Villain as protagonist movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant villain as protagonist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, psychological, serious, exciting and cult classic films and TV shows about / with villain as protagonist, murder, death, violence, villain played by lead actor, revenge, blood, brutality, danger and anti hero plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as villain as protagonist: Murder Drones (2021), A Perfect Murder (1998), Death Note (2006), El Angel (2018), The Driller Killer (1979), Romper Stomper (1992), The Cable Guy (1996), Hollow Man (2000), Battlefield Earth (2000), Death Proof (2007).
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List of villain as protagonist movies
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA, Canada
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
In a world where humanity is extinct and Earth is in a post apocalyptic state, worker drones struggle and toil to survive and defeat rogue robots called Murder Drones.
Style:
3d animation, satirical, captivating, dark, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
robot, alien planet, robot as menace, post apocalypse, murder, supernatural horror, post-apocalyptic future, teenage protagonist, villain as protagonist, teen rebel, artificial intelligence, killer robot ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, clever, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
murder, infidelity, betrayal, blackmail, twists and turns, jealousy, love affair, perfect crime, love triangle, adultery, greed, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
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467K
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and ...
Style:
anime, manga, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, kids, manly, boys' night
Plot:
mind game, anti hero, secret identity, law enforcement, rivals, heart attack, battle of wits, fighting crime, supernatural, vigilante, serial killer, supernatural ability ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan
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12K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
About a real-life criminal who shocked Argentine society: Carlos Robledo Puch, a merciless teen killer dubbed “The Angel of Death” because of his beatific good looks, who now ranks as the longest-serving prison inmate in Argentine history.
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, exciting, controversial ...
Plot:
homoeroticism, gay interest, gay slur, lgbt, gay, murder, teenage gang, serial killer as protagonist, friendship between boys, police, violence, money ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
Style:
slasher, ambiguous ending, terrifying, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
murder, painting, artist, serial killer, punk rock, painter, anger, homeless man, homelessness, church, insomnia, dream ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman ...
Style:
sexy, political, brutal, harsh, retro ...
Plot:
skinhead, neo nazi, racism, gang, violent, brutality, sex scene, violence, immigrant, strangulation, vandalism, profanity ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place:
australia, oceania, melbourne, new zealand
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189K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up -- and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the ...
Style:
dark comedy, cult classic, funny, black comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, television, dark humor, stalking, friendship, psychopath, kidnapping, satire, stalker, insanity, falling from height, dumb ...
Time:
20th century, medieval times, 90s
Place:
usa, north america, canada
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146K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cocky researcher, Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible and he's so confident he's found the right formula that he tests it on himself and soon begins to vanish. The only problem is – no-one can ...
Style:
sexy, medical horror, suspenseful, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
invisible man, mad scientist, invisibility, psychopath, insanity, rape, experiment, sexualized violence, murder, animal experimentation, violence, voyeurism ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 2000s, y2k, future ...
Place:
washington d.c., pentagon, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of ...
Style:
futuristic, cult classic, dutch angle, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, evil alien, heroic mission, violence, slavery, escape attempt, danger, escapades, survival, rat ...
Time:
future, year 2000, y2k, distant future
Place:
denver colorado, washington d.c.
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332K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
Style:
sexy, grindhouse, road movie, cynical, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, exploitation, violence, car chase, psychopath, dark humor, vengeance, stalking, stuntman, kick-butt women, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
tennessee, texas, usa, austin texas
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck ...
Style:
neo noir, clever, detective, erotic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police corruption, internal affairs, corrupt cop, investigation, corruption, police officer, police investigation, abusive husband, sociopath, betrayal, murder, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.
Style:
period piece, slasher, disturbing, rough, tense ...
Plot:
murder, sociopathy, psychopath, music industry, music business, killer, male nudity, masturbation, male masturbation, cocaine, male star appears nude, manipulative person ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, year 1981, year 1996, year 1983 ...
Place:
new york, united kingdom, mississippi, texas, london ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
The psyche of a ruthless secret agent in Cold War Czechoslovakia begins to unravel when he obsesses over the girlfriend of a suspected subversive he is tracking. This taut political thriller is a bleak and potent rendering of the emotional ...
Style:
suspense, political thriller, neo noir, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
secret police, communist party, villain as protagonist, secret agent, obsession, cold war, paranoia, totalitarianism, male female relationship, agent, social problems, relationship problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
czechoslovakia, czech republic, eastern europe, central europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
assassination, espionage, double agent, cia, spy, plot twist, twists and turns, surveillance, special agent, hunt down, hitman, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., paris france, sonora, mexico ...
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57K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.
Style:
gothic, dark, suspense, costume drama, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dracula, vampire, supernatural, undead, ghost, paranormal, creature, virus, vampire hunter, convent, vampire human love, villain as protagonist ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
transylvania
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Style:
entertaining, feel good, humorous, light, suspense ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family relations, teenage boy, washed up star, ambition, machismo, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, go go dancer, pole dancer, domineering father, bossy man, villain as protagonist ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, central europe
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer as protagonist, doctor, murder, socially awkward, husband wife relationship, corruption, mentally unstable protagonist, villain as protagonist, nurse, friendship between men, criminal, death ...
Place:
central europe
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466K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The mercurial villain Loki resumes his role as the God of Mischief following the events of "Avengers: Endgame".
Style:
enigmatic, surreal, spectacular, saga, psychotronic ...
Plot:
time travel, multiverse, super villain, supernatural power, good versus evil, norse mythology, fantasy world, time traveler, sorcerer, god, magician, alien ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Megamind's former villain team, The Doom Syndicate, has returned. Our newly crowned blue hero must now keep up evil appearances until he can assemble his friends (Roxanne, Ol' Chum and Keiko) to stop his former evil teammates from ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, exciting, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
alien, city, super villain, superhero, urban setting, superhuman powers, supernatural ability, superpower, super powers, villain, villain as protagonist, ridicule ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Dev Ambre, a ruthless cop, loses his memory in an accident just after he has finished solving a murder case and now has to reinvestigate it while keeping his memory loss a secret from everyone except DCP Farhan Khan.
Style:
psychological thriller
Plot:
politician, tunnel, bike, memory loss, plot twist, anger issues, one man army, murder mystery, funeral, torture, murder, hospital ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, prohibition, brutality, gunfight, rise and fall, mafia, murder, police investigation, hitman, gang war, violence, bare breasts ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, year 1975
Place:
chicago, usa, north america
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 410 min.
TV show
Story:
George C. Scott, Lee Grant, Virginia Madsen, Raul Julia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Gabriel Byrne star in this Emmy-nominated program about the rise and fall of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Recounting his life with his wife, ...
Style:
family saga, historical drama, political drama
Plot:
fascism, world war two, world war, italian fascism, rape, tyrant, villain as protagonist, italian politics, son in law, ss, adultery, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, year 1937, 1940s, post world war one ...
Place:
milan italy, austria, switzerland, italy
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Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to ...
Style:
anime, psychological, touching, tragic ending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorist bombing, conspiracy, terrorism, orphan, tragic hero, hacker, tragedy, childhood friend, death of protagonist, police, human experiment, terrorist ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is again released from the mental hospital he was placed in at the end of Psycho III after serving another few years and is apparently rehabiliated for the second time. Norman is now married to a young nurse named Connie and is ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, cult horror, suspense ...
Plot:
voyeur, split personality, childhood trauma, psycho killer, psychopath, double murder, poisoning, incestuous desire, schizophrenia, matricide, child abuse, oedipus complex ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 80s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker -- the spitting image of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta -- obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.
Style:
gothic, scary, gothic horror, dark fantasy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, monster, goth, dangerous attraction, dracula, victorian england, legends and myths, bloodsucker, death, blood, vampire bite ...
Time:
middle ages, victorian era, 90s, 15th century, 1800s ...
Place:
london, transylvania, england, britain, ottoman empire ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune. This movie is extremely alarming, an expression which here means "a ...
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, offbeat, dark comedy, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
children, orphan, death in the family, child in peril, danger, dishonesty, steampunk, child, boy, siblings relations, destiny, nobility ...
Time:
year 2004, victorian era, 1940s
Place:
peru
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 202 min.
Story:
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Style:
epic, captivating, neo noir, saga, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, revenge, murder, gangster, cosa nostra, sicilian mafia, literary, immigration, crime boss, assassination, melancholy ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
cuba, sicily, new york, las vegas, italy ...
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Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychology, insanity, dystopia, surrealism, gang, rape, violent, controversy, violence, psychopath, sociopath, murder ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s ...
Place:
britain, london, england, united kingdom, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Profit is an American television series that originally aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company in 1996 on Monday Night at 9:00 PM EST. The series was created by David Greenwalt and John McNamara, and stars Adrian Pasdar as the eponymous character Jim ...
Style:
cult classic, controversial, realistic, semi serious, cynical ...
Plot:
blackmail, bribery, female on male rape, seduction, computer cracker, villain as protagonist, revenge, psychopath, gambling, yuppie, child abuse, incest ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Angela Baker, a psychotic transsexual, escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a ...
Style:
slasher, scary, slasher horror, bloody, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
summer camp, serial killer, camp, teenager, gory, rivalry, decapitation, tragic villain, blonde, murder, camping, camp counselor ...
Time:
80s
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