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Directed by Fritz LangOrigin USAGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Films about writers,
Films about journalists,
Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Dana Andrews,
Joan Fontaine,
Barbara Nichols,
Sidney Blackmer,
Philip Bourneuf,
Arthur FranzRating68%
Austin Spencer (Sidney Blackmer), a newspaper publisher, wants to prove a point about the inadequacy of circumstantial evidence. He talks his son-in-law, Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews), into participating in a hoax, in an attempt to expose the ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is for Tom to plant clues which will lead to his arrest for the murder of a female nightclub dancer, Patty Gray. Once Tom is found guilty, Spencer is to reveal the setup and humiliate the District Attorney., 1h28
Directed by Elia KazanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Documentary,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Dana Andrews,
Jane Wyatt,
Lee J. Cobb,
Ed Begley,
Cara Williams,
Karl MaldenRating71%
A priest is shot dead on a Bridgeport, Connecticut street at night. The police, led by Chief Robinson (Cobb), fail to immediately find the murderer. It soon becomes a political hot potato, with the police accused of incompetence, and the city's reform-minded administration comes under attack. Robinson and the prosecutor Henry Harvey (Andrews) come under severe pressure by political leaders to find the killer or bring in outside help., 1h42
Directed by Mike NewellGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Sexploitation films,
Women in prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Miranda Richardson,
Rupert Everett,
Ian Holm,
Stratford Johns,
Joanne Whalley,
Lesley ManvilleRating65%
Londres, été 1953. La très belle Ruth Ellis, hôtesse dans un night-club fréquenté par la haute société londonnienne, rencontre David Blakely, séduisant pilote de course et fils de bonne famille. Entre eux va naître un amour ardent et violent qui les entrainera vers la mort., 2h2
Directed by Tadashi ImaiOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Taketoshi Naito,
Sachiko Hidari,
Chōko Iida,
Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎),
Yoshi Katō,
Shinsuke AshidaRating70%
Janvier 1951. Dans un village de pêcheurs, un vieux couple est assassiné et volé. Arrêté et violemment interrogé, un jeune homme, Kōjima, finit par avouer sa culpabilité. Il dénonce, en outre, de prétendus complices. L'un deux, Uemura, est à son tour convaincu de meurtre. En dépit de la plaidoirie d'un courageux avocat, Uemura est condamné à mort tandis que Kōjima écope d'une peine de prison à perpétuité. Les trois intéressés interjettent appel..., 1h43
Directed by Richard FleischerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Orson Welles,
Diane Varsi,
Dean Stockwell,
Bradford Dillman,
E. G. Marshall,
Martin MilnerRating73%
Artie Strauss and Judd Steiner (Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell) kill a boy on his way home from school in order to commit the "perfect crime". Strauss tries to cover it up, but they are caught when police find a key piece of evidence — Steiner's glasses, which he inadvertently leaves at the scene of the crime. Famed attorney Jonathan Wilk (Orson Welles) takes their case, saving them from hanging by making an impassioned closing argument against capital punishment., 2h22
Directed by Frank DarabontOrigin USAGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Évasion,
Films about capital punishment,
Buddy filmsActors Tim Robbins,
Morgan Freeman,
Bob Gunton,
William Sadler,
James Whitmore,
Clancy BrownRating87%
In 1947 Portland, Maine, banker Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at the fictional Shawshank State Penitentiary in rural Maine. Andy befriends prison contraband smuggler, Ellis "Red" Redding, an inmate serving a life sentence. Red procures a rock hammer and later a large poster of Rita Hayworth for Andy. Working in the prison laundry, Andy is regularly assaulted by the "bull queer" gang "the Sisters" and their leader, Bogs., 1h54
Directed by Bennett MillerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
CrimeThemes Assassinat,
Films about writers,
Prison films,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Films about capital punishment,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Catherine Keener,
Clifton Collins, Jr.,
Bruce Greenwood,
Mark Pellegrino,
Katherine ShindleRating72%
In 1959, the four dead bodies of the Clutter family are discovered on their Kansas farm. While reading The New York Times, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is riveted by the story and calls The New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn (Bob Balaban) to tell him that he plans to document the tragedy., 1h54
Directed by Atom EgoyanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Biography,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Reese Witherspoon,
Kevin Durand,
Stephen Moyer,
Mireille Enos,
Colin Firth,
Elias KoteasRating61%
In 1993, in the working class community of West Memphis, Arkansas, three eight-year-old boys – Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore – go missing from their neighborhood. After an extensive search, their bound and beaten bodies are found the next day. The community and the police department are convinced that the murders are the work of a satanic cult, due to the violent and sexual natures of the crime. A month later, three teenagers – Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr. – are arrested after Misskelley confesses following approximately 12 hours of interrogation. They are taken to trial, where Baldwin and Misskelley are sentenced to life, and Echols to death, all the while still proclaiming their innocence., 1h54
Directed by Gordon Douglas,
Richard LangOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about sexuality,
Films about terrorism,
LGBT-related films,
Films about capital punishment,
Children's films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Frank Sinatra,
Lee Remick,
Jacqueline Bisset,
Ralph Meeker,
Jack Klugman,
William WindomRating64%
New York City police detective Joe Leland is called to the home of a murder victim who has been beaten to death and has had his genitals removed. Puzzled and disgusted, the police on call are left bemused, Leland holding things together with his direct, no-nonsense approach.