Death Sentence Movies

The destruction of the traditional legal system is probably one of the lesser-known yet essential goals of the Nazi state. The aim was to establish...

Pre-WWII Czech democratic politician Milada Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Opposing...

In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a...

Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In...

A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pageantry of Verdi's Egyptian opera, presented here...

An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces...

Have I committed a crime? Lamm cannot answer this question. But maybe it doesn't matter. After all, a mistake has been made, and now he can leave...

A woman in Pakistan sentenced to death for falling in love becomes a rare survivor of the country's harsh judicial system.

Carole tries to save the life of her son who has been wrongfully sentenced to death in a rigged trial.

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's...

To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the...

Chennu committed his first crime when he was 15 years old: being a street kid. And he entered hell: Pademba Road. The adult prison in Freetown. In...

The full-length television documentary, using currently found audio-visual records, tells the story of the fabricated political process from November...

1959. Guilty of a double murder, a man is guillotined. The dead man's head rolls into a basket, from where it recounts a tale.

A man must overcome his demons in order to save his brother who has been falsely convicted of a crime in a foreign land and sentenced to death.

One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the...

John Chandler is sentenced to death only to re-emerge as his own brother, courtesy of the CIA who have arranged the subterfuge so they can use him as...

Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a...

Based on testimony by Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, the Rosenbergs are arrested by the FBI. The couple is accused of passing secret...