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Directed by Pilar MiróOrigin EspagneGenres Drama,
Historical,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Amparo Soler Leal,
Héctor Alterio,
Assumpta Serna,
Fernando Rey,
José Vivó,
Mercedes SampietroRating70%
Le 21 août 1910, un berger, débile léger, José María Grimaldos, surnommé El cepa (Le Cep) est aperçu pour la dernière fois sur la route menant de la commune de Osa de la Vega à Tresjuncos, dans la province de Cuenca (Castille-La Manche). La famille de celui-ci, très inquiète, alerte les autorités policières. Deux bergers, Gregorio Valero et León Sánchez, sont suspectés en septembre 1911. L'affaire est pourtant close, faute de preuves suffisantes. En 1913, le juge Isasa fait rouvrir le dossier : Gregorio et León sont incarcérés par la Guardia Civil. Soumis à des interrogatoires serrés suivis de tortures, les deux hommes finissent par avouer un meurtre imaginaire. Le procureur requiert la peine de mort. Mais, en mai 1918, un jury populaire inflige dix-huit ans de prison aux deux condamnés. Après onze ans d'emprisonnement, Gregorio et León sont libérés dans le cadre d'une loi d'amnistie générale (février 1924). Deux ans plus tard, au début de l'année 1926, José María Grimaldos est découvert vivant dans un village voisin. Au cours d'un processus judiciaire plutôt long, les condamnations seront annulées par la Cour suprême., 1h40
Directed by Gérard Frot-Coutaz,
Paul VecchialiGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Films about children,
Prison films,
Films about sexuality,
Films about pedophilia,
Films about capital punishmentActors Jean-Christophe Bouvet,
Sonia Saviange,
Monique Mélinand,
Frédéric Norbert,
Jean-Claude Guiguet,
Michel DelahayeRating70%
Un pédophile, Pierre Lentier, est jugé pour avoir tué une fillette dont il tentait d'abuser. Son procès se mue en débat autour du thème de la peine de mort., 1h56
Directed by Sydney PollackOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films about writers,
Films about journalists,
Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Paul Newman,
Sally Field,
Bob Balaban,
Melinda Dillon,
Luther Adler,
Barry PrimusRating68%
Miami liquor wholesaler Michael Gallagher (Newman), who is the son of a deceased criminal, awakes one day to find himself a front-page story in the local newspaper, indicating that he is being investigated in the disappearance and presumed murder of a local longshoreman union official, Joey Diaz., 1h54
Directed by Atom EgoyanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Biography,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Reese Witherspoon,
Kevin Durand,
Stephen Moyer,
Mireille Enos,
Colin Firth,
Elias KoteasRating60%
In 1993, in the working class community of West Memphis, Arkansas, three eight-year-old boys – Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore – go missing from their neighborhood. After an extensive search, their bound and beaten bodies are found the next day. The community and the police department are convinced that the murders are the work of a satanic cult, due to the violent and sexual natures of the crime. A month later, three teenagers – Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr. – are arrested after Misskelley confesses following approximately 12 hours of interrogation. They are taken to trial, where Baldwin and Misskelley are sentenced to life, and Echols to death, all the while still proclaiming their innocence., 1h55
Directed by Peter MedakGenres Drama,
Biography,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Christopher Eccleston,
Paul Reynolds,
Tom Courtenay,
Eileen Atkins,
Tom Bell,
Edward HardwickeRating71%
The film is based on the true story of Derek Bentley.
Within the film, Bentley (Eccleston) is an illiterate young adult with developmental disabilities who falls into a gang led by a younger teenager named Chris Craig (Reynolds). The two become trapped by the police, who tell Chris to put down his gun. Bentley says, "Let him have it, Chris." Chris begins firing, killing one officer and wounding another. Because he is a minor (under 18), Chris is given a minor sentence, but Bentley, although he did not shoot anyone, is sentenced to death, on the basis that his statement to Chris was an instigation to begin shooting.
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Directed by Lars von TrierOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
Musical,
CrimeThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about families,
Films about immigration,
Medical-themed films,
Films about music and musicians,
Prison films,
Films about the labor movement,
La précarité,
Musical films,
Films about disabilities,
Films about capital punishment,
La cécitéActors Björk,
Catherine Deneuve,
David Morse,
Cara Seymour,
Peter Stormare,
Siobhan Fallon HoganRating78%
The film is set in Washington state in 1964 and focuses on Selma Ježková (Björk), a Czech immigrant who has moved to the United States with her son, Gene Ježek (Vladica Kostic). They live a life of poverty as Selma works at a factory with her good friend Kathy (Catherine Deneuve), whom she nicknames "Cvalda" (which means "chubby" in Czech). She rents a trailer home on the property of town policeman Bill Houston (David Morse) and his wife Linda (Cara Seymour). She is also pursued by the shy but persistent Jeff (Peter Stormare), who also works at the factory., 2h22
Directed by Frank DarabontOrigin USAGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Évasion,
Films about capital punishment,
Buddy filmsActors Tim Robbins,
Morgan Freeman,
Bob Gunton,
William Sadler,
James Whitmore,
Clancy BrownRating87%
In 1947 Portland, Maine, banker Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at the fictional Shawshank State Penitentiary in rural Maine. Andy befriends prison contraband smuggler, Ellis "Red" Redding, an inmate serving a life sentence. Red procures a rock hammer and later a large poster of Rita Hayworth for Andy. Working in the prison laundry, Andy is regularly assaulted by the "bull queer" gang "the Sisters" and their leader, Bogs., 2h16
Directed by Destin Daniel CrettonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Historical,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Michael B. Jordan,
Jamie Foxx,
Brie Larson,
O'Shea Jackson Jr.,
Rafe Spall,
Tim Blake NelsonRating76%
Après des études à l'université Harvard, Bryan Stevenson est promis à une brillante - et lucrative - carrière d'avocat. Il décide cependant de se rendre en Alabama pour défendre des personnes condamnées à tort. Il est aidé par Eva Ansley, une militante du coin. L'une de ses premières affaires est celle de Walter McMillian, condamné à mort en 1987 pour le meurtre très médiatisé d’une jeune fille de 18 ans. Bryan va être pris dans la complexité des manœuvres juridiques et politiques, tout en luttant contre des actes racistes., 1h24
Directed by Kim Ki-dukOrigin Coree du sudGenres Drama,
Action,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Chang Chen,
Kim Ki-duk,
Park Ji-a,
Ha Jeong-wooRating68%
A loner housewife, Yeon, deals with her depression and anger by beginning a passionate affair with a convicted man on death row. After discovering her husband’s infidelity, Yeon visits the prison where a notorious condemned criminal, Jin, is confined. She has been following the news reports of his numerous suicide attempts. Despite knowing Jin's crimes, Yeon treats him like an old lover and puts all her efforts into his happiness, even though she doesn't know him., 1h56
Directed by Frères CoenOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Billy Bob Thornton,
Frances McDormand,
Michael Badalucco,
Richard Jenkins,
Scarlett Johansson,
Adam Alexi-MalleRating75%
In 1949, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton) is a low-key barber in the town of Santa Rosa, California. He is married to Doris (Frances McDormand), a bookkeeper with a drinking problem, and works in a barber shop that belongs to his brother-in-law Frank (Michael Badalucco). A customer named Creighton Tolliver (Jon Polito) tells Ed that he's a businessman looking for investors to put up $10,000 in a new technology called dry cleaning. Ed decides to get the money by anonymously blackmailing Doris's boss, "Big Dave" Brewster (James Gandolfini), whom he knows to be having an affair with Doris. Dave embezzles money from his department store to pay the blackmail. However, he soon pieces together the scheme and beats Tolliver until he implicates Ed. Dave confronts Ed at the store and attempts to kill him, but Ed stabs Dave fatally with a cigar knife.