List of films about capital punishment

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This page is a list of films about and/or containing capital punishment.

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[edit] American films

Name Year Director/s
The Accusing Finger 1936 Harry Carey, James Hogan
Angels With Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956 Fritz Lang
Billy Budd 1962 Peter Ustinov
Capital Punishment 1925 James Hogan
Cell 2455, Death Row 1955 Fred F. Sears
The Chamber 1996 James Foley
Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall
Covenant With Death 1967
Dead Man Walking 1995 Tim Robbins
The Execution of Private Slovak 1974 Lamont Johnson
The Executioner’s Song 1982 Lawrence Schiller
The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont
The Hoodlum Priest 1961 Irwin Kershner
I Want to Live! 1958 Robert Wise
In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks
Just Cause 1995 Arne Glimcher
Kill Me If You Can (TV movie) 1977 Buzz Kulik
Last Dance 1996 Bruce Beresford
The Last Mile 1932 Samuel Bischoff
The Last Mile 1959 Howard W. Koch
A Letter from Death Row 1998 Marvin Baker, Bret Michaels
The Life of David Gale 2003 Alan Parker
The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 The Coen Brothers
Monster 2003 Patty Jenkins
Monster's Ball 2001 Marc Forster
My Cousin Vinny 1992 Jonathan Lynn
Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story   1992 Peter Levin
The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman
Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick
A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens
Return to Paradise 1998 Joseph Ruben
The Travelling Executioner 1970 Jack Smight
True Crime 1999 Clint Eastwood
Two Seconds 1932 Mervyn LeRoy
We Who Are About to Die 1937 Christy Carbanne
Witness to the Execution 1994 Tommy Lee Walace
The Passion of the Christ 2004 Mel Gibson

[edit] Australian films

Name Year Director/s
Dadah is Death

[edit] British films

Name Year Director/s
Dance With A Stranger 1985 Mike Newell
Dancer In The Dark 2000 Lars Von Trier (European co-production)
Daybreak 1946 Compton Bennett
Eight O’Clock Walk 1954 Lance Comfort
Fourteen Days in May 1988 Paul Hamann
Let Him Have It 1991 Peter Medak
Mix Me a Person 1962 Leslie Norman
Now Barabbas Was A Robber   1949 Gordon Parry
Pierrepoint 2006 Adrian Shergold
The Quare Fellow 1962 Arthur Driefuss (UK and Republic of Ireland co-production)
Yield to the Night 1956 J. Lee Thompson

[edit] Films in languages other than English

Name Original name Year Director/s Country
The Passion of Joan of Arc   La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc   1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer France
Day of Wrath Vredens dag 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer Denmark
A Short Film About Killing Krótki film o zabijaniu 1988 Krzysztof Kieślowski   Poland
Virumandi(Tamil) The Tough Fighter 2004 Kamal Hassan   India
Teen diwarein(hindi) [[:Template:]] 2004 Nagesh kuknoor   India
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