capital-punishment movies

Anna and the King (1999)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | History | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Chow, Yun-Fat | Bai, Ling | Felton, Tom | Alwi, Syed | Kim, Randall Duk | Lim, Kay Siu | Campbell, Melissa | Chin, Keith | Maniam, Mano | Venugopal, Shanthini | Yusoff, Deanna | Palmer, Geoffrey | Firbank, Ann | Stewart, Bill
Directors: Tennant, Andy
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This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. She becomes involved in his affairs, from the tragic plight of a young concubine to trying to forge an alliance with Britain to a war with Burma that is orchestrated by Britain. In the meantime, a subtle romance develops between them.

Stone Cold (1991)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bosworth, Brian | Henriksen, Lance | Forsythe, William | Diamant, Illana | Holzbog, Arabella | McMurray, Sam | Gant, Richard | Tocha, Paulo | Tress, David | James, Evan | Pierce, Tony | Million, Billy | Winley, Robert | Cummins, Gregory Scott
Directors: Baxley, Craig R.
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Joe Huff is a cop who is angry at the system for handling criminals with kid gloves. Joe is on suspension, but the FBI gives him an opportunity to go undercover in Mississippi and infiltrate “The Brotherhood,” a white supremacist biker gang that runs drugs. In the Brotherhood, each member legally changes his name to his Brotherhood nickname. The Brotherhood is led by a violent psychopath named Chains Cooper. Joe — rechristened “John Stone” — accepts the job, even though he’s not happy about it. His FBI contact, Lance, doesn’t really look at home in biker bars. And the members of the Brotherhood, especially Chains, have their doubts about Joe, who wants a piece of their action. Joe has to kill a man as his initiation. With the FBI’s help, he carefully fakes a murder and is accepted by everyone except for Chains’s right hand man Ice, who still thinks Joe’s an undercover cop. Joe befriends Chains’s girlfriend Nancy, and when Joe learns that Nancy is not happy being with Chains, Joe offers to help her escape. Ice finds Joe meeting with Lance, and tries to warn Chains, but Ice is killed in a fiery motorcycle crash before he can get to Chains. Nancy is later killed by Chains, and the man Joe is supposed to have murdered turns up alive, blowing Joe’s cover. Chains and his gang later take the Mississippi supreme court hostage in an effort to stop one of their men, Trouble Owens, from being sentenced to be executed for killing a priest, and it’s up to Joe to end the situation.

Seed (2007)

Friday, March 20th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Paré, Michael | Sanderson, Will | Moeller, Ralf | Ferland, Jodelle | Gill, Thea | Jackson, Andrew | Turner, Brad | Mitchell, Phillip | Dopud, Mike | Sampson, John | Leitso, Tyron | Eklund, Michael | Hainsworth, John | Walker, Vincent | Stewart, William 'Big Sleeps'
Directors: Boll, Uwe
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After a seemingly undead man is bound and buried alive, he digs himself back to the surface and seeks bloody vengeance on those who caused him his suffering.

Capote (2005)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Mickelson, Allie | Stephenson, Kelci | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Archibald, Craig | Coleman, Bronwen | Shindle, Kate | Barnes, David Wilson | Burg, Michael J. | Keener, Catherine | Ameyaw, Kwesi | Farago, Andrew | Krotowich, Ken | Cooper, Chris | Reid, R.D. | McLaughlin, Rob
Directors: Miller, Bennett
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On the night of 14 November 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, a farmhouse is broken into by the criminals Perry Smith and Dick Hickock that expect to get US$ 10,000.00. With the policy of “no witness”, the murderers kill the entire family. The homosexual writer Truman Capote travels to the small town with his friend Nelle Harper Lee and decide to use the topic to write a book. When the killers are arrested, he becomes friend of Perry for his own interest and then he falls in love for him, and gets a new lawyer for them, postponing their execution until 14 April 1965.

Papillon (1973)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: McQueen, Steve | Hoffman, Dustin | Jory, Victor | Gordon, Don | Zerbe, Anthony | Deman, Robert | Parfrey, Woodrow | Mumy, Bill | Coulouris, George | Assan, Ratna | Smithers, William | Avery, Val | Sierra, Gregory | Tayback, Vic | Watson, Mills
Directors: Schaffner, Franklin J.
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Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

In Cold Blood (1967)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Blake, Robert | Wilson, Scott | Forsythe, John | Stewart, Paul | O'Loughlin, Gerald S. | Corey, Jeff | Gallaudet, John | Flavin, James | McGraw, Charles | Geer, Will | McLiam, John | Storey, Ruth | Currin, Brenda | Hough, Paul | Taylor, Vaughn
Directors: Brooks, Richard
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Truman Capote wrote the ‘non-fiction novel’ from which the film is drawn, using the novelist’s craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on November 15, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep, bound and gagged, and then brutally murdered by two unknown assailants. After the latters’ capture, sentencing and imprisonment prior to execution, Capote researched the case thoroughly, spent weeks talking with the prisoners, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, jurors, police, friends and neighbors, trying to unearth why such a senseless act was committed, and what society’s response might have been.

My Cousin Vinny (1992)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Pesci, Joe | Macchio, Ralph | Tomei, Marisa | Whitfield, Mitchell | Gwynne, Fred | Smith, Lane | Pendleton, Austin | McGill, Bruce | Chaykin, Maury | Myers, Paulene | Scheine, Raynor | Rebhorn, James | Ellis, Chris | Simpson, Michael | Walker, Lou
Directors: Lynn, Jonathan
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While heading for college, Bill and Stan are arrested in Alabama when circumstances point to them as having murdered a convenience store clerk. Unable to afford an attorney, they turn to Bill’s cousin Vinny, a brash New Yorker who took six tries to pass his bar exam. Worse, until now he’s only taken personal injury cases, none of which have gone to trial. Dragging along his even more abrasive fiancee Mona Lisa Vito, Vinny will have to straighten up fast, and keep out of jail himself, if he’s going to win the case.

Green Mile, The (1999)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Morse, David | Hunt, Bonnie | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Cromwell, James | Jeter, Michael | Greene, Graham | Hutchison, Doug | Rockwell, Sam | Pepper, Barry | De Munn, Jeffrey | Clarkson, Patricia | Stanton, Harry Dean | Greer, Dabbs | Brent, Eve
Directors: Darabont, Frank
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Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930’s, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.

Infamous (2006)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Weaver, Sigourney | Jones, Toby | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Rubin, Mark | Schwelling, Steve | Gill, Glover Johns | Arteaga, Rey | Sherburn, Justin | Halbreich, Andrew | Stevenson, Juliet | Panes, Michael | Davis, Hope | Curcio, Frank G. | Bullock, Sandra | Rossellini, Isabella
Directors: McGrath, Douglas
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On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?

Monster (2003)

Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Theron, Charlize | Ricci, Christina | Dern, Bruce | Tergesen, Lee | Vince, Pruitt Taylor | Corley, Annie | St. John, Marco | Macaulay, Marc | Wilson, Scott | Blackwell, Rus | Ware, Tim | Jones, Stephan | Rice, Brett | Riley, Kaitlin | Ivey, Cree
Directors: Jenkins, Patty
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A dark tale based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, one of America’s first female serial killers. Wuornos had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan. She became a prostitute by the age of thirteen, the same year she became pregnant. She eventually moved to Florida where she began earning a living as a highway prostitute—servicing the desires of semi-truck drivers. The tale focuses on the nine month period between 1989 and 1990, during which Wuornos had a lesbian relationship with a woman named Selby. And during that very same time, she also began murdering her clientele in order to get money without using sex. This turned the tables on a rather common phenomena of female highway prostitutes being the victims of serial killers—instead Wuornos, herself, carried out the deeds of a cold-blooded killer.