History FateWorseThanDeath / LiveActionFilms

* TheReveal in ''Film/TheSecretInTheirEyes'': [[spoiler:The husband of the murdered wife manages himself to kidnap and lock the killer up for twenty-five years, not even speaking to him and evidently making him GoMadFromTheIsolation]].

* Russian film, ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'', gives this to the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and sever other captured Teutonic knights. Being defeated, and held by their enemies for ransom is certainly a great humiliation.

* At the start of the film ''Film/HocusPocus'', Thackery Binks tries to save his little sister from the witches, but fails to stop them in time (leading to her death while the witches are revitalized). Once the witches catch him, he insults them and they decide to punish him (because [[BlueAndOrangeMorality in their book, insulting ladies is a worse crime than]] ''[[BlueAndOrangeMorality killing children]]''). Winifred states that dying is too light a punishment, and not only turns him into [[BalefulPolymorph an intelligent black cat]], but makes him immortal so he'll have to live forever with the fact that he failed to save Emily.

* Parodied [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g09GtnWdBjc here]] in the kung-fu movie segment of ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'', where the Fate Worse Than Death turns out to be... [[TakeThat Detroit]].

* The Phantom Zone in ''Film/{{Superman}}'' and ''Film/SupermanII'' where General Zod, Ursa, and Non are imprisoned. In both films it is stated that the intention is that they remain trapped in it for eternity. Oddly the Kryptonian view is that this is somehow ''more humane'' than just executing them!

* In ''Film/{{Downfall}}'', Hitler orders General Weidling's execution because he is thought to have moved his command post to the West. After his attempt to solve the misunderstanding, Hitler was impressed and appointed Weidling as the commander of the defense of Berlin.
-->'''Weidling:''' "I'd have preferred to be shot!"

* Russian film, ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'', gives this to the the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and sever other captured Teutonic knights. Being defeated, and held by their enemies for ransom is certainly a great humiliation.

* The Bollywood horror film ''Film/{{Tumbbad{{'' opens with the ancient tale of the god Hastar. Eons ago, Hastar was the eldest child of the Earth Goddess. He seized the endless supply of gold from his mother, but before he could hoard the endless supply of grain, he was defeated by other deities, his younger siblings. The Earth Goddess saved her child before he died, so the other deities agreed to spare him... but Hastar was imprisoned in his mother's womb, forced to endure eternal thirst and starvation. His name was erased from memory and his worship was forbidden. Somehow, the ancestors of Tumbbad discovered this story and began to worship the infernal god, exploiting his curse to hoard gold. But if they become careless, they had to suffer the curse of Hastar...

* The Bollywood horror film, Tumbbad opens with the ancient tale of the god Hastar. Eons ago, Hastar was the eldest child of the Earth Goddess. He seized the endless supply of gold from his mother, but before he could hoard the endless supply of foodgrains, he was defeated by other deities, his younger siblings. The Earth Goddess saved her child before he died, so the other deities agreed to spare him... but Hastar was imprisoned in his mother's womb, forced to endure eternal thirst and starvation. His name was erased from memory and his worship was forbidden. Somehow, the ancestors of Tumbbad discovered this story and began to worship the infernal god, exploiting his curse to hoard gold. But if they become careless, they had to suffer the curse of Hastar...

* Beautifully stated in the prologue of ''Film/TheKarateKidPartII'':

'''Mr. Miyagi''': Because Daniel, for man with no forgiveness in heart, [[CruelMercy life worse punishment than death]].
** And the trope is then [[CallBack Called Back]] in the final fight.

** Any creature unfortunate enough to stumble into the path of the Sarlacc on Tatooine -- its victims lifespans are prolonged by the Sarlacc's internal fluids while they are [[CruelAndUnusualDeath painfully digested over the course of 1000 years]]. Boba Fett is lucky enough to escape this fate in the expanded universe. But in the expanded universe, the fate of Sarlacc victims is revealed to be much worse: [[spoiler: after spending decades or even centuries inside the beast's stomach, the victims lose their bodies and survive only as disembodied consciousnesses. Worse yet, their minds become mingled with those of the Sarlacc's other meals and even with the rudimentary intelligence of the Sarlacc itself, to the point at which they almost start to believe they ''are'' the Sarlacc. Even after Boba Fett escapes, he is left with permanent scarring and weakened legs -- and occasional intrusive memories from the lifetimes of other victims he simply can't recognize]]

* What the creatures in ''Film/DeepRising'' do to their "food". Their victims are swallowed up, have their liquids effectively drained and whatever's left of the body being spit back out. Oh, and did we mention that you're still alive when you get spit out? Dying afterwards is a mercy.

* ''Film/{{Warlock}}'': Discussed when Kassandra questions why the Warlock didn't just kill her instead of casting a RapidAging curse on her that would do the process much more slowly, and says she can't imagine a worse fate. Witch Hunter Redferne confirms that this was the Warlock's intention.

* The Bollywood horror film, Tumbbad opens with the ancient tale of Hastar. Eons ago, Hastar was the eldest child of the Earth Goddess. He seized the endless supply of gold from his mother, but before he could hoard the endless supply of foodgrains, he was defeated by other deities, his younger siblings. The Earth Goddess saved her child before he died, so the other deities agreed to spare him... but Hastar was imprisoned in his mother's womb, forced to endure eternal thirst and starvation. His name was erased from memory and his worship was forbidden. Somehow, the ancestors of Tumbbad discovered this story and began to worship the forbidden god, exploiting his curse to hoard gold. But if they become careless, they had to suffer the curse of Hastar...

* Franchise/StarTrek

* In the film ''Film/Reminiscence2021'', protagonist Nick Bannister spends most of the film searching for his lost love, Mae, and eventually finds [[spoiler:her killer. Rather than kill the man directly, Nick instead traps Mae’s killer in his worst memory, forcing him to relive being burnt half to death over and over again until he suffers permanent brain damage]].