Highest-Rated Movies about 'Hired Killers', Sort by Popularity

Sweet Home (2015), The Enforcer (1951), The Green Man (1957), El Sicario: Room 164 (2010), Mohra (1994), Heritage of the Desert (1939), Killer Joe (2011), Blood for a Silver Dollar (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Hired Killers movies.

#2. The Enforcer (1951)

Storyline: After years of pursuit, Assistant D.A. Martin Ferguson has a good case against Murder, Inc. boss Albert Mendoza. Mendoza is in jail and his lieutenant Joseph Rico is going to testify. But Rico falls to his death and Ferguson must work through the night going over everything to build the case anew.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: district attorney, crime boss, henchman, witness, detective, hit man, brooding ...

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#3. The Green Man (1957)

Storyline: Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England is a different matter. His apparently easy target, a pompous government minister, is off for some hanky-panky at the Green Man on the south coast, where Hawkins is planning to retire him for good. But before he can get on with this the hit-man has a procession of unwanted visitors at home to dispose of - one way or another.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: assassin, dictator, millionaire, politician, salesman, love interest, cheeky ...

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#4. El Sicario: Room 164 (2010)

Storyline: El Sicario, Room 164 is an 80-minute documentary about a hit man. He has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and kidnapping, and for many years was a commander of the state police in Chihuahua. At the moment, there is a contract on his life of $250,000.—rkonx

Plot Keywords: murderer, gripping, chilling, shocking, gritty, heartwarming, border town ...

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#5. Mohra (1994)

Storyline: Journalist Roma Singh is the daughter of a jailer. While taking a tour of the jail, she is molested by some of the inmates, and an inmate, Vishal Agnihotri comes to her assistance. She finds out that Vishal is in for four homicides, and decides to investigate further. She finds out, with the help of the owner of her publications, Jindal that Vishal was compelled to take the law in his own hands when the courts failed to punish the assailants of his sister and sweetheart. Soon, Vishal is released from prison, and begins to work for Jindal. It is then that he realizes that he has just walked from a walled prison, to an open prison, as the truth behind his release slowly but surely starts to dawn on him.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Plot Keywords: gangster, gangsters, drug lord, corrupt police officer, police commissioner, blind man, thrilling ...

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#6. Heritage of the Desert (1939)

Storyline: John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: gunslinger, rancher, son, daughter, outlaw, scientist, suspenseful ...

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#7. Killer Joe (2011)

Storyline: Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police detective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through.

Plot Keywords: drug dealer, killer, mother, police officer, thrilling, brooding, brutal ...

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#8. Blood for a Silver Dollar (1965)

Storyline: Giuliano Gemma plays a confederate soldier who returns from the war to fight one at home. Unbeknownst to him, his brother has become the infamous gunfighter "Black Jack" to defeat the local bullies. Gemma agrees to ambush and kill Black Jack, only to discover too late who the outlaw really is. With vengeance in his heart he turns on his employers, who then shoot him.—Cristian Redferne <Harlock@prodigy.com>

Plot Keywords: brother, soldier, landowner, killer, assassin, thrilling, suspenseful ...

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#9. I Love You to Death (1990)

Storyline: Joey works with Rosalie in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when she finds that he has been fooling around for years. Being Catholic, divorce is out of the question, so she and her mother and her best friend decide to kill him. Hopelessly incompetent as killers, they hire incompetent professionals as they beat, poison, and shoot Joey who remains oblivious to their attempts.

Plot Keywords: husband, wife, teen boy, restaurant employee, mother, thug, hilarious ...

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#10. Assassins (1995)

Storyline: Robert Rath is a seasoned hitman who just wants out of the business with no back talk. But, as things go, it ain't so easy. A younger, peppier assassin named Bain is having a field day trying to kill said older assassin. Rath teams up with a computer hacker named Electra to defeat the obsessed Bain.

Plot Keywords: computer expert, assassin, mob boss, competitor, thug, love interest, thrilling ...

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#12. Crank: High Voltage (2009)

Storyline: Chev Chelios survives a fall from the sky, sort of. He's in an unknown location, sedated, while various Chinese are harvesting his organs. His heart is gone, in an ice chest; a temporary in its place. Chev escapes, knowing only the name of the guy with the ice chest. He calls Doc Miles, an unlicensed cardiologist, who tells him there's only an hour's life in the artificial heart: keep it charged. Chev needs to find his own heart and get to Doc for a transplant. He starts his time-limited pursuit of shadowy figures, the ice chest, and his heart aided by Eve, Rei, and Venus - a stripper, a prostitute, and a pal with Tourette's - constantly needing an electric charge to keep going.

Plot Keywords: hit man, friend, stripper, prostitute, brother, mobster, brash ...

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#14. Interview With a Hitman (2012)

Storyline: Trust No one. Feel nothing. Never lose: this is the mantra that has helped a ruthless Eastern European assassin rise to the pinnacle of his profession. Raised in the harsh slums of Romania, Victor knows the value of life more than most, which makes him the perfect killer. But after being betrayed by the very men who made him, he must fake his own death and escape to London. Here he joins a new gangster family and finds his rules are again put to the test in the midst of a vicious underworld power struggle. Viktor is now better, faster and more ruthless than ever before. With the secrets of his past refusing to fade away, an encounter with a dark beauty turns his world on its head and offers him the chance for a new life. But can he ever escape the existence he was born into? It is not long before a deadly threat from a past he thought long buried surfaces and he is forced to change his path. It is time to face that which cannot be forgotten.—KFD

Plot Keywords: hitman, filmmaker, romanian, mafia boss, assassin, chilling, dark ...

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#15. Tornado Range (1948)

Storyline: Eddie Dean, under orders as a U.S. Land Office agent, is trying to prevent a range war from being started between homesteaders and ranchers when a caravan of the so-called 'Nesters', start to take over land acquired by the homesteaders by a government lease. Quirt Thayer, working both sides against the middle, has his gang join with the ranchers seeking revenge against the settlers for raids on the ranchers by Quirt's henchmen. Eddie uses his friendship with Mary King, daughter of the leading rancher, to pin the guilt on the correct culprits.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: rancher, daughter, homesteader, son, sidekick, u.s. marshal, tense ...

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