# Movies where there are no good guys **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 3, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349 "2021-04-03T21:41:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/1 "2021-04-03T21:41:59Z")
I’m watching “I Care A Lot” on Netflix and it’s about people that take advantage of the elderly versus the Russian mafia. What other movies have no good guys? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/2 "2021-04-03T21:47:50Z")
The ironically named _Goodfellas_. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/3 "2021-04-03T22:04:35Z")
Vacillating over were there any good guys in “Glengarry Glen Ross”. Not sure if I could call any of them _exemplary_, exactly. _Maybe_ the office manager, or the somewhat puffball Alan Arkin role? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/4 "2021-04-03T22:24:27Z")
_Kill Bill_ _Pulp Fiction_ _The Hateful Eight_ _Sin City_ _The Godfather_ Trilogy At least as far as major characters go. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/5 "2021-04-03T22:28:22Z")
Few more off top of head… Man Bites Dog Wild Bunch (nah, not even Holden) American Psycho Eating Raoul Los Olvidados Auto Focus ETA: And all the wonderfully (in their own right) obnoxious folks in Mike Leigh’s “Abigail’s Party” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/6 "2021-04-03T22:29:49Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Pulp Fiction Christopher Walken carried a watch up his ass for two years just so he could return it to little Bruce! What does it take to impress you? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/7 "2021-04-03T22:31:10Z")
That’s why I added the qualifier “major characters.” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/8 "2021-04-03T22:32:10Z")
After I posted. Or I’m just really unobservant today. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/9 "2021-04-03T22:32:17Z")
_Very Bad Things_ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/10 "2021-04-03T22:33:07Z")
_Downfall_ ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/11 "2021-04-03T22:46:58Z")
_Bad Santa_ ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/12 "2021-04-03T22:49:41Z")
_Antichrist_ ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/13 "2021-04-03T22:52:48Z")
_The Women_ (2008) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/14 "2021-04-03T22:53:44Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > _Pulp Fiction_ It’s basically a superhero origin story for the guy who’s going to Walk The Earth — you know, like Caine in _Kung Fu_ — walk from place to place, get in adventures. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/15 "2021-04-03T23:08:11Z")
Most movies that are based on the premise of a group of strangers being holed up together somewhere unknown and left to their own devices to figure out a) why and b) how to get out ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/16 "2021-04-03T23:12:48Z")
_The Wolf of Wall Street_ _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_ ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/17 "2021-04-03T23:20:16Z")
I recall that the review on WXRT for _To Live and Die in LA_ was “a movie so cool that everyone’s a jerk and eventually gets shot in the face” ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/18 "2021-04-03T23:23:21Z")
Well, he was a captain. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/19 "2021-04-03T23:29:33Z")
_Memento_ _I, Tonya_ ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349/20 "2021-04-03T23:56:52Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Very Bad Things That is one I’m thinking about. Also, I’m trying to remember if anyone in _A Simple Plan_ would count as good. Or in any movie that involves the protagonists planning and getting away with (for certain values of “getting away with”) crimes. (_Oceans 1_-_Oceans 97_, for example. Or _The Sting_.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-there-are-no-good-guys/939349.md?page=2)