Best Assassination

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) explores a chilling Cold War conspiracy centered around a former soldier’s manipulated memories. Starring Frank Sinatra and Janet Leigh, this classic film depicts an attempt to assassinate a presidential candidate through mind control techniques. It examines themes of...

Fred Zinnemann’s *The Day of the Jackal* (1973) is a suspenseful political thriller centered on a relentless investigation into the assassination attempt on French President Charles de Gaulle. The film’s meticulous procedural detail and focus on the pursuit of a highly skilled assassin, played by Ri...

Richard Condon’s *The Manchurian Candidate* explores themes of manipulation and control during the Cold War. The novel details a plot involving an American soldier, a former boxer, and a glamorous actress caught in a complex conspiracy orchestrated by Soviet agents. It examines anxieties about commu...

This gripping documentary meticulously investigates the poisoning and subsequent imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Through leaked documents, interviews with key figures, and stunning visuals, Navalny exposes a network of corruption within the Kremlin and reveals the lengths t...

Costa-Gavras’s 1969 film Z investigates the 1963 assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis and the ensuing political conspiracy. The movie explores corruption within the Greek government and security forces, using a deliberately ambiguous narrative to expose systemic wrongdoing. It is not...

The Parallax View is a 1974 American political thriller directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Warren Beatty as a journalist investigating a secretive corporation. The film explores a vast conspiracy surrounding political assassinations, reflecting the profound paranoia and institutional skepticism...

I for Icarus is a 1979 French film directed by Henri Verneuil. The story centers on a journalist investigating a politically motivated murder involving high-ranking officials in France during the 1970s. It examines themes of conspiracy and government cover-ups. The film’s notable portrayal of polit...

The Day of the Jackal is a 2024 British spy thriller television series produced for Sky Atlantic and Peacock, created and written by Ronan Bennett. It serves as a contemporary adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's 1971 political thriller novel of the same name. The series stars Eddie Redmayne as a metic...

The twenty-eighth Meitantei Conan movie. An old friend of Mouri Kogoro reopens an investigation of the incident that caused the scars on Inspector Yamato's face. This time not only Nagano's police involved, but Tokyo MPD, CSICE and PSB are involved not forgetting of course Edogawa Conan, the detecti...

"JFK" is a 1991 American political thriller directed by Oliver Stone that scrutinizes the events leading up to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The film centers on Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney portrayed by Kevin Costner, who conducts his own investigation into a pot...

Jim Garrison's closing argument is a major courtroom sequence near the conclusion of Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK. Kevin Costner portrays Garrison, the New Orleans district attorney who prosecuted businessman Clay Shaw in connection with an alleged conspiracy surrounding President John F. Kennedy's...

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1956 American suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Doris Day. It follows an American couple whose son is kidnapped after they inadvertently learn of a planned political assassination in London, forcing them to pursue the conspir...

JFK is a 1991 political thriller directed by Oliver Stone that dramatizes the investigation into the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The film centers on New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, played by Kevin Costner, as he builds a case alleging a broad conspiracy involving gov...

The President's Last Bang is a 2005 South Korean political thriller and dark satire directed by Im Sang-soo. The film dramatizes the events of October 26, 1979, focusing on the assassination of authoritarian President Park Chung-hee by the director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, Kim Jae-...

Hitman 2 is a 2018 stealth action video game developed by IO Interactive. Players control the assassin Agent 47 across large sandbox locations, observing routines, adopting disguises, and arranging opportunities to eliminate designated targets. The game expands the systems introduced in its 2016 pre...

The Parallax View is a 1974 American political thriller directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Warren Beatty as journalist Joseph Frady. After witnesses to a senator's assassination begin dying, Frady investigates a secretive organization that recruits and manipulates potential assassins. The film...

Tenchu! is a 1969 Japanese historical drama directed by Hideo Gosha and set in the Bakumatsu, the turbulent final years of the Tokugawa shogunate. Its title means 'heavenly punishment,' a phrase linked to loyalists who used political violence against shogunate officials and perceived collaborators....

Condor is an American television thriller series that premiered in 2018 on the AT&T Audience Network. It is adapted from James Grady's 1974 novel Six Days of the Condor and draws on the universe of the 1975 Sydney Pollack film Three Days of the Condor. The series stars Max Irons as Joe Turner, a you...

The Man Standing Next is a 2020 South Korean political thriller directed by Woo Min-ho, starring Lee Byung-hun and Lee Sung-min. The film dramatizes the real-life power struggles within the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) leading up to the 1979 assassination of President Park Chung-hee. As...

The Third Option is a political thriller novel by Vince Flynn published in 2000. The narrative follows CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp as he uncovers a conspiracy within his own agency. After a covert mission goes wrong, Rapp realizes a rogue faction within the CIA has ordered his assassin...

Incitement is a 2019 Israeli political thriller directed by Yaron Zilberman that chronicles the events leading to the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The film examines the radicalization of Yigal Amir, the right-wing extremist who carried out the assassination, focusing on his id...

The French Conspiracy, originally released as L'Attentat, is a 1972 French-Italian political thriller directed by Yves Boisset. The film dramatizes a complex geopolitical conspiracy surrounding the state-sponsored kidnapping of an exiled Moroccan political leader, heavily inspired by the real-life d...

Act of Treason is a political thriller novel by Vince Flynn published in 2006. The story centers on CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp as he investigates a deadly bombing targeting a U.S. presidential candidate's motorcade in Washington, D.C. Rapp's investigation reveals a complex conspiracy...

Operation Daybreak is a 1975 war film directed by Lewis Gilbert and based on Alan Burgess's book Seven Men at Daybreak. It dramatizes Operation Anthropoid, in which Czechoslovak agents trained in Britain assassinated senior Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich in occupied Prague during World War II. The...

Kill Shot is a 2012 political thriller by Vince Flynn and a prequel in the Mitch Rapp series. Set during Rapp's early career as a CIA counterterrorism operative, it follows a sanctioned assassination in Paris that becomes an ambush, leaving him hunted by terrorists and suspected by elements of his o...

Executive Power is a 2003 political thriller by Vince Flynn featuring CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp. The novel connects a hostage crisis in the Philippines with covert intelligence activity, political violence, and tensions surrounding Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Rapp operate...

"13 Assassins" is a 1963 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Eiichi Kudo. The narrative follows a group of thirteen samurai who are secretly recruited to assassinate a sadistic and politically powerful feudal lord before he can further consolidate his control over the shogunate. The film is structur...

The Jerusalem Assassin (2020) is the third Marcus Ryker novel by Joel C. Rosenberg, involving a CIA operative stopping an assassination plot during a major Middle East peace summit.

Second Scot Harvath novel by Brad Thor (2002), in which Harvath is dispatched to neutralize the mastermind of a global terrorist network before another attack can be launched.