miscarriage of justice movies

An Officer and a Spy (2019)
7.075 / 10

History, Drama, Thriller

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.

Crown Heights (2017)
6.6 / 10

Drama

When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.

The Star Chamber (1983)
6 / 10

Drama, Thriller

As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle...

The Thin Blue Line (1988)
7.687 / 10

Crime, Documentary

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
7.566 / 10

Drama, History

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist...

The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
6.6 / 10

Drama, History

Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
7.6 / 10

Documentary, Crime

A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.

The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)
6.1 / 10

Thriller, Mystery, Horror

When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi,...

He Who Is Without Sin... (1952)
5.8 / 10

Drama, Romance

Stefano and Maria have a marriage by proxy while he is working abroad in Canada. When she is mistakenly accused of abandoning her own child and sent...

West of Memphis (2012)
7.4 / 10

Documentary

The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who...

Shanghai Chest (1948)
6.4 / 10

Crime, Mystery

Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected...

A Covenant with Death (1967)
5 / 10

Drama

An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces...

Let Us Live (1939)
6.6 / 10

Crime, Drama, Thriller

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved...

The 5th Day of Peace (1970)
5.3 / 10

Drama, War

Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied prison camp. When Colonel von Bleicher — the rigid and militaristic...

Taxali Gate (2024)
0 / 10

Crime, Drama, Thriller

In the red light district of Lahore, when the daughter of an underprivileged wedding dancer is raped by the powerful Choudhary's son, the...

Execution of Justice (1999)
5.3 / 10

Drama, Crime, TV Movie

The true story of the assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978. The case of assassin...

The Case of Bruno Lüdke (2021)
7 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

The incredible story of Bruno Lüdke (1908-44), the alleged worst mass murderer in German criminal history; or actually, a story of forged files and...

The Nature of the Beast (1994)
0 / 10

Documentary

The Nature of the Beast explores the life and case of a woman, Bonnie Jean Foreshaw, who was subjected to years of abuse, as a child and in three...

Mémoires d'un condamné (2017)
7 / 10

Documentary

The Mám Trasna Murders (2018)
0 / 10

Drama, History, TV Movie, Crime, Documentary

The story of barbaric murders committed in the midst of a rural community in Joyce Country, on the border between counties Galway and Mayo in 1882...