Death Row Movies

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning...

After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison...

A psychologist interviews a death row inmate to determine whether or not a stay of execution should be granted.

Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.

Today, the ritual of giving the last supper to the condemned person has been detached from its origin, and can be perceived to be as absurd as the...

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

A disgraced White House chef finds himself many years later working in a maximum-security prison cooking last meals for inmates on death row.

Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is...

Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie-Brackman. In the eight years...

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake"...

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

The troubled teenager Owen Whitmore has a sleep disorder and occasionally sleepwalks. Owen is having therapy sessions with Dr. Katherine Ramos....

A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison...

A story depicting the life of executed murderer and gang leader, Marciál "Baby" Ama. Ama, who became a gang leader with his prison mob while...

Nine vignettes depict the stages leading to execution for women on death row.

After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing...

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in...