Thriller movies about false accusations

List of the best thriller movies about false accusations selected by visitors to our site: The Life of David Gale, After Hours, Double Jeopardy, Closet Land, The Next Three Days, Gone Girl, Nefarious, Doctor Sleep, 127 Hours, The Guest.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration02:10

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
Duration01:45

A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police state.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA, France
Duration02:13

    A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

      With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA

      On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom

      A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". Doctor Sleep is set several decades after the events of the first "Shining".

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration01:33

      The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:35

        A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to Hong Kong. In the airport, the girls are seized by the police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, history
        CountryUSA, Germany, India
        Duration02:39

          During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, India

          What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrethriller, drama, biography
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:00

          As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
          Duration01:47

          France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
          CountryGermany, USA
          Duration02:14

          The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA

          In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:42

            An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
            Duration02:10

              Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:04

              A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
              CountryUSA, Mexico
              Duration01:45

              A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA

              A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA, Canada
              Duration01:35

              Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.

              Markimdb: 5.9
              Genrethriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:30

              On a beautiful college campus, something ugly is about to be spread around. A bit of gossip that was told is starting to take a frightening turn. Who could it have offended and how far will the person on the other side of the gossip handle the embarrassing situation.

              Markimdb: 7.1
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:41

                Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

                Markimdb: 6.3
                Genrethriller, drama, detective
                CountryUSA, Australia, Luxembourg, Canada
                Duration01:53

                When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret..

                Markimdb: 6.8
                Genreaction, thriller
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:34

                A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.

                Markimdb: 6.3
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:55

                A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

                Markimdb: 7.2
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
                Duration01:51

                Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime. As the resourceful band of thieves burrows its way into a safe-deposit vault at a Lloyds Bank, they quickly realise that, besides millions in riches, the boxes also contain secrets that implicate everyone from London's most notorious underworld gangsters to powerful government figures, and even the Royal Family. Although the heist makes headlines throughout Britain for several days, a government gag order eventually brings all reporting of the case to an immediate halt.

                Markimdb: 7.7
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany
                Duration01:50

                Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. A film with many twists and turns.

                Markimdb: 6.3
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:50

                A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

                Markimdb: 7
                Genrethriller, drama, detective
                CountrySpain, United Kingdom, USA, France
                Duration01:35

                Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

                Markimdb: 7.7
                Genrethriller, drama, adventure
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:01

                Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:45

                Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.

                Markimdb: 6.8
                Genrethriller, melodrama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:49

                A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.

                Markimdb: 6.7
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:59

                A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.

                Markimdb: 7.5
                Genrethriller, drama, history
                CountryFrance, Canada, USA
                Duration02:44

                During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

                Markimdb: 7.6
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:54

                When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.

                Markimdb: 8.6
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:07

                Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

                Markimdb: 8.1
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:33

                  When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

                  Markimdb: 7.1
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryFrance, Spain
                  Duration01:36

                  Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?

                  Markimdb: 7.7
                  Genrethriller, drama, adventure, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:09

                  In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

                  Markimdb: 8.5
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                  CountryUSA, Germany
                  Duration01:46

                  Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

                  Markimdb: 7
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:36

                  While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

                  Markimdb: 6.7
                  Genrethriller, detective
                  CountryRussia, USA, United Kingdom, Cyprus

                  Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, Amy Whitaker, a journalist, creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.

                  Markimdb: 6.9
                  Genrethriller, comedy, crime, music
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:45

                  Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

                  Markimdb: 8.2
                  Genrethriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:18

                  World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

                  Markimdb: 7.9
                  Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:53

                  After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?

                  Markimdb: 6.4
                  Genrethriller, crime, detective
                  CountryUSA, Spain, Hungary, Serbia
                  Duration01:50

                  A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

                  Markimdb: 6.6
                  Genreaction, thriller, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:08

                  A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.




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