Execution Movies

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

This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over...

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.

Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they...

We came to the end of the road. We told you the story of the establishment of a democracy throughout 9 episodes... We witnessed the collapse of a...

In 2019, the multi-awarded filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani (My Stolen Revolution, Prostitution Behind the Veil) filmed the Iranian journalist...

Two professional executioners accidentally find love in a small factory town.

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

A man awaits his execution by firing squad. His final wish before dying can only be granted by those standing before him: male soldiers.