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Withnail and I

Primal Fear (1996). It's arguable whether or not the antagonist is truly evil though.

Massive spoilers for the movie, obviously, but technically Predestination:

Time Bandits

Just a reminder for people casually browsing that unmarked spoilers are present here!

No Country For Old Men.

I've got another one: After Hours (1985)

Define "evil". It's a really broad category.

There will be blood. Oil mogul thrives while america plunges into depression. Plainview and people like him will go on to be more influential down the line. Like prescott bush or hw bush.

Willy Wonka (Or Charlie) and the Chocolate Factory. And not because of Charlie, but because of Wonka.

The dude's basically a slave owner, paying his workers in cocoa beans, he nearly drowns a kid, poisons another, throws a third into an incinerator, and disfigures a fourth.

He's not a good person.

The Ghost Writer

One of my favourite movies of all time

If I remember right, The Usual Suspects

Brazil (1985)

Chinatown (1974)

Conspiracy (2001)

I've got one that's a gem and hasn't been mentioned yet, for once!

Upgrade (2018)

A guy and his wife are attacked, his wife is murdered and he just barely survives. With the help of a super-chip implanted into his body by a billionaire, he sets out to get revenge. But at what cost?

A stylish, savage techno-action film, basically John Wick but with AI chip. The ending is rightly haunting. Well worth watching!

A Scanner Darkly, the drug epidemic is controlled by the pharmaceutical companies and they are still rich at the end.

Pretty much any Batman movie. It's subtle, because it's not chaotic evil, but lawful evil—the status quo, established hierarchic power structures and systemic injustices that plague the city remain in place. In fact, enforcing and protecting status quo is the whole raison d'entre of Batman, who is an extremely priviledged rich individual benefitting and profiting from the status quo. And thus has no desire to enact real societal change, unlike eg Baine.

I'd argue James Bond is also the same. Yes, Bond villains are evil—irrationally and comically so—but like Batman, Bond represents, enforces and protects the same hierarchic power structures and systemic injustices that give rise to these villains.

Then there is Star Wars and all this light vs dark side. But if you stop and think about it, Sith and Jedi are just two sides of the same medal. Jedi mind trick that coerces someone to do something against their will is extremely evil by its very concept. Especially in how trivialized its use is in the movies. Also, there is nothing civilized about lightsabers. These are horribly dangerous to the wielder and their opponent alike, will easily cut through hull plating by accident (a bad thing when a cm of material is all that's standing between you and hard vacuum). And would in reality not make a clean cauterized cut, but explosively flash boil the target with the end result like being blown from a cannon.

Lawful, systemic evil is the most devilish kind of evil; it's so subtle it goes unnoticed and is even celebrated as good, no doubt in no small part due to the vast propaganda machine lawful evil loves to build up around itself.

Jin-Rou

Grave of the Fireflies

Half of US «War movies» It's not like the US soldier were less evil than the person they fight

Hard question because I watch so much horror..

Ex Machina