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The Cantonese opera film “A Wedding on the Execution Ground”, based on the large-scale modern Cantonese opera of the same name, is adapted from a true story. It tells the historical story of Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun,
In a Chinese prison yard every week, Ding Yu, a beautiful TV journalist sits face to face with a convicted criminal. They discuss his crime, his kids, his hopes, his ambitions. Her camera crew captures it all. But these
During World War II 17 men were put to death by Swiss bureaucracy. The reconstruction of the case of Ernst S. fueled a controversy about collective guilt, double standards and the role of Switzerland in the war.
A Korean goddess and a sorcerer have been embroiled in a thousand year long argument with each other. They call upon seven different humans to decide for them once and for all which one of them is in the wrong. The god t
A nightmare of one's own execution bleeds between the lines of fiction and reality.
Newsreel footage of an execution by beheading of Li-Tang, the Chinches chief of a band of Manchurian bandits. Shot during the Russo Japanese war by the Charles Urban Trading Company. Charles Urban was formerly a partner
On a cloudy afternoon, four men in modern clothing drag Joan of Arc across a field toward her place of execution.
Japanese pose as coolies, blow up a train, are caught and shot.
A meditation on the thieves on the Cross.
From ancient practices such as death by a thousand cuts and hanging, drawing and quartering to the modern scientific era of lethal injection, we ask the question: do the most horrific crimes deserve the most horrific of
A man gets falsely accused of murdering his wife.
The veteran detective Seo Do-cheol and his team at Major Crimes, relentless in their pursuit of criminals, join forces with rookie cop Park Sun-woo to track down a serial killer who has plunged the nation into turmoil.
In a post-nuclear world, three superpowered women fight an evil genius controlling the government and the water supply.
After the destruction of the Temple, a Shaolin disciple devotes years to mastering the Tiger style in order to defeat the martial arts master who killed his teacher. His wife, a Crane style specialist, has a feeling one
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
Martine is a tough female cop trying to solve the kidnapping of young Caroline by a gang of pornographers. She already has an accomplice inside the gang feeding her information, but progress is hindered by her own police
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubl
Set in medieval Venice, this swashbuckler chronicles the courage of an executioner and his godson as they attempt to show that the Grand Inquisitor is in league with murderous pirates.
