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.
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
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.
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
Ryan Harrison, a violin god, superstar and sex symbol does not want to cheat on sexy Lauren Goodhue's husband with her. Mr. Goodhue is found murdered and Ryan suddenly finds himself being the main suspect. After being sentenced to death he manages to flee while being transferred to his execution site. Now, all the world is after him as he stumbles from one unfortunate incident to the next in order to prove himself innocent - by finding a mysterious one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged man...
Près de vingt ans se sont écoulés depuis les tragiques évènements qui ont failli coûter la vie à la jeune Regan possédée par Satan. Le lieutenant Kinderman, témoin privilégié de cette affaire terrifiante, est depuis toujours resté en éveil non sans raison car le mal rôde toujours. Après une enquête serrée et quelques morts, Kinderman s'aperçoit que les nouveaux meurtres sont l'exacte réplique de ceux commis par un tueur fou mort douze ans plus tôt.
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Israel, 1961. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, responsible for organizing the extermination of European Jews, is sentenced to death.
Accusé à tort d'avoir volé du bétail, Jed Cooper est lynché par un groupe d'hommes. Sauvé miraculeusement de la mort, il est comme marshal auprès du juge Fenton. Le magistrat le charge de ramener vivants les hommes responsables de cet acte de barbarie pour qu'ils soient jugés en bonne et due forme.
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
Soeur Helen Prejean va accompagner jusqu'à sa mort Matthew Poncelet, condamné à la peine capitale pour l'assassinat de deux adolescents.
Douze hommes doivent décider du sort de l'un d'entre eux lorsqu'un juré s'oppose à la décision du jury.
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just one woman.
In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant ended in tragedy.
After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, where he's told he's been hired as the groundskeeper. With the state of his soul in question, and the love for his wife and daughter all the more real and powerful, Ben must figure out if he's truly cheated death, or if he's become part of something far more sinister.
Un groupe de jeunes délinquants pille une pharmacie pour se procurer de la drogue. Les forces de l'ordre interviennent et les tuent tous, à l'exception de Maggie. Ayant tué un policier, elle est condamnée à mort par injection, mais se réveille après l'exécution qui n'était qu'un simulacre pour la rayer de l'état civil. Elle va être entraînée pour devenir une tueuse à la solde du gouvernement ...
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis' sentence, or let him die.
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.