Posts Tagged ‘falsely-convicted’

Stir Crazy (1980)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Wilder | Richard Pryor | Georg Stanford Brown | Miguel Ángel Suárez | Craig T. Nelson | Barry Corbin | Charles Weldon | Nicolas Coster | Joel Brooks | Jonathan Banks | Erland van Lidth | Lewis Van Bergen | Franklyn Ajaye | Peter Looney | Cedrick Hardman
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Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural tallent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.

Papillon (1973)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | Dustin Hoffman | Victor Jory | Don Gordon | Anthony Zerbe | Robert Deman | Woodrow Parfrey | Bill Mumy | George Coulouris | Ratna Assan | William Smithers | Val Avery | Gregory Sierra | Vic Tayback | Mills Watson
Directors: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

Atonement (2007)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Saoirse Ronan | Brenda Blethyn | Julia West | James McAvoy | Harriet Walter | Keira Knightley | Juno Temple | Felix von Simson | Charlie von Simson | Alfie Allen | Patrick Kennedy | Benedict Cumberbatch | Peter Wight | Peter O'Connor | Daniel Mays
Directors: Joe Wright
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In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis observes a flirtation between a servant’s son, Robbie, and her older sister, Cecilia, that she childishly misconstrues. Briony’s misunderstanding leads to a terrible crime whose consequences follow them through World War II.

The Green Mile (1999)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | David Morse | Bonnie Hunt | Michael Clarke Duncan | James Cromwell | Michael Jeter | Graham Greene | Doug Hutchison | Sam Rockwell | Barry Pepper | Jeffrey De Munn | Patricia Clarkson | Harry Dean Stanton | Dabbs Greer | Eve Brent
Directors: Frank Darabont
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Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930’s, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.

Death of a President (2006)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Hend Ayoub | Brian Boland | Becky Ann Baker | Robert Mangiardi | Jay Patterson | Jay Whittaker | Michael Reilly Burke | James Urbaniak | Neko Parham | Seena Jon | Christian Stolte | Chavez Ravine | Patricia Buckley | Patrick Clear | Malik Bader
Directors: Gabriel Range
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Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.

The Life of David Gale (2003)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kate Winslet | Cleo King | Constance Jones | Kevin Spacey | Laura Linney | Lee Ritchey | Gabriel Mann | Matt Craven | Brandy Little | Cindy Waite | Jim Beaver | Leon Rippy | Jesse De Luna | Vernon Grote | Rhona Mitra
Directors: Alan Parker
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Dr. David Gale, an advocate of eliminating the death penalty, is falsely accused of rape and murder. Once convicted, he ends up on death row in Texas himself, telling his story to a reporter through a series of flashbacks.

Bringing Down the House (2003)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Martin | Queen Latifah | Eugene Levy | Joan Plowright | Jean Smart | Kimberly J. Brown | Angus T. Jones | Missi Pyle | Michael Rosenbaum | Betty White | Steve Harris | Jim Haynie | Aengus James | Jernard Burks | Bronzell Miller
Directors: Adam Shankman
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Peter Sanderson is a divorced, straight-laced, uptight attorney who still loves his ex-wife and can’t figure out what he did wrong to make her leave him. However, Peter’s trying to move on, and he’s smitten with a brainy, bombshell barrister he’s been chatting with online. However, when she comes to his house for their first face-to-face, she isn’t refined, isn’t Ivy League, and isn’t even a lawyer. Instead, it’s Charlene, a prison escapee who’s proclaiming her innocence and wants Peter to help her clear her name. But Peter wants nothing to do with her, prompting the loud and shocking Charlene to turn Peter’s perfectly ordered life upside down, jeopardizing his effort to get back with his wife and woo a billion dollar client.

Double Jeopardy (1999)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | Germany | USA
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones | Ashley Judd | Benjamin Weir | Jay Brazeau | Bruce Greenwood | John Maclaren | Ed Evanko | Annabeth Gish | Bruce Campbell | Brennan Elliott | Angela Schneider | Michael Gaston | Gillian Barber | Tom McBeath | David Jacox
Directors: Bruce Beresford
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When Nick Parsons appears to be murdered his wife Libby is tried and convicted. Six years later Libby is paroled and with the help of Travis Lehman (her parole officer) she sets out to find her son and the truth behind the “murder”.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Radcliffe | Richard Griffiths | Pam Ferris | Fiona Shaw | Harry Melling | Adrian Rawlins | Geraldine Somerville | Lee Ingleby | Lenny Henry | Jimmy Gardner | Gary Oldman | Jim Tavaré | Robert Hardy | Abby Ford | Rupert Grint
Directors: Chris Columbus | Alfonso Cuarón
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It’s Harry’s 3rd Year at Hogwarts, not only does he have a new “Defense against the Dark-Arts” teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards Prison, is coming after Harry.

Red Letters (2000)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Coyote | Nastassja Kinski | Fairuza Balk | Jeremy Piven | Ernie Hudson | Paul Gleason | Heather Ehlers | Steve Monroe | Udo Kier | Layla Roberts | Owen Bush | Kenneth Ryan | Brian Leckner | Susan Morgenstern | Antoinette Valente
Directors: Bradley Battersby
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After a sexual harassment incident, Dennis Burke (Peter Coyote), a Nathaniel Hawthorne scholar, goes to work at a California college. He begins correspondence with an imprisoned murderer, Lydia Davis (Nastassja Kinski). Burke is finding old habits hard to break, developing relationships with obsessive coeds. Meanwhile, Lydia escapes from prison. Dennis and his colleague Thurston, a computer scientist and hacker, find themselves caught in a web of intrigue.