Movies like Ballerina
If Ballerina's mix of assassin, tattoo and grenade stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Ballerina's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 254 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, female protagonist, brutal violence · Also action and crime
A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day.
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John Wick: Chapter 2
2017 · Directed by Chad Stahelski · 122 min7.3
Why you'll like itWith Keanu Reeves and Lance Reddick · Shares: assassin · Also action and thriller
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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Kate
2021 · Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan · 106 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, female assassin, vengeance · Also action and thriller · From the same decade (2020s)
A ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims.
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The Mechanic
2011 · Directed by Simon West · 93 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, training, vengeance · Also action and thriller
Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of assassins, Bishop may be the best in the business - with a unique…
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 136 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: female protagonist, female assassin · Also action and crime
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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Hanna
2011 · Directed by Joe Wright · 111 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, female protagonist · Also action and thriller
Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin.
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 111 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: female protagonist · Also action and crime
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
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Shot Caller
2017 · Directed by Ric Roman Waugh · 121 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: tattoo · Also crime and thriller
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
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Ninja Assassin
2009 · Directed by James McTeigue · 99 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: assassin · Also action and thriller
Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is…
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Anna
2019 · Directed by Luc Besson · 119 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: female assassin · Also action and thriller
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
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Colombiana
2011 · Directed by Olivier Megaton · 108 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: female assassin · Also action and thriller
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante…
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The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996 · Directed by Renny Harlin · 121 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: female protagonist · Also crime and action
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…