Execution Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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 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 Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries...

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

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

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

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...

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

Vlad Țepeş, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his...

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

The Guillotine examines the fascinating and bizarre history of the "national razor" that started out strictly for execution and then became a source...

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