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Uncovering the Truth: Best Movies and TV Shows about Falsely Accused

Get ready to delve into the world of wrongly accused characters, where justice is turned upside down and the truth is distorted. Explore the best movies and TV shows that showcase the complexities of false accusations, from thrilling courtroom dramas to thought-provoking documentaries. Discover the stories that will leave you questioning the system and the human condition.

Stranger (2017) TV Show

8.3 212 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Hwang Shi Mok underwent brain surgery as a child to curb his violent temper, which left him devoid of emotions. Hwang becomes a prosecutor known for his piercing intelligence and logic, but he is ostracized because he lacks empathy and social skills. He is also one of only a handful of upright prosecutors who have refused to take bribes. One day, he encounters a stabbing victim while investigating corruption. He meets Lieutenant Han Yeo Jin at the crime scene. They join forces to root out corruption at the prosecutors’ office and solve a serial murder case.

Plot: corruption, detective, falsely accused, investigation, politics, police, antisocial personality disorder, lawyer, ...

Cast

Mario Casas

Ana Wagener

Jose Coronado

Bu00e1rbara Lennie

The Invisible Guest (2017)

8.1 5.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Spain

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.

Plot: barcelona, spain, businessman, falsely accused, manipulative lover, unreliable narrator, hidden truth, grieving father, ...

Cast

Buster Keaton

Kathryn McGuire

Joe Keaton

Erwin Connelly

Sherlock Jr. (1924)

8.0 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 45 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

Plot: pickpocket, amateur detective, slapstick comedy, jungle, black and white, motorcycle, false accusations, silent film, ...

Cast

Gregory Peck

Mary Badham

Phillip Alford

John Megna

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

8.0 2.9K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.

Style: melancholy, suspenseful

Plot: right and justice, rape, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, court case, court, isolation, becoming an adult, ...

Time: 1930s

Platoon (1986)

7.7 5.2K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: dying and death, helicopter, ambush, war crimes, village, mine, bunker, infantry, ...

Time: vietnam war

Cast

Ji Chang-wook

Shim Eun-kyung

Oh Jung-se

Ahn Jae-hong

Fabricated City (2017)

7.7 360 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 126 min.

Story: In real life, Kwon Yoo is unemployed, but in the virtual game world he is the best leader. Kwon Yoo is then framed for a murder. With the help of hacker Yeo-wool, he tries to uncover the truth behind the murder case.

Plot: video game, falsely accused, prison escape, murder, jail, gamer, hacking

Cast

Sidney Poitier

Rod Steiger

Warren Oates

Peter Whitney

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

7.7 1.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

Plot: small town, southern usa, police chief, stolen money, racial segregation, racist, thief, murder, ...

Cast

Adrien Brody

Marcia Gay Harden

James Caan

Christina Hendricks

Detachment (2011)

7.6 2.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

Plot: depression, falsely accused, classroom, grandfather, unhappiness, animal abuse, dreary

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Richard Crenna

Brian Dennehy

Bill McKinney

First Blood (1982)

7.5 7.0K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Netherlands Antilles

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

Style: absurd

Plot: prison, guerrilla warfare, dying and death, vietnam veteran, hero, police brutality, sheriff, escape, ...

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam

Cast

William Finley

Paul Williams

Jessica Harper

George Memmoli

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

7.5 755 votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the grand opening of Swan's new rock palace, the Paradise.

Plot: mask, new york city, rock 'n' roll, suicide attempt, greed, haunted house, phantom, palace, ...

Cast

Dennis Weaver

Jacqueline Scott

Eddie Firestone

Gene Dynarski

Duel (1971)

7.4 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller, TV Movie

Country: United States of America

Duration: 74 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.

Plot: panic, chase, gas station, falsely accused, cliff, deputy, car crash, truck, ...

Place: california

My Strange Hero (2018) TV Show

7.4 52 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 32

Story: When Kang Bok-Soo was a high school student, he was falsely accused of committing violence and kicked out of school. This was caused by his first love Son Soo-Jung and a male student Oh Se-Ho. Kang Bok-Soo is a now an adult, but his life has not gone smoothly. To get revenge on Son Soo-Jung and Oh Se-Ho, he returns to the same high school as a student. The environment at the school has changed and Kang Bok-Soo gets involved in unexpected cases.

Plot: falsely accused, high school, revenge, romance, revenge motive

Cast

Amitabh Bachchan

Taapsee Pannu

Kirti Kulhari

Andrea Tariang

Pink (2016)

7.4 247 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 136 min.

Story: After being molested, Minal and her friends try to file an FIR against a politician's nephew. When the subsequent case gets rigged, a retired lawyer helps them to fight the case.

Plot: trial, lawyer, false accusations, attempted rape, courtroom, intimidation, social thriller, courtroom drama

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Rachel Ticotin

Sharon Stone

Ronny Cox

Total Recall (1990)

7.3

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Duration: 113 min.

Story: Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.

Cast

Franu00e7ois Cluzet

Marie-Josu00e9e Croze

Andru00e9 Dussollier

Kristin Scott Thomas

Tell No One (2006)

7.2 1.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: France

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

Plot: dying and death, drug abuse, based on novel or book, loss of loved one, falsely accused, sadness, e-mail, cover-up, ...

Cast

Henry Fonda

Vera Miles

Anthony Quayle

Harold J. Stone

The Wrong Man (1956)

7.1 616 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

Plot: new york city, robbery, based on novel or book, musician, falsely accused, innocence, black and white, insurance

Cast

Chris Pratt

Rebecca Ferguson

Kali Reis

Kylie Rogers

Mercy (2026)

7.1 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In the near future, a detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has ninety minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced AI Judge he once championed, before it determines his fate.

Plot: race against time, mission, artificial intelligence (a.i.), bomb, kidnapping, dystopia, cop, los angeles, ...

Time: near future

Cast

Tom Kenny

Clancy Brown

Rodger Bumpass

Bill Fagerbakke

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)

7.1 3.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: PG

Story: There's trouble brewing in Bikini Bottom. Someone has stolen King Neptune's crown, and it looks like Mr. Krab, SpongeBob's boss, is the culprit. Though he's just been passed over for the promotion of his dreams, SpongeBob stands by his boss, and along with his best pal Patrick, sets out on a treacherous mission to Shell City to reclaim the crown and save Mr. Krab's life.

Plot: sea, ocean, falsely accused, mermaid, villain, crown, squid, crab, ...

Cast

Russell Crowe

Elizabeth Banks

Ty Simpkins

Brian Dennehy

The Next Three Days (2010)

7.1 3.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.

Plot: homicide, falsely accused, women's prison, murder, jail, suicidal, female prisoner, prison visit, ...

Cast

Will Smith

Gene Hackman

Jon Voight

Regina King

Enemy of the State (1998)

7.1 4.3K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: R

Story: When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is framed for the murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, Dean attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.

Plot: washington dc, usa, wiretap, satellite, national security agency (nsa), murder, invasion of privacy, on the run, ...

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