Execution Movies

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

Documentary about abolitionist John Brown

Two professional executioners accidentally find love in a small factory town.

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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,...

Though the drug does not belong to him, importing heroin gets Acai Nakrim locked up in jail which then leads to his death penalty. Before the...

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

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...

TV documentary about Manfred Smolka, an officer of the GDR border troops who was executed in Leipzig on July 12, 1960. He had been ambushed after his...

Japanese pose as coolies, blow up a train, are caught and shot.

After a slave uprising, ten Black mistresses of a white landowner capture their master after he refuses to turn over his ill-gained wealth. A trial...

About Jonas Falk and his stepfather Anders Frid who are both tired of living in poor conditions. They jointly committed a robbery against a post...