Movies and TvShows featuring "mock-execution" theme.

In 1979, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking more than 50 hostages. Six Americans manage to escape and hide in the Canadian ambassador's residence. A CIA agent comes up with a plan to rescue them by pretending to be a Hollywood producer scouting for a sci-fi film. With the help of a film producer and make-up artist, they create a cover story and successfully exfiltrate the Americans from Iran.

A bushman living in the Kalahari Desert encounters a Coca-Cola bottle, which leads him on a journey to the modern world and a clash of cultures.

Leviathan is a movie set in a small fishing village in Russia. The plot revolves around a car mechanic who stands up against political corruption and an evil politician. The story explores themes of government corruption, legal battles, and the influence of the Orthodox Church. The mechanic's life takes a downward spiral as he battles against a corrupt system and faces personal tragedies like alcoholism and an unhappy marriage.

During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end before they can fight in it.

Rosewater is a biographical drama film based on the memoir of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari. It tells the story of Bahari's imprisonment and interrogation in Iran, following the controversial 2009 Iranian presidential election. The film explores themes of political repression, journalism, and the struggle for justice.

A woman with a secretive past finds herself caught up in a dangerous web of deception and violence as her past comes back to haunt her. With her life in danger, she must navigate through a world of gangsters, drug dealers, and femme fatales to uncover the truth and save herself.

When a criminal gang takes a family hostage, they must find a way to survive while the police work to rescue them. Based on a true story, this film-noir thriller delves into the complexities of family relationships and the terrifying reality of a hostage situation.

Wolfgang Stein spends years in Bautzen prison for attempting to flee the republic. He was ransomed by the West German government in 1971 and ended up in a reception camp in Unna. There he falls in love with a nurse, Anne, with whom he soon moves in together, who becomes pregnant by him and whom he soon marries. One day, an old friend, Dieter Michaelis, a fellow prisoner from Bautzen, comes to the reception center and asks Stein to work as an escape helper for his brother-in-law living in the GDR.

In 1960s London, an American industrial designer becomes entangled in a dangerous espionage plot when he is blackmailed into helping British intelligence. With his life on the line, he must navigate the treacherous world of international espionage, dodging assassins and outsmarting the Stasi. As he goes on the run, he must uncover a hidden invention that holds the key to victory in the Cold War.

American soldiers, captured by North Korean's, are periodically brainwashed into giving up their capitalist ways to join the communist movement.

Captain Scarlett rescues Princess Maria from being abducted while travelling. She's not exactly grateful. He finds out that she is to be married to a man she doesn't like, so Captain Scarlet attempts to help her but winds up in prison for his efforts. He escapes and finally helps the reluctant bride who winds up joining Captain Scarlett and his sidekick and they become something along the lines of the three musketeers.

1877, the tribe of the Nez Percés Indians are driven into the reservation by a white cavalry force. So that they can not escape, their horses are requisitioned. Sub-chief "White Feather" has no choice but to make a scout with the cavalry and retrieve the stolen horses through his life.