Death Row Movies

We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life a...

Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flash...

Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek),is stunne...

A psychologist interviews a death row inmate to determine whether or not a stay of execution should be granted.

Valerie's (Amanda Peterson) prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam (Christopher Atkins),an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six women....

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. Pamel...

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the test afte...

A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.

A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.

As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.

In the mid 80s during the Satanic Panic era Pastor Flether A. Brothers who was director of Freedom Village USA interviewed Satanic teen killer Sean Se...

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a b...

This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true in...

After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison...

Chuck Toedan hosts the most controversial show on TV: Live or Die, where deathrow inmates compete against each other for a chance to beat the executio...

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

A lonely Singaporean death row guard tries to help a young Australian convicted of drug trafficking accept her fate despite a bizarre contradiction -...