Highest-Rated Movies about 'Miscarriage Of Justice'

12 Angry Men (1957), The Green Mile (1999), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996), Papillon (1973), The Ox-Bow Incident (1942), Fury (1936), Atonement (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Miscarriage Of Justice movies.

#16. Dark Passage (1947)

Storyline: Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features are too well known, and is forced to seek some illicit backroom plastic surgery. The entire pre-knife part of the film is shot from a Bogart's-eye-view, with us seeing the fugitive for the first time as he starts to recuperate from the operation in the apartment of a sympathetic young artist (played by Bacall) for whom he soon finds affection. But what he's really after is revenge.

Plot Keywords: fugitive, miscarriage of justice, murder, plastic surgery, subjective camera, based on novel, taxi ...

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#17. The Hurricane (1999)

Storyline: This film tells the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, an African-American man who rose above his troubled youth to become a top contender for the middle-weight boxing title. However, his dreams are shattered when he is accused of a triple murder, and is convicted to three natural-life terms. Despite becoming a cause celebre and his dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography, the years of fruitless efforts have left him discouraged. This changes when an African-American boy and his Canadian mentors read his book and are convinced of his innocence enough to work for his exoneration. However, what Hurricane and his friends learn is that this fight puts them against a racist establishment that profited from this travesty and have no intention of seeing it reversed.

Plot Keywords: friendship, corrupt official, incarceration, 1940s, surrogate family, robbery, loyalty ...

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#18. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

Storyline: Novelist Richard Harland and socialite Ellen Berent meet on a train and are attracted to each other. They fall in love and decide to get married. They love each other, in spite of their differences. Ellen's love for Richard is obsessive - possessive, and wants Richard all to herself. Richard learns to what extent Ellen will go to get what she wants,—Huggo

Plot Keywords: lodge, expectant mother, pregnant wife, imperative in title, flashback, expectant father, husband wife relationship ...

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#19. Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Storyline: Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: lynching, homicide, racial discrimination, racial prejudice, racial tension, uncle nephew relationship, falling into water ...

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#20. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

Storyline: 1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law's shop; his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices. Settle in the chair and listen.

Plot Keywords: neo noir, chain smoking, piano, 1940s, execution, embezzlement, drunkenness ...

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#21. Promising Young Woman (2020)

Storyline: Pushing thirty, and defined by a hideous crime involving her bosom friend, Nina, emotionally scarred medical school dropout, Cassie, knows firsthand that some wounds never heal. Leading an uneventful existence, still living with her parents, waiting tables at a cheap coffee shop to earn a living, Cassie has found the perfect way to deal with the painful past. Dressed to kill, at night, Cassie frequents the local bars and nightclubs, pretending to be dead-drunk, utterly helpless and vulnerable. And, every week, lethally beautiful Cassie is on the prowl for all sorts of nocturnal predators and other wolves in sheep's clothing, who are unaware that, sometimes, the hunter can become the prey. Then, Ryan, a kindly and caring old classmate who is the bee's knees, enters the picture, and just like that, Cassie wants out. However, everybody knows that breaking bad habits is easier said than done. Could Ryan be the one?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: revenge, female protagonist, rape and revenge, rape, gender in title, hypocrisy, title directed by female ...

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#22. The Next Three Days (2010)

Storyline: Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

Plot Keywords: father son relationship, dumpster, female doctor, doctor, kiss, handcuffs, robbery ...

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#23. To Catch a Thief (1955)

Storyline: American expatriate John Robie, living in high style on the Riviera, is a retired cat burglar. He must find out who a copycat is to keep a new wave of jewel thefts from being pinned on him. High on the list of prime victims is Jessie Stevens, in Europe to help daughter Frances find a suitable husband. The Lloyds of London insurance agent is using a thief to catch a thief. Take an especially close look at scene where Robie gets Jessie's attention, dropping an expensive casino chip down the décolletage of a French roulette player.

Plot Keywords: based on novel, reckless driving, french riviera, burglar, thief, beach, masked ball ...

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#24. Detroit (2017)

Storyline: A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest RACE riots in United States history. The story is centred around the Algiers Motel incident, which occurred in Detroit, Michigan on July 25, 1967, during the racially charged 12th Street Riot. It involves the death of three black men and the brutal beatings of nine other people: seven black men and two white women.

Plot Keywords: racism, police, riot, african american, fear, motel, singing ...

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#25. Cape Fear (1991)

Storyline: Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte)is a small-town corporate attorney/"Leave It to Beaver" type family-man. Max Cady (Robert De Niro) is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Plot Keywords: revenge, adultery, stalking, family in danger, movie theater, neo noir, dysfunctional family ...

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#26. The Westerner (1940)

Storyline: Cole Harden just doesn't look like a horse thief, Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with him as he empties all of his coins on the bar to buy drinks for the jury. He notices two big pictures of Lily Langtry behind the bar. Sure, Cole has met the Jersey Lily, whom the hanging judge adores, even has a lock of her hair. Hanging is delayed for two weeks, giving Cole time to get in the middle of a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders and to still be around when Lily Langtry, former mistress of Edward VII who became an international actress, arrives in Texas.—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>

Plot Keywords: opening action scene, fast draw, gunshot wound, fistfight, brawl, saved from hanging, colt 45 ...

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#27. You Only Live Once (1937)

Storyline: Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city. She is in love with a career criminal named Eddie, and she believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. She uses her influence to get him released early, and he tries to go straight after marrying her, but things don't work out, and they both go on the lam.—Tim Horrigan <horrigan@eworld.com>

Plot Keywords: on the run, bank robbery, fired from the job, frog, fugitive, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship ...

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#28. Meri Jung (1985)

Storyline: Deepak Verma is framed for a Murder by GD Thakral even thou he is innocent his wife Aarti pleads to Thakral but it goes unanswered and Deepak is hanged till death,Aarti disappears after the incident her children Arun and Komal believe she is dead they both become homeless,Arun starts doing odd jobs and becomes a famous lawyer in the city and someday wants to fight a case opposite Thakral while Komal is still at college,Geeta comes to Arun to ask him to fight case of her sister Dr Asha ,Arun rejects at first but later risks his life and gives justice to Asha as he finds Asha was framed,Arun and Geeta start meeting and fall in love Komal be friend's Vicky,Vicky whose a spoil brat of Thakral,Asha 's husband Dinesh notices photo of Arun 's mother in his house and recollects that she is still alive and living in and asylum and suffering from mental disorder,Arun gets his mother home feeling she might get back to normal he enters a function which has Thakral has chief guest and insults him,Vicky now decides to take revenge of this insult and comforts Komal to get married to him this angers Arun, Geeta takes Komal to stay with her in Asha and Dinesh 's house,Vicky calls Komal and asks her to elope with him but Vicky's former girlfriend Indu reaches and tells Komal that Vicky is cheating her in a tiff Vicky kills Indu which is noticed by Dinesh and Asha meanwhile Arun reaches the spot to share good news that his mother is alright and he is shocked to see Indu being murdered, Vicky is arrested the same night and at Indu's funeral Arun notices that she is the daughter of Gupta who had tried hard to prove his father innocent and decides to give justice to Indu,Arun's long wait is now over as he wanted to battle opposite Thakral he tells him that he is son of Deepak whom he falsely acquitted now Thakral and Vicky will pay for their crimes after a lot of courtroom drama Arun proves that Vicky is guilty for Indu's murder and judge orders him to be hanged,Thakral being biggest lawyer in the city can't take this that he couldn't save his son and looses his mental balance and is put in asylum, Aarti now lives happily with her children.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com

Plot Keywords: lawyer, miscarriage of justice, rivalry, chess, death sentence, trauma, catatonia ...

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#29. The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

Storyline: Biff Grimes is pugnacious but likable young man during the Gay 90's living with his ne'er-do-well father, noted for their scrappy personalities and quick tempers. Like every other young man in town, Biff has a crush on gorgeous and flirtatious 'strawberry blonde' Virginia Brush, who gets catcalls every time she walks past the all-male clientèle of the neighborhood barber shop. Biff is joined in his admiration by his friends, Nick Pappalis, an immigrant Greek barber, and Hugo Barnsfeld, an unscrupulously ambitious young man who doesn't let anything stand in the way of what he wants, including Virginia. Utilizing both fair means and foul Hugo sweeps Vrginia off her feet and frames Biff as the fall guy in a political graft schemee. However, every dog has his day, and eight years later Biff stands poised to take his revenge.—duke1029@aol.com

Plot Keywords: evil businessman, horse and cart, spaghetti, park bench, class differences, 1890s, plant in title ...

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#30. Conviction (2010)

Storyline: Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.

Plot Keywords: year 1995, year 2001, year 1992, church, death of grandfather, dead mother, stabbing ...

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