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Hang 'em High(1968)

PG-13
| 1h 54min | Western
3.5/5 (with 310 votes)

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.

Till(2022)

PG-13
| 2h | Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 72 votes)

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.

Directed by Chinonye Chukwu - With Danielle Deadwyler, Whoopi Goldberg, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Jayme Lawson, Tosin Cole, ...

The Ox-Bow Incident(1943)

NR
| 1h 16min | Western, Drama
3.9/5 (with 159 votes)

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

Mudbound(2017)

R
| 2h 15min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 547 votes)

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

Don't Torture a Duckling(1972)

1h 45min | Horror
3.7/5 (with 152 votes)

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.

Canoa: A Shameful Memory(1976)

1h 56min | History, Crime, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 31 votes)

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.

Directed by Felipe Cazals - With Carlos Chávez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Roberto Sosa, Salvador Sánchez cruz, Sergio Calderón, Enrique Lucero, ...

Clash(2016)

1h 35min | Thriller, Drama
3.8/5 (with 42 votes)

In 2013, in Cairo, a tragic fate brings together several detainees from different political and social backgrounds inside a police truck, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of president Morsi.

Directed by Mohamed Diab - With Nelly Karima

The Common Man(1975)

1h 30min | Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

As every summer, Georges Lajoie, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite. They join old friends, the Schumachers and the Colins. Brigitte Colin, the daughter, is quite a pretty young girl now. One day, Georges rapes and murders her. He hides the body near the barracks of the immigrant Arab workers. The racism of the campers will do the rest... A virulent lampoon against the average Frenchman's racism.

The Crime of Cuenca(1981)

1h 29min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.

Who Killed Pasolini?(1995)

NR
| 1h 40min | Drama, Crime
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

1975: poet, intellectual, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is bludgeoned to death and run over with his own car in the outskirts of Rome. Charged with murder, 17-year-old hustler Pino Pelosi pleads self-defense -- after all, Pasolini was a well-known pederast. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version of events, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also murdered for another reason?

Popsy Pop(1971)

1h 40min | Crime, Drama

Claudia Cardinale is Popsy, who double-crosses her older partner Silva (Stanley Baker). Silva has arranged to divert diamonds from a large corporate-run diamond mine in the South American jungle, and Popsy does her “pop” wrong as they are both pursued by police.

Along the Great Divide(1951)

NR
| 1h 28min | Western, Adventure, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 12 votes)

New Federal marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants personal revenge, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him again. Can the marshal make it across the desert with Tim and his daughter? Even if he makes it, will justice be served?

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The Halliday Brand(1957)

NR
| 1h 19min | Western
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.

Directed by Joseph H. Lewis - With Joseph Cotten

Raw Edge(1956)

NR
| 1h 16min | Romance / Love, Western
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

A Texan arrives in Oregon and seeks justice for his innocently-hanged brother.

Directed by John Sherwood - With Rory Calhoun, Yvonne De Carlo, Mara Corday, Neville Brand, John Gavin, Rex Reason, ...

South(1999)

1h 11min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Chantal Akerman investigates the American Deep South through the story of a lynching and grisly murder of an African-American man that took place in Texas in 1998.

Directed by Chantal Akerman

Two Towns of Jasper(2002)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Using two separate filmmaking teams (an all-white crew filming white residents and an all-black camera crew filming black residents), TWO TOWNS OF JASPER captures very different racial views by townsfolk in Jasper, Texas, the location for a racially motivated murder of an African American man in 1998.

Scars of Jealousy(1923)

1h 10min | Drama

Scars of Jealousy is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lloyd Hughes and Frank Keenan. It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and distributed through Associated First National, later First National.

Curse of the Banshee(2017)

22min | Horror

A vengeful banshee takes vengeance on a small Irish town that lynched her 50 years ago. Her only opposition is a demon hunter and his wild protégé.

Laughter in Hell(1933)

1h 10min | Crime, Drama

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.

An Outrage(2017)

34min | Documentary

AN OUTRAGE is a documentary film about lynching in the American South. Filmed on-location at lynching sites in six states and bolstered by the memories and perspectives of descendants, community activists, and scholars, this unusual historical documentary seeks to educate even as it serves as a hub for action to remember and reflect upon a long-hidden past.

Across the Deadline(1925)

There is a feud of 30 years' standing between the Revelle and Wainwright families, dwelling in the Apache country, despite which Shirley, daughter of Martin Revelle, and Clem Wainwright fall in love. The lovers are discovered meeting by Clem's rival, Ben Larrago, who informs on them (Exhibitors Trade Review, 23rd May 1925).

Black Thoughts(2020)

30min | Documentary
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a perceived adversary into an ally. Power is found in coming to know our neighbor’s hearts. For in the darkness of ignorance, enemies are made and wars are waged, but in the light of understanding, family extends beyond blood lines and legacies of hatred crumble.

Linç(1970)

1h 37min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

The film tells the story of a convict who fights against the injustice of prison management. Arap Kadir is new to prison. He earns prison leader Fethi’s trust in no time thanks to his honesty and audacity. But Arap Kadir is left with no protection when Fethi is exiled to another prison. Seeing this as an advantage, the management decide to bring Arap Kadir to his knees.

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story(2000)

1h 20min | Documentary

Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses and background accounts by historians.

Strange Fruit(2002)

PG-13
| 57min | Music, Documentary

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Black Cat Whiskey(2013)

1h 56min | Action, Crime, Drama, History
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In a small rural town hit hard by the Depression, Katie Connors resides in a middle-class home with her bootlegging husband Melvin. When the opportunity arises to bump him off without getting her hands dirty, she takes a chance she may never get again. After his murder at the hands of criminal Richard Hayden, she begins to receive inopportune visits by Melvin's old business partners about a large shipment of moonshine in her possession. Contacting the FBI for help, agent Ron Sheridan is assigned to her case and develops an unrequited love for Katie. But when a full-scale war develops, she learns the FBI may not be much help to her as she thought, and Katie must take matters into her own hands to pay off her husband's debts for good.

The Return of Wild Bill(1940)

1h | Western

When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.

Directed by Joseph H. Lewis