Movies with no likeable characters

Sex and the City 2.

My Dinner With Andre.

Sophie's Choice.

Cabin Boy

Spring Breakers

OP I just read the synopsis of Elle and it sounds absolutely dreadful. (To be fair, I cannot stomach rape scenes.) What did you think of it? I do plan on seeing Greta.

The Boys in The Band.

The Family Stone...

Nymphomania

Most of them.

Happiness by Todd Solondz.

A Clockwork Orange

Closer. I hated every character in that movie.

Actually, I hated everything about that movie in general.

Raza Jaffrey’s character is exempt from R1 but I agree, the rest were insufferable.

The Good Shepherd

Lina Wertmüller's Seven Beauties

Love Actually.

Just about every film noir, OP. That's kind of the definition of films noirs.

Mary Poppins

The Wizard of Oz.

Mama Mia!

Derailed. Plus I really hate that skeevy French guy.

The Favourite

The Passion of the Christ

Sideways. I’m still exhaisted by those characters.

Home Alone

Gone Girl

The Girl On the Train

There's plenty more, but those are the first two that immediately popped into my head

R12 despite being a terrible person, Alex was actually a pretty charismatic character (at least how MM portrayed him). I think that's the point of his character in fact

Every character in every single David Cronenberg movie

Any Lars Von Trier or Gaspar Noe film.

“The Big Chill”!

Oh my God, I hate all those characters so much...

(Also agree with “The Family Stone” and almost every character in an Alexander Payne movie—well, Payne at least seems to hate all his characters, and it shows)

R28

I really like Cronenberg movies for the most part, but after thinking about it, you're right!

His characters are compelling, but off putting to various degrees at the same time.

[italic]Mesrine[/italic]I gave it a try because the trailer made it look exciting and Vincent Cassel is never boring. Loathsome characters

Another vote for [italic]Sideways[/italic]

I didn't finish either movie.

Brown Bunny

August: Osage County.

Vice

Goodfellas

Every film by Darren Aronofsky

Plus the teenagers in Clockwork Orange looked like they were 35 years old.

The Raging Bull.

Scorsese has to be the most overrated directed in the last 50 years.

Did De Niro get the Oscar because he grew an authentic pot belly?

Every character wasn't just unlikeable; they were all repulsive.

Velvet Buzzsaw

Vice

Mildred Pierce

All about Eve

Brilliant though it is, "Citizen Kane."

R2, Jean Lenauer, the waiter, was quite appealing.

“The Twentieth Century”

The Sweet Smell of Success

Ha! I saw this thread only now and was about to reply SATC2 and saw R1 beat me to it -- yes, that's really the most deserving choice.

The Bells of St. Mary

Once Upon a Time in America

Going Places

“But I’m a Cheerleader”

No Lickable or Likeable Lesbians.

Not a movie, but the show The Affair has no likable characters. Took me a few seasons to figure this out.

House of Games

'Something for Everyone' with Angela Lansbury. That's even mentioned in the description of the film on Rotten Tomatoes:

[quote] Based on a novel by Harry Kressing, Something for Everyone must hold some sort of record for having the largest number of unsympathetic characters within a single film.

Another similar film that was released the same year was 'Entertaining Mr Sloane' and that one was full of despicable characters as well.

Scarface - the 1983 one with Al Pacino.

Awful, awful people.

Annie

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

The Lion in Winter

R31 I liked Cronenberg's earlier stuff, but if his most recent film Maps to the Stars (which was released 5 years ago) is any indication, he's sadly become a parody of himself, like that hack Tim Burton. Every character in that movie was purposely written to be over-the-top grotesque and detestable just for its own sake.

R55 agreed, same goes for the "Godfather" movies. I've simply never understood why those films are so worshipped by film lovers.

Every Marvel movie

American Hustle

Crazy Rich Asians

Ghost World

Basic Instinct.

FEH!

THE GODFATHER I & II, I never saw III; ANNIE HALL; ALL OF KUBRICK'S MOVIES, CERTAINLY.

Goodfellas.

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Closer.

Good choices

[italic]Sideways,[/italic] hands down! Never have I seen a movie with such loathsome characters. The only good part was when Sandra Oh kicked the shit out of Thomas Hayden Church. God, that was a terrible movie!

[italic]The Lion in Winter[/italic] is the second-worst in that regard.

The Pizza Boy He Delivers.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Magnolia

Mulholland Drive

Whiplash

"The next best thing" I hate it almost every character in the film.

hated^

Good Will Hunting

Friends With Money

Thanky you, 74. I loathed that movie.

r29: I watched the director's cut of The House The Jack Built and for that LVT film you are 100% right. As brutal as Jack's murders were, I never really felt sorry for the victims because they were all so unlikeable.

The English Patient

Shakespeare In Love

Mame

Rachel Getting Married

Catfight, with Sandra Oh and Anne Heche.

Fatal Attraction & Dangerous Liaisons

I saw Elle a few months ago. It was definitely not a film that would have been released in the United States. Americans actors would be shredded on social media for taking part and the lead actress would be questioned and criticized about the film in every subsequent interview. I really didn't care for the film personally, but I still prefer the European approach of being less hesitant to take on queasy subjects. The "cancelled " culture is just exhausting.

Old one - M*A*S*H.

Derailed

Patch Adams

That's the first movie that popped into my mind, R2. Even Samantha became unlikeable!

3 Billboards outside of Ebbings, blah, blah.

Swept Away

In the Company of Men

Anything by Neil La Bute

Sex, Lies, and VIdeotape

The Wizard of Oz (well, somebody had to say it)

Nell.

"The Grifters." Creepy and gross people.

Melancholia. It’s one of my favorite movies.

Sweet Smell of Success

The Act, based on the Blanchard case .

The Social Network. A great film about entirely horrible people.

Lolita

Notes on a Scandal

Gone Girl. There were no sympathetic characters in either the book or the movie and the husband was a fucking moron.

Singing in the Rain

Viva Maria

American Graffiti

These two classic French films by Henri-Georges Clouzot: LE CORBEAU (42) and LES DIABOLIQUES (55).

Thank you, [105]. I hate-read the book -- started it, loathed it from the beginning, but was determined to finish it -- so that's time that I'll never get back. Hated the book so much that I sure as hell didn't bother seeing the movie.

Heidi

Crap -- obviously I can't remember how to have a commenter's number appear as a link. Do you just key in R105 and the system will do the rest?

A Face in the Crowd

R42, I had never thought about it before. but I think with the possible exception of Kane's first wife played by Ruth Warwick, you are right.

Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel

R107 - you could probably say that about all Clouzot films, especially Wages of Fear (and its American remake , William Friedkin's Sorcerer)

A Beautiful Mind

Breakfast Club

"It's A Wonderful Life"

R95 & 95 beat me to it. "Your Friends & Neighbors" is another perfect example. Every one of them was a terrible human being.

The Sound of Music.

Fuck Louisa and her jar of spiders.

The Breakfast Club is a great example. A popular movie with no likeable characters. It proves you can do it and be commercially successful.

Elle is very intelliget black comedy that's not fit for pussies or the easily offended. I found it exhilarating.

I also adored Nymphomaniac by Lars Von Trier, this decade's masterpiece and such a joy to watch. I would argue that Dancer in the Dark has two very relatable, lovable characters in Bjork's and Deneuve's.

I hate Kubrick however, his approach to storytelling is exhausting and the academy earned my admiration by not wasting any awards on that hateful jew.

Dr Strangelove

R120 He won a Best Special Effects Oscar for 2001.

Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. (1970)

Roger Corman's most obnoxious attempt to show he was "With it" to the counter culture.

Completely unlikable cast of characters, particularly Cindy Williams as a Hippy.

The Muppet Movie

It's TV but I hate every woman on "Girls" and still love the show somehow.

Saturday Night Fever

Most of the main characters in any of the Woody Allen films I've seen, with the exception of the misanthropic artist played by Max von Sydow in Hannah and her sisters.

The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. People RAVED to me about it. Hated everyone in it.

Same for Silver Linings Playbook. Hated them all.

"Young Adult"

A Streetcar Named Desire

Glengarry Glen Ross.

Anything with R120

Queen Bee

Mary Poppins

RENT hasn't any likable characters. They're all whiny jerks basically.

King of Kings

American Sniper

The Big Chill

[quote] but I think with the possible exception of Kane's first wife played by Ruth Warwick, you are right.

Ruth Warrick, not Ruth Warwick. And it's implied her character is anti-Semitic.

Thank you for Smoking. A comedy about vile people and a fairly realistic portrayal of the type of lobbyists/careerist psychopaths you'll find scurrying around Washington DC. Fun fact , the journalist played by Katie Holmes who fucks her sources for access was based on NYT dimwit Maureen Dowd.

[quote]And it's implied her character is anti-Semitic.

Like R120.

The Favourite has no likable characters. Although you feel for Olivia's Queen Anne she's also a clinically insane person by today's standards, tyranical and childish.

Whatever thin sliver of anything good Nymphomania had R120 was completely destroyed by the ending and also the stories about Von Trier and the creeps he works with didn't improve my opinion of the film any.

Lord Love a Duck

god yes, Eternal Sunshine deserves to be at the head of this list.

Eyes Wide Shut

The Conversation

The September Issue

American Beauty

Beyond the Forrest

Of Human Bondage

The Anniversary

The Nanny

In the Company of Men

The newer Stephen King movies. Thinner is a good example. Everyone they cast is so terrible that you’re just rooting for their demise

Not movies but pretty much every reality show I have seen. I don’t know how people can watch this stuff. It is like watching the worst people in your office with no fear of getting fired get their own TV show

I like Elle. It was absurdist. Nicole Kidman was Paul Verhoeven’s first choice.

Mildred Pierce has Wally, Ida and Lottie, at least.

I,Tanya

"Carnage", by Roman Polanski.

The Greatest Story Ever Told. Hated Him!

"The Ten Commandments." What a fucking prude!

Your tongue will dig your grave, R157!