🏷 Discover The Best Wrongly Accused Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Uncovering the Truth: Exploring Movies and TV Shows about Wrongly Accused

Get ready to immerse yourself in captivating stories of injustice, redemption, and the unyielding pursuit of truth. From classic films to modern TV series, discover the best movies and shows that delve into the complexities of wrongful accusations, where innocent lives are turned upside down and the truth is slowly unraveled.

Cast

Tim Robbins

Morgan Freeman

Bob Gunton

William Sadler

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

8.7 30.8K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: R

Story: Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Style: epic

Plot: prison, friendship, police brutality, corruption, based on novel or book, freedom, hope, prison cell, ...

Time: 1940s

Cast

Aras Bulut u0130ynemli

Nisa Sofiya Aksongur

u0130lker Aksum

Mesut Akusta

Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019)

8.3 4.6K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Turkey

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.

Plot: parent child relationship, prison cell, remake, wrongful imprisonment, based on movie, mentally challenged

Cast

Park Shin-hye

Lee Jong-suk

Kim Young-kwang

Lee Yu-bi

Pinocchio (2014) TV Show

8.2 647 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-14

Story: In-ha and Ha-myeong become reporters for different reasons: one aspires to follow in her mother's footsteps and the other seeks to do honest news.

Plot: journalism, revenge, romance, bromance, tragic past, news report, hidden identity, double identity, ...

Cast

Nattapol Diloknawarit

Pakorn Thanasrivanitchai

Sapol Assawamunkong

Patara Eksangkul

Manner of Death (2020) TV Show

8.2 46 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 14

Story: A forensic doctor uncovers a murder disguised as suicide. When threats follow, he joins forces with a mysterious suspect to expose the truth—and stay alive.

Plot: corruption, based on novel or book, attempted murder, investigation, murder, mafia, misunderstanding, injury, ...

Cast

Wentworth Miller

Dominic Purcell

Sarah Wayne Callies

Paul Adelstein

Prison Break (2005) TV Show

8.1 6.0K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 88

Audience: TV-14

Story: Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.

Plot: prison, prisoner, brother, conspiracy, escape, fugitive, wrongful imprisonment, ex-con, ...

Cast

Park Bo-gum

Park So-dam

Byeon Woo-seok

Lee Chang-hoon

Record of Youth (2020) TV Show

8.1 238 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: In a cutthroat world where the life you’re born into decides your success, three aspiring youths are determined to change that perception as they fight for their dreams.

Plot: love triangle, suicide, regret, photographer, professor, strong woman, beauty, banker, ...

Cast

Carolina Ramu00edrez

Carlos Torres

Juan Manuel Restrepo

Mariana Gu00f3mez

The Queen of Flow (2018) TV Show

8.0 1.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Colombia, United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 237

Audience: TV-14

Story: Seventeen years after being wrongly imprisoned, a talented songwriter seeks justice against the men who caused her downfall and killed her family.

Plot: medellín, colombia, revenge, singer, wrongful imprisonment, telenovela

Cast

Ryu Seung-ryong

Park Shin-hye

Kal So-won

Jung Jin-young

Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013)

7.9 498 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: South Korea

Duration: 128 min.

Story: A story about a mentally ill man wrongfully imprisoned for murder and his relationship with his 6 year old daughter.

Plot: parent child relationship, prison cell, wrongful imprisonment, mentally challenged

Cast

Ji Chang-wook

Nam Ji-hyun

Choi Tae-joon

Kwon Na-ra

Suspicious Partner (2017) TV Show

7.8 171 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 40

Story: Noh Ji-Wook is a prosecutor in the Central District Prosecutors’ Office who ends up switching professions to a private attorney. He harbors a trauma stemming from an event in his childhood involving his parents and his first love. Eun Bong-Hee, a Taekwondo athlete in her youth, is a prosecutor trainee who has become a murder suspect. Eun Bong-Hee and Noh Ji-Wook both find themselves being the focus of a killer.

Plot: partner, tragic past, prosecutor, ex-boyfriend ex-girlfriend relationship, murder suspect, cohabitation, wrongfully accused

Cast

Manolo Cardona

Carolina Miranda

Ginu00e9s Garcu00eda Millu00e1n

Claudia Ramu00edrez

Who Killed Sara? (2021) TV Show

7.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Mexico

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Hell-bent on exacting revenge and proving he was framed for his sister's murder, Álex sets out to unearth much more than the crime's real culprit.

Plot: revenge, murder, criminal, wrongly condemned

Sing Sing (2024)

7.4 370 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.

Plot: prison, based on novel or book, male friendship, based on true story, wrongful imprisonment, sing sing, african american, pathetic, ...

Cast

Will Smith

Martin Lawrence

Vanessa Hudgens

Alexander Ludwig

Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)

7.3 3.4K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: After their late former Captain is framed, Lowrey and Burnett try to clear his name, only to end up on the run themselves.

Plot: miami, florida, sequel, police headquarter, on the run, police detective, buddy cop, buddy comedy, ...

Cast

Dana Andrews

Gene Tierney

Bert Freed

Gary Merrill

Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

7.2 206 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

Plot: new york city, taxi, taxi driver, man woman relationship, cover-up, film noir, bad cop, framed, ...

Cast

Sae Byeol

Seo I-han

Lee Woo-jin

Panutuch Saelee

Love Class (2022) TV Show

7.1 26 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-PG

Story: In a college class where students are paired up and sent on dates, a sophomore is partnered with an upperclassman whose gentle kindness steals his heart.

Plot: love triangle, love at first sight, coming out, friendship, high school, unrequited love, stalking, sexual tension, ...

Cast

Emmanuelle Bu00e9art

Franu00e7ois Cluzet

Nathalie Cardone

Andru00e9 Wilms

Torment (1994)

6.9 279 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: France

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Working extremely hard to keep his hotel afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head. Convinced that his wife has been unfaithful, he begins to see every male guest as a potential threat. What follows is Paul's downward spiral into the madness of deranged jealousy where he finally discovers that hell is not a state of mind – hell is himself.

Plot: adultery, jealousy, marriage crisis, paranoia, violent husband, descent into madness, psychological thriller, failing marriage, ...

Cast

Clint Eastwood

Inger Stevens

Ed Begley

Pat Hingle

Hang 'em High (1968)

6.9 857 votes

Genre: Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.

Plot: prison, death penalty, judge, widow, falsely accused, marshal, oklahoma, cattle drive, ...

Cast

Choi Jin-hyuk

Park Sung-woong

Cho Dong-hyuk

Jung Hye-in

Rugal (2020) TV Show

6.8 58 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A police detective who loses everything to a criminal organization seeks payback when he gains special abilities through biotechnology.

Plot: cyborg, secret organization, police, psychopath, based on comic, evil corporation, zombie, bromance, ...

Cast

Tommy Lee Jones

Ashley Judd

Benjamin Weir

Jay Brazeau

Double Jeopardy (1999)

6.6 1.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted of her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive. She survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her -- finding her son and solving the mystery that destroyed her once-happy life. Standing between her and her quest, however, is her parole officer, Travis Lehman. Libby poses a challenge to the cynical officer, one that forces him to face up to his own failings while pitting him against his superior and law enforcement colleagues, as she plunges into a desperate fight for justice, survival, and revenge.

Plot: sailboat, court case, new orleans, louisiana, ferry boat, deceived wife, women's prison, parole board, ...

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Richard Dawson

Maru00eda Conchita Alonso

Yaphet Kotto

The Running Man (1987)

6.5 2.9K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.

Plot: based on novel or book, dystopia, game show, on the run, totalitarian, prison break, paranoid, dark future, ...

Cast

Brandon Quintin Adams

Everett McGill

Wendy Robie

A. J. Langer

The People Under the Stairs (1991)

6.5 770 votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the true nature of the homicidal inhabitants, and secret creatures hidden deep within the walls.

Style: shocking, absurd

Plot: child abuse, escape, shotgun, serial killer, landlord, wrongful imprisonment, cannibal, incest, ...

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