Works featuring villain protagonists

1999 film directed by David Fincher

Breaking Bad is an American neo-Western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan for AMC. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, an over-qualified, dispirited high-school chemistry teacher struggling with his recent diagnosis of stage-three lung cancer. White turns to a life of crime and partners with a former student, Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul, to produce and distribute methamphetamine in an effort to secure his family's financial future before he dies, all while navigating the dangers of the criminal underworld. The series also stars Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, RJ Mitte, Betsy Brandt, Giancarlo Esposito, Jonathan Banks, and Bob Odenkirk.

Japanese manga series

2005 American epic space opera film directed by George Lucas

1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese

American crime drama television series (1999–2007)

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical dark comedy crime film co-produced and directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Terence Winter, and based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir. It loosely recounts Belfort's career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, leading to his downfall. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort; Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend Donnie Azoff; Margot Robbie as his second wife, Naomi Lapaglia; Matthew McConaughey as his mentor and former boss Mark Hanna; and Kyle Chandler as FBI special agent Patrick Denham portraying Gregory Coleman. It is DiCaprio's fifth collaboration with Scorsese.

Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of Mafia associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

1983 film directed by Brian De Palma

1992 film by Quentin Tarantino

1995 film directed by Bryan Singer

2014 film directed by Robert Stromberg

2004 film by Oliver Hirschbiegel

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

1992 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola

American crime drama television series (2015–2022)

Mad Men is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner for AMC. It ran from July 19, 2007 until May 17, 2015, with seven seasons and 92 episodes. The series title is allegedly borrowed from the phrase advertisers working on Madison Avenue used to refer to themselves, although the only documented use of the phrase may derive from the late-1950s work of James Kelly, an advertising executive and writer.

2021 film directed by Craig Gillespie

1994 film directed by Oliver Stone

2014 film by Dan Gilroy

Shakespearean history play

Superbad is a 2007 American coming-of-age teen buddy comedy film directed by Greg Mottola, written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and produced by Judd Apatow. It stars Jonah Hill and Michael Cera as Seth and Evan, two teenagers about to graduate from high school. Before graduating, the boys want to party and lose their virginity, but their plan proves harder than expected. Christopher Mintz-Plasse (in his film debut), Rogen, Bill Hader, Martha MacIsaac, and Emma Stone (in her film debut) provide supporting roles.

1897 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells

1970s BBC television sitcom

1932 American gangster film

1993 film directed by Joel Schumacher

1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis

American drama television series

2023 film directed by Kevin Greutert

2024 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

2018 film directed by Lars von Trier

2019 film directed by Joe Berlinger

novel by Émile Zola

1986 film directed by John McNaughton

2021 South Korean television series

2025 animated film directed by Dave Needham

comedy play by Moliere (1665)

1979 musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler

2020 film by J Blakeson

animated television series

1984 film by Charles Sellier

Japanese light novel series

play by Tirso de Molina

thumb|An illustration for an 1898 edition of Volpone by Aubrey Beardsley. Volpone (, Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean era comedies.

Superjail! is an American adult animated television series created by Christy Karacas, Stephen Warbrick and Ben Gruber for Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. It follows the events that take place in an unusual prison. The pilot episode aired on May 13, 2007, and its first season began on September 28, 2008.

1980 film by Peter Sellers, Richard Quine

2012 film by Ryuhei Kitamura

Kaante () is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language epic heist action thriller film co-written and directed by Sanjay Gupta. Written by Milap Zaveri, the film stars an ensemble cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Lucky Ali, Mahesh Manjrekar, Kumar Gaurav, Namrata Singh Gujral, Rati Agnihotri, Rohit Roy, Isha Koppikar and Malaika Arora.

spinoff manga of Detective Conan

2022 film directed by Alberto Vázquez

2019 South Korean television series

2017 film by Giddens Ko

2020 film directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko

South Korean television series

manga

2024 film by Jamie Bailey

Amoklauf () is a 1994 German horror film written and directed by Uwe Boll. Boll's third feature, it established a number of directorial trademarks that would recur throughout the filmmaker's career, such as a scene involving a mass shooting and a premise revolving around "psychologically disturbed men and intersecting systems of oppression conspiring to unleash the violent potential within them."

Japanese manga series

2017 film by Yang Ya-che