Execution Movies

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the case of a man who became an authority on capital punishment, but was discredited when he got...

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

An executed serial killer, an escaped mental patient, a beautiful seductress, a crazed strangler, and a masked murderer unleash blood-soaked mayhem...

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

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

A short about racism and Islamophobia in the UK.

An executioner beheads his 1000th criminal, and unleashes a demon army headed by an evil witch called the Blood Lotus

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the...

Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to...

A documentary on the executions that took place during and after the Finnish civil war in 1918.

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...

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...

A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.

Spanish poet Federico García Lorca is condemned to death by Captain Nestares after an absurd interrogation that serves to make it clear to the...

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in...

During the American Civil War, a Southerner is about to be hanged from a bridge for sabotage when something unexpected happens.

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

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