Just Mercy
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
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1993★ 6.6
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2019★ 7.4
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1958★ 6.9
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
Ghosts of Mississippi
1996★ 6.6
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Red Corner
1997★ 6.3
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2017★ 6.3
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2002★ 8.0
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