False arrest movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant false arrest movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense and suspense films and TV shows about / with false arrest, false accusation, life is a bitch, murder, dishonesty, family relations, danger, society, arrest and injustice plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as false arrest: 186 Dollars to Freedom (2012), Shahid (2012), The Suspect (2013), Ezel (2009), Code 11-14 (2003), Come to My Voice (2014), Prince of Tears (2009), The 13 Roses (2007), Crulic - The Path to Beyond (2011), The Burma Conspiracy (2011).

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186 Dollars to Freedom (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Peru, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young California surfer has to grow up in a hurry when he is thrown into a Peruvian political prison in 1980.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: prison, prison life, false arrest, frame up, danger, survival, confined, police corruption, law enforcement, escapades, jail, surfer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: peru
Is relevant ?
 8.2
 18K
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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 5.7
 2K
The Suspect (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two African American social scientists pose as bank robbers in an effort to understand the racial dynamics of small-town law enforcement. However, their experiment takes an unplanned turn.
Style: atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Plot: racism, false arrest, twists and turns, law enforcement, police investigation, dishonesty, small town, society, robbery, agent, murder, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.7
 37K
Ezel (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Ömer, a young man returning from military service, is set up by his friends and fiancé and ends up in prison for ten years. He fakes his own death and manages to escape. He re-creates himself as ‘Ezel’, a high-end gambler who is outwardly a ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, soap opera, captivating ...
Plot: tragic love, warden, mafia, manipulation, tragic hero, ex convict, hidden identity, vengeance, frame up, trial, false arrest, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
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 4.7
 456
Code 11-14 (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An FBI agent went to Australia with his family to capture a serial killer. When Australian Police captured the main suspect, he and his family went back to USA. Unfortunately the REAL serial killer also went back to USA in the same airplane with the ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: serial killer, family relations, psychopath, airplane, family in danger, investigation, special agent, family problems, false arrest, parents and children, murder, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sydney australia, australia
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Come to My Voice (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This is the story of two women on opposite ends of a lifetime, a very young, curious Jiyan and her life-weary but resistant grandmother Berfe, in order to save the person who links them to each other.
Style: serious, atmospheric, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, against the odds, elderly, youth, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, family in crisis, false arrest, on the road, kurd, military, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kurdistan, turkey
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Prince of Tears (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A shameful period in Taiwanese history provides the backdrop for this emotional drama from writer and director Yonfan (aka Yang Fan). In 1949, in the wake of the 228 Incident (in which anti-government protesters launched a rebellion that was ...
Style: captivating, stylized, emotional, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: life is a bitch, family problems, confined, danger, wartime life, false accusation, false arrest, political unrest, life turned upside down, parents and children, captivity, family in danger ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s
Place: taiwan
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 6.7
 2K
The 13 Roses (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 129 min.
Story: True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, touching, political ...
Plot: spanish civil war, spanish history, injustice, woman in danger, false accusation, social decay, life is a bitch, betrayal, idealism, society, dishonesty, danger ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: spain
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Crulic - The Path to Beyond (2011)
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: Romania, Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story: An animated feature-length documentary telling the story of the life of Crulic, a 33 year-old Romanian accused of having stolen a wallet from an important Polish judge. Crulic was brought to the Krakow Detention Center Custody prison. He decided to ...
Style: disturbing, stylized, serious, thought provoking, adult animation ...
Plot: prison, injustice, false accusation, prison life, life is a bitch, false arrest, foreigner, starvation, biopic, protest, hunger, hospital ...
Place: poland
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The Burma Conspiracy (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, Hong Kong
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Propelled to the head of the W Group after the death of his adoptive father, Largo Winch decides, to everyone's surprise, to sell it, and use the proceeds to create an ambitious humanitarian foundation. But on the very same day, he finds ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, realistic, serious, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: jungle, crime against humanity, conspiracy, false accusation, rivalry, danger, uncover truth, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, life is a bitch, escapades, false arrest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: burma, france, europe, bangkok thailand, thailand ...
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 6.3
 113K
Paycheck (2003)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, tech noir, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, memory loss, time travel, twists and turns, gunfight, frame up, chase, seeing the future, changing the past or future, betrayal, amnesia, time machine ...
Time: future, year 2003, near future, 21st century
Place: seattle
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District 13: Ultimatum (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city's secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem.
Style: harsh, stylized, entertaining, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, fight, parkour, undercover cop, fighting the system, gang, martial arts, corruption, prison escape, fistfight, rebellion, gang war ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s
Place: europe, paris france, france
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 7.4
 78K
Open Range (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
Style: atmospheric, stylized, intense, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: old west, cowboy, gunfight, violence, shootout, revenge, showdown, gunslinger, civil war veteran, vengeance, friendship, corruption ...
Time: 19th century, year 2003, 1800s, 2000s, 1880s
Place: montana
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 7.9
 116K
My Name Is Khan (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA, China
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his ...
Style: touching, inspirational, romantic, uplifting, sad ...
Plot: asperger's syndrome, disability, muslim, religion, autism, islam, prejudice, mental illness, journey, true love, false accusation, indians ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s
Place: mumbai india, usa, san francisco
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The Fourth State (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, journalism, dishonesty, photojournalist, uncover truth, fish out of water, on the run, heroes, protagonist as suspect, false accusation, political conspiracy, state affairs ...
Place: europe, russia
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 5.1
 2K
Solstorm (2007)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: While in a party promoted by her chief and friend Måns Wenngren, the fiscal attorney, Rebecka Martinsson, receives a call from her former sister-in-law, Sanna Strandgård, telling that her brother and preacher Viktor was murdered, stabbed and with ...
Style: surprise ending, serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: murder investigation, murder, female lawyer, danger, investigation, legal investigation, life is a bitch, uncover truth, woman in danger, haunted by the past, religions or cults, false arrest ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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 6.1
 24K
Devil's Knot (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.
Style: bleak, factual, intense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: police investigation, satanism, courtroom drama, teenager, courtroom, jury, court, murder, legal, investigation, police interrogation, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, memphis, southern usa, arkansas
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In the Name of God (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 168 min.
Story: The film is about the difficult situation in which the Pakistanis in particular and the Muslims in general are caught up since 9/11. There is a war going on between the Fundamentalists and the Liberal Muslims. This situation is creating a drift not ...
Style: serious, tense, bleak, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: terrorism, false accusation, muslim, falsely accused, culture clash, extremism, immigration, social relations, family relations, life is a bitch, misfit, escape attempt ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: pakistan, chicago, usa, asia, middle east ...
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Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (2004)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo is an anime series loosely based on Alexandre Dumas, père's classic French novel, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. Spanning 24 episodes, it was produced by Gonzo, directed by Mahiro Maeda and broadcast by Animax ...
Style: anime, captivating, suspenseful, stylized, dark fantasy ...
Audience: kids
Plot: mysterious character, haunted by the past, righting the wronged, escapades, rivalry, betrayal, false arrest, fencing, revenge, vengeance, boy, alternate reality ...
Time: future
Place: japan, france, europe, paris france
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The Next Three Days (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on ...
Style: suspense, clever, suspenseful, romantic, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: prison escape, life turned upside down, innocent, false accusation, injustice, husband wife relationship, danger, love, lawyer, couples, family relations, investigation ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, venezuela, usa, haiti, canada ...
Is relevant ?
 8.1
 203K
Reacher (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Plot unknown
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, anime ...
Plot: one man army, corruption, murder, agent, ex military, police officer, tough guy, muscleman, police, male protagonist, false accusation, false accusation of murder ...
Time: future, 2020s
Place: usa
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Before Night Falls (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, lyrical, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, aids, homosexual, writers, poet, childhood, artist, gays and lesbians, gay latino, idealism, writer's life, freedom ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 60s, 80s, 70s ...
Place: cuba, latin america, havana cuba, caribbean, new york ...
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The Syrian Bride (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, sentimental, islamic ...
Plot: wedding, politics, occupation, ethnic, culture clash, human spirit, love and romance, nationalism, arranged marriage, reconciliation, parents and children, leaving home ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: middle east, syria, israel, palestine
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 280
Father & Son (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
TV show
Story: Ex Manchester gangland boss Michael O'Connor, who is now happily settled in rural Ireland, is forced to go back to Manchester when his son Sean is found guilty of the murder of a gang member.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: mafia, uncover truth, haunted by the past, murder, criminal heroes, righting the wronged, dishonesty, gangster, confined, parents and children, danger, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, england
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A gloomy vision of the possibility of decent relations between whites and blacks anywhere, including the South. Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. ...
Style: social, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: racism, racial issues, interracial romance, rape, racial tension, blaxploitation, lawyer, sexual abuse, sex crime, white supremacy, interracial, civil rights ...
Time: 60s
Place: tennessee, southern usa, america, usa
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A Gathering of Old Men (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: civil rights, black, racism, old man, false accusation, false arrest, interracial relations, discrimination, injustice, friendship, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time: 80s
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
Is relevant ?
 5.8
 500
Keillers park (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This is a film about the sexual awakening of Peter to feelings of homosexual desire.
Style: tense, realistic, disturbing, suspense, sexual ...
Plot: gender, gay, murder, infidelity, closeted homosexual, investigation, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, dishonesty, couples, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 2K
Once a Thief (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Style: neo noir, retro, noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: heist, jazz, robbery, woman with a gun, music and dance, explosions, family relations, bare chested male, homosexual subtext, siblings relations, false arrest, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: california, san francisco, usa
Is relevant ?
 8.5
 2K
Friendship (1964)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Mr. Gupta passes away after an accident while on duty, leaving behind his ailing wife and school-going son, Ramnath. Both await for some compensation, and when they are informed that the company does not accept liability for Gupta's death, his ...
Style: black and white, realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional
Plot: blindness, blind man, orphan, friendship, blind character, homelessness, friendship between men, compassion, cripple, beggar, friends, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: asia, india
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 2K
The 39 Steps (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when secret agent, Scudder, bursts into his room and entrusts him with a coded notebook, ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, clever, period piece ...
Plot: on the run, agent as target, world war one, manhunt, race against time, uncover truth, espionage, undercover, who to trust, political conspiracy, false accusation, heroes ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: united kingdom, england, scotland, europe, london
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