Execution Movies

The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her lowly position,...

A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

Irishman Vincent Coke is facing execution on the electric chair after a lifetime of adventures, including smuggling rich Cubans from Cuba to the USA....

This film is one of the most popular pictures of Slovak cinema and relates the story about the legendary folk hero and brigand Juro...

A story depicting the life of executed murderer and gang leader, Marciál "Baby" Ama. Ama, who became a gang leader with his prison mob while...

A man condemned to die is allowed a prostitute for his last night alive, but the two of them have dark secrets to share.

The documentary, " Death and the Judge", revolves around Iran's most famous criminal judge, Azizmohammadi. He served as a criminal judge for 45 years...

A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he...

Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highest number of executions in 1997. Features...

In Czarist Russia, a young peasant boy is sent to Siberia for insulting the Grand Duchess. Released years later, he joins the fighting to overthrow...

How do you solve the problems of prison overcrowding, whilst also relieving the suffering of the families of the victims?

A woman and her angry mother travel together to the execution of a man they never met.

In 1927 southern Louisiana, subversive housewife Ada LeBoeuf is put on trial alongside her alleged lover for the grisly murder of her husband in one...

Jánošík has been topic of many Slovak and Polish legends, books and films. According to the legend, he robbed nobles and gave...

Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillespie County, Texas. He was subsequently sentenced...

A soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution will be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves a sentence (the...

Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead...

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while...

In 2019, the multi-awarded filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani (My Stolen Revolution, Prostitution Behind the Veil) filmed the Iranian journalist...