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Dans les années 1930, des gardes du quartier des condamnés à mort éprouvent un dilemme moral quand ils découvrent qu'un de leurs prisonniers, un meurtrier, possède des pouvoirs de guérisseur. Basée sur une nouvelle de Stephen King.

April 14, 2023

On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.

February 18, 1997

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Cabochard, amateur de femmes et de boissons fortes, Steve Everett, grand reporter qui avoue son penchant immodéré pour les sujets chocs, finit par se faire licencier du "New York Time". Il échoue sur la côte Ouest à "l'Oakland Tribune". Là il est chargé de reprendre une enquête interrompue après la mort accidentelle d'une jeune collègue. Cette dernière etait chargée de couvrir l'execution d'un criminel noir, Frank Beechum, condamné pour le meurtre d'une caissière. Très vite, Everett à de sérieux doutes sur la culpabilité de Beechum, qui doit être éxécuté à minuit.

En 1980, le tueur en série Ted Bundy est condamné à mort par électrocution. Dans les années qui ont suivi, en attendant l’exécution de sa sentence, il a accepté de divulguer les détails de ses crimes, mais à un seul homme : l’agent du FBI Bill Hagmaier. L’agent et le condamné se rencontrent ainsi à plusieurs reprises dans une salle d’interrogatoire…

February 21, 2003

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

L'avocat d'un prisonnier d'Alcatraz qui est accusé du meurtre d'un codétenu veut prouver que son client a souffert de conditions de détention inhumaines.

October 5, 2012

As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.

Soeur Helen Prejean va accompagner jusqu'à sa mort Matthew Poncelet, condamné à la peine capitale pour l'assassinat de deux adolescents.

May 21, 2018

Dans un futur proche, dix prisonniers s'affrontent dans un tournoi de réalité virtuelle dans lequel il faut survivre à ses adversaires et à de gros dinosaures. Seul problème : si on meurt dans le jeu, on meurt aussi en dans la réalité.

August 2, 1991

Amputé de son bras à la suite d'un accident de voiture, Bill Chrushank se voit greffé du membre d'un condamné à mort. Il s'aperçoit vite que ce nouveau bras n'est pas comme les autres...

July 5, 2019

The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.

In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of murders. Broomfield conducts interviews with Wuornos herself, and his crew films her trial as well as her interactions with religious fanatic Arlene Pralle, who gives Wuornos dubious advice and legally adopts her. The cameras also roll as the accused's attorney ignores the case at hand to negotiate a deal to sell his client's story.

December 27, 2019

Après tant d’années passées à accompagner les prisonniers à travers le Couloir de la Mort, Bernadine Williams fait face aux conséquences psychologiques et émotionnelles que génèrent son métier. Rester de glace devant ces êtres humains qu’elle doit conduire à l’exécution est une tâche de plus en plus difficile.

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 Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.

September 15, 1962

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 guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.

February 3, 2017

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

November 18, 1958

Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught they start to think that Barbara has helped the police arresting them. As a revenge they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.

October 10, 2011

A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released after new DNA evidence indicated they may be innocent.

November 11, 2011

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 and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.

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