Best Wrongful
The Hurricane is a 1999 biographical prison drama directed by Norman Jewison, centering on the wrongful conviction of boxer Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter. Denzel Washington stars as Carter, a middleweight contender who was convicted of a 1966 triple murder in New Jersey before a group of activists an...
"Each Dawn I Die" is a 1939 Warner Bros. gangster and prison drama directed by William Keighley. The film pairs James Cagney and George Raft, two of the era's most prominent leading men in the crime genre. Cagney portrays a crusading investigative reporter who is framed for manslaughter and subjecte...
"Life" is a 1999 American comedy-drama film directed by Ted Demme. It stars Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence as two New Yorkers wrongfully convicted of bootlegging and sentenced to life in a Mississippi penitentiary. The plot follows their decades-long attempt to survive the harsh realities of the p...
Crown Heights is a 2017 biographical legal drama, notable for recounting Colin Warner's wrongful murder conviction and his decades-long exoneration fight.
An Innocent Man is a 1989 American prison drama by Peter Yates, notable for casting Tom Selleck as a framed engineer forced to survive inmate life.
Brokedown Palace is a 1999 American drama by Jonathan Kaplan, notable for its Thai prison setting after two U.S. tourists are convicted of drug smuggling.
State Penitentiary is a 1950 Lew Landers prison drama starring Warner Baxter in his final film role, with scenes shot at Carson City, Nevada.
