Erotic Thrillers use these themes all the time – but it’s not SURPRISING to find similarity in such a hackneyed genre. Now, if this theme were to show up in an indie four-hankie chick flick it’d be different.
Shoot, come to think of it, Lifetime might have somthing along those lines – as I recall there’s a movie called “False Arrest” where a woman is framed for murder by a crooked cop, spends years in jail but finally a crusading defense attorney finds the holes in her prosecution’s case, frees her and gets the crooked cop arrested in a not-so-false manner. I think the DA was crooked too. Definitely a four-hankie weeper, but it had Donna Mills in handcuffs and legirons and getting a lesbian prison rape and a body cavity search, so … it wasn’t ALL bad.
Failsafe and .Dr. Strangelove are basically the same movie, only one is a drama and the other a comedy. They even came out around the same time. Both are great movies.