newbie government hit man discovers that he's the target for the world's most dangerous assassin and so begins a ruthless game of kill first or be killed.

Director: Mathew John Pearson | Stars: Richard Alexander, Dallas Barnett, Renee Cataldo, Kerry Glamsch

Votes: 458

34. Suspect Device (1995 TV Movie)

R | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi

In Washington D.C., a government employee survives an assassination attempt and discovers that he's in fact a cyborg with implanted nuclear device ready to explode.

Director: Rick Jacobson | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Stacey Travis, Jed Allan, John Beck

Votes: 263

35. Mob on the Run (1987 TV Movie)

Documentary, Crime, History

An extensive overview of organized crime operations in and infiltration of the Las Vegas casino and gaming industry, covering the years 1931-1987.

Director: T.W. Gilbride | Stars: Ned Day, Hank Greenspun, Aladena Fratianno, Grant Sawyer

Votes: 13

36. The Algerian War, 1954-1962 (1984)

280 min | Documentary, History, War

The Algerian War was a momentous struggle for independence from France by Algerian nationalists between 1954 and 1962. This eight-year conflict caused the fall of six French Prime Ministers... See full summary »

Star: Jim Norton

Votes: 17

37. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Buddies (1985)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Crockett and Tubbs race to find a young mother and her baby when they are targeted for death by mobsters.

Director: Harry Mastrogeorge | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 495

38. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Cuba Libre (1987)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Crockett and Tubbs go undercover to move on a major Miami dealer and stumble into a runaway paramilitary group with blood in their sights and plans of their own for the deal money.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 359

39. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: The Afternoon Plane (1987)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Tubbs wins a free vacation and he brings his girlfriend with him. But when he arrives, he discovers a man he arrested. He eventually learns that he's been set up by Calderone, who is ... See full summary »

Director: David Jackson | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 402

40. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: To Have and to Hold (1989)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Crockett goes on leave to spend some time with his young troubled son Billy, who can't adjust to the unexpected new situation in the household. Tubbs falls for the widow of an assassinated drug lord, whose family is now being targeted.

Director: Eugene Corr | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 268

41. The F.B.I. Files (1998–2009)
Episode: The Initiation (2003)

TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Three men murder a innocent man as part of an initiation into a Cleveland Ohio biker gang.

Director: Joe Wiecha | Stars: James Kallstrom, Anthony D. Call, Stephen Kemble, Stuart Shoaff

Votes: 28

42. The F.B.I. Files (1998–2009)
Episode: John Gotti: Convicted (1999)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

This program follows the team of FBI agents charged with investigating the Gambino family. Their focus turns to John Gotti after the murder of his boss, the head of the family, Paul ... See full summary »

Director: David Haycox | Stars: James Kallstrom, Anthony D. Call, Bruce Mouw, Lewis Schiliro

Votes: 39

43. WION: Gravitas Plus (2020– )
Episode: Pakistan's High-Profile Assassins (2020)

9 min | Documentary, Short, News

In this 35th episode of the 'WION: Gravitas Plus', Palki Sharma Upadhyay tells you all you need about the hit squad what Pakistan calls it an Intelligence wing, ISI.

Star: Palki Sharma Upadhyay

44. Secret Invasion (2023)
Episode: Harvest (2023)

TV-14 | 37 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Fury gathers his allies. Gravik deals with unrest.

Director: Ali Selim | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, Olivia Colman

Votes: 5,601

45. Outlaw Bikers (2007– )
Episode: Masters of Mayhem (2007)

Documentary, Crime, History

The Mongols motorcycle club meets undercover agent Billy Queen.

Stars: Billy Queen, Budd Johnson, Scott Ereckson, Donald Jarvis

46. Reacher (2022– )
Episode: Reacher Said Nothing (2022)

TV-MA | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Reacher springs a trap and then gets trapped himself.

Director: Lin Oeding | Stars: Alan Ritchson, Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald, Maria Sten

Votes: 5,390

47. Gangland (2007–2010)
Episode: Kill 'Em All (2009)

TV-14 | 45 min | Biography, Crime, History

The Best Friends," a ruthless gang of contract killers, have stalked the east side of Detroit since 1985. The Feds say the gang was responsible for more than 80 murders. This episode of ... See full summary »

Director: Rebecca Halpern | Stars: Ezra Brown Jr., Gregory Brown, Reginald Brown, Terrance Brown

Votes: 11

48. Narco Wars (2020–2022)
Episode: The Mob: How E Busted the Bull (2021)

Documentary, Crime, History

Sammy The Bull attempts to go straight, but gets sucked into a major ecstasy-dealing ring.

Directors: Wilfred Spears, Max Stern | Stars: Shaun Attwood, Karen Gravano, George Gabriel, Rich Lebel

Votes: 9

49. Barry (2018–2023)
Episode: crazytimesh*tshow (2022)

TV-MA | 29 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

The Bolivian problem resurfaces. Gene reconnects with faces from his past. Sally is disappointed with the future of her show. Barry continues to spiral.

Director: Alec Berg | Stars: Bill Hader, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, Anthony Carrigan

Votes: 3,741

50. Inside (2007– )
Episode: Vegas Mafia (2007)

46 min | Documentary

In the 1950s, Mafia-built Las Vegas became a cash cow for organized crime, but when the richest man in the world arrived, things changed and the feds blew the lid on the original Gangster's Paradise.

Director: Virginia Quinn | Stars: Dominic Spinale, Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal, Lynn Ferrin, Tru Hawkins

Votes: 7