*West Side Story * (It half fits the OP).
2001: A Space Odyssey, if you assume Frank Bowman or HAL is the main character.
Defending Your Life
I only saw it 1 time, but i’m certain Jesus Christ was alive at the end.
Most movies staring Charleton Heston
Most older gangster pictures:
Little Caesar
The Public Enemy
The Roaring Twenties
High Sierra
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
White Heat
Shakespeare, of course:
Hamlet
The Scottish Movie 
Julius Caesar
Romeo and Juliet
King Lear
42nd Street (maybe)
Versions of Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Mummy (though I guess he died early on), The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
The Comic
“Beethoven” (the Tom Hanks film with the St. Bernard. The dog dies.)
“Psycho” (One of the most shocking ever, since the “heroine” is murdered halfway through the film.)
Jaws
King Kong
Most of The Dirty Dozen, and at least half of The Magnificent Seven (and , of course, the superior Seven Samurai)
Actually, now that I think about it, I believe that most of The Dirty Dozen survived, but you get the point.
House of Sand and Fog. Almost everyone dies in that movie. Chilling movie.
Untamed Heart. I’m a sap – cried like a baby as the credits rolled on that one, with Nat King Cole’s “Nature Boy” playing in the background.
Beethoven is indeed about a St. Bernard, however it doesn’t die and Tom Hanks isn’t in the movie. You’re thinking of Turner & Hooch.
Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense
:smack: Thanks.
There’s always Love Story, and since dogs were mentioned, Old Yeller.
A better movie would be Sunset Boulevard.
For that matter, there have been quite a few ghost movies where one of the main characters has been dead since before the movie started.
Not according to the sequel.
Other movies…
Somewhere in Time
Drowning Mona
The Trouble with Harry
When John Wayne dies, it sticks with you.
I was also trying to think of a movie where Clint Eastwood dies, but couldn’t come up with one.
Clint Eastwood dies…
Great Plains Drifter???
Sommersby
We saw Sommersby and Untamed Heart (both of which Mr. S picked out) in close succession, and then we went to see The Piano. When
Ava went over the side of the boat,I told Mr. S, [spoiler]“If she dies, you’re in big trouble!”
Fortunately I did not have to kill him.[/spoiler]
You mean High Plains Drifter. And Clint Eastwood rides off at the end.
Although since he is (implicitly) the ghost of a sheriff who gets killed in a flashback scene, it is an arguable point.
Two more:
Patton (Though he doesn’t get killed on screen, just in narrative.)
Lawrence of Arabia
Reminds me of Pale Rider. Isn’t he a ghost in that one, too?
In the same genra, how about Shane.
Or genre, even. :smack:
THat brings up an interesting question. If the main character dies but is alive at the end regardless, does that fit the op, or do they have to stay dead?