Execution Movies

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.

During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end...

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

In Czarist Russia, a young peasant boy is sent to Siberia for insulting the Grand Duchess. Released years later, he joins the fighting to overthrow...

A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.

For the first time, some of Vidkun Quisling's closest followers as well as his opponents come forward and describe their impressions of the Norwegian...

A short about racism and Islamophobia in the UK.

An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.

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

Hoping to become a great singer in Germany, a young dreamer named Ernst Schrämli finds himself drawn into underhand dealings. Determined to...

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

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

The Execution of Wanda Jean chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen, the first black woman to be put to death in the United States...

In September 1847, the people gathered at the “Salmen” inn in Offenburg and put forward 13 demands: freedom of the press, trial by jury,...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

In 1927 southern Louisiana, subversive housewife Ada LeBoeuf is put on trial alongside her alleged lover for the grisly murder of her husband in one...