Death Penalty Movies

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved...

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague. However, he is soon found out:...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the...

Israel, 1961. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, responsible for organizing the extermination of European Jews, is sentenced to death.

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a...

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint...

An adaptation of the J.P. Sartre story "Le Mur". What goes on in his mind and what happens outside when he has left only few more hours left to...

Documentary about the jurors in a murder trial who handed out the death sentence to the defendant, and how their attitudes have changed 20+ years...

A camera crew follows Edward Earl Johnson, a man falsely convicted of rape and murder, during his last 14 days on death row. Everyone involved is...

Forty years after the abolition of the death penalty in France, voted on September 18, 1981, the guillotine remains in the collective imagination as...

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

Documentary about the first human to donate his body to science so that it could be studied in the form of a 3D database of the entire anatomy that...

The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her...

Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highest number of executions in 1997. Features...

A woman attempts to obtain the consent of the victim's family to release her husband from the death penalty, meanwhile, the husband is suffering from...

This documentary explores two horrific stories. With haunting interviews with the killers, plus emotional exchanges with the daughters.

A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.