Frame Up / Film

• In .45, a hooded figure takes Big Al's special jacket with his name on it, his registered .45 handgun, and shoots Clancy.
• 47 Ronin: Lord Kira has the witch Mizuki use illusions to make Lord Asano Naganori think that Kira is trying to rape Asano's daughter Mika. Enraged, Asano draws his sword and attacks Kira, but everyone else only sees Asano attacking an unarmed man for no reason. The Shogun has Asano arrested and sentenced to commit Seppuku. Despite Mika and his retainers' pleas, Asano refuses to fight his sentence and accepts the Shogun's orders.
• Abbott and Costello in Hollywood: Buzz and Abercrombie try to do this to LeMaise by photographing him in the act of punching Abercrombie to get him fired from the movie. He ends up getting framed for Abercrombie's murder after his punch sends Abercrombie into the water, where he supposedly drowns... and ultimately gets arrested for really trying to murder Abercrombie.
• Ajnabee: Vicky gets Raj drunk and drugged and sets him up to look like he killed the real Sonia by leaving Raj's fingerprints all over the murder weapon, all so he and Neeta/fake Sonia could make off with the life insurance money.
• In Andhadhun, Simi and Manohar frame an innocent man for the murder of Mr. Sinha by planting his watch in a urinal for the guy to find.
• ...And Justice for All: Jeff had the knife which a guard was stabbed with planted in his cell, leading him to be sentenced to five years in prison.
• Assault on Wall Street: Jim uses a trick to at least temporarily make Stancroft look like the killer, and is safely escorted out by the police.
• The Assignment (2016): After shooting Jane's mooks, Frank makes it appear like her assistant killed them before being shot himself by putting the murder weapon into his hand. The police buy this, and don't believe her that he did it.
• Babes in Toyland: When Barnaby frames Tom-Tom from Pig-Napping Little Elmer.
• A unique case in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt as author Tom has himself framed for murder in order to expose how the system can get the wrong man. However, it turns into a classic case of Gone Horribly Right as the only person who knew the truth is killed before he can provide the evidence of what's happened and thus Tom faces the electric chair.
• The Big Clock: After murdering his mistress, Earl Janoth conspires with his lawyer Steve Hagen to frame a man he believes to be named 'Jefferson Randolph': not realising that 'Randolph' is actually his editor George Stead.
• In Black Patch, Frenchy De Vere attempts to frame Morgan for murder by having Holman bust Danner out of jail and then shoot him in the back. However, Holman botches the job by killing Danner too close to the jail.
• In The Black Room, Gregor gets away with murdering Colonel Hassel by framing Albert for it.
• Blame (2017): Melissa uses the fact her phone was taken by Mr. Woods (due to her using it in class) as alleged evidence he'd gotten her to send him risqué photos, since they were still on it. She actually took them for Eric.
• Breaking the Girls: Sara reluctantly agrees to murder Nina as Alex insisted, but when she arrives at the house David has been murdered already, with it looking like she did this. The police were tipped off and arrive while she's there, arresting her immediately.
• The Bullfighters had a flashback when Richard K. Muldoon was framed for a crime he did not commit. And was upset that the boys ruined his life. Now, He threatens to skin them alive.
• In Captain America: Civil War, Zemo frames Bucky for the bombing of the UN meeting in Vienna that killed King T'Chaka to flush him out of hiding.
• In The Cocoanuts, Penelope lures Chico and Harpo (separately) up to her room so they can be blamed for the theft of an expensive diamond necklace. It doesn't go according to plan.
• Despite being a typical 1980's cop thriller staring Chuck Norris, Code of Silence goes where other such movies don't go with a subplot where a Defective Detective shoots dead a black youth and then plants his backup gun on the corpse to make it look like self defence.
• In The Con is On, a flashback shows how Sidney planted drugs on Peter which resulted in him spending three months in a Turkish jail.
• In Crooked House, the murderer stages a very effective frame-up of Brenda and Laurence; creating some extremely damning evidence and carefully leading Charles to it in such a way that it seems like he discovered it. It probably would have stuck if they had not committed another murder.
• The Crush: When Nick refuses her advances, Darien frames him for raping her, which results in his arrest and losing his job.
• Death Rides a Horse: 15 years before the main plot, Ryan was framed by the villains for armed robbery. When he's released from prison and goes after them, their leader frames him again for robbing his bank.
• The Canadian film Deception has protagonist Max Gardner accused of murder when two people are suddenly killed, while a woman was attacked with a knife. As it turns out, the true killer was Max's wife, Dina, who suspected Max of cheating on her and committed the murders and the knife attack as part of her villainous plan to frame husband. She is revealed when she attempts to kill Erin Greer (Max's girlfriend and the reason for Dina becoming a Woman Scorned), but she ends up shot and killed by Max.
• Disclosure: Tom Sanders is passed on his expected promotion as vice president of Digicom by his ex-lover Meredith Johnson. She invites him to a meeting in her office later that day under the pretense of discussing recent problems with a CD-Rom drive and instead aggressively sexually harasses him (seemingly interested in reviving their former relationship), and he ultimately turns her down. The next day, he discovers she has falsely accused him of the harassment, which puts his career and family life in jeopardy. Turns out she did this in order to distract him to actually frame him with the CD-drive problems, considering she changed and sabotaged the production line, which was his responsibility. In short, she framed him for the sake of just cutting costs to appease the ongoing merger.
• Two of the leads in Down by Law end up in prison due to this.
• Enola Holmes 2: Halfway through the film Superintendent Grail frames Enola for the murder of the match girl Mae.
• Extreme Measures: Luthan has medical cocaine planted in his apartment when it's broken into by the dirty cops, to get him arrested and fired from the hospital so he can't investigate the disappearances further.
• Firewall: Bill Cox proceeds to frame Jack for the bank robbery, leaving a false motive for his bank that he is a gambler, and even after he plans on killing the family and ordered Jack to be killed, he proceeds to frame the wife for having an affair with Harry and framing Jack for killing him in a jealous rage.
• Subverted in Framed, because the title would make you expect it to happen but it doesn't. (At least according to the review at Something Awful.)
• The Fugitive revolves around Richard Kimble trying to prove his innocence, after escaping from the crashed prison bus that was transporting him to death row after being convicted of murdering his wife.
• A particularly cruel example appears in the Chang Cheh kung-fu epic, Golden Swallow (one of the director's Darker and Edgier works). The Chao brothers, a pair of wealthy landlords, have the Changs, a neighboring farming family, framed for the theft of an expensive goose by ordering their mooks to plant faked evidence (severed geese head, clump of feathers, bones, etc.) in the Chang's front yard, and when the Chang's young son curiously picks up the geese head, cue a bunch of Chao's mooks cornering the boy and calling him a thief. Things get ugly when the Chang's son is forced to commit seppuku to prove "there's no geese inside his stomach" while the Chang elder, in a rage, tries attacking the Chao brothers only to be killed, leaving the wife becoming insane overnight from losing her whole family. Subsequent scenes reveals that the Chao brothers originally wants the Changs to sell their farm for them to build a new summer home, which the Chang elder refuses on the grounds that the farm is "ancestral property", so the Chaos instead decide to attempt underhanded tactics to get rid of the Changs for good before purchasing the rest of the (now-ownerless) farm from the town council at dirt price.
• In The Hands of Orlac, Orlac finds his father stabbed to death with a distinctive knife he had in his possession earlier. The fingerprints of his new hands are all over the crime scene, and the note that lured the old family retainer away is written in Orlac's new handwriting. Due to his Sanity Slippage, Orlac cannot be certain that he didn't do it. However, unlike most characters in this predicament, he chooses to go straight to the police and report the crime rather than trying to conceal it or fleeing. The scene was actually staged by Nera to make Orlac susceptible to blackmail.
• In The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, the villain Peyton considers it convenient to get rid of Solomon. So she steals the panties of their employer's five-year-old daughter and plants them in his room. With this "evidence" in place, she starts accusing him of pedophilia.
• In Hangmen Also Die!, La Résistance cook up an elaborate one for The Mole so he would be blamed for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
• Heatwave (2022): Eve frames Claire for murdering Scott, and then tries to murder her so she can't prove she's innocent.
• Hercules (2014): King Eurystheus drugs Hercules' drink, and when he falls asleep, sends wolves to kill his family. Hercules then wakes up to find himself next to his family's bodies and covered with their blood, making everyone, including him, think that he killed them in a fit of madness.
• The Hurricane, 1999 American biographical film starring Denzel Washington as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who served almost twenty years after being wrongly convicted of murder.
• An Innocent Man has main character James Rainwood framed by two DirtyCops after they raid his house by mistake due to mixing it up with a drug dealer's, to cover themselves, and must then clear his name.
• In Kenny & Company, Kenny lures The Bully Johnny into a mean old lady's house. Then Doug ties the door shut while Sherman calls the police to say that Johnny has tied the door shut and is now trying to shoot the owner of the house.
• Kick-Ass: Damon McCready was framed by dirty cop Vic Gigante, who works for the D'Amico crime family, because he was trying to bring them down. This destroyed his life and cost him his wife (who killed herself in despair while he was imprisoned).
• In Lady in Cement, Danny Yale is stabbed to death with a knife taken from Tony's boat, which has Tony's finderprints on the handle. Tony's Friend on the Force Lt. Santini tells Tony that he knows it is a frame-up, but he is still going to have to take him in.
• In the first Legally Blonde movie, Elle Woods' client is a fitness guru who maintains innocence of killing her husband to get ahold of his business assets. In the climax of the trial she questions the stepdaughter, about the day of the murder, and reveals that she was taking a shower after a hair treatment. Elle then says that showering within 24 hours of the treatment would have neutralized and washed off the active ingredient. Further questioning reveals that the stepdaughter was disgusted with her father marrying someone as young as her, and on the day of the murder, she planned on ambushing her stepmother but ended up killing her father.
• In Liane, Jungle Goddess, Viktor murders Amelongen and attempts to frame Tanga for it by using his knife and creating a Locked Room Mystery where Tanga would have been the only one who could have entered the room.
• Licence to Kill: Bond manages to frame one of Sanchez's minions, Milton Krest, for plotting against him, knowing Sanchez would furiously murder him in response. Bond tried to assassinate Sanchez on his own before he was interrupted by rival agents, but circumstances led Sanchez to believe that the people who captured Bond (a Hong Kong narcotics brigade) were responsible for the attempt on his life. Bond then plants several clues for Sanchez to conclude that Krest betrayed him, such as claiming that the "hitmen" were paid by a man who fits Krest's description, and stashing money Bond had previously seized from Sanchez's operation inside Krest's ship for him to find. Not helping Krest either is the unbelievable nature of Bond's prior escape making him sound like a desperate liar, and Pam impersonating a harbor pilot to crash his ship just to make him look outrageously incompetent on top of being a thief.
• M3GAN: M3GAN kills Toy company executive David and frames his Beleaguered Assistant by putting his fingerprints on the weapon and making it look like he was Driven to Suicide. It helps that the assistant was actually stealing company secrets.
• Mandalay: It's a tad ambiguous whether Tony faking his own death was to make the police think he killed himself or to frame up Tanya, who has a reason to kill him. In the former, the police suspecting her is unintended collateral damage (she has the credible motive of having been sold into Sex Slavery by Tony). In the latter, it'd be a convoluted story where Tony, faking his demise, makes it seem as if Tanya murdered him and then tried to pass it as suicide. With the added benefit of making her feel helpless, so she's easier to manipulate later.
• Minority Report starts as John Anderton thinks he was set up when the Precogs see a vision of him committing a murder 2 days later. When he arrives, it turns out that the victim himself is being framed, with many pictures of Anderton's disappeared son to rope Anderton into killing him. He tries arresting the victim instead, but since the guy's family would be handsomely paid if he died, he commits Suicide by Cop. Danny Witwer names the trope Orgy of Evidence in response to the crime scene, but a little later, Anderton is framed for Witwer's murder when the Big Bad shoots him with Anderton's gun.
• Most Wanted: Dunn is framed for murdering the First Lady after being sent on a supposed mission to assassinate a corrupt businessman supplying enemies of the US, with him being left as the fall guy.
• In Moving Violation, a corrupt sheriff murders his blackmailing deputy and pins it on two innocents who witnessed the murder, causing a massive manhunt.
• In Murder by Proxy, the murderer intends for Casey to take the fall for the murders of Darius, Lance and Phyllis.
• A Murder of Crows: Lawson experiences one. The book was used by the killer to test Lawson to see if his change of heart was genuine, while in disguise as a retired Englishman. He then "dies" and leaves Lawson the book...who passes it off as his own, setting himself up as the suspect when its found the murders it depicts actually happened, along with other evidence planted by the killer.
• Murder on the Orient Express (2017) opens with Poirot solving a robbery in Jerusalem: three religious representatives - a rabbi, a priest and a imam - are charged with stealing a precious relic from the Church of the Holy Sepulcre, so either one of them did it and tried to frame the other two. Who is the culprit? None of them, they were innocent. The robber was none other than Jerusalem's chief of police himself, who tried to frame the three holy men.
• In Napoléon (1927), Pozzo di Borgo agrees to fabricate evidence for Saliceti when the latter wishes to accuse Napoléon Bonaparte of espionage.
• In New Town Killers', Alistair and Jamie plant a stolen cigar case on Sean to get him fired from his job as a bathroom attendant at a restaurant.
• Nutcracker Massacre: Late in the movie, Mousey decides to try and seduce Paul just to spite Clara. Paul isn't interested in her, but as Clara comes into the room, Mousey climbs on top of Paul, causing Clara to come to Mousey's desired conclusion. Luckily Paul's able to clear it up.
• Payback: Porter takes care of two corrupt police officers with this method. He shoots a man with a gun with Cop A's fingerprints (which he leaves at the scene), then plants Cop B's badge (which he had earlier stolen) on the corpse.
• The Parallax View: Frady ends up being the fall guy in another assassination, just like what happened with the one at the start of the film, which he was trying to solve.
• Possessor: Every person Vos possesses to kill someone with a Mind-Control Device takes the fall for the murder, since no one else knows who's really behind the crime. They're killed too afterward, so even a (likely ineffectual) claim that it wasn't them isn't heard.
• Power of the Press: To ensure that the paper remains unchanged, Rankin has Carter assassinated, and frames Jerry Purvis, a former Gazette employee, for the crime.
• Ricochet: Blake goes into Nick's house disguised as a power company technician, drugs the babysitter, takes Nick's sleepy daughters to bed, then shoots video of himself threatening the little girls. When Nick sees the video, he goes paranoid quick. Of course, that's just the reaction Blake wanted.
• In Rimfire, The Abilene Kid is framed for cheating at cards and executed after facing a Kangaroo Court.
• In Road House, Jefty frames Pete for grand larceny and presses charges against him. Jefty then convinces the judge to make him Pete's parole officer, so he can control Pete’s every move and make sure he doesn’t run away with Lily.
• in Robin and the 7 Hoods, Robbo is framed for Glick's murder when Gisborne's men plant Glick's badge, gun and wallet on him.
• RoboCop 3 sees Rehab commander Paul McDaggett publicly blame his murder of Murphy's partner, Lewis, on Murphy himself.
• The Roommate: After learning Professor Roberts came on to Sara and forcefully kissed her, Rebecca frames him for attempting to rape her, making a recording so he's fired.
• A lighter version in Shall We Dance? (1937): Desperate to keep musical star Linda from marrying an Upper-Class Twit and retiring from the stage, her penniless producer frames her for being already secretly married to Peter, a ballet dancer. He does this by sneaking into Peter's hotel suite with a wax dummy of Linda (made for one of her stage shows), photographing a scene that appears to be Linda in a nightgown hovering over her sleeping husband, and then sending the photographs to the newspapers.
• The late-90s kung fu film Shanghai Affairs starring Donnie Yen had Yen's character, a doctor, discovering his mentor, Dr. Raymond to be involved in Organ Theft (specifically, of children), but before he could investigate any further Raymond decide to have Yen framed for the abduction and murder of local kids via planting faked evidence.
• In Silver Lode, McCarty frames Ballard for murder and theft by forging a warrant, and later frames him for additional murders by making it look like Ballard killed people McCarty himself killed.
• In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, the Big Bad intends to frame Inspector Lestrade for assassinating Queen Victoria and destroying most of London.
• Played With and played straight by the titular Serial Killer of The Snowman (2017). The first time he murders a detective who is getting too close by blowing his head off with a shotgun and leaving his Calling Card of a snowman behind (planting the head of a snowman on the remains of his victim's neck) but as the body is not discovered until after the snow had melted and since the detective in question was largely disliked by the incompetent police that found him, it was written off as a suicide. Years later the killer, having realized this happened, murders another man in the same style and frames him intentionally, this time leaving some of the mutilated remains of his victims in the man's home for good measure.
• In The Stinger of Spider-Man: Far From Home, doctored footage makes it look like Spider-Man murdered Mysterio and was responsible for the attack on London, in addition to spilling out that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. This carries over into the plot of Spider-Man: No Way Home — Peter is able to avoid the court of criminal law, but the court of public opinion is a whole nother beast.
• Starship Troopers 3: Marauder: The peace protesters are framed for committing a bombing, allowing the government to hang them for this later.
• Switch (1991): Margo Brofman (JoBeth Williams), one of Steve's exes and his killer, leaves the gun with which she killed him in his apartment to frame Amanda for the murder.
• Switchback: The killer had an accomplice (seen early on) or dupe who helped him kidnap LaCrosse's son. When the FBI were closing in, he left evidence after murdering the guy (staged as a suicide) to make it look like he'd been the killer, so they'd declare it closed. LaCrosse didn't buy this, and kept hunting.
• Talk of the Town involves an unscrupulous mill owner burning down his mill for the insurance and framing Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant), who was blowing the whistle about unsafe mill conditions.
• Tango & Cash: Both protagonists are framed by gangsters for murder to get rid of them, so they won't keep shutting down their drug business.
• In The Terror of Tiny Town, Bat Haines frames Buck lawson for the murder of Tex Preston.
• The Thin Blue Line is a documentary of the Real Life case of Randall Adams, framed by the Dallas police for the murder of one of their own by a teenage boy.
• In Tower of London (1962), Richard secretly stabs George, Duke of Clarence to death with a dagger bearing the crest of the Woodville family, framing the dying king's in-laws.
• In Tragedy Girls, this is basically Sadie and McKayla's Evil Plan: go on a killing spree, report on their own murders for their website, thus achieving international fame, and then pin the blame for the killings on Lowell, who they're currently holding hostage. Of course, Lowell is a Serial Killer, too, so it's not like he's an innocent in all this. While it doesn't go quite as smoothly as they anticipated, the plan works. The last scene shows that the cops did indeed blame Lowell, who is by then too dead to care.
• In True Believer it turns out that Shu Kai Kim was framed to protect a confidential informant by the district attorney and police.
• Turkey Shoot: The 2014 film has Rick Tyler, a Navy SEAL who was framed for murdering woman and children, then hunted by assassins on a TV program.
• In The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, after killing Littauer, Hyde stages a struggle and frames Jekyll for his crimes.
• Vabank is about an elaborate frame-up of Kramer, who actually does regularly steal from people, just in much less showy ways than what they nail him for.
• The plot of Valentine kicks off with one of these when Dorothy Wheeler falsely accuses Jeremy Melton of sexual assault at a middle-school dance, corroborated by three of her friends. He was subsequently sent to reform school and a mental institution after that. Suffice it to say, Jeremy's less than pleased over what happened to him that night and intends to murder Dorothy and her friends for ruining his life. At the end of the film, Jeremy, now known as Adam Carr, puts Dorothy in his costume and throws her at his girlfriend Kate, who was the only one of the group of friends who didn't frame him. When Dorothy tries to sit up, Adam "saves" Kate by killing Dorothy and "unmasking" her, framing Dorothy for his crimes like she did him.
• In Vicki, Lt. Ed Cornell knows who the real killer is, but he is so hopelessly in love with the dead girl Vicki, who herself despised him, that he intends to railroad the innocent Steve Christopher, who he blames for taking Vicki away from him, to the electric chair.
• In The Walking Dead (1936), The Syndicate frames John Ellman for the murder of Judge Shaw's murder.
• In Watchmen, Rorschach is framed for the murder of Moloch.
• In Whirlpool, Korvo uses hypnoses to frame Ann Sutton for the murder of Teresa.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: As the title indicates, Roger is framed for the murder of Marvin Acme.
• In Who's That Girl, as seen in the Animated Credits Opening, Simon Worthington's lackeys Raoul and Benny kill Nikki Finn's boyfriend Johnny, stuff him in the back of Nikki's car, and make it look like Nikki had killed him in a crime of passion.
• Wild Child: Poppy is framed for burning down the school by Harriet. She caused a fire accidentally but put it out, which then Harriet restarted so she'd think it was caused by her.
• Wild Things 2: After getting fired, Terrence attempts to blackmail Brittney and Maya. Instead, Brittney shoots Maya dead, then frames Terrence for her murder before skipping the country.
• Wolves: Cayden didn't actually kill his parents. Wild Joe just made him think he did, so he'd go on the run to find his origins.

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