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1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
R | 142 min | Drama
Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler
Votes: 2,890,446 | Gross: $28.34M
2. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Approved | 129 min | Crime, Drama
Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy
Votes: 333,006
3. Nimona (2023)
PG | 101 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When a knight in a futuristic medieval world is framed for a crime he didn't commit, the only one who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona -- a mischievous teen who happens to be a shapeshifting creature he's sworn to destroy.
Directors: Nick Bruno, Troy Quane | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Riz Ahmed, Eugene Lee Yang, Frances Conroy
Votes: 48,831
4. The Crush (1993)
R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A journalist becomes the unwanted center of attention for a 14-year-old girl, who proceeds to sabotage his life after he refuses her sexual advances.
Director: Alan Shapiro | Stars: Cary Elwes, Alicia Silverstone, Jennifer Rubin, Kurtwood Smith
Votes: 22,324 | Gross: $13.61M
5. Last Looks (I) (2021)
R | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
A disgraced ex-cop seeks solace by moving to the woods, but his quiet life comes to an end when a private eye recruits him to investigate a murder.
Director: Tim Kirkby | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Mel Gibson, Lucy Fry, Rupert Friend
Votes: 11,986
6. Making a Murderer (2015–2018)
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Crime
Filmed over a 10-year period, Steven Avery, a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime.
Stars: Steven Avery, Dolores Avery, Laura Nirider, Allan Avery
Votes: 102,887
7. Key Largo (1948)
Approved | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 43,993
8. Young Adam (2003)
NC-17 | 98 min | Crime, Drama
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer
Votes: 14,674 | Gross: $0.77M
9. Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013)
127 min | Comedy, Drama
A story about the love between a mentally-ill father and his lovingly adorable daughter.
Director: Hwan-kyung Lee | Stars: Ryu Seung-ryong, Kal So-won, Oh Dal-su, Jeong Man-sik
Votes: 23,966
10. Henry's Crime (2010)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.
Director: Malcolm Venville | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga, James Caan, Judy Greer
Votes: 21,371 | Gross: $0.10M
11. Three Hours to Kill (1954)
Approved | 77 min | Western
Framed for murder, Jim Guthrie barely escapes lynching by the town mob, becomes a wanted fugitive for three years but returns to find the real killer.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, Dianne Foster, Stephen Elliott
Votes: 915
12. Fury (1936)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 13,728
13. Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019)
120 min | Drama
Joselito (Aga Muhlach), an intellectually-disabled man, is wrongfully charged with sexual assault, kidnapping, and murder of a little girl. In prison he becomes friends with his fellow ... See full summary »
Director: Nuel C. Naval | Stars: Aga Muhlach, Bela Padilla, Xia Vigor, Joel Torre
Votes: 2,039
14. Madonna: Like a Prayer (1989 Music Video)
6 min | Drama, Music
Music video for Madonna's song Like a Prayer.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Madonna, Tony Ward, Leon
Votes: 1,291
15. Chico & Rita (2010)
Not Rated | 94 min | Animation, Crime, Drama
Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.
Directors: Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba | Stars: Eman Xor Oña, Limara Meneses, Mario Guerra, Jon Adams
Votes: 9,691 | Gross: $0.35M
16. Across the Hall (2009)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A thriller about a standoff between a young man, his fiancée and his best friend who comes to his aid.
Director: Alex Merkin | Stars: Mike Vogel, Danny Pino, Brittany Murphy, Brad Greenquist
Votes: 4,761
17. Red Hill (2010)
R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
A young police officer must survive his first day's duty in a small country town.
Director: Patrick Hughes | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tommy Lewis, Claire van der Boom
Votes: 9,086 | Gross: $0.02M
18. The Trouble with You (2018)
108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Yvonne is a police detective in a town on the French Riviera and the young widow of police chief Santi, a local hero. One day, she learns that her husband was in fact a crooked cop.
Director: Pierre Salvadori | Stars: Adèle Haenel, Pio Marmaï, Audrey Tautou, Damien Bonnard
Votes: 4,113
19. Inhuman Resources (2012)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
Six captive office workers are literally chained to their desks by deranged former regional manager Thomas Reddmann (Redd). He assigns his 'human resources' the impossible task of proving his innocence or suffering gruesome consequences.
Director: Daniel Krige | Stars: Nicholas Hope, Kelly Paterniti, Sam Reid, Alan Dukes
Votes: 2,903
20. Relentless (1948)
Passed | 93 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Framed for a murder he didn't commit, a cowboy must stay one step ahead of the law as he hunts for the real killer.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Robert Young, Marguerite Chapman, Willard Parker, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 407
21. The Sucker (1965)
111 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Criminals have chosen an ordinary man to carry drugs and jewels in his car across the border. The problem is that this man turned out too much ordinary.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Venantino Venantini, Henri Génès
Votes: 8,051
22. Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Family
In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez, Porter Hall
Votes: 2,657
23. Illegal (1955)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientèle.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe, Jayne Mansfield
Votes: 2,335
24. The Good Side of Life! (2016)
45 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Looking for his estranged biological mother, a young man and his donkey travel to the big city; at the same time, the rich widow is looking for him, all for the concern of her ambitious niece who craves her wealth.
Stars: Sergio Guizé, Débora Nascimento, Flávia Alessandra, Eliane Giardini
Votes: 231
25. Bespredel (1989)
102 min | Crime, Drama
A drama from the life of the prisoners in a regular jail in Soviet Union.
Director: Igor Gostev | Stars: Andrey Tashkov, Anton Androsov, Aleksandr Mokhov, Lev Durov
Votes: 1,390
26. Convict's Code (1939)
62 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man is framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. When he is let out on limited parole, he sets out to clear his name and find the real criminals.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Robert Kent, Anne Nagel, Sidney Blackmer, Victor Kilian
Votes: 286
27. Web of Evidence (1959)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A British-American returns to Britain after 20 years to discover that his father has been jailed since WW2 for a murder that took place in murky circumstances.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams, Bernard Lee
Votes: 322
28. Man - Woman Wanted (1973)
82 min | Comedy
Falsely accused Warsaw art museum assistant goes into hiding as a woman.
Director: Stanislaw Bareja | Stars: Wojciech Pokora, Jolanta Bohdal, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz, Maria Chwalibóg
Votes: 2,499
29. Buy & Cell (1988)
R | 95 min | Comedy
Herbie Altman is framed for Stock fraud by his boss when the SEC starts investigating his company. Sent to prison, he helps a fellow inmate successfully invest his money. Soon all the ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Boris | Stars: Robert Carradine, Michael Winslow, Malcolm McDowell, Lise Cutter
Votes: 677
30. Warrant (1975)
95 min | Action, Thriller
During a jail riot instigated by convict Jaggu (Joginder), the Jailer, Arun Mehra's (Dev Anand) life is threatened and another convict, Dinesh (Satish Kaul), risks his life to save Arun. ... See full summary »
Director: Pramod Chakravorty | Stars: Dev Anand, Zeenat Aman, Pran Sikand, Dara Singh Randhawa
Votes: 124
31. Genesis Code (2020)
TV-14 | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Framed for the murder of his wife, David Harris "Bryce McLaughlin" senses Abby "Elysia Rotaru" guiding him to evidence to prove his innocence before time runs out.
Director: Bryce McLaughlin | Stars: Bryce McLaughlin, Elysia Rotaru, William 'Big Sleeps' Stewart, Nelson Leis
Votes: 99
32. Count the Hours! (1953)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Lawyer defends migrant worker falsely accused of two murders.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Dolores Moran, Adele Mara
Votes: 605
33. Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (1965)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The blind masseur and swordsman, Zatoichi, searches for proof an imprisoned man's innocence.
Director: Kazuo Mori | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Kanbi Fujiyama, Eiko Takashiro, Masako Akeboshi
Votes: 1,368
34. State Penitentiary (1950)
Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Roger Manners (Warner Baxter), a former aircraft manufacturer is wrongly accused and convicted of embezzlement of $400,000 and is given a long prison sentence. There he must decide rather ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Warner Baxter, Onslow Stevens, Karin Booth, Robert Shayne
Votes: 83
35. The Missing Juror (1944)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
In a major murder case, jurors are threatened and attacked. One of them disappears, and the detective Joe Keats looking for the guilty.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Jim Bannon, Janis Carter, George Macready, Jean Stevens
Votes: 326
36. Mr. Gullible (1970)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
A man from village goes to city, to find a job and marry a wife. But encounters with a lot of troubles he did not expect.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Ali Nasirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Fakhri Khorvash, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz
Votes: 563
37. Black Cowboy (2019)
90 min | Western
Created by Colin A. Thompson, this is the story of Black Cowboy, an innocent man accused of a crime he did not commit. But, regardless of the accusations hurled at him, he remains positive ... See full summary »
Director: Catv Colin | Stars: Charles Axel, Monica Morris Howard, Terence Banks, Moe McCoy
38. Miracle in Cell No. 7 (Arabic Language Remake)
Crime, Drama, Mystery | Pre-production
Director: Dina Amer
39. Gorio Punasan. Rebel Driver (1988)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Charlie Ordoñez | Stars: Chiquito, Pinky Marquez, Redford White, Renato Del Prado
40. The Gauntlet (1971)
91 min | Crime, Drama
Ossi Virtanen is accused of murdering a teenage girl at the end of a brawl and drunkenness, for which he is sentenced to imprisonment despite insufficient evidence.
Director: Maunu Kurkvaara | Stars: Aarre Karén, Markku Salonen, Esko Mannermaa, Esa Saario
Votes: 47
41. Painted Faces (1929)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A vaudeville performer is murdered backstage and another performer is tried for the crime.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Helen Foster, Barton Hepburn, Dorothy Gulliver
Votes: 88
42. Stop Me Here (2015)
94 min | Drama
Samson Cazalet is a cab driver who finds himself accused of kidnapping the daughter of a woman he drove back to her home. He's abruptly jailed and left alone, heading toward a trial who seems already lost.
Director: Gilles Bannier | Stars: Reda Kateb, Léa Drucker, Gilles Cohen, Erika Sainte
Votes: 243
43. Meinu Ek Ladki Chaahiye (2014)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
The movie is a comical social satire portrays a 'Guru' and a 'Shishya' trying to change other's viewpoints and make them walk on the right path.
Director: Abhishek Bindal | Stars: Rashee Bindal, Puru Chibber, Reecha Sinha, Raghubir Yadav
Votes: 17
44. Black and White: Featurette (2003 Video)
11 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Robert Carlyle, Kerry Fox, Colin Friels, Craig Lahiff
45. Not Guilty (II) (2021)
TV-14 | 6 min | Short
After a home invasion, an innocent father is taken to prison, mistaken for another man.
Director: Will Garber
Votes: 6
47.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Revenge
(1955)
TV-14 | 26 min | Drama, Mystery
When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is assaulted by an unknown attacker, he drives his still-incoherent wife around town, hoping she can point him out, so he can kill him.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Ralph Meeker, Vera Miles, Frances Bavier
Votes: 2,397
48.
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1967)
Episode:
Verdict for Terror
(1967)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A law student invites the local District Attorney to appear at "The Griddle", a question-and-answer session that the law-school fraternity hosts. What the D.A. doesn't know is that the ... See full summary »
Director: William Hale | Stars: Bob Hope, Cliff Robertson, Michael Sarrazin, Michael Constantine
Votes: 10
49.
Crossroads (1955–1957)
Episode:
The Unholy Trio
(1955)
Drama
A rabbi discovers that he is the only one who can save an innocent man from being sent to the electric chair to be executed for a murder he didn't commit.
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Luther Adler, Christopher Dark, Eve McVeagh, Russell Johnson
50.
L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode:
Ex-Wives and Videotape
(1990)
TV-PG | 48 min | Drama
A desperate Kuzak sweats out of preparations for his appeal before the California Supreme Court in a final attempt to overturn the conviction on Earl Williams on a technicality. Meanwhile, ... See full summary »
Director: Miles Watkins | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry
Votes: 36