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- DirectorTim RobbinsStarsSusan SarandonSean PennRobert ProskyA nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodIsaiah WashingtonLisaGay HamiltonCan an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsMark FrechetteAlain CunyGian Maria VolontèOn the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the Italian troops.
- DirectorOliver SchmitzStarsSteve CooganAndrea RiseboroughGarion DowdsA lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
- DirectorMoustapha AkkadStarsAnthony QuinnOliver ReedRod SteigerIn 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsWillem DafoeHarvey KeitelBarbara HersheyThe life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsKevin SpaceyKate WinsletLaura LinneyA man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
- DirectorPatrice LeconteStarsJuliette BinocheDaniel AuteuilEmir KusturicaIn a small French colony, a drunken man kills someone. While a guillotine is being shipped in, he changes, becoming a good and popular man.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsNino ManfrediEmma PenellaJosé IsbertAn undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and must continue his father-in-law's profession after his retirement, although he doesn't like it.
- DirectorBasilio Martín PatinoStarsClaudio RodríguezVicente CopeteAntonio LópezExploration of a particularly dark zone of the Francoism along with three executioners of death sentences still active in the Spain of the early seventies. Beyond the allegation against capital punishment, the documentary explores the personal story of the three men and their ways of understanding the trade they perform, those executed by them in the garotte or the crimes that are punished. An implacable reflection on power and an atrocious portrait of the society in which those hangmen operate.
- DirectorMel GibsonStarsJim CaviezelMonica BellucciMaia MorgensternDepicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.
- DirectorRicardo FrancoStarsJosé Luis GómezDiana Pérez de GuzmánPaca OjeaEarly Spain of the 20th century. Bad luck, misery and tragedies are a trend in Pascual Duarte's family. But when the weight of the things are too heavy to bear, a reckless man who only follows his impulses, will fall into a descent to madness that slowly alters the course of his life and of others as well.
- DirectorJosep Maria FornStarsLuis IriondoMarta AngelatMontserrat Carulla1939: The remains of the Spanish Republican Army crossed the French border. Among the exiles are Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and also Aguirre, President of the Basque Government. After the invasion of France by Nazi troops, Companys will be arrested by the Gestapo and handed over to the Francoist authorities. Led by the Count of Mayalde, he is transferred to Madrid and later to Barcelona. After a summary trial, Companys is condemned to death and shot.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsRobert BlakeScott WilsonJohn ForsytheTwo ex-cons murder a family in a robbery attempt, before going on the run from the authorities. The police try to piece together the details of the murder in an attempt to track down the killers.
- DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTom HanksMichael Clarke DuncanDavid MorseA tale set on death row, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the lead guard, Paul Edgecombe, recognizes John's gift, he tries to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertFrançois CluzetMarie TrintignantA housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.
- DirectorMarc RothemundStarsJulia JentschFabian HinrichsAlexander HeldA dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
- DirectorPaul NaschyStarsMaría José CantudoÁgata LysPaul NaschyAt the beginning of the twentieth century in Spain, a brothel owner and his partner lure rich men to their property, kill them and steal their money.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsSean ConneryChristian SlaterHelmut QualtingerAn intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsSilvana ManganoFrank WolffVivi GioiThis film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her father.
- StarsAlec BaldwinBrian CoxChristopher PlummerThe dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
- DirectorMel GibsonStarsMel GibsonSophie MarceauPatrick McGoohanScottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsCarice van HoutenSebastian KochThom HoffmanIn the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
- DirectorJosé María ForquéStarsFrancisco RabalLuis PeñaAlberto FarneseSet in rural South of Spain in the 19th century, tells the story of group of outlaws, from very different origins, trying to survive, hiding from the law enforcement officers in caves in a hilly area, and their struggle against the evil mining company that exploits the poor people of their home village.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsPaul NewmanAva GardnerRoy JensonIn Vinegaroon, Texas, former outlaw Roy Bean appoints himself the judge for the region and dispenses his brand of justice as he sees fit.
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsEdward WoodwardJack ThompsonJohn WatersThree Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKirk DouglasRalph MeekerAdolphe MenjouAfter a failed attack on a German position, a general orders three soldiers, chosen at random, court-martialed for cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
- DirectorStanley KubrickAnthony MannStarsKirk DouglasLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
- CreatorRamón CamposGema R. NeiraDiego SoteloStarsMiguel Ángel SilvestreMarisé ÁlvarezRamón AgirreJanuary 27, 1994. The bodies of a man and two 25-year-old models are found riddled with bullet holes in the house of a nightclub owner. The police find a camera set up in the living room of the victim, which has filmed the murder. This footage is the main clue of the police - This is the reason why they decide to share the most valuable thing in it: the blurred face of one of the attackers. Three weeks later, at a police station in another district, an officer thinks he recognizes one of the killers: Pablo Ibar, a Spaniard who has been recently arrested with a couple of friends for a petty theft. Pablo swears he is innocent. None of the evidence found at the crime scene points to him...But it does not matter. Pablo is sentenced and sent to death row. This is the story of a man fighting to prove his innocence. The story of a family that never gave up.
- StarsJoe NascimentoDeborah BowieChuck MortonOn August 25, 1994, Pablo Ibar and Seth Penalver were charged with three counts of first-degree murder, one count of burglary, one count of robbery, and one count of attempted robbery.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsBud SpencerFranco NeroRichard JohnsonAt the end of WW II, German deserters are tried for desertion by fellow POWs inside a prisoner of war camp for Germans.
- DirectorManuel HuergaStarsDaniel BrühlTristán UlloaLeonardo SbaragliaA profile of anarchist and bank-robber Salvador Puig Antich, whose 1974 execution under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco ushered in a period of unrest that helped Spain transition to democracy.
- DirectorRyszard BugajskiStarsMarek ProboszMarek KalitaAndrzej NiemirskiThe main hero is a historical personage Witold Pilecki, a cavalry Captain, who voluntarily entered German Concentration Camp Auschwitz, organized resistance there and a channel of communication to pass information, as well as escaped from the camp, went abroad to convey the information about concentration camp to the alliance forces and came back to Polish People's Republic where he was imprisoned and appallingly tortured. The teleplay is focused on the excessive brutality of enquiries against him and on the trial during which he was falsely accused as well as on his indomitableness and perseverance.
- DirectorRyszard BugajskiStarsOlgierd LukaszewiczAlicja JachiewiczMagdalena EmilianowiczThe tumultuous life of General August Emil Fieldorf aka "Nil", who commanded the underground Home Army against the Nazis and was killed after WW2 by communists.
- StarsJuanjo PuigcorbéJosé Luis PellicenaPepe SorianoLife of the sixteenth-century Spaniard, burnt at the stake for heresy in Calvin's Geneva.
- DirectorRay Izad-MehrStarsSean YoungHarry GoodwinsEllie PatrikiosTHE GUILLOTINE was built on the ideals of The Enlightenment, an attempt to instill grace to an otherwise brutal expression of justice. Organized within 5 factual tales, we examine the Guillotine's role in history, from The French Revolution to the Fall of Saddam Hussein. At times humorous and ironic, poignant and thoughtful, these stories also reflect the morality of their times, tracing the philosophical attitudes about capital punishment, and the power structure that allows it to be. From a necessary evil to cold-blooded amusement, the blade falls with no less detachment.
- DirectorJosé GiovanniStarsAlain DelonJean GabinMimsy FarmerA former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
- DirectorMichel DrachStarsPierre AgilPaul AnrieuSerge AvedikianA film version of author Gilles Perrault's best-selling book about the 1976 trial and execution of Christian Ranucci, the youth who was convicted with extremely inconclusive evidence of murdering an eight-year-old girl in Southern France. The publicity the book and film helped abolish capital punishment in France in 1981.
- DirectorMarco CortesiStarsMarco CortesiMara Moschini9th October 1981: France abolishes the death penalty. The last execution: a 28 year old boy killed by decapitation. For 190 years, only one instrument was used to annihilate legally someone's life: the guillotine. How is it possible that the guillotine continued to operate in Europe up to 1981? The shocking confession of the one man authorized to kill with the bloodiest instrument of death ever: the guillotine. The death penalty as seen from a disturbing point of view: not that of the victims of the sentence, but that of the individual who is authorized and obliged by the law to apply it. His name was: "Chief Executioner to Guillotine". He was the one who, as required by the French Penal code, had to lower the shaft making a 40 kg blade to hurtle onto the sentenced's nape. What does it feel like being on the other side? What does it feel like being the only one authorized by the law to commit a murder? Based on documents and events of the age. "The Executioner" shows true events combined with disturbing details from the chronicles of the time. Just one man is authorized by the law to operate the blade that will kill another human being. Filmed inside a former high security prison. This is his story.
- DirectorIain CashStarsJohn ChurnsideChristopher RobertLauren CarreWhen an execution is sanctioned in the UK for the first time in almost 50 years, it soon becomes a media circus. The television rights are sold, and it becomes the worlds biggest reality TV show, re-branded as X-Day.
- DirectorMaarten TreurnietStarsMonic HendrickxLisa SmitSallie HarmsenWhile she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter.
- DirectorLuigi CapuanoStarsLex BarkerGuy MadisonAlessandra PanaroIn Venice,during the Inquisition,Sandrigo Bembo,the son of the Doge Giovanni Bembo,is falsely accused of treason out of pure malice by the Grand Inquisitor Rodrigo Zeno.
- DirectorRobert EnricoRichard T. HeffronStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerJane SeymourFrançois CluzetA chronicle of the French Revolution from the calling of the Etats General in 1789 until the end of the Jacobin Terror in 1794.