Da den ansete kirurg Richard Kimble mister sin kone, tror ingen på hans forklaring om, at en enarmet mand har myrdet hende. I stedet dømmes Kimble selv for mordet, men da han får en uventet chance for at flygte, stikker han af for at finde den enarmede mand. Imens sætter marshal Gerard alle kræfter ind på en ubønhørlig menneskejagt med Kimble som det desperate bytte.
Jack Sommersby vender efter seks års krigsfangenskab tilbage til den forarmede landsby Vine Hill. Hans kone Laurel kan nærmest ikke genkende sin egen mand, der har forandret sig fuldstændig. Sommersby, der tidligere drak og spillede kort, bliver en afholdt mand i landsbyen, og Laurel's skepsis manes i jorden. Men fortiden er ikke sådan at begrave.
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
En række mord har rystet lokalsamfundet, og folk tror efterhånden, at det kun kan skyldes et legendarisk væsen fra de mørke tider: Golem.
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
I slutningen af 1800-tallet, under et bal i Joinville i udkanten af Paris, møder Georges, en tidligere kriminel, der arbejder som tømrer, Marie, en ung kvinde med forbindelse til en kriminel bande.
Amatørkunstneren Chris Cross får et guldur efter 25 år i firmaet. Dette ur er alt, han ejer af værdi. Da han møder den bedårende Kitty, tror hun, at han er velhavende, og kvinden og hendes kæreste begynder at lægge en udspekuleret plan.
Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Huelva to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.
Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.
In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a notable who had hired him as tutor to his children.
A woman in Pakistan sentenced to death for falling in love becomes a rare survivor of the country's harsh judicial system.
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
John Chandler is sentenced to death only to re-emerge as his own brother, courtesy of the CIA who have arranged the subterfuge so they can use him as a double agent.
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.
During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provokative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the German Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.