After the universal abolition of the death penalty, an executioner is assailed by murderous impulses. He then discovers that against all expectations, he has taken a liking to his profession.
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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 shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, Aileen's limited education lands her back on the corner. She's raped by a trick, who she kills. A string of murder and robbery follows that ultimately leads Aileen to becoming America's first female serial killer.
A loner meets a woman outside a party, forming a connection in an instant. A classic & lyrical love-tale with a bitter-sweet twist, I Heard the Mermaids Singing is a short-film adaptation of a play written by Michael Shurtleff.
Danny has a rare skin condition that prevents him from being in the sun and a desire to be a regular teenager.
A man at the end of his rope, gets carjacked by 2 addicts and goes on a surreal journey.
This is a sad tale of a noble lady who is entranced by an opera singer. Hoping to get closer to the singer, the lady takes up lessons with her. Despite their affection, they must face obstacles.
For love to travel for thousands of years, they will eventually meet.
A wife and a concubine seek freedom. In a game of seduction, together they join forces to defeat their oppressors.
An escaped convict on his way to Texas strikes a deal with a young misfit.
Two boys quarrel over a toy pistol in an ever escalating game.
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
Shot in 16mm, Berenice is Rohmer’s first finished film. The film is based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe about a man who becomes obsessed with his fiancé’s teeth. The film was shot at Andre Bazin’s house by Jacques Rivette. Rivette also edited the film.
Twelve-year-old Zhenya is withdrawn and unsociable, even though he grows up in a prosperous family where he is showered with attention and bought expensive toys. He loves to tinker. But no one shares his hobby, and he has no friends. A chance encounter with an elderly man changes Zhenya's life.
In the dead of night a troubled youth from an East London estate, Ray Marsden stalks into a hospital ward demanding to see the patient. The attendant Nurse, Lynne McDermott is sceptical about Ray's motives but gradually uncovers the truth about his violent past and in so doing makes a startling discovery that will change both of their lives forever.
Two lovers meet in a place between life and death. Experimental student short film based on the poem: "Amar está en los Huesos" (Loving is in the Bones) that recounts the romance and tragedy of two strangers.
Yaakov, an elderly man, arrives at Vera's apartment, looking for a woman who will see him discreetly. Yaakov comes face to face with Vera's personal life and his passion is tempered by his conscience. As Vera begins the routine, Yaakov must decide between his morals and his need to satisfy his urge.
Upon discovering her husband’s affair, Pooja seeks guidance from her friend. Eventually, more secrets unveil, pushing Pooja to her emotional extreme.
Starring Mike Brayden, Yvette Angulo and directed by Ryan Casselman. Birthdays can be tough. Often a reminder that our lives are moving at rapid speed, and while you may have aged a year older over night, you realize that not a whole lot else has changed. That is certainly the case with Jeff, a greeting card creative who has the 'birthday blues' and struggles to find someone to share his birthday with.
Jūzō Itami's debut short film, concerning a group of unique young people in the high economic growth period who are into games with rubber band pistols.
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes, though, and starts killing again.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.
After his police officer brother is killed by a drug dealer who flees to the protection of his cartel-connected uncle in Mexico, an American man with a diverse law enforcement/military background goes south of the border to get revenge
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder of a friend.
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
An ex-marine enforcer must battle his conscience and code of honor when he is forced to do things for the mob.
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
