After Innocence (2005), Out of Innocence (2016), Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996), The Thin Blue Line (1988), West of Memphis (2012), Just Mercy (2019), Call Northside 777 (1948), The Life of David Gale (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Wrongful Conviction movies.
Storyline: Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter) is arrested for being an accomplice to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.) when he unknowingly aids an injured John Wilkes Booth (Francis McDonald) following the shooting at Ford's Theater. He's sentenced to life in prison and sent to a treacherous penal colony on a remote island in the Dry Tortugas. But when yellow fever breaks out on the island and strikes the prison's doctor, Mudd's medical training becomes invaluable.
Plot Keywords: historical, drama, biography, american, black and white, 1930s, war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A single mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.
Plot Keywords: racial discrimination, injustice, legal system, african american, single mother, poverty, civil rights ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tom Garrett's a reporter on leave from his job. As Tom's having difficulty writing the book, his boss, publisher Austin Spencer, suggests he write a non-fiction book on capital punishment, The pair set out to frame Tom for a murder he didn't commit in order to eradicate capital punishment.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: film noir, courtroom drama, legal thriller, crime, mystery, drama, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, film noir, courtroom, wrongful conviction, suspense, social justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the mid-1990s, two inmates bury the burned bodies of two lifers at Mississippi's infamous Parchman Farm; a third old-timer relates their story. They'd served 65 years for a murder they didn't commit, framed by a local sheriff while buying moonshine whiskey for a Manhattan club owner to whom they owed money. In flashbacks we see this odd couple thrown together (Ray is a fast-talking con man, and Claude is a serious man about to start work as a bank teller), the loss of Ray's watch (sterling silver, from his daddy), the murder and trial, the hardships of Parchman, and the love-hate relationship of Claude and Ray as they spend 65 years bickering and looking for a way to escape.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, comedy, alien, prison, friendship, race relations, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics and the activities of his father, a well known liberal social reformer, than the actual crime itself.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: political thriller, historical event, based on true story, judicial injustice, social criticism, conspiracy theory, courtroom drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood), Oakland Tribune journalist with a passion for women and alcohol, is given the coverage of the upcoming execution of murderer Frank Louis Beachum (Isaiah Washington). His attractive colleague Michelle Ziegler (Mary McCormack) died in a car accident the night before. Bob Findley (Denis Leary), Steve's boss and husband to Steve's current affair, wants him dead and gone as soon as possible. When Steve stumbles across the possibility of Frank Louis Beachum being innocently on death row, Bob feels his time to have come. Now Steve only has a few hours left to prove the innocence of Frank and to be right with this theory, as he definitely will be history if he's not.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, investigation, journalist, murder, legal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, wrongful conviction, prison, revenge, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bobby Earl (Blair Underwood) is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime, he calls in Paul Armstrong (Sir Sean Connery), a professor of law, to help prove his innocence. Armstrong quickly uncovers some overlooked evidence to present to the local police, but they aren't interested, Bobby was their killer.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, mystery, legal, murder, death penalty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, film noir, mystery, courtroom, revenge, father-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The midnight murder of a rancher and his wife leaves circumstantial evidence pointing the finger of guilt toward a married couple, George Braden and his wife Ellen, who live and work on the ranch. George confesses to the killings in order to free his wife from hours of grilling by the police. Despite the best efforts of his defense attorney Doug Madison, George gets the death penalty. Subsequent events, and his sympathy for Ellen convince Doug that George is innocent, but he must find the real murderer to prove it. His manhunt leads to a former hired hand, Max Verne. With the help of the latter's greedy girlfriend, Gracie Sanger, Max is found and admits to the killings. But when a hearing is held, a psychiatrist pronounces him unsound of mind but harmless, and the judge sets him free. After the Governor rejects Doug's pleas for an appeal for George, the townspeople turn against him, and his fiancée Paula Mitchener misconstrues his association with Ellen and breaks their engagement, and, having spent all his own money in an effort to achieve justice for George, and with his practice gone, Doug prepares to leave town.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime drama, courtroom drama, murder mystery, legal thriller, wrongful conviction, b movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, drama, romance, heist, wrongful conviction, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep friendship, while all the while the date for her execution draws nearer.—Jonathan Broxton <j.w.broxton@sheffield.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, legal, death penalty, lawyer, prisoner, female lead ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a young man is executed for committing murder, he leaves behind a curse letter, promising vengeance for all those connected to his unfair trial.
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, crime, mystery, based on true story, death penalty, wrongful conviction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: African-American Marine Corporal Lindsay Scott (Richard Yearwood) is charged with raping another Marine's wife, a white woman, near the Quantico military base in Virginia. Civil rights activist Lori Jackson (Lynn Whitfield), who has no formal legal training, takes on the case. After Scott is convicted -- despite a lack of evidence -- Jackson refuses to give up, instead using the power of the media to fight the considerable forces of the military justice system and seek freedom for Scott.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, tv movie, based on true story, legal, crime, female lead ...
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