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2) Killer Joe
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
'Killer' Joe Cooper is a Dallas detective who doubles as a hit man with the charm of a Southern gentleman. Chris hires Joe to kill his mother in order to collect her life insurance and pay off his debts. When Chris is unable to pay for the service up front, Joe takes Chris's sister Dottie as a retainer until he can be paid.
3) The mechanic
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A clever hired assassin suffering from remorse & anxiety finds himself the object of another assassin; he must try to outsmart his hunter.
4) Hanna
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own. Hanna faces startling revelations about...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Grace Quigley has come to the end of her rope and wants out. When she meets a sweet, neurotic hitman, Seymour Flint, she comes up with a brainstorm: The unlikely pair will provide a painless parting for seniors who have had enough of life's slings and arrows. As business booms, Grace and Seymour develop a warm, mother-son relationship, until mom begins to have ideas that could put Seymour in the clink for good.
6) Sicario
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After an idealistic FBI agent is recruited by a government task-force official to pursue a drug lord, she begins a perilous mission that forces her to question everything she believes, and pits her against a shadowy consultant with a dangerous agenda.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While on assignment in Berlin, a homophobic Israeli intelligence agent is tasked with offing a Nazi war criminal. However, he has a crisis of consciousness after he befriends a target's gay grandson
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arthur Bishop returns as the Mechanic in the sequel to the 2011 action thriller. When the deceitful actions of a cunning but beautiful woman force him to return to the life he left behind, Bishop's life is once again in danger as he has to complete an impossible list of assassinations of the most dangerous men in the world.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
"It's an easy job. With a little luck you're back home before noon ..." That's the call Schneider, a hitman, receives on the morning of his birthday. Reluctantly, he accepts the job and learns the identity of his target: Ramon Bax, a writer who lives alone in seclusion. Unfortunately for Schneider, what should be a simple hit turns into anything but, when he finds out Bax has more than a few surprises up his sleeve.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (338 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
11) The mechanic
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic'-an elite assassin with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets--and Bishop is the best in the business. But when his mentor and close friend Harry is murdered, Bishop is intent on exacting revenge. His mission grows complicated when Harry's son Steve approaches him with the same vengeful goal. But while in pursuit of their ultimate mark, deceptions threaten to surface and those hired to fix problems become problems...
12) Looper
Language
English
Description
In the year 2074, the mob sends problem people back in time, where a hired gun awaits to eliminate them. Joe is one such hired gun, good at what he does. But problems arise when the mob tries to 'close the loop, ' and Joe comes face-to-face with his future self during a hit. When Joe's future self escapes after he hesitates to finish the assignment, Joe must chase himself down and finish the job.
13) The outside man
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Metro Goldwyn Mayer limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 6 hr., 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scorpion King: Mighty Memnon rules over nearly all the known world, who defeats his enemies in battle with the help of a beautiful sorceress. "Free tribes" form a fragile alliance to fight Memnon, and hire a trio of assassins to kill the sorceress and thus remove Memnon's advantage. The assassins are betrayed by the son of one of the tribal leaders, and Mathayus finds himself unable to kill Cassandra. Mathayus abducts the sorceress, who explains that...
16) Mirage
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A suspenseful drama in which a physiochemist suffers from amnesia and tries to unravel the mysteries locked in his mind and understand why he is the target of hit men.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Bride continues on her deadly pursuit of her former partners in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, who, in a furious assult, attempted to murder her and her unborn child on her wedding day. As the Bride faces off against allies-turned-nemeses Budd and Elle, she flashes back to the day of her deadly wedding. We learn how she was recruited and trained and about her relationship with Squad leader Bill.
18) Eiger sanction
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An art teacher returns to a secret government bureau in order to assassinate the killers of an American agent.
Publisher
Redemption Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
At once an homage to classical Hollywood thrillers and a playful riff on the newly popular James Bond films, this film stars Eddie Constantine as a wisecracking superspy investigating a series of assassinations being performed by ruthless killers with bronze skin and horn-rimmed glasses. The trail of these mindless automata leads him to the lair of a seductive villainess who has formulated a computer-powered plot to overthrow the governments of Europe.
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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 272 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Juggling a relationship, parental responsibilities, friendships, and a sick brother while earning a living would be difficult for anyone, but it's particularly difficult when you're a criminal for hire. Ray Shoesmith takes care of people collecting debts, relieving them of drugs and guns, and often taking care of them on a more permanent basis. Ray demands respect and does not tolerate it when someone disregards his very clear code of ethics.
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