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An
assassin is a person who commits targeted murder.
The origin of the term is the medieval
Order of Assassins , a sect of Shia Islam 1090–1275 CE.
Assassin , or variants, may also refer to:
Fictional characters
Film and television
Film
Assassin (1969 film) , a South Korean thriller
Assassin (1973 film) , a British thriller
Assassin , a 1986 TV movie starring
Robert Conrad
Assassins (1995 film) , starring Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas
Assassin (2015 film) , starring Danny Dyer
Assassins (2020 film) , an American documentary
Assassin (2023 film) , starring Bruce Wilis
Assassin(s) , a 1997 French film
The Assassin , British title for
Gunfighters , a 1947 American film
The Assassin , American title for
Venetian Bird , a 1952 British film
The Assassin (1961 film) , an Italian crime drama
The Assassin , a 1967
Shaw Brothers film
The Assassin , or
Point of No Return (1993 film)
The Assassin (2015 film) , a wuxia film
The Assassin (2023 film) , a South Korean historical action-drama
The Assassins (film) , a 2012 Chinese film
Television
Gaming
Literature
Assassin (Cain novel) , by Tom Cain, 2008
Assassins (LaHaye novel) , by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim Lahaye, 1999
"L'Assassin", an 1887
short story by Guy de Maupassant
The Assassini , a 1990 novel by Thomas Gifford
The Assassins , a 1972 novel by
Elia Kazan
The Assassins , a 2005 novel by
Oliver North and Joe Musser
The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam , a 1967 non-fiction book by Bernard Lewis
Krondor: The Assassins , a 1999 novel by Raymond E. Feist
Music
Groups
Albums
Assassin (album) , by Assassin, 1984
Assassins , by
Into a Circle , 1984
Assassins: Black Meddle, Part I , by Nachtmystium, 2008
I, Assassin , by Gary Numan, 1982
The Assassin (album) , by Big Ed, 1998
Songs
Sport
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term