EM NOME DO PAI conta a historia verdadeira de Gerry. Um pequeno delinqüente nos difíceis anos 70 em Belfest, o maior interesse de Gerry era beber e cair na farra, para desgosto de seu frágil pai Giuseppe. Quando Gerry irrita o Ira, seu pai manda-o para a Inglaterra, colocando-o no lugar errado na hora errada. Inocente, mas forçado a confessar um selvagem atentado a bomba, ele é sentenciado à prisão perpetua como um dos "quatro Guildford". Gerry lentamente aprende que aparente fragilizado do pai esconde uma enorme força interior e sabedoria. Trabalhando com uma incansável e dedicada advogada, Gerry determina-se a provar sua inocência, limpar o nome do pai e expor a verdade por trás de um dos mais vergonhosos acontecimentos legais da história recente.

Baseado na história "Lei da Multidão", de Norman Krasna. Quando um injustamente acusado prisioneiro mal sobrevive a um ataque de uma turba de linchadores e é dado como morto, ele vingativamente decide responsabilizar a multidão pelo seu assassinato. Joe Wilson e Katherine Grant estão namorando, mas ele não tem dinheiro suficiente para se casar. Então Katherine viaja pelo país para ganhar dinheiro. Mas as coisas dão desastrosamente errado para Joe quando ele para em uma pequena cidade e é confundido com um assassino procurado. Ao longo do filme, Fritz Lang nos mostra como um homem decente e civilizado pode tornar-se um homem cruel e amargo.

Suspeito de ter assassinado uma mulher, Robert Tisdall, foge e vai em busca do assassino real para provar sua inocência. Recebe ajuda da bela jovem Érika.

Lorna has been married to Jim for a year, but still hasn't been satisfied sexually. While Jim is working at the salt mine, she is raped by an escaped convict, but falls in lust with him. Meanwhile Jim's buddies are giving him a hard time about Lorna's supposed infidelity, not realizing how close to the mark they really are. Trouble starts when Jim gets home early from work because it's their anniversary.

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants personal revenge, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him again. Can the marshal make it across the desert with Tim and his daughter? Even if he makes it, will justice be served?

Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind bars. By the time he gets out of prison, he's determined to put together the pieces of his frame-up and dole out the justice he was denied to those responsible.

Attorney Walter Colby has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin, who also has shady connections, becomes a suspect in a murder, Walter takes the fall. However, on his way to prison, he escapes, determined to bring the real killer to justice.

A juror on a murder trial begins to believe that the man charged with the crime is innocent — and that the real killer is her own husband.

An amnesiac man is found running blood stained and half naked through the Brecon Beacons. Hunted by the police and military, is he a homicidal terrorist or innocent pawn?

A man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison, where he is accused of murdering a brutal guard he killed in self-defense.

A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.