Wrongful Conviction Movies

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...

An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced into a harsh prison sentence; a mother and her...

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.

Madan comes from a poor family background. Unable to find employment, he takes to gambling in order to pay for his sister's medical expenses. Soon,...

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...

Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an...

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and...

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony...

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

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

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

An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.

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

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

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

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...

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 crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at 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...