Death Row Movies

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

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

A disgraced White House chef finds himself many years later working in a maximum-security prison cooking last meals for inmates on death row.

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

A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake"...

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

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...

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.

The troubled teenager Owen Whitmore has a sleep disorder and occasionally sleepwalks. Owen is having therapy sessions with Dr. Katherine Ramos....

Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie-Brackman. In the eight years...

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

In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of...

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...

Nine vignettes depict the stages leading to execution for women on death row.

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

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...

A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison...

The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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