Le meurtrier

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of the archetypal villain.

The crazed brother of a condemned killer sent to the gas chamber swears vengeance on those he holds responsible for his brother's execution.

A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.

A child murderess is led to her execution.

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come running into t…

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 fo…

An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.

After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for small town attorney Kent "Mac" McClain... until he's assigned a capital punishment case that begins to transform …

Obsessed with a young woman, mad scientist Dr. Igor Markoff injects her father with a horrific disease that causes grotesque deformities. As the pianist's condition deteriorates, he faces an impossible ch…

A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidentally revives an executed criminal and makes him impervious to harm, allowing him to seek revenge on his fo…

Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.

When an experimental lethal injection makes an inmate immortal, the most dangerous convicts seize control of the prison in a desperate bid to escape and conquer the world.

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a s…

In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart. As Janet attempts to c…

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.

A Belgian serial killer escapes prison just as filmmakers prepare a movie about his life, creating deadly chaos on a movie set where a maverick director must survive his most dangerous production.

A sadistic count brutally tortures and murders his unfaithful wife and her lover, removing their hearts as the ultimate act of vengeance. Years later, when he remarries her mentally fragile sister for her…