Movies like The Assignment
If The Assignment's mix of hitman, espionage and spy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Assignment's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Tenet
2020 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 150 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: espionage, spy, terrorism · Also action and thriller
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real…
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The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996 · Directed by Renny Harlin · 121 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: spy, terrorism · Also crime and action · From the same decade (1990s)
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers…
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Léon: The Professional
1994 · Directed by Luc Besson · 111 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: hitman, training · Also crime and action · From the same decade (1990s)
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda.
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Kingsman: The Secret Service
2015 · Directed by Matthew Vaughn · 129 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: spy, training · Also crime and action
The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
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Casino Royale
2006 · Directed by Martin Campbell · 144 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: spy, terrorism · Also action and thriller
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market.
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A History of Violence
2005 · Directed by David Cronenberg · 96 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: mistaken identity · Also thriller and crime
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
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Mindhunters
2004 · Directed by Renny Harlin · 106 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: training · Also thriller and crime
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. Based very loosely on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
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Salt
2010 · Directed by Phillip Noyce · 100 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: spy · Also action and thriller
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a Russian defector accuses her of being a Russian sleeper spy.
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Polar
2019 · Directed by Jonas Åkerlund · 118 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: hitman · Also action and crime
When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.
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Black Widow
2021 · Directed by Cate Shortland · 134 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: spy, kgb
Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.