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Movies: Best "electric chair" Movies


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The Green Mile(1999)

R
| 3h 9min | Fantasy, Drama, Crime
4.3/5 (with 8,075 votes)

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

Saw IV(2007)

R
| 1h 36min | Horror, Thriller, Crime
3.1/5 (with 1,588 votes)

Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend...or face the deadly consequences.

Monster's Ball(2001)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 409 votes)

Set in the southern USA, a racist white man, Hank, falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically, Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's inter-racial affair leads to confusion and new ideas for the two unlikely lovers.

The Crow: Salvation(2000)

2.7/5 (with 137 votes)

Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to avenge the murder of his girlfriend, who he was wrongly accused of killing. But first he must uncover the truth about who really killed her.

Scarlet Street(1945)

NR
| 1h 43min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.8/5 (with 145 votes)

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.

Ernest Goes to Jail(1990)

PG
| 1h 21min | Comedy, Kids & Family
2.5/5 (with 62 votes)

Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank employee, while Ernest undergoes Nash's sentence to the electric chair. But instead of killing him, the electrocution gives Ernest superhuman powers, enabling him to escape from jail and foil Nash's attempt to rob the bank.

Seed(2007)

1h 30min | Horror
2.0/5 (with 51 votes)

After surviving the electric chair, convicted serial killer Max Seed is buried alive. He digs himself out of the grave and goes on a killing spree. Taking revenge on the men who put him there and random unfortunates alike.

Sacco & Vanzetti(1971)

3.8/5 (with 78 votes)

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchic political convictions.

Hold Your Breath(2012)

R
| 1h 27min | Horror, Thriller
2.2/5 (with 35 votes)

There is an old wives tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery because an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell can get inside of you when you inhale. Somewhere in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't follow the rules when driving by a graveyard, allowing a spirit of a recently executed serial killer to get inside him/her to begin a killing spree of body-jumping carnage.

Prison(1987)

R
| 1h 42min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 50 votes)

After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.

Unspeakable(2003)

R
| 1h 48min | Horror
2.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Despite vocal objections from Warden Blakely, prison psychologist Diana Purlow journeys deep inside the mind of serial killer Jesse Mowat in a desperate attempt to reveal the source of his psychotic tendencies.

Directed by Thomas J. Wright

Guilty As Charged(1991)

R
| 1h 35min | Crime, Comedy
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Rod Steiger stars as a vigilante who with the aid of his helper, Isaac Hayes, captures men whom he considers evil and executes them in his homemade electric chair.

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The Accusing Finger(1936)

NR
| 1h 1min | Crime, Action, Romance / Love, Drama
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.

Psychopaths(2017)

1h 25min | Horror
2.3/5 (with 13 votes)

A sprawling, psychedelic ensemble piece that follows several serial killers over the course of a single night.

Directed by Mickey Keating

20,000 Years in Sing Sing(1932)

NR
| 1h 18min | Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

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

The Traveling Executioner(1970)

R
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Western
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.

Bitayin si....Baby Ama!(1976)

1h 51min | Action, Drama
3.4/5 (with 1 vote)

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 serving a sentence for lesser charges, was executed for murder at the age of 16 via electric chair on 4 October 1961.

Full Confession(1939)

1h 18min | Drama, Crime
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.

Death Row Diner(1988)

1h 8min | Horror
1.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A wealthy Hollywood tycoon is framed for murder and sent to the electric chair without the customary last dinner. Years layer his comes back looking for revenge, and he's hungry.

The Phantom Speaks(1945)

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A reporter learns that an executed killer has taken over a scientist's mind.

Directed by John English - With Richard Arlen

Big House Bunny(1950)

3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

Bugs Bunny escapes hunters by leaping into his rabbit hole and tunneling to safety. Unhappily he tunnels into the Sing Song prison where a sadistic prison guard named Sam Schultz refuses to accept that he's anything but one of the prisoners. Soon Bugs is in stripes, but it's the guard who will find prison life to be hell when Bugs Bunny is around to trick him into a cell, the hangman's noose, an electric chair and even into the warden's office, where Bugs will put a severe strain on the relationship between boss and underling. Finally, Sam decides that enough is enough.

Directed by Friz Freleng

The Chair(1988)

1h 40min | Horror, Mystery, Comedy
1.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.

Buried Alive(1939)

PG
| 1h 2min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.

The Adding Machine(1969)

1h 40min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.

Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison(1901)

4min | Drama, History
2.1/5 (with 8 votes)

This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

And They Watched(2015)

7min | Horror, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A horror morality tale about the custodian of an electric chair and its last casualty. Inspired by the recent reinstatement of the electric chair in Tennessee, US.