Execution Movies

Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre depicts the brutal events behind the Nanking Massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese army against the Chinese...

Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first,...

An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.

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

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...

The year 1943. The Second World War is on. A group of partisans, which includes, among others, the young poet Gonczar, his friend Włodek and...

A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution

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

Nine vignettes depict the stages leading to execution for women on death row.

In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world.

This movie deals with a television network hoping to draw the biggest ratings ever while televising an execution live into the home of every American...

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

An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.

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

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

This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

Yung Fang and Fung Yong are brothers in competition. One is married to Siu Gwan, who wooed him away from the vicious Sherry, who goads Yung Fung...

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.