Films like Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
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...
10 to watch next
-
Oranges and Sunshine
Film · 2010 · also drama and historyThe story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of child...
Films like Oranges and Sunshine → -
10 Rillington Place
Film · 1971 · also historyThe story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy...
Films like 10 Rillington Place → -
Milada
Film · 2017 · also drama and historyPre-WWII Czech democratic politician Milada Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Opposing the 1948 coup but not leaving the co...
Films like Milada → -
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Film · 2019 · also dramaA chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Films like Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile → -
Wilde
Film · 1997 · also drama and historyOscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. After much toil, Wilde debuts 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in London...
Films like Wilde → -
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Film · 2015 · also drama and historyIn 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the p...
Films like The Stanford Prison Experiment → -
The Shawshank Redemption
Film · 1994 · also dramaImprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his acco...
Films like The Shawshank Redemption → -
Adventures of a Mathematician
Film · 2021 · also drama and historyThe warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all...
Films like Adventures of a Mathematician → -
Being the Ricardos
Film · 2021 · also drama and historyLucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
Films like Being the Ricardos → -
Nuremberg
Film · 2025 · also drama and historyIn postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intelle...
Films like Nuremberg →