10 Awesome Movies With No Sympathetic Characters

3. Burn After Reading

The Coen brothers' outrageous satire of modern espionage and middle-class America is one of their most agreeably off-the-wall efforts, in large part thanks to an outstanding ensemble cast, who all agree to throw their vanity aside and play truly terrible people, only for our own sick amusement when things inevitably go awry for them.

There's not a single selfless or personable human being in this entire movie: they're cheaters, pathetically paranoid, embarrassingly narcissistic, terrifyingly unhinged, or in the case of Brad Pitt's Chad Feldheimer, just a total douchebag beyond compare (who ends up hilariously shot in the face for his troubles).

The only remotely sympathetic candidate is sweet gym manager Ted (Richard Jenkins), but even he eventually loses that privilege when his horniness leads him astray and right into John Malkovich's hatchet.