Films about capital punishment

12 Angry Men

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1957 IMDB Rating: 9

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and sh...

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The Green Mile

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 8.6

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 cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, rec...

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Paths of Glory

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1957 IMDB Rating: 8.4

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

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Double Indemnity

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1944 IMDB Rating: 8.3

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in cr...

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Judgment at Nuremberg

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1961 IMDB Rating: 8.3

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not...

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central...

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The Great Escape

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1963 IMDB Rating: 8.2

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder...

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Day of Wrath

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1943 IMDB Rating: 8.1

In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention o...

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