Road to Perdition… unless the boy is supposed to be the main character. But I’m pretty sure he’s not.
Bruce Willis in “The Sixth Sense” How is this one figured out?
Oh, thanks for reminding me of this one Daniel, now I’ll be going [shiver] “glaga, ugla, yucka” [/shiver] all day.
Ghandi does, IIRC. As for movies ending with the main character’s death, does Glory count? It ends with the corpses of the main characters being thrown in a mass grave, and then there’s written end captions (but not a voiceover).
So does Gandhi…I can’t spell…
Dancer in the Dark
Bugsy.
Gigli, The Wedding Planner, Maid in Manhattan. (Oh wait, that was only in my head).
“I Legend” Vincent Price dies in the church and the camera cranes back and the credits roll as the “vampires” creep into the church to stare at his body.
Earthquake - Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner are swept away in a flooding sewer.
How could I forget:
Ace in the Hole a.k.a. The Big Carnival
“How’d you like to make a thousand dollars a day, Mr. Boot? I’m a thousand-dollar-a-day newspaperman. You can have me for nothing!”
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - shot at the Berlin Wall.
DeNiro’s character dies at the end of Heat while Pacino’s character stares into the camera. Watched this last night with my grandson.
Couple of movies starring John Travolta:
Phenomenon
Michael (although he doesn’t exactly die )
And
Powder - which was released the year before the two movies above, but is similar to them in many ways… Hmmm…
Oh…
Erk!
That’ll teach me to read the OP; none of my suggestions qualify due to extra scenes.
OK, how about Falling Down
and The Mosquito Coast
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oops…
And Brainstorm.
I have to nitpick “Betty Blue” and “Gallipoli” because the story is told through another character’s viewpoint.
In “Betty Blue,” Betty’s lover relates her story, and hears of her death offscreen. After she’s died, and everything he’s gone through, he starts writing again but hears her spirit talking to him.
In Gallipoli, Mel Gibson’s character is the “everyman” to his military partner’s ideal persona. He hears the offscreen fusillade of bullets that kill his friend.
“Easy Rider” comes to mind.
Saving Private Ryan…seemed like most everybody died except Ryan.
Cape Fear
The Doors
Tommy
The Thing…this actually made the film work in my opinion!
The Shootist
Reservoir Dogs. Though a whole lot of people are dead by the end of the movie.