The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.

White Skin Black Thighs

1976

German

4.1

♡ 19

wrongful imprisonment

白肉丰臀

Jesús Franco Director

Sigad Sharaf as Bijou

Beate Hasenau as Black Girl

Pilar Coll as Lola Kühn

Diotta Fatou as Marga

Robert Kuhn is looking forward to a nice evening in the brothel: First he enjoys the strip show, then he runs with his chosen ones back to a room. A short time later, he was arrested and the black lady, with whom he had spent the night, is with life-threatening injuries in hospital.

The Strange Monsieur Victor

1938

French

7.2

♡ 3

wrongful imprisonment

Jean Grémillon Director

Viviane Romance as Adrienne Robineau

Marcelle Géniat as La mère de Victor

Armand Larcher as L'inspecteur #2

Édouard Delmont as Paroli

Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However, beneath this veneer of respectability hides a notorious receiver of stolen goods, who trades with hardened criminals. Victor manages to keep up his double life without any difficulty until the fateful day when one of his partners in crime threatens to expose him. Fearing a scandal, Victor kills the crook in a moment of panic, using a shoemaker's tool. Naturally, the murder is blamed on a local shoemaker, who is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Seven years later, the former shoemaker reappears in Toulon, having escaped from prison. The first person to recognise him is Monsieur Victor...

Breakout

1975

English

6.1

♡ 16

62%

wrongful imprisonment

Tom Gries Director

Robert Duvall as Jay Wagner

Sheree North as Myrna

Charles Bronson as Nick Colton

Roy Jenson as Spencer

A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.

Rise

2014

English

5.9

♡ 1

wrongful imprisonment

Mack Lindon Director

Jessica Green as Amber

Charles Allen as Brooksy

Darrell Plumridge as Judge Worth

Erin Connor as Julie Nile

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.

Free Chol Soo Lee

2022

English

7.1

♡ 4

100%

san francisco, california

wrongful imprisonment

Julie Ha Director

Jeff Adachi as Self

Chol Soo Lee as Self

Ranko Yamada as Self - Friend

K.W. Lee as Self - Investigative Reporter

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn’t distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter’s investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee’s freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.

Sky Pirates

1986

English

4.3

♡ 5

22%

extraterrestrial technology

pilot

Sci-Fi

top secret

wrongful imprisonment

Colin Eggleston Director

John Hargreaves as Lt.Harris

Bill Hunter as O'Reilly

Max Phipps as Savage

Hugo Weaving as Thug

Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. They get lost in a supernatural storm and find themselves after an emergency landing in kind of a Bermuda triangle, 5,000 miles off their course. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape. Together with Mitchell's daughter he seeks the lost part of the key and its secret.

Island of Doomed Men

1940

English

5.8

♡ 7

wrongful imprisonment

Charles Barton Director

Don Beddoe as Brand

Trevor Bardette as District Attorney

Addison Richards as Jackson

Peter Lorre as Stephen Danel

An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.

Gamer

2009

English

5.7

♡ 87

29%

wrongful imprisonment

Mark Neveldine Director

Keith David as Agent Keith

John Leguizamo as Freek

Gerard Butler as Kable

Logan Lerman as Simon

Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game's mastermind.

Stir Crazy

1980

English

6.7

♡ 30

69%

wrongful imprisonment

Sidney Poitier Director

Craig T. Nelson as Deputy Ward Wilson

Erland van Lidth as Grossberger

Jonathan Banks as Jack Graham

Lee Purcell as Susan

New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.

Miracle in Cell No. 7

2013

Korean

8.1

♡ 77

89%

parent child relationship

prison cell

wrongful imprisonment

Hwan-kyung Lee Director

Ki-chun Kim as Old man Seo

Man-sik Jeong as Sin Bong-sik

Dal-su Oh as So Yang-Ho

Shin-Hye Park as Ye-Seung

A story about a mentally ill man wrongfully imprisoned for murder and his relationship with his 6 year old daughter.

Miracle in Cell No. 7

2019

Turkish

8.2

♡ 64

85%

parent child relationship

prison cell

remake

wrongful imprisonment

Mehmet Ada Öztekin Director

Ferit Kaya as Ali

Ilker Aksum as Askorozlu

Hayal Köseoglu as Ova

Deniz Baysal as Teacher Mine

Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.

Sing Sing

2023

English

7.6

♡ 18

97%

Action

based on novel or book

wrongful imprisonment

Greg Kwedar Director

Colman Domingo as

Johnny Simmons as

Paul Raci as

Sharon Washington as

Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.

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White Skin Black Thighs

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Free Chol Soo Lee

Sky Pirates

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Gamer

Stir Crazy

Miracle in Cell No. 7

Miracle in Cell No. 7

Sing Sing