Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "murder-contract"

1. In Bruges (2008)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.

Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Elizabeth Berrington

Votes: 462,580 | Gross: $7.76M

2. Possessor (2020)

R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

An agent works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies - ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.

Director: Brandon Cronenberg | Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rossif Sutherland

Votes: 46,115

3. American Me (1992)

R | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A Mexican-American Mafia kingpin is released from prison, falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle.

Director: Edward James Olmos | Stars: Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe, Sal Lopez, Vira Montes

Votes: 10,476 | Gross: $13.09M

4. Death Race 2 (2010 Video)

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

Explores the origins of the first "Frankenstein" car driver, Carl "Luke" Lucas, who died in a race at the beginning of the first film.

Director: Roel Reiné | Stars: Luke Goss, Lauren Cohan, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames

Votes: 34,754

5. The Samurai (1967)

GP | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier

Votes: 57,456 | Gross: $0.04M

6. Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball (2010 Video)

R | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Hords of insane assassins (2 cute) gather in or near a bar waiting to kill an insignificant FBI pencil pusher at 3AM and collect $3M. He's kept in a safe house/bunker nearby surrounded by FBI agents. Action awaits.

Director: P.J. Pesce | Stars: Tom Berenger, Clayne Crawford, Tommy Flanagan, Maury Sterling

Votes: 14,318

7. Mikey and Nicky (1976)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama

Nicky is on the run from the mob, and he turns to old pal Mikey for help.

Director: Elaine May | Stars: Rose Arrick, Carol Grace, William Hickey, Sanford Meisner

Votes: 7,291

8. Bulworth (1998)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.

Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Kimberly Deauna Adams, Vinny Argiro

Votes: 27,338 | Gross: $26.53M

9. Batman: Arkham Origins (2013 Video Game)

T | Action, Crime, Mystery

Years before the Arkham incidents, the neophyte Dark Knight finds himself the target of an open murder contract courtesy of Black Mask that draws eight of the world's deadliest assassins and a new criminal named The Joker.

Director: Benoit Richer | Stars: Carlos Alazraqui, Laura Bailey, Troy Baker, JB Blanc

Votes: 15,430

10. Tough Guys (1986)

PG | 104 min | Comedy, Crime

Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.

Director: Jeff Kanew | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith

Votes: 7,872 | Gross: $21.46M

11. Rob the Mob (2014)

R | 104 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A Queens couple who specialize in robbing mafia social clubs stumble upon a score bigger than they could ever imagine, becoming targets of both the mob and the FBI in the process.

Director: Raymond De Felitta | Stars: Michael Pitt, Nina Arianda, Andy Garcia, Ray Romano

Votes: 11,829 | Gross: $0.21M

12. The Enforcer (1951)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.

Directors: Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane

Votes: 5,660

13. Assassination Tango (2002)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

An aging hitman gets a contract to kill a General in Buenos Aires, Argentina. But when his mark becomes unavailable, he becomes involved in Argentinian tango culture.

Director: Robert Duvall | Stars: Robert Duvall, Luciana Pedraza, Rubén Blades, Kathy Baker

Votes: 3,388 | Gross: $0.97M

14. Abducted: Fugitive for Love (2007 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

[Spoilers ahead!] Jack, a man wrongly convicted of murder is sent to a prison where the unscrupulous warden has political aspirations. The warden manipulates his wife, his political adviser... See full summary »

Director: Richard Roy | Stars: Sarah Wynter, Andrew W. Walker, Eric Breker, Carl Marotte

Votes: 923

15. Deadly Illusion (1987)

R | 87 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

A detective is framed for a murder he didn't commit.

Directors: Larry Cohen, William Tannen | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Vanity, Morgan Fairchild, John Beck

Votes: 487 | Gross: $0.63M

16. Hostage (I) (2021)

79 min | Horror, Thriller

Young cheerleader Ashley, was adopted by her parent's killers. Years later, during a home robbery, her crazed family reveal what they are really capable of and she must decide who's side she is on.

Director: Eddie Augustin | Stars: Nico DeCastris, Nicole Henderson, Maria Jimena Osorio, Daryl Marks

Votes: 301

17. Gunda (1998)

Not Rated | 129 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When a coolie's family is murdered by a group of gangsters and politicians, he swears revenge on them.

Director: Kanti Shah | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Mukesh Rishi, Mohan Joshi, Shakti Kapoor

Votes: 10,950

18. Vengeance Is Mine (1949)

59 min | Crime, Drama

Believing himself to be dying, a man hires an assassin to kill him so he can frame an enemy for the death.

Director: Alan Cullimore | Stars: Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth, Richard Goolden, Sam Kydd

Votes: 141

19. Family First (2018)

TV-MA | 87 min | Drama

JP and Vincent, two brothers from a dysfunctional family, get involved in their uncle's drug cartel. Things quickly start spiraling out of control for Vincent, the younger and more unstable of the two.

Director: Sophie Dupuis | Stars: Théodore Pellerin, Jean-Simon Leduc, Paul Ahmarani, Andres Alfaro

Votes: 585

20. Kings of Coke (2022)

83 min | Documentary, Crime, History

A ragtag gang of Irish bank robbers from Montreal rose to become one of North America's most feared criminal organizations.

Director: Julian Sher | Stars: Dan Burke, David McGee, Kathy Dobson, D'Arcy O'Connor

Votes: 164

21. Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)

Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies.

Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane, George Meeker

Votes: 898

22. Nothing Personal (2011–2012)

Documentary, Biography, Crime

A documentary type series narrated and hosted by Steve Schirripa that shows various plots of murder for hire.

Stars: Steve Schirripa, Elias Edraki, Frank Longo, Shane Harbinson

Votes: 40

23. A Friend of the Deceased (1997)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Tolla takes out a contract on himself and then changes his mind.

Directors: Leonid Boyko, Vyacheslav Krishtofovich, Viacheslav Kryshtofovych | Stars: Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund, Aleksandr Lazarev, Anzhelika Nevolina, Elena Korikova

Votes: 397 | Gross: $0.15M

24. The Pretender (1947)

Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Banker Kenneth Holden (Albert Dekker) steals funds from an estate and decides to marry the heiress, Claire Worthington (Catherine Craig), to safeguard his position. He arranges for her ... See full summary »

Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Albert Dekker, Catherine Craig, Charles Drake, Alan Carney

Votes: 384

25. Killer Tattoo (2001)

111 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Set in a future Bangkok, the story picks-up after a hit-gone-wrong on "Iron Cop", the area police chief. The would-be killer "Pae", together with his equally inept collection of thugs, now become wanted men themselves as the Thai underworld bristles with the shame & dishonor of such an ignoble bungling.

Director: Yuthlert Sippapak | Stars: Suthep Po-ngam, Somchai Kemglad, Sornsutha Klunmalee, Phetthai Vongkumlao

Votes: 498

26. Lautlos (2004)

94 min | Action, Crime, Romance

Viktor, a methodical hit man, probably on his last job, has no plan for his retirement. He does not kill Nina, a woman sleeping beside his latest mark; then he follows her and rescues her ... See full summary »

Director: Mennan Yapo | Stars: Joachim Król, Nadja Uhl, Christian Berkel, Rudolf Martin

Votes: 1,054

27. Alguien nos quiere matar (1970)

85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A grandmother trains her granddaughter to carry out a strange revenge.

Director: Carlos Velo | Stars: Angélica María, Lilia Aragón, Guillermo Argüelles, Alejandro Aura

Votes: 21

28. Who Murdered Carolyn Matthews? (2011 TV Movie)

Documentary, Crime, Mystery

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Stars: Michael Eichner, John Keane, Kaylene Kenyon, Eden Santos

29. Der Andher (2011)

15 min | Short, Crime, Mystery

When the police fail to find the man who raped and murdered his daughter, an honest cop, driven crazy by the need for revenge, hires a hit on the man he suspects, her boyfriend. But a man's... See full summary »

Director: Ashwin Rai Shetty | Stars: Eesha Danait, Saurabh Goyal, Bikramjeet Kanwarpal, Akshay Mittal

30. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Forty Detectives Later (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

After 40 detectives in a row have failed to locate the killer of his wife, a man hires his 41st detective to set up a meeting so he can avenge the murder.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, James Franciscus, Jack Weston, George Mitchell

Votes: 441

31. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Mord auf Bestellung (2002)

Crime, Drama

Irene Kugan, spouse of Wolfgang Kugan has a love affair: today her husband invites her for dinner.She answers that she will call him to confirm that she will come.Then Irene speaks with her... See full summary »

Director: Helmuth Ashley | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 15

32. Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode: Ein seltsamer Ehrenmann (1992)

58 min | Crime, Drama

Mr. Krowacs has served eight years for manslaughter. Not long after release, he is approached by a man who offers him ten thousand Deutschmark for murder.

Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Claude-Oliver Rudolph

Votes: 63

33. Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode: Karo As (1979)

59 min | Crime, Drama

An elderly lady is injured in a shooting incident. It would seem that the shooter only tried to scare her.

Director: Dietrich Haugk | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Günther Maria Halmer, Klausjürgen Wussow

Votes: 73

34. Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode: Offener Fall (1991)

58 min | Crime, Drama

Walter Bolitz, a heavy drinker, meets an old acquaintance who has received a heap of money. He has been hired to commit murder and he wants to share some of his pay.

Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Maja Maranow

Votes: 54

35. Hercules (1998–1999)
Episode: Hercules and the Big Sink (1998)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Soothsayer Cassandra predicts that Atlantis will sink. King Croesus, the richest man in the world, bribes the gods and the fates to kill her for ruining his casino business, since everyone is now panicking and no ones is gambling.

Director: Phil Weinstein | Stars: Jason Alexander, Sandra Bernhard, Dan Castellaneta, Tate Donovan

Votes: 32

36. The Saint (1962–1969)
Episode: The Contract (1965)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An American airman is seeking revenge against The Saint and starts by putting a 5,000-pound bounty on his head.

Director: Roger Moore | Stars: Roger Moore, Dick Haymes, Robert Hutton, Elizabeth Weaver

Votes: 140

37. The Saint (1962–1969)
Episode: The Loving Brothers (1964)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In the Australian outback, the Saint tricks 2 greedy, self-centred, quarrelsome brothers into repaying their father the money they've long owed him, when he tempts them with the offer of shares in a silver mine.

Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Roger Moore, Reg Lye, Ray Barrett, Ed Devereaux

Votes: 142

38. Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1962)
Episode: The Dodger (1961)

TV-14 | 60 min | Western

A man sentenced to a ten-year prison term has released and is out to avenge himself upon the man who put him there - Jim Hardie.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Dale Robertson, Jack Ging, William Demarest, Mary Jane Saunders

Votes: 46

39. Duffy's Tavern (1954)
Episode: Archie's Insurance Business

30 min | Comedy

Archie decides to open an insurance company and soon sells his first policy - to a mobster with a contract out on his life.

Stars: Ed Gardner, Pattee Chapman, Jimmy Conlin, William Fawcett

40. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode: Stroll on the Wild Side: Part 2 (2012)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When another prostitute from the Devil's den is strangled, Murdoch discovers they both sang in the same choir, and there is no shortage of suspects.

Director: Michael DeCarlo | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Helene Joy, Georgina Reilly

Votes: 326

41. Gangsters: America's Most Evil (2012– )
Episode: The Ultimate Outlaw: Harry 'Taco' Bowman (2012)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Bowman, as international president of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, ordered kidnappings, firebombings, assaults and murders. He joined another exclusive club in 1997, the "FBI Ten Most ... See full summary »

Stars: Mickey Powers, Mike Lynn, Steve Cook, Tim Donovan

Votes: 22