10 Movies Where Every Character Thinks They're The Hero

10. Inglourious Basterds

Let's kick things off with one of the all-time great examples of a movie where everyone thinks they're the good guy doing the good thing.

War films admittedly have a leg-up in this regard given that they're typically centered around the structure of two sides, both believing they're "right," battling it out.

And in the case of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) and his merry band of Basterds clearly see themselves as doing the Lord's work - killing and branding Nazis. Tough to argue with that, right?

On the flip-side we have the Nazis, equally committed to their own cause, and most fascinatingly of all Austrian SS officer Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), who evidently sees himself as above and beyond the Nazi ideology.

Landa, a biblical opportunist, cuts a deal with the Basterds to ensure Hitler's demise for his own gain, and while fundamentally a psychopath, clearly thinks he's better than everybody else he meets.

This isn't to forget Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) - the closest thing to a conventional, sympathetic hero in the movie, who plots to kill Hitler to avenge her murdered family.