Wrongful imprisonment movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant wrongful imprisonment movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, emotional and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with wrongful imprisonment, false accusation, prison, investigation, corruption, revenge, justice, falsely accused, prison life and conspiracy plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, India, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as wrongful imprisonment: Macon County Jail (1997), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Barbed Wire Dolls (1976), Double Jeopardy (1999), Five Loose Women (1974), Unlocking the Truth (2016), Gachiakuta (2025), Chronicle of an Escape (2006), Rise (2014), The Dream (1985).
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After she leaves her cheating husband, Susan Reed (Ally Sheedy) embarks on a cross-country road trip where she falls victim to a series of mishaps that land her behind bars in the redneck Macon County Jail. Once inside, she's subjected to ...
Style:
independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, rape and revenge, revenge, murder, on the run, hitchhiker, woman, sex toy, heterosexuality, girl, prison break, making love ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Framed 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, ...
Style:
clever, uplifting, inspirational, touching, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, freedom, friendship between men, hopes, friendship, corruption, human spirit, justice, prison life, life, stephen king ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 2010s ...
Place:
usa, maine, columbus ohio, persia, iran ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After killing her father who had attempted to rape her, Maria da Guerra is sentenced to prison for life. The wardress is a sadistic lesbian without mercy or humanity. Upon her arrival Maria is taken to a special section for mentally disturbed ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, sadistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
women's prison, dominatrix, women in prison, wrongful imprisonment, sadism, prison, female protagonist, exploitation, prison warden, female masturbation, sexy girls, sexploitation ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, clever, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, prison, vengeance, revenge, false accusation, buried alive, wrongful conviction, courtroom, murder, women's prison, perfect crime, manipulation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new orleans, seattle, southern usa, georgia, san francisco
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Five inmates break out of a women’s prison. Four of them are hardened convicts, but one is a girl who was convicted for a crime she didn’t commit. As the authorities chase them down, the cons terrorize or kill anyone who gets in their way.
Style:
independent film, sexploitation film
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, female nudity, outdoor sex, oral sex, sexploitation, wrongful imprisonment, sexual abuse, sexual promiscuity, sexual harassment, exhibitionism, prison break ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 520 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1830's England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
penal colony, wrongful imprisonment, colonization, victorian england, mutiny, prison, false accusation, literary, convict, society, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
australia, tasmania
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Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Love, lust, murder, mystery, suspense...all the makings of a great dramatic story. The catch? It’s not a fictional story. It’s real life. This serialized documentary series follows the journey of alleged wrongfully convicted prisoners fighting ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
wrongful conviction, wrongful imprisonment, justice, criminal justice, true crime, falsely accused, uncover truth, false accusation, paranormal investigation, crime solving, investigation, wrongful accusation ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Short, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 2 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of Amber McCall as she attempts to uncover evidence to exonerate her friend, L.J. Burrows.
A low-budget spin-off series of Prison Break made exclusively for mobile phones with each episode being approximately 2 minutes long. Although the ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, tense, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
justice, investigation, conspiracy, prison break, wrongful imprisonment, false accusation, against the odds, escapades, rivalry, convict, twists and turns, strong female lead ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In a floating city where the rich discard their waste—and people—Rudo is framed for murder and thrown into the Pit, where a hellscape of mutated garbage beasts dwell. To survive, he must wield a new power and join the rogue Cleaners. Rudo ...
Style:
dark fantasy, anime, bleak, neo noir, tense ...
Plot:
revenge, survival, junkyard, dystopia, toxic waste, wrongful imprisonment, violence, exile, corruption, urban decay, class struggle, cyberpunk ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads during the 1970s is brought to the screen in this thriller. In 1977, Claudio Tamburrini (Rodrigo de la Serna) was a goalie for a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, thrilling, crime drama ...
Plot:
dictatorship, politics, false accusation, murder, prison, terrorism, on the run, danger, prison escape, football, operation condor, prison life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
latin america, south america, argentina, bolivia, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The true story of a young man falsely accused of rape and sentenced to six years in a maximum security prison. He must rely on survival skills and an unlikely bond with an infamous inmate to prove his innocence and regain his freedom.
Style:
tense, captivating, crime drama, art house
Plot:
false accusation of rape, rise and fall, prison, maximum security prison, jail, jailed, false accusation, prisoner, accusation, social injustice, falsely accused, framed for a crime ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Netherlands' submission for the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film in 1985
Style:
historical drama, intense, bleak, emotional, grim ...
Plot:
false accusation, wrongful imprisonment, injustice, social commentary, repression, working class, class struggle, activism, politics, sacrifice, treachery, brothers ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century, 1890s
Place:
netherlands, holland
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed. Joe Don Baker plays Ron, a high-rolling gambler that always seems to loose his big scores. Framed by the film's villains ...
Style:
neo noir, grindhouse, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, police corruption, false accusation, frame up, political corruption, violence, wrongful imprisonment, murder, gambler, revenge, police, explosions ...
Time:
year 1975, 50s, 70s
Place:
tennessee
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
TV show
Story:
Zeca was jailed for a crime he didn't participate, now he's free and while trying to make a new life he encounters a kid, surprisingly the boy is Ema's son, his long time lover.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
wrongful imprisonment, family drama, falsely accused, relationships, lifestyle, criminal, false accusation, new life, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, ex convict, lifestyle change, changing lives ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The personal story of the young student Felix Goldschmidt, who finds himself arrested for a crime he does not understand, like his fellow prisoners, he believes at first that he the victim of a mistake. But Red Gloves is also a political story, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, grim, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
false accusation, wrongful imprisonment, prison, jail, political intrigue, prisoner, accusation, confined, framed for a crime, totalitarianism, injustice, oppression ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Mild-mannered Tae Jung is wrongfully imprisoned for a heinous crime. He soon discovers that a mysterious figure named Yo Han orchestrated his downfall. Fueled by vengeance, Tae Jung sets out to make Yo Han pay.
Style:
suspenseful, crime thriller, dark, intense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, manipulation, wrongful imprisonment, betrayal, conspiracy, vengeance, corruption, retribution, scheming, suspicion, cat and mouse, investigation ...
Place:
south korea
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
Style:
dark, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
jealousy, murder, frame up, wrongful imprisonment, false accusation, obsession, betrayal, blackmail, moral ambiguity, corruption, infidelity, conspiracy ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
west germany
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Soviet Union, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Andrey, former police officer is trying to find who is responsible for his false accusation and imprisonment.
Style:
suspense, dark, detective, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
wrongful imprisonment, prison, investigation, corruption, justice, police procedural, moral ambiguity, betrayal, revenge, conspiracy, grief, urban ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
Style:
historical drama, tense, political thriller, political, political drama ...
Plot:
martial law, civil liberties, wrongful imprisonment, political unrest, working class, police brutality, psychological abuse, social realism, oppression, interrogation, fear, authoritarianism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
quebec, canada, montreal
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 2150 min.
TV show
Story:
Straightline Productions: All or Nothing. Presented by Transworld Snowboarding (2009)
Style:
tense, suspense, grim, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
jail, false accusation, prison gang, prison, prison life, prisoner, confined, jailed, corruption, wrongful imprisonment, prison warden, confinement indoors ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In a dystopian world where good is bad and bad is good, an honest man is sent to a bizarre prison.
Style:
bleak, allegory, dark, existential, surreal ...
Plot:
prison, social commentary, wrongful imprisonment, dystopia, justice, anti hero, alienation, oppression, mature, cautionary tale, desperation, survival ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The 17 years old Marco Weiss has spent as usual his holiday with his parents at the Turkish Rivera.But on the last day of his stay Marco is arrested for sexual abuse against the minor British girl Carolina.He will spend 247 days in provisional ...
Style:
harsh, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
prison, desperation, investigation, trial, district attorney, anguish, judge, flirting, propaganda, holiday, teen romance, arrest ...
Place:
turkey, germany
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Iraq, Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An Iraqi Kurdish man is released from jail. He has been arrested by mistake when he went to find a midwife to help his pregnant wife, years ago. As he has been arrested during a demonstration the authorities thought he is one of the opposition group ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, tension, period piece, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kurd, oppression, wrongful imprisonment, injustice, resilience, survival, mistaken identity, prison sentence, social realism, political unrest, family reunited, child ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
kurdistan, iraq
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Helen Stephens is wrongly sentenced to 12 years in prison for murdering her boss Eric Bridges, the managing director of Entirely Tiles. Although she is sure that it will only be a matter of time before this mistake is rectified, everyone around her ...
Style:
sitcom, dark comedy, not serious, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, false accusation, life turned upside down, fish out of water, prison life, murder, disorder, silly humor, confined, misfit, warden, strong female presence ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A son tries to restore the honour of his father, who was imprisoned during the 1980 military coup.
Style:
tense, emotional, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coup d'etat, coup, family relations, lifestyle change, struggle, wrongful imprisonment, family problems, parents and children, family life, social relations, changing lives, social problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
middle east, turkey
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a humble farmer who becomes President of Mexico. When he is falsely accused of fraud and incarcerated, he must fight back against the corrupt system behind the scheme and clear his name for the sake of his country and family.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, political thriller, intense ...
Plot:
political repression, political intrigue, confined, political persecution, president, wrongful imprisonment, corruption, politician, jail, jailed, political prisoner, politics ...
Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city
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Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story:
A man serves 16 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Yang Kang Chil maintains his good nature nonetheless and is protected by his best friend Gook Soo. After his release from prison, Kang Chil becomes a carpenter and tries to rebuild his ...
Style:
romantic, entertaining, captivating, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, guardian angel, angel, veterinarian, supernatural, justice, wrongful imprisonment, innocence, couple relations, male female relationship, love and romance, ex convict ...
Place:
south korea, seoul
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years despite his innocence, Dan Saimon manages to get out of his imprisonment at the risk of his own life, and makes a thrilling return as a fresh new character. This is a drama about a man, who, through his elaborate ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, dramatic, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot:
revenge, injustice, hidden identity, falsely accused, corruption, love, false accusation, vengeance, wrongful imprisonment, relationships, social problems, male female relationship ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story:
After a miscarriage of justice that has led her behind bars, Constance Meyer has decided to take a new career path. At age 50, the farmer and mayor of her village became a student at the National School of the Judiciary.
Style:
psychological, satirical, semi serious, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, investigation, second chance, wrongful imprisonment, unconventional method, lawyer, workplace, satire, career, coworker, changing lives, ambitious woman ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france, marseille
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Udhayakumar and Vasanthi are collegemates and they fall in love. But soon he comes to know that she is engaged to be married. After he moves to Chennai and finds a job as a reporter at a magazine. He tries to fight for social change. In the process ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, crime thriller ...
Plot:
falsely accused, wrongful imprisonment, frame up, relationships, framed for a crime, couples, couple relations, male female relationship, love affair, relationship problems, conspiracy, social justice ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
india
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