Licensed to Kill (1997), The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000), The Green Mile (1999), Shot in the Heart (2001), Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996), The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002), The Thin Blue Line (1988), In Cold Blood (1967) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Death Penalty movies.
Storyline: Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.
Plot Keywords: prison, documentary, usa, louisiana, crime, justice system, racial issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught, they start to think that Barbara has helped the police to arrest them. As revenge, they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, biography, film noir, courtroom, death penalty, based on true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this fact-based film, Gary Gilmore (Tommy Lee Jones), an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker (Rosanna Arquette), a teenaged single mother. As their relationship quickly deteriorates, Gary goes on a murderous rampage, leaving two dead. During his trial, he demands capital punishment; a media circus ensues and outsiders look to profit from his story.
Plot Keywords: biography, crime, drama, true story, death penalty, prison, usa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Into the abyss explores a triple murder which occurred in the small Texas City of Conroe in 2001. Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, murdered a middle-aged housewife; they then gunned down her stepson and his friend. The film features Conversations with the two inmates and those affected by their crime. Unlike many of the films that deal with crimes, into the abyss isn't concerned with figuring out exactly what happened, but rather serves as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.—Brad
Plot Keywords: crime, documentary, death penalty, murder, prison, true story, interview ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster movies. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the case which would forever shake the United Kingdom's belief in capital punishment.—Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, history, true story, courtroom, british, social injustice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Filipno domestic helper is accused of murdering her fellow domestic helper, and her employer's son in singapore.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, true story, social issues, death penalty, philippines, miscarriage of justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary looks at Aileen Wuornos convicted of killing 7 men while working as a prostitute in Florida. This is actually the second Wuornos documentary made by this group the first being Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992). With her execution now on the horizon Nick Broomfield returns to Florida to complete the story. Her argument has always been that the killings were in self-defense but she eventually pleaded no contest or guilty to most of the murders. Broomfield was able to film several interviews which reveals her state of mind and puts into question her mental competence.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: documentary, true crime, serial killer, biography, death penalty, crime scene, interviews ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in the Southern United States, 'Monster's Ball' is a tale of a racist white man, Hank, who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's interracial affair leads to confusion and new ideas for the two unlikely lovers.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, race, death penalty, prison, family, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a the Clutter family. There's no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote's implacable, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?
Plot Keywords: biography, crime, drama, true story, writer, journalist, interview ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Allen claims he his being executed for the wrong murder. Flashbacks show him working with Clark as a riveter. When he makes a killing on the horses he meets Shirley and gets married. When Clark tells him Shirley is unfaithful they fight and Clark falls to his death. Later he finds that Clark was telling the truth.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, film noir, mystery, thriller, courtroom, death penalty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three friends share an exciting vacation in Malaysia, full of fun, drinks, women and hash. When the vacation is over, each have dreams of continuing their lives, and they all go their separate ways. One of them (Phoenix) remains on the tropical paradise to fulfill a dream of working with apes for research. Two years later, a lawyer (Heche) comes to New York and hunts down the other two friends to give some sad news. A few days after they left the island, police raided their camp and found amazingly large quantities of hash left about. Phoenix was still residing there, so he had to take the blame. He is set to be put to death in 8 days, and the only way the charges can be decreased is if the two friends come back to paradise and take their share of the responsibilty. If they do, they both will spend three years in prison. If only one does, he will spend six years behind bars...
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, crime, friendship, moral dilemma, prison, drugs ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: SHEPHERDS AND BUTCHERS follows a jaded lawyer, John Weber (Steve Coogan), who takes on a seemingly hopeless multiple murder case and uncovers scandalous shortcomings in South Africa's capital punishment system as he mounts a defense for a prison guard traumatized by the executions he took part in.
Plot Keywords: crime, courtroom, drama, south africa, death penalty, race, law ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alec Graham (Alec McCowen) is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie Cole (Christina Lubicz), with whom he was spending the night at the flat of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford (Paul Daneman). Alec's father, David Graham (Sir Michael Redgrave), a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in the day before the planned execution from Canada to visit his son on death row. Alec is resigned to his fate and not amenable to his father's attempts for a final reconciliation. David Graham, convinced of his son's innocence and, despite his preoccupation with himself and his own alcoholism, mounts a last-ditch effort to find the true murderer in the twenty-four hours remaining until the planned execution. Graham encounters the wealthy and famous car manufacturer Robert Stanford (Leo McKern), tyrant at home and in the office, and an apparent womanizer, Stanford's young, curiously troubled wife Honor (Ann Todd), their ill-at- ease adopted son Brian, himself disturbed by his parents' relationship, and Vickie Harker (Lois Maxwell), a young, brazen secretary at Stanford's factory who received a promotion following Alec's conviction.—freddy-11
Plot Keywords: suspense, crime, drama, film noir, courtroom, father-son relationship, death penalty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, film noir, courtroom, wrongful conviction, suspense, social justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: prison, death penalty, ireland, play adaptation, 1960s, black and white, social criticism ...
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