History CorruptCorporateExecutive / LiveActionFilms

** ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' reintroduces Dr. Lewis Dodgson, who is now the CEO of Biosyn after his first appearance in [[Film/JurassicPark the first installment]]. To the public, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity he appears to be a trustworthy individual]], but beneath his gentlemanly façade, however, lies a hidden agenda: [[spoiler:to control the world's food supply by unleashing gigantic locusts to eat up all the crops not made by Biosyn, so humanity will have to buy his crops is they want to survive, resulting in him making even more money than he's already made]].

* The board of directors of the toy company in ''Film/TheSantaClause'' are a mild example -- not violently corrupt or even being jerks, just highly apathetic about selling nothing but violent toys to kids. Scott only realizes that there's a problem after he starts turning into Santa Claus.

* ''Film/TheGodfather'' movies have quite a few. Michael Corleone himself could possibly count as this, since it's all just business for him and his family. Those businesses (casinos) are slightly shadier than others, but it's the official rule that violence is an accepted form of competition that leads to the worst of it. Despite this, Michael is important enough to be recognized and accepted by senators and other politicians.

* James [=McCullen=] [[spoiler:a.k.a. Destro]] in ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseofCobra''. The man is one of the founders of said evil organization and causes chaos worldwide, partially [[WarForFunAndProfit for the profit he will reap from selling weapons to everybody]] and partially to settle a grudge his family has fostered for generations with the governments of the world... because they helped foster conflict to keep on selling weapons to everybody and got caught.

* The BigBad of ''Film/TheAccountant'', [[spoiler:Lamar Blackburn]], is revealed to be performing an [[spoiler:Enron-style swindle to boost his company's stock price for when it becomes public]] and is willing to hire mercenaries to murder anybody who has knowledge of this crime, [[spoiler:including the other two higher-ups in the company, who happen to be his best friend and his sister]]. He tries to justify it as making sure the company is well-financed enough to keep developing technology and help people, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist but he just comes off as a]] [[ItsAllAboutMe self-important jerk]] (again, he orders the assassination of [[spoiler:''his own sister'']] because [[HeKnowsTooMuch she knows too much]]).

* Steven Jacobs from ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' is the CEO of GenSys and is [[OnlyInItForTheMoney only interested in money.]] He becomes aware of Will's ethical breach and tries to blackmail him into continuing the AnimalTesting using that information.

** ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' reintroduces Dr. Lewis Dodgson, who is now the CEO of Biosyn after his first appearance in [[Film/JurassicPark the first installment]]. To the public, he appears to be a trustworthy individual, but beneath his gentlemanly façade, however, lies a hidden agenda: [[spoiler:to control the world's food supply by unleashing gigantic locusts to eat up all the crops not made by Biosyn, so humanity will have to buy his crops is they want to survive, resulting in him making even more money than he's already made]].

* In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', Hoskins is convinced that Masrani is one of these. Nope, it's a SubvertedTrope: Masrani is indeed an HonestCorporateExecutive. Bone-headed, sometimes, but honest. The ironic part is Hoskins himself is arguably a Corrupt Corporate Executive (okay, chief of security, but he does take over the park after [[spoiler:Masrani's death]]). How corrupt is he? [[spoiler:He and MadScientist Dr. Wu had deliberately engineered the Indomitus Rex to be intelligent and vicious, then ordered the raptors to attack her, as a ''field test''. Turns out they're trying to breed dinosaurs to replace conventional weapons in warfare.]]

* ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'': Sanford Scolex a.k.a. Dr. Claw is the world's youngest billionaire and owner of Scolex Industries. He's also a complete madman who steals a robotic foot from the Bradford Robotics Laboratory and murders Artemus Bradford in the process. He blows up security officer John Brown (the soon-to-be Inspector Gadget) during his escape and copies the technology operating the foot in order to make android assassins that he could sell to armies all over the world.

* The cleanliness-obsessed boss from ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' has absolutely no problem being rude to his underlings.

%%* The BigBad of ''Film/TheAccountant'', [[spoiler:Lamar Blackburn]].

%%* Parker Selfridge in ''Film/{{Avatar}}''.

%%* The cleanliness-obsessed boss from ''Film/TheCatInTheHat''.

%%* James [=McCullen=] [[spoiler:a.k.a. Destro]] in ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseofCobra''.

%%* Alonzo Hawk in ''Film/HerbieRidesAgain''.

%%* Lord Cutler Beckett of the [[TwoPartTrilogy second and third]] ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movies is one.

%%* Ed Dillinger in ''Film/{{Tron}}''
%%** To a lesser extent, the Chairman of the Board Richard Mackey in the [[Film/TronLegacy sequel]], even though he shows up for only one scene. Apparently, a color manual justifies labeling the same product as new.

* OlderThanTelevision: ''Film/ACornerInWheat'' (1909) is about a Corrupt Corporate Executive who monopolizes the wheat market and then jacks up prices, victimizing both the poor farmer trying to sell his wheat crop, and the urban poor who can't afford to buy bread.
%%* [[PunnyName Hugh J. Magnate]] from ''Film/AFairlyOddMovieGrowUpTimmyTurner''.

* Another early cinematic example of this trope are Five Brains and Checkbooks from ''Film/FrauImMond''. They are a mysterious international cabal of capitalists who are trying to hijack the upcoming Lunar spaceflight to control Moon's supposed gold reserves in order to take over world's economy.
* ''Film/{{Killersaurus}}'': The [=CEO=] funding Professor Peterson's research agreed to do so. The trade off was that Peterson had to use the research to recreate a dinosaur [[spoiler:so he can have its [=DNA=] bioprinted into human to make human-dinosaur [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers]]]]. He feels no remorse for any researchers the project kills, and [[spoiler:is willing to threaten Peterson to continue the project, and send in unwilling volunteers to complete the project]].
* ''Film/{{Unstoppable}}'' -- There's a train going at full speed with no one driving it. It's filled with toxic, dangerous chemicals and eventually, it ''will'' crash. What does the head honcho guy (whose company is responsible for the train) say about this? "I'm not gonna put the company at risk just because some engineer wants to play hero!"[[labelnote:*]]Though he's more guilty of poor judgment, as he specifically states that he's trying to minimize the destruction the train will cause, i.e. doing a little damage in a remote area instead of a lot of damage (and death) in a larger area. Once his plans fail, he essentially gives up and tries to manage the impending PR disaster.[[/labelnote]]
* Gordon Gekko of ''Film/WallStreet'' being the most obvious. The man believes in becoming rich at any cost, including destroying the livelihoods of hundreds of people.
** The sequel has Bretton James, who puts Gekko to shame (and, in fact, put him in prison for many years).
%%* Any part Dabney Coleman plays, with the uber-example being Franklin Hart in ''Film/NineToFive''.
* In the first ''Film/RoboCop1987'' movie, Richard "Dick" Jones is an EvilChancellor form of the Corrupt Corporate Executive, since he is only the ''vice''-president of OCP under the seemingly benign "Old Man". In the sequel, the Old Man takes to the corruption like a duck to water. Seemingly the only remotely honest person working at OCP is Johnson, who was Bob Morton's #2 at Security Concepts, and he has ''some'' morally ambiguous dealings.
** The [[Film/RoboCop2014 remake]] has Raymond Sellars, the CEO of [=OmniCorp=] (a subsidiary of OCP). He sees Murphy as nothing more than a machine that is the property of [=OmniCorp=]. Thus, he sees nothing wrong with overriding Murphy's will with the machine components and then [[spoiler:kidnapping and threatening his wife and kid]].
%%* Kurt Fuller has a knack for playing these types (usually dwindling to a ButtMonkey by the end). See ''Film/GhostbustersII'', ''Film/TheRunningMan'' and ''Film/WaynesWorld'' for proof.
* Lord Cutler Beckett of the [[TwoPartTrilogy second & third]] ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movies is one.

** Hugo Drax in ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''. Doesn't gets more corrupt than using your company's resources to orchestrate a plan to ''annihilate all human life on Earth''.

** Gustav Graves in ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' is a billionaire diamond magnate and snobbish British playboy who seems to be interested in alleviating world hunger with his new solar satellite, but is actually [[spoiler:[[FarEastAsianTerrorists Colonel Tan-Sun Moon]], a [[RenegadeRussian renegade North Korean colonel]] who hopes to use the solar satellite to invade South Korea. He actually "gained" his wealth by illegally laundering conflict diamonds from Sierra Leone. He's also a SpoiledBrat and the TropeNamer for MajoredInWesternHypocrisy: despite claiming to despise the West, he blatantly abuses foreign aid on sports cars and was educated in England]].

** Auric Film/{{Goldfinger}}. A ''proper'' Bond villain. If you can't have the United States' gold reserves, you can always just destroy them. Wiping out the entire population of Fort Knox (civilian and military alike), and creating economic chaos in the West in the process is just collateral damage.

** SPECTRE and its mysterious leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld are behind many criminal schemes involving {{Evil Plan}}s of the TakeOverTheWorld variety. And its ruling council is a behind-the-scenes cabal of corrupt officials, politicians, terrorists and businesspersons — [[NebulousEvilOrganization SPECTRE]] is essentially a [[CovertGroup shadow]] [[EvilRunningGood government]], whose members choose to operate in the dark.

*** ''Spectre'' also reveals that [[spoiler:Quantum, the NebulousEvilOrganization Bond fought in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' and ''Quantum of Solace'', is a sub-unit of SPECTRE itself]].
* Carter Burke from ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. Though not a CEO, he's the only member of TheSquad who answers directly to the MegaCorp that owns the infested colony and constantly endangers everyone by putting his own agenda (capturing and weaponizing the eponymous aliens for profit) ahead of everyone else.
** Peter Weyland from the semi-prequel ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' makes clear that he will do ''anything'' to become great (as in "[[AGodAmI godlike]]"), or die trying... and when [[MortalityPhobia he's actually dying?]] He funds an expedition to planet where {{Precursors}} supposedly lived in the hopes of finding a way to extend his life, without caring about the possibility of everybody else in the expedition [[CosmicHorrorStory dying in horrible ways]]. Which isn't ''too'' shocking, given that his last name is half of the MegaCorp's (Weyland-Yutani).
* The entire Nemoidian leadership of the Trade Federation in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy and they only get worse when they become part of the leadership of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, otherwise known as the Separatist Alliance. (Many sources reveal that greed and selfishness - not to mention cowardice - are very common among Nemoidians.) Other factions that lead the Separatist Army, like the Banking Clan, are cut from the same cloth.
* Everyone at the Unexploited Land Development Corporation in ''Film/TheBadSleepWell'' is this, especially the high-level executives like Iwabuchi who are willing to order people's deaths to maintain their position and stay out of prison.
%%* The cleanliness obsessed boss from the movie version of ''[[Creator/DrSeuss Cat in the Hat]]''.
* [[spoiler:Noah Cross]] from ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' is one of the greatest examples in cinema. A cunning, ruthless, and perverse sociopath, [[spoiler:Cross]] already the richest and most powerful man in Los Angeles, [[spoiler: renders vast farmlands arid by illegally dumping their irrigation water into the ocean, thus causing their prices to plummet to next to nothing. After forcing the farmers to sell their land to his cabal of corrupt business partners, Cross intends to develop his newly acquired land by irrigating it with the water supply diverted from the city itself, through a new aqueduct and reservoir built from $8 million of taxpayer money. His only gain from this elaborate swindle is "''The future!''"]] What's worse, this doesn't even include his more...[[MoralEventHorizon shocking crimes which includes raping his daughter Evelyn Murray]].
* In ''Film/FantasticFour2005'', Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom is the leader of Doom Industries and being Doom, he is not the most honest CEO around.
* Corrupt Corporate Executive types seem to be one of the most common choices for the BigBad in comic book movies in general, including Norman Osborn in ''Film/SpiderMan1'', Kingpin in ''Film/Daredevil2003'', Obadiah Stane, Justin Hammer and Darren Cross in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
* Judge Doom from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''... And ''how''! Being the [[spoiler:sole stockholder of Cloverleaf Industries, he murders Marvin Acme, the owner of Toon Town (framing Roger for it in the process) and then tries his hardest to make certain that Acme's will is never discovered so that Cloverleaf can win the bidding war to buy Toon Town, so that he can demolish it and build a freeway. (And as if that weren't enough, his plan involves murdering every toon living there.)]]
* Downplayed in ''Film/FordvFerrari'' with Ford senior executive vice president Leo Beebe. While not engaging in the typical form of corruption, Beebe does everything in his power to hinder or prevent Miles from racing for Ford. He excludes Miles from the '65 Le Mans team, and conspires to have Miles slow down in the '66 race to prevent him from taking all of the glory, which cost Miles the win due to a technicality.
* The plot of ''Film/FunWithDickAndJane'' kicks off with such a CEO destroying his company through fraud, Enron-style, and leaving his second in command and his head of PR to take the heat while he himself goes on to enjoy his millions.
* ''Film/TheGodfather'' movies have quite a few. Michael Corleone himself could possibly count as this too since it's all just business for him and his family. And those businesses, casinos, are slightly shadier than others but it's the official rule that violence is an accepted form of competition that leads to the worst of it. Despite this, Michael is important enough to be recognized and accepted by Senators and other politicians.
* Conal Cochran from ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch,'' who planned to kill innumerable people through rigged Halloween masks simply ForTheEvulz, and because he's the descendant/reincarnation of an ancient evil Druid.
%%* The Mayor of Whoville from the movie version of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''.
%%* Rachel Bitterman from ''Film/ItsAVeryMerryMuppetChristmasMovie''.
%%** Likewise, Tex Richman from [[Film/TheMuppets the 2011 film]]. He has a change of heart in the end, though.
* Mr. Potter in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. He owns the bank, and eventually almost every business in Bedford Falls, except the Bailey Building and Loan. In the reality where he ''really'' owns everything, general conditions in town are horrific.
* The board of directors of the toy company in ''Film/TheSantaClause'' are a mild example -- not violently corrupt or even being jerks, but rather they are highly apathetic about selling nothing but violent toys to kids. Tim Allen's character only realizes there's a problem after he starts turning into Santa Claus.
%%** Calling them corrupt seems a bit harsh. They never do anything evil or even unpleasant. The worst thing they do is replace Santa's sleigh with "Total Tank" for their commercial.
* Arnold Royalton from the live action ''Film/SpeedRacer'' movie. He is part of a great, multi-generational corporate conspiracy to manipulate international racing competitions in order to manipulate motor company stock prices, and he's not adverse to join forces with the Mafia to commit murder ''off'' the track and ordering [[CasualtyOnTheRing his drivers to cause "accidents"]] ''on'' the track to get what he wants.
* In ''Film/SantaClausTheMovie'' (1985), the evil CEO B.Z. (John Lithgow) is firstly vilified as an evil CEO who knowingly produces unsafe toys for children. (Why he would make teddy bears stuffed with sawdust and nails when presumably other metal things that WEREN'T construction nails (or just plain sawdust) probably would be cheaper isn't elaborated on... [[CardCarryingEvil he's evil, get it?]]) When he gets the chance to market candy that will allow those who eat it to temporarily float or fly, he leaps at the chance to make millions and save his reputation, despite the fact that he has to (with no compunctions) KickTheDog by shrugging off the knowledge that many children are likely to die due to the second, stronger version of the candy exploding if it gets too hot; he intends to take the money and escape to Rio before people find out about the danger.
* [[DevilInPlainSight Daniel]] [[MeaningfulName Plainview]] of ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'' is a sociopathic oil baron.
* Paul F. Tomkins from ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'' who turns out to [[spoiler:actually be Satan.]]
** Although he isn't a corporate executive so much as a [[spoiler:stage compere (Open Mike Guy)]].
* J.K. Robertson in the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]-fodder movie ''Film/TimeChasers''. He starts developing the protagonist's time machine as a weapon, destroys the future, refuses to not destroy the future for some reason, and eventually just starts shooting people in the Revolutionary War. Riffing was pretty harsh on the character.
-->'''Mike (as Robertson):''' Hi, I'm Bob Evil!
** "I leave for ten minutes, and Evil Co is in ''shambles''!"
* Played for laughs with Creator/TomCruise's character from ''Film/TropicThunder''. The man is willing to allow one of his studio's most profitable stars to die at the hands of Vietnamese drug lords solely because his box office revenue is starting to decay.
* ''Film/TheOtherWoman2014'' has Mark King. While the premise of the film involves his wife, Kate, joining forces with [[LoveTriangle two other women]] [[TheMistress he cheated on her with]] to utterly humiliate him through a series of practical jokes, one of the women he cheated with, attorney Carly Whitten, manages to uncover he committed international fraud and intended to [[FrameUp frame]] Kate for it. [[spoiler:Towards the end of the film, the women return all the money to those Mark defrauded, sparing both him and Kate prison time, then he is fired, and Kate, after divorcing him, takes over his old position in the company]].
* ''Film/BatmanReturns'' has the aptly named Max Shreck who also fittingly enough dresses and looks like a vampire, since he secretly drains the city of its energy, and not so fittingly puts a convincing act as a benefactor to Gotham. While also whoever is too close to him mysteriously disappears like his wife and his business partner Fred Atkins.
* Rutger Hauer's Richard Earle, from ''Film/BatmanBegins''. Rapacious, cold, ruthless, swapping out philanthropy for weapons sales -- definitely not true to Thomas Wayne's legacy. (And demoting Creator/MorganFreeman's Lucius to the basement!) Must have been the role model for ''Film/IronMan1'''s [[spoiler:Obadiah...]]

%%* James [=McCullen=] [[spoiler: AKA Destro]] in ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseofCobra''.
%%* Ed Dillinger in ''Film/{{Tron}}''
%%** To a lesser extent, the Chairman of the Board Richard Mackey in the [[Film/TronLegacy sequel]], even though he shows up for only one scene. Apparently, a color manual justifies labeling the same product as new.
* As mentioned above, Joseph Pulitzer in ''Film/{{Newsies}}''. He raises the wholesale price of his newspapers by 10% because he wants more money (and who cares about the starving homeless orphans who have to pay for it?). Later, when his actions have provoked a strike that actually ''costs'' him money, he still won't back down, because giving in to demands from ragged street kids would make him look weak.
%%* R. J. Fletcher from Music/WeirdAlYankovic's 1989 film ''Film/{{UHF}}''.
* Ian Hawke from the ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' film series. In the first film, he discourages Dave from furthering his music career at the beginning, then once the Chipmunks get famous, he proceeds to spoil them, distance them from Dave, and tire them out from constant tours. It wasn't until the Chipmunks see Dave infiltrating one of their concerts that they realise Ian's a [[BitchInSheepsClothing bastard in sheep's clothing]]. In the sequel, he is jobless, but plans to get his revenge by adopting the [[DistaffCounterpart Chipettes]] and putting their Battle of the Bands audition on the Internet. They end up getting the opportunity to open for Music/BritneySpears, and Ian puts it in top priority over the actual Battle of the Bands concert, threatening to barbecue them if they don't comply.
%%* Parker Selfridge in ''Film/{{Avatar}}''.
* William Easton in ''Film/SawVI'' ''seems'' to be this, but he doesn't quite fit the mold as shown [[spoiler:each time he has to let someone die]].
* Daniel Clamp, the [[{{Trumplica}} Donald Trump parody]] in ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' is a subversion; he's no great intellect and is more than a little thoughtless, vain, superficial, and shallow, but underneath it all, he seems to have a genuinely good heart. Reportedly he was ''supposed'' to be one of these played straight, but John Glover -- no stranger to playing villains -- was reportedly [[{{Typecasting}} sick of doing the same thing]] and decided to play against the script.
* Jack Bennett, the CEO of Northmoor in ''[[Film/EdgeOfDarkness2010 Edge of Darkness]]''. Not only is he secretly working to [[spoiler:make dirty bombs]] for the US government under the guise of nuclear disarmament, he does not hesitate to fatally irradiate environmental activists or even ''his own employees'' to keep it quiet.
%%* Sidney J. Mussburger in ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy''.
* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', Bartleby and Loki visit a board of executives and reveal each and every one (save for one female board member) to be guilty of something horrible. The worst of them has more skeletons in his closet than the rest of the board put together. After messing with their heads, Loki kills them all except the aforementioned woman (and he nearly offs her for not saying 'God bless you' when he sneezed).
* Subverted in ''Film/{{Inception}}'' where Saito may be willing to use corporate espionage and screw with his business opponent's mind, but he's a man of honor through and through. When faced with one of Cobb's partners trying to sell him out, instead of taking the guy up on his offer, he has him restrained, tells Cobb what the guy tried to do, and gives Cobb the chance to have revenge. In that same scene, he has Arthur and Cobb cornered, but he still gives them the ''choice'' to work for him or walk away instead of {{blackmail}}ing them as you would expect from any other corporate hack in movies these days. Right before TheCaper begins, Saito dismisses Cobb's worries that he'll be arrested as soon as the plane lands by saying that as soon as the job is done, he'll make [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections a single phone call]] which will get Cobb past Immigration. [[spoiler:At the job's end, despite having just spent ''decades'' of [[YearInsideHourOutside subjective time]] in Limbo and finally returning to reality... the first thing he does is pick up the phone, just as promised]].
* ''Film/{{The Net|1995}}'' has Bill Gates CaptainErsatz Jeff Gregg, who uses the BatmanGambit of a cyberterrorist ring to convince the US Government to use his anti-virus program -- which is programmed with a backdoor to allow those in the know easy access.
* Al Pacino's character John Milton in ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'' is not only evil, he is actually {{Satan}}.
%%* Gatewood in ''Film/{{Stagecoach}}''.
* Really averted in ''Film/LocalHero'' - an American oil company is planning to buy a coastal village in Scotland to turn into a refinery/distribution center, and the villagers are all delighted at the prospect of selling out. Meanwhile, the CEO's main interest seems to be what's in the night sky there.

%%* [[spoiler:Robert]], to an extent, in ''Film/MysteryTeam''.
* Travis from ''Film/{{Congo}}'' is so obsessed with making money that he sends out multiple expeditions into the [[BananaRepublic dangerous African jungle]] to search for diamonds that will make his company billions of dollars. When the members of the expeditions keep dying off, he doesn't care. He just sends more people out in the hopes that at least one of them will retrieve the diamonds.
** Then there's the fact that one of those people is his own ''son''. And no, he doesn't care.
%%* Alonzo Hawk in ''Film/HerbieRidesAgain''.
* Gary Winston in ''Film/{{Antitrust}}''. He tries to justify his actions (which include stealing others' work and outright murder) by claiming that any startup company in a garage can put his software giant NURV out of business.
* Averted in ''Film/IrishJam'', where the Japanese businessman Mr. Suzuki, seeking to build an amusement park on a small Irish island is, in fact, an honorable man. It's Lord Hailstock, the local landlord, who is the corrupt one.
* ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'' has [[spoiler:Dylan Gould]], who willingly helps the Decepticons. While it initially seems like he's under duress, it later becomes clear that he is, in some respects, more evil than the Decepticons.
* The BigBad in ''Film/TheTuxedo'' is Dietrich Banning, who owns a bottled water company. His plan is to infect the US water reservoirs with deadly bacteria in order to be the sole supplier of drinking water in the country. He also offers the deal to the heads of the heads of the other major bottled water companies, in exchange for 50% of their income.
* Pretty much everybody in ''Film/MissNobody'' has some personal corruption, but for the top spot, it's a duel between two of the executives at Judge Pharmaceuticals: Nether, who tries to push a clearly dangerous drug onto the market to make money, and Sarah Jane, who is a SerialKiller trying to get herself one KlingonPromotion after another.
* Sam Neill's character Bromley is every bit of this in ''Film/{{Daybreakers}}''. [[spoiler:Even after a synthetic blood substitute is developed, he still won't release the captive humans from the blood farms. Why? Because rich vampires will pay top dollar for the real thing]].
* John Carlyle from ''Film/{{Elysium}}''. He is such a bastard that he is more concerned about the cost of replacing a set of ''sheets'' than the man lying on them being fatally irradiated thanks to Carlyle's factory having NoOSHACompliance.
* Piet Smit from the film ''Film/{{District 9}}'' meets much of the criteria. He is the executive for a MegaCorp arms manufacturer who spends the film abusing the refugee aliens he was contracted to care for, experimenting on them to gain control of their weaponry, and even [[spoiler:allowing his son-in-law to be dissected ''live'' just to gain control of these weapons, and then lying through his teeth to his heartbroken daughter about what's happening]].
* ''Film/TheWolverine'':
** Shingen Yashida from is a rich businessman with ties to the Yakuza.
** [[spoiler:Ichirō Yashida]], in the end of his life. He secretly ran his company's finances to the ground to purchase everything he needed to try to steal Logan's HealingFactor and regenerate his body with it.
* Judah Clark from ''Film/DeadInTombstone'' is the mine owner who happily cuts a deal with Red and the Blackwater Gang to keep the money flowing into his coffers.
* In ''Champagne for Caesar'' evil and possibly insane soap company CEO Burnbridge "Dirty" Waters (Creator/VincentPrice) attempts to sabotage the genius who is using his own game show to bankrupt the company. When the genius gets a cold he sends a beautiful woman pretending to be a nurse in order to fog his mighty brain. Of course, the genius figures it out and uses it against him.
** At one point his secretary asks Waters why he just doesn't throw the genius off the show. Waters takes her hands and gently explains his thinking. "You see, my dear, if we throw his off the show our viewers won't like it. If they don't like it they won't watch the show. If they don't watch the show they won't buy our soap. If they don't buy our soap, our sales will drop to nothing [[SuddenlyShouting AND WE'LL LOSE MONEY!]]"
* Eric Sacks from ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014''. His [[spoiler:EvilPlan amounts to releasing a [[DeadlyGas lethal biotoxin]] upon New York just so he can profit from making an antidote]].
* Archie Channing from ''Film/{{Quigley}}'' was this at first. He had a lack of goodness and understanding, which was the reason why he treated all of his employees with contempt, along with the fact that he also hated dogs. However, that all changes when he ends up in a car crash and ends up in heaven, but after the angels there tell him that he never did a good deed in his life, they decide that he must be sent back to Earth in the form of an adorable Pomeranian named Quigley, all while supervised by his guardian angel, Sweeney. At the end of the film, Archie is able to amend his unforgiving ways and is able to make amends with his brother Woodward.
%%* Practically all of the main characters in ''Film/EnronTheSmartestGuysInTheRoom''.
* ''Film/TheLazarusEffect'' has Mr. Wise, the owner of the rival pharmaceutical company and the Dean of the school. The latter allows the former to take all the protagonists' research, and the former spied on the team and sabotaged their research once they got results.
* ''Film/BillyMadison'': Eric is this up to eleven. [[spoiler: He blackmails Billy's principal into failing him so he can take control of the company. At the academic decathlon, he bombs a question on ''business ethics'']].

* In ''Film/JurassicWorld'' Hoskins is convinced that Masrani is one of these. Nope, it's a SubvertedTrope: Masrani is indeed an HonestCorporateExecutive. Bone-headed, sometimes, but honest. The ironic part is Hoskins himself is arguably a CorruptCorporateExecutive (ok, chief of security but he does take over the park after [[spoiler: Masrani's death]]). How corrupt is he? [[spoiler: He and MadScientist Dr. Wu had deliberately engineered the Indomitus Rex to be intelligent and vicious, then ordered the raptors to attack her, as a ''field test''. Turns out they're trying to breed dinosaurs to replace conventional weapons in warfare.]]
* The antagonist, Mr. Jeffries, from ''Film/AmazingGraceAndChuck''. He's essentially a stand-in for the more nebulous concept of the military-industrial complex as a whole: rich, powerful, ruthless, and not happy that some "wild cards" are messing with the system that he derives his wealth and influence from.
* Bartholomew Bogue, the BigBad of ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven2016'', is the 'Robber Baron' version; driving homesteaders off their land so he can mine it for gold. Farraday even refers to him as 'Robber Baron' Bogue.
%%* The BigBad of ''Film/TheAccountant'', [[spoiler: Lamar Blackburn.]]
* ''Film/HotFuzz'': Subverted with Simon Skinner. Nicholas initially connects the series of murders to him and a land deal [[spoiler: but it turns he and the NWA were murdering people in a twisted attempt at winning a community award. His business tactics were quite ethical]].
%%* ''Film/CloudAtlas'': Lloyd in the 1975 storyline.
* In ''Film/TheWarWagon'', Frank Pierce runs the Pierce Mining Co. He attempted to murder Taw Jackson and, when that failed, had him framed and sent to prison so he get control of Jackson's land.
* In ''Film/{{Deewaar}}'', a mine owner puts an end to a strike by [[IHaveYourWife kidnapping the union leader's family]] and threatening to kill them unless he signs an agreement that's very unfavourable to the miners.
* ''Film/Rampage2018'' has [[SiblingTeam Claire and Brett Wyden]], who have their company undertake illegal research into weaponizing genetic manipulation. When this creates the [[{{Kaiju}} giant mutant animals]] that the movie focuses on, their reaction is to lure them to Chicago (putting countless innocent lives in the process) just for a chance to get DNA samples from them, while at the same time trying to frame their former employee Kate for their own actions. And during the climax, they take her hostage at gunpoint (while trying to kill Davis in the process) to try and force her to continue her research for them.
* ''Film/{{Vice|2015}}'' has [[BigBad Julian Michaels]], the greedy head of the titular company, who allows customers to use, abuse and murder thousands of androids with human thoughts and feelings, just to fill his own wallet.
* In ''Film/TallTale'', evil coal-mining magnate J.P. Stiles wants to turn Paradise Valley into a coal mine and will let nothing stand in his way.
* ''Film/JupiterAscending:'' Kalem Abrasax is the head of the inter-galactic company Abrasax Industries, whose purpose is to harvest entire planets of life to create a [[ImmortalityInducer rejuvenation drug]]. He also doubles as a EvilOverlord, due to being King of the Universe thanks to his status as Entitled.
* Max Fairbanks in ''Film/WhatsTheWorstThatCouldHappen''. Amongst the corporate malfeasance seem in the film are declaring bankruptcy as an expediency to avoid corporate responsibility, and attempting to bribe a senate subcommittee.
* In ''Film/{{Goldstone}}'', Jimmy is the local manager for the Furnace Creek Mining Group. He is lying to his superiors in order to push through a crooked land deal; bribing local officials; turning a blind eye when one of his partners sanctions a murder; is importing {{Sex Slave}}s to work in a quasi-legal brothel; etc.
* Record executive Reginald Charming from ''Film/TrickyPeople'' is a pedophile who tells children he's going to help them get famous in order to trick them into coming to his studio.

* In ''Film/TheChainReaction'', the head of the Western Atomic Long-term Dumping Organisation, or [[FunWithAcronyms WALDO]], is only interested in protecting himself and believes that an accident at one of their facilities should be covered up despite the potential radioactive contamination putting thousands of lives at stake, and will stop at nothing to silence the protagonists.
* ''Film/IronMan1'': [[spoiler: Obidiah Stane]] has no problem selling Stark Industries weapons to [[TerroristsWithoutACause Ten Rings]] under the table. Or hiring Ten Rings to kill Tony Stark to advance his position in the company.
* Mr. [[PunnyName Dumass Beach]] in ''Film/TalesFromTheHood2'', who wants Mr. Simms to tell the police robot stories of crimes so it knows better which people should go to jail.
* ''Film/TommyBoy'': Downplayed with Ray Zalinsky. He's not doing anything illegal per se, but he has little problem shuttering Callahan's factory and putting its employees out of work.
* ''Film/TheManFromColorado'': Everything Big Ed Carter does is strictly within the letter of the law, but is still extremely unethical. He takes over the claims of all of independent miners, taking advantage of the law that says that if a miner does no work on his claim for three years, the claim lapse. However, the reason why the claims went unworked for three years was because the miners were all away fighting UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. When the miners return, he offers then jobs working in his mine for less than a living wage. He also arranges for the appointment of Owen as judge to ensure the local law is on his side.
* ''Film/ForrestWarrior'': Ruthless logging boss Travis Thorne, who will do anything to drive people off the land and has already started logging before getting permission to. He also tries to rally support among the locals while promising jobs, all the while fully intending to import out of town loggers just out of spite
* ''Film/BoilerRoom'': All of the J.T. Marlin brokers are ConMen. They're running a [[WhiteCollarCrime "pump-and-dump" stock scam]] (where the share prices of phony companies are inflated through false statements), but project themselves as [[VillainWithGoodPublicity honest businessmen]] to outsiders. Even the protagonist is unaware the company he's working for is a scam until he begins to check on its records.
* In ''Film/{{Juncture}}'', one of Anna's targets is a retired pharmaceutical company executive who okayed the dumping of toxic chemicals that caused a cancer cluster in a suburban development resulting in the deaths of several children.
* Sanford Scolex aka Dr. Claw in the live-action ''Film/{{Inspector Gadget|1999}}'' film is the world's youngest billionaire and owner of Scolex Industries. He's also a complete madman who steals a robotic foot from the Bradford Robotics Laboratory and murders Artemus Bradford in the process. He blows up security officer John Brown (the soon-to-be Inspector Gadget) during his escape and copies the technology operating the foot in order to make android assassins that he could sell to armies all over the world.
* ''Film/AssaultOnWallStreet'': Jeremy Stancroft is a Wall Street banker who runs a toxic fund which ruins untold numbers of investors when it collapses. Even when faced with death, [[DefiantToTheEnd he's entirely unrepentant]].

* In ''Film/MajorGromPlagueDoctor'', three out of four victims of the Plague Doctor are this: Olga Isayeva is a banker, Evgeny Zilchenko owns a massive garbage dump, Albert Bekhtiev owns a real estate company, all three take advantage of ordinary people and the city's legacy.
* ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'' has Hades and Persephone run a television network that entrances and kills viewers, already owning 85% of the corporate demographic and planning to corner the rest by tapping into the youth market.
* ''Film/MenAtWork1990'': Maxwell Potterdam III is the head of a company that's been illegally dumping waste from its factory into the sea without a shred of guilt over the environmental damage that he's causing. When Jack Berger decides it's time to come clean and bring him down, Maxwell decides that Jack needs to be [[DeadlyEuphemism dealt with]].
* When you take out the assassination attempts and trophy-husbanding, Mr. Grover in ''Film/TheBigStore'' is also prone to book cooking.