History Monster / FilmJToL

* ''Film/{{Kite}}'': "The Emir", head of a [[HumanTraffickers human trafficking organization]], kidnaps kids to sell to wealthy clients. Having his thugs abduct the children, he has one young girl's parents murdered in front of her before taking her. After capturing [[ActionGirl Sawa]], the Emir tries to torture information out of her by deep-frying her hand. When she breaks free and prepares to kill him, The Emir argues the cops he has had killed--which she believes includes her father--were "unreasonable" for not accepting his bribes.

* ''Film/LoveLiesBleeding'': [[AbusiveParents Lou Sr.]] puts up [[BitchInSheepsClothing an act as a kindly family man]], but is in truth a ruthless mobster who will discard anything he supposedly loves for [[ItsAllAboutMe his own selfish gain]]. Running illegal guns to and from Mexico, Lou Sr. has long murdered anyone who stood in his way, dumping their bodies in a canyon that is littered with the remains of his victims. When his daughter Lou and her lover Jackie begin meddling in his affairs, Lou Sr. manipulates a drugged-out Jackie into killing a witness before trying to murder her. Despite his seeming care for his family, Lou Sr. allows his other daughter Beth to stay trapped in a horribly abusive relationship because it's profitable; is heavily indicated to have [[TilMurderDoUsPart murdered his wife]] when she was going to turn witness for law enforcement; and not only forced Lou to commit murder in his name, but [[ArchnemesisDad tries to torture]] and [[OffingTheOffspring kill her]] as well when Lou Sr. decides she is too stricken by conscience.

* ''Film/LAConfidential'':

* ''Film/LoveAndMonsters'': [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Cap]] leads a crew of pirates in raiding defenseless settlements and stealing their supplies, before wiping them out. Capturing a [[GiantEnemyCrab giant mutated crab]], Cap subjects it to ElectricTorture, forcing the crab to kill and eat innocent people on Cap's behalf. Manipulating a colony filled with elders into trusting him, [[WouldHarmASenior Cap]] uses poisonous berries to knock them out before tying them up for the crab to devour and forces the crab to attack hero Joel Dawson and Aimee when they try to rescue them; Cap also orders one of his subordinates to [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kill Joel's dog]], Boy, when the latter tries to help Joel and Aimee fend off the crab.

* ''Film/JaneGotAGun'': [[BigBad John Bishop]] is a {{greed}}y bandit who intends to sell the women of a town into prostitution. When one of his men, Bill Hammond, took a shine to one of the women, named [[TheHero Jane Hammond]], Bishop refused, referring to her as "property". After Hammond rescued and married Jane, Bishop sent his men after Hammond, severely wounding him, strangled a civilian for not knowing information; and sent another henchman after Jane, with the intention of allowing said henchman to rape her. Bishop later [[WeHaveReserves sacrifices an entire wave of his men]] to traps laid by Jane and her ex-fianc&eacute, Dan Frost, and gives up his [[TheDragon dragon]] to lure Dan out just to get the drop on him.

** [[DirtyCop Captain Dudley Smith]] is [[FauxAffablyEvil much more charismatic]] than [[Literature/LAConfidential his brutal literary counterpart]], but is presented without the original's redeeming qualities in his quest for control of the Los Angeles underworld. Dudley has scores of rival criminals murdered to consolidate power and massacres a diner, innocents within, to get at a traitorous underling. [[FrameUp Framing]] a trio of criminals for his shooting, Dudley [[PoliceBrutality allows the men to be assaulted in interrogation]] and later oversees their escape from prison to ensure they will be killed in the ensuing shootout to avoid any connection coming back to him. Shooting one of his own men dead for nearly stumbling upon the truth, Dudley sets up two more officers who look up to him for one to kill the other and be arrested. Killing his associates to tie up loose ends, Dudley even responds to the deaths of all his goons by merely trying to talk Edmund Exley into letting him walk, intending to restart his empire anew.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Pierce Morehouse Patchett]] is a sleazy businessman trying to take over the city's crime with Dudley Smith. Running a business using [[HighClassCallGirl high-class call girls]] given surgery to resemble actresses, Patchett assists Dudley in eliminating their troublesome henchman by having a young woman date the man and lure him to the cafe for both to be killed along with a dozen innocents. Having all rival criminals killed to eliminate competition, Patchett orders one of his girls dating an officer to seduce Edmund in the hopes the officer will murder Edmund for he and Dudley to evade any chance of being caught, and [[HeKnowsTooMuch casually murders a young actor for overhearing their plans]].

* ''Film/LethalWeapon2'': [[NonActionBigBad Arjen Rudd]] and his bloodthirsty head of security [[TheDragon Pieter Vorstedt]] are [[AmoralAfrikaner powerful drug traffickers]] who double as the ones responsible for the death of Martin Riggs' wife. Arjen Rudd hides his criminal activities under his position as Minister of Foreign Affairs from [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra apartheid South Africa]], and has no qualms unleashing Vorstedt to kill anyone in his way, from one of his failed minions to nearly an entire precinct of cops, the carnage of which Vorstedt approaches with casual vicious glee. Arjen Rudd even has Riggs's current girlfriend Rika drowned by Vorstedt, smugly trying to claim "[[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]]" at the end when Vorstedt is dead and he's defeated.

* ''Film/LadyOfCsejte'' (also known as ''Blood Countess'') (2015): [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory Countess Elizabeth Bathory]] is a [[AristocratsAreEvil wealthy noblewoman]] whose [[FauxAffablyEvil courteous demeanor masks a sadistic monster]]. Taking in orphaned children under the guise of providing them with a home, the Countess in truth imprisons them in her underground cellars, where they are subjected to a series of grotesque tortures and mutilation until they die from their injuries, with the Countess having inflicted this fate upon hundreds of victims. When one child, Mischa, discovers her ledger where she keeps illustrations of her tortures, Bathory murders a cook to keep him from learning the truth, then imprisons Mischa within her cellars, intending to torture him later. Later confronting Mischa's sister, Aletta, who had learned of Bathory's crimes, Bathory gleefully admits to having forced Aletta's sister, Katja, to partake in her horrific activities. Later capturing Aletta, Bathory attempts to butcher her as well, and fatally wounds Mischa before finally being subdued.

* ''Film/KillBill Volume I'': [[WouldHurtAChild Boss Matsumoto]] was a sadistic, pedophilic {{Yakuza}} boss, and [[SmallRoleBigImpact the one responsible]] for [[DarkActionGirl O-Ren Ishii]]'s life as an assassin. Invading O-Ren's home when she was nine, Matsumoto has his men fight and [[YouKilledMyFather kill her father]], laughing as he dies. Taking O-Ren's mom, he tosses her on her bed and fatally stabs her with his katana, almost killing O-Ren herself, who was hiding under the bed. With business settled, Matsumoto and his gang set the house on fire. Frequently using young girls as prostitutes, O-Ren is able to assassinate him by posing as one, appealing to Matsumoto's perverse lust.

* ''Film/TheKiller'': [[BigBad Hay Wong Hoi/Johnny Weng]] is a cowardly, selfish and traitorous [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] boss and the employer of professional hitman [[HitmanWithAHeart Jeffery/Ah Jong]]. Wong Hoi sends Ah Jong to assassinate his own uncle so he could take over and then double-crosses Ah Jong by sending a group of hitmen after him for being spotted by the police detective [[CowboyCop Li Ying]], gravely injuring an innocent child in the process. He starts to become increasingly more paranoid after Ah Jong tries to assassinate him in revenge and proceeds to mercilessly beat his best friend Sydney Fung/Fung Sei for information. Wong Hoi then unleashes a brutal assault on the church which serves as Ah Jong's hideout, killing the priest and Fung Sei, before taking Ah Jong's LoveInterest Jennie hostage and attempting to kill both Ah Jong and Li even after they surrender. During the final showdown, Wong Hoi successfully lands two bullets in Ah Jong's eyes, murdering him and ensuring that his eyes cannot be used to fix Jennie's, and subsequently surrenders himself to the cops in a final desperate act to save his own skin.