History HeroicSacrifice / LiveActionFilms

** Three occur in the space of several minutes in ''Film/Predators''.

* ''Film/TheMummy1999'': [[spoiler:Ardeth Bay takes on the priest mummies alone to buy time for Rick and Jonathan to rescue Evey. Subverted in that he survives, though he was originally intended to die in the script.]]

* During the climax of ''Film/TheMissing'', [[spoiler:Maggie's father Samuel tackles the BigBad El Brujo off a cliff when he tries to shoot Maggie, killing them both.]]

* In ''[[Film/Napoleon1927 Napoléon]]'' (1927), Joséphine's ex-husband volunteers to take the spot when the name "de Beauharnais" is called for execution [[ActOfTrueLove so she can say farewell to their children]].

* In ''Film/SlavegirlsFromBeyondInfinity'', Shala sacrifices herself to save Tisa from Zed; deliberately making herself a target and drawing Zed's fire so Tisa can escape.

* ''Film/Dinosaurus'': The Caveman chooses to save his friends by holding up the collapsing mine. He doesn't make it out.

* In ''Film/{{Transformers}}: Revenge Of the Fallen'', [[spoiler:Jetfire rips his own spark out so that Optimus can use his parts to fight [[BigBad The Fallen]].]]

--> '''Megatron:''' Is the future of our race not worth a single human life?
--> '''Optimus Prime:''' [[OmnicidalManiac You'll never stop at one!]] [[PapaWolf I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON!]]
** Jazz also gets one of these in the first film. He attempts to fight [[BigBad Megatron]] alone, whilst the others are retreating, in order to buy them time. Given Megatron's immense size and power in comparison with Jazz, [[CurbStompBattle he was rather easily beaten]], but even when Megatron prepared to finish him off, Jazz still goaded him.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': Doc distracts the terrorists to give Marty time to run. They gun him down.

* {{Implied}} in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' with the nuclear flash, mushroom cloud, and the characters mourning [[spoiler:at Bruce's grave. Later subverted. While Batman is believed to have perished in his epic attempt to detonate the nuclear bomb away in the ocean with the Bat, Alfred sees [[EarnYourHappyEnding Bruce Wayne alive and happy on a date with Selina]] in his annual vacation to Italy.]]
* Occurs in the ''Manga/DeathNote'' live-action movies (but not the original manga or anime). [[spoiler:Like in the anime/manga, Light gets Rem to write L's name in the Death Note. When L is apparently dying due to that, Light admits that he's Kira to him... but then it's revealed that L outwitted Light by writing ''his own name'' in the Death Note before Rem did, setting himself to die in 23 days and overriding Rem's attempt to kill him. L thus proves Light is Kira, but still dies less than a month later due to writing his own name in the Death Note.]]

** The original ''[[Film/{{Gojira}} Godzilla]]'' has Doctor Serizawa using his [[AppliedPhlebotinum Oxygen Destroyer]] to kill the titular monster, but, fearing that it will become weaponized by governments, destroys all his notes and allows himself to be killed by it as well, destroying the knowledge of its creation forever. Unfortunately, some of the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' continuities imply that it was a SenselessSacrifice by having Godzilla regenerate his whole body.

** In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', [[spoiler:Kirk attempts to sacrifice himself to save the ''Enterprise''. His death is only temporary]].

* In ''Film/{{Napoleon}}'', Joséphine's ex-husband volunteers to take the spot when the name "de Beauharnais" is called for execution [[ActOfTrueLove so she can say farewell to their children]].

** In the [[Film/JurassicPark first film]], Malcolm very nearly makes one distracting the ''T. rex'' with a flare to try and save Hammond's grandchildren. The thing rams him through an outhouse and breaks his leg, but he ultimately survives, so arguably it's still a non-lethal sacrifice.