A Man Escaped (1956), The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002), The Battle of Algiers (1966), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), The African Queen (1951), Scarlet Street (1945), Badlands (1973), Black Book (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Death Sentence movies.
Storyline: Famed writer Truman Capote, southern born and bred but now part of the New York City social circle, is growing weary of his current assignment of writing autobiographical type pieces for the New Yorker. After reading a newspaper article about the just occurred November 14, 1959 cold blooded murders of the Clutter family in their rural Kansas home, Truman feels compelled to write about that event as his next article. So he and his personal assistant Nelle Harper Lee, also a southern born New Yorker and an aspiring writer of her own, head to Kansas to research the story first-hand. Truman hopes to use his celebrity status to gain access to whomever he needs, such as to Laura Kinney, a friend of the Clutter daughter she who discovered the bodies, and to Alvin Dewey, the lead police investigator and also a Clutter family friend. If his celebrity doesn't work, Truman will grease the wheels by whatever means necessary. When the police eventually charge suspects, two young men named Dick ...
Plot Keywords: gay lead character, kansas, prison, jail, year 1960, death penalty, reading ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The true story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos who was convicted of luring men to their death and eventually executed in 2002. In 1989, she was working as a prostitute and finally makes a friend when she meets and begins a relationship with a young woman, Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, she tries to find legitimate work but with little education and limited social skills, she fails at every turn. She starts working as a hooker hitching rides along the local interstate highway and after robbing a few clients has an encounter with a vicious client whom she kills in self-defense. After that however she just takes to killing clients taking their money and car. Once arrested she claims self-defense but is eventually convicted.
Plot Keywords: prostitute, lesbian, female killer, oral sex, hand job, rape, rape victim ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Once again we're plunged into the world of sword fights and "savvy" pirates. Captain Jack Sparrow is reminded he owes a debt to Davy Jones, who captains the flying Dutchman, a ghostly ship, with a crew from hell. Facing the "locker" Jack must find the heart of Davy Jones but to save himself he must get the help of quick-witted Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan. If that's not complicated enough, Will and Elizabeth are sentenced to hang, unless Will can get Lord Cutler Beckett Jack's compass. Will is forced to join another crazy adventure with Jack.
Plot Keywords: heart, part of trilogy, sea captain, canceled wedding, monster, slime, blockbuster ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city. She is in love with a career criminal named Eddie, and she believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. She uses her influence to get him released early, and he tries to go straight after marrying her, but things don't work out, and they both go on the lam.—Tim Horrigan <horrigan@eworld.com>
Plot Keywords: on the run, bank robbery, fired from the job, frog, fugitive, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Deepak Verma is framed for a Murder by GD Thakral even thou he is innocent his wife Aarti pleads to Thakral but it goes unanswered and Deepak is hanged till death,Aarti disappears after the incident her children Arun and Komal believe she is dead they both become homeless,Arun starts doing odd jobs and becomes a famous lawyer in the city and someday wants to fight a case opposite Thakral while Komal is still at college,Geeta comes to Arun to ask him to fight case of her sister Dr Asha ,Arun rejects at first but later risks his life and gives justice to Asha as he finds Asha was framed,Arun and Geeta start meeting and fall in love Komal be friend's Vicky,Vicky whose a spoil brat of Thakral,Asha 's husband Dinesh notices photo of Arun 's mother in his house and recollects that she is still alive and living in and asylum and suffering from mental disorder,Arun gets his mother home feeling she might get back to normal he enters a function which has Thakral has chief guest and insults him,Vicky now decides to take revenge of this insult and comforts Komal to get married to him this angers Arun, Geeta takes Komal to stay with her in Asha and Dinesh 's house,Vicky calls Komal and asks her to elope with him but Vicky's former girlfriend Indu reaches and tells Komal that Vicky is cheating her in a tiff Vicky kills Indu which is noticed by Dinesh and Asha meanwhile Arun reaches the spot to share good news that his mother is alright and he is shocked to see Indu being murdered, Vicky is arrested the same night and at Indu's funeral Arun notices that she is the daughter of Gupta who had tried hard to prove his father innocent and decides to give justice to Indu,Arun's long wait is now over as he wanted to battle opposite Thakral he tells him that he is son of Deepak whom he falsely acquitted now Thakral and Vicky will pay for their crimes after a lot of courtroom drama Arun proves that Vicky is guilty for Indu's murder and judge orders him to be hanged,Thakral being biggest lawyer in the city can't take this that he couldn't save his son and looses his mental balance and is put in asylum, Aarti now lives happily with her children.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
Plot Keywords: lawyer, miscarriage of justice, rivalry, chess, death sentence, trauma, catatonia ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alexandria, 391 AD: Hypatia teaches astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy. Her student Orestes is in love with her, as is Davus, her personal slave. As the city's Christians, led by Ammonius and Cyril, gain political power, the institutions of learning may crumble along with the governance of slavery. Jump ahead 20 years: Orestes, the city's prefect, has an uneasy peace with the Christians, led by Cyril. A group from the newly empowered Christians has now taken to enforce their cultural hegemony zealously; first they see the Jews as their obstacle, then nonbelievers. Hypatia has no interest in faith; she's concerned about the movement of celestial bodies and "the brotherhood of all". Although her former slave doesn't see it that way.
Plot Keywords: roman empire, ancient egypt, atheism, atheist, astronomy, slave, miscarriage of justice ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: teenage girl, male frontal nudity, male nudity, stolen money, poisoning, money, sexual promiscuity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: prejudice, trial, lynching, circumstantial evidence, lynch mob, courtroom, death sentence ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Prophecy has it that younger twin Anton will kill brother Gregor in the castle's Black Room. Anton returns to the castle after a 10 year hiatus. Gregor, a Baron, has many attempts on his life as his subjects detest his tyranny. However, good natured Anton earns the subjects' respect, and the admiration of Col.Hassel, uncle of the beautiful Thea. When Gregor kills young servant Mashka, his subjects storm the castle to remove him. Devious Gregor renounces his title in favour of brother Anton to appease them. He then kills Anton to assume his identity and the Baronship again. He is free to pursue Thea with Col.Hassel's blessing. When Col.Hassel discovers Gregor's impersonation, he also meets death. With Thea's true love, Lt. Lussan, wrongfully convicted of Hassel's murder, it appears nothing can stop evil Gregor from ambushing her into marriage. But what of that prophecy?—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: song, hymn, europe, dog, death sentence, corpse, colonel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend, Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby, with a group of willing and unwilling participants in a small Florida town. In the midst of their plotting, they find themselves contemplating with the possible aftermath of what could happen.
Plot Keywords: cruelty, male frontal nudity, male nudity, blow job, oral sex in a car, based on true story, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the small town of San Dimas, a few miles away from Los Angeles, there are two nearly brain dead teenage boys going by the names of Bill S, Preston ESQ. and Ted Theodore Logan, they have a dream together of starting their own rock and roll band called the "Wyld Stallyns". Unfortunately, they are still in high school and on the verge of failing out of their school as well, and if they do not pass their upcoming history report, they will be separated as a result of Ted's father sending him to military school. But, what Bill and Ted do not know is that they must stay together to save the future. So, a man from the future named Rufus came to help them pass their report. So, both Bill and Ted decided to gather up historical figures which they need for their report. They are hoping that this will help them pass their report so they can stay together.
Plot Keywords: time travel, reference to star wars, high school, teenager, vacuum cleaning, taking off shoes, escalator ...
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: capital punishment, melodrama, moral dilemma, death sentence, suspense, chauffeur, drug dealer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the Nineteenth Century, orphan Oliver Twist is sent from the orphanage to a workhouse, where the children are mistreated and barely fed. He moves to the house of an undertaker, but after an unfair severe spank, he starts a seven day runaway to London. He arrives exhausted and starving, and is soon welcomed in a gang of pickpockets lead by the old crook Fagin. When he is mistakenly taken as a thief, the wealthy victim Mr. Brownlow brings Oliver to his home and shelters him. But Fagin and the dangerous Bill Sykes decide to kidnap Oliver to burglarize Mr. Brownlow's fancy house.
Plot Keywords: based on novel, human monster, kindness, redemption, stalking, tragedy, hunger ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rising reporter Michael Ward is the key witness in the murder trial of young Joe Briggs, who is convicted on circumstantial evidence while swearing innocence. Michael's girl Jane believes in Joe and blames Michael, who (in a remarkable sequence) dreams he is himself convicted of murdering his nosy neighbor. Will his dream come true before Jane can find the real murderer?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: psychotronic film, drugstore, newspaper headline, guilty conscience, grocery store, landlady, dutch angle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string of crimes behind him. After he lost his paycheck gambling, hoping to buy his wife some jewelry, she announced she was pregnant, Later he finds her dead from suicide. When he turns again to robbery he's caught by a cop and Nick pumps all his bullets into him in frustration. Morton's appeal to the court emphasizes the evils of the slums.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: revolver, pool hall, cigarette smoking, unemployment, arrest, pay phone, thief ...
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