# Movies That End With the Main Character's Death - Spoilers Obviously **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389 "2003-07-05T16:26:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/1 "2003-07-05T16:26:57Z")
I’m talking about films that end with the main character’s death --and nothing else. No other scenes, no voice over, in fact no more dialogue at all - just a straight shot to the end credits. I could think of three but there have to be more. **Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid** first came to mind. It makes for one of the all-time great movie endings in fact. There was a movie called **Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry** (really stupid by the way). The bad guys are about to escape and then implausibly drive their car into a freight train. Fire ball and then roll the credits. One other one - no more words spoken but a somewhat drawn-out fade- is Pacino’s **Scarface**. There is the shot of the words… what was it again?..“The world is yours” or something like that but it still fits the criteria of main character dies, end of story, fade to black. Any others? ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/2 "2003-07-05T16:29:25Z")
**Thelma and Louise** ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/3 "2003-07-05T16:30:27Z")
Bonnie and Clyde. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/4 "2003-07-05T16:35:03Z")
Godfather III (the title Coppola had wanted was “The Death Of Michael Corleone” but Paramaount chose GF3). Anne Of A Thousand Days (I think?) (if not, there’s one about one of the English queens being beheaded and when the moment arrives there’s a _chunk_ and the screen goes black. Easy Rider (tantalizing thread!) ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/5 "2003-07-05T16:37:08Z")
**Blair Witch Project** , depending on how you interpret the last scene. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/6 "2003-07-05T16:39:35Z")
**American Beauty** ---
**Author:** ![MemoryLeak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6f9a4e/32.png) [@MemoryLeak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MemoryLeak)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/7 "2003-07-05T16:39:41Z")
Hart’s War (?) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/8 "2003-07-05T16:43:39Z")
\Fallen\ ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/9 "2003-07-05T16:45:19Z")
(Damn! A rookie mistake!) ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/10 "2003-07-05T16:50:06Z")
**The Virgin Suicides** , obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/11 "2003-07-05T16:51:26Z")
Jesus Christ Superstar (and every other film ever made about the man). Evita. ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/12 "2003-07-05T16:59:55Z")
[Leon](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110413). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/13 "2003-07-05T17:03:40Z")
**Vagabond**. (Hardly a spoiler, thoughm because it _starts_ with the central character lying dead in a ditch.) **Betty Blue**. **Gallipoli**. **Nosferatu** , **Creature from the Black Lagoon** , _et al_. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/14 "2003-07-05T17:08:34Z")
Hmm. How technical are we going to be? Does the last scene have to be the death scene? For example, in **Leon** (mentioned above), there are a couple of scenes after the death. Well, here’s one that definitely qualifies: **Breaker Morant**. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/15 "2003-07-05T17:09:01Z")
_Dark Victory, Humoresque, Mata Hari, Dishonored, Camille, Destry Rides Again, Little Caesar, Public Enemy, Broken Blossoms, Scarface, Cleopatra, Salome, Du Barry, Marie Antoinette, Anna Karenina . . ._ [**Eve** pauses for breath] ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/16 "2003-07-05T17:13:21Z")
I should have read the OP more carefully. No voiceovers, no more dialogue. Death ends the movie. Got it. Two of my nominations don’t qualify, then. **American Beauty** and **Fallen** both have voiceovers after the death. **Breaker Morant** still qualifies, though. Also, **Terminator 2** and **Alien[sup]3[/sup]**. ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/17 "2003-07-05T17:32:15Z")
Damnit, with the no voiceover rule neither Braveheart nor X2’s Jean Grey qualify. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/18 "2003-07-05T17:36:59Z")
**An American Werewolf in London** ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/19 "2003-07-05T18:00:01Z")
Jesus dies at the end? Aw, man. I knew I should’ve paid attention to the “spoilers obviously” part of the title. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389/20 "2003-07-05T18:18:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zeldar \* > Godfather III (the title Coppola had wanted was “The Death Of Michael Corleone” but Paramaount chose GF3). Michael Corleone does not die in Godfather III. Happily, Sofia Coppola takes one of the bullets intended for Pacino. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-end-with-the-main-characters-death-spoilers-obviously/186389.md?page=2)