Hi everyone. What are your top ten favorite anti-hero films? The following are mine.

1. Scarface
2. Serpico
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. Taxi Driver
5. And Justice For All
6. Carrie
7. The Godfather Part I
8. The Shining
9. Papillon
10. Coffy

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Could Serpico have been considered Anti-Heroic? Pacino was an honest cop in a league of corruption.

1. Scarface
2. Taxi Driver
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. The Shining
5. GF 1
6. Carlitos Way
7. Mobsters
8. Gotti
9. Chopper
10. Raging Bull

The Pacino fan convention in this thread is nice and all, but "Anti-Hero" is exactly that, a protagonist we cheer for that is against the typical American John Wayne definition of a hero. Some picks of mine:

The Man With No Name - FISTFULL OF DOLLARS, FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE, THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY

What a bastard...but what a cool bastard. Clint and filmmaker Sergio Leone forever destroyed the John Wayne hero-standard for westerns for Americans.

Jack Burton - BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA

Irishman didn't get the movie. Maybe he didn't get the joke of a pisser on the 1980's All-American badass-mullet hero that Hollywood loved in that decade. Kurt Russell's Jack Burton is a mullet-wearing American male that grew up with John Wayne, went to high school with Clint Eastwood, and despite getting his ass handed to him on a very nice silver platter, he is still delusional in believing himself to be in that model.

Hell, he wasn't the hero of his own movie. He was the glorified side-kick, and the one substantial thing he adds for the entire movie, occurs out of sheer dumb luck. Now that is an anti-hero.

More to come...perhaps!