The Phantom of the Opera 

The following night, Erik kidnaps Christine during a Faust production and tries to force her to marry him. Erik says that if she refuses, he will use explosives (which he planted in the cellars) to destroy the entire opera house. Christine refuses, until she realizes that Erik learned of Raoul's attempt to rescue her and has imprisoned him in a hot torture chamber (along with Persian, an old acquaintance of Erik, who was helping Raoul). To save them and the people above at the Opera, Christine agrees to marry Erik. Erik initially tries to drown Raoul and the Persian, using the water that would have been used to extinguish the explosives. But Christine asks and offers to be his "living bride", promising him not to kill himself after becoming his bride, as he had been thinking about doing since the beginning of the romance. Erik finally frees Raoul and the Persian from his torture chamber. When Erik is alone with Christine, she lifts the mask to kiss him on the forehead. Erik reveals that he never received a kiss (not even from his own mother), nor was he allowed to give one and is overcome with emotion. He and Christine cry together and their tears "mix". Erik later expresses that he never felt so close to another human being. Erik allows Persian and Raoul to take Christine, not without first making her promise that she will visit him on his day of death and return the gold ring he gave her. He also makes Persian promise that afterwards he will go to the newspaper to report his death, because he will soon die "in love". In fact, some time later, Christine returns to Erik's lair, to bury him somewhere where he will never be found (at Erik's request) with the gold ring. Then, a local newspaper receives a simple note: "Erik is dead".