Execution Movies

The Guillotine examines the fascinating and bizarre history of the "national razor" that started out strictly for execution and then became a source...

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

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

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

Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first,...

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...

A man is executed, and then wakes up.

A 400 year old disembodied head hypnotizes a female psychic, who recovered it using a dowsing rod, to search for the rest of its body.

When a young man is executed for committing murder, he leaves behind a curse letter, promising vengeance for all those connected to his unfair trial.

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...

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

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...

A seemingly innocent man is abducted by a notorious L.A. serial killer, who forces his victims to switch roles with him so that he can enact his own...

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 by-the-books mob execution is thrown off-kilter when the would-be murderers learn that the man they're killing is Jewish, not Catholic.

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

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...

Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and...

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

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