7 movies where every hero is a villain

"Don't Breathe"

• 2016
• USA
• Horror, thriller, crime
• Director: Fede Álvarez
• Starring: Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Stephen Lang, Christian Zagia, Emma Bercovici
• IMDb Rating: 7.1

Three small-time burglars decide to pull off a big score and break into the home of a blind veteran holding a large compensation for the death of his daughter. Inside, they discover an owner who navigates in the dark better than they do in the light. Blocked windows, locked doors, and an angry dog turn the house into a trap maze. The hunt for easy money turns into a game of survival, where every wrong move could be their last.

"I was on pins and needles when I watched the movie, honestly, I don't know who I was more worried about, the robbers or the old man. The movie is not really a horror movie, but it will make you nervous for sure", — xenia_m

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"Gone Girl" 

• 2014
• USA
• Detective, thriller, drama
• Director: David Fincher
• Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Emily Ratajkowski Carrie Coon
• IMDb Rating: 8.1

On the day of their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy Dunne, wife of the charming but marriage-weary Nick, disappears. In their home, they find signs of a struggle, blood and carefully washed evidence. Police and reporters turn the husband into the prime suspect, and the hunt for the "perfect wife" becomes a media show. While Nick has to dig up old letters, diaries, and notes, Amy herself is playing the game several moves ahead.

"Both main characters are picked with surgical precision, it's hard to come up with an example of such a successful cast choice. Amy constantly evoked some mixture of horror and disgust even in the most normal moments of the movie", — id440426744

"Once again I was convinced how brilliant a woman can be. Well her husband...absolutely deserved to be miserable by the end of the movie, he wanted to hide all his sins by divorce, but now he will pay for them", — startbelievin

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"Nightcrawler"

• 2014
• USA
• Crime, drama, thriller
• Director: Dan Gilroy
• Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton, Ann Cusack
• IMDb Rating: 7.8

Unemployed Lou Bloom happens to notice news cameramen filming nighttime accidents and crimes for the morning news. He buys a camera, gets behind the wheel of an old car, and begins the hunt for the toughest and bloodiest footage in Los Angeles. The higher the ratings, the farther Lou goes: crossing police cordons, setting up scenes, and gradually turning from a contemplator and witness to a participant in the events.

"Few movies in which the protagonist caused me such a strong antipathy. Gyllenhaal did a classy job. The movie certainly highlights some moments and covers up others, but that's the essence of a movie, it doesn't make the movie any worse", — G0Berzerk

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"Fatale"

• 2020
• USA
• Drama, thriller
• Director: Deon Taylor
• Starring: Hilary Swank, Michael Ealy, Mike Colter, Daniel Pino, Damaris Lewis
• IMDb Rating: 5.5

Successful sports agent Derrick spends one night with a stranger in Las Vegas, trying to forget about the cracks in his marriage. Back home, he tries to erase the episode from his memory, but soon his home becomes a crime scene. Detective Valerie Quinlan arrives to investigate what happened, and Derrick recognizes her as his occasional lover. The further the investigation goes, the more Valerie draws him into a network of manipulation, blackmail, and violence.

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"The Hateful Eight"

• 2015
• USA
• Drama, detective, western
• Director: Quentin Tarantino
• Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth, Walton Goggins
• IMDb Rating: 7.8

Events unfold in the United States just after the end of the Civil War. During a snowstorm, a stagecoach with bounty hunter John Ruth and his captive Daisy Domergue arrives at the roadside shop Minnie's Haberdashery. Under one roof find themselves a former Northern major, the new sheriff of a quiet town, a Mexican, a cowboy, a Confederate general, and a suave "hangman". As a blizzard cuts the house off from the world, it becomes clear that some of the guests are lying about their identities and waiting for the opportune moment to shoot.

"Watched many of Tarantino's movies, but this one hooked me more than the rest) The awkward moments in the dialog, the terrific cast and the overall serious non-seriousness disposes you to want to rewatch)", — Cinnabon

"One of the most gorgeous and atypical westerns I've ever seen, it's a shame there aren't many original stories like this in the genre", — id440426744

"Well Tarantino, powerful. I don't like westerns, but it's not even a western, Tarantino turns everything typical into atypical", — vseslav

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"Pain & Gain"

• 2013
• USA
• Comedy, crime, action
• Director: Michael Bay
• Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shalhoub, Bar Paly
• IMDb Rating: 6.4

Fitness trainer Daniel Lugo is tired of living in cheap shorts and motivating others to succeed at his expense. He gathers two gym buddies and comes up with a plan: kidnap one of his clients and beat him out of his money and possessions. The guys take tips from action movies and crime films, but face a reality where neither muscles nor pathos speeches replace brains. Mistake after mistake drags them into a chain of increasingly absurd and brutal crimes.

The story is based on real events and notes by a journalist from The Miami New Times about the Sun Gym gang.

"I put off watching this movie for a long time because of the title, I was sure it was a sports drama about jocks, it turned out to be a pretty good crime comedy that I would even recommend watching", — izkrys

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"Very Bad Things"

• 1998
• USA
• Comedy, crime, thriller
• Directpr: Peter Berg
• Starring: Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern
• IMDb Rating: 6.3

Before his own wedding, Kyle heads to Las Vegas for a bachelor party with his best friends. They order a prostitute in a hotel room, but the party gets out of hand and the girl is dead. Instead of calling the police, the friends decide to dispose of the body and cover their tracks. The hidden crime eats away at the company from the inside out: conscience, paranoia, and fear of exposure push everyone to do more and more crazy things.

"Pure blackness!" — CHASER

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