U.S. government, and impose a President of its own choosing Vantage Point – 2008 film by Pete Travis about the seeming assassination of a U.S. President (William Hurt) in Spain XIII – 2008 Canal+ miniseries by Duane Clark in which the first female U.S. President (Mimi Kuzyk) is assassinated, and an amnesiac (Stephen Dorff) is suspected Nothing But the Truth – 2008 film by Rod Lurie where the shooting of the U.S. President leads to war with Venezuela and the assassination of a CIA agent Bangkok Dangerous – 2008 film by the Pang Brothers in which a hitman (Nicolas Cage), following a series of hits on crime lords, learns that he has been assigned the Thai Prime Minister as his final target Get Smart – 2008 comedy by Peter Segal includes a plot to kill the U.S. President (James Caan) during a concert with a nuclear blast War, Inc. – 2008 satire by Joshua Seftel where, in Central Asia, after the first fully privatized war, a corporate assassin (John Cusack) is sent to kill a competing conglomerate's natural gas executive – a semi-sequel to Grosse Pointe Blank The Dark Knight – 2008 film by Christopher Nolan includes the Joker's assassination of the Gotham City police commissioner, amongst others La Linea – 2008 film by James Cotten about a hitman (Ray Liotta) tracking a Tijuana drug lord Wanted – 2008 film by Timur Bekmambetov about an overstressed accountant (James McAvoy) who becomes involved with a hypermasculine girl assassin (Angelina Jolie) from an assassins' "fraternity" The White Ribbon – 2009 German language film by Michael Haneke ends with the 1914 assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand Trópico de Sangre – 2009 Dominican film by Juan Delancer, starring Michelle Rodriguez, about the 1960 murders of the three Mirabal sisters for their opposition to Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo Henri IV (a.k.a. Henri 4) – 2009 German film by Jo Baier involves the death of French King Henry IV in 1610 The Young Victoria – 2009 film by Jean-Marc Vallée in which Queen Victoria survives an assassination attempt by a deranged young man in 1840 Bodyguards and Assassins – 2009 Hong Kong film by Teddy Chan where China's Empress Dowager dispatches assassins to murder revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen (Zhang Hanyu) in 1905 Notorious – 2009 film by George Tillman, Jr. about the unsolved murders of rappers Tupac Shakur (Anthony Mackie) in 1996 and Notorious B.I.G.