The Inner Executioner and the Agony of the Soul / 2023

A lonely, depressed man wakes up from a nightmare and searches for a reason to go on living. He doesn't find it outside, but he finds clarity and decides to kill himself. When he arrives home, he realizes in a dialogue that it is his son who loves and needs him, and this saves him from suicide.

In-House Executioner / 2024

The Beheaded 1000 / 1993

An executioner beheads his 1000th criminal, and unleashes a demon army headed by an evil witch called the Blood Lotus

Chase Zhazi Dong Executioner / 2012

Executioner's Strange Talk / 2022

The executioner Xie Qi, who is in charge of the ghost-headed knife, will encounter the ghost of a woman who is back for revenge because he killed the female prisoner during the taboo of three quarters of noon. The people of the town were very angry and blamed Xie Qi for all the inauspicious things that happened. Xie Qi wants to use the old method of stitching up the human head back to its body and subsequently burn it to pacify the female ghost, but unexpectedly the human head was stolen, and the body sewer was killed. The case of the town’s wealthy merchants grave moving and the girl’s disappearance, things start coming together, and Xie Qi is now in grave danger…

Lady in the Death House / 1944

As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.

Il boia scarlatto / 19653.85 voti

Per realizzare un servizio fotografico per le copertine delle sue pubblicazioni, un editore di romanzi gialli si reca con una troupe e alcune modelle presso un castello abitato solo da un attore in pensione che, escluse due guardie del corpo factotum, vive isolato dal mondo. Nonostante l'iniziale contrarietà, li accoglie per la notte. Mentre perlustrano i sotterranei del castello, alcuni membri della troupe incidentalmente rompono il sigillo che imprigiona un criminale, noto come il "boia scarlatto" che, secoli prima, era stato condannato a morte e giustiziato dentro una vergine di Norimberga nelle segrete del castello. Accadono misteriosi incidenti mortali, ma si decide di proseguire col servizio fotografico.

I duri di Hong Kong / 1974

Ko Tien Lung, avendo assistito da piccolo all'assassinio dei genitori, ordinato dallo zio Ko Tien Lok ed eseguito dal suo luogotenente Tai Hai, cresce coltivando le arti marziali e maturando propositi di vendetta. Quando, venti anni dopo, si presenta per la resa dei conti, trova lo zio padrone delle paterne acciaierie e attorniato da operai-killers. Mentre inizia le sue cruente e fortunate spedizioni punitive, diviene amante della cugina Sha You, figlia di Ko Tien Lok. L'amore per la ragazza non lo trattiene da una strage generale e dallo scontro mortale con lo zio; e non impedisce neppure un duello feroce con il fratellastro Ti Wu. La disperata Sha You, tuttavia, riesce a indurre alla pace gli stremati fratellastri.

Secret Executioners / 1982

The story centres around various gang related tribulations plus a long running feud between a scruffy looking detective who spends the entire film shivering as though suffering from Heroin withdrawal symptoms(!) and Hwang who plays his old friend who has clearly landed on the wrong side of the tracks as it were and is now head of a gang called the Yellow Tigers. Throw into this mix a sub plot involving the lucrative ownership of a night club, a woman searching for her missing sister and of course the newly edited in footage which details the hired goons fighting on behalf of the gangs

The Korean / 2008

A big city crime lord has been betrayed by four associates. With only hours until his immanent arrest...

Il giustiziere dei mari / 1962

È il 1790 e il comandante della marina britannica Redway è spinto dall'avidità di denaro e non si fermerà davanti a nulla per ottenerlo. Il suo secondo in comando, David Robinson, mette in dubbio la sua fedeltà quando Redway uccide suo padre e fa prigioniero suo fratello. Per salvare il fratello e vendicare la morte del padre, David deve unire le forze con una banda di pirati, guidata dal capitano Bernard, per dare la caccia a Redway e ucciderlo.

Wit's End / 1971

A journalist gets mixed up with a stripper, a defecting Chinese scientist and Red Chinese agents.

La larme du bourreau /

The death penalty still exists in some countries. Ashmawi, the executioner of Egypt believes to be "the hand of God on earth" and a thorough professional of legal murder. On their side, convicts express their unbearable sufferings and waiting for death.

Kung Fu Executioner / 1981

Li, a martial artist, returns home to find out that his father is being harassed by a crime syndicate. Together with an American kung fu champion he vows revenge when the syndicate kills his father.

Female Prisoner Executioner Maria / 1994

Not to be confused with the 1995 theatrical film directed by Shûji Kataoka.

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre / 2020

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.