Wrongful Conviction Movies

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

A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.

A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.

In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn't even seem to see him. The...

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

In 1973, Michael and Patrick McDonagh were sentenced to life in prison for a murder they didn't commit. In Mark Williams-Thomas' latest...

In Dark Places is the gripping story of an innocent man, imprisoned for two decades for a crime he did not commit, and an ex-cop's heroic battle to...

A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.

A wrongly convicted father comes home after thirteen years in prison to discover that his real battle is building a relationship with his daughter.

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...

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

A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.

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...

This documentary recalled the terrible murder of Michelangelo and Maria, an eight-year-old father and daughter, who were murdered after receiving a...

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007, always insisting on...

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...

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...

Sung, a renowned solicitor in China, has everything that a man could ask for except a son. The problem wasn't that his wife could not bear him a son...

The story of David Robinson’s nearly eighteen-year struggle to prove his innocence and the devastating effects wrongful convictions have on not...