Executioner movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant executioner movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, disturbing and cult classic films and TV shows about / with executioner, murder, torture, violence, prison, jail cell, fight, hanging, execution and death plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as executioner: Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005), The Bastard Executioner (2015), The Headsman (2005), Devil's Bride (2016), The Bloody Judge (1970), Apprentice (2016), Robin Hood (2018), The Return of Jafar (1994), Arena (2011), Alice in Wonderland (2010).

List of executioner movies

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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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The Bastard Executioner (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A blood-soaked, medieval epic that tells the story of Wilkin Brattle, a 14th century warrior, whose life is forever changed when a divine messenger beseeches him to lay down his sword and lead the life of another man: a journeyman executioner. Set ...
Style: bleak, historical drama, melancholic, rough, costume drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: medieval, executioner, sword and shield, betrayal, corruption, brutality, forbidden love, society, intrigue, disguise, violence, law ...
Time: 14th century, medieval times
Place: wales
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 6.1
 1K
The Headsman (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Hungary, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on rival sides of a religious war with both of them struggling to do the right thing.
Style: exciting, serious, epic, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: executioner, inquisition, medieval, monastery, rivalry, friendship, clergy, state affairs, military, escapades, hopes, society ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, medieval times
Place: austria, europe, central europe
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Devil's Bride (2016)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Anna’s story takes place on Åland Island in 1666, during the beginning of the most widespread and systematic witch-hunts in Scandinavian history. In all, 16 women were convicted of being in league with the devil, and seven of them were executed. ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, enigmatic, historical drama
Plot: witch hunt, witch, false accusation, adultery, betrayal, jealousy, witchcraft, fall in love, lie, village, rural setting, young woman ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times
Place: finland
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The Bloody Judge (1970)
Genre: Biography, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain, Liechtenstein
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord Chancellor in England torn by strife between the reigning King James II and William of Orange. ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, bleak ...
Plot: exploitation, judge, witchcraft, torture, executioner, dishonesty, false accusation, courtroom drama, attempted rape, female nudity, tragic hero, life is a bitch ...
Time: 17th century
Place: england, europe
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The Executioner and Her Way of Life (2022)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The Lost Ones are wanderers who come here from a distant world known as "Japan." No one knows how or why they leave their homes. The only thing that is certain is that they bring disaster and calamity. The duty of exterminating them ...
Style: anime, dark fantasy, disturbing, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: fantasy world, immortal, executioner, white supremacy, underworld, evil, anti heroine, human sacrifice, religion, assassin, magic, reincarnation ...
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 6.6
 2K
Apprentice (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Qatar
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Aiman is a 28-year-old Malay correctional officer who is recently transferred to the territory’s top prison. Aiman lives with his older sister Suhaila in a modest housing estate. At his new workplace, Aiman begins to take an interest in a ...
Style: hood
Plot: prison, death penalty, secret, car accident, mentor, haunted by the past, death sentence, death row, chaos, gadget, prison warden, jail cell ...
Place: singapore
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 5.3
 79K
Robin Hood (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.
Style: exciting, captivating, action adventure, fairy tale, scenic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: robin hood, medieval, archer, bow and arrow, archery, conspiracy, chase, corrupted ruler, friendship, sheriff, female warrior, thief ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times
Place: england, arabia
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The Return of Jafar (1994)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan, Australia
Duration: 69 min.
Story: The evil Jafar escapes from the magic lamp as an all-powerful genie, ready to plot his revenge against Aladdin. From battling elusive villains atop winged horses, to dodging flames inside an exploding lava pit, it's up to Aladdin - with ...
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, exciting, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: aladdin, imaginary kingdom, princess, disney princess, desert, transformation, monkey, vengeance, genie, good versus evil, djinn, magic ...
Time: 90s, 18th century
Place: middle east, arabia
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 4.7
 12K
Arena (2011)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: David Lord finds himself forced into the savage world of a modern gladiatorial arena, where men fight to the death for the entertainment of the online masses.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, underground fighting, fight to the death, violence spree, escapades, kidnapping, violence, blood, arena, internet, car crash, martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, london, sydney australia, mexico, paris france ...
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Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy, Canada, Japan, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting ...
Style: fairy tale, atmospheric, surreal, gothic, visually appealing ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot: fantasy world, magic, escape from reality, magical, imaginary kingdom, transformation, teenage girl, dream, cat, imaginary, alice in wonderland, good versus evil ...
Time: 19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 1870s ...
Place: cornwall, england, london, china
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Iceland, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Style: captivating, entertaining, action adventure, psychotronic, epic fantasy ...
Audience: family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: dungeons and dragons, dragon, magic, medieval, wizard, witchcraft, artifact, gang of thieves, father daughter relationship, druid, heist gone wrong, magical power ...
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 6.9
 11K
The Last Wave (1977)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: White Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of aborigines charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. ...
Style: surreal, cerebral, lovecraft, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: end of the world, lawyer, murder, native american, water, nightmare, disaster, cosmic horror, aborigine, shaman, fantasy world, distopia ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain is a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side, and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one ...
Style: colorful, humorous, entertaining, funny, claymation ...
Audience: kids
Plot: pirate, stop motion, mentor, rivalry, greed, treasure hunt, twists and turns, creativity, friendship, rescue, pirate ship, queen victoria ...
Time: 19th century, year 2012, 1800s, edwardian era, 2010s ...
Place: caribbean, fictional island, england, madagascar, london
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The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: UK, France, Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, ...
Style: stylized, cult classic, exciting, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: musketeer, three musketeers, betrayal, royalty, swashbuckler, sword fight, sorcery, ancient, renaissance, chivalry, heroes, conspiracy ...
Time: 17th century, year 1989, middle ages
Place: england, france, europe
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Crazy Kingdom (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Story: By some quirk of fate, the two small-time thieves and the spoiled princess find themselves in the Black Forest full of magic beings who believe that everyone has a chance to mend his ways. However, sometimes even the best intentions need to take a ...
Style: fairy tale, psychotronic, crying
Plot: criminal, kingdom, royal family, mother daughter relationship, friendship between men, friend, princess, husband wife relationship, friendship, king, absurd humor, absurdism ...
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 2.9
 138
Hangman's Game (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The events occur between 4:45 am and 6:15 am in the Colombian jungle. Mark, an American contractor wakes up doped, tortured and hung up by the arms next to a local prostitute that acts as interpreter whilst the kidnappers want to hack a 60 billion ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious
Plot: torture, murder, prostitute, jungle, oil company, abduction, race against time, conflict, kidnapping, actor, hanging, winner ...
Place: colombia
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Janosik: A True Story (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Adventure
Country: Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on real XVIII century documents and a romantic legend. Young Janosik, burnt out by war experiences and disappointment in love, joins a team of brigands. Soon after he ...
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense, crying
Plot: mother son relationship, european history, criminal as protagonist, soldier, friendship between men, crime and punishment, crime spree, death of protagonist, friendship, politics, gangster, drunkenness ...
Time: 18th century
Place: poland
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 6.1
 21K
Burke & Hare (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two 19th-century opportunists (Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis) become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist (Tom Wilkinson).
Style: stylized, dark comedy, romantic, visually appealing, black comedy ...
Plot: serial killer, dark humor, greed, anti villain, cruelty, adaptation, friends, partner, culture clash, doctor, fall in love, death ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era, 1800s, 1820s
Place: scotland, england, ireland, europe, britain ...
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 7.1
 4K
Taking Sides (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: France, UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the controversial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic whose tenure coincided with the controversial Nazi era. One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 30s, Furtwangler's ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, war, investigation, politics, music conductor, war crime, musician's life, introspection, racism, fighting the system, state affairs ...
Time: year 2001
Place: germany, europe, belgrade, former yugoslavia, philadelphia ...
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Die Millennium-Katastrophe - Computer-Crash 2000 (1999)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A convicted murderer holds the world hostage with a year 2000 virus in all the world's major computer systems.
Plot: computer, wrongful conviction, prison, computer virus, professor, chancellor, sailboat, executioner, rescue, prison riot, new year, television reporter ...
Time: y2k
Place: pacific ocean, sydney australia, berlin germany
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The Last One Will Go to Hell (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A historical film that takes place on the eve of the thirty year war combines aspects of fairy-tales with historical dramas, fencing with a child heroes who find themselves in great dangers. We are in the year 1611 and mercenaries that had ...
Style: road movie, dark fantasy, psychotronic, freeze frame
Plot: children, voice over narration, woods, inn, nudity, czech history, female protagonist, money, jail, stolen money, girl, horse ...
Time: 17th century
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The true story of a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
Style: thought provoking, grindhouse, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: racism, aborigine, indigenous people, australian aboriginal, biopic, murder, criminal, wild west, blaxploitation, transformation, cat and mouse, rage ...
Time: year 1978, 1900s
Place: australia, new south wales
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 7.0
 43K
Hang 'Em High (1968)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and ...
Style: spaghetti western, suspenseful, stylized, realistic, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, judge, court, u.s. marshal, hanging, guilt, justice, vigilante, cowboy, false accusation, wild west, attempted murder ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: oklahoma, usa
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 7.3
 3K
The Method (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: The main character is an extraordinary and mysterious person, at the same time, he (Rodion Meglin) is an outstanding inspector. Rodion is used to work alone in order to keep the secrecy of his unusual method. Young graduate Esenya Steklova is ...
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, danger, investigation, haunted by the past, mental illness, psychosis, murder, brutality, human nature, good versus evil, life is a bitch, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2015
Place: russia
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 7.8
 18K
Just 6.5 (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The story of the six-and-a-half story narrative search for the anti-drug police is to find the great glass dealer in the capital.
Style: tense, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot: iranian, drug overdose, prison, drug, drug addict, lawyer, police station, death sentence, police, rape, death, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tehran iran, iran, persia, middle east
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Operation Finale (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Style: period piece, ambiguous ending, historical drama, tense, art house ...
Plot: war criminal, mossad, nazi hunter, world war two, nazi, holocaust, world war, chase, manhunt, israeli, secret agent, spy ...
Time: 60s, 1940s, year 1954, year 1960, year 1945 ...
Place: israel, argentina, buenos aires argentina, germany, tel aviv israel ...
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 6.9
 44K
Death Wish (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Style: controversial, disturbing, grindhouse, tense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: vigilante, violence, vigilantism, vengeance, revenge, one man army, police, murder, rape and revenge, home invasion, one against many, gunfight ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, arizona, tucson arizona ...
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 7.5
 138K
Robin Hood (1973)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about taxing Nottingham's citizens with support from the corrupt sheriff - and staunch opposition by the wily Robin Hood and his band of merry men.
Style: fairy tale, humorous, cute, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, preschool
Plot: robin hood, furry, anthropomorphic animal, medieval, prince, true love, princess, folk hero, love, happy ending, anthropomorphic mouse, fox ...
Time: middle ages, 70s, 20th century, medieval times, 12th century
Place: england, europe
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Little Longnose (2003)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When he refused to support power-hungry witch, the good shoemaker's boy, Jacob is transformed into a hunchbacked dwarf with overlong nose. Of their mother no longer recognized, mocked by the people of the city and driven away, Jacob runs one ...
Style: fairy tale, touching, thought provoking, semi serious, anime ...
Audience: kids
Plot: princess, good versus evil, magic, surrealism, servant, king, transformation, mockery, conspiracy, evil, espionage, kidnapping ...
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