Most Similar Movies to The Executioner's Song (1982)


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A Short Film About Killing (1988), Shot in the Heart (2001), Return to Sender (2004), Violette (1978), Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996), The Chamber (1996), Screwed (2011) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

A Short Film About Killing (1988)

A Short Film About Killing (1988)

9.1/10 Drama

A young lawyer (Krzysztof Globisz) in Warsaw represents a drifter (Mirosław Baka) who killed a malicious cabdriver (Jan Tesarz).

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Shot in the Heart (2001)

Shot in the Heart (2001)

8.3/10 Drama

The brother of condemned killer Gary Gilmore comes to terms with his brother's crimes and his family's violent legacy.

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Return to Sender (2004)

Return to Sender (2004)

6.4/10 Drama

While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client.

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Violette (1978)

Violette (1978)

7.2/10 Crime, Drama

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.

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Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)

Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)

6.3/10 Drama

A prison guard at Leavenworth with lofty ideals and hopes of reform struggles to understand a violent, hateful and conscienceless convict. The result is a written testimonial to a crime that no one could have predicted.

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The Chamber (1996)

The Chamber (1996)

6.0/10 Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young man fresh out of law school tries to win a reprieve for his racist grandfather who is on death row.

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Screwed (2011)

Screwed (2011)

5.6/10 Drama

The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson's book of the same name, the project stars James D'Arcy (Master & Commander), Noel Clarke (Kidulthood), Frank Harper (The Football Factory), Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), Andrew ...Read all

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)

Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)

7.5/10 Crime, Drama, Action, History

During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.

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Dog Pound (2010)

Dog Pound (2010)

7.0/10 Mystery, Drama, Thriller

Three juvenile delinquents are sentenced to a correctional facility where they encounter gang violence, death, and harassment from staff and other inmates.

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True Crime (1999)

True Crime (1999)

6.6/10 Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?

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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)

8.0/10 Drama

Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) finds great success as Britain's most famous public executioner, and his notoriety rises to a new level after he is selected to hang Nazi war criminals after the Nuremberg trials, but the experience changes him, and he begins to question the morality of his vocation at the same time that abolitionists begin a campaign to end hanging.

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In Cold Blood (1967)

In Cold Blood (1967)

7.9/10 Drama, Crime, Biography, History

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

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Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

7.4/10 Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free.

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Incident in a Small Town (1994)

Incident in a Small Town (1994)

4.3/10 Drama

In this made-for-TV movie, attorney Harmon Cobb (Walter Matthau) comes to the aid of his old friend Judge Bell (Harry Morgan) in a small Illinois town. It seems the judge is accused of killing the biological father of his grandson. As the crime is laid out in the courtroom, it pulls back the curtain on disturbing family secrets involving Bell's daughter, Lily (Stephanie Zimbalist). But as the jigsaw puzzle of painful facts is assembled, it might just get the judge off the hook.

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The Last Deadly Mission (2008)

The Last Deadly Mission (2008)

6.7/10 Drama, Crime

A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.

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Citizen Jane (2009)

Citizen Jane (2009)

3.8/10 Drama, Biography

Activist Jane Alexander (Ally Sheedy) launches a crusade for justice against a former boyfriend (Sean Patrick Flanery) who murdered her beloved aunt.

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An Innocent Man (1989)

An Innocent Man (1989)

6.5/10 Crime, Drama

A man is framed by two corrupt cops for drugs. After he gets out of prison, he comes after them.

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The Valachi Papers (1972)

The Valachi Papers (1972)

6.5/10 Crime, Drama

Gangster Joe Valachi is a marked man in the same joint where mob boss Don Vito Genovese is imprisoned and he's forced to co-operate with the DA in exchange for protection.

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