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The Fugitive

August 5, 1993

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name....

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

September 5, 1923

In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her....

Dead Man Walking

December 28, 1995

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple....

The Limehouse Golem

October 17, 2016

A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible....

Casque d'Or

March 12, 1952

At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal...

Pigsty

September 1, 1969

Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son ...

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

September 8, 2003

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Flor...

Scarlet Street

December 24, 1945

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. ...

Sacco & Vanzetti

March 15, 1971

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs....

Sommersby

February 4, 1993

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a ple...

The Sleeping Voice

October 20, 2011

Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Córdoba to Madrid to be near h...

Underworld

August 19, 1927

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend....

God of Pain

August 19, 2024

A man wakes up in the middle of the street with no idea where he is or how he ended up there. Soon he is forced to confront the demons he is battling within before a gateway to the underworl...

The Green Deal

March 26, 2024

Carole tries to save the life of her son who has been wrongfully sentenced to death in a rigged trial....

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

October 27, 2015

A woman in Pakistan sentenced to death for falling in love becomes a rare survivor of the country's harsh judicial system....

The Man They Could Not Hang

August 16, 1939

Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated ...

Safe in Hell

December 11, 1931

To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find ...

Yield to the Night

June 18, 1956

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row....

Midnight

March 6, 1934

Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in t...

The Red and the Black

December 21, 1997

In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a noble who had hired him as tutor to his chi...