Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "stay-of-execution"

1. Capote (2005)

R | 114 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

Director: Bennett Miller | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clifton Collins Jr., Catherine Keener, Allie Mickelson

Votes: 140,945 | Gross: $28.75M

2. His Girl Friday (1940)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart

Votes: 63,261 | Gross: $0.30M

3. 88 Minutes (2007)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

On the day that a serial killer that he helped put away is supposed to be executed, a noted forensic psychologist and college professor receives a call informing him that he has 88 minutes left to live.

Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Ben McKenzie, Leelee Sobieski

Votes: 78,352 | Gross: $16.93M

4. Black Angel (1946)

Passed | 81 min | Adventure, Crime, Film-Noir

When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford

Votes: 3,960

5. The Virgin Queen (1955)

Approved | 92 min | Biography, Drama, History

Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) overcomes court intrigue to win favor with Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Jay Robinson

Votes: 3,071

6. Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)

Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Richard Todd, Ruth Roman, Mercedes McCambridge, Zachary Scott

Votes: 1,448

7. Cell 2455, Death Row (1955)

Approved | 77 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Whit, condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him to Cell 2455 on San Quentin's Death Row, a story he had told in a autobiography that became a ... See full summary »

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: William Campbell, R. Wright Campbell, Marian Carr, Kathryn Grant

Votes: 492

8. The Vagabond King (1956)

Approved | 86 min | Musical, Romance

Louis XI of France drafts Paris's popular king of criminals as Provost Marshal in his fight against usurper Charles of Burgundy and the traitorous nobles who rally around him.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Oreste Kirkop, Rita Moreno, Cedric Hardwicke

Votes: 333

9. Bewitched (1945)

Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A young woman has two distinct personalities, one of whom is evil and constantly gets her in trouble.

Director: Arch Oboler | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Phyllis Thaxter, Henry H. Daniels Jr., Addison Richards

Votes: 673

10. Convicts 4 (1962)

Approved | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko (Ben Gazzara) is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora Prison where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.

Director: Millard Kaufman | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston, Vincent Price

Votes: 546

11. Count the Hours! (1953)

Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Lawyer defends migrant worker falsely accused of two murders.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Dolores Moran, Adele Mara

Votes: 605

12. Lady in the Death House (1944)

Passed | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A young woman is on Death Row for the murder of a man who was blackmailing her family, although she claims she was framed. Her fiance', a doctor who is conducting experiments on reviving ... See full summary »

Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Jean Parker, Lionel Atwill, Douglas Fowley, Marcia Mae Jones

Votes: 421

13. Let Us Live (1939)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiancée of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Baxter

Votes: 677

14. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: Sad Cypress (2003)

TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Elinor Carlisle seems to be the obvious murderer of her ailing aunt and the beautiful romantic rival who broke up her engagement, but Poirot uncovers darker motives.

Director: David Moore | Stars: David Suchet, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Rupert Penry-Jones, Kelly Reilly

Votes: 2,637

15. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Cell 227 (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Professor Herbert Morrison is on death row awaiting his sentence to go through. His lawyer is trying to get a last-minute stay of execution but the professor says he doesn't want a reprieve.

Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Brian Keith, James Best, James Westerfield

Votes: 421

16. Four Star Playhouse (1952–1956)
Episode: To Die at Midnight (1956)

30 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A prison warden desperately tries to prove that a man scheduled for execution is innocent.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Dick Powell, Stacy Harris, Alexander Campbell, Dan Barton

Votes: 18

17. The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961)
Episode: Hang 'Em High (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Bat is forced to hang Dal who he believes is innocent in 24 hours by a Judge in Ford County. Dal's girlfriend asks Earp for help but Dal refuses to defend himself. He has been framed by the White Cap vigilantes and Earp wants to stop them.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Mason Alan Dinehart, Darryl Hickman, Damian O'Flynn

Votes: 42

18. Oz (1997–2003)
Episode: Capital P (1997)

TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Governor Devlin has reinstated capital punishment in the state--and the first Oz prisoner scheduled to die is Jefferson Keane, who killed a Latino in their skirmish. Before he's executed, Keane donates a kidney to his ailing sister.

Director: Darnell Martin | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Harold Perrineau, Eamonn Walker

Votes: 2,407

19. Oz (1997–2003)
Episode: Out o' Time (1999)

TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Brace yourself for the explosive Season Three finale! As the new millennium approaches, things are heating up in Em City as racial tensions mount. Glynn fires Hughes, but before leaving, Hughes delivers a millennium gift to Adebisi: a gun.

Director: Barbara Kopple | Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney

Votes: 2,036

20. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Angel One (1988)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Riker, Troi, Data and Yar beam down to a planet ruled by a matriarchal government in the hopes of locating a missing freighter crew.

Director: Michael Ray Rhodes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby

Votes: 3,805

21. State Trooper (1956–1959)
Episode: Case of the Barefoot Girl (1959)

30 min | Drama

When an old friend is accused of murdering a vacationing couple in Mexico, Blake travels south of the border to investigate the crime.

Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Rod Cameron, Merry Anders, Stephen Douglass, Tudor Owen

Votes: 10

22. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: A Bad Place to Die (1967)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Trampas is sentenced to hang for a murder he didn't commit. The Virginian and Stacey try to find new evidence while Clay Grainger and the attorney try for a new trial. Meanwhile, a desperate Trampas escapes prison with his cell mate.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Charles Bickford, Doug McClure, Clu Gulager, Don Quine

Votes: 73

23. Walker, Texas Ranger (1993–2001)
Episode: Skyjacked (1994)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Alex sends Walker and Trivette to go bring back a man who killed a ranger who was sent bring him in. Walker is sullen; it seems that the ranger who was killed was a friend of his and that ... See full summary »

Director: Tony Mordente | Stars: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Noble Willingham, Sheree J. Wilson

Votes: 136

24. Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003–2010)
Episode: The Death Penalty (2006)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Documentary

Penn and Teller argue against the death penalty.

Directors: Star Price, Scott Firestone, Chip Selby, David Wechter | Stars: Penn Jillette, Teller, Steven Banks, Alan Gell

Votes: 163

25. Frontline (1983– )
Episode: The Execution (1999)

TV-MA | 90 min | Documentary, News

Alan Austin set out to tell a story of Capital Punishment. Beginning in 1995 an analysis is made of several people on Death Row in Texas. Settling on the story of Clifford Boggess, his relatives and the relatives of those he murdered.

Director: Michael McLeod | Stars: Alan Austin, Carl Boggess, Clifford Boggess, Shirley Boggess

26. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode: Corruption (2005)

TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History, War

By 1943, corruption is running rampant at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camp also gains another source of income - clothes and valuables taken from Jews arriving to be gassed.

Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Dario Gabbai

Votes: 174

27. Babylon Berlin (2017– )
Episode: Episode #3.12 (2020)

TV-MA | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Litten remembers a legal loophole that could save Greta's life. Charlotte visits the inn mentioned in her mother's love letters. Wall Street crashes.

Directors: Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries | Stars: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Leonie Benesch, Lars Eidinger

Votes: 698

28. Washington Week (1967– )
Episode: Episode dated 17 August 2001 (2001)

News, Talk-Show

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Stars: Gwen Ifill, Dan Balz, Jeff Birnbaum, Jeanne Cummings

29. Space Force (2020–2022)
Episode: The Inquiry (2022)

TV-MA | 27 min | Comedy

The new secretary of defense puts General Naird on trial at the Pentagon, and the team has to pull it together to testify on his behalf and save his job.

Director: Ken Kwapis | Stars: Steve Carell, John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz, Diana Silvers

Votes: 1,083

30. Past Life (2010)
Episode: Dead Man Talking (2010)

43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The team meets Corrine, a young woman dealing with addiction whose regression episodes include graphic details of a violent crime scene. Meanwhile, Kate and Price travel to Florida in hopes... See full summary »

Director: Kate Woods | Stars: Kelli Giddish, Nic Bishop, Richard Schiff, Ravi Patel

Votes: 24

31. The Musketeers (2014–2016)
Episode: The Homecoming (2014)

TV-14 | 54 min | Adventure, Drama

After a night of heavy drinking to celebrate his birthday, Porthos wakes in the street next to a corpse, with no recall of events. He is arrested and sentenced to hang but rescued by ... See full summary »

Director: Saul Metzstein | Stars: Howard Charles, Tom Burke, Luke Pasqualino, Santiago Cabrera

Votes: 502

32. Suits (2011–2019)
Episode: Borrowed Time (2016)

TV-14 | 42 min | Comedy, Drama

Harvey counters Cahill's star witness; Mike tries to deliver a witness himself; Jessica and Rachel try to delay Leonard's execution; Louis adjusts to life as the other man.

Director: Gabriel Macht | Stars: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Rick Hoffman, Meghan Markle

Votes: 1,998

33. Homeland (2011–2020)
Episode: Threnody(s) (2020)

TV-MA | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Carrie waits. Wellington makes a discovery.

Director: Michael Klick | Stars: Claire Danes, Maury Sterling, Costa Ronin, Linus Roache

Votes: 1,966

34. The Forest (2018)
Episode: Episode #1.5 (2018)

29 min | Documentary

Community liaison Lyndy must investigate two fishing huts illegally built on Forestry Commission land. Chainsaw operators test their skills in the UK Logging Championships. A pony show is arranged at the campsite.

Director: Jack Warrender | Star: Mark Bonnar

35. Ransom (2017–2019)
Episode: Stay of Execution (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When a death row inmate gets a "ransom" letter offering him exonerating evidence for $500,000, the Crisis Resolution team has 48 hours to verify that the information is real.

Director: Charles Officer | Stars: Luke Roberts, Brandon Jay McLaren, Nazneen Contractor, Karen LeBlanc

Votes: 64

36. The Blacklist (2013–2023)
Episode: Bastien Moreau (No. 20): Conclusion (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cooper puts his reputation on the line to appeal to the White House on Red's behalf, as Liz and the task force resume their search for The Corsican, a Blacklister with ties to an ... See full summary »

Director: Christine Gee | Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Amir Arison

Votes: 1,342

37. Proven Innocent (2019)
Episode: Living and Dying in East Cleveland (2019)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Madeline takes a road trip alongside civil rights activist Amina Jackson, to fight for justice for Davon Watkins, a man on death row for killing a police officer. Meanwhile, Madeline ... See full summary »

Director: Sharat Raju | Stars: Rachelle Lefevre, Russell Hornsby, Vincent Kartheiser, Nikki M. James

Votes: 122