Execution Movies

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...

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...

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

This documentary film essay analyses controversial police procedures in Germany in autumn 1974, when in a number of the police interventions suspects...

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

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

Four Chinese germ warfare scientists are kidnapped by a Japanese organisation.

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very...

Documentary about abolitionist John Brown

A man awaits his execution by firing squad. His final wish before dying can only be granted by those standing before him: male soldiers.

Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

A story of two men, fighting over their love for the same woman.