Movies: Capital punishment

  • 1996
    A Time to Kill

    A Time to Kill (1996)

    A Time to Kill

    7.31996HD

    A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK....

    A Time to Kill
  • 1970
    Cromwell

    Cromwell (1970)

    Cromwell

    6.61970HD

    Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War....

    Cromwell
  • 1979
    The Onion Field

    The Onion Field (1979)

    The Onion Field

    6.01979HD

    An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt....

    The Onion Field
  • 1956
    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

    6.81956HD

    A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom pl...

    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
  • 1989
    Shocker

    Shocker (1989)

    Shocker

    5.51989HD

    About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to him through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful d...

    Shocker
  • 1955
    Illegal

    Illegal (1955)

    Illegal

    6.41955HD

    A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes....

    Illegal
  • 2011
    Into the Abyss

    Into the Abyss (2011)

    Into the Abyss

    6.92011HD

    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 and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes....

    Into the Abyss
  • 2005
    Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

    Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)

    Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

    7.22005HD

    Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a mi...

    Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
  • 1987
    Rampage

    Rampage (1987)

    Rampage

    5.91987HD

    Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes, though, and starts killing again....

    Rampage
  • 1985
    Dance with a Stranger

    Dance with a Stranger (1985)

    Dance with a Stranger

    6.01985HD

    Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with ...

    Dance with a Stranger
  • 1998
    Evidence of Blood

    Evidence of Blood (1998)

    Evidence of Blood

    6.41998HD

    When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears....

    Evidence of Blood
  • 1991
    Let Him Have It

    Let Him Have It (1991)

    Let Him Have It

    6.61991HD

    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 films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would fore...

    Let Him Have It
  • 1982
    The Executioner's Song

    The Executioner's Song (1982)

    The Executioner's Song

    5.81982HD

    In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, 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, a teenage sin...

    The Executioner's Song
  • 1948
    A Woman's Vengeance

    A Woman's Vengeance (1948)

    A Woman's Vengeance

    6.31948HD

    A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected....

    A Woman's Vengeance
  • 1932
    Two Seconds

    Two Seconds (1932)

    Two Seconds

    6.11932HD

    A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robi...

    Two Seconds
  • 1962
    The Quare Fellow

    The Quare Fellow (1962)

    The Quare Fellow

    5.81962HD

    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 be...

    The Quare Fellow
  • 1986
    Death of a Soldier

    Death of a Soldier (1986)

    Death of a Soldier

    1.51986HD

    Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to po...

    Death of a Soldier
  • 2008
    Mizhikal Sakshi

    Mizhikal Sakshi (2008)

    Mizhikal Sakshi

    62008HD

    A mother finds it hard to believe that her son is convicted as a terrorist and is sent to gallows. Eventually, she loses her mental balance....

    Mizhikal Sakshi
  • 2004
    Death and Texas

    Death and Texas (2004)

    Death and Texas

    62004HD

    Barefoot Bobby Briggs, the legendary running back for the Austin Steers was today sentenced to die for his role in the armed robbery/murder at a downtown Stop 'n Go convenience store... It's five years later, and Bobby's appeals have all but run out,...

    Death and Texas
  • 1973
    Coup d'Etat

    Coup d'Etat (1973)

    Coup d'Etat

    6.61973HD

    A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936....

    Coup d'Etat