Death Penalty Movies

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expr...

Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.

When housewife Frances Hannon is abducted and buried alive, detective Madeline Foster is brought in. With only 24 hours before Frances' oxygen runs ou...

An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after...

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furnit...

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who...

Set against the backdrop of Iran's strict and oppressive legal system, this anthology film tells the stories of four men who each face a moral crisis...

We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life a...

Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

When ambitious young correctional officer Aiman is transferred to the country's highest-security prison, he catches the attention of the seasoned chie...

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hir...

An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.

Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.

Newlywed couple Jack and Laura move to a village where a legend says marble knight effigies in the church come alive on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses...

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

A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife.

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.