Movies and TvShows featuring "guilty-plea" theme.

True Story is a movie based on a true story. It follows the journey of a journalist who becomes involved with a man accused of murder. As he investigates the case, he uncovers unexpected twists and turns that challenge his beliefs and reputation. The movie explores themes of identity, truth, and redemption.

A successful American businessman finds himself accused of murder in China, where he must navigate a corrupt legal system and fight to uncover the truth.

A man commits a murder and struggles with the guilt and moral consequences of his actions as he is pursued by the police. In a lonely existence, he seeks redemption and finds solace in an unlikely friendship.

This documentary delves into the scandalous life of acclaimed filmmaker Roman Polanski, exploring his rise to fame, his sexual assault conviction, and the media frenzy surrounding his case. Through archive footage and interviews, the documentary raises questions about justice, media ethics, and the complexities of celebrity in the criminal justice system.

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail is a documentary that tells the story of a small family-owned bank, Abacus Federal Savings Bank, and their legal battle against a prosecution by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. The bank was accused of mortgage fraud relating to the 2008 financial crisis. The film explores the dynamics of the trial, the impact on the bank's community, and the struggle of a small institution going up against the power of the government.

Based on the novel, 'The Other Side of Midnight' follows the life of a woman trapped in a love triangle, who seeks revenge against the man who wronged her. Set in the turbulent times of World War II, the story unfolds with unexpected twists and surprises.

Ivy is a movie set in 1947 that revolves around a crime, drama, and thriller storyline. The plot follows the story of a woman named Ivy who gets involved in a mysterious murder and finds herself entangled in a web of deceit and betrayal. As Ivy navigates the treacherous world of crime and deception, she must uncover the truth and fight for her innocence.

Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...

Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion.

In 1930 in Moscow, USSR. the Soviet government puts a group of top rank economists and engineers on trial, accusing them of plotting a coup d'état. The charges are fabricated and the punishment, if convicted, is death.

Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.

The College Admissions Scandal is a drama movie that follows the true story of wealthy parents who are involved in a college admissions scandal that involves bribery and fraud. It explores the lengths these parents go to secure spots for their children in elite universities, and the consequences they face when their actions are exposed. The movie focuses on the relationships between the parents, their children, and the impact of their choices on their families.

Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.

Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story to draw attention to themselves. Baluchet is to kill Trignol, who will temporarily disappear then reappear, as if by magic, during the trial. But things don't go according to plan.

A documentary about the killing spree of Brenda Spencer, the 16-year-old schoolgirl who opened fire on a school playground in January 1979, killing two men and injuring eight children. Her only explanation of her actions was "I don't like Mondays". This incident was the first ever school shooting of its kind, and inspired the Boomtown Rats' number one hit song I Don't Like Mondays

Peterkin, a mischievous elf with mixed body parts, decides to see what would happen if he switched the eggs in the tree-maternity nests. What happens is that there are many surprised mothers, and just as many indignant fathers, when the eggs hatch and each family gets a hatching that resembles neither parent. All fly the, figuratively-speaking, coop and Peterkin is left to tend to all the young birds.

The murder of an underworld figure, Takis Katridis, puts Martha, a young girl who was in love with him, as well as her father, craftsman Giannis, in the dock. Each one of them, separately, claims to be the guilty one, so that the other won’t go to prison.