While director David Finchers Netflix-streaming hit The Killer has proven a hit with both critics and viewers, there are many more classic hitman and assassin movies that viewers ought to seek out. Hitmen and assassins have been central figures in crime cinema for decades. There is something endlessly intriguing about a cold-blooded killer who can take lives for money, and these characters have been murky, morally ambiguous antiheroes as often as they have been outright villains. Michael Fassbenders stoic unnamed lead character in David Finchers The Killer is the latest hitman to win over audiences despite his grisly career.
