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51. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Not Rated | 101 min | Documentary, Crime
A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson
Votes: 26,088 | Gross: $1.21M
52. Wrongfully Accused (1998)
PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
Ryan Harrison is framed for murder and must prove himself innocent by finding a mysterious one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged man after escaping from a bus accident on the way to jail.
Director: Pat Proft | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Richard Crenna, Kelly LeBrock, Melinda McGraw
Votes: 29,378 | Gross: $9.62M
53. Human Experiments (1979)
R | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.
Director: Gregory Goodell | Stars: Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle
Votes: 887
54. Veer-Zaara (2004)
Not Rated | 192 min | Drama, Family, Musical
"Veer-Zaara" is a saga of love, separation, courage, and sacrifice. A love story that is an inspiration and will remain a legend forever.
Director: Yash Chopra | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Preity G Zinta, Rani Mukerji, Kirron Kher
Votes: 57,599 | Gross: $2.92M
55. True Crime (1999)
R | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton, James Woods
Votes: 38,612 | Gross: $16.64M
56. The Chase (1994)
PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Escaped convict Jack Hammond takes a woman hostage and sets off for the Mexican border with the police hot on his tail.
Director: Adam Rifkin | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Kristy Swanson, Henry Rollins, Josh Mostel
Votes: 22,249 | Gross: $8.01M
57. The Spanish Main (1945)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
After being wronged by the Caribbean authorities, a Dutch captain turns pirate to wage war.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 1,892
58. Brian Banks (2018)
PG-13 | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Years later, he fights to clear his name within an unjust system.
Director: Tom Shadyac | Stars: Aldis Hodge, Greg Kinnear, Sherri Shepherd, Melanie Liburd
Votes: 9,303 | Gross: $4.32M
59. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton
Votes: 5,322
60. Lockdown (2000)
R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller
Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.
Director: John Luessenhop | Stars: Richard T. Jones, De'aundre Bonds, Gabriel Casseus, Master P
Votes: 2,736 | Gross: $0.45M
61. 13th (2016)
TV-MA | 100 min | Documentary, Crime, History
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Dolores Canales
Votes: 37,736
62. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest
Votes: 28,583
63. A Score to Settle (2019)
Not Rated | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-enforcer for a local crime syndicate has vowed to enact retribution on his mob bosses after 19 years of wrongful imprisonment. The only thing diverting his violent plans is a new found relationship to his beloved son.
Director: Shawn Ku | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Noah Le Gros, Karolina Wydra, Mohamed Karim
Votes: 7,133
64. Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
R | 78 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In an alternative Victorian Age Gotham City, Batman begins his war on crime while he investigates a new series of murders by Jack the Ripper.
Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Jennifer Carpenter, Chris Cox, John DiMaggio
Votes: 19,039
65. An Innocent Man (1989)
R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man is framed by two corrupt cops for drugs. After he gets out of prison, he comes after them.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins, David Rasche
Votes: 7,671 | Gross: $20.05M
66. Chained Heat 2 (1993)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
An innocent woman is sent to a Czech prison, where the sadistic warden and guards rape and perform bizarre sex acts on the prisoners.
Director: Lloyd A. Simandl | Stars: Brigitte Nielsen, Paul Koslo, Kimberley Kates, Kari Whitman
Votes: 1,486
67. West of Memphis (2012)
R | 147 min | Documentary, Crime
An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.
Director: Amy Berg | Stars: Jason Baldwin, Damien Wayne Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Michael Baden
Votes: 10,980 | Gross: $0.31M
68. Text (2019)
132 min | Drama, Thriller
College student Ilya spends 7 years in prison on a fake drug bust. Coming out, he wants revenge on the dirty cop, Pyotr. He gets Pyotr's smartphone filled with personal info and starts texting - pretending to be Pyotr.
Director: Klim Shipenko | Stars: Alexander Petrov, Kristina Asmus, Ivan Yankovskiy, Sofya Ozerova
Votes: 3,513
69. The Evil Eye (1963)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
A mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: John Saxon, Letícia Román, Valentina Cortese, Titti Tomaino
Votes: 5,394
70. Det som göms i snö (2018– )
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Peter Wendel returns after a long sick leave to form a team to reopen cold cases; the team find clues that an innocent man has been convicted of murder.
Stars: Robert Gustafsson, Louise Peterhoff, Ia Langhammer, Christopher Wagelin
Votes: 3,521
71. Remember: War of the Son (2015–2016)
60 min | Drama, Thriller
Jin-Woo is a young man with the condition of Hyperthymesia, which allows him to remember everything in details. In order to prove that his father is innocence, he becomes a lawyer and make a team to solve different cases using his memory.
Stars: Yoo Seung-ho, Park Min-Young, Min Nam-koong, Park Sung-woong
Votes: 1,229
72. The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
R | 165 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A Greek tycoon's mistress tries to track down and find her ex-World War II lover.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone
Votes: 1,948 | Gross: $24.65M
73. The Reckoning (2003)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A priest on the lam takes up with a traveling band of actors, who then discover a murder has occurred and try to solve it by recreating the crime in a play.
Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Paul Bettany, Marián Aguilera, Trevor Steedman
Votes: 6,407 | Gross: $0.26M
74. The Detective (1968)
Approved | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
While grappling with his wife's infidelity, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a gay man, which he discovers is linked to official corruption involving sex and drugs.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman
Votes: 4,171 | Gross: $14.30M
75. Call Northside 777 (1948)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker
Votes: 10,280
76. Johnny Frank Garrett's Last Word (2016)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
When a young man is executed for committing murder, he leaves behind a curse letter, promising vengeance for all those connected to his unfair trial.
Director: Simon Rumley | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Mike Doyle, Erin Cummings, Mike Gassaway
Votes: 1,543
77. Riot in a Women's Prison (1974)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama
Young French tourist Martine gets falsely accused of drug possession in Italy. She's imprisoned in a brutal women's prison where inmates face abuse from staff and other prisoners. A riot erupts, intensifying the ordeal.
Director: Brunello Rondi | Stars: Martine Brochard, Marilù Tolo, Erna Schurer, Katia Christine
Votes: 223
78. Lust for Freedom (1987)
R | 92 min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
A former female cop is framed by corrupt police, acting in collusion with the local judge, and has to fight her way out of the pen, alone, against tough inmates, and the people in charge.
Director: Eric Louzil | Stars: Melanie Coll, William J. Kulzer, Judi Trevor, Howard Knight
Votes: 583
79. Virumandi (2004)
Not Rated | 175 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A temperamental farmer gets embroiled in a bloody clan feud in a southern Tamil Nadu village.
Director: Kamal Haasan | Stars: Kamal Haasan, Abhirami, Pasupathy, Napolean
Votes: 7,805
80. A Dangerous Man (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A man is, after 14 years in special ops and 6 years wrongfully imprisoned, in the middle of a Chinese triad/corrupt police shootout saving a Russian gangster's son and liberating a Chinese girl and a bag of money. The girl asks for help.
Director: Keoni Waxman | Stars: Steven Seagal, Marlaina Mah, Vitaly Kravchenko, Mike Dopud
Votes: 5,069
81. The Central Park Five (2012)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary, Crime, History
A documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. After having spent between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime.
Directors: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon | Stars: Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Kharey Wise, Raymond Santana
Votes: 7,944 | Gross: $0.27M
82. Ariel (1988)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää, Eetu Hilkamo
Votes: 8,385
83. Zoot Suit (1981)
R | 103 min | Drama, Musical
When barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their freedom.
Director: Luis Valdez | Stars: Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly
Votes: 1,345 | Gross: $3.26M
84. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis
Votes: 14,478 | Gross: $1.42M
85. The Fixer (1968)
M | 132 min | Drama
In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 1,471
86. Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
Not Rated | 121 min | Documentary, Crime
A further followup of the case of the West Memphis Three and the decades long fight to exonerate them that finally gained traction with new DNA evidence.
Directors: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Stars: Gary Gitchell, Todd Moore, Dana Moore, Pam Hobbs
Votes: 10,890
87. Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, History
When another child goes missing, washed-up solicitor John Piggott unwittingly provides a catalyst for Detective Chief Superindent Maurice Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
Director: Anand Tucker | Stars: David Morrissey, Lisa Howard, Chris Walker, Shaun Dooley
Votes: 8,333
88. The Human Factor (1979)
R | 115 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson, Derek Jacobi, Joop Doderer
Votes: 1,584
89. Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
GP | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1920s Boston, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are scrutinized for their anarchist beliefs while on trial for robbery and murder.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Rosanna Fratello
Votes: 3,739 | Gross: $0.19M
90. Mind Over Murder (2022)
TV-MA | 331 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Chronicles the bizarre and psychologically complex story of six individuals who were convicted for the 1985 murder of a beloved 68- year-old grandmother, Helen Wilson, in Beatrice, Nebraska.
Stars: Tim Shelburne, Noah Archibald, Cara D'Adamo, Scott Watson
Votes: 1,650
91. The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance
Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 3,062
92. Zinda (2006)
Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A man, taken and locked up for 14 years without any sane reason, is suddenly released, and has 4 days to figure out why this was done to him.
Director: Sanjay Gupta | Stars: Sanjay Dutt, John Abraham, Lara Dutta, Celina Jaitly
Votes: 3,766 | Gross: $0.33M
93. My 5 Wives (2000)
R | 100 min | Comedy
After his third divorce, a rich LA builder buys land in Utah for a ski resort. The dead landowner's cute wives come with the deal. A Vegas mob boss wanted the land and problems follow.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Rodney Dangerfield, Andrew Dice Clay, John Byner, Molly Shannon
Votes: 1,900
94. The Talk of the Town (1942)
Approved | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An escaped prisoner has to prove his innocence to a stuffy law professor with the help of a spirited school teacher.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 9,146
95. They Call Me Renegade (1987)
PG | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Renegade Luke has been living an easy life so far, travelling through the southwest with his horse Joe, making money by running small-time scams. All this comes to an end when he encounters... See full summary »
Director: Enzo Barboni | Stars: Terence Hill, Robert Vaughn, Ross Hill, Norman Bowler
Votes: 3,179
96. The Barber of Siberia (1998)
180 min | Comedy, Drama, History
At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko, Richard Harris
Votes: 12,815
97. Fate (2001)
119 min | Drama
Musa, who works as a bookkeeper in the customs office, believes in the emptiness and absurdity of life. He doesn't struggle to change his life; he lets himself flow along with events ... See full summary »
Director: Zeki Demirkubuz | Stars: Serdar Orçin, Zeynep Tokus, Engin Günaydin, Demir Karahan
Votes: 7,080
98. Murder! (1930)
TV-PG | 92 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman
Votes: 6,969
99. Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A young man, harshly sentenced for a few minor infractions, escapes from a prison in Huntsville Texas and flees to Laredo, Texas, where he hopes to cross into Mexico for a reunion with his wife and small son.
Director: Jeff Kanew | Stars: Kirk Douglas, John Schneider, Lee Purcell, Lisa Dunsheath
Votes: 1,318 | Gross: $1.26M
100. They Won't Forget (1937)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger
Votes: 1,947