A drug addict sentenced to death for killing a policeman is reprieved on the condition that she work for the US government as a professional killer. After intensive training she is transformed into an elegant, ruthless assassin - but comes to regret her new career. American remake of French thriller Nikita, starring Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel and Anne Bancroft.

A poor farmer who loves a woman he is forbidden to associate with becomes a hardened mercenary, and is hired by a local warlord as a professional assassin. Years later, he runs into his old love and begins to question his violent past