Daktaras Ričardas Kimblas - vienas geriausių Čikagos chirurgų. Jis gyveno puikų gyvenimą.Tačiau kartą, grįžęs namo, jis užtinka įsilaužėlį, kuriam pavyksta pasprukti. Greitai pamato ir sužeistą žmoną Helen, kuri po kelių minučių miršta.Ričardas apkaltinamas žmogžudyste, o teismas jį nuteisia myriop.Autobuse, kuriuo vežami nuteistieji, įvyksta nelaimingas atsitikimas. Ričardui pavyksta pasinaudoti tuo - jis pabėga.Vyras pasiryžęs surasti žmonos žudiką, deja, jį visur medžioja policija.
Po ilgų Pilietinio karo metų Džekas Somersbis pagaliau peržengia savo apleistų namų slenkstį kažkur Amerikos Pietuose. Sugrįžusį vyrą pasitinka ne tik žmona Lorelė ir sūnus Robertas, bet ir visas kaimas. Tačiau Lorelė žino, kad į namus ir į lovą įsileido ne savo vyrą, o visiškai svetimą prašalaitį, apsišaukėlį, stulbinamai panašų į daug metų nematytą Džeką Somersbį. Moteris nežino, kas jis, tačiau nepažįstamojo švelnumas, atsidavimas šeimai, rūpestingumas pažadina moters širdyje netikėtų jausmų bangą ir verčia meluoti visiems aplinkui. Tačiau kartą judviejų paslaptis iškyla į dienos šviesą...
Vienuolė ima rūpintys mirties bausme nuteisto žmogžudžio paskutinėmis dienomis. Gal pavyktų sušvelninti bausmę? Jei ne, tai gal bent pavyktų palengvinti nuteistajam vertingai išgyventi paskutines valandas.
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
Israel, 1961. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, responsible for organizing the extermination of European Jews, is sentenced to death.
Londonas, 1880 m, pavojingą Laimhauso rajoną sukrėtė serija žiaurių nužudymų. Išsigandę gyventojai mano, kad tai Golemo darbas, kuris buvo atgaivintas juodosios magijos dėka.
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.
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.
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.
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
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.
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
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.
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
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.
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.
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.
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
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.
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 noble who had hired him as tutor to his children.