Incomplete list of movies focusing on assassinations of president, premier, ... Source unknown. These are mostly very fine suspense movies.
The Tall Target 1951
Suddenly 1954
The Manchurian Candidate 1962
Nine Hours to Rama 1963
The Day of the Jackal 1973
Executive Action 1973
The Lincoln Conspiracy 1977
Winter Kills 1979
Tehran 43 1981
Flashpoint 1984
Assassination 1987
JFK 1991
In the Line of Fire 1993
The Pelican Brief 1993
Clear and Present Danger 1994
The Professional 1994
The Jackal 1997
Shadow Conspiracy 1997
Interview with the Assassin 2002
Blind Horizon 2003
The Assassination of Richard Nixon 2004
The Manchurian Candidate 2004
Death of a President 2006
The Sentinel 2006
Shooter 2007
Vantage Point 2008
The Conspirator 2010
Parkland 2013
Rampage: President Down 2016
and why not
Assassination of a High School President 2008
Under etc., we might add movies about assassinations of Hitler, Heydrich, and others.
Valkyrie 2008
13 Minutes 2015
The Plot to Kill Hitler 1990
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler 1955 aka It Happened on July 20th
Hitler's Madman 1943
Operation Valkyrie 2004
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
The Desert Fox 1951
Anthropoid 2016
The Assassination 1965
Operation Daybreak 1975
Hangmen Also Die 1943
The Man with the Iron Heart 2017
Heydrich in Prag 1967
My list of hitman movies needs to be updated. Hitman movies make the hitman the protagonist or central character. One helpful source will be https://www.imdb.com/list/ls052840091/
Another might be https://www.imdb.com/list/ls021762732/
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