Movies: Execution

A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies....

Hoping to become a great singer in Germany, a young dreamer named Ernst Schrämli finds himself drawn into underhand dealings. Determined to escape a suffocating environment that annihilates any kind of creative or artistic impetus, Ernst sells inform...

On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a group of Indians. Although several men were charged with killing the agents, only one, Leonard Peltier, ...

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

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 family....

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

A trigger-happy Nationalist fears retribution from the son of a man he executed. To mollify the boy's anger, he takes a drastic step: he keeps constant watch over the fig tree the boy has planted at his father's gravesite. As the years pass, the man'...

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

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

A man awaits his execution by firing squad. His last wish before dying is a kiss, and there are only men....

A notoriously harsh French judge, vacationing at a luxury resort, finds his holiday interrupted when a mysterious killer begins murdering those in and around the hotel....

When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy......

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

Irishman Vincent Coke is facing execution on the electric chair after a lifetime of adventures, including smuggling rich Cubans from Cuba to the USA. While rebelling against the system, he finds an unexpected lifeline offered to him by the very syste...

Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowin...

Sonny and Dub once shared a cell. Now Sonny is a free man, but Dub is on death row and sentenced to be executed in a matter of days. As Sonny comes to visit Dub one last time, Dub has one last dying request for Sonny....

During World War One, a British Army corporal tries to save his young friend from a terrible injustice....

During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end before they can fight in it....

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

This film is one of the most popular pictures of Slovak cinema and relates the story about the legendary folk hero and brigand Juro Jánošík [1688-1713] and the social situation in Slovakia of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The first part tal...