Best Assassin movies of 1997

Actors : John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Joan Cusack, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : George Armitage,

Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.

Actors : Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby,
Directors : Mike Newell,

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.

Actors : Elisabeth Shue, Val Kilmer, Rade Serbedzija, Valeriy Nikolaev,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.

Actors : Theresa Randle, John Leguizamo, Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Mark A.Z. Dippé,

An elite mercenary is killed, but comes back from Hell as a reluctant soldier of the Devil.

Actors : Diane Venora, Sidney Poitier, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

An imprisoned IRA fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Richard Wilson,
Directors : Jon Amiel,

Wallace Ritchie is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assassinate international leaders at a banquet.

Actors : Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robert Kotecki, Rick Cramer, Jon Voight,
Directors : David Hogan,

A Marine on death row is recruited by a shadowy U.S. military officer as part of a top-secret ops team, then gets framed for murder when the team and it's officer set him up as the fall guy for the assassination of the First Lady.

Actors : Mark Dacascos, Kadeem Hardison, Brittany Murphy, John Pyper-Ferguson,
Directors : Steve Wang,

A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.

Actors : Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Kozuchowska, Cezary Pazura, Janusz Rewinski,
Directors : Juliusz Machulski,

An innocent cab driver Jurek Kiler is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs "Killer" for a few more jobs.

Actors : Linda Fiorentino, Kevin Corrigan, Lili Taylor, Michael Rapaport,
Directors : Matthew Harrison,

Redmond is a young guy who can't find what to do with his life. When his uncle Sam gives him the bag to deliver to some uptown connection he fails to do so and it gets them in trouble with ...

Actors : Xianmei Chen, Shô Aikawa, Li Wei Chang, Shih Chang,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.

Actors : Robert Gendreu, Mathieu Kassovitz, Mehdi Benoufa, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Mathieu Kassovitz,

Old professional killer Wagner seeks someone to teach what he knows as long as he is already dying, and he chooses Max, young and passionless thief to be his successor.

Actors : Debbie Harry, Adrien Brody, Norman Reedus, Paul D'Amato,
Directors : Adam Bernstein,

Eighteen-year-old mothers' son Harry (he lives with his overprotective mother Kate) shows his cruel side at one occasion and is hired as hitman/enforcer by the Jewish mob.

Actors : Nana Patekar, Aruna Irani, Raveena Tandon, Paresh Rawal,
Directors : Partho Ghosh,

At the behest of Mahesh Verma, Shanta Prasad alias Abba, recruits Ghulam-E-Musthafa, a gangster and hit-man to carry out their nefarious activities. When Dayanand Dixit refuses to sell his ...

Actors : Anthony Brophy, Maria Lennon, Timothy Dalton, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Jim McBride,

A young IRA member is forced to turn informant on his comrades when he is caught in an assassination attempt on a judge.

Actors : Peter Greene, Stephen Rea, Heather Locklear, Mykelti Williamson,
Directors : Greg Yaitanes,

A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.

Actors : John Savage, James Kidnie, Sofia Shinas, Rob Lowe,
Directors : Jonathan Heap,

Brilliant renegade hacker Mike Cleary and his crack team have finally debugged Guardian, his software program designed to block government cyber snooping. It's going to make them all rich. ...

Actors : Wolney de Assis, Murilo Benício, Maria Padilha, Chico Díaz,
Directors : Beto Brant,

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.

Actors : Woo-min Byeon, Chi-Shing Chiu, Carman Lee, Takeshi Kaneshiro,
Directors : Tat-Chi Yau,

The secret world of contract killing comes to focus in the dark, comical tale of Hong Kong's triad. A lowlife gangster is offered a huge fee to commit a murder. He accepts, but there's a ...

Actors : Giancarlo Esposito, Burt Reynolds, William Forsythe, Arye Gross,
Directors : Clive Fleury,

A collection of characters threaten to cross paths, unknowingly, during a night in the big city. The film focuses on two hit men (Reynolds and Forsythe) who are bound to collide with Cates,...