Crazy Jealous Guys in Live-Action Films.
- In .45, Big Al cuts off Jose's fingers because he thinks Kat touched his arm in the bar, and then beats the crap out of Kat for the same reason.
- Jake in American Honey proves to be intensely jealous of any guys Star interacts with. He beats up a man who Star chose to solicit to and even digitally assaults Star to determine if she did anything with the guy.
- Baghead (2023): It was Neil's possessiveness that drove his wife Sarah away and caused the accident that resulted in in her death. He is now willing to do anything to spend just two more minutes with her. He ultimately murders Iris in an attempt to gain ownership of the pub so he can force Baghead to become Sarah whenever he wants.
- Dracula is reimagined this way in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker's Dracula. He loves Mina due to her being the reincarnation of his deceased wife, Elisabeta, and when he learns Jonathan is engaged to her, the Count's Living Shadow makes motions to strangle Jonathan. Later on, when Dracula fails to lure Mina away and learns via letter that she married Jonathan, he literally cries Bloody Tears before going on an Unstoppable Rage and killing/turning Lucy.
- John from Boys Don't Cry was motivated by jealousy over Lana as well as homophobia (actually, transphobia) when he murders Brandon, the transgender guy whom Lana was dating.
- Philip, the male lead in Captives, is in jail for murdering his wife, whom he believed was two-timing him.
- In The Car: Road to Revenge, Craddock is extremely possessive of Daria, even though she broke up with him some time ago. This carries over to the car that his spirit possesses after he is murdered. When Daria sleeps with Rainer, the car attempts to kill both of them.
- Don Jose in any film adaptation of Carmen or the updated Carmen Jones. In the Rita Hayworth adaptation The Loves of Carmen, the eponymous character seems to have this effect on almost every man she meets.
- All-in wrestler Gripper Burke in Carry On Loving is this towards Esme Crowfoot, despite her telling him that she doesn't see him as her boyfriend anymore. When he thinks that she's moved on with Bertram Muffet, Gripper immediately goes to kill him.
- Ace Rothstein in Casino fired a young employee of his just for saying his wife was beautiful.
- Cherrybomb (2009) features Luke's major possessiveness over Malachy.
- In Circus of Fear, Mario is a hotblooded knife-thrower who flies into a rage if his fiancee Gina even talks to another man.
- In The Climax, Dr. Hohner was so obsessed with Marcellina that he could not stand the idea of anyone being able to see her body or hear her voice for just the price of a ticket. He strangles her in an attempt to destroy her voice. Ten years later, he hears Angela — whose voice is identical to Marceillina's — and becomes obsessed with her.
- Vincent in The Color of Money exhibits signs of this whenever he gets the slightest hint that his girlfriend Carmen might be interested in someone else. During a hustle, when Eddie and Carmen are pretending to be a couple, Vincent is noticeably distracted by Eddie's heavy petting of her.
- William Billy Bedlam Bedford in Con Air finds his wife in bed with another man and responds by murdering her entire family.
- Albert Spica in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
- Jeremy Irons in Damage, if you consider traveling from London to Paris to spy on someone crazy. Anna's deceased brother seems to have been an even more extreme example of this trope, committing suicide because he thought she was sleeping with other boys.
- Shorty in Dangerous Minds murders Emilio because he claims he stole his girlfriend.
- More cold-blooded than most is Tony Wendice in Dial M for Murder and Steven Taylor in the remake A Perfect Murder.
- Doctor... Series:
- Doctor at Large: Dr. Hatchet hints that he will murder Dr. Sparrow if he tries anything with his wife, Jasmine.
- Doctor in Distress (1963): Sir Lancelot becomes one in his quest to get Iris. When he tries to call her, but Tommy picks up the phone instead, his first thought is that he wants his head on a platter.
- Geoffrey Clinton in The English Patient commits suicide and double murder by intentionally crashing his plane with himself and his wife inside it into his wife's lover.
- Essex Boys has Jason Lock, who gets insanely jealous over suspicions that his wife had been unfaithful while he was in prison, despite the fact that he constantly cheated on her. This leads to him abusing his wife and taking out his rage on his mistress by murdering her.
- David in Fear (1996) attacks a boy for hugging his girlfriend and later murders him.
- First Girl I Loved: After Anne tells him she's attracted to a girl, Cliff (who'd earlier raped Anne) does all he can to break them apart, which includes trying to date Sasha himself.
- Otto in A Fish Called Wanda becomes incredibly violent toward Archie when he suspects (correctly) that Wanda and Archie have been flirty.
- Destro from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra has DeCobray's husband killed and tries to have Duke turned into a Viper. Destro does not like having rivals.
- The eponymous character witnesses her father acting this way towards her mother in Gia.
- Johnny and Ballard in Gilda.
- Hothead Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas is seen telling his girlfriend not to talk to any men while he goes to the other side of the room.
- Takeo Saeki from The Grudge series. It was his insane jealousy and how he acted upon it that started the curse in the first place.
- Krystian, meat magnate and Maja's former boyfriend from How to Get Rid of Cellulite. Insane enough to threaten Maja and a stranger who, by Contrived Coincidence, was in her room, with a gun.
- Robert Ford is this in I Shot Jesse James, growing suspicious when Cynthy talks to any man and being more than willing to kill anybody he suspects is trying to woo her. Given how he already killed a man to get her hand, he's definitely not playing around.
- Jagged Mind: Violently possessive jealousy toward Billie is one aspect of Alex's behavior. She drives Billie away first from her friend Kim so she won't have anyone else, and even murders Billie's ex Christine (whom she'd had lingering feelings for when the film began, with them still sleepting together sometimes, to get rid of a romantic rival.
- This is the reason that Bill of Kill Bill ordered the massacre of the wedding party and put the bullet in the Bride's head.Bill: Not only are you not dead, you're getting married, to some fucking jerk, and you're pregnant. I... overreacted.
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The Bride: You overreacted? - Although Reggie Kray from the Based on a True Story film The Krays wasn't depicted as being habitually jealous around his wife, he did attack two men he suspected of flirting with her.
- Bud towards the end of L.A. Confidential when he finds out that Lynn slept with Exley.
- This is one way to interpret some of Jareth's behavior in Labyrinth. When he perceives that Hoggle has developed affection for Sarah and may be considered a rival, he threatens to dump the dwarf into the Bog of Eternal Stench if she ever kisses him. When she does kiss Hoggle on the cheek, Jareth makes good on the threat.
- Seemingly harmless, but eventually murderous Sidney in Layer Cake.
- Lost in Alaska: Joe McDermott has a reputation for jealousy when it comes to Rosette and any guy she interacts with in any way, which is why Rosette dumped him pre-film and refuses to take him back initially.
- In The Man from Colorado, Owen's Sanity Slippage and descent into paranoia convinces him that Del is still interested in his wife Caroline. In fact, Del had stepped away and refused to associate with Caroline after she made her choice and married Owen. When Owen baits a trap for Del by spreading a rumor that he has locked Caroline up and is refusing to allow her to leave the house, Del immediately believes it.
- Johnny in Mickey Blue Eyes who takes the most innocuous comments passed between his girlfriend and another man as a sign of infidelity.
- In Mystery Team, Duncan and Charlie don't like the amount of attention Jason pays Kelly.
- Night of the Eagle: Upon suspecting that Norman Taylor is having an affair with his girlfriend Margaret Abbott, Fred Jennings turns up in Norman's office with a gun and tries to murder him.
- Ray in Nil By Mouth abuses his wife for playing pool with another man.
- No One Would Tell is Based on a True Story of 16-year-old Jamie Fuller, who killed his 14-year old girlfriend Amy Carnevale when she tried to break up with him.
- On the Buses films:
- Betty's husband from On the Buses is. When he (correctly) assumes she's cheating on him, his first thought is to find the man and beat him with a monkey wrench.
- Holiday on the Buses: When Blakey discovers that Joan has been having it off with another man, he flies into a jealous rage and decides to try and kill Stan, who he believes is the guilty party.
- Any film adaptation of the story of the murderously jealous Othello, who is arguably the most famous Crazy Jealous Guy in fiction.
- Although not initially seeming to embody this trope Alistair Stewart from The Piano.
- Bruno from Plan B becomes so jealous when he sees Laura smiling and laughing with her new boyfriend Pablo that he's willing to go as far as to befriend and "seduce" Pablo just to break the two of them up and get Laura back, even though he was the one who broke up with her a year ago out of boredom. He also displays this a bit towards Pablo, looking visibly displeased when he sees Pablo chatting with a pretty girl at a party and telling his friend Ana, "Don't you dare steal him away from me," although this is done just for Gay Bravado... maybe.
- Jake La Motta in Raging Bull. His poor wife can't even talk to another man without at least the threat of violence.
- Dr. Frank N Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Sure, he flirts with nearly everyone in the film. But, if he sees Rocky with anyone else besides him, he goes into a jealous rage. Janet Weiss had to learn this the hard way.
- In A Room For Romeo Brass, Morrell follows the object of his obsession, Ladine, and terrorizes and semi-kidnaps her brother when he sees her flirting with a boy.
- In A Room in Town, Edith's husband Edmond is constantly stalking her and asking her if she's thinking about him, even waking her up in the middle of the night to do so.
- Tony Montana, in Scarface (1983), is protective of his sister Gina to extreme degrees.
- In Secret Window, The Reveal of who the killer is and what his motive truly is.
- The Shawshank Redemption: Andy Dufresne is serving life for murdering his estranged wife and the man she left him for, but he turns out to be an aversion to this trope, however, when it's discovered that he's innocent.
- There's a scene in Show Me Love where Jessica has to break up a fight between her boyfriend and another boy chatting her up.
- Jackie Boy from Sin City who, despite being married, doesn't take too kindly to his ex Shellie having another man in the house. Shellie later reveals she and Jackie Boy only had a one-night stand years earlier.
- The Cook in Spun showed signs of being this.
- Paul Snider from Star 80. Based on a True Story of the tragic murder of Playmate Dorothy Stratten by her insanely possessive husband.
- Martin from Sleeping with the Enemy hits his wife for standing at a window where a man can see her.
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith has Anakin Skywalker starting to develop into this in regards to Padme Amidala as he falls deeper into The Dark Side, to the point of developing a violent hatred for Obi-Wan, who he suspects of trying to take Padme away from him.
- Blue in Sucker Punch: creepy, violent, possessive, moody, delusional, obsessive, creepy, mood swingy, twisted sense of ownership, disrespectful, and insane.
- Judge Turpin from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, who develops a creepy, creepy lust toward his sixteen-year-old ward Johanna and will not stand for anyone making any kind of contact with her. When he learns that Anthony Hope is in love with her and Johanna wants to elope with her, he has her sent to a madhouse. And that's not even mentioning what he did to her father, Benjamin Barker, for the sake of trying to claim her mother for himself.
- Caledon Hockley in Titanic (1997) tries to murder Jack rather than lose his fiancee Rose to him.
- The Duke
in Moulin Rouge!.Duke: Satine will be mine. It's not that I'm a jealous man! I JUST DON'T—LIKE—OTHER PEOPLE TOUCHING MY THINGS!!
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Zidler: (Totally freaked out) I... understand... completely... Duke. - Jordan from Tomorrow LaScala was serving a life sentence for the manslaughter of his wife and the murder of the man with whom he caught her having sex.
- The Theatre Bizarre: Axel in "I Love You" is an obsessive man who follows and calls his partner constantly. The obsessive nature of his love leads him and his partner to their doom.
- Jake in U Turn punches the main character Bobby after catching him with his wife, then offers him money to kill her.
- Charles from The Unfaithful Wife and Edward from the American remake Unfaithful, although generally a sane, mild-mannered man, murder the men with whom their wives have been cheating on them.
- The Timothy Hutton character in The Temp destroys his marriage with his paranoia.
- Alfred of Unfaithfully Yours tries to murder his wife when he believes that she's been cheating on him. Played for Black Comedy, especially when he turns out to be too inept to actually pull off the murder.
- John Garth in Valerie murdered his wife's parents and attempted to murder her.
- In Villain, when Shimizu's girlfriend stands him up to go off with another guy, Shimizu follows them and kills her.
- In The War Wagon, Wes flies into a rage any time a man talks to, or even smiles at, his wife.
- Weekend at Bernie's: Mob boss Vi had Bernie killed for sleeping with his girlfriend.
- Packard Walsh from The Wraith practically keeps Keri Johnson under lock and key, not letting any other guy look at her funny. He even murdered her boyfriend, Jamie Hankins which caused him to become the titular Wraith. When he spies on her making out with Charlie Sheen's character Jake, he snaps and kidnaps her, intending to take her out of Arizona.
- The obsessed Heathcliff in any film adaptation of Wuthering Heights has no problem ruining people's lives with his jealousy, including that of the woman he loves and even his own.
