An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
The workaholic head of the compliance section of a New York bank flies to Monaco to investigate unusual deposits from an offshore bank and meets a down-on-his-luck international film star who has become embroiled in criminal activities.
An executioner beheads his 1000th criminal, and unleashes a demon army headed by an evil witch called the Blood Lotus
School is boring, family life unbearable, and Harold and his high school friends have turned Central Park into their 'spot'. Unbeknownst to them, a revenge-seeking executioner prepares to kill them off one by one to pay for the sins of the father.
Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on rival sides of a religious war with both of them struggling to do the right thing.
"เซี่ยชี" เพชฌฆาตผู้ดูแลดาบหัวผี เขาได้ประหารนักโทษหญิงโดยละเมิดข้อห้ามในการตัดคอประหารชีวิต ทำให้เขาต้องพบกับวิญญาณผีสาวที่มาล้างแค้น ในตอนแรกผู้คนในหมู่บ้านต่างโกรธเกลียดเซี่ยชีเป็นอย่างมาก พร้อมทั้งโยนสิ่งชั่วร้ายที่เกิดขึ้นทั้งหมดให้เป็นความผิดของเซี่ยชี ต่อมาเซี่ยชีคิดถึงวิธีดั้งเดิมที่จะทำให้ผีสาวตนนี้หายไปได้ นั่นก็คือการนำหัวและลำตัวของศพไปเย็บแล้วเผาทิ้งซะ ทว่าหัวของศพกลับถูกขโมย สถานที่เย็บศพจึงประสบภัยพบัติ ในขณะเดียวกัน คดีการหายตัวไปของเด็กสาวและการย้ายหลุมศพของเศรษฐีในเมืองก็เกิดขึ้นพร้อมกัน และความอันตรายค่อยๆ ย่างกรายเข้ามาใกล้เซี่ยชีอย่างช้าๆ ...
A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it. The executioner lifts his axe ready to bring it down. After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy. The axe comes down and severs the head of the dummy from the body. The executioner picks up the head and shows it around for everyone else to see. One of the first camera tricks to be used in a movie.
When ambitious young correctional officer Aiman is transferred to the country's highest-security prison, he catches the attention of the seasoned chief executioner Rahim. Aiman's desire to become the hangman's apprentice is not only professional but born of an unspeakable urge to reconnect with a past that haunts him.
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.
เรื่องราวจากประสบการณ์จริง เพชฌฆาต คือเรื่องราวชีวิตของชายธรรมดาคนหนึ่งที่ผ่านชีวิต, ความตาย,หน้าที่และกรรมดีหรือกรรมชั่ว
During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.
"Executions" is a documentary showing real footage of the many different methods humanity has used through-out history for capital punishment. During the film, the makers point out how unjustifiable the death penalty is in every situation, so they do take a staunch stance against what they're presenting. Footage from live executions are shown in detail.
A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to none.
An American soldier helps his wounded comrade take refuge in a nearby farmhouse, where they encounter an unlikely resident.
This documentary, filmed clandestinely, is based on several interviews with the executioners who worked in Spain during the early 1970s, as well as families of people executed by them.
Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.
After a life full of guilt for having been an executioner, Abel Carbajal receives a visit from Ángela, a young woman seeking revenge against him. Unknowingly, both will find their own redemption.
After the universal abolition of the death penalty, an executioner is assailed by murderous impulses. He then discovers that against all expectations, he has taken a liking to his profession.
A lonely Singaporean death row guard tries to help a young Australian convicted of drug trafficking accept her fate despite a bizarre contradiction - he is her executioner.
In July 2015, four teenagers disappeared while signing a documentary. Three months later... his recording was found.