Movies like The Devil's Own
If The Devil's Own's mix of assassin, anonymity and showdown stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Devil's Own's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Patriot Games
1992 · Directed by Phillip Noyce · 117 min6.7
Why you'll like itWith Harrison Ford · Shares: assassin, northern ireland, revenge · Also drama and thriller · From the same decade (1990s)
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
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The Jackal
1997 · Directed by Michael Caton-Jones · 124 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: showdown, politics, revenge · Also crime and thriller · From the same decade (1990s)
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of…
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In the Land of Saints and Sinners
2023 · Directed by Robert Lorenz · 106 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, ira (irish republican army) · Also thriller and crime
In a remote Irish village, a damaged Finbar is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins, but what price is he willing to pay? In the land of saints and sinners, some sins can't be buried.
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Nighthawks
1981 · Directed by Bruce Malmuth · 99 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: chase, terrorism · Also crime and thriller
When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.
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Léon: The Professional
1994 · Directed by Luc Besson · 111 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, revenge · Also crime and drama · 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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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 136 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: showdown, revenge · Also crime and thriller
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child.
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John Wick: Chapter 2
2017 · Directed by Chad Stahelski · 122 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, revenge · Also thriller and crime
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of…
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Lucky Number Slevin
2006 · Directed by Paul McGuigan · 110 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: assassin · Also drama and thriller
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to…
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The Long Good Friday
1980 · Directed by John Mackenzie · 114 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: ira (irish republican army) · Also crime and thriller
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the…
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A History of Violence
2005 · Directed by David Cronenberg · 96 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: revenge · Also drama and thriller
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
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The Foreigner
2017 · Directed by Martin Campbell · 114 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: ira (irish republican army) · Also thriller and crime
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing.
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005 · Directed by George Lucas · 140 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: showdown, politics
When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.