Death sentence movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant death sentence movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking and emotional films and TV shows about / with death sentence, prison, death row, murder, death penalty, execution, life is a bitch, lawyer, deadly and confined plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, India and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as death sentence: Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005), Return to Sender (2004), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005), Last Dance (1996), The Life of David Gale (2003), The Lazarus Project (2008), Return to Paradise (1998), Oz (1997), The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000).

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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, depressing ...
Plot: death sentence, executioner, hanging, execution, introspection, politics, punishment, death row, death penalty, criminal, war crime, biopic ...
Time: year 2005, 1950s, 1940s, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london, germany
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Return to Sender (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 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
Style: suspenseful, psychological, sincere, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: uncover truth, dedicated lawyer, false accusation, death sentence, redemption, confined, prison life, legal, life is a bitch, dishonesty, letter, execution ...
Place: texas
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Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, USA, UK, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, surreal, depressing, heartbreaking ...
Plot: factory worker, life is a bitch, blindness, death sentence, immigrant, destiny, murder, tragedy, secret, hanging, tragic hero, dancing ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1964, 2000s
Place: nebraska, usa, washington d.c., washington state
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: True story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to thrilling, dramatic life. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Armed ...
Style: touching, tense, sincere, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nazism, politics, world war two, nazi germany, nazi, death sentence, resistance, gestapo, historical character, trial, lawyer, rebellion ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2005, 2000s, year 1943
Place: germany, munich germany, europe
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 5.7
 5K
Last Dance (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep ...
Style: emotional, talky, intense, tense, serious ...
Plot: prison, death penalty, death row, lethal injection, lawyer, dedicated lawyer, justice, love story, courtroom drama, prison life, legal action, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: india, taj mahal
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The Life of David Gale (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Style: surprise ending, thought provoking, suspense, twist ending, serious ...
Plot: death penalty, investigation, suicide, death row, fighting the system, professor, reporter, activist, murder, journalism, death, death sentence ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, houston texas, usa, new york ...
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The Lazarus Project (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot: lethal injection, death penalty, mental institution, death sentence, chainsaw, uncover truth, crime gone awry, rehabilitation, psychiatrist, desperation, husband wife relationship, robbery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, dallas texas, texas
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Return to Paradise (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past ...
Style: realistic, suspense, sad, weeping, contemplative ...
Plot: prison, death sentence, friendship, redemption, women in prison, moral dilemma, drug addiction, drug, guilt, death row, courage, lawyer ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: malaysia, new york, southeast asia, asia, usa ...
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 8.7
 106K
Oz (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.
Style: rough, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison life, prison, life is a bitch, confined, violence spree, rape, homosexual rape, gay, rapist, strong sexual content, gang violence, racism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small ...
Style: emotional, compassionate, atmospheric, sincere, touching ...
Plot: murder, prison, death penalty, tragic love, fighting the system, love, death sentence, introspection, destiny, isolation, social differences, society ...
Time: 19th century, year 2000, 1850s
Place: france, europe
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Dead Man Walking (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A justice drama based on a true story about a man on death row who in his last days forms a strong relationship with a nun who teaches him forgiveness and gives him spirituality as she accompanies him to his execution.
Style: touching, thought provoking, sad, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, death row, death penalty, nun, rape, court, death sentence, murder, confession, lethal injection, execution, justice ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: louisiana, new orleans, united kingdom, southern usa
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 6.1
 216
The Blood Lady (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: 18th century, The Russian Empire. The series tells the life story of Darya Saltykova, who was called Saltychikha by serfs. The landowner brutally tortured about one and half hundreds peasants, for which "Russian Elizabeth Bathory" was ...
Style: artsy, sadistic, atmospheric, baroque
Plot: peasant, life sentence, twists and turns, death sentence, death of husband, sadist, torture, convent, loveless marriage, pardon, sadism, sadistic killer ...
Time: 18th century
Place: moscow russia, russia
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 6.0
 16K
The Chamber (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only ...
Style: suspense, emotional, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: courtroom drama, racism, legal, courtroom, murder, prison, ku klux klan, death sentence, haunted by the past, anti semitism, lawyer, politics ...
Time: 90s, year 1967, 60s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: mississippi, usa
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Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style: twist ending, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, clever ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: vengeance, prison, vigilantism, justice, investigation, master criminal, twists and turns, lawyer, fighting the system, rape and revenge, murder, revenge ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
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 6.6
 38K
True Crime (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
Style: psychological, suspense, serious, tense, clever ...
Plot: death penalty, death row, journalism, investigation, lawyer, death sentence, false accusation, death, uncover truth, journal, reporter, conspiracy ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, oakland california
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Beautiful City (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Akbar has just turned eighteen. He has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen when he was condemned to death. Legally speaking, he had to reach the age of eighteen so that the conviction could be carried ...
Style: emotional, thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: death sentence, crime and punishment, prison, confined, love and romance, redemption, hopes, legal action, life is a bitch, youth, iranian, boy ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, persia
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The Executioner's Song (1982)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In this fact-based 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 single mother. ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: murder, death sentence, death row, prison, courtroom drama, price of justice, confined, legal, journalism, going straight, true crime, biopic ...
Time: year 1976
Place: utah, usa
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The Sleeping Voice (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Pepita travels to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia who is pregnant and in prison. Hortensia is sentenced to death. The execution will not be carried out until after the baby is delivered. Pepita tries everything to stay the execution, but when ...
Style: captivating, serious, emotional, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: spanish civil war, wartime life, political unrest, woman in danger, fall in love, life is a bitch, sister sister relationship, family relations, civil war, false accusation, rebellion, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: spain, europe, madrid
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 8.4
 8K
Virumaandi (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: A reporter researching the death penalty in India is recounted the story of a farm owner Virumandi whose role in a clan feud between Naicker and Kothalla Devar leads him to death row. As the story unfolds, there is a riot in the jail, and the only ...
Style: rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: prison riot, frame up, death row, death sentence, false accusation, prison, life is a bitch, journalism, interview, uncover truth, injustice, forceful separation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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 8.6
 1.4M
The Green Mile (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cellblock's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, heartbreaking, sad ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: prison, death penalty, stephen king, death row, magic realism, supernatural, convict, false accusation, electric chair, life & death, life philosophy, psychic ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 1935
Place: usa, southern usa, louisiana, america, persia
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 7.6
 75K
Just Mercy (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights ...
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, touching ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, death penalty, injustice, false accusation of murder, defense attorney, african american, perjury, prison, murder, innocence, death row ...
Time: year 1987, 2010s, 80s, year 2019, year 1993 ...
Place: alabama
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Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.
Style: political, historical drama, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: anarchism, anarchist, italian immigrant, death sentence, lawyer, courtroom, injustice, biopic, anarchy, immigrant, courtroom drama, social commentary ...
Time: year 1971, 1920s, 20th century
Place: usa, massachusetts
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 5.2
 2K
Khiladi 420 (2000)
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Wealthy, world-wide business-man Shyam Prasad Bharadwaj would like to get his only daughter, Rittu marry to his business-partner Dev Kumar Malhotra. But what Shyam is unaware of is Dev is not what he claims to be but merely a con-man who is in debt ...
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, exciting, thought provoking
Plot: murder, woman kills a man, uxoricide, lie, self sacrifice, death sentence, unrequited love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, death of father, chase, wedding ...
Place: toronto ontario canada
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The Killing Vote (2023)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: People are busy watching the screen. The person wearing a mysterious mask so called 'Gaetal' appears, and the Killing Vote begins.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: vigilante, death sentence, death penalty, voting, social justice, criminal justice, investigation, murder, masked vigilante, killings, murder investigation, serial killer ...
Place: korea
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 7.6
 238
Better Man (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: The remarkable life and death of Van Nguyen, a Vietnamese Australian man who was convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore and executed for his crime in 2005.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, bleak, thought provoking
Plot: smuggling, courtroom drama, life is a bitch, legal action, prison life, death row, legal, death sentence, lawyers and clients, parents and children, family in crisis, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, asia, singapore
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The Mill and the Cross (2011)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: What would it be like to step inside a great work of art, have it come alive around you, and even observe the artist as he sketches the very reality you are experiencing? From Lech Majewski, one of Poland's most acclaimed filmmakers, The Mill ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, bleak, surreal ...
Plot: painter, painting, breast feeding, artist, punishment, art, art history, society, redemption, religions or cults, death sentence, loss of son ...
Time: 16th century
Place: flanders, europe, belgium
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The Conspirator (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
Style: political, period piece, factual, suspense, emotional ...
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, civil war, president, assassination, legal, historical character, politics, conspiracy, american civil war, courtroom, trial ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, ancient times, 1860s, year 1865
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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 7.1
 293K
Dredd (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, South Africa, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called ...
Style: futuristic, intense, neo noir, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Audience: manly, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, post apocalypse, one man army, dystopia, distopia, brutality, organized crime, dystopian future, violent, judge, lone hero, police ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, near future, distant future
Place: usa, america
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 8.3
 575K
Prison Break (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: prison, fugitives, escape, prison life, conspiracy, determination, confined, fbi, scheme, brother, self sacrifice, siblings relations ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, california, texas, usa
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Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle for a photo shoot. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the ...
Style: gothic, slasher, gothic horror, psychotronic, grindhouse ...
Plot: castle, male model, serial killer, murder, delusion, bare chested male, dungeon, curse, insanity, villain, muscleman, masked killer ...
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