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13 results for “strict-code”

The Mechanic

2011 ★ 6.5

Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of assassins,

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Ghost Warrior

1984 ★ 5.2

When skiers in Japan come across the frozen body of centuries-old samurai warrior Yoshimita, scientists secretly whisk the corpse to a high-tech laboratory in C

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Redbelt

2008 ★ 6.4

Martial artist Mike Terry lives by a strict code of no competitions, for he feels that such contests weaken fighters. After saving a famous action star from a b

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In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki

2022 ★ 6.2

The isolationist Akane Clan, composed of an all-girls body mainly consisting of young kunoichi in training, has a code to which they all must adhere: "As men ar

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Professional Killers

1972 ★ 8.0

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these.

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Agia

2026 ★ 0.0

In the 1990s, Albania's totalitarian regime is coming to an end. Agia, a young woman in a remote village still ruled by rigid codes of honour and silence, is ba

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Kumokiri Nizaemon

2013 ★ 9.0

During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, and all ac

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Double Suicide

1969 ★ 6.9

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when h

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Project MD

2025 ★ 8.0

"MD" (Molchat Doma) lives by a simple rule: transport the money, take the cut, and never get involved in anything that costs lives. But when a routine delivery

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Weiner Police

2019 ★ 0.0

Two cops in Weiner, Arkansas fight the ultimate crime: Fornication. But what happens when those two officers realize they want to commit the ultimate crime - wi

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Siberian Education

2013 ★ 6.8

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the wo

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Traders

2016 ★ 6.2

What if it made perfect sense for ordinary people to kill each other for money? Better than slow grinding financial ruin and misery, and all done according to a

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The Magnificent Swordsman

1968 ★ 5.8

Lone swordsman Jiang Dan-Feng (Wong Chung-Shun) is ambushed by a pair of bandits and quickly despatches them. One of them, as he is dying, asks Jiang to take h

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