Spoiler Alert: 9 Movies with Shameless Last-Minute Deaths

Dexter and Emma meet cute. Then they decide to join up again every year on a specific day for an indefinite period of time. It takes almost 20 years, but they finally realize they can’t live without each other. Then she gets hit by a vehicle while riding her bike and dies. End of movie. But your ruined day is just beginning.

She has Alzheimer’s; he tells her the “story of us.” Then, he crawls into her hospital bed, they talk about their love flying, and then they die in each other’s arms. COME ON, REALLY? Why does it have to hurt so much?

Nicolas Cage surrenders his angel wing just to spend a moment on earth with his true love, Meg Ryan. It’s good he doesn’t want much, because she gets hit by a truck pretty soon after. Then we’re subjected to “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls. Nobody wins.

Gwynnie’s big comeback movie ends with a thud. Specifically, her body hitting the floor after she ODs in her dressing room. Judging by the trailers for Contagion, it looks like her characters aren’t exactly on a living streak – but at least with a movie about a deadly virus we’re expecting it.

On the bright side, the surprise death of Barbara Hershey’s character at the end of this gal-pal flick gave the world the Bette Midler classic “Wind Beneath My Wings.”

Richard Gere dates Winona Ryder. You’d think this May/December romance would end poorly for the wintery one in the relationship, but instead she gets to die from a neuroblastoma. Also, he slept with her mom at some point. Yuck. To all of it.

Let’s be honest, this entire list could be attributed to Nicholas Sparks – Lord Sadist of the surprise tearjerker. Mandy Moore and Shane West are two love-struck high schoolers with one big problem: leukemia. It doesn’t stop them from getting married in her favorite chapel, but it also doesn’t stop her from dying at the end. Do you love crying?

Ding Dong, it’s September 11th and you’re in the World Trade Center, Robert Pattinson. The ending to this movie makes you say “COME ON, “WTF,” and, “Who signed off on this?!,” and, “I’m sad.”

Don’t worry, it’s just the stages of grief from being subjected to such a shameless ending.

Yes, this is a classic and Meryl Streep is the best actress ever in the whole universe. But no movie should ever be that sad. To include or preclude it from this list – now that’s a difficult choice. Please kill me.