The Headsman and the Harlot (1986)
• December 29th, 1986 • 1h 24min
Drama, Romance, TV Movie
Overview
Sweden, beginning of the 18th Century. Executions are popular entertainment and brothels a given. Still the executioner and the whore are both despised and shunned. The executioner became executioner against his will and the whore, only 17 years old, was forced into the brothel. This is the story of how the two meet and exchange cruelty with tenderness, guilt with innocence.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Dos palabras en la arena
Released on: 2018-05-10
Romance
A story of a friendship that wants to be something more. A story of support and connection. A story ...
The Warrior
Released on: 2001-09-07
History, Drama, Action, War
In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...
Andrei Rublev
Released on: 1966-12-16
Drama, History
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...
Tristan & Isolde
Released on: 2006-04-07
Drama, Romance
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spell...
The Name of the Rose
Released on: 1986-09-24
Drama, Thriller, Mystery
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to f...
The Seventh Seal
Released on: 1957-02-16
Fantasy, Drama
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...
The Masque of the Red Death
Released on: 1964-06-24
Drama, Horror
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red...
Another Woman
Released on: 1988-10-13
Drama
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to wor...
Oldrich and Bozena
Released on: 1985-08-01
History, Drama
At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war betw...
The Last Warrior
Released on: 2018-01-18
Action, Drama, Fantasy, History, Adventure
A new era is about to begin in Eastern Europe. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone and m...
Arn: The Knight Templar
Released on: 2007-12-25
Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land...
Beatrice
Released on: 1987-11-11
Drama
Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from Engl...
Black Death
Released on: 2010-06-07
Drama, History, Horror
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. Ther...
Ivanhoe
Released on: 1982-02-23
History, Adventure, TV Movie
Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, ...
Camelot
Released on: 1967-10-25
Adventure, Music, Romance
The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to S...
Second Coming
Released on: 2014-09-02
Drama
A married, middle-class London couple are shocked when they seem to have been blessed — or cursed — ...