History VillainProtagonist / LiveActionFilms

* Vincent from ''Film/{{Collateral}}'' is a sociopathic hitman who takes a cab driver named Max hostage in order to drive him to five locations in Los Angeles where he will kill five targets. He has enough screentime to be considered this.

* In ''Film/AmericanPsycho'' you follow the psychopathic killer Patrick Bateman. [[spoiler: Or at best, not-killer but corrupt executive with an ambiguous disorder.]]

* ''Film/TheLastSupper'' is about a group of progressive liberals who start killing people whose politics they find evil. Whatever morality they might have began with gets slowly discarded as they descend a slippery slope of murder.
* ''Film/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' - ex British Army officers turned bank robbers.

* ''Film/Election'': Dave Mcallister is a thirty-something high school teacher. He sets out to ruin the life of a bright, ambitious teenage girl because he doesn't like her - partly because she's pretty annoying, but mostly because after she was groomed and sexually abused by another teacher who happened to be Dave's friend, the teacher lost his job and his marriage. Dave thinks she should suffer, so he decides to thwart her campaign for student council president. He fails even at this.

* ''Film/TheBlingRing'' from Creator/SofiaCoppola's biopic is most definitely this. What makes Nicki stand out is that [[PlayingAgainstType she's portrayed by]] Creator/EmmaWatson.

* Film/{{Omerta|2018}}: Omar Saeed Sheikh, the main character is [[{Determinator}} a man willing to go to any lenghts]] to harm the countries that he perceives to be to oppressing his fellow muslims, not even sparing the ordinary citizens that are outside of their countries. The film is shown entirely from the perspective of the terrorists.

* "Film/{{Omerta|2018}}": Omar Saeed Sheikh, the main character is a man willing to go to any lenghts to harm the countries that he perceives to be to oppressing his fellow muslims, not even sparing the ordinary citizens that are outside of their countries. The film is shown entirely from the perspective of the terrorists.

* "Film/Omerta": Omar Saeed Sheikh, the main character is a [[Determinator man willing to got to any lenghts]] to harm the countries that he perceives to be to oppressing his fellow muslims, not even sparing the ordinary citizens that are outside of their countries. The film is shown entirely from the perspective of the terrorists.

* In ''Film/SawX'', after [[Franchise/{{Saw}} nine prior films]] where John Kramer, a.k.a. Jigsaw, [[VillainBasedFranchise led the franchise as an antagonist]] for various protagonists to try and thwart (and technically, [[PosthumousCharacter spending over half of it dead]]), makes him the de facto protagonist, following his point of view [[{{Interquel}} in between the first and second movies]] exacting revenge on a group of [[SnakeOilSalesman scammers who tried to offer him a fake treatment for his terminal cancer]], [[spoiler:one of whom turns out to be ''[[EvilVersusEvil even more]]'' [[EvilVersusEvil of a sadistic piece of work than he is]].]]

In ''Film/BadGirlsFromValleyHigh'', three [[AlphaBitch snobbish high school girls]] prematurely age brought on from a curse, a drug (or something) after the arrival of new transfer student whom they believe is connected to a murder they committed a year earlier.

* ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' is a film which follows UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler as he lives out his last days in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. You hardly get more bad guy protagonist than that. The film flits between depicting him as sort of a dignified old captain going down with his sinking ship, and depicting him as an irrational, condescending and spiteful man who believes sympathy is a weakness and has no problem with blaming others for his own failures and demanding the German people fight to the death down to the last man, woman and child in horrid conditions while he sits in a comfortable bunker without firing a single shot at the enemy.

* ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'': Daniel Plainview is a malevolent oil baron who the audience only supports because he's at least somewhat ashamed of his own evil while his enemy believes that his shit doesn't stink.

* Terrence [=McDonaugh=] in ''Film/TheBadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans''. He's a RabidCop who also a drug and gambling addict, steals from other cops and suspects, tortures people he interrogates, and blackmails female suspects to have sex with him. The only redeeming qualities he has is that he still loves his family and girlfriend, and draws the line at point blank murder. [[spoiler:By the time the film's ending comes around, he still hasn't changed his drug-inducing habits one little bit and goes largely unpunished for all his crimes.]]