Contract Killer
see all genres ›What is it about hit men that fascinates movie audiences? Maybe it's that a paid assassin is one thing we'd prefer to avoid in real life (which makes them all the more intriguing on celluloid).
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Bad
A possible prelude to NATURAL BORN KILLERS, executive producer Andy Warhol's BAD is as low as it goes. Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house but makes extra money by providing ruthless women to do hit jobs. K.T. is a parasite and contacts Hazel looking for work when he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a...Start your free trial to watch -
Le combat dans l'île
A hidden gem of 1960s New French Cinema, Alain Cavalier’s LE COMBAT DANS L’ÎLE is as coolly modern as it is tensely gripping. Filled with thrilling plot twists, jazzy gun battles and stormy betrayals, this scintillating neo-noir unfolds against a backdrop of ’60s political turmoil and is strikingly shot in...Start your free trial to watch -
Fallen Angels
Commonly regarded as one of the most influential directors of contemporary cinema, Wong Kar-Wai (HAPPY TOGETHER, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE) has developed a signature style that employs bold, experimental uses of photography, music, and editing to capture the tension of the new millennium. Originally intended to be a third story in...Start your free trial to watch
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The Flesh and the Fiends
The notorious Burke and Hare, a lowlife duo convicted of robbing graves and murdering sixteen people in 1828 Edinburgh, has inspired numerous film treatments. They've been portrayed by everyone from Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (in Robert Wise's THE BODY SNATCHERS released in 1945) to Simon Pegg and Andy...Start your free trial to watch -
Flirting with Fate
Douglas Fairbanks' eighth film, FLIRTING WITH FATE is an intriguing dark comedy about a starving artist determined to end his life. Fairbanks plays August "Augy" Holliday, described in an intertitle as an artist "long on temperament and short on funds. He can draw everything except a salary." His inability...Start your free trial to watch -
The Heartbreak Yakuza
Shuji is a good-looking lad, one of the up-and-coming assassins for the Daito mob of the yakuza, Japan's answer to the mafia. Despite his pretense of toughness, he frequently has overwhelming longings to return to his childhood and the innocent games he played then with his best friend's younger sister....Start your free trial to watch
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The High Sign
THE HIGH SIGN was Buster Keaton's first independent effort but he believed the film retained too much of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's style of comedy and not enough of his own. He shelved the film and made ONE WEEK instead. THE HIGH SIGN was released only after Keaton broke his ankle and Joseph M. Schenck needed a film to...Start your free trial to watch -
Hit Man File
Violent and sensual, HIT MAN FILE is a unique new Asian action film with a distinctive Thai identity. HIT MAN FILE's story of ambition, revenge, murder and sacrifice reveals hypnotic beauty beneath the flash and grit of Bangkok's underworld and explores an unending cycle of life and death that can either destroy or redeem...Start your free trial to watch
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Johnny Yuma
The legendary folk hero from the Johnny Cash song comes to life on screen in this tale of brutal revenge, betrayal and six-gun action. A woman has her husband killed and has to face the wrath of gunslinger Johnny Yuma, who is looking to collect on an old debt.Start your free trial to watch -
Journal of a Contract Killer
Stephanie Komack was a high-class hooker and assassin for organized crime in Italy. Now working in London as a waitress and a single mother to her seven year old daughter, the mob tracks Stephanie down and persuades her to do one last job. The hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realizes the stark...Start your free trial to watch -
Landscape no.2
A heist thriller in the tradition of INSIDE MAN and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, LANDSCAPE… tells the story of two burglars, Sergej and Polde, who steal a valuable painting, “Landscape No.2”. By coincidence Sergej also takes a mysterious document dating back to the end of World War II that may hide secrets that the owner of the...Start your free trial to watch
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A Man, a Woman and a Killer
This 1975 debut feature from Rick Schmidt and his then-roommate Wayne Wang purports to tell a simple story but the telling is far from straightforward. In a 2009 interview, Schmidt said that the method behind A MAN, A WOMAN AND A KILLER "is mostly improv and experimental with a focus on real people and...Start your free trial to watch -
New York Confidential
The kill-or-be-killed world of organized crime is the focus of this hard-hitting exposé from the Oscar-nominated writing team of Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene. Broderick Crawford is the New York City mob boss dealing out death as the answer to every crisis: from a minor member of his own syndicate, to...Start your free trial to watch -
Paid to Kill
A man's business deal fails and to provide for his "adoring" wife, he hires his best friend to kill him so his wife can collect on his insurance. The business deal comes through at the last minute but he finds he can't call off the murder. His treacherous double-crossing wife has different ideas!Start your free trial to watch
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Qarantina
A broken family under an incestuous patriarch lives uneasily within the gated courtyard of a dilapidated Baghdad house. The pregnant daughter has fallen silent, finding some protection from the patriarch’s young second wife and his preteen son. Meanwhile, hard up for money, the household must live with a sullen and imperious...Start your free trial to watch -
A Quiet Day
On his birthday, an introspective gentleman goes through his morning routine as if this is just another day. We don't know his name but we soon suspect something is about to unfold. As a student of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War," he sets into motion a meticulously planned execution. What follows is everything but a quiet day as...Start your free trial to watch -
Sara
Sixteen-year-old Sara's father is a wealthy gangster and has a lot of enemies. Her father makes clear that whoever touches Sara will die and he looks for the right bodyguard to protect her. No one is better suited to be Sara's bodyguard than Leon. But the job gets very complicated when Sara and Leon secretly fall in love....Start your free trial to watch




