Best Movies Where the Villain Kills the Hero

Any thoughts?

I'm thinking Gladiator is up there.

Inglorious Basterds

Brave Heart

Turner and Hooch

Last Tempation of Christ

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Easy Rider

The Cowboys with John Wayne and that dastardly Bruce Dern.

Tom Horn, sort of.

Saving Private Ryan.

We Were Soldiers once.

Etc.....my heroes are the brave and (extra)ordinary men that made the ultimate sacrifice.

The Shootist

Valkyrie with Tom Cruise

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Braveheart is another one.

Oops, I see Kingston mentioned that one.

Cool Hand Luke

Lots of movies where the protagonist dies but I don't know if you could call him the "hero". Scarface with Al Pacino is one of those.

Hombre - Paul Newman.

This doesn't quite qualify since the character who dies isn't really a hero, but in No Country for Old Men, the bad guy wins and kills the protagonist the audience would typically root for. It was a good movie IMO.

The ward supervisor nurse in "One Flew Over the Coco's Nest" same as killed the 'hero'.

John Wayne's The Cowboys

don't forget Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty at The Falls. the choreographer for that scene trained me.

Originally Posted by Jim in Idaho

The Cowboys with John Wayne and that dastardly Bruce Dern.

Tom Horn, sort of.

Cowboys was the first thing in my mind. I still hate Bruce Dern. lol

John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima. Great old Movie, 1949

Denzel Washington - Man on Fire...

Gran Torino

The Wild Bunch

3:10 to Yuma. Ver 2.0

American Sniper

Originally Posted by byc

3:10 to Yuma. Ver 2.0

Good flick

Jet Li in Hero..

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Chow Yun-fat in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon..

The Professional..

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Originally Posted by Jim in Idaho

The Cowboys with John Wayne and that dastardly Bruce Dern.

Ha, my dad still cusses at Bruce Dern and won't hardly watch anything because of that movie..

Originally Posted by kingston

Inglorious Basterds

Brave Heart

Turner and Hooch

Last Tempation of Christ

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Easy Rider

The best part of Easy Rider was when the hippy got blasted off his motorcycle.

The Wild Bunch Battle of Bloody porch.

Wild Bill.
Paul B.

As a kid seeing cowboys it was. Powerful
Hank

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"300"

Some hero's died in Black Hawk Down.

Originally Posted by ykrvak

Gran Torino

My vote too.

The Departed

Four of the Magnificent Seven were killed.

The Omen

Karate Kid

Old yeller

Can't believe nobody mentioned the 2004 "Alamo". Gotta be one the best hero deaths.
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Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan

Sharknado

300 Spartans

Die Hard 7 (Spoiler Alert)

If you are looking for a good one on Netflix, Last Night is a Byzantium retelling of the Classic Japanese story 50 Ronin.

Gettysburg

The Sixth Sense

no country for old men

Originally Posted by Jim in Idaho

The Cowboys with John Wayne and that dastardly Bruce Dern.

That was a goodun for sure.

Tom Horn, sort of.

Sort of? He killed that kid sure as I'm setting here. I believe he thought is was the kids father but but he killed him. Killed that guy in Browns Hole too but they couldn't prove it.

the robe

Originally Posted by NVhntr

Originally Posted by ykrvak

Gran Torino

My vote too.

+1

How could I forget about Clint.
One of his best movies.

Bridge On The River Kwai

Man on Fire

The Professional

John Wayne in "The Cowboys" & "The Shootist"

Also Denzel Washington in "Man on Fire"

Unforgiven

Hombre

Originally Posted by OutlawPatriot

Any thoughts?

I'm thinking Gladiator is up there.

Yep. Also Omega Man.

Maybe "Platoon".

The thing about Valkyrie is that I like seeing Tom Cruise get killed.

Originally Posted by Mannlicher

Originally Posted by Jim in Idaho

The Cowboys with John Wayne and that dastardly Bruce Dern.

Tom Horn, sort of.

Cowboys was the first thing in my mind. I still hate Bruce Dern. lol

The exact movie I thought of as well.

Vincent dies in the end, but he was the hero in my mind.

Ride the High Country.

https://youtu.be/K0oq7SubkLQ

The Missing, Tommie Lee Jones goes off the cliff with the witch.

Hombre. That was a hell of a movie.
Richard Boone one of the great bad guys of all time.

Lonesome Dove-Injuns killed Gus but Gus also killed Gus.

Did Shane die?

Shane didn't die! The bad guys died.

The Road to Perdition.

Grande Torino

The Road to Perdition is seriously good.

Originally Posted by nemotheangler

The Departed

That's my vote too.

King Kong

Damn humans....

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Planet of the apes, dam dirty apes !

No country for old men, easy pick.

The Last Samurai

The Seven Samurai and the Hollywood remake: The Magnificent Seven.

Bridge on the river Kwai

USS Indianapolis

Gunga Din

Reservoir Dogs.

Turner and Hooch
Leaving Las Vegas
The Shining
American Beauty
T2:Judgement Day (if cyborgs count)
The Exorcist
The Wicker Man
V for Vendetta

And if you really want punched in the gut

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Granted some of these aren't technically "killed by bad guy" but I thought worth mentioning.

The boy who shot Old Yeller!

The Usual Suspects... outstanding movie!

Originally Posted by Sitka deer

The Usual Suspects... outstanding movie!

That is the first movie I remember seeing that truly blew my mind and I had to watch it all over again immediately.

Originally Posted by sackett

Four of the Magnificent Seven were killed.

Which of course gave us "The Three Amigos"

.............. which was bad too.

In either case I wish they would have finished the job.

Sacrilege around here but holy cow M7 does not hold up well. Sorry. Great, stirring music going for it but I swear putting on Saturday Night Fever in its soundtracks place would make that movie a heck of a lot more enjoyable. I start rooting for the Mexicans long before Robert Vaughan bites the dust.

Flame on!

FURY

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Sands of Iwo Jima John Wayne

Vanishing point

The Gunfighter with Gregory Peck.
Platoon

Originally Posted by cedarbreaker

Vanishing point

Good call!

Man who would be king
Lawrence of Arabia

Jesus Christ, there's a million of them.

Heat

Beauty and the Beast

Scarface

Robin Hood

The entire Dark Knight series

White Heat

The list is endless.

Travis

Originally Posted by Jim in Idaho

The Cowboys with John Wayne and that dastardly Bruce Dern.

Tom Horn, sort of.

+1 on The Cowboys.

Originally Posted by Mannlicher

Originally Posted by Jim in Idaho

The Cowboys with John Wayne and that dastardly Bruce Dern.

Tom Horn, sort of.

Cowboys was the first thing in my mind. I still hate Bruce Dern. lol

Ya.... But her sure makes pretty baby girls...

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