Movies like The Wronged Man

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The Wronged Man (2010)
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The Wronged Man (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhood girl. Eventually convinced of his innocence, Janet takes Calvin's pro bono case and wages a dramatic and stormy 22-year battle with the justice system that ultimately redeems an unjustly accused man and cements a life-long friendship.
Style: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, sincere, rough, bleak, disturbing
Plot: african american, false accusation, hopes, court, injustice, society, courtroom drama, legal, dishonesty, justice, morality, redemption, dignity, moral dilemma, uncover truth, lawyer, conflict, ethics, realism, guilt, suspicion, idealism, character study, trial, love ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and thought provoking films with plots about life is a bitch, legal, injustice, courtroom drama, society, false accusation and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres. Some movies like The Wronged Man: Trial by Fire (2018), Garrow's Law (2009), Jump! (2007), I Want to Live (1983), Just Ask My Children (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Trial by Fire (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and expert testimony that bolstered his claims of innocence were suppressed.
Style: depressing, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, factual ...
Plot: death penalty, court, trial, lawyer, arson, justice, fighting the system, death sentence, false accusation, freedom, legal, hopes ...
Place: texas
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Garrow's Law (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
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Story: The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, period piece, dark ...
Plot: judge, legal, uncover truth, lawyer, social problems, injustice, society, life is a bitch, idealism, rivalry, treason, hopes ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: london, england, europe
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Jump! (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 118 min.
Story: JUMP is a psychological drama revealing for the first time the extraordinary circumstances behind the unjust murder trial of the young Jew, Philippe Halsman, who would later become the most sought after celebrity portrait photographer of his ...
Style: disturbing, serious, contemplative, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, racism, injustice, state affairs, dishonesty, false accusation, discrimination, power relations, righting the wronged, society, legal action ...
Time: 1920s
Place: austria, alps
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I Want to Live (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: prison, courtroom drama, death penalty, biopic, fighting the system, legal, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, fugitives, confined, death row ...
Time: 50s, 20th century
Place: mexico
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A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
Style: serious, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: investigation, courtroom drama, injustice, dishonesty, legal, life is a bitch, society, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, rivalry, bounty hunter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
Style: contemplative, captivating, talky, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot: world war two, racism, baseball, courtroom drama, african american, civil rights, intrigue, usa history, blaxploitation, lawyer, law, interracial relations ...
Time: 1940s
Place: america
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Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl Ferguson. Brandley worked at Conroe High School, where Ferguson was visiting as a member of the ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, serious ...
Plot: prison, confined, uncover truth, fighting the system, false accusation, courtroom drama, society, life is a bitch, legal, legal action, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, texas
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Just Ask My Children (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a modern-day witch hunt, in which a couple is falsely accused and imprisoned for molesting their own children.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, serious, emotional, sad ...
Plot: fighting the system, false accusation, courtroom drama, family problems, injustice, life is a bitch, legal, legal action, dishonesty, parents and children, plaintiff, trial ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, talky ...
Plot: courtroom, supreme court, boxing, injustice, righting the wronged, ambition, legal action, against the odds, political unrest, cigarette smoking, justice, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1971
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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Gideon's Trumpet (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.
Style: contemplative, captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic ...
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, prison, legal, supreme court, lawyer, criminal justice, law, social change, bureaucracy, false accusation, oldtimer ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: usa, florida
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One Angry Juror (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Sarah Walsh, a tough New Orleans attorney who serves on a murder trial jury and does some investigating of her own.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: murder, courtroom, investigation, uncover truth, courtroom drama, false accusation, dishonesty, legal, life is a bitch, dedicated lawyer, trial, prosecutor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa
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Snap Decision (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: One mother must fight back to prove her innocence or lose her children.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, detective ...
Plot: false accusation, courtroom, courtroom drama, family relations, injustice, righting the wronged, custody, parents and children, legal, legal action, dishonesty, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
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Afterburn (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on a true story, one woman takes on the U.S. military and General Dynamics; maker of the F-16, thought to be the very best tactical fighter in the world. Air Force Captain Theodore T. Harduvel was one of the best F-16 pilots the U.S. had to ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: aviation, heroes, hopes, politics, law enforcement, state affairs, righting the wronged, military, rivalry, danger, legal, fighting the system ...
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Damaged Care (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Anesthesist Doug Peeno hopes to pay for the legal costs of preventing his son Bryan being left in his first wife's bad custody with he proceeds of his present wife Linda's new job. She's the first graduate in her family and eagerly ...
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, serious
Plot: public health, rebellion, uncover truth, ambition, idealism, fighting the system, against the odds, family problems, injustice, couples, workplace, society ...
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Vendetta (1999)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Based on a true tale of power, corruption and murder, Christopher Walken stars in the story of the largest lynching in American history...
Style: independent film, emotional, sincere, rough, bleak ...
Plot: courtroom drama, ancient, political intrigue, biopic, italian mafia, intrigue, immigrant, lynching, mafia, righting the wronged, injustice, courtroom ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1890s
Place: new orleans, usa
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Guilty (2011)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Investigates the corrupt judicial system under which Alain Mar'caux and his wife Edith were arrested on accusations of pedophilia horrific acts they never committed- and the years he spent fighting to get out of prison, clear his name and keep ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lawyer, prison, legal, courtroom, false accusation, broken family, imprisonment, police brutality, injustice, judge, life turned upside down, courtroom drama ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, flanders
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Guilt by Association (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Life is good for Susan, her two children and new boyfriend Russell. But life abruptly changes when she discovers her perfect boyfriend is a drug dealer. Realising the danger this could bring to her family she tells him to leave. Suddenly her house ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: false accusation, drug dealing, injustice, wrongful conviction, prison, fighting the system, righting the wronged, protagonist as suspect, society, life is a bitch, hopes, dishonesty ...
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The Attorney (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the early 1980s, South Korea is torn by student protests over the lack of representation in the government. Song Woo-Seok is a successful attorney in Busan specializing in tax law. His views regarding civil liberties are changed by student ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, thought provoking
Plot: courtroom drama, legal, courtroom, against the odds, fighting the system, hotshot lawyer, false accusation, lawyer, rivalry, dedicated lawyer, injustice, righting the wronged ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: south korea, busan, korea
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Baby for Sale (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A couple discover that the baby girl they're trying to adopt is being auctioned off to the highest bidder. The couple become part of a sting operation to bust the baby-selling ring.
Style: disturbing, sincere, serious, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: babies and infants, adoption, black market, trial, sting operation, fighting the system, kids in trouble, social decay, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, legal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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American Violet (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against the wishes of her mother, Alma, and rejects the plea-bargain that would free her from jail, but ...
Style: serious, rough, sentimental, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: african american, false accusation, racism, injustice, testimony, courtroom drama, black, urban ghetto, dedicated lawyer, life is a bitch, legal, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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Shahid (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: This compelling drama tells the remarkable true story of slain human rights activist Shahid Azmi, who became a powerful voice against the intercommunal violence that has engulfed Mumbai since the early 1990s.
Style: realistic, captivating, thought provoking, psychological, tense ...
Plot: human rights, muslim, legal, terrorist, lawyer, courtroom, false arrest, civil rights, life is a bitch, society, hopes, religions or cults ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: india, asia, pakistan, mumbai india, kashmir
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Amish Grace (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated ...
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: faith, amish, murder, forgiveness, hopes, death in the family, religions or cults, dealing with death, introspection, child murder, hate, mass murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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Sins of the Father (2002)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In 1965 a bomb was planted in a Church in Alabama, killing four black girls. Thirty years later, Tom Cherry breaks his silence to discredit his father's alibi for the night in question.
Style: realistic, rough, emotional, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: racism, investigation, moral dilemma, introspection, haunted by the past, legal, rebellion, society, injustice, parents and children, hopes, civil rights ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
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Heavens Fall (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.
Style: serious, sincere, disturbing, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: courtroom, false accusation, interracial relations, racism, discrimination, injustice, journalism, dedicated lawyer, human spirit, legal action, life is a bitch, power relations ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa, alabama, new york
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Prosecuting Casey Anthony (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: "Prosecuting Casey Anthony" reveals Florida prosecutor, Jeff Ashton’s inside story of the true crime drama that captivated and then shocked the nation when Caylee Anthony’s mother, Casey, was acquitted of killing her daughter, despite ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic, detective ...
Plot: trial, true crime, courtroom drama, investigation, murder, legal, dedicated lawyer, obsession, courtroom, life is a bitch, law, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
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Through the Valley (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An innocent man framed for murder, and the system that just wants another minority conviction.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: murder, racism, redemption, fighting the system, protagonist as suspect, going straight, injustice, frame up, legal, society, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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Sins of the Preacher (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After the apparent suicide of her daughter, a woman tries to prove that her son-in-law killed her.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: legal investigation, murder, legal action, protagonist as suspect, couple relations, false accusation, dedicated lawyer, society, clergy, legal, dishonesty, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
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Abducted: The Carlina White Story (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A baby abducted at birth and raised by the woman who took her, eventually discovers she is a missing child, reconnects with her birth parents, and struggles with choosing between her two identities.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: kidnapper, missing child, kidnapping, black american, baby, parents and children, family problems, family relations, hopes, uncover truth, missing daughter, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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The Interrogation of Michael Crowe (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The lives of Escondido, California residents Cheryl and Stephen Crowe change one morning when they find their twelve year old daughter Stephanie Crowe stabbed to death in her bedroom. As procedure dictates, the police take each member of the ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: false accusation, police investigation, murder, uncover truth, coming of age, interrogation, injustice, fighting the system, law enforcement, teenage life, courtroom drama, suspect ...
Time: 21st century
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Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on a true story. Five high school cheerleaders, including the daughter of the school principal, run amok -- and teachers, parents and administrators allow them to get away with a wide range of scandalous behavior. Known as the "Fab ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, teen
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: cheerleader, high school, hardcase students, against the rules, society, teenage life, sport team, athlete and trainer, rebelliousness, youth, rebellion, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austin texas, texas
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