In American Sniper, a couple of PMC's show up during Kyle's various tours of duty in Iraq. In a rare twist, they are presented in a heroic light for once. Aiding the American forces in firefights against the insurgents.
In The A-Team, the bad guys (at first) are from the Blackforest PMC, a thinly disguised expy of the Real Life Blackwater.
Avatar: All the human soldiers and pilots, even though they seem to represent the US military, are actually ex-soldiers and Marines now working for the RDA corporation mining Pandora. It is notable that almost all of them are mentioned to have dishonorable discharges from the US military and took the job due to their lower standards in terms of what is acceptable, though this fact is not mentioned in the movie proper.
Billion Dollar Brain has the protagonist Harry Palmer recruited into the private intelligence version, which a fervent anti-Communist Texan billionaire is using to commit sabotage in Latvia. In a subversion, it only consists of a few criminals who are embezzling his money.
Blood Diamond has Leonardo DiCaprio playing a former Zimbabwean Rhodesian merc-turned-diamond smuggler, who works for a private contract army that has jumbo jets and MI-24 Hind gunships — a thinly-disguised expy of Executive Outcomes,
The Dogs of War (1981), though the film removes much of the political points made by Forsyth about the links between big business and war.
The Expendables are about a group of mercenaries who take any job they can get. It's a handy excuse for putting together some of the most legendary action heroes together and making everyone a badass. There are even some nods towards the way they operate, as they find out their most recent "employer" is actually the CIA looking to pass off some Dirty Business onto their shoulders.
Fifty Fifty (1992): Jake Wyer and Sam French are both these. Of course, they both come to believe in the cause they are fighting for.
In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), the Ravagers, led by Yondu Udunta, act in this capacity when Ronan the Accuser attacks Xandar, defending the planet while the Nova Corp engage Ronan's ship in orbit. After being shot down, one of Ronan's Sakaarans tries to get Yondu to order his men to turn on the Nova Corp. Yondu responds by using his Trick Arrow to kill said Sakaaran and all his comrades. After the battle, Yondu demands the orb containing the Power Stone, and departs.
In Hardcase, Simon's revolutionaries are hiring foreign mercenaries, which make the Federales very suspicious of any gringos in the area. Booker Llewellyn is an American artilleryman working for Simon who acts as Mr. Exposition for Jack when he joins Simon's forces.
The Hurt Locker: The protagonists run across a unit of British PMCs who've captured two Iraq insurgents for the bounty. Like the rest of the movie, they seem to exist for the sole purpose of being ridiculous so that Jeremy Renner can look more badass.
The Last Samurai, oddly enough. Both Colonel Bagley and Algren are American military post-Civil War, though Algren may be separated as his job at the beginning of the film is shilling guns for Winchester in San Francisco. But both take on contracts to sail to Japan to train their new professional military as part of Japan's phasing out of the Samurai caste system. This is actually Truth in Television, as up until just before World War II, it was common for officers from a neutral country to serve as observers in other country's wars, where they would do just that, observing how other countries fought and glean new techniques and doctrines from what they sawtrivia As it happens, the American Civil War is one of the most studied conflicts in history, and not just by the historians. Fairly large contingents of Prussian, Russian, and even Swedish observers were seeded in almost all major battles throughout the war., and others actually allowed their soldiers to sign on to fight in other wars to gain valuable combat experience, so long as it did not conflict with their own nation's interests and alliances.
The Manchurian Candidate: In the 2004 remake, the Communistconspiracy of the original book and 1962 movie was updated for the post-Cold War times by making the villains a MegaCorp named Manchurian Global instead, which also happens to be a PMC, or at least have a PMC division. Part of the reason they wanted the eponymous Manchurian Candidate to be their sleeper agent in the White House was so they could get him to send their troops into the Middle East, among other reasons.
Merc Force: The eponymous characters are a band of mercenaries roaming space looking for jobs.
Outpost has the eponymous installation investigated by a group of mercenaries firmly on the anti-hero sign of things. Their resumes are a Royal Marine (the commander), a US Marine (his second), a former IRA guerilla who joined the Paras, a UN Peacekeeper, a Foreign Legionnaire, a Russian Alpha Group soldier, and a Yugoslavian man whose unit is never named.
Predator's main characters are a heavily armed mercenary band, but they are far from unscrupulous. Main character Dutch outright states that they specialize in hostage and rescue operations, outright refusing to take contracts that only involve killing. When it comes out that they were tricked and there were no hostages at the outpost they were sent to attack, they are extremely unhappy with their employer.
Predators: Our main character Royce is a former American special forces soldier turned mercenary due to his Blood Knight views. He starts the film totally selfish and ruthless but evolves over the course of the story.
In Rambo IV, after a group of missionaries disappears in the Burmese jungle, the pastor of their church hires Rambo and a squad of mercenaries to rescue them.
Rogue (2020): Within the grasslands of East Africa, a mercenary named Samantha "Sam" O'Hara is leading an operation with a team of multinational mercenaries on a rescue mission to retrieve Asilia Wilson, the teenage daughter of a governor who was abducted for ransom purposes alongside her two schoolmates Chloe and Tessa by Zalaam, the leader of a terrorist cell affiliated with al-Shabaab.
SAS: Rise of the Black Swan. The Black Swans are a family-owned PMC company headquartered in London. They are literal Psychos For Hire as the father and his two adult children are high-functioning psychopaths, making them handy for doing dirty work for the British government and corporations until one of their atrocities is recorded on someone's mobile phone and an Interpol red notice is issued for crimes against humanity, setting off the plot.
In Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman is the vengeful ghost of one of the Hessian mercenaries hired by Great Britain during the American Revolution.
In Star Wars we have the Trade Defense Force, the military arm of the Trade Federation created originally to defend ships from the Trade Federation and its member companies from pirate attacks. By the time of the Prequels, however, most of their manpower has been replaced with droids and the Trade Federation is using it to force "customers" into giving up their worlds to them.
Other megacorporations, such as the InterGalactic Banking Clan, the Techno Union, the Corporate Alliance, and others have their own "security divisions" of battle droids, similar to the Trade Defense Force but more specialized. Their combined forces become the military of the Confederacy of Independent System, with their officers, such as Grievous, becoming the Separatist military leaders.
Triple Threat (2019): The antagonist, Collins, leads a team of professional mercenaries. Payu and Long Fei used to be mercenaries before defecting.
Under Fire: Oates is a mercenary whom Russell, a photojournalist, runs into in Chad (at the beginning of the film), and then later shows up in Nicaragua during the civil war, which is when most of the movie is set, fighting on behalf of the government. At the end of the film, when the civil war is over, he says goodbye to Russell by saying, "See you in Thailand."
Venom: Despite being a nominal Research, Inc., the Life Foundation employs hit squads with armored vehicles and high-tech Attack Drones, who somehow get away with a high-damage Chase Scene through the streets of San Francisco.
Water: An island in the West Indies that strikes a deposit of pure mineral water. Annoyed at the competition, the French hire a group of mercenaries to blow it up. After blowing up the well and nearly throttling the island's governor to death, the mercenary commander then leaves the governor his card, saying: "If you are in need of an army, just call."
French agent: This is a dangerous mission, and some of you will die. But remember, in a world gone mad, you will die for a principle that you all hold close to your heart. Money! Mercenaries: Viva franc! Viva deutschmark! Viva dollar! Viva numbered bank account in Switzerland!
The Wild Geese (1978) depicts the recruitment of a mercenary force to free an imprisoned African leader, only for the force to be abandoned when their sponsors strike a deal with the current rulers of the country.
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