Wrongful Conviction Movies

A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.

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...

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...

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

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...

Fighting to prove his innocence, Andrew Malkinson tells the shocking story of how he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for a horrific...

George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because...

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...

Five friends are picked up as suspects in a political murder, and the cops detain one among them to save face in front of the media. To save him, the...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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