Movies: Execution

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

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

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

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...

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'...

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 core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce....

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....

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

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

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 flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robi...

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 serving a sentence for lesser charges, was executed for murder at the age of 16 via electric chair on 4 Octo...

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...

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

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 about being useless. Yung Fung is executed, but is reincarnated a thousand years later, where revenge is ...

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...

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

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...

A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed....

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 does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to f...