Introduction: Deaths in film scenes can be either cool, teary, metaphoric, grisly, scary, bloody, amusing, violent, transcendental, unforgettable, spectacular, frightening, funny, or shocking. The victim's death may be well-deserved, accidental, expected, sudden, or intentional. Some effective death scenes even occur off-screen.

Other areas of this website have death scenes also. See Greatest Last Film Lines, some of which were uttered by a dying character, Greatest Melodramatic Films with many fine death scenes, or Greatest Film Scenes with some descriptions of death scenes included, or some of the Scariest Movie Moments and Scenes.

Total Film Magazine (in the UK), in their July 2004 issue, provided an article on the 50 Greatest Movie Deaths throughout cinematic history. Their results, based on a non-scientific poll taken from interviews with film critics, listed the 50 most highly-rated death scenes. Although there were some excellent and well-deserved choices in the Total Film list, there are many other great death scenes that were among the missing death scenes in Total Film's honored list of "cinema's best daisy-pushers" and "drop-dead moments". The Total Film selections are marked throughout the following compilation with this symbol and their ranking number.

Note: The films that are marked with a yellow star are the films that "The Greatest Films" site
has selected as the 100 Greatest Films.

Greatest Movie Death Scenes (chronological by film title) - Part 13 Intro | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15
Film Title	Description	Example
Reservoir Dogs (1992) # 23	The prolonged and realistic death scene, through repeated flashbacks, of Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) as he painfully bled to death from a bullet in the stomach
Unforgiven (1992)	Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's (Gene Hackman) death from an unforgiving gun blast at the hands of bounty hunter Bill Munny (Clint Eastwood)
Cliffhanger (1993)	The opening scene of a climber Sarah (Michelle Joyner) falling to her death after being held suspended in mid-air by one hand by Gabe Walker (Sylvester Stallone)
Groundhog Day (1993)	The many deaths of reincarnated Phil Connors (Bill Murray) - toaster electrocution, a jump from a building, a drive off a cliff, etc. - none of which killed him permanently when doomed to repeat the same day beginning at 6 am
Jurassic Park (1993) # 16	The scene of lawyer Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero) being chomped as he hid and cowered in a toilet
Philadelphia (1993)	The hospital scene of dying AIDS patient Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) with his long-term male lover Miguel Alvarez (Antonio Banderas) after first bidding farewell to family and friends (Andrew's supportive mother Sarah (Joanne Woodward) whispered: "Goodbye, my angel"), then alone when he dimmed the lights, told Miguel: "Miguel, I'm ready," and then removed his own oxygen mask; in the final scene during the reception held in the Beckett home following the funeral, mourners watched home movies of Andrew's younger days
Shadowlands (1993)	Dying cancer-ridden Joy Gresham's (Debra Winger) quiet death scene in bed, with C. S. "Jack" Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) telling her: "Don't talk, my love. Just rest...just rest" - and after a kiss just before she died: "I love you, Joy. I love you so much. You made me so happy. I didn't know I could be so happy. You're the truest person I have ever known...", and Jack's scene of sharing tortured grief and uncontrollable weeping with her young Douglas (Joseph Mazzello) in an attic following her death: (Douglas: "I sure would like to see her again" Jack: "Me too")
True Romance (1993)	Vincenzo Coccotti (Christopher Walken) blowing away Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper) with gun blasts to the head after being amused by his rambling, insulting chatter about how Vincenzo's Sicilian parentage was spawned from "n---ers": ("Sicilians were spawned by niggers...It's a fact. Yeah. You see, uh, Sicilians have, uh, black blood pumpin' through their hearts...You know, it's absolutely amazing to me to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, that, uh, that Sicilians still carry that nigger gene...Your ancestors are niggers. Uh-huh...And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a nigger, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half-nigger kid... now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant")
The Crow (1994)	The death of star Brandon Lee (as character Eric Draven) during filming, when shot in the chest (by actor Michael Massee who played street thug Funboy) with a shell from an improperly-cleaned gun that was supposed to be loaded with blanks; it was falsely rumored that the tragic scene was left in the final cut of the film
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)	Waring Hudsucker's (Charles Durning) long and drawn-0ut suicidal plummet towards the ground as the camera followed him all the way down - ending with a splat (off-screen) and an overweight woman screaming at the body
Legends of the Fall (1994)	The closing, mystical, shuttered freeze-framed death of wild, reckless, now-elderly middle son Tristan (Brad Pitt) grappling with the grizzly bear he wounded as a teenager, with Native American One Stab's (Gordon Tootoosis) narration of the film's last line: "It was a good death"
The Lion King (1994)	The extremely sad scene of the cruel death of "Lion King" ruler Mufasa after rescuing young son Simba from a large stampeding herd of wildebeests (the disastrous stampede was engineered by Mufasa's wicked, power-hungry brother Scar and the hyenas), and then falling to his death from a rock cliff to the valley floor far below when Scar wouldn't help him up, but instead pierced Mufasa's paws with his own claws, sarcastically exclaimed: "Long live the king", and tossed him off; Simba vainly attempted to awaken his father, shed some tears, and then cuddled up next to him; afterwards, the sinister and cruel death of Scar by hyenas
Natural Born Killers (1994)	The dual death scene in which Mallory (Juliette Lewis) and Mickey (Woody Harrelson) kill her physically and sexually abusive father Ed (Rodney Dangerfield) by drowning him in the fishtank, and then burn her mother (Edie McClurg) alive in her bed - all remembered as a sitcom fantasy, complete with laugh track
The Professional (1994) (aka Leon)	In the finale, professional hitman Leon's (Jean Reno) death after being shot in the back of the head by Stansfield (Gary Oldman) - as he dies, he hands a note to Stansfield reading: "This is from Matilda" with a grenade pin - this sets off a dozen or more grenades that he has strapped to himself in a sacrificial death
Pulp Fiction (1994)	The sick, accidental, gruesomely funny, and blood-splattering back-seat death of Marvin (Phil LaMarr) by Vincent Vega's (John Travolta) mispointed gunshot to his head when Jules' (Samuel L. Jackson) car went over a bump, with his lame explanation: "Aw, man, I shot Marvin in the face"
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)	The scene of the hanging suicide of despairing Brooks (James Whitmore) once released to life on the outside, after scratching BROOKS WAS HERE on the wall above him with his pocket-knife; and the scene of corrupt warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton) blowing his brains out after realizing Andy Dufresne's (Tim Robbins) duplicity in setting him up and exposing his crimes as an embezzler