Wrongful Conviction Movies

Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and...

When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is...

In this story of stolen cars, stolen guns, and stolen thrills, a delinquent girl lures middle-aged, would-be Romeos into a setup, and waits for her...

A small town is haunted by the twin daughters of a wrongfully convicted man. Young Jordan is sent down the path to who the real killer is only to...

In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a...

Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local...

This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true...

On parole after three years in prison, a football player encounters the man who framed him.

This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought...

A massacre occurred in a quiet hacienda wherein its owner Rafael Montemayor is found dead, his wife Agnes and son Radino are missing, and the...

In a major murder case, an innocent man is convicted. Though saved at the last moment, his sanity is gone and he kills himself. Soon, the jurors on...

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the...

At the end of the Greater East Asia War, young Amada Koichi and his father were wrongfully accused as spy suspects and his father died in prison...

The harrowing story of a woman trying to use Alabama's Stand Your Ground law after killing a man she says brutally attacked her.

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an...

A convicted murderer holds the world hostage with a year 2000 virus in all the world's major computer systems.

Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick...

Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless...