Wrongful Conviction Movies

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...

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...

Wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Minnesota Clay seeks revenge on the man who withheld evidence at his trial. There is a problem...

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...

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

A feature-length documentary about the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world.

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

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

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

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...

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

Greg Taylor was convicted in 1993 for the murder of Jacquetta Thomas, who was beaten to death in 1992. Contributing factors to Taylor’s...

Egor, a Ukrainian MMA fighter, is wrongly convicted of the murder of his trainer, and upon release from prison he sets out to find those truly...

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

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

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...

A delinquent girl involves an innocent friend in an armed robbery followed by a jail-break and hostage-taking with her equally delinquent boyfriend.