Movies and TvShows featuring "innocent-sentenced-to-death" theme.

The Invisible Man Returns (1940) follows a man who becomes invisible after receiving a blood transfusion from his late brother. He is accused of the murder of his brother and must go on the run to prove his innocence. With the help of his fiancée and a detective from Scotland Yard, he must race against time to find the real killer before he is executed.

A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to wealth and power as the wife of a newspaper publisher who helps her locate her son, in whose future she becomes obsessed.

In 1800s England, a mad doctor conducts experiments on suspended animation. He creates a monster and hides it in a secret cellar of his castle.

Set in 18th-century Quebec during the Seven Years' War, a peasant woman's life is changed when her husband is arrested and executed for treachery. She joins a priest and a group of fur trappers on a dangerous journey to seek justice and revenge.

After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, his brother was executed for the rape and murder of two white girls. The commando believes his brother to have been innocent and seeks a proof for that, but there are some people in the town who will stop at nothing to hide the secrets of their past...

A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's 1940 crime melodrama stars George Brent, William Lundigan, Richard Barthelmess, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Henry Armetta, George Tobias, John Litel, Alan Baxter, Louis Jean Heydt, Clarence Kolb, Sam McDaniel and Mary Gordon.