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Films about capital punishment

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1999 film directed by Frank Darabont

1957 American film by Sidney Lumet

2002 film by Rob Marshall

The Passion of the Christ

The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American epic biblical drama film co-produced and directed by Mel Gibson from a screenplay he wrote with Benedict Fitzgerald. It is the first installment of The Passion of the Christ film series. The film stars Jim Caviezel as Jesus, Maia Morgenstern as his mother Mary, and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene. It depicts the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus, largely according to the canonical gospels as well as additional accounts such as the purported mystical visions by Anne Catherine Emmerich and the Friday of Sorrows.

2010 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

Mutiny on the Bounty

1935 film by Frank Lloyd

2008 film by Clint Eastwood

2008 film by Bryan Singer

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Avatar: Fire and Ash is a 2025 American epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron from a screenplay he co-wrote with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. Produced by Lightstorm Entertainment, it is the third installment in the Avatar film series and the sequel to Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). The film features Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Kate Winslet reprising their roles from previous films. The story follows the human-turned-Na'vi Jake Sully and his family on the habitable moon Pandora, as they face the combined threat of the human RDA forces and the Mangkwan, a ruthless Na'vi clan.

A Man for All Seasons

1966 film by Fred Zinnemann

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

2006 film directed by Tom Tykwer

1957 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

1931 film directed by Fritz Lang

2003 film directed by Patty Jenkins

Dancer in the Dark

2000 film by Lars von Trier

Dial M for Murder

1954 film by Alfred Hitchcock

The Great Escape

1963 American film by John Sturges

Double Indemnity

1944 US film by Billy Wilder

The Quick and the Dead

1995 US film by Sam Raimi

Burnt by the Sun

1994 film by Nikita Mikhalkov

2002 film directed by Kurt Wimmer

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948 American treasure hunt film directed by John Huston

1916 epic silent film directed by D. W. Griffith

Judgment at Nuremberg

1961 US film by Stanley Kramer

2005 film directed by Bennett Miller

Dead Man Walking

1995 film by Tim Robbins

Law Abiding Citizen

2009 film by F. Gary Gray

The Night of the Hunter

1955 film by Charles Laughton

1996 film by Joel Schumacher

2001 film directed by Tony Scott

The Man Who Wasn't There

2001 film by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

The Dirty Dozen

1967 UK-US film directed by Robert Aldrich

1969 film by Henry Hathaway

Angels with Dirty Faces

1938 film by Michael Curtiz

2007 film directed by Jon Avnet

The Life of David Gale

2003 film by Alan Parker

His Girl Friday

1940 film by Howard Hawks

1979 film by Roman Polanski

2001 film by Marc Forster

Sophie Scholl – The Final Days

2005 film by Marc Rothemund

A Short Film About Killing

1988 film by Krzysztof Kieślowski

The Ox-Bow Incident

1943 film directed by William A. Wellman

1965 film by Elliot Silverstein

1940 Nazi German film

Anne of the Thousand Days

1969 film by Charles Jarrott

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971 biographical film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

1974 film by Billy Wilder

The Stoning of Soraya M.

2008 film by Cyrus Nowrasteh

The Birth of a Nation

2016 film directed by Nate Parker

If Beale Street Could Talk

2018 film directed by Barry Jenkins

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

2019 film directed by Joe Berlinger

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1946 film by Tay Garnett

1999 film by Clint Eastwood

The Curse of Frankenstein

1957 film by Terence Fisher

1967 film by Richard Brooks

2015 film directed by Jafar Panahi

The Private Life of Henry VIII

1933 film by Alexander Korda

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939 film directed by Michael Curtiz

1968 film by Ted Post

Birdman of Alcatraz

1962 film by John Frankenheimer