While many films and books have characters deemed Christ-figures, they are usually identified as Christ-like in the fact that they make an ultimate sacrifice of themselves as a redemption of others (think Aslan, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix).
This is my short-list of films with Christ figures:
Superman
Shane
Starman
Babette's Feast
The Matrix
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Iron Giant
On the Waterfront
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Tron
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Mission
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Cool Hand Luke
The Fifth Element
I've got some confusion about the rest of his post because of what I see as a conflation of "bad" and "evil" as if they are the same thing, but I was intrigued by the mention of Christ figures in movies.
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